"This is profoundly personal for me. I was at the White House the other day and the president of the United States turned to me, and he met Dante a few months ago, and he said that Dante reminded him of what he looked like as a teenager. He said, 'I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens.'"
Mr. Josman - whose role is to foster community and police cooperation - has directly undermined his own role by demonstrating overt hatred toward an ethnic group within the city community.
"They graduate with an understanding of what the job of the police entails and by the police coming to these forums, they understand the feelings, the hardships, and the tension and the fear that is in the hearts of some of these young boys."