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Deep Background with Noah Feldman

A Top Obama Official on Police Brutality

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

News Commentary, Government, News

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Vanita Gupta, the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, discusses the protests across the country, and the reforms she would make to how policing works in the U.S.

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:08.7

It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

0:13.8

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

0:17.6

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

0:30.5

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:43.4

From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories, behind the stories in the news.

0:50.7

I'm Noah Feldman. For the past week, there have been protests, mass demonstrations, rallies,

0:57.2

and looting all around the country. All of this protest began in an immediate sense with the

1:03.9

death of an African-American man, George Floyd, whose last moments were captured on video.

1:09.0

He was being held down by a white police officer who was arresting him.

1:12.5

The officer's knee was on his neck.

1:15.3

Here to discuss policing, civil rights, and what can be done to improve the dire situation

1:20.4

we're in is Vanita Gupta.

1:22.7

She's the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which is the

1:26.8

country's largest civil rights coalition.

1:29.3

Under the Obama administration, she was the acting Assistant Attorney General

1:33.3

running the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

1:37.3

That means she was the chief civil rights prosecutor in the United States.

1:40.3

Before that, she worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and at the ACLU.

1:45.9

Vanita, thank you so much for joining me. This is an extraordinary and extraordinarily upsetting

1:50.7

time for a lot of people. And I just want to start by asking you, how is it that, you know,

1:56.7

after years of consciousness raising by Black Lives Matter and other organizations,

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