Seahawks' Doug Baldwin demands state attorneys general review police policies
RENTON The top wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks is demanding the top legal authority in every one of our 50 states review police policies and training programs.
Baldwin used his weekly press conference to talk not about Sundays game against San Francisco, blah, blah, blah, as he put it. The Stanford graduate and National Honor Society inductee growing up in Florida the son of a police and homeland security officer instead quoted the U.S. Constitution, the Department of Justice and Martin Luther King Jr., while he said this:
Im demanding that all 50 state attorney generals call for a review of their policies and training policies for police and law enforcement to eliminate militaristic cultures while putting a higher emphasis on de-escalation tactics and crisis management measures.
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson responded on Twitter, with an invitation.
.@DougBaldwinJr Watched your press conference today with interest. Ill be reaching out soon to see if youd like to sit down and chat. -BF, Ferguson posted.
Thursday was six days after a white, Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer shot Terence Crutcher, an unarmed, 40-year-old black man, while responding to a report of an abandoned vehicle in a road.
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