Mayor Turner to announce implementation of task force on policing reform recommendations
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The announcement will take place at 11 a.m. at City Hall.
Chief of Police Troy Finner, Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Persse, Municipal Court Director and Presiding Judge Elaine Marshall, and other guests will join Mayor Turner for the announcement.
You can watch the press conference live here at Click2Houston.com.
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Effective immediately by executive order of Mayor Sylvester Turner, body camera footage from all police-involved shootings which involves a display of excessive force or the death of someone in custody, will be made public within 30 days.
However, to the expected disappointment of many in the community, that change in policy will not be retroactive meaning it will not include any video of disputed and controversial encounters between police and civilians such as occurred with the Harding Street Raid in which two people were killed.
He began the press conference by referencing his executive order on June 10, 2020 which came the day after George Floyd s funeral, in which he banned excessive use of force, banning chokeholds, requiring that officers have a duty to intervene, restricting when officers can shoot at moving vehicles among other matters.
Officials in Houston on Saturday dedicated a massive Black Lives Matter mural to George Floyd in front of the high school he attended.
Floyd, who died in May after former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee to Floyd s neck for roughly nine minutes, has inspired dozens of street murals and memorial images around the country amid nationwide rallies for racial justice.
This Houston mural, which spans two blocks in front of Jack Yates High School, was designed by Jonah Elijah, an alumni and visual artist. About 25 volunteers, including city employees and art students from the school, helped create the mural over the course of three days, he said.
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