Phoenix's Jeri Williams is one of the nation's few black female police chiefs. She says George Floyd's death was 'disgustingly horrific.'

Like many police chiefs across the country, Phoenix Chief Jeri Williams has denounced the death of George Floyd, the black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, while at the same time she struggles to support her officers and maintain peace in the midst of the resulting protests.

But Williams comes at the situation from a unique perspective.

She's one of only a handful of black female police chiefs in the nation. And she's a mother with black sons.

She said she saw what happened through...