威尼斯人娱乐城针对系统种族主义的关键对话系列的第五篇继续对堪萨斯城警务的未来进行多部分讨论。
本次会议于10月5日Zoom举行，邀请了堪萨斯市市长昆顿·卢卡斯（Quinton Lucas）； 肯·诺瓦克，威尼斯人娱乐城犯罪学和刑事司法教授； 以及堪萨斯大学学生会主席布兰登·亨德森。 Gary O’Bannon, executive-in-residence at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management, moderated the talk, fielding questions 威尼斯人娱乐城 students submitted to the mayor.
这次会面是卢卡斯和威尼斯人娱乐城学生今年夏天早些时候开始的对话的延续。 五月底，乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）在明尼阿波利斯市被警察击毙后，许多堪萨斯大学堪萨斯分校的学生和校友参加了在乡村俱乐部广场（Country Club Plaza）举行的抗议活动。 O’Bannon said that while Floyd’s death was a flashpoint in race relations, Kansas City has its own history of police brutality to confront. 抗议者对瑞安·斯托克斯（Ryan Stokes）、布雷欧娜·希尔（Breonna Hill）等人的遭遇缺乏公正表示担忧，认为这是密苏里州堪萨斯城警察局系统性种族主义的证据。
来听一下对话的片段：
卢卡斯: “One thing I am heartened by about this moment, particularly students, activists and others who have been part of it, is that it is sustained. It has continued to push change for us.”
“You have to stop allowing the things that are creating inequalities in our system…if you just change personnel but keep the same rules…you’re going to have all of these problems.”
亨德森: “I’m a senior, a Kansas City native and before all of that, I’m a Black man…And so like many young Black people in this city, I’ve decided it’s incumbent on me to protest and show up against the lack of action from our police department and local government, and it is incumbent upon me to help hold our elected officials accountable, which is part of why we’re having this meeting today.”
诺瓦克: “The larger question about the defund movement, where do we place our resources to get the biggest bang for our buck? And I think that’s a very healthy conversation to have. That is something that has to happen at the local level because all policing is local.”
The 威尼斯人娱乐城校长’s Office and Division of Diversity and Inclusion host Critical Conversations, which is part of Roos倡导社区变革, a campus-wide effort about thoughtful action on campus and in our community to ensure lasting and comprehensive reform.