48 - Detroit Chief Of Police James Craig On The Detroit Protests

Open Mike Podcast

English - June 10, 2020 02:42 - 49 minutes - 90.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
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In another timely episode of OpenMike, Detroit Chief of Police James Craig joins Mike Morse and Kevin Dietz to talk about the current Detroit protests. They discuss curfews, the state of violence throughout the protests in Detroit, and the murder of George Floyd. Chief Craig talks about his early days on the police force and feeling unwelcome as a black man and the inspiration from his father to change the institution from within. He was one of the first police chiefs across the country to call the killing of George Floyd a murder and he explains why he was so quick to do it.

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