But I have a 15-year-old daughter who knows that I had “the talk” when I was a teenager, and she is aware of what is going on in the world. Q: What have you told your daughters to do if stopped by police?Ī: One daughter is too young for the conversation. The statistics show that it has been happening for decades. But it is something black Americans talk about a great deal and expect. Q: How many times have you been pulled over for driving while black?Ī: I don’t recall personally being pulled over for driving while black. It’s too important an issue for people not to be informed. It was that important to me to get both sides of the issue in a book so that the public would have the facts. Q: When does somebody as into his family and job as you are have time to write a book about policing?Ī: I got the job done late at night, before dawn, on my vacations and lunch breaks. “Part of the solution is getting police and community in a more cooperative relationship.” My immediate family pronounces it “puh-gays” but it’s really “pig-geez.”
My parents are from Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. You’ll find a lot of us in the Southern states. I am a descendant of slaves who were given the name. In Part 2 of this interview, we’ll talk about personal matters and touch on a couple of other police items.Ī: I’m still working on doing a thorough vetting, but I’m told that it is from southern France. It’s another important issue shaping who we are as a country,” he told me. If the American people don’t trust elections, then they don’t have confidence in what makes us Americans. election would likely have been considered an act of war. “I believe that in any other time in history an adversary interfering in a U.S. “I’m tackling Russian government meddling in the election ,” said Pegues, who worked at Fox 9 back when it was KMSP-TV. He recently pumped out his first book, “Black and Blue: Inside the Divide between the Police and Black America,” and is already busy on his second book due out in 2018. CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues must be a meticulous manager of the time he controls.