Jerald G. Pryor: Being a Black Police Officer at This Pinnacle Time by Into The Dawn

Detective Jerald G. Pryor has been a Federal Police Officer for 15 years and is currently a Detective Lieutenant in Los Angeles, California.

In this episode we discuss:

What his experience has been during this time as a black man in the police force
What he thinks about the protesting and looting, and why he would be doing the same if he wasn’t a police officer
How media is portraying police officers in a certain light in order for ratings
His opinion on why certain police officers could fear black individuals and what he believes the solution is
What the training is like for police officers
His opinion on what will happen if the police departments are defunded and what is the real solution
Why he doesn’t want people to group/label police officers together, because of certain individuals who have done wrong

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