Suncoast Tiger Bay Club 7-8-20 "Coming Together" a discussion of race, equity and the future of policing.
Season 1, Episode 3790, Jul 08, 2020, 06:16 PM
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Today's Panel
Today's Panel
The time for conversation on issues of race, equality and policing is now.
That was the consensus among the panelists at Wednesday’s Suncoast Tiger Bay Club virtual luncheon. The discussion, mediated by former WTSP-10 Tampa Bay reporter Garin Flowers, included:
- Bob Gualtieri, Pinellas County Sheriff
- Jabaar Edmond, Community Activist, Writer, VP Child’s Park NA
- Belinthia A. Berry, Director, Corporate College at SPC and president of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Tampa Bay Chapter
- Dr. Dawn K. Cecil, Professor of Criminology at USF’s St. Petersburg campus
The candid conversation touched on a number of issues that have come to light in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, including police brutality, the portrayal of the Black community on reality TV, and what it really means to defund the police.
Gualtieri said this moment in time calls for us to “come to terms with some very hard things,” such as the issue of complicit bias, and that society as a whole needs to do a better job of not acting on preconceived notions.
That comes from respect on both sides, Edmond said.