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Moment of Clarity

Redacted Tonight #533-How To Beat ICE, Judge Shoots Down the Mueller Report, Alternative To Policing, Dangers of Political Comedy & more!

Moment of Clarity

Lee Camp

News Commentary, Comedy, News

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Know your rights against ICE, Alex Vitale talks about some alternatives to policing, Krish Mohan addresses why political comedy can lead to some life threatening situations and so much more! PLUS Viewer Questions!

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0:00.0

Wake up and smell the coffee generation

0:04.0

Celebrating corporation round and round we thought stirring up another cup of too many wrongs to mention

0:13.0

When greed is heard and used to world war freak and you label truth the conspiracy round around go, so you better take them up for a moment of clarity.

0:26.6

Welcome to Reject to the Night VIP. I'm Lee Camp.

0:30.6

We found out this week that the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner will not, will not face federal charges.

0:40.1

So I'll speak with the author of the book, The End of Policing, criminologist Alex Vitale.

0:45.7

We also will get into whether a world without police could actually work, or is it just

0:52.3

a crazy pipe dream thrown around by potheads?

0:56.2

Or is there something to it?

0:58.2

In the second half, I'll talk with a stand-up comedian

1:00.8

who tackles all of the issues most comics steer away from.

1:04.7

Chris Mohan joins me in just a few minutes.

1:07.0

But first, here's my conversation with Alex Vitaly. Alex, thank you so much for being here. It's good to have you back on. So let's start

1:16.5

with recent news. The NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleo, it turns out they're

1:24.3

not going to bring federal charges against him. They've decided to drop that.

1:28.5

And, of course, people will recall that after Garner's death by choking,

1:32.9

I Can't Breathe became like a rallying cry of against police brutality and for Black Lives Matter.

1:40.5

And anyway, I just want to get your thoughts on the fact these charges have all been dropped now.

1:45.0

Shocked.

1:46.0

Shocked.

1:47.0

Yeah, surprised.

1:48.0

You know, I mean, it's not shocking under the Trump administration, and there's some

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