Tough questions and answers punctuated a lunchtime forum for high school students and police held Friday by Children's Hospital's Division of Adolescent Medicine.

        The seminar on youth, race and police brought together 20 ninth-graders from Shroder Paideia High School in Kennedy Heights and four police officers from Cincinnati and Woodlawn.

        Organizers said the forum was a chance to “heal the distrust.”

        Tay Von Tolliver, 14, described a run-in he witnessed between a Cincinnati officer and Tay's cousin.

        “He and some of his friends were just sitting on the roof of his car, watching the cars go by, and the police came by and told him to get off,” he said.

        “They tossed him around and made him pull out his registration, and he wasn't even doing anything.”

        Cincinnati Officer David Hamler, a veteran school resource officer, said he couldn't explain why some officers behave this way.

        “If you have 900 to 1,000 policemen, you are going to have some bad ones,” he said, “just like at a school like Shroder, if you have 600 kids, you are going to have some bad ones.

        “I just try to treat people like I would want to be treated, like how I would want my kids or my wife to be treated.”

        Officer Hamler was joined by Cincinnati Police Officers Joe Eichorn and LaDonn Laney and Woodlawn Police Lt. Jack Bennett.

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