PTACC (Police, Treatment and Community Collaborative) have released a statement on the killing of George Floyd. This statement can be read in full on their website here, or as a PDF here.

The following information has been directly sourced from the statement.

As a core value in doing our shared work of deflection, PTACC advocates for equity, diversity, and inclusion in deflection. In the People deflected we can see ourselves, friends, and families. So we act with humility and humanity in what I call the “Golden Three of Right Action”: a sense of urgency, a sense of purpose, and a sense of passion. This is the foundation of who we are at PTACC, our field of deflection, and our shared work together as Partners in Collaboration. In this way, the practice of deflection sets an example for what can be, indeed what we each can be-come when Police, Treatment, and Community come together.

Still, I write to you now because so tragically, and so sadly, and so disgustingly yet again an African-American neighbor of ours living in our national Community (E Pluribus Unum) has been killed by a police officer. This all happened in broad daylight, while being filmed, with the police officer being told by a multitude of Community standing just a few yards away that he was killing a man and yet the police officer ignored their pleas. This all happened, too, while our neighbor from our Community, George Floyd – an African-American man, an American citizen with the same legal rights that you and I have, laid face down on the street, already handcuffed, with two police officers on him, another walking around him, and a fourth police officer with his knee on his neck, used what energy he had left to say, “I can’t breathe,” and then to beg and plead for his life: “Please, please, please…” while also calling for his mother. Mr. Floyd’s pleas, coming from just a few feet, not yards, away were ignored by the police officer as well as the other three police officers present. Mr. Floyd lay dead, killed by the actions of one officer and the inaction of three other officers.

The statement is available to be read in full here.