And our children impact.

We were getting clear expectations about communication that have not been met.

There have been multiple instances where outreach was promised, but they are not occurred.

And at this point, I have been nearly a month without a response.

I'm tired of being here for this, of course, but I'll never get fired by Allen.

So that's why I'm still here, and we will be here.

Um, I'm sure you see Alan's mom here every time.

Um with Mother's Day coming up, it's not easy, not even for her.

Every time we have to talk about him or come here, we're fighting back tears so we can be strong to fight police justice.

Um, so we'll have a little bit of faith.

Today I stand here not just as someone reading Alan Tucker, but as someone that may answer, my boyfriend Alan Tucker the second guy in police trustees in the city of Alexandria, and almost a year later, we are still searching for truth, accountability, and justice.

We have been left with silence where there should have been transparency and pain where there should have been compassion.

Ironically, I was part of the event plan company for MIE, where Brian Stevenson was the keynote speaker, which should have been a proud moment, reflecting months of our hard work, dedication, and success became deeply emotional for me.

Sitting there helping produce the event center around justice, humanity, and equality while personally living through the pain of unanswered questions surrounding Island's death almost a year later was overwhelming.

As Brian Stevenson spoke about injustice and equality and the importance of confronting uncomfortable truths in America, I realized how much those words reflected my own reality because for many black families, grief is often followed by silence, delays in the fight just to be heard.

And yes, race marriage in this conversation.

Some people get uncomfortable when we speak about racism.

Some say we are pulling the race hard, but acknowledging injustice injustice in our division, it is true.

We cannot ignore the reality that black families often have to fight harder to receive answers, harder to receive accountability, and harder to receive justice.

He was loved, he mattered, he had dreams, family, and people who cared deeply about him.

His life deserved dignity.

This is bigger than one family.

This is about equality in America.

This is about whether justice truly belongs to everyone or only to some.

We are not asking for special treatment, we are asking for equal treatment, equal concern, equal humanity, and equal justice.

Because if we stay silent about injustice, then justice becomes acceptable, and we refuse to let Alan's name out of fight or out's death be ignored.

And we'll be here every meeting until we get to justice or until Wayne's Willington.

Thank you.

That's not the best.

Allowing police chief mcuire, who leaves the department under review to override or overshape those findings, undermines the independence and calls for questions rather than the process calls question rather than process is truly faith.

This situation creates the appearance that conclusions can be influenced by the very leadership whose action or policies may be under school.

This is not consistent with the board's mission to build trust to ensure accountability and to provide meaningful overclasses.

Today police teach requirement has not attended.

I have based on what my family had to clear.

So there are no other things may ignore what we are experienced.

Followed by the national night out update, also provided by um so discussion with uh the Alexander Police Department and uh mostly the chiefs uh executive officer Sasha.

Um and we're looking at splitting our training into a module of four hours and then bringing in an outside uh person to work to train us.

Um so we're looking for dates, and so you know me, I was like January, February good days, so now we're moving into the dates that are troubling people.

So uh my ask is that we put out some dates, and I'll probably need some assistance from Ashley with doing a poll of some sort, um, and just any feedback tonight on what is absolutely off the table for dates.

Um and that four-hour block will likely be on a Saturday because I know everybody in this room wants to stay role as Josh.

So um the other four hours would be done, uh kind of like our day call training as two-hour clocks attached to this training.

I did ask Sasha and haven't heard back from her if the four-hour block could also be a virtual training that would give us a little more flexibility in the dates, but she hasn't got that.

And uh Jules, you've been on some of those emails too.

Anything I've missed?

No, I think okay.

Um, and for the national night out, uh, she asked what we would like to do, and I said, you know, uh previous years sans last year, we did ride alongs with some of the police command staff, and we got to go to several different events.

Um, and I think that was the model that everybody favored rather than getting on some bus and driving around the city.

Um, but go ahead.

Sounds like before we jump to the national night out of the trick, but we discuss finished the Session number seven, but I had a couple questions.

Thanks for keeping me on track with um one.

I think it's fine for us to put out some dates, but have they offered any dates?

No, that's what I mean.

I'm trying to uh narrow it down, and I'm not getting good feedback again.

And and I'm right, even on those emails too.

So yeah, and if I can just say about the four-hour block that can be added to the meetings, like into the two sessions.

I think the best months for those would be October and November because those months are typically empty anyway, and so if they want to look at months that you can do what those two trainings like during the board meetings, okay, those are problems with us spots.

So then we would be looking at the coroner block prior to the it seems to be prior to be in October or November too at this point.

I mean, so then we start we either run into our uh summer season or run into the holidays.

So the last question has there been any discussion about what material can be covered, or is it still sort of then?

Has there been any discussion about what material we've covered, or is it still sort of thing?