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City of Waterloo Police Department Press Conference - June 1, 2022
Updated with names of participants.
A
A
But
regardless
of
that,
this
is
waterloo,
iowa
and
one
shooting
one
death
is
one
too
many,
and
so
we
need
to
work
together
collectively
as
a
community
to
see
what
we
can
do
to
try
to
solve
some
of
these
challenges.
Today,
our
numbers
and
our
instances,
the
chief
will
talk
about
in
just
a
few
moments,
but
these
instances,
although
they
may
not
be
on
the
level
of
other
communities.
A
That
may
be
misguided
to
reach
out
to
make
sure
that
we
extend
our
hand
first
and
foremost,
but
also
that
we
take
a
serious
approach
to
making
sure
that
we
rid
our
community
of
gun
violence,
and
that
is
our
goal.
It's
not
about
shows,
but
it's
all
about
this
opportunity
that
we're
presented
in
this
community.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
being
here
today.
A
B
Good
afternoon
I
stand
before
you
today
proudly
as
a
citizen
of
blackhawk
county,
and
I
recognize
the
challenges
that
face
the
city
of
waterloo
and
most
large
cities.
Today,
crime
overall
continues
to
decrease,
but
violent
crime
unfortunately
increases
and
it
challenges
law
enforcement,
but
I'm
not
sure
that
we're
going
to
police
our
way
out
of
this
violent
crime
epidemic
that
we're
facing
not
just
in
waterloo
but
in
cedar,
rapids,
iowa
city,
dubuque
des
moines
and
everywhere
else.
B
We
put
more
of
our
squad
cars
in
the
community
and
and
we
police
overtly
and
and
try
and
implement
problem
oriented,
policing,
more
aggressively
or
or
whatever
happens.
I
think
this
is
a
partnership
between
the
community
and
the
little
old
lady
oliver's
around
this
city
to
help
us
nullify
these
young
people
who
don't
think
about
the
consequences
of
their
actions
until
that
gavel
gets
hit
by
the
judge
and
they're
facing
50
years
to
life,
and
we
see
it,
we
see
it
every
single
day,
because
my
officers
are
also
the
officers
working
those
courtrooms.
B
So
we're
challenged
we're
challenged
because
our
children
are
our
number
one
resource
here
in
the
state
of
iowa
and
it's
those
kids
that
I'm
shuffling
across
back
and
forth
between
the
jail
and
that
courthouse
every
day
too.
So
we
really
have
an
epidemic.
We
really
have
a
problem
for
this
community
to
face,
and
it's
not
just
the
shootings,
it's
the
residual
and
it's
the
fallout
of
that
that
challenges
us.
B
B
I
pray
for
our
efforts
and
I
pray
for
our
partnerships
all
the
way
together
as
well,
because
we
can't
continue
on
the
trajectory
that
we're
continuing
on
right
now,
it's
too
early
in
the
season
school's
not
even
out
it's
not
even
warm
yet
it's
time
for
little
old
lady
olivers
around
this
community
stand
up
and
say
enough's
enough,
because
we
can't
police
ourselves
out
of
this
problem
alone.
It's
not
a
singular
action.
Thank
you.
C
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
charles
daniel
and
I'm
honored
to
serve
as
the
senior
pastor
of
the
antioch
baptist
church
here
in
waterloo,
iowa,
I'm
often
reminded
of
the
story,
that's
told
in
the
book
of
luke.
If
you've
been
to
sunday
school
in
length
of
time,
you
probably
know
it,
and
if
you
give
a
preacher
a
microphone,
you
might
have
a
problem,
so
I
won't
take
all
of
that
time.
C
C
C
Well,
it's
easy
to
make
me
comfortable
in
my
pain,
without
directing
the
root
causes
of
the
pain,
and
I
think
this
gathering
today
begins
a
well-needed
conversation,
but
with
a
plan
of
action.
How
do
we
address
the
pain
in
a
community?
How
do
we
address
the
darkness
in
the
community?
The
last
several
days
have
been
horrific
for
me
personally,
whether
it
is
national
gun,
violence
or
gun
violence
in
our
community.
C
It
hurts
everyone.
No
one
person,
it
is
not
just
the
victim
or
the
perpetrator
and
whole
community
is
unraveled
when
this
happens,
so
I'm
challenging
and
I'm
charging
those
of
us
that
are
working
in
the
space
of
faith
to
partner
be
vocal,
show
up,
come
out
open
our
doors.
The
pandemic
has
shut
down
these
wonderful
places
that
we
have
in
our
communities
and
now
we're
having
to
rebrand,
remarket
and
reimagine.
C
What
ministry
looks
like
in
the
21st
century
right
now?
No
longer
we
gathering
for
massive
programs.
We
have
facilities
that
we
can
open
and
offer
them
to
the
community
and
say
we're
here
to
let
them
know,
and
so
I've
made
a
personal
commitment
from
our
church
and
I
hope
that
all
clergy
will
stand
along
with
me.
I
made
a
commitment
whether
it
is
to
do
ride
alongs,
where
it
is
to
show
up
on
last
night,
I
had
the
privilege
to
just
drive
the
community
late
night
after
10,
10,
30.
and
oftentimes.
C
I
do
it
to
get
a
feel
of
what's
going
on
in
the
community
in
which
I
serve
to
serve
this
present
age.
My
calling
to
fulfill
with
all
the
power
I
have
engaged
my
job
is
to
do
the
master's
will,
and
that
is
to
help
the
least
the
last
the
lost
the
left
out
and
those
that
are
hurting.
Thank
you
grace
and
peace
from
god.
Our
father.
D
You
know
that
neighbor
saying
something,
and
we
have
so
many
wonderful
things
going
on
in
this
city,
where
we
have
neighborhood
parties
going
on.
We
have
youth
athletics,
we
have
summer
camps,
there
are
so
many
things
for
our
kids,
but
unfortunately
there
are
times
that
I
can
be
honest
and
say
I
drove
home
and
I
don't
remember
the
face
of
a
single
person.
I
saw
how
alert
am
I
to
what's
going
on
around
me
as
a
human
rights?
D
D
So
I
encourage
everybody
to
be
a
part
of
all
hands
on
deck.
Get
children
active
and
engaged
get
your
parents
to
open
up
those
blinds
every
now
and
then
and
look
and
see
what's
happening
outside
of
their
window
space
and
feel
safe
enough
that
when
you
see
something
you
can
say
something
because
this
is
going
to
continue,
and
I
I
love
my
waterloo
police
chief.
I
love
the
police,
this
isn't
just
their
responsibility,
this
isn't
tony
thompson
or
his
responsibility.
This
isn't
even
coming
to
council
and
this
isn't
all
on
their
feet.
This
is
ours.
D
This
is
our
community
and
it's
a
time
that
we
now
take
back
our
streets,
take
back
our
youth
and
try
to
provide
a
better
future
for
them.
So
you
should
probably
see
I'm
not
saying
any
council
people
that
have
been
throughout
town
with
bumper
stickers
to
say
you
can
simply
text
this
number
and
let
them
know
what
you
saw
and
if
you're
not
comfortable
texting
it.
D
E
Hello,
I'm
latonya
graves
the
president
of
the
blackhawk
county
chapter
naacp,
but
long
before
I
became
the
president.
I've
been
a
community
activist,
and
so
my
heart
goes
out
to
all
people
and
when
they're
hurting
I'm
hurting-
and
there
are
so
many
organizations
here
that
will
assist
individuals
who
feel
that
they
have
nowhere
to
turn
to
there's
men
here
that
are
out
there
in
the
streets.
E
There's
pastors
here
that
are
out
there,
both
male
and
female,
who
you
can
contact
if
you
feel
that
you're
not
going
to
you're,
not
if
you,
if
you
feel
that
you're
afraid
to
talk
to
someone
we
are
here.
We
are
here
to
assist
and
I'm
begging
for
the
family
members
that
have
been
involved,
I'm
begging
for
a
truce,
you
have
to
lay
down
your
guns,
lives
matter,
we
all
matter
and
until
we
come
together,
this
is
going
to
continue
and
I'm
begging
you
I'm
seriously
begging
you
from
my
heart.
E
We
have
to
put
down
these
guns
and,
oh,
my
god,
life
is
just
life,
is
so
precious
and
it
doesn't
matter
what
side
of
the
tracks
you
come
from.
Life
is
precious
and
once
a
loved
one
is
gone
and
it's
due
to
an
act
of
violence
and
then
those
families
are
hurting,
and
then
you
have
those
families
who
have
loved
ones
that
were
taken
and
the
cases
are
still
unsolved.
E
My
heart
goes
out
to
them.
My
heart
goes
out
to
this
community
because
we're
hurting-
and
I'm
just
asking
you,
I'm
begging
with
you,
I'm
pleading
with
you
to
put
down
your
guns,
I'm
asking
for
a
truce
and
if
you're
afraid
there
are
men
here,
astor
de
carlos,
the
mayor,
reverend
jenkins,
abraham
funches,
pastor,
corey,
we're
all
here.
For
you,
there
are
people,
pastor,
daniels.
There
are
people
that
you
can
speak
the
chief
tony
thompson.
There
are
people
here
that
you
can
talk
to.
F
F
We
get
to
see
the
reports.
We
see
the
reasons,
the
motivations
and
there
are
many
jealousy
revenge,
property
crime.
There's
a
lot
of
reasons
for
it
and
you
never
know
who's
going
to
be
that
person.
That's
going
to
be
able
to
talk
somebody
who
has
a
gun
in
their
hand
down
you,
don't
know
who
that's
going
to
be.
F
I
was
asked
to
talk
about
some
of
the
consequences,
and
that
is
what
the
prosecutor's
office
does.
We
hold
people
accountable
when
they
commit
crimes,
particularly
violent
crimes
and
gun
crimes,
and
our
office
intends
to
partner
with
waterloo
pd,
to
continue
to
do
that
in
this
community
and
other
communities,
and
when
I
talk
about
accountability.
F
I'll
give
an
example.
Just
last
week
on
may
25th
in
a
case
that
was
prosecuted
by
our
office,
an
individual
who
was
responsible
for
being
involved
in
a
shooting
here
in
waterloo,
was
sentenced
to
10
years
in
federal
prison.
That
is
the
type
of
accountability
that
awaits
if
people
won't
put
down
their
guns,
and
so
I
hate
to
say
that
it's
a
hard
line,
but
we
can't
draw
any
other
line.
We
have
to
hold
people
accountable
for
what
they
do.
F
G
There's
one
thing:
we
all
agree
on
the
police
department
and
most
people
that
live
in
the
city
of
waterloo.
Here,
don't
make
guns,
they
don't
create
them
at
home.
They
don't
pass
them
out
in
the
community
and
they're
not
pulling
the
trigger
in
these
neighborhoods.
The
people
that
are
pulling
triggers
in
these
neighborhoods
have
been
people
that
have
been
arrested.
G
There
are
people
that
have
been
on
our
radar.
They
are
people
that
have
been
in
the
system.
There
are
people
that
have
not
paid
the
dues
that
people
within
our
system
should
for
doing
and
committing
violent
acts,
and
that
is
something
that
we
as
a
community
have
to
stand
up
to
and
speak
on.
It's
great.
It's
absolutely
wonderful
that
we
have
so
many
people
here
today
willing
to
show
up,
because
of
and
as
a
result
of
the
past
10
days
worth
of
violence.
G
G
Well,
the
waterloo
police
department
puts
neighborhood
police
officers
in
every
neighborhood
within
the
city,
and
one
thing
that's
underutilized
is
the
fact
that
neighbors,
much
like
the
good
sheriff
thompson
referenced
earlier,
have
to
become
more
active
within
their
own
communities,
become
people
that
are
conduits
from
information
for
the
police
department
and
also
use
us
as
a
means
to
pull
your
community
together.
What
do
I
mean
by
that?
Bring
the
police
officers
that
work
in
your
particular
neighborhood
and
for
community
meetings?
G
Let
me
say
that
again,
we
know
the
socioeconomic
and
generational
effects
that
we
have
on
a
community,
especially
disadvantaged
communities,
when
we're
putting
kids
in
jail
for
long
periods
of
time,
and
who
can
we
point
to
in
the
community
that
know
exactly
what's
going
on
and
exactly
what
their
neighbors
are
doing
but
neighbors
and
it's
up
to
the
neighbors
of
our
community
to
stand
up
and
be
counted
and
speak
to
us.
We
make
ourselves
available.
G
G
G
G
G
I
say
that's
the
result
of
us
not
caring
enough
to
intercede
and
intersect
in
the
lives
of
the
kids
out
here
who
are
making
the
bad
decisions
we've
committed
ourselves
to
working
with
the
da's
office.
We've
committed
ourselves
to
working
with
the
u.s
attorney's
office,
with
iowa
state
patrol
with
the
sheriff's
department
and
other
sister
and
brother
law
enforcement
agencies
out
here
to
make
this
city
safer,
you'll,
see
more
marked
police
units
working
in
the
city,
you'll
see
more
of
an
influx
of
undercover
operators
working
within
our
city
taking
down
offenders.
G
G
I'll
leave
you
with
this.
This
job
is
tough.
Police
work
is
a
job.
It's
the
only
occupation
where
you
can
give
a
life,
take
a
life
or
save
a
life
with
the
same
vitriol
and
scrutiny
that
policing
gets
in
doing
the
job.
That's
ugly,
that
no
one
else
wants
to
do
when
we
just
ask
that
you
intercede
at
a
community
level
to
prevent
violent
crimes
from
occurring
or
to
interrupt
the
instances
of
violent
crime
that
you
know
are
emerging
within
the
community.
Is
that
too
much
to
ask?
G
When
folks
are
seeing
things
brew
to
the
point
where
you
think
there
might
be
gun
player,
there
might
be
gang
activity.
We
want
you
to
be
a
resource
for
us.
We
don't
want
you
to
put
your
lives
on
the
line,
but
what
we
do
want
is
for
you
to
start
stepping
up
speaking
up
and
saying
something
to
these
kids
that
don't
have
the
parental
guidance
or
necessarily
the
support
from
the
community.
G
The
police
department
shouldn't
be
your
first
call.
There
are
many
steps,
many
rungs
in
that
ladder
you
should
get
to
before
the
police
become
the
solution.
We
don't
want
to
create
generational
problems.
We
want
to
create
generational
solutions,
and
that
can
only
happen
when
the
community,
in
and
of
itself
pours
in
all
the
heart
and
equity
that
it
needs
to
make
these
things
happen
and
to
create
a
safer
waterloo,
we'll
open
it
for
some
questions.
G
If
you'd
like
to
volunteer
with
the
city
of
waterloo,
please
you
can
get
to
us
through
volunteer
at
4
wpd,
that's
volunteer
for
wpd
at
waterlooppolice.com,
and
it's
for
for
volunteer
4wpd
at
waterloo.
Police.Com,
we'll
support
every
effort,
and
our
hope
is
that
every
neighborhood
within
this
community
that
we
serve
whether
it's
a
business
area
or
it's
in
the
innermost
section
of
our
city,
we'll
have
neighborhood
representatives
willing
to
volunteer
their
efforts
and
for
us
to
support
the
same
sir
volunteer
for
wpd.
That's
volunteer
for
wpd
at
waterloopplease.com.
G
H
J
J
We've
got
some
work
to
do
and
everybody
showing
up
means
that
everybody
here
is
invested
and
we
need
to
spread
this
word
to
everybody
that
didn't
make
it
today.
Some
might
not
see
it
on
tv,
but
you
need
to
be
the
ambassador
to
get
it
to
them.
So
thank
you
all
for
coming.
Look
forward
to
working
with
everyone.
K
It's
great
to
see
the
number
of
people
here
in
the
community
that
came
out,
but,
like
a
few
other
people
have
up
here,
have
said
we
need
the
community
as
a
whole
to
come
together
and
help
us
solve
this
problem.
Just
doesn't
take
us
as
the
police
department.
It
takes
you
as
a
community.
That's
what
we
really
need
is
your
support
throughout
this
whole
summer
and
the
coming
months
in
these
coming
years.
L
Good
afternoon
I'm
lieutenant
brian
bena,
with
the
iowa
state
patrol
I'm,
the
district
commander
for
the
iowa
state,
patrol's
district
9
office
in
cedar
falls
blackhawk,
county
and
waterloo
fall
into
that
as
a
state
patrol
agency.
We'll
provide
the
assistance
to
other
agencies
that
they
need.
So
thank
you.
M
And
scott
erwin,
I'm
the
supervisory
special
agent
for
the
fbi.
I
cover
all
of
eastern
iowa
and
our
main
offices
out
of
omaha
nebraska,
but
we
are
here
to
partner
we've
been
partnering
for
over
six
years
now,
with
waterloo
pd
and
with
the
us
attorney's
office
as
well
on
a
lot
of
the
gun
crimes
and
a
lot
of
the
gang
activity
that
is
being
involved
in
here.
So
we're
still
going
to
be
here
and
partner
with
them
and
give
them
every
resource
possible
that
we
can
provide
to
them.
N
H
O
Good
afternoon
I'm
joe
leibold,
I'm
the
major
with
waterloo
police
department,
I'm
not
going
to
let
the
time
go
by
without
captain
duncan
who
managed
to
sneak
in
the
back
standing
up
and
introducing
himself
so
he's
the
uniformed
officer
in
the
back.
I
want
to
thank,
although
the
people
up
here
are
very
important
to
our
mission,
the
people
out.
There
are
more
important
and
I
made
phone
calls
and
emails
to
several
of
you,
and
I
want
to
thank
you
for
coming
with
short
notice.
It
was
a
quick
turnaround.