Hi, Beaterbridge community. What you're about to listen to is a Facebook live interview that we had in the past that we thought that would be helpful for this season in our country.

So I want you to sit back and listen because this information could be helpful and hopeful.

And so as we always say, we want you to listen. we want you to learn, we want you to lament,

and we want you to leverage.

So enjoy.

You're listening to Sounds of Justice, a Be the Bridge podcast. Hello, I think we are live now.

Welcome to everyone who is joining us.

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My name is Gina Fimble, and I'm an ambassador with Be The Bridge.

It is truly our pleasure to welcome Matthew Horace.

We have been so excited about this interview.

Matthew Forrest wrote a powerful book called The Black and the Blue.

The cop reveals the crime, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement.

Mr. Horace has been a law enforcement officer at the state, federal, and local level for nearly 30 years. So welcome, Mr. Horace.

Good evening. How are you? I'm good. Here is your book, and I hope that everyone will get a copy. It has been very eye-opening to me, a very powerful book. One of the more popular books in our group is Brian Stevenson's Justice Mercy, which reveals a lot of the problems

within the criminal justice system. And I think that your book is just as powerful in revealing

all the reform that needs to happen within our policing system. So I thought we could kick it off by perhaps, if you

wouldn't mind to read your book for us. Well, I will. Well, thank you very much and thanks for having me

on tonight. I am a cop. Make no mistake about it. I've been a part of the best and the worst

that my noble profession represents. I've worked a part of the best and the worst that my noble profession represents.

I've worked hard and played hard, true to cop culture. I've been in sports leagues with cops.

I've eaten, drunk, and worship with cops. I've picnic, partied, and celebrated with cops. I've cried

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