Heroic activists have pushed for change in policing for years, but recently push has come from police officers themselves. The NYPD12 and the PG13 are current examples. On January 24, 2019 the Justice Roundtable along with the below-listed co-sponsoring organizations screened the film, “Crime + Punishment” and hosted a talk-back after the film. CLICK VIDEO OF THE AFTER-FILM PANEL HERE – “Black and Brown on Blue: Piercing the Police Wall of Silence”
Panel Discussion Featured:
Kanya Bennett, Senior Legislative Counsel ACLU; co-chair Justice Roundtable Law Enforcement Reform Working Group
Thomas Boone, President, United Black Police Officer Association
April Goggans, Organizer, Black Lives Matter DC
Ron Hampton, Chair, Institute of the Black World 21st Century Police Task Force
Captain Joe Perez, President, Hispanic National Law Enforcement Association
Eugene Puryear, Organizer, Stop Police Terror Project DC
Jonathan Smith, Executive Director, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Moderator: Nkechi Taifa, Esq. Convener, Justice Roundtable
CO-SPONSORED BY:
- Justice Roundtable
- Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
- National Network for Justice
- Columbia University Center for Justice
- Stop Police Terror Project DC
- Multicultural Media Telecom and Internet Council
- Institute of the Black World 21st Century
- Black Lives Matter DC