By Alicia Lee, CNN
Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn knows he plays a key role in changing the culture of policing and how communities perceive officers. It’s a tough position to be in for a Black man in 2021.
He’s endured being called an “Uncle Tom” and “a sellout.”
In 2017, Hahn became the first African American police chief in the Sacramento Police Department. While he understands the frustrations of the Black community, the name-calling is hard to hear.
“I think that’s probably the hardest thing to have your own community, something that you’ve been part of since the day you were born…” have this perception, Hahn said.
But Black police officers also get called names by others. Hahn recalls how during protests, “young White kids” walked up to them and called them a “race traitor.”
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