Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn told CNN’s Van Jones on Tuesday, May 4, that it’s difficult to be called names by other members of the Black community and by white people amid burgeoning tensions between law enforcement and the public.
Hahn, a 30-year veteran of law enforcement, told Jones, “I think probably the hardest thing for me and other African-American officers, to be quite frank, is, especially during these last couple years, my own community, the African-American community that I grew up in, will call me things like coon and Uncle Tom and sellout, and I think that is probably the hardest thing.”
Hahn went on to say that it’s not just Black people who make those comments, but also young white people.
“Now it’s not even coming from the African-American community. We’ll have officers on a line during a protest and a young 18-, 19-, 20-year-old young white kid will walk up and call them a race traitor and a sellout.”
Foe real yo
dey beeee telling da truff
You’ll be the first one crying for the police and then crying again when they don’t show up. What people with your low IQ don’t understand is that you are the ones being protected by police and when they’re gone you’ll be soon to follow
Sticks and stone Chief. Sticks and stones.
Dont like the heat, get outta the kitchen
Right, the good chief has been taught not to take this kind of thing personal. It is not a attack on the chief because the turds don’t personally know the man.