It also allowed the mayor and City Council members to address the situation with the Dallas chief of police and the city manager.
During the meeting, City Manager T.C. Broadnax informed the City Council that he and Hall had met to discuss what changes needed to be made.
And one, the first, has already ben implemented …”
He listed the following as immediate actions to take place in the next 90 days:
“That means we will try to do that through policy to get those videos out in the public much sooner than historically in this city, ” Broadnax assured the council.
The plan is part of the city’s new One Dallas: R.E.A.L. Change initiative, designed to be a catalyst to provide a scalable action-based plan aligned with 21st century policing.
“I’m working with the other members of my team to create the conversation as well as some specific actions around economic development, housing, workforce, training and the things that – again – are the fabric of what makes communities whole, so that this conversation that we continue to have every five years – every time we see a new video or incident that gets back at root causes – that we can address them as a city and we can be more resilient, be more responsive and respected by the people in our community.”
