Members of the Laramie public showed an impassioned interest in a number of measures to reform policing, especially in a citizen oversight board, during a City Council work session Tuesday, but some of the hopes to see an overall reduced police presence in the community will be a hard sell for government officials.

The work session comes three weeks after protests against police violence and racism began in Laramie. Those demonstrations followed the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd by an officer of that city’s police department, an act which the department’s police chief recently called a murder. The officer who kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes is facing second- and third-degree murder charges. Other officers involved are facing aiding and abetting charges.

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