A Black champion boxer was held by police at gunpoint. The police chief says he gets the outrage
Omaha, Neb. (AP) – On Friday, the police chief of the largest city of Nebraska, the black people of the police, the champion boxer Terence “Bud” Crawford, only hours after the celebration of Crawford, after leaving the car, the omaha was higher than the other racial groups.
“Obviously, this is usually a real explanation. The number of stops is disproportionate. This is the country,” the police chief Tobb Schmader, a press conference to address Crawford’s internal investigation into the traffic stop.
The police confront the black, Crawford, for a long time between Omaha’s black community and the police force for a long time. Omaha Sen, one of the three black state deputies in the Nebraska Legislative Assembly and one of the vocal critics of the omaha police and the justice system of the state. Terrell McKinney said he was disappointed by the police stop – but he said he wasn’t surprised.
McKinney, at the beginning of this week on a Facebook post, “I urge people to continue talking and demand a real change,” he said. “Our lives are at risk and we have endured pressure for a long time.”
According to a US Justice Office ‘ Special Report published in 2022Black and Spanish people were more likely to experience threats or use of force by the police in 2020. It is more likely that black people shout more by the police than white people.
Police Chief Long Community Police Lawyer
For a long time, Schmader has long been the advocate of community policing, which aims to create confidence among civil servants and the people they patrolled. In his statement on Friday, the community became the first male boxer to capture the title of three combined episodes, and after making history, he understood that there was a lot of anger in the treatment of Crawford, the favorite son of Omaha.
Uz We understand the importance and the impression of this traffic towards our community and the impression. ”
However, a almost completed internal investigation into the traffic stop showed that the relevant officers did not violate the department policy.
According to their reports, civil servants identified a high -performance sedan without plate plates and withdrew from a parking lot in the city center on Sunday at around 01:30 and quickly accelerated more than 25 miles / hour (40 km / h) speed limit. Schmader, who didn’t know that the officers were driving Crawford’s car, Schmader said. The two officers approached it – one on the passenger side and the other is on the driver’s side.
Schmader said that the first interaction was sincerely evaluated with body camera images. Crawford, who driving, said the officer in his window was new and çalıştır he was away from him ”.
At this point, Schmader, a member of the security team in the passenger seat, said that he carried a legal pistol to the officer in his window. Schmader, leaning on the car’s console, Crawford said the officer had a legal gun, but the driver’s side window said he didn’t hear this change.
At that time, the driver on the side of the driver Crawford’s gun on the base board next to his feet, pulled the service gun, and ordered Crawford and three other people. Schmader said Crawford and others were handcuffed for about 10 minutes. Police confirmed that all residents of the vehicle allowed Crawford to be legally transported and go after about 30 minutes after the vehicle allowed Crawford to allow reckless driving.
Crawford’s spokesman said in a statement on Friday, the boxer is not a comment, he said.
Event video will not be published, the chef says
Schmader said that unless Crawford accepts, the stop will not share the police video.
“We don’t have a deadline here. We don’t have a shooting about the officer, and it is not our protocol to publish these images under these circumstances,” he said.
Crawford’s stop by the police, after holding a passage ceremony on the streets in the city center of Crawford, the 38th birthday watched a party to celebrate a live music venue where the stop occurred.
The celebration arrived after Crawford won the United Super Middle Fuck Championship. Unanimous Victory against Canelo Alvarez On September 13, Las Vegas. Crawford 31 with knocked 42-0.
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Aaron Morrison, Associated Press race and ethnic origin news editor, contributed to this report from New York.
