#19: Police and Communities of Color
In The Thick
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🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Politicians often talk about race when it serves their agendas. Recently the racial spotlight has been on police departments, especially in Baltimore and Oakland, where events have damaged trust in both forces. Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion from the Aspen Ideas Festival with former Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villaseñor and DeRay Mckesson, activist, co-creator of Campaign Zero and a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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| 0:00.0 | With Hillary, I am mindful that if she's the next president, she will not be able to govern without a coalition of black people. |
| 0:06.2 | Trump will be able to govern without black people, are the podcast that talks about politics and the |
| 0:17.3 | race to the White House in 2016 from a different perspective with |
| 0:20.6 | different voices. I'm your host, Maria Inu Hosa. This week in the |
| 0:24.0 | thick is on the road with some big thinkers at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Today we are |
| 0:29.5 | joined by Roberto Vias Senior, the former chief of police in Tucson, Arizona. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome Roberto. |
| 0:35.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:36.7 | And also joining me is Dorem McKesson. |
| 0:38.7 | He's an activist, a protester, a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement and co-creator of the campaign zero movement. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, De Ray, good to be here. |
| 0:47.0 | So today on in the thick we're going to be talking about an issue that seems to have faded from public consciousness a bit recently |
| 0:54.8 | that is the question of police violence especially police violence against people of color. |
| 0:59.3 | Two recent events in the news though have reminded us that there is a lot of work to do here. |
| 1:03.1 | There is the recent acquittal of Caesar Goodson. |
| 1:05.4 | Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. was found not guilty on Thursday of second |
| 1:11.1 | decree depraved heart murder in the death of black detainee |
| 1:14.4 | Freddie Gray. And we have the scandal in Oakland where three police chiefs have |
| 1:19.0 | resigned in a span of 10 days. Oakland California's police department is investigating a sex scandal involving allegations |
| 1:25.9 | of officers having sex with a minor. |
| 1:28.2 | Dure, part of the work that you're doing with campaign zero right is to reduce, get rid of police misconduct. |
| 1:34.3 | How do you as an activist in this particular moment say, but we can move forward? |
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