Kansas City police are reviewing thousands of hours of video footage captured during days of demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism that recently took place at the Country Club Plaza.

Police Chief Rick Smith said the extensive footage would enable police commanders and supervisors to complete an after-action review of how the police department responded to the demonstrations.

“We have thousands of hours of video footage to go through with limited personnel,” Smith told members of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners during their monthly meeting Tuesday.

”We are working on it and we continue to work on it every day. As we try to match the various reports with the incidents and check the video to see what occurred,” he said.

The police department has incurred $2.1 million in overtime and other expenditures associated with the protests, officials said during the board meeting.

Thousands of protesters converged on the Plaza starting in late May to rail against police brutality and the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.

Protesters also sought to bring attention to the need for local control of the Kansas City Police Department, urgency to equip police officers with body-worn cameras and a demand for a uniform police use of force policy.

Many others called for Smith to resign.

During the protests, viral photos and videos showed police pepper spraying, tear gassing and arresting peaceful protesters in Kansas City. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said her office was reviewing officers who pepper-sprayed two protesters, arresting one after he yelled at police.

Several days into the protests, police gave demonstrators more space and stopped using tear gas.

The American Civil Liberties Union has since sued Kansas City, saying police arresting nonviolent protesters at the Plaza were enforcing unconstitutional “failure to obey” ordinances.

Following the demonstrations, Smith said the recent protests at the Plaza compelled the department to develop a “First Amendment policy,” and re-evaluate how they respond to large-scale demonstrations and public gatherings.

On Tuesday, Smith said he had planned to have a draft report ready for Tuesday’s meeting but it was not completed.

“We are continuing to do that. I hope to have a more full report to you at the next board meeting about where we’re and what we are seeing,” he said.

In earlier comments, Smith said the officer who was shot in the head last Thursday by a man waving a gun at a McDonald’s at 31st Street and Van Brunt Avenue remains in critical condition.

“He’s not out of the woods by no means,” Smith told police board members.