"There is no blue shield. There is due process. And it's a process afforded officers just as it's afforded every citizen."
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Kevin Abourezk, longtime Lakota journalist who's covered Zachary Bear Heels and Micah Taylor, says Omaha needs to reckon with the fact that it has a race problem.
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Abourezk gets emotional talking about Bear Heels where police brutalized Bear Heels, a mentally ill man. Those four officers were fired but reinstated through an arbitration process. "You can not tell me that's proper police protocol. And if it is, there is something wrong her."
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one community member says the new reprimand committee represents a conflict of interest. The committee would be selected by the city, the mayor's office and a third would be selected by those two. This person would like to see an independently elected committee of citizens.
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one community member asks the council listen to community's demands even though they're not negotiating the plans. Just think of this like the recycling contract, she said. "Instead of waste disposal, people's lives and well beings are on the line."
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