2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro unveils police overhaul plan
Julián Castro is calling for restricting the use of deadly force by police to combat"racially discriminatory policing" in a plan he unveiled Monday.
Castro, who is running for president, supports national standards for police officers and local departments that receive federal funding and said those standards should include combating discriminatory policing"that leads to the disproportionately high number of black men who are killed by police." Castro, a former HUD secretary and the only Latino in the race for the Democratic nomination, had previewed his proposal over the weekend at the MoveOn Big Ideas forum in San Francisco and touched on it at a forum on immigration Friday in Pasadena, California.
“How many of these videos do we have to watch to understand that even though we have some great police officers, this is not a case of bad apples?” Castro said at the forum after ticking off names of victims of deadly force by police."The system is broken, so let’s fix it." He made a similar comment Friday in Pasadena, after a young Latino man said he had been stopped by police a
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