Governor Beshear used his daily coronavirus briefing Monday night to outline a number of initiatives aimed at addressing racial disparities while also ensuring fairness. That includes an effort to provide health care coverage to all African Americans who live in Kentucky.
Cabinet Secretary J. Michael Brown talked about a review on how current and future police officers are trained. Brown said there are plans for an eight hour on-line training course on a number of issues including use of force. “And I don’t want to simplify this because sometimes use of force in the past has been marginalized into more or less a how. We trained officers on how to do it. We’re going to focus a lot more on the when, and the why, and the what,” said Brown.
The new course is also expected to cover implicit bias and firearm deployment.
Governor Beshear noted he and his administration watch coronavirus case number every day. The governor reported 70 new cases on Sunday and 120 for Monday. But the two days prior to that found 289 and 319 cases respectively. Governor Beshear said two key health safety components can’t be overstressed. “This is a virus that we know certain things about and we know that distance and masking work and if people are unwilling to do those things it makes it less safe. So, the more people out there that wear masks, the safer we are. The more people that engage in social distancing, the safer we are. The more people that decide that they’re over it, that makes it harder,” explained Beshear.
Beshear said the number of people undergoing treatment in intensive care continues to be a major area of focus.
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