How A Field Trip to Honor Tyre Nichols Turned Into "Pro-Police" March

[Nevilledog]

https://knock-la.com/lapd-field-trip-inappropriate-and-traumatizing/

At a February 7 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board meeting, Susan Miller Dorsey High School student Simya Smith made public comments. She spoke about a field trip that Dorsey students were initially told was to honor Tyre Nichols. Instead, Dorsey students showed up to what Smith has classified as a “pro-police” trip.

They were greeted by over 100 police officers, listened to a speech by LAPD Chief Michel Moore, and were later taken to police headquarters to act out various scenarios as police officers using a VR simulator. Smith called the trip “highly inappropriate and traumatizing” and asked whether Superintendent Carvahlo had authorized it.

Smith was referring to the third Annual Good Trouble Walk and Cultural Sensitivity Summit. The event was hosted by Building Blue Bridges founder Daphne Bradford. Building Blue Bridges is an organization that attempts to build positive relationships between students and police.

The summit began at the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Boyle Avenue. Students, police, and community members marched across 6th Street Bridge and ended their procession at the intersection of 6th Street and Mateo Street. The LAPD press release for the event claimed Chief Michel Moore would encourage students to “[ask] tough questions about police reform and de-escalation education training.”

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That's fucked up.

[Phoenix61]

1. That there is a person on campus and no one seems to

know who she is connected to is deeply disturbing. I wonder what was on the permission slip because it doesn’t sound like whatever it was it wasn’t the truth. I checked on FB and the organization isn’t on it. The only posts about it are from LAPD and the school police. Seems very odd.

[NJCher]

2. Hijacked

Does anyone remember another story similar to this? I think it involves some school children who were supposed to go to some type of program but when they got to the program it turned out to be some sort of Christian indoctrination thing.

I believe it was a public school so it was doubly inappropriate.

Sounds like more right wing lunacy.
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[Haggard Celine]

3. Reminds me of how they used to

grab people off the street to watch their shows. It turned out to be a tent revival. I remember how they used to promise people a meal and how they used to make them watch a sermon before they could eat. That's not Christian charity. That's more like chicanery.