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Calls for Action Grow Amid San Jose Police Racism Scandal

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Over the weekend, the San Jose Police Department placed four of its police officers on administrative leave for posting racist and anti-Muslim comments in a private Facebook group. This latest scandal comes days after San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo issued a nine-point plan aimed at reforming, but not defunding, the city’s police department. Given these recent developments, critics of the police are saying that Liccardo’s plan does not go far enough to address systemic racism. We’ll talk about this latest incident, the efforts to reform the department and what the next steps are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. Over the weekend, the San Jose Police Department placed four of its police officers on administrative leave

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for posting racist and anti-Muslim comments in a private Facebook group.

1:22.6

This latest scandal comes days after San Jose Mayor Sam Laccardo issued a nine-point plan aimed at reforming

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but not defunding the city's police department. Given these recent developments, critics of the police

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are saying that La Cardo's plan does not go far enough to address systemic racism, and we're going

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to talk about this latest incident, the efforts to reform the department and what the next steps are.

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Joining us is Aditi Bunda Lamoudi, who's the KQD Silicon Valley Reporter and welcome to the program.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Thanks for having me.

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