Last Friday Cincinnati leaders announced a proposal to review and refresh the city's , negotiated in 2002. The agreement was put in place following the civil unrest in 2001, after a white Cincinnati police officer, Stephen Roach, shot and killed Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old, unarmed African-American.
Court-enforced federal monitoring of the agreement ended in 2008. Since then, it has been used as a guide to continue improving police-community relations.
Joining us to discuss the importance of the original Collaborative Agreement and what will take place during this current review and refresh are Cincinnati Mayor ; local activist ; civil rights attorney ; Chief Eliot Isaac; city hall reporter ; and WVXU city hall reporter .
To view the current proposal for the Collaborative Agreement "refresh," .
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