PREVIEW - Killer Cops and Killer Investments

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Jamie stick around to talk about Louisville finally forced to admit civil culpability in Breonna Taylor's murder and humongous private equity firm Blackrock making a bet on the bottom of the rental market with its recent mobile-home park investment.

Outro: Spits - Police

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0:00.0	All right, so what to do with Killer Cops?
0:03.7	And this has been greatly, greatly informed
0:06.5	by a lot of my abolitionist comrades in Emerge
0:09.6	who have been doing this kind of work
0:11.2	for a very long time.
0:13.0	Shout out to you guys, you are the best.
0:16.4	OK, what do we do with Killer Cops?
0:18.2	This is the eternal question, also possibly the wrong question, right?
0:24.3	Because, okay, I can see it from many angles.
0:27.6	On the one hand, the organized left
0:30.6	would be stupid to ignore something that is a popular demand that is coming
0:35.4	from a lot of newly politicized people working-class people black and brown
0:40.0	people saying like hey if I kill someone I have to go to jail this the same
0:46.6	should be true of these fucking cops and they never do and we want justice
0:50.3	and that is what justice looks like to us.
0:52.8	And not just activists saying that,
0:54.4	but like millions of people on the streets
0:56.2	demanding that.
0:57.1	Yeah.
0:57.8	So what do you do with that?
0:59.6	Because as abolitionists, we really don't think that it is going to solve the underlying
1:05.9	problems. We don't think that sending... well first of all they're probably not going to go to jail
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