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Samy Feliz discusses reforms needed to prevent police-related tragedies

0:38:43

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Samy Feliz responds to Council Member Salaam's question about reforms needed to prevent tragedies like the one that happened to his brother. He emphasizes the importance of these reforms for both pedestrian and vehicle stops.

Feliz calls for full camera footage without time delays to capture officers' reasoning before stops
He stresses the critical need for accountability in policing
Feliz argues that without accountability, other reforms and training will be ineffective

Samy Feliz

0:38:43

Understanding that this council here is for something different from what my brother was stopped for.

0:38:49

Like, we're talking here about regular traffic stops.

0:38:53

My brother was stopped in the vehicle.

0:38:55

We're talking about pedestrian stops here.

0:38:58

I think it starts here at the pedestrian level, that it'll correlate and, at some point, translate to the police stops in the vehicles as well.

0:39:07

But I would say having things that I would like to see is full blown camera footage.

0:39:16

No 10 second runoff, so you can see what is the reasoning that the officers are coming up with before they make the stop.

0:39:23

That's audio and video.

0:39:25

I would also like to see accountability.

0:39:32

There aren't any reforms or trainings that that will bring the level of of, I guess, of of understanding of the necessity for change without these officers being held accountable.

0:39:54

At this moment, officers are not being held accountable for any of the actions, whether it's minor or it's for taking a life.

0:40:01

So accountability is the is the biggest thing, and and that's a start.

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