Practice English Speaking&Listening with: St. Cloud Police Chief Speaks Out Against Social Media
"MID-MORNING" WITH JASON
DERUSHA AND HEATHER BROWN.
NOW WE ARE TALKING.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
NICE TO HAVE YOU WITH US,
TODAY, WE WANT TO GET YOU UP-TO-
DATE WITH THE DEVELOPING STORY
FROM ST. CLOUD.
QUITE A SITUATION OVERNIGHT,
POLICE SAY AND OFFICER WAS SHOT
IN THE HAND WHILE TRYING TO
ARREST AN 18-YEAR-OLD.
IT HAPPENED AFTER MIDNIGHT ON
10th AVENUE SOUTH, A FEW BLOCKS
FROM ST. CLOUD STATE.
CHRISTIANE CORDERO JOINS US
NOW THE LATEST.
Reporter: WE JUST HEARD FROM
SEVERAL CITY LEADERS HERE
INCLUDING THE POLICE CHIEF,
MAYOR, PASTOR AND AND A DOUBLE
CP PRESIDENT OF THE AREA
SAYING THEY ARE PROUD OF HOW
THE OFFICERS REACTED TODAY IN
RESPONSE TO THEIR COMMUNITY.
THE COMMUNITY ITSELF IS VERY
JUSTIFIED AND A LOT OF THE
CLIMATE AND OUTRAGE THAT IS
HAPPENING AROUND THE STATE, THE
COUNTRY, THE WORLD RIGHT NOW,
BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS, NOBODY
DIED HERE TODAY.
LET'S GIVE YOU SOME CONTACTS,
WAS THE SOUTH SIDE OF ST. PAUL.
10th AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY THAT
POLICE OFFICERS GOT A TIP ON
SOCIAL MEDIA BUT THERE WAS A
MAN WITH A FIREARM IN THAT
AREA.
THERE WAS A SHORT FOOT PURSUIT,
THEY RAN AFTER HIM FOR ABOUT A
BLOCK OR SO AND AT THAT POINT,
LED INTO A PHYSICAL STRUGGLE OF
SOME SORT.
AT SOME POINT, THE SUSPECT, WHO
WE NOW UNDERSTAND WAS AN 18-
YEAR-OLD BLACK MAN FIRED HIS
WEAPON. A HANDGUN, THAT IS THE
ONLY SPECIFICALLY HAVE AROUND
THAT.
HE FIRED HIS WEAPON INTO THE
OFFICERS HAND.
BOTH, RIGHT NOW ARE SUFFERING
NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES,
VERY MINOR FOR THE SUSPECT, WHO
WAS EVENTUALLY DETAINED AND IS
IN CUSTODY.
AND IN THE HOSPITAL.
THE OFFICER IN THE HOSPITAL,
WAS JUST RELEASED FROM SURGERY.
THE POLICE CHIEF SAID HE
VISITED THE OFFICER, JUST GOT
BACK, SAID HE IS IN GOOD
SPIRITS.
THE BOTTOM LINE HERE IS THAT
THIS WHOLE THING LASTED ABOUT
FIVE MINUTES.
SO OFTEN WITH THESE CASES,
COMES DOWN TO ONE MOMENT THAT
IS JUDGED AND WHEN TALKING
ABOUT THE TACTICS SPECIFICALLY,
BUT THE POLICE USED HERE
OVERNIGHT, THE CHIEF IS HOPING
THAT THE PUBLIC LOOKS AT THE
TACTICS AND THE DECISIONS THAT
WERE MADE AND AT THE END OF THE
DAY, SHOW SOME EMPATHY FOR THE
DECISIONS.
PEOPLE ASKING, WHAT
CONSTITUTES THE USE OF DEADLY
FORCE?
THIS DID.
AND OUR OFFICERS SHOWED GREAT
RESTRAINT AND PROFESSIONALISM,
BECAUSE THAT IS HOW WE DO WHAT
WE DO HERE IN ST. CLOUD.
Reporter: THERE WERE A LOT
OF RUMORS CIRCULATING AROUND
SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING THAT THE
SUSPECTS WERE SHOT, OTHER
PEOPLE WERE SHOT, LED TO ABOUT
100 PEOPLE MARCHING FROM THAT
PART OF TOWN OVER TO THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT, VANDALIZING POLICE
BUSINESSES ALONG THE WAY,
THREATENING THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT ITSELF, THE POLICE
CHIEF SAID THIS ALL COULD HAVE
ENDED UP IN SO MUCH MAYHEM OVER
WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS A FLAT OUT
LIE.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE
HEARD FROM THE LEADERS HERE WHO
SAID THAT THEY ARE GRATEFUL
THAT THINGS TURNED OUT THE WAY
THEY DID. I ASKED THEM ABOUT
THE TACTICS THEY WERE
MENTIONING REGARDING
SPECIFICALLY WITH THE COMMUNITY
ITSELF, THEY SAID THESE ARE
CONVERSATIONS THEY'VE BEEN
HAVING FOR SO LONG, WELL
BEFORE GEORGE FLOYD, AND THEY
WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE, OF
COURSE THERE ARE STILL THINGS
WE ARE WAITING TO LEARN HERE.
BUT WE ARE GOING TO KEEP ON THE
STORY AND WE WILL BRING YOU THE
LATEST AS WE HAVE IT.
THE CHIEF EXPRESSING
FRUSTRATION WITH THE SOCIAL
MEDIA RUMORS.
HARD TO KNOW HOW THEY COULD'VE
GOTTEN IN FRONT OF THAT AND TRY
TO ADDRESS IT IN THE MOMENT.
Reporter: WELL, AND THE
MOMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, IT
SEEMS LIKE IT'S NEAR IMPOSSIBLE
BECAUSE PEOPLE GET INFORMATION,
BUT WHEN PROTESTERS ARRIVED
HERE AT THE POLICE STATION, IT
