Defund the Police 2021 + Trump's Twitter
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu
WarnerMedia Podcast Network
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Hari and Kamau can't help noticing that Blue Lives Matter, except when they try to defend the Capitol. Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project and Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff of the Center for Policing Equity unpack what it means to "defund the police" — and why it's so damn hard. Plus, the ACLU's Kate Ruane is concerned about Twitter's Trump ban, even though she thinks he deserves much worse.
Find our guests:
Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) https://www.policingequity.org
Cat Brooks (@catscommentary) https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org
Kate Ruane https://www.aclu.org
Find us:
Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/
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Facebook (@politicallyreactive)
Instagram (@politicallyreactive)
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| 0:00.0 | Is it Dr. Gough, Dr. Tbagoff, Philip, Phil, Uncle Phil? |
| 0:05.0 | I mean, really? |
| 0:06.0 | Um... |
| 0:07.0 | Really? |
| 0:09.0 | Because we're just starting right now, and now everybody is recording all of this Tom Fulishness, and you're handing in. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm just saying, there's no need for that. |
| 0:17.0 | Go ahead and go all the way to Dr. Phil. Go ahead and do that for me while I was here. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, that was next! |
| 0:22.0 | From Topic Studios and WarnerMedia Podcast Network, this is Publicly Reactive. I'm W. Kamal Bell. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm Harry Kandabolu, and I am the owner of an active Twitter account. |
| 0:34.0 | How about you, Kamal? |
| 0:35.0 | Let me check. Yes, my Twitter account is also currently active, not suspended in any way. |
| 0:42.0 | What are we dignitaries? Who has active Twitter accounts? |
| 0:46.0 | Once again, we're two friends and fan up comics trying to make sense of American politics, |
| 0:51.0 | and we get harder at each second to survive. |
| 0:53.0 | And we're lucky enough to talk to the people who are defending it and transforming it from the ground up. |
| 0:58.0 | In 2020, which I think was like 13, 14 years ago, |
| 1:01.0 | millions of people went into the streets to demand justice after the police murders of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor. |
| 1:08.0 | The idea of defunding the police, or even abolishing it. |
| 1:12.0 | That's my impression of a white woman. |
| 1:14.0 | Came into the mainstream, and on this episode, we're bringing that conversation into 2021. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, listen to this sound, anything like that. |
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