The Debate Over DEI's Role in Policing and Public Safety
Showing 4 Police Reform videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Charlie Kirk criticizes Washington DC Police Chief Pamela Smith, who previously served as the department's chief equity officer during a diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring push, arguing her on-camera uncertainty about chain-of-command questions during a federal deployment of MPD officers reflects poorly on how she was selected for the role. Retired New Jersey police officer Kevin Donaldson takes a more self-critical stance in a separate debate, conceding that a specific viral case of an officer using lethal force against a woman holding a pot of boiling water was clearly wrong, while defending other high-profile police shootings, including Rodney King's, as more complicated than viral clips suggest. Separate reporting on the George Floyd case highlights court testimony from Hennepin County medical examiner Andrew Baker, who told a prosecutor he found no injury to the vital structures of Floyd's neck consistent with strangulation, testimony that entered the public record during the broader legal proceedings against Derek Chauvin. Greg Gutfeld and Kirk separately discuss why they believe conservative commentary has become culturally ascendant.