Delayed AG pick raises pressure on Biden to field a diverse leadership team at Justice Department
The longer that President-elect Joe Biden takes to select his pick for US attorney general, the more pressure builds on him to staff his Justice Department with a diverse leadership team.
What Biden had initially anticipated would be announced by Christmas Day, has stretched into the new year. That breaks with recent norms for an incoming president to make attorney general among his first Cabinet picks. It’s also heightened the calls for Biden to address issues of diversity and racial injustice through his selection to lead the department.
(CBS Newspath) A new police academy in Missouri is making history. It s the first ever on the campus of a historically Black college.
Lincoln University police Chief Gary Hill is busy preparing to open the police academy on campus in January.
âIt puts an academy right where we have a large amount of minorities living, so it gives them easy access to it,â he says.
The Jefferson City, Missouri campus is just two hours away from Ferguson where the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown led to protests and demands for change around the country.
Hill says Lincolnâs academy will focus on both recruiting and training.
McDONOUGH â When Reginald Scandrett walked across the stage to accept his Frederick Douglass High School diploma, the 1987 graduate already had 14 full music scholarships awaiting his decision. His passion since the second grade, music is what inspired him and what first opened the doors of leadership that directed him where he is today.
A percussionist and pianist, Scandrett was always named band section leader in high school before becoming president of the 400-member organization, which has historically been one of the most notable marching bands in the state.
âI went to college to major in music, but it didnât materialize,â Scandrett said during a recent interview. âI had a conversation with my band director. I was a sergeant at the DeKalb Sheriffâs Office then, and he said heâd been (teaching) 38 years and said, âYouâre making more than I am.ââ
New Jersey police officers will be barred from using physical or deadly force against civilians except as a last resort and must intervene if they see another officer going too far, according to sweeping new changes to the state s policy on when police can use force.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Monday that his office s yearlong effort to overhaul the state s 20-year-old policies was meant to protect citizens, build community trust and reframe the way officers approach exchanges with the public. We re going to preserve the sanctity of human life, we re going to preserve the rights and liberties of our residents and we re going to try to resolve every interaction in a peaceful and respectful manner, Grewal said in an interview.
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