{"id":224,"date":"2020-07-24T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/news\/local_news\/mothers-of-those-shot-by-kc-police-plead-for-change\/article_9dd87a36-ce00-11ea-b0bf-0bc5a85fb477.html"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:05:07","slug":"mothers-of-those-shot-by-kc-police-plead-for-change-news-kctv5-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more2.org\/mothers-of-those-shot-by-kc-police-plead-for-change-news-kctv5-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers of those shot by KC police demand for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) &#8212; Transparency. Training. Accountability.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message from a group of women who want to see changes in local police departments.<\/p>\n<p>KCTV5\u2019s Kaci Jones was at a press conference on Friday where the group laid out their demands.<\/p>\n<p>A group of mostly women, along with some family, friends, and other allies marched down Broadway to hang a banner with demands over the Broadway bridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo demand better for our children. To stand together in alliance. To entreat transparency and training. To demand a just reckoning for each of the people responsible for the death of these sons who are commemorated today,\u201d said Rev. Laura Ellis, Co-Chair of the Kansas Clergy Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The demands follow the deaths of Ryan Stokes, Donnie Sanders, Dantae Franklin, Cameron Lamb and Terrence Bridges. All were shot and killed by Kansas City police.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges\u2019 sister Tierra Cox came from Chicago to speak for her brother. He was unarmed and shot in the chest last May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want justice,\u201d she said. \u201cNothing can take this pain away. Nothing can bring my brother back. We are still grieving. This just happened last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Out of five men killed by police, charges have only been filed in Lamb\u2019s case. However, data shows convictions are rare in police-involved shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to stop until justice is served, convictions are given, the narratives are changed. No justice, no peace,\u201d said Kiku Brooks, Co-Chair for the Board of Directors of More2.<\/p>\n<p>The loved ones, allies, and advocates want better police training, transparency, and accountability. They believe it starts with a new chief and local control of the KCPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur children are being murdered for no reason and the narratives are being shifted to make the murderers look like heroes,\u201d Brooks said.<\/p>\n<p>Shelia Albers, mother of John Albers who was shot and killed by Overland Park police, also spoke at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>The group plans to continue protesting and asking public officials to reform the police department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/news\/local_news\/mothers-of-those-shot-by-kc-police-plead-for-change\/article_9dd87a36-ce00-11ea-b0bf-0bc5a85fb477.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mothers of those shot by KC police plead for change | News | kctv5.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) &#8212; Transparency. Training. Accountability. That\u2019s the message from a group of women who want to see changes in local police departments. &#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/more2.org\/mothers-of-those-shot-by-kc-police-plead-for-change-news-kctv5-com\/\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[28,32,7,26,31,25,23,27],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more2.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}