Policing ourselves out of Democracy / Austin McCoy

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Chuck returns to the studio, we have this week's Hangover Cure where Sebastian mispronounces Icelandic names, an all new Question from Hell! for the week, and a brand new installment of The Past inside the Present, talking about the connection between billionaire worship, the Puritans and the history of the prosperity gospel movement. Chuck welcomes historian, writer, and activist Austin McCoy to talk about his Baffler Magazine article "After Floyd - If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy."

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0:00.0	I began to believe in the the evil life in my head.
0:14.0	The Lord is with the
0:15.0	I was
0:16.0	our power and what our power and what
0:18.0	signature Oh no? no.
0:24.0	No.
0:25.0	No. Oh,
0:27.0	Oh,
0:28.0	... ... ... ...
0:30.0	What the
0:28.0	Oh,
0:31.0	Yeah.
0:32.0	Oh, Oh, This is hell. Boqui-Doke.
0:45.0	This is not the media.
0:49.0	This is hell, and if this was the media or is it were the media.
0:56.0	We would likely not be having the conversation we are about to have on policing as the more corporate and public establishment media far too often
1:04.0	changes from being reporters and journalists to stenographers when reporting on
1:08.8	the police. They take whatever claims being made by police public relations departments as facts rarely
1:14.5	questioning them unless there is public outcry over perceived injustices done by law enforcement.
1:21.7	Sure, some of that change following the deaths of Trayvon Martin in Florida in
1:27.1	2012 and the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York City and the subsequent protests.
1:36.1	Those increasing protests came to a head following the 2020 police murder of George Floyd
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