"Police are members of the community as well so they feel it every bit as much as the rest of the community, but seeing that firsthand amplifies that impact."

"Years later you can see people in the community still struggling with that death. And it all comes back to the surface. It makes what you’ve seen impossible to forget."

"We need to start talking louder and turn our thinking from blaming a group or shutting down the conversation to saying, ‘what can we all do about it?' "