Community Summit on Policing

Paul Butler, acclaimed author of “Chokehold, Policing Black Men” will keynote the Pennsylvania Council of Churches “Community Summit on Policing” on Wednesday May 10, 2023, at St. Stephens Episcopal Cathedral, 221 Front Street in Harrisburg, PA.

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Paul Butler, acclaimed author of “Chokehold, Policing Black Men” will keynote the Pennsylvania Council of Churches “Community Summit on Policing” on Wednesday May 10, 2023, at St. Stephens Episcopal Cathedral, 221 Front Street in Harrisburg, PA.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for the forum that will begin at 6 p.m. Gov. Josh Shapiro has been invited to offer opening remarks. The event is being held in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. A panel of local experts will offer remarks following the keynote and include:
• David Splain, President, Pennsylvania Association of Police Chiefs
• Jennifer Gettle, Deputy District Attorney, Dauphin County
• Chad Dion Lassiter, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
PennLive’s Outreach & Opinion Editor Joyce M. Davis will moderate the discussion.

Author Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC. He is one of the nation’s most frequently consulted scholars on issues of race and criminal justice. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and the ABC, CBS, and NBC Evening News. He lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the United States. He serves on the District of Columbia Code Revision Commission as an appointee of the D.C. City Council.

Butler’s book “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” was published in July 2017. The Washington Post named it one of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2017. Chokehold was also named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The New York Times described “Chokehold” as the best book on criminal justice reform since The New
Jim Crow. It was a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction.

Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.

Admission to the event is free, but the Pennsylvania Council of Churches invites donations.
There is street parking near the church and in the parking garage which is adjacent to the church.