Kansas City, MI Public Meetings, 5 Jun 2020

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From YouTube: Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas Delivers Speech During Rally at KCMO City Hall

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Hi everyone I'm Chris Hernandez, with city communications. We are outside City Hall on the south steps a place that has always been to the people, to lift up their voices and for our city officials to listen. I.

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Think not only making sure that we're all unified on local control and that's us what we got today and I do appreciate the foundation going money, making sure that there's body cans, but then none of those two things really operate. Unless we have the community's community review board, the one that actually has power and to transparency, I know that the Commission board is ness. It does a good job. It's only five people Kenzie's a.

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We need to have that with me as well. I.

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Hear you I hear you, so let me start off this way. First of all, this make clear black line of smell we're fans man.

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So uh you know I've been mad for about ten months and you know what's happening today. I have not seen us rally together as a community like this before in all of my years, I haven't seen us try to build this level of change, but let me tell you what we're changing look back at that building right at baylin's built 1936, who stands in front of it, Andrew Jackson, a terrible president president, my County's named after him, you got police headquarters the same time. You got City Hall behind me the same time.

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The foundation of what we are built on is the problem. But what do we have to do? We need to shake up the foundation.

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Because I will tell you something: there's a reason that every year we learn another brothers named Lacroix George falando rot and don't you all wonder why? Every year you say how does this not change? I was 12 or 7 years old, when Rodney King was beaten and I. Remember asking my mom I'm like how does this happen that they get acquitted? What I didn't know the biggest surprise would be as they 28 years later, 28 years later, we'd be shaking our head to the same thing. The problem isn't just an officer.

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This isn't about one officer of four officers of Minneapolis this ain't about one officer in Chicago. They say about one officer in Kansas City. What is it about? It's? The foundation is rotten with what we dealing with and we need to shake it up. We need to change. We need to find. We need to know that we're not gonna stand for it anymore. I say. Let me tell you something. I know I, know people asking me well, Lucas what you doing you can say Lucas what you doing.

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That's a good question. So yesterday, yesterday we changed policies that hadn't been changed for years. We made it so that any use of force violation needs to be reviewed by an outside agency, not a department itself.

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We changed it so any and I mean any officer-involved shooting needs to be investigated by an outside agency.

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And this is one we have to work with our prosecutor, because let me tell you something: if I walk out on the street today and I shoot you I, don't get to wait three weeks for an investigation, I usually don't get to go home right. We need to make sure that not only do we have accountability, but we have speed with that accountability.

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So what else do we need to do when we talk about shaking up the foundation? Look at these. These are some strong buildings. They are sturdy, but we need to shake them up too. We need to make sure that you are not just with me today and you're, not just pushing us today, you're pushing us next week next month next year, the hereafter because we're gonna make sure we make change. But let me tell you something: if sister Barbara didn't say it and I know what my council members could have to the revolution.

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My friends will not be televised. The revolution will not be televised. They want to put you on the news when you're protested, they don't want to put you on the news when you're teaching a young black child, they don't want to put us on the news we're trying to change our community. Well, you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna keep making the news. We're gonna make it so they know that we demand accountability.

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And you know how we make that accountability we want to show up, we all just come. We show up to the next police board meeting itself. We here we show up to the next city council meeting and what do we say here? We show up to the governor's office and we say what that's how we gonna make a difference. So let me just tell you this and I'm not talking about as a mayor right now, honestly I've been a black man.

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My whole life, but I'm mayor for ten months and I will tell you this step when I saw whenever I see any of these stories and it's something I usually don't even want to talk, because that pain that so many of our black speakers have talked about is something that every black person in this audience knows. You know that when you see a brother who is kneeled on and killed based on a forgery charge, you know that when you see a brother who's stopped and trying to get his license but ends up shot dead.

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You know that that could be you. You know that that could be your brother. Your sister, your aunty, your uncle, your nephew, your knees, your son and your daughter, and what we are making these changes for today, I watch on and I know: we've been talking about protested. Some of y'all might even have beefs with me. That's alright,.

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Who are we fighting for right now? I'm thinking about the brothers right now at 40th and Benton I'm thinking.

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About the brother right now and.

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82Nd of troops I'm bigger than a brother right now who stays on Blue Ridge. That's who we fighting for we fight, so they can live, we fight, so they can breathe with passive leg.

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I see all your side, we don't keep up movement going to lucha SP lucha. What we say with everybody is. We are gonna, make sure that when we are done, these foundations have been shaken. We have changed the way it looks. Living in Kansas City doesn't mean we just go along to get along Liberty. Kansas City doesn't mean we're accepting the same stuff anymore. Liberty, Kansas City means that we can demand justice and limiting Kansas.

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City means that we have the power to make change and I need all of y'all to know you got the power say: I got the power.

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Because we all do so I need you have a look back at y'all. I know you ain't gonna, be behind me when I walk up these steps in a few days, but I want to see all that you gonna be there. The next time I mean with the governor I want to be able to say look governor, you may be elected from a different place in Missouri. You may think all these things you may like Trump I, don't care. Cuz I got my people with.

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Our city leaders want you to continue engaging with us. You can do that by attending city council meetings, every Wednesday and Thursday here at City Hall. You can check in with us on the website. Tc Moe table follow us on social media. Talk with us we'll take action. We will listen.