ORLANDO, Fla. – Former Orlando Police Chief and current Democratic congresswoman Rep. Val Demings offers a unique perspective in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a black man who was killed in police custody, as a former officer of the law and now as someone who writes laws.
In an interview Wednesday with James Corden of The Late Late Show on CBS, Demings talked about what police and other law enforcement agencies can do to improve overall culture to prevent future tragedies like what happened to Floyd and others.
To start, the U.S. needs to welcome a safe discussion about race and “we can’t be too politically correct," she said, adding people need a safe space to share “their beliefs, their biases, their fears, if we’re ever really going