New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (C) and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton (2nd R) join other officials as they watch a demonstration at the new NYPD police Academy in the Queens borough of New York, December 4, 2014. De Blasio and Bratton held a news conference later and discussed newly implemented training procedures in the wake of the chokehold death of Eric Garner. REUTERS/NY Daily News/Richard Harbus/Pool (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. police need to recapture the lost trust of minority communities, a problem vividly illustrated by protests after the police killings of two unarmed black men, said a veteran police chief tapped by President Barack Obama to address community relations.
The large demonstrations in New York and sometimes violent protests around the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, have underlined just how broad that trust gap is, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said in an interview on Thursday.
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