GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan State Police and the Grand Rapids Police Department are hosting an event in Walker Tuesday aimed at building relationships with young community members.
The Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE) event will use sports, including bringing in former NFL player Ruben Riley, to break the ice with local public school students.
“The reality of it is we’ve got to touch these younger kids to start building those relationships much younger,” MSP 1st Lt. Chris McIntire, the commander of the Rockford Post, told 24 Hour News 8 Monday. “So we’re going to have the real conversations, really, about anything they want to talk about: about the race relations we have in western Michigan, how we can move forward, social progress, to make things better for all of us, and kind of hear what they have to say.”
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