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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Donates $1 Million to Police-Reform Research Group

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By Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Reed Hastings, chairman and CEO of Netflix, donated $1 million to a research organization dedicated to fighting racial bias in American law enforcement using data science.

The exec’s donation to the Center for Policing Equity was announced Tuesday evening, amid continuing nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died while in police custody. “Great organization that has been working on this big problem for a decade,” Hastings tweeted Tuesday about his donation.

He directed people to check out the TED Talk by Phillip Atiba Goff, CEO and co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity, from April 2019, titled “How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve

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