AREA, I BELIEVE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE OKLAHOMA CITY MAYOR DAVID HOLT JOINING US ON THE PHONE. YES. TALKED TO MAYOR HOLT LIVE LAST NIGHT. WE WANT TO BRING HIM LOOP HIM IN TONIGHT AGAIN MAYOR HOLT. HOW YOU DOING TONIGHT? I’M GOOD. I’M JUST FINE, YOU KNOW. THERE’S REALLY TWO CHAPTERS TO THIS DAY AND I’M STILL VERY SATISFIED WITH I THINK A REALLY IMPORTANT AND IMPACTFUL CHAPTER THAT WE HAD EARLIER TODAY. OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF APPRECIATION FOR OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT TONIGHT TRYING TO PROTECT OUR CITY, BUT WE ARE TALKING. I MEAN I’M WATCHING IT WITH YOU GUYS. WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF RIDERS OUT THERE. SO I THINK THE SITUATION WILL RESOLVE ITSELF A LOT EARLIER THAN IT DID LAST NIGHT. PROBABLY THE MAYOR WHOLE YOU SIGNED A PROCLAMATION THOUGH FOR A CURFEW OBVIOUSLY OUT OF SAFETY FOR YOUR COMMUNITY, CORRECT? YES, I WAITED ALL DAY ON THAT. I DIDN’T YOU KNOW, IT’S A LOT OF CITIES ARE DOING CURFEWS OBVIOUSLY WITH WHAT WE HAD OCCUR LAST NIGHT. IT WAS CERTAINLY AN OBVIOUS TOPIC OF DISCUSSION, BUT YOU KNOW IF IT WASN’T IF THERE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE A SPARK HERE, I DIDN’T WANT TO BUY CERTAINLY DIDN’T WANT A CURFEW TO BE THE SPARK. SO WE WAITED ALL DAY AND AS YOU AND YOUR VIEWERS ARE WELL AWARE, YOU KNOW, REALLY POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS TODAY. AT THE NORTHEAST RALLY AND AND THE MULCH DOWN TO THE CAPITOL AND AND REALLY SOME SPECIAL MOMENTS, YOU KNOW, WHERE ONE OF THESE AGITATORS, YOU KNOW ON THE WALL OF THE LARRY THE DOOR OF THE CAPITAL AND ALL THOSE LIPS OUR SHIRTS OFF TO CLEAN IT OFF AND BE NUTS. THAT’S OKLAHOMA CITY. THIS IS A SECOND CHAPTER AND EVEN HIT SO HAD SOME POWERFUL MOMENTS AND YOU AIRED THOSE YOU KNOW, THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE DEPUTY SHERIFF’S AND THE OCPD WITH THE PROTESTERS, BUT WHEN YOU GOT DOWN TO THE GROUP THAT YOU KNOW, REALLY HAD PROBABLY PLANNED TO DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE DOING RIGHT NOW ALL DAY LONG, YOU KNOW, AND WE’RE JUST WAITING FOR NIGHTFALL WHEN YOU GOT DOWN TO THAT GROUP THIS TIME. IT WAS ABOUT 9 O’CLOCK, YOU KNOW, THEY STARTED IN THEYPSTART THEY STARTED LAUNCHING FIREWORKS AT POLICE OFFICERS, AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THAT WOULDN’T THAT WOULDN’T HAPPEN BUT IT DID. IF YOU’RE HERE FOR AND THAT’S THAT’S NOT THERE IS THEIR TOTAL DISTRACTION FROM THESE REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT WE ARE FACING AS A COMMUNITY AS NATION, AND IT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ISSUE. THIS IS NOT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER N DOUBLE ACP RALLY THAT WAS HELD TODAY THAT WOULD PREVENT THAT WAS ENTIRELY PEACEFUL. IT WAS LOCAL ORGANIZERS. THEY DID A FANTASTIC JOB AND VERY POWERFUL AND THIS IS JUST A GROUP OF LOOTERS AND WRITERS PROBABLY HAVE LEARNING FROM OKLAHOMA CITY AND YOU KNOW AS YOU DO FROM YOUR FOOTAGE RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, WE’RE DOWN TO A FEW DOZEN OF THEM AND I THINK THIS WILL RESOLVE ITSELF AT SOME POINT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY AS YOU ASKED I MEAN I HAD ULTIMATELY ACT WITH THE CURFEW A VERY LIMITED CURFEW AREA, YOU KNOW, WE MOVED OUT OF THAT OBVIOUSLY PRETTY QUICKLY. IT WAS JUST A FEW BLOCKS WIDE, BUT THAT SITUATION TO DISPERSE AND AGAIN YOU REMEMBER HOW LONG LAST NIGHT LASTED AND HOW YOU KNOW KIND OF FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD VIOLENT IT WAS WITH THESE CLASHES BACK AND FORTH, YOU KNOW IN FRONT OF THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE’VE HAD SOME PROPERTY DAMAGE AROUND THE AREA HERE AND AND AGAIN INEXCUSABLE BEHAVIOR BY THESE PEOPLE, BUT IT SEEMS TO BE A LOT LESS ESCALATED THAT YOU HAD LAST NIGHT AND I THINK THE CURFEW IN THAT SENSE HAS WORKED AND WE JUST GOTTA YOU KNOW, BRING THIS TO A CONCLUSION, BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY AND I HAVE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE IN OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DO SO MAYOR IS HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT EXPANDING THE CURFEW? RHEA AND ALSO AS WE LOOK AHEAD TO FUTURE NIGHTS HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT BRINGING THIS CURFEW BACK IN FUTURE NIGHTS IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS TO COME OH, I THINK WE’LL TAKE IT DAY BY DAY AS FAR AS THE QUESTION OF EXPANDING THE CURFEW AREA AND YOU KNOW LISTEN TO THE NEEDS OF CHIEF CORLEY AND THE OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. HE HAS NOT DIED YET ARTICULATED THAT DESIRE TO ME. SO, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY CONSIDER IT IF NECESSARY AND THEN AS FAR AS IT GOES FOR FUTURE DAY AS USUAL JUST TAKE IT DAY BY DAY, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE WOULD LOVE FOR THIS SITUATION TO RESOLVE. OF ITSELF TONIGHT SO WE CAN GET TO THE WORK, YOU KNOW, I MEAN IT. I KNOW WHAT I’M UP ALL NIGHT LONG DEALING WITH LOOTING, YOU KNOW, IT’S A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO TURN TO THE TAP OF MAKING THE KINDS OF CHANGES THAT WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT WE TALKED ABOUT TODAY AT THE RALLY IN NORTH EAST, YOU KNOW, I MEAN WE’VE GOT WORK TO DO AS A COMMUNITY AND AS A NATION ON THESE ISSUES AND YOU KNOW, THERE’S JUST NO EXCUSE FOR THE LOOTING AND NONSENSE. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY A DISTRACTION REALLY IMPORTANT DISCUSSION. MAYOR HALT I WANT TO HAVE YOU AGAIN TOUCH ON. THE BEAUTY OF THE PEACEFUL PROTEST EARLIER BECAUSE WE’VE HEARD FROM SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW. THIS IS JUST VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WAS HAPPENING EARLIER. THEY HAD A VERY RAW MESSAGE OF VERY PASSIONATE AND DIRECT MESSAGE. BUT IT WASN’T VIOLENT. IT WASN’T LOOTING IT WASN’T DAMAGING SMALL BUSINESSES OR BUSINESSES IN GENERAL. YEAH. YEAH, LIKE YEAH, THAT’S IT. THIS NONSENSE ASIDE FOR A MOMENT AND TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY BECAUSE IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF THAT, YOU KNOW, BLACK LIVES MATTER AND N-DOUBLE-A-CP BEEN A WHOLE WEEK ORGANIZING THIS EVENT TODAY 36 AND KELLY WHICH I VISITED BECAUSE I WANTED TO LISTEN, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO HEAR THESE CONCERNS AND AND I RECOGNIZE THAT WE ALL NEED TO RECOGNIZE IT’S JUST ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD AND THEY THAT’S AN ENTRY POINT TO A WHOLE HOST OF ISSUES THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY NEED TO TALK ABOUT AND I WROTE SOMETHING OVER THE WEEKEND. I CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO CHECK IT OUT AT ANY OF MY SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS THAT KIND OF GOES INTO MORE DEPTH ON MY VIEWS ON THIS BUT YOU KNOW WE HAVE ISSUES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT WE HAVE ISSUES OF EQUITY AND REPRESENTATION AND INVESTMENT AND WE HAVE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TO CONFRONT AS INDIVIDUALS ABOUT ESPECIALLY PEOPLE LIKE ME, YOU KNOW, THE ADVANTAGES THAT I HAD NATURALLY BY A SYSTEM THAT MAYBE I DIDN’T CONSCIOUSLY ENDORSE THAT I HAVE CERTAINLY BENEFITED FROM IT. SO THOSE ARE THINGS WE HAVE TO START UNPACKING AND I THINK THAT TODAY’S EVENT WAS RAW AND REALLY POWERFUL. NOT ALWAYS COMFORTABLE, BUT ALSO VERY LOVING I MEAN IT WAS A LOT OF THERE WAS A LOT OF BROTHER AND SISTERHOOD AT THAT EVENT TODAY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO EACH OTHER ACROSS RACIAL LINES AND AND ACROSS PARTISAN. FRANK ACROSS GEOGRAPHIC LINE AND THERE WAS A REALLY SPECIAL MOMENT AND THEN OF COURSE THERE THOUGH. ADVANCED DOWN TO THE COUNTY JAIL AND THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND YOU CAN YOU HAD SOME VERY SPECIAL MOMENT THERE AS WELL AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE HAVING THOSE INTERACTIONS AND ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR POLICE OFFICERS AND WITH OUR DEPUTY SHERIFF’S THEY LEFT, YOU KNOW, THEY WENT ON THEY WENT ON TO ENJOY THE REST OF THEIR EVENING AND LEFT BEHIND WHERE THE WERE THESE DOGS TO HAVE CAUSE PROPERTY DAMAGE AND OTHER VANDALIZATION TONIGHT? VERY MULTI-LAYERED MULTI DIMENSIONAL SITUATION GOING ON, BUT I ALSO WANT TO ADD BECAUSEPY POLICE MENTIONED IT YESTERDAY AND I THINK IT’S VERY FAIR TO SHARE THAT THEY DID SAY YESTERDAY. THEY WANT THE PROTESTERS TO DO WHAT THEY’RE DOING. THEY JUST WANT TO BE SAFE. THEY WANT THEM TO HAVE THE SPACE THAT THEY NEED TO GET THEIR MESSAGE ACROSS AND EVEN THOUGH AS YOU SAID THE MESSAGE MAY BE HARD TO HEAR. MANY HAVE SAID THEY WANT TO HEAR IT AND THEY WANT TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION WHICH IS WHAT THE EARLIER GROUP IS ASKING FOR. YEAH, I’VE NEVER BEEN MORE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT. THE INTEREST LEVEL HERE IN OKLAHOMA CITY ABOUT ENGAGING WITH THESE ISSUES AND YOU’RE RIGHT. I MEAN IT WE ALL RECOGNIZE IT’S NOT COMFORTABLE BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE EMBRACING THAT DISCOMFORT AND IT STARTS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. IT STARTS WITH ELECTED LEADERS LIKE ME, IT STARTS WITH ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY OR PRIVILEGE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE NEVERTHELESS REALLY WANTING TO THESE CONVERSATIONS AND SPEAKS AND CHANGE AND SOME SOLUTIONS TO BETTER REACH THE IDEAL THAT OUR CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEERS IN THIS CITY, YOU KNOW IMAGINED 50 YEARS AGO, AND IT’S GREAT THAT WE ABOLISH JIM CROW LAWS, AND IT’S GREAT THAT YOU KNOW OVERT ACTS OF RACISM OR SHOUTED DOWN IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, BUT WE CANNOT BE INTOXICATED BY THOSE SUCCESSES AND LET THAT FREE US FROM OUR OBLIGATION TO SPEAK MORE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND MORE EQUAL OUTCOMES IN THE CITY BECAUSE IT’S STILL TRUE THAT IF YOU ARE RAISED AT NORTHEAST 23RD AND MLK YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY IS SHORTER. YOUR ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ARE ARE LESSER YOUR EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OR LESS THERE THAN BUDDY, YOU KNOW RAY JUST TEN MILES TO THE NORTHWEST AND WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. SO THERE WHEN WE’RE TALKING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PROTESTING RIGHT NOW. YES, THEY WANT TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MINDS. THEY ALSO WANT TO CHANGE POLICY. THEY WANT TO CHANGE PROCEDURES BOTH WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AS WELL AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ALL THESE ALL THESE THINGS AND YOU KNOW AS I HAVE YOU KNOW, AS I DO IN MECCA, DOES THAT YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THINGS SET UP DECADES AGO THAT THAT DISADVANTAGE CERTAIN GROUPS IN OUR YOU KNOW IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO GOING FORWARD, AND I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU MENTIONED THE THING THAT YOU PUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA I READ IT AND YOU DID TALK ABOUT HOW THE FACT IS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SPEAKING WITH THE CHIEF OF POLICE CHIEF CORLEY ABOUT DEESCALATE. THE ESCALATION D ESCALATION IMPLICIT BIAS COMMUNITY PARK POLICING AND THAT YOU OF ASK THE CHIEF. TO COME AND PRESENT ON THOSE SPECIFIC TOPICS TO CITY COUNCIL THIS TUESDAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE CHIEF OF POLICE? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR? WELL, YES, SO THAT IS TUESDAY MORNING AND WE HAVE THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING. IT STARTS AT 8:30. AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME. IT IS A VIRTUAL MEETING. WE’VE ALMOST FORGOTTEN YOU STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, BUT WE ARE AND SO WE ARE STILL MEETING ARE AS A CITY COUNCIL VIRTUALLY AND SO IN MANY WAYS THAT’S MORE CONVENIENT FOR PEOPLE. THEY DON’T HAVE TO COME DOWN TO CITY HALL AND THEY CAN BE A PART OF THAT DISCUSSION ON TUESDAY MORNING, AND I EXPECT THAT. WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS FOR THE POLICE CHIEF AND I EXPECT YOU’LL BE PREPARED TO GIVE ANSWERS AND ON ALL THOSE THOSE TOPICS YOU JUST REFERENCE COMPLETED BY IS. EQUALLY AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW THATS RELATED TO THE INTERACTION THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS WITH OUR COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE OF COLOR IN OUR COMMUNITY AND I EXPECT TO HEAR THOROUGH ANSWERS AND I EXPECT TO HEAR EITHER EXPLANATIONS FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING. I MEAN SUCH AS USUAL JUST DON’T KNOW, YOU KNOW, MAYBE OH, WELL IT TURNS OUT WE DO HAVE YOU KNOW THIS PROGRAM OR JUST YOU KNOW THIS STANDARD IN OUR DEPARTMENT AND IF THAT’S THE CASE WITH HERE THAT LETS GET THAT INFORMATION OUT THERE AND IF IT’S NOT THE CASE SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO HAVE BEEN LET’S FIGURE OUT YOU KNOW, IT’S HERE’S WHAT HIS PLAN IS OR CHALLENGED HIM TO MAKE ONE FOR THE FUTURE. WILL SAY THAT HIS PREDECESSOR CHIEF CITY AND CHIEF CORLEY NOW HE STARTED IN THE LAST YEAR, YOU KNOW, I’M PRETTY DETERMINED I THINK TO FOCUS ON THOSE ISSUES AND SO IT IS NOT A FOREIGN TOPIC. IT IS NOT AS IF TUESDAY MORNING WILL BE THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU’VE CORLEY IS GOING TO APPROACH THESE TOPICS, BUT IT’S IMPORTANT TO DO SO NOW OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY. JIM IS ON THESE TOPICS, AND IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT THAT WE BRING IT ALL TOGETHER AND WE HAVE A DISCUSSION AND IT’S OKAY. WE GOT ALL DAY TUESDAY. I MEAN I WE EXPECT THIS IS GOING TO EXPAND THE LENGTH OF OUR COUNCIL MEETING ON TV, BUT THAT’S OKAY. WE NEED WE NEED TO TAKE SOME TIME TO GET IN DEPTH ON THE ISSUE. THEN IT COULDN’T COME AT A BETTER TIME. YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND IT’S NOT THE END OF IT, BUT IT’S I THINK IT IS AN IMPORTANT IT’S TIME WE WANT. ONE FINAL QUESTION FOR YOU. WHAT IS THE HEADLINE ON TODAY? TOMORROW IN YOUR MIND, WHAT’S THE NEWS HEADLINE? GREAT QUESTION AND BECAUSE IT IS LIKE THERE ARE TWO CHAPTERS TO TODAY. ONE LASTED FROM YOU KNOW TO 32 9 O’CLOCK. AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE AND I REALLY THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THIS ONE NOT OVERSHADOW WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER IN THE DAY, WHICH WAS FAR MORE IMPORTANT INVOLVED FAR MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED FAR MORE IMPORTANT AND AND LASTING ISSUE AND SO FOR ME THEY HAD LINE, YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW THAT I HAVE AN ELOQUENT HEADLINE, BUT THE TOPIC OF THAT LINE WOULD BE WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN TERMS OF FACING THESE CHALLENGES. OF OUR COMMUNITY AND I THINK THAT THEY WERE SAFE AND VERY IMPACTFUL AND SOMETIMES BEAUTIFUL WAY TODAY AND THAT’S THE TAKEAWAY FROM ME FOR ME FROM THIS DAY IN OUR CITY’S HISTORY. THIS IS IMPORTANT AND IT’S CERTAINLY IMPORTANT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND IT’S CERTAINLY IMPORTANT TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS IN THIS AREA AND THAT’S WHY YOU SEE, YOU KNOW OUR POLICE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. MAKING SURE THAT THAT EVERYTHING IS KEPT SAFE. AND SO THIS IS PART OF THE STORY OF THE DAY AS WELL, BUT I DON’T WANT IT. I DON’T THINK IT DESERVES TO OVERSHADOW SOME REALLY IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS AND CONVERSATIONS THAT HAPPENED TODAY. MAYOR HALT THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE KNOW WE CALL YOU AT ONE MIDNIGHT 10:1 AM. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME, SIR. I HOPE YOU GET SOME SLEEP AT AT SOME POINT THIS WEEK. YEAH, WELL WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, I HOPE WE DON’T TALK AGAIN TOMORROW NIGHT. WELL 15 SOUNDS GOOD. OKAY, YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND THANK YOU AGAIN.