Police Misconduct/OSHA Turns 50!
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
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🗓️ 26 December 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes firebrand attorney, Jason Kafoury, who helped pass a referendum in Portland, Oregon to create a commission of civilian volunteers who would have the power to investigate deadly force and other allegations of misconduct by police. Plus, former head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, Dr. David Michaels, joins us to mark the 50th anniversary of the agency that has saved countless lives and prevented innumerable injuries to workers on the job.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my |
| 0:17.0 | co-host David Feldman. Hello David. Hello we have a great show today. |
| 0:20.8 | We certainly do and to join us in that show as usual. |
| 0:24.1 | Actually wouldn't be a show without him is the man of the hour Ralph Nader. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, Ralph. Hello, welcome listeners. David is right. On the program today |
| 0:30.9 | we're going to cover two very important issues police |
| 0:33.4 | reform and worker safety this past summer as we all know cities across the |
| 0:38.0 | country erupted in protest over police brutality Portland Oregon became such a hotbed of protest |
| 0:44.1 | that for weeks, demonstrators occupied a city block |
| 0:47.4 | prompting Donald Trump in a constitutionally questionable move |
| 0:51.4 | to deploy federal forces and |
| 0:53.0 | camo gear and unmarked vans to break it all up. |
| 0:55.9 | Controversy of rallying cries of volish the police and |
| 0:58.6 | defund the police entered our political debate. |
| 1:00.9 | Our first guest is attorney Jason Kefefory. Now, Mr Kefory and Ralph go back a long way. |
| 1:05.9 | Jason worked on Ralph's presidential campaigns in 2000, 2004, and 2008. He is now an attorney at Kefory McDougal in Portland, Oregon and has joined forces with |
| 1:16.8 | longtime police reform advocates to come up with a plan to create a commission made up a civilian volunteers who would have the power to |
| 1:24.4 | investigate deadly force by police and allegations of police misconduct. |
| 1:29.6 | And we look forward to him joining us to tell us how that campaign happened, what's the status of it, and |
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