Watch Now! Non-profit works to transform fear of police into empowerment for young men of color

Other nation continues to tackle race relations in the justice system a local non-profit is doing their part to teach young people of color how to bring about change today replace fear of police with empowerment the goal to prevent unnecessary or violent encounters because many feel it's a matter of survival pages kelly has the story.

Videos and moments like this have become common over the years like many black children and children of color am on did not grow up with a good perception of police always taught like not to.

Interact with cars or one of us are go the other way but as we've seen interactions can turn deadly.

It's interactions like this that word is bond local non-profit is trying to prevent it's taught me to use my voice.

And, it's tommy to be able to be to the leader that I am today silicon your jury is the executive director of is bond his goal is to empower all about owning your story owning your experience been sharing that with the world change one way word is bond empowers is by teaching young men of color how to interact with police on.

And, the importance of calmly and respectfully standing up for their own rights Did not a way they do that is through videos like this is classic?

You're teaching them their rights and what to do encountering an officer Not only do they use real-life scenarios but also real officers like collegiate abraham who says this work is personal I grew up here in northeast north pole and then now I'm back in my community where I grew up and basically serving it again given back to commute I grew up in abraham is the officer in this video he said he happily signed on to help hoping to bridge the ongoing gap between communities of color and police from here to listen if people want to reach out to me and they want to talk to me sit down, you know, teach me things learn things for me I'm happy to sit down and the says the program has done more for him than just make him comfortable talking to police he says it changed his life is not just the program where we say and talk to police officers a program learned a lot of things as a plaque now and also helps.

Many black young black male get-together and build a bond kelly on ktwo new this week word is bond started their summer internship program called rising leaders which is a six-week program for youth leader's between the ages of sixteen and twenty one for summer twenty, twenty they have a record number of law enforcement agencies participating in the workshops.

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