#1415 Accountability Not Justice, Continuing the Fight After the Chauvin Trial
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 5/5/2021
Today we take a look briefly at the trial of Derek Chauvin itself before moving on to various responses, a wide-angle lens on some of the forces at play in policing and the work still to be done.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Chauvin Found Guilty on All Counts - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 4-21-21
Introducing the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin
Ch. 2: Chauvin Guilty - Criminal (In)justice - Air Date 4-22-21
A Minneapolis jury has found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in the murder of George Floyd. What does it mean for criminal justice reform?
We go to Minneapolis to speak with Kandace Montgomery, co-executive director of Black Visions Collective, about their response to the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
Staff writer for The New Republic, Osita Nwanevu, joins the show to share his thoughts on the conviction of Derek Chauvin. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
Ch. 5: What have we learned - Dr. Roger Ray Part 1 - Progressive Faith Sermons - Air Date 4-25-21
While we want to show respect and support for public servants generally, such respect must also be met, especially now, with a willingness to question authority and to challenge the racism and classism that is so deeply embedded in policing.
Ch. 6: Live Event Announcement
Join Jay and Roger Ray in a live discussion on
Ch. 7: Why Cops Don't Change - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 4-19-21
A retired NYPD detective says the force’s stubborn, insular culture was built to last. And Elie Mystal explains a 1989 Supreme Court ruling that made killing “reasonable.”
Ch. 8: What have we learned - Dr. Roger Ray Part 2 - Progressive Faith Sermons - Air Date 4-25-21
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Ch. 9: Why Cops Don't Change Part 2 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 4-19-21
The guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin came as a relief to many nationwide, but the number of people killed by police since his trial began underscores the broader issues that remain.
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Ch. 12: Final comments on the business of progressive media
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.5 | about the trial of Derek Chauvin itself before moving on to various responses, a wide |
| 0:13.1 | angle lens on some of the forces at play in policing, and the work still to be done. |
| 0:19.0 | Clips today are from the Bryan Leros show, Criminal Injustice, Democracy Now, the Majority |
| 0:25.1 | Report Progressive Faith Sermons, the United States of Anxiety, and the Takeaway. |
| 0:36.7 | Yesterday at this time, we were breaking down the closing arguments and the legal considerations |
| 0:41.4 | for the jury in the trial of defendant Derek Chauvin. This morning, the way we describe |
| 0:47.0 | the former police officer is officially different. He is convicted murderer Derek Chauvin, |
| 0:53.3 | according to the judge. |
| 1:23.3 | Judge Peter K. Hill, reading the jury's verdict yesterday, on the most serious count |
| 1:30.3 | second-degree murder, in case you hadn't heard it from his own lips and wanted to hear |
| 1:34.2 | it from his own lips. This is not a hoax. So there was the murder of George Floyd accountability |
| 1:41.2 | trial. Now, Congress will debate the George Floyd Accountability Act. States and local |
| 1:47.5 | police departments are having different conversations, too, than a year ago, before the number, |
| 1:52.6 | before the murder, sorry, they're having different conversations than a year ago, before the |
| 1:58.8 | murder of George Floyd. So can the end of jury deliberations in the one case be the |
| 2:04.7 | beginning of something more systemic? Here's Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaking |
| 2:10.2 | yesterday after the verdict. |
| 2:12.4 | The work of our generation is to put unaccountable law enforcement behind us. It's time to transfer |
| 2:18.3 | the relationship, transform the relationship between community and the people who are sworn |
| 2:24.0 | to protect them from one that is mistrustful, suspicious, and in some cases terrifying |
| 2:29.7 | into one that is empathetic, compassionate, and affirming. With that benefit, that will |
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