Chief David Brown: Bodycams, School Shootings and the Deadly Force Fight

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Former Police Chief David Brown is best known for his steady leadership during the 2016 Dallas sniper shooting. During the shooting, five police officers were killed, and seven other officers and two civilians were injured. On this week’s episode of the Phil in the Blanks podcast, Chief Brown sits down for a candid conversation with Dr. Phil. He shares why he became a police officer, how he humanized the men and women behind the badge, new solutions for school shootings and more. For more information: https://www.drphilintheblanks.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our body cam's helping.
0:09.8	Very much so.
0:10.8	Video is not a silver bullet to accountability.
0:15.4	The biggest enemy of good cops or bad cops.
0:20.0	They can hijack the profession and define us all.
0:23.3	But you want to make a difference?
0:24.3	I put an application in.
0:25.5	I left college and did something about it.
0:28.8	Do you have a strategy of philosophy for school shootings?
0:33.8	How do we combat this?
0:35.6	It's more than one solution.
0:40.9	At 9.58 pm on July 7th, 2016, shots rang out in Dallas, Texas.
0:48.7	Micah Xavier Johnson, an Afghan vet angry about policemen shooting black men, said he wanted
0:56.7	to kill white people, especially white policemen, had open fire.
1:03.9	When he was through, five policemen were dead.
1:08.3	Nine were injured, along with two civilians.
1:12.5	It was the deadliest act against law enforcement since 9.11.
1:18.4	This tragic event put Dallas, Texas and in fact America on edge.
1:27.1	Think about it.
1:28.4	Ferguson had happened.
1:31.4	And just in the days preceding, there had been events in Louisiana and Minnesota.
1:37.4	And one man stepped up.
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