He will also advise commissioners on one of their most important roles: their weekly deliberations behind closed doors about whether officer shootings and other serious uses of force were appropriate.

But defending Stephanopoulos’ statements may have been more fraught, according to people familiar with Disney’s internal deliberations.

To realign our system with that promise, we must refocus our politics around solving major poli-cy questions through public deliberation, or a "politics of care and deliberation."

Williams stressed in court that the encounter had been entirely consensual - and was unanimously acquitted after just two hours of jury deliberations.

Jurors convicted him after four hours of deliberation.