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Police say they were actively searching for Lewis, a suspect they say was involved in at least 2 prior shooting incidents in the city. Saturday evening he was spotted on a blue light camera sitting in front of a home on Remington Street. Moments after officers approached him, Lewis, who police say was armed with a gun tucked in his waistband, tried to run, but the officers tackled him in the middle of the street where he resisted their efforts to arrest him. What if he had that gun when the officers approached him? Interim Rochester Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan asked. What if he elected to pull it out and use it? We could ve had another officer-involved shooting. We did not.
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This week marked a year since a white Minneapolis police officer put a knee on George Floyd s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes and killed him on a public street.
Advocates have asked the city and Monroe County to transform policing tactics and create a more equitable community that holistically serves all residents and respects Black lives.
In the year since the social justice movements spurred by Floyd s death began renewed calls for racial equality, what lessons have been learned? What has to change? The
Democrat and Chronicle posed those questions to local leaders.
All responses except two Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter and city council candidate Stanley Martin, a community organizer were collected via email questionnaire. (Baxter and Martin spoke with reporters in person .) The responses have been edited for clarity and length.
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When officers from the Rochester Police Department arrived on the scene of a family dispute involving a 9-year-old girl in emotional distress in January, a brand-new tool was at the city’s disposal: Rochester’s new Person in Crisis team. Launched earlier that month, the PIC team was created as an alternative response to mental health, substance abuse and other emergency calls that would normally involve police or paramedics. Instead of police officers being the first responders to these calls – and risking the potential that the encounter could escalate into a violent one, as was the case in the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester last year – a two-person team of crisis intervention counselors and social workers would show up with the aim of de-escalating, assessing what level of care the person in crisis needed and helping to connect the person to the relevant resources, such as a mental health urgent care center.
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With much of organized labor having already taken sides in the New York City mayor’s race, all eyes turn now to the United Federation of Teachers a powerful arm of the American Federation of Teachers whose endorsement could bring a significant boost to the mayoral hopeful who gets the nod.