Live at the NCC: Policing, Protests, and the Constitution Part 2

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Last Friday, the National Constitution Center hosted a two-part national Town Hall program on policing, protests, and the Constitution. The wide-ranging discussions covered qualified immunity for police officers, the history of racial inequality, protests and the First Amendment, and more. Part two of the discussion features Monica Bell of Yale Law School, David French of The Dispatch, Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Theodore Shaw of the University of North Carolina School of Law. Part one is a keynote conversation featuring Judge Theodore McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and you can listen to that here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-at-ncc-policing-protests-constitution-part-1/id83213431?i=1000477612011 Jeffrey Rosen moderates. Listen and subscribe to Live at the National Constitution Center here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-at-americas-town-hall/id1037423300 Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:10.1	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:14.3	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan non-profit chartered by Congress to increase
0:20.8	awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:26.0	During these challenging times, increasing awareness and understanding of the Constitution is more urgently important than ever
0:35.3	so that we can learn together in order to form a more perfect union.
0:41.5	It is central to the National Constitution Center's mission to convene discussions
0:46.4	like the one we held last Friday, a national town hall discussion about policing protests and the Constitution.
0:55.0	We'll share that town hall today with you in two parts.
0:59.0	Part two features some of America's most distinguished scholars on policing protests and the Constitution.
1:06.8	Professor Monica Bell of Yale Law School, David French, the writer and constitutional lawyer, Janay Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense
1:17.1	Fund, and Professor Ted Shaw of the University of North Carolina.
1:23.0	The Constitution Center will be convening more of these town hall discussions in the weeks ahead. Thank you for learning with us and for tuning in to We the People and our Companion Podcast, live at the National Constitution
1:35.7	Center, to learn more in the weeks ahead.
1:40.6	It is an honor to welcome all of you to our town hall.
1:44.0	Let's begin with this question of qualified immunity for police officers.
1:49.0	There's so many questions about it.
1:50.0	There are bills pending in Congress to reform it.
1:54.0	What I want to put on the table is how precisely it evolved.
1:59.0	Monica, tell us what the Ku Klux Klan Act after reconstruction said about how citizens could sue for violations
2:08.4	of their constitutional rights and how the Supreme Court more recently developed and expanded this notion of qualified immunity that's controversial today.
2:17.0	Yeah, so I'm actually going to defer to another panelist to talk a little bit more about that doctrinal history.
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