An estimated 4,000 community events nationwide will mark the fourth National Faith & Blue Weekend, when churches and law enforcement meet to build bridges of understanding.
in the District of Columbia on Friday to barbecues, games and service projects throughout the holiday weekend, Faith & Blue events are planned in all 50 states and for the first time in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, organizers said., chairman and CEO of MovementForward Inc., the civil rights organization behind the annual observance.
“What Faith & Blue is doing is it is connecting officers to the humanity of the people that they’re policing,” Mr.said. “We have got to transform the hearts and the minds of our law enforcement professionals. If we’re going to decrease the number of officer-involved tragedies.” “We’re going to have to shift the conversation away from this us-versus-them dynamic and [have] discourse towards one that focuses not on the things that divide us but the things that unite us,” Mr.
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