It's a deeply painful reality that it often takes a tragedy to start a conversation around

reform in this country.

We are talk about Stanger Ground after Trayban Martin was killed.

Talk of curbing police chokeholds after Eric Garner and demands for transparency around

body cam footage after police shot Laquan McDonald 16 times.

Sometimes these conversations are just that, a lot of talk.

But other times, they lead to actual reform.

So when police killed two black men last month, one thing stuck out to me.

In both incidents, police were attempting to serve arrest warrants.

On April 21st, Sheriff's Deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina shot and killed

42-year-old Andrew Brown, Jr. while serving a warrant for his arrest on drug charges.

In 10 days earlier, 20-year-old Dante Wright was shot and killed by a police officer

in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

It started as a traffic stop for expired tags that escalated when officers tried to arrest

Wright for a warrant because of a miscord date and two misdemeanor charges.

The officer said she mistook her gun for a taser.

In both cases, an arrest warrant ended in death.

In both cases, calls for a form.

Last week, Minnesota lawmakers began the process of trying to answer those calls.

Representatives Samantha Vang and Jamie Long have a bill that would allow judges to issue

sign-in release warrants for misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors.

A motorist with this type of warrant would sign a form acknowledging an upcoming court date

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