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Against the backdrop of the Derek Chauvin trial, and after a year of racial reckoning, Americans are confronted with yet more brutal footage of police killings of Black and brown Americans. What does true accountability and reform look like?
Guests
Vinnie Cervantes, organizing director of the Denver Alliance for Street Health Response. (@squashstreet)
From The Reading List
Star Tribune: "After Daunte Wright's killing, criticism of 'pretextual' traffic stops grows" — "Diamond Sheriff helped attach some of the hundreds of air fresheners to a new fence surrounding the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Thursday, April 15."
The Atlantic: "The State Where Protests Have Already Forced Major Police Reform" — "In Loveland, Colorado—the nation’s self-proclaimed “Sweetheart City,” about an hour’s drive north of Denver—a young police officer paused earlier this month as he was arresting a pregnant woman who had outstanding warrants. Should he handcuff her, the officer asked his supervisors, or, under a new Colorado policing law, would that now be considered excessive force?"