Very slowly. So stay vigilant, america. Antifa fake teeth, fake hips, real danger. Ive fallen, and ill kill you all its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight give peace some chants plus, stephen welcomes Emmanuel Acho and Chris Wallace. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen its going to be great. Its going to be three weeks of just you and me and no kids. laughter ready . Im ready on right now. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. All over america, millions of people are still marching to protest the murder of george floyd by Minneapolis Police and Police Brutality in black communities nationwide. Over the weekend, we saw massive turnouts in cities like los angeles, washington, d. C. , and philadelphia. That last one is particularly inspiring. Because usually when you see a crowd that big in philadelphia, theyre throwing batteries at the right fielder. Protests have also been a daily occurrenc
We will talk about the proposals to defund the police and what that means. Christy, good morning. Guest good morning and thank you for having me. Host you are the codirector of the Innovative Policing Program at georgetown law school. What exactly is that . Guest that is something i started with some of my colleagues who have a background in policing. One of them is a professor, also a reserved Police Officer. We do a number of programs trying to get police to speak differently about their professions. We call it the police for tomorrow program. It is a program for officers to bring them together once per month and have them ask some of the hardest questions about policing and talk about how it impacts their life and doing something about it. Whereabouts a starter program, able active bystander support Law Enforcement. It is really meant to get at one of the issues that was so tragically relevant in the george floyd killing, trying to help officers do a better job intervening to preven
Theyre slowly coming for us all. Very slowly. So stay vigilant, america. Antifa fake teeth, fake hips, real danger. Ive fallen, and ill kill you all its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight give peace some chants plus, stephen welcomes featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen its going to be great. Its going to be three weeks of just you and me and no kids. laughter ready . Im ready stephen me, too, here we go. Give me a hit of whatever youre on right now. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. All over america, millions of people are still marching to protest the murder of george floyd by Minneapolis Police and Police Brutality in black communities nationwide. Over the weekend, we saw massive turnouts in cities like los angeles, washington, d. C. , and philadelphia. That last one is particularly inspiring. Because usually when you see a crowd that big in philadelphia, theyre throwing batteries at
Pledging to begin that process of disbanding the police department. At a minneapolis, the mayor asks questions about this idea of defunding the police department. He talked to protesters gathered outside his house. You can see that this morning. You saw this effort start in los theles a few days ago with l. A. City council introducing a motion to reduce Police Funding as calls to defund the lapd echoed at protests. You can even see it played out in portland, oregon. A decision by leaders in that city, the superintendent of schools saying he will discontinue the presence of Armed Police Officers at schools. If you want a working definition , one is being offered by georgetown law. She has this is a working andnition, saying defunding abolition mean Something Different than what you are thinking. For most proponents, defunding the police does not mean zeroing all budgets for Public Safety and Police Abolition does not mean police will disappear overnight or perhaps ever. The police means
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