[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up shortly, more light covers from capitol hill with the House Administration election subcommittee meeting about Voting Rights and elections during the covid19 pandemic. Hearing is after the tuesday primaries with troubles and voting in a number of locations in georgia in particular. Among the witnesses testifying today will be the secretary of state for louisiana. It should get underway shortly and we will take you there live when it happens but until then, part of todays washington journal. Ur next guest of the morning is alex vitale, a sociology professor and the author of the book the end of policing. Thank you for joining us. Guest good morning, pedro. Narrator could you give the audience of what your view of what the police should be in Current Society . Guest i think it is not so
Calling for the Oakland Unified School district to redirect money spent on police into social services for students. Now its called the george floyd resolution to eliminate the Oakland School Police Department background on some of the statistics the board cited in the resolution from the 2015 2016 school year to the 2019 2020 school year black students have accounted for 73 of arrest and city schools, but just 26 of enrollment. Also in 5 years from 2013 2014 to 2018 2019. The district spent million on its armed police force. Now lets hear from the organizers from the black organizing project along with the Oakland Unified School District Police chief. This is very historic for our members and for the people plan and we are really hoping that we can set a or what remove Police Free Schools looks like throughout the country calls are still going to be answered is high priority, although previous still going to be big and those out and if somebody from a school picks up the phone and cal
Rebecca roanhorse. So, we are not going to take audience questions but feel free to chat amongst yourself in the chat feature and let us know where youre viewing from. Well re recording the event so folks who couldnt join us live can watch this later on and ill give you a quick rundown of the format. Were going to give each author seven to mine minutes to talk about anywhere upcoming books and then we joy will lead a chat of the group. So without further adieu ill pass things over to zerina and well take it away. Zerina maxwell the msnbc political analyst, commentator, speaker and writer the and the senior director of progressive programming for pierus xm cohost of signal boost. Take it away. Im so excited to be here this evening. I know so many of us are struggling through our individual circumstances during this quarantine, and maybe were thinking and wondering what we can do in this particular moment to make the world around us just a little bit different and a lot better. So, i can
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Senator cory Booker Joining fellow democrats today in announcing support of new Police Reform. Supporters say the Police Reform legislation is overdue and unprecedented, democrats hope to push the bill through the house and hope to have a vote in the senate by july 4. This bill is in response to the nationwide protests. It is and it was drafted by the Judiciary Committee and the black caucus, or than 150 democrats have signed on as co authors. For those who wish we will now kneel for our moment of silence. Reporter on capitol hill house and Senate Democrats took any for nearly 9 minutes in emancipation hall before announcing the new justice and policing act. A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession that requires highly trained officers who are accountable to the public. We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change. The bill includes federal mandates the police funny and dashboard cameras, limit transfer of military weapons and a b