In Philadelphia, a city with a difficult history of police corruption and brutality against black residents, Commissioner Ramsey, 64, has emerged as an unlikely leader, placing himself in the middle of the tumult surrounding the death of Brandon Tate-Brown, 26, the man killed by the police in December. Moreover, he has moved to the center of a growing — and at times, awkward — national police reform movement.
“I do know this is a problem we’ve got to fix,” the commissioner said in an interview, “because however large or small the community is that doesn’t trust the police, that have these kinds of concerns, we need to address them and address them very, very quickly.”
Philadelphia Commissioner Steps Into Fray Between Police and Public - NYTimes.com
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