John McWhorter & Peter Moskos – The Killing of Tyre Nichols
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
0:00 The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing
7:52 The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing
15:25 What set off the cops?
21:53 Why Peter thinks police units like SCORPION should not be disbanded
27:25 Should we get rid of qualified immunity?
30:21 Policing and white supremacy
40:45 Peter: We on the left have ceded law and order to the Trumpian right
46:00 Tyre Nichols’s funeral
53:59 John: I disagree with Sharpton, Crump, and Dyson, but they’re sincere
Links and Readings
Video of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols
Al Sharpton’s eulogy for Nichols
Benjamin Crump speaks at Nichols’s funeral
Official trailer for Spike Lee’s film, Bamboozled
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| 1:06.4 | And we're joined by Peter Moscow's. |
| 1:08.2 | Peter is Professor of Criminology at John J. College of Criminal Justice, City University |
| 1:14.1 | of New York. |
| 1:15.1 | He's a former police officer serving in Baltimore City and he's a PhD in sociology who |
| 1:23.6 | has a lot of knowledge about policing and law enforcement in urban America and he's |
| 1:30.2 | agreed to join us today. |
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