Westchester Coalition for Police Reform (WCPR)
Thu, Aug 27
|Online Event - Due To Covid
A group of concerned community organizations, religious institutions and individuals who share a vision to help build safe communities, with improved community-police relations and greater police accountability and transparency.
Time & Location
Aug 27, 2020, 6:30 PM
Online Event - Due To Covid
About the Event
The catalyst for creating the WCPR, founded in 2011 and formerly called the Network for Police Accountability, was the killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. on November 19, 2011. Mr. Chamberlain was a 68-year-old man with a heart condition whose medical alert sounded by accident at 5:00 AM. Police were dispatched, and after an hour-long confrontation where the victim made clear he did not need or want their help, and that he was distressed and terrified, police broke into his apartment and Mr. Chamberlain was shot to death.