Amanpour: Valerie Amos, David Simon and Phillip Atiba Goff

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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As anti-racist protests continue around the world, Valerie Amos, director of SOAS and soon to be the first black head of an Oxford college, talks to Christiane Amanpour about the UK Prime Minister’s new commission on race inequality and the urgent need to decolonize our curriculum. Since the death of George Floyd, we have been going through a cultural reckoning, questioning what TV shows we watch and the language we use. David Simon, creator of celebrated HBO series “The Wire”, talks about the impact of cop shows have on the imagination. Simon has covered American policing for decades and argues that the real issue lies in the misguided war on drugs and the militarization of the police. Our Michel Martin speaks to Phillip Atiba Goff, the co-founder and CEO of Center for Policing Equity, about fighting implicit biases in police departments. He explains how his team are working in collaboration with law enforcement and in communities to prevent more unnecessary deaths. And finally, we unpack the photo that everyone is talking about: a black man carrying a white man to safety at Saturday’s far-right counter-protest in London and we end on Kennedy Mitchum’s success revising Merriam Webster’s definition of racism. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to I'm on for here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	The global revolt for system. History, our streets, history, our streets.
0:13.4	The Global Revolt for systemic change is education the first step out of history's white
0:18.7	narrative, former British minister and the first ever black head of an Oxford college Valerie Amos joins me.
0:25.0	And how popular culture has put the police on a pedestal.
0:34.3	David Simon joins me, he created the Wire for HBO.
0:38.2	Then, professor and psychologist Philip Goss tells our Michel Martin that police and protesters should Col.
0:43.0	The College is Philip Goss, tells our Michelle Martin, that police and protesters should want the program everyone. I'm Kristipur working from home in London.
1:06.0	For a third straight week the worldwide uprising for justice continues and as if to prove the protesters point yet another
1:15.1	killing in America of an unarmed black man by white police. On Friday night
1:19.8	27 year old Rashad Brooks was shot in the back while fleeing after a breathalyzer test suddenly turned into an arrest and a tussle on the ground.
1:30.0	His death has now officially been declared a homicide.
1:33.6	And listen to what his niece and his lawyer are saying.
1:38.4	It wasn't like he was caught there
1:39.9	because Mr Brooks had been swerving and was a danger to society.
1:44.9	The first call was because a man was sleep.
1:48.6	Where is the empathy and just letting him walk home?
1:52.4	That's what policing is supposed to be,
1:54.0	no matter what color you are.
1:56.0	Me and my uncle are both 27 years of age.
2:00.0	27 years of age.
2:02.0	No one walking this green earth expects to be shot and killed like
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