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Governor Gavin Newsom conducts a press conference on Racism and Structural Injustice, recorded June 5, 2020 in Sacramento.
After a week of engagement with civic leaders and law enforcement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and demonstrations nationwide, Governor Newsom today announced his support for new policing and criminal justice reforms. Governor Newsom will work toward a statewide standard for policing peaceful protests and ending the carotid hold. This announcement follows the work California did last year to enact the nation’s strongest standard for police use of deadly force.
Governor Newsom today called for the creation of new standards for crowd control and use of force in protests. Governor Newsom committed to working with the Legislature, including the California Legislative Black Caucus, the California Latino Legislative Caucus and other legislative leaders, in consultation with national experts, community leaders, law enforcement and journalists to develop those standards – much like the collaboration that produced AB 392 last year, California’s nation-leading use-of-force bill.
Additionally, he called for the end of the carotid hold and other like techniques in California, directing that the carotid hold be removed from the state police training program and state training materials. He committed to working with the Legislature on a statewide ban that would apply to all police forces across the state.
Criminal justice reform has been a key priority of Governor Newsom’s first year in office. He placed a moratorium on the death penalty, citing racial and economic disparities in how it was applied. He proposed to close the Division of Juvenile Justice and proposed closing two state prisons. In his May Revision budget, Governor Newsom proposed expanding opportunities for rehabilitation and shortening prison time for offenders participating in treatment programs, in education programs and otherwise engaging in good behavior; as well as increasing access to higher education for young people who are incarcerated.
Governor Newsom acknowledged today that more action is needed, and stated that additional reforms around police practices, educational equity, economic justice, health equity and more must be addressed with urgency.
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus.
C
Well,
good
afternoon,
everybody
and
opportunity
to
catch
up,
check-in
and
opportunity
to
introduce
you
to
two
interesting
and
extraordinary
leaders
that
I
think
truly
encapsulate
the
spirit
of
this
moment
in
the
spirit
of
where
we
want
to
take
this
moment
in
terms
of
the
call
and
demands
for
change.
I've
had
the
privilege
of
traveling
all
up
and
down
in
the
state
of
California
and
over
the
course.
The
last
number
of
days
I
had
the
opportunity
to
spend
the
day
working
with
community
leaders.
C
Faith
leaders
working
with
advocates
working
with
members
of
our
own
national
guard
to
help
clean
up
the
streets
of
Sacramento
randomly
had
the
privilege
and
opportunity
to
meet
up
with
a
group
of
young
people
around
the
Police
Officers
Memorial
that
we're
cleaning
up
graffiti,
a
young
girl,
quite
literally
with
one
lung
that
outlasted
all
of
us
as
she
was
scrubbing
away
for
hours
and
hours
and
hours.
No
one
asked
her
to
do
it.
C
It
was
just
an
act
of
random
kindness
and
a
recognition
that
her
community
was
being
impacted
and
her
life
and
her
future
impacted
by
the
moment,
and
she
wanted
to
impact
the
community
in
a
positive
way.
She,
by
the
way,
was
also
part
of
the
protest
the
night
before,
but
didn't
like
certain
aspects
of
what
she
saw.
I
had
the
privilege
of
also
working
not
only
side-by-side
with
her
but
with
Steve
on
Ted
Clark,
well-known
activists
here
in
the
Sacramento
region,
who
also
was
working
to
clean
up
graffiti
on
the
side
of
a
State
Building.
C
Just
randomly
walked
the
streets
checked
in
on
how
people
were
feeling
none
of
the
protests.
None
of
the
violence
manifesting
down
in
South
LA.
We
talked
about
why
that
was
the
case
learned
about
the
history
of
institutional
building,
not
just
physical
infrastructure
but
human
capital,
human
infrastructure,
the
resolve
that
people
had
to
never
again
see
what
occurred
in
1992
occur
again
in
South
LA
and
the
chance
to
visit
members
of
law
enforcement
visit
with
community
leaders,
including
one
of
my
heroes,
I'm
here
at
the
California
Museum.
C
It's
also
the
home
of
the
California
Hall
of
Fame,
of
some
of
the
most
inspired
leaders
that
have
left
their
mark
on
history.
That
happened
to
have
a
strong
identity
here
in
the
state
of
California.
One
of
them
that
I
had
the
privilege
of
recognizing
just
a
few
months
ago,
was
Reverend
Lawson
known
to
many
as
one
of
the
most
influential
leaders
in
the
civil
rights
movement
and
he
brought
back
forth
the
principles
of
non-violence
from
Ghandi
and
brought
them
to
the
forefront
of
the
consciousness
of
dr.
C
King
I
met
with
him
and
leaders,
black
lives
matter,
other
leaders
in
the
community
and
had
a
conversation
about
the
history
of
the
civil
rights
movement.
Going
back.
As
we
debated
to
the
1950s,
he
argued
back
to
1947
and
the
impact
Jackie
Robinson
had
on
the
movement,
not
just
Emmett
Till,
and
that
moment
that
mark
a
part
of
history
that
changed
the
momentum,
montgomery
bus
boycott
others
that
he
organized
and
helped
lead.
What
makes
this
moment
different
from
that
moment?
Is
this
a
moment
or
is
this
a
movement?
C
What
part
of
our
history
are
we
living
in
and
living
through?
Have
the
opportunity
to
meet
with
many
youth
leaders
and
I'll
tell
you
of
all
the
conversations
I've
had
over
the
course
the
last
week
in
particular
it's
the
clarity
and
conviction
of
our
youth.
There
don't
mince
words.
They
don't
beat
around
the
bush.
They
don't
you
know,
they're,
not
patient
they're,
not
necessarily
confident
that
folks
in
position
like
mine,
get
it
or
have
the
capacity
to
get
it
done.
They
have
no
reservoir
of
patience.
They
demand
progress.
C
They
demand
people
in
position
of
power
and
influence
to
listen
but
more
important
than
anything
else.
They
demand
the
people
in
power
position
and
influence.
Lead,
lead,
demonstrably
lead
with
courage,
lead
with
conviction,
but
they
also
made
a
point
lead
with
civility.
They
pointed
out
number
of
these
youth
leaders
that
violence
has
solved
nothing.
It's
created,
nothing,
there's
nothing
Courageous
about
violent
acts
as
reminded
a
little
bit
of
what
Kennedy
spoke
to
they.
C
One
thing:
I
came
back
with
not
only
time
on
the
streets
in
Sacramento
in
South
LA
in
Stockton
California
with
a
young
leader,
mayor
Tubbs
and
many
other
youth
leaders
that
he
assembled
is
that
the
black
community
black
community
does
not
need
to
change.
We
need
to
change.
We
have
a
responsibility
to
change.
Our
institutions
need
to
change
our
capacity
of
understanding
needs
to
change.
We
need
to
contextualize
not
only
this
moment
but
moments
in
the
past,
where
we
never
met
these
calls,
and
these
cries
that
we
ran
short.
C
We
ran
long
on
rhetoric
short
on
results
again,
there's
no
reservoir
for
patience,
that's
self-evident,
just
on
your
TV
screen,
but
it's
also
sub
out
in
it
in
the
minds
and
hearts
and
the
values
that
you
hear
from
people
all
across
the
state
and
all
across
the
United
States
of
America.
This
has
been
an
extraordinary
week
in
our
nation's
history,
in
the
history
of
the
state
of
California,
and
we
have
a
unique
and
special
responsibility
here
in
California
to
meet
it
in
to
meet
it
head-on.
C
I'm
also
here
at
the
California
Museum
for
another
reason,
because
I
was
here
roughly
a
year
ago,
where
California
was
demonstrably
leading
incredible
leadership
that
was
assembled
just
downstairs
for
where
I
am
here
today,
where
we
signed
landmark
bill,
the
nation's
toughest
use
of
force,
laws
on
deadly
force,
a
B
392
and
the
lexicon
of
the
legislature
led
by
dr.
Shirley,
whoever
leaders
like
McCarty
many
others
that
led
an
effort
to
reconcile
our
antiquated
practices
as
it
relates
to
use
of
force.
It
was
a
controversial
bill.
There
was
previous
efforts
to
advance
the
bill.
C
But
we
can
fundamentally
solve
a
problem,
and
I
am
here
today
to
say
that
program
passing
is
indeed
not
problem
solving
unless
we
follow
through
on
what
we
promote
in
promise,
and
we
manifest
a
cultural
change
and
a
deeper
understanding
of
what
it
is
that
we're
trying
to
advance.
We
passed
that
bill
last
August,
but
it
hasn't
stopped
violence.
It
hasn't
stopped
the
mistrust,
it
hasn't
stopped
people
from
raising
anxiety,
we're
seeing,
there's
anxiety,
raised
and
concerns
being
brought
to
the
forefront.
We
have
so
much
work
still
left
to
do.
C
There
was
a
companion
bill
that
was
also
part
of
that
package:
SB
230
that
had
deep
frame
of
focus
on
implicit
bias,
training,
de-escalation
techniques.
So
many
of
the
provisions
of
that
bill.
Interestingly,
going
to
affect
in
January
2021,
that
cannot
happen
soon
enough.
We're
scrubbing
components
of
that
bill
to
see
if
we
can
fast-track
and
concentrate
some
of
those
provisions
to
advance
the
cause
that
brought
us
together
in
that
bill
and
move
forward
with
a
greater
sense
of
urgency.
C
I
say
that
to
reflect
on
a
point
and
a
point
of
optimism
and
also
frustration
that
California
has
been
leading,
but
still
we
haven't
done
enough.
I
say
this
all
the
time.
Success
is
not
a
place
or
a
definition.
It's
a
direction.
There
is
no
having
made
it
as
it
relates
to
addressing
these
foundational
and
fundamental
issues.
We
have
extraordinary
amount
of
work
left
to
do
I'm,
proud
of
this
state,
proud
of
the
cause
of
reform.
That
goes
beyond
just
the
issue
of
implicit
bias
and
de-escalation.
C
C
Remember
the
Clinton
administration
knocked
that
down
to
five
hundred
to
one
the
Obama
administration
knocked
it
down
further,
but
disparity
still
persists,
not
just
as
it
relates
the
consequence
of
drug
possession
but
across
the
criminal
justice
system.
That's
why
the
state
was
one
of
the
early
adopters
of
a
new
approach
as
it
relates
to
cannabis,
reform
legal
lusatian
around
adult
use
of
marijuana.
It
was
a
civil
rights
call
from
our
perspective.
C
I
was
proud
to
be
out
in
front
in
those
efforts
was
about
addressing
the
disparities
it
was
about
addressing
incarceration
and
it
was
about
addressing
the
ills
of
this
war
on
drugs.
But
again
it's
not
enough.
We
are
proud
of
the
work
we've
got
in
the
state
of
California
we
announced,
and
the
legislature
has
embraced
the
need
to
shut
down
state
prisons
in
our
current
budget,
but
I
will
sign
in
just
a
few
weeks.
It
calls
for
shutting
down
to
state
prisons
because
for
eliminating
the
Department
of
Juvenile
Justice,
it
calls
for
more
probation
reforms.
C
It
discriminates
based
on
the
color
of
your
skin,
discriminates
based
on
wealth.
It
has
been
said
over
and
over
again,
it
cannot
be
said
enough.
We
have
a
criminal
justice
system.
I,
don't
think
this
I
know
this
as
governor
I
live
this
every
day,
criminal
justice
system
that
treats
people
that
are
rich
and
guilty
a
hell
of
a
lot
better
and
it
treats
people
that
are
poor
and
innocent.
You
know
that
and
I
know
that,
so
why
aren't
we
doing
something
about
it?
C
We're
trying
our
best
here
in
the
state,
but
we
have
to
do
more
still
better
and
I
understand
this
conversation
that
we
need
to
be
having
in
the
state
of
California
just
cannot
be
about
criminal
justice.
It
has
to
be
about
economic
justice,
social
justice,
environmental
justice.
It
has
to
be
so
much
richer
and
deeper
than
it's
been
in
the
past.
C
That's
why
we
created
that
Surgeon
General
position
in
the
state
of
California
to
begin
to
focus
on
the
issues
that
manifest
early
in
life,
prenatal
care,
the
focus
on
aces
and
early
childhood
trauma
focusing
on
prenatal
care,
as
well
as
preschool
early
headstart,
not
just
head
start
focusing
on
achievement
gap
before
it
manifests
because
the
other
day
we
can
consume
ourselves
with
achievement
gap,
but
we
know
that
people
aren't
left
behind
in
society.
They
start
behind
in
society.
C
So
if
we're
gonna
get
serious
about
dressing,
these
disparities,
then
we've
got
to
get
serious
about
our
work
in
that
space
as
well,
and
we
have
committed
ourselves
to
that
cause
education
reform,
my
gosh
ten
percent
of
black
students,
ten
percent,
a
black
students,
met
the
state
benchmarks
on
math
proficiency.
Last
year,
ten
percent
by
eighth
grade
all
of
the
disruption
around
Kovan,
19
and
learning
loss
study
just
came
out
today.
C
It
should
be
seared
in
your
minds
and
consciousness,
a
study
that
came
out
today
that
says
the
average
learning
loss
in
this
nation
because
of
Koba
19
is
7
months,
but
for
the
black
community
ten
point
three
months
for
low-income
community
over
one
year
of
learning
loss
because
of
the
impacts
of
kovat
19.
You
think
we
got
an
achievement
gap
right
now.
C
What
are
we
gonna
do
about
that
and
by
the
way,
I
just
want
to
be
clear
and
respectful
at
the
same
time
to
California
Legislature.
One
thing
we're
not
going
to
do
is
take
the
4.4
billion
dollars
that
we
promoted
in
our
in
dilute
it
by
taking
it
away
from
concentration
funding
for
black
and
brown
communities
and
those
that
are
former
foster
youth
and
low-income
in
English.
As
second
learners
I
will
reject
any
proposal
that
comes
out
of
legislature.
C
That
does
that
we
are
committed
to
the
cause
of
equity
and
that's
the
reason
we
put
that
four
point:
four
billion
dollars
in
the
budget
to
focus
on
equity,
Governor,
Brown
said
it
better
than
any
of
us.
There
is
no
equal
application
in
unequal
systems.
You
can't
just
spread
that
money
out.
Equally,
we
need
to
concentrate
its
focus
and
I
just
want
to
make
that
clear
as
responsibly
and
respectfully
I
can
too
legislature.
I
won't
budge
on
that
budget
proposal.
C
We
have
to
do
more
and
better,
not
just
in
education,
not
just
addressing
issues
as
it
relates
to
birth,
zero
to
five,
but
we
also
have
to
start
thinking
more
systemically
more
broadly
about
income
supports.
We
were
proud
in
the
state
to
have
double,
to
earn
income
tax
credit
proud
in
this
state,
to
begin
process
of
doing
more
on
child
care
and
empowering
caregivers
by
organizing
caregivers
and
giving
them
the
power
and
capacity
their
voice
to
lead
to
focus
on
pay
equity.
C
We
have
work
to
do
and
we
have
a
responsibility
to
do
more
than
we
have
in
the
past,
and
so
I
want
to
make
clear
that
those
efforts
must
continue
and
we
must
double
down
and
we
must
recognize
those
gaps
that
continue
to
persist
in
the
state
in
this
nation,
and
so
today,
I
want
to
make
a
few
announcements
in
terms
of
advancing
that
cause
of
recognition,
understanding
and
resolve.
One
thing
that
is
crystal
clear
to
me.
C
That's
a
simple
value
statement:
I
want
to
make
that
crystal
clear.
They
have
the
right
not
to
be
harassed,
not
to
be
denied
not
to
be
arrested
for
peaceful
protesting
period.
Full
stop,
but
it's
clear
on
the
images
we
see
on
TV
on
the
reality
of
a
grandmother
in
La
Mesa
California,
that's
in
the
hospital
that
some
people
are
denied
that
fundamental
right
and
they
were
not
seeing
people
treated
equally,
all
across
the
state
of
California.
C
Accordingly,
it
is
goes
without
saying.
We
cannot
see
the
kind
of
techniques
that,
tragically
and
ironically,
we
train
I
own
this-
we
own
this
across
this
country.
We
train
techniques
on
strangleholds
that
put
people's
lives
at
risk.
Now
we
can
argue
that
these
are
used
as
exceptions,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day
a
karateka
hold.
That
literally
is
designed
to
stop
people's
blood
from
flowing
into
their
brain.
C
That
has
no
place
any
longer
in
21st
century
practices
and
policing,
and
so
I
am
immediately
directing
post,
which
is
our
police
officers,
training
to
end
the
training
of
that
practice
and
I
could
not
be
more
pleased.
No
sooner
did
we
make
a
commitment
on
this
proposal
that
a
member
of
the
legislature,
Mike
Gibson,
to
his
credit,
just
introduced
a
piece
of
legislation
that
I
will
support
and
sign
as
soon
as
it
gets
to
my
desk
to
legislatively
on
that
practice
in
the
state
of
California.
C
We
did
that
years
and
years
ago,
as
it
relates
to
chokeholds
decades
ago.
Understandably,
but
not
some
of
these
techniques
on
strangleholds,
and
we
have
got
to
update
our
practices
in
that
place
as
well,
so
that
we
will
do
immediately
with
a
deep
sense
of
urgency
as
well
as
we
organize
a
new
construct
on
how
we
focus
on
crowd
control.
It
helps
support,
support,
peaceful
protesting
in
the
state
and
continue
our
leadership
to
be
a
model
for
the
rest
of
the
nation.
This
has
been
a
very
difficult
time.
C
We
have
a
hierarchy
of
values
in
this
country
that
diminishes
certain
people
based
on
their
color
of
the
skin,
and
we
have
perpetuated
that
hierarchy
for
centuries
in
this
state,
and
we
need
to
own
up
to
that
and
we
need
to
foundationally
rip
that
out
of
its
root
and
we
talk
about
institutional
racism,
that's
what
we're
talking
about
and
we
become
most
numb
to
it,
blind
to
it.
No
one
wants
to
go
back
to
normalcy.
C
If
you
want
to
go
back
to
normalcy,
I'm,
not
going
there
with
you
I,
don't
want
to
go
back
to
normalcy,
I
want
something
better.
We
deserve
something
more
generation
of
young
people
demand
something
better
in
something
more.
Please
resist
normalcy,
normalcy
created
the
conditions
that
led
to
this
moment.
C
Normalcy
has
no
place
in
terms
of
our
reconciliation.
Of
this
moment
we
have
to
meet
a
higher
calling.
We
are
so
much
better
than
this,
so
much
more
capable
than
this.
We
will
rise
up
to
this
moment.
We
will
lead
and
we
will
listen
and
we
will
begin
to
reconcile,
but
with
resolve
and
a
commitment
and
a
persistence,
not
patience.
C
That
is
demanding
of
this
moment
and
we
will
lead
guided
by
people
like
Ron
and
Latifah,
and
many
many
others
that
have
been
on
the
front
lines
and
with
that
I
wanted
now
just
turn
over
this
mic
to
Latifah,
to
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
what
she
hopes
to
accomplish,
what
she's
been
doing
and
how
she
hopes,
work
with
Ron,
Davis
and
others
will
advise
us
with
the
urgency.
That's
needed
at
this
moment
to
move
in
a
direction
that
does
justice
to
those
cries
that
we
are
loudly
hearing
in
the
state
of
California
Latifah.
C
D
My
name
is
Latifah
Simon,
the
president
of
the
acha,
not
a
foundation
which
is
one
of
the
state's
first
philanthropic
institutions
directly
aimed
at
ending
racialized
injustice
in
the
state
of
California.
I,
also
have
the
great
pleasure
of
serving
as
the
president
of
the
board
of
directors
for
a
barrier.
Rapid
transit
but
I
come
today,
not
only
with
those
rules,
but
after
25
years
of
working,
literally
on
the
streets
and
in
jails
and
in
prisons.
D
D
This
call
that
the
governor
is
asking
us
all
now
to
accept
is
to
rapidly
bend
the
arc
towards
justice.
It
is
our
duty
and
we
must
move
forward
expeditiously,
no
more.
We
can't
go
back
so
for
those
men
and
women
for
decades
and
literally
centuries,
who
have
been
calling
and
demanding
a
shift.
We
owe
them.
We
owe
them
the
shift
in
this
state.
The
state
will
come
first
and
so
goes
the
nation
392
governor
mentioned
it.
D
He
signed
one
of
the
country's
most
sweeping
acts
of
legislation
to
direct
a
change
in
culture,
and
now
we
must
move
dr..
Shelly
Weber
worked
with
women
in
communities
all
throughout
the
state
who
had
to
bury
their
sons
on
our
sons
to
create
and
craft
those
words
that
have
now
law
in
the
state
of
California.
We've
all
watched
the
tape
of
the
murder
of
mr.
Floyd,
and
we
do
this
work
and
his
daughter's
name.
D
We
can
change
and
swiftly
enact
a
culture
that
refutes
that
false
promise
that
false
promise
or
that
false
choice
that
we
can't
have
it
both
ways.
We
can
end
racial
injustice.
Although
change
is
not
Swift,
it
is
rough,
it
is
dirty
oftentimes
and
it's
difficult,
but
we'll
get
there
I'm
very
excited
to
work
with
Ron
Davis,
who
is
a
national
champion
for
police
reform
in
advising
the
governor,
and
we
will
work
with
other
stakeholders
swiftly
with
this
office
and
with
law
enforcement
to
not
only
shift
the
conversation
but
shift
the
practice.
E
Good
afternoon,
let
me
start
by
first
thinking
the
governor
for
his
leadership,
but
I
really
appreciate
it
with
his
opening
remarks.
Was
the
candor
and
the
truth
that
he
told
us
about
who
we
are?
Who
we
have
been
and
where
we
need
to
go.
I.
Think
the
governor
recognizes
that
too
often
a
truth
does
hurt.
Too
often
the
truth
is
uncomfortable,
but
even
though
the
truth
hurts
selective,
ignorance
is
fatal.
We
ignore
the
truth.
We
make
mistakes,
we
ignore
the
truth.
We
threaten
our
very
existence.
E
E
What
to
do
was
stopped
by
the
police
have
to
prepare
them
to
be
safe
against
the
people
that
I
respect
to
work
with
more
the
same.
Uniform
I
did
that
conflict,
as
does
something
I
struggled
with
for
thirty
years
or
how
to
reconcile
it
when
I
found
a
way
to
reconcile
it,
which
I
think
the
governor
is
leading
a
state
to
do
you
don't
reconcile
it
by
trying
to
fit
them
into
a
safe
narrative?
You
don't
reconcile
it
by
ignoring
the
truth
or
history.
E
E
As
ever
mentioned
to
be
able
to
work
with
the
thousands
of
police
departments
over
16,000
police
departments
in
the
United,
States,
local
state,
county
and
tribal
and
as
the
director
the
cop's
office
I,
have
to
work
with
a
lot
of
them
and
include
it
going
to
Ferguson
going
to
Baltimore
working
with
San
Francisco
Police
Department.
With
their
collaborative
reform,
we
even
did
an
after-action
review
of
Ferguson
to
understand
what
went
right
and
what
went
wrong.
E
The
50
caliber
weapons,
the
militarization
of
the
police,
so
we
know
there's
road
maps
out
there
when
Michael
Brown
was
killed.
Following
that
tragedy,
President
Obama
created
the
president's
Task
Force
on
21st
century
policing
and
I
had
the
honor
of
serving
as
the
executive
director
and
traveled
around
the
country
with
the
task
force
with
listening
sessions
listening
to
experts
at
victims
and
families
and
academics
and
Union
and
police
officers
and
sheriff's
everyone
trying
to
identify
what
are
the
best
methods.
Moving
forward.
I
appreciate
the
governor
stance.
We
don't
have
time
to
read
litigate
the
causes.
E
We
know
the
cause
of
the
governor
outlined
some
of
them
today.
What
we
need
to
do
is
focus
on
the
remedies
and
to
move
for
so
to
return
all
these
plans
that
do
exist
and
to
actions
no.
For
me,
I
was
there
doing
Rodney
King
as
a
cop
I
was
there
during
Freddie
gray
and
the
Obama
administration
each
one
was
a
certain
moment.
I
do
believe
that
this
is
a
movement
and
now
close
with
a
what
are
called
to
my
fellow
law
enforcement
leaders
in
the
60s.
E
We
have
evidence
and
videos,
and
we
celebrate
some
of
the
some
of
the
courageous
actions
of
civil
rights,
people
that
wouldn't
they
stood
against
the
oppression
and
we
provided
them
as
police
officers.
Weather
was
the
Edmund
Pettus
Bridge
was
it
was
demonstrations
and
we
our
job,
was
to
oppress
and
to
stop
the
X,
the
expression
of
First
Amendment
rights
in
2020.
We
have
now
come
to
the
point
where
our
job
should
be
to
protect
the
civil
rights
into
the
first
protection
of
the
First
Amendment
rights,
so
that
people
can
protest
in
peace.
E
There's
only
two
types
of
protest:
we
should
not
accept
and
that's
silence
and
violence
and
silence
does
no
one.
Any
good
and
violence
are
just
unacceptable.
So
what
I
tell
my
law
enforcement
leaders
our
call
to
action
as
we
move
forward
with
this,
that
we
will
be
getting
a
hold
of
you
that
collaborating
with
you?
We
need
time
for
you
to
stand
up.
I've
said
a
lot
of
Chiefs
tikani,
and
that
is
great,
but
now
take
a
stance
and
take
a
stance
for
systemic
reform
and
changes.
E
So
a
lot
of
people
say
they
want
to
make
changes.
Well,
this
is
the
opportunity:
let's
make
this
movement,
not
against
the
police.
Let's
do
it
with
the
police
so
that
we
can
make
changes
about
our
systems
that
everyone
benefits.
I
look
forward
to.
You
heard
the
passionate
speakings
of
the
teeth
and
I
look
forward
to
working
with
my
colleagues
and
under
the
leadership
of
the
governor
I
think
we
can
actually
give
some
things
done.
That
will
not
only
make
policing
practices
better
in
California.
E
C
Thank
you
Ron.
Thank
you,
the
tea,
fine
and
let
me
just
build
on
Ron's
comments,
because
I
think
they're
important
to
underscore
at
the
same
time
as
a
former
police
officer
himself
as
someone
who
recognized
and
deserves
to
be
recognized
police
officers
not
just
chiefs
of
all
stripes.
All
across
this
country.
C
You
see
images
of
police
officers
dancing
with
protesters
bending
down
on
one
knee
with
protesters,
members
of
our
own
National
Guard,
not
just
cleaning
up
graffiti
here
in
Northern
California,
but
in
Southern
California,
a
whole
crew
bending
down
on
one
knee
in
solidarity
with
the
protesters.
There
is
so
much
nobility
to
those
men
and
women
as
well.
That
need
to
be
recognized
at
this
moment.
C
I
know
firsthand
the
courageousness
of
many
in
law
enforcement,
overwhelming
number
of
our
men
and
women
in
uniform
that
go
to
work
every
single
day
to
do
justice
to
this
collective
cause
of
making
more
gentle
the
life
of
our
world,
and
there
is
horrified
by
what
is
happening
as
anybody
that
includes
California,
Highway.
Patrol
concludes
all
the
men
and
women
of
law
enforcement
across
the
spectrum,
deputy
sheriff's,
as
well
as
members
of
local
law
enforcement,
so
I
want
to
distinguish
the
principles
that
we're
trying
to
advance
as
a
collective
cause.
C
In
the
spirit
of
what
I
think
brings
Ron
to
the
forefront
of
leadership.
Is
that
recognition?
There's
that
old,
African
proverb?
We
cannot
quote
it
enough
that
if
you
want
to
go
fast,
you
can
go
alone,
but
if
you
want
to
go
far,
the
cause
of
justice
you've
got
to
go
together
and
when
we
sign
392
and
2:30
last
year,
we
did
that
in
the
spirit
of
collaboration
and
cooperation.
C
We
didn't
agree
on
every
issue,
but
we
didn't
come
at
it
with
closed
fists
with
open
hearts
and
hands,
and
we
work
together
with
law
enforcement
to
advance
the
most
significant
use
of
force,
deadly
use
of
force.
Provisions
of
any
state
in
this
nation
and
I
believe.
That
is
the
spirit
that
brings
Ron
to
his
leadership.
C
Position
brings
Latifah
here
today
and
certainly
that's
the
spirit
we'll
carry
for
it,
and
it's
also
the
spirit
of
collaboration
not
just
with
those
in
positions
of
formal
Authority,
but
others
that
are
exercising
not
just
formal
Authority,
but
moral
authority
like
the
leaders
of
the
black
caucus
in
the
California
Legislature,
the
Latino
caucus
and
others
that
we
look
forward
to
working
with
on
a
legislative
package
of
reforms
and
I
want
to
thank
all
the
leaders
of
the
black
caucus
in
the
state
of
California
for
their
incredible
stewardship.
Their
capacity
of
leadership.
C
That's
the
monster,
above
all,
the
work
that
they've
been
doing
for
years
and
years
over
the
course
of
not
only
their
careers
but
over
the
course,
particularly
over
the
last
12
months,
where
historic
number
of
bills
were
advanced
because
of
their
example
and
their
support.
And
we
need
that
collaboration.
We
need
their
example.
Their
voice
at
this
moment
as
well
final
point,
because
it's
important
Ron
made
about
the
issue
of
silence.
C
I
want
to
encourage
those
of
us
that
are
prone
to
silence
at
this
moment
to
consider
not
just
Ron's
words
but
to
consider
Dante's
words.
Dante
infamously
said
that
the
hottest
place
in
hell
is
reserved
for
those
in
a
time
of
moral
crisis
that
maintained
their
neutrality.
This
is
not
a
time
to
be
neutral.
It's
not
about
picking
sides.
It's
about
recognizing
that
the
conditions
that
led
to
this
moment
cannot
persist.
We
cannot
be
neutral
about
that.
We
need
to
stand
up
and
at
least
recognize
that
it's
not
a
political
statement
but
I
believe
evidence.
F
Governor
Nicole
Nixon
with
cap,
radio,
news
and
I
will
be
asking
questions
on
behalf
of
the
press.
Today,
I'd
like
to
hear
a
little
more
about
the
specific
policies
you
would
support
to
address
some
of
these
racial
and
equity
issues.
You
mentioned
the
black
legislative
caucus.
They
put
out
a
list
of
priority
bills
that
includes
a
constitutional
amendment
for
affirmative
action,
parole
and
probation
reforms
and
a
reparations
taskforce.
What
do
you
plan
to
throw
your
weight
behind.
C
Well,
we've
supported
all
three
of
those
efforts,
so
already
have
publicly
done
so
and
continue
to,
but
beyond
that,
we
have
our
own
reforms
that
are
presented
has
incredible.
Opportunity
at
this
moment
is
many
no
made
commitments.
Last
year
signed
bills
to
shut
down
private
prisons.
We've
made
commitments
that
are
presented
in
front
of
the
California
Legislature
that
I
believe
they're
opposed
to
support
by
eliminating
the
Department
of
Juvenile
Justice
to
advance
probation
reform.
We
don't
need
a
new
bill
in
our
budget.
C
We
seed
those
reforms,
see
the
reforms
to
continue
our
efforts
to
focus
on
rehabilitation,
higher
education
opportunities
for
youth
offenders
in
this
budget.
Those
opportunities
present
themselves
in
real
time
working
with
the
legislature
over
the
next
few
weeks
will
have
the
opportunity
to
anchor
those
reforms
in
the
trailer
bills
that
are
part
of
this
budget
package.
So
many
things
have
been
proposed
terms
of
affirmative
action,
which
I've
long
supported
righting
that
wrong
as
it
relates
to
those
change,
as
it
relates
to
the
issues
of
reparations
working
to
study
and
understand.
C
More
broadly,
what
that
looks
like
what
that
means.
We've
been
public
in
our
support
in
that
space
and
continuing
the
cause
that
unites
all
of
us,
not
only
in
this
moment,
but
the
deeper
structural
cause
of
addressing
the
underlying
issues,
as
it
relates
to
disparities
from
the
health
perspective,
environmental
justice
perspective
and
focusing
on
economic
justice
as
well.
What.
F
C
C
Over
90
million
masks
have
come
in
off
that
contract
and,
as
a
consequence,
we've
been
able,
distribute
tens
of
millions
of
masks
throughout
our
economy,
different
sectors
of
our
economy,
including
commitments
we're
making
to
our
public
education
system,
our
child
care
providers
and
essential
workers
that
are
disproportionately
represented
in
the
black
and
brown
communities.
So
all
of
that
is
part
and
parcel
of
our
strategies
and
our
efforts
to
prepare
for
reopening
broadly
defined
and
clearly
prepare
for
an
increase
of
cases
related
to
the
mixing
that
has
occurred
because
of
these
protests.
Some.
F
C
Working
across
overseas
to
get
the
latest
information,
apparently
it's
coming
in
today,
I'll
have
more
clarification.
Hopefully
that
has
already
come
back
the
contract
we
pay
for
what
we
get.
We
don't
pay
for
things.
We
don't
get
we've
already
saved
over
90
million
masks
that
has
provided
unprecedented
level
of
capacity
for
this
state,
unprecedented
in
any
other
state
in
this
country.
C
That
has
allowed
us
to
distribute
tens
of
millions
of
masks
that
otherwise
would
not
have
been
afforded
so
I'm
very
pleased
with
that
progress
and
to
the
extent
that
the
n95
component
of
those
masks
not
just
the
procedure.
Masculine
surgical
masks
are
not
part
of
that.
We've
been
working
with
other
providers
and
we'll
have
a
backup
to
that
backup.
But
we'll
get
some
clarification.
We
hope.
As
early
as
today,
question.
F
C
Think
that's
Filardi,
I
think
that's
short-sighted
and
I
think
the
reality
on
the
ground
suggests
something
very
very
differently
just
because
you
had
some
good
news
and
I'm
very
pleased
with
that
good
news,
as
relates
to
the
national
unemployment.
That's
the
numbers
in
the
aggregate
we
don't
live
in
the
aggregate.
We
have
50
different
states,
50
different
conditions
and
the
economic
pressures
are
profound
all
across
this
nation.
The
budget
shortfalls
are
legendary
in
terms
of
their
status,
the
number
of
cities
and
counties
and
states
that
are
struggling
to
make
just
foundational
commitments.
C
Let
alone
make
the
commitments
that
this
moment
requires,
as
it
relates
to
investments
in
the
future,
and
so
I
appreciate
that's
their
sentiment
today.
We
hope
that
sentiment
is
not
broadly
shared.
Certainly
it
is
not
shared
by
our
leader,
the
Speaker
of
the
House
Nancy
Pelosi,
and
her
colleagues
in
the
US
House
of
Representatives
that
have
approached
this
very
differently
with
I
think
much
more
depth
of
understanding
than
is
reflected
by
that
comment
from
that
one
and
individual
advisor.
We.
F
C
That
will
be
on
the
basis
of
counties
making
that
determination
for
themselves
based
upon
the
unique
conditions
in
their
respective
communities.
So
those
guidelines
are
forthcoming
and,
as
you
know,
many
others
that
have
been
watching
some
of
these
daily
briefings.
We
put
out
guidelines
with
fairly
consistent
cadence
on
a
weekly
basis
in
each
sector,
and
many
more
are
being
released
this
afternoon.
This.
F
Is
the
last
question
it
comes
from
Kathleen
romaine
of
the
AP.
You
have
stated
repeatedly
that
decisions
on
curfews
and
the
National
Guard
should
be
made
locally,
but
given
that
demonstrations
in
recent
days
have
been
largely
peaceful,
do
you
think
it's
a
good
idea
for
cities
like
Sacramento
to
continue
to
impose
curfews
and
keep
the
National
Guard
in
town,
especially
given
that
some
troops
have
been
pulled
away
from
coronavirus
aid
projects
to
monitor
protests
as.
C
So
I
appreciate
their
work,
the
hard
work
many
mayors
have
in
front
of
them,
but
again
those
that
are
seen
a
radical
change
and
by
the
way
number
of
Mayors
have
already
pulled
back
and
we
are
pulling
back
those
supports.
So
it's
already
occurring
I,
hope
we're
gonna,
hear
more
and
more
from
those
local
accolades,
electeds
and
others
in
the
next
days,
so
that
we
can
more
appropriately
redeploy
those
guards,
men
and
women,
to
do
more
logistic
support,
as
you
suggest,
in
our
food
banks,
and
to
continue
efforts
on
koban,
19
relief
and
support.
C
Let
me
just
thank
the
support
of
Ron
and
Latifah
supports
that
we've
been
provided
by
leaders
all
across
the
state
of
California
for
guiding
us
counseling
us
giving
us
the
courage
to
resolve
to
do
more
and
do
better
in
the
state.
Let
me
thank
again
to
all
of
the
work
that's
being
done:
California
Legislature
and
by
mayors
and
municipal
leaders
to
begin
the
process
and
new,
more
transparency,
more
accountability
and
the
structural
reforms
that
are
needed.
At
this
moment
we
will
not
sit
back
patiently.
We
will
not
sit
back
passively
as
a
state.
C
We
will
lead,
we
will
lead
in.
You
will
take
account,
we
will
take
responsibility
and
we
will
take
the
heart.
The
message
that
clearly
is
being
expanse
very
loudly
in
this
state
and
all
across
this
nation
by
protesters,
and
that
is
a
resolve
to
do
better
and
do
more
and
in
turn
meet
this
moment
head-on.
Thank
you,
as
always,
for
tuning
in
stay
safe
this
weekend,
and
we
look
forward
to
coming
back
and
updating
you
very
very
near
future.
Thank
you.