Should local police be warriors or guardians?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
After killings and other violence recorded on camera, Black Lives Matter supporters are demanding police reform. Also an update on a potential travel ban from the European Union and the latest on the much anticipated June decisions from the Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Once you've made the decision to take a human life, |
| 0:11.0 | you're a transformed creature, you're a predator. |
| 0:15.0 | What does the predator do? |
| 0:18.0 | They kill. |
| 0:20.0 | Only a killer can hunt a killer. |
| 0:25.6 | Are you emotionally, spiritually, psychologically prepared to snuff out a human life in defense of innocent lives? |
| 0:34.6 | If you can't make that decision, you need to find another job that's dave grossman training recruits for one of |
| 0:47.6 | america's 18,000 police departments according to the new yorker he works 200 days a year. On this podcast, we'll hear |
| 0:56.0 | how many cops in this country are taught to be warriors based on the fear that they have to |
| 1:01.3 | kill or be killed with inherent bias against people of color. What will it take to make them the |
| 1:07.9 | guardians of all Americans? First, the U.S., Europe, and the pandemic. |
| 1:13.6 | We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. |
| 1:17.6 | We test better than anybody in the world. |
| 1:20.6 | Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. |
| 1:24.6 | The U.S. is number one in the world in other ways that are nothing for President |
| 1:28.6 | Trump to brag about. We have more cases of COVID-19 and more deaths from the pandemic than any |
| 1:34.9 | other country, and that has international consequences. The European Union is prepared to block |
| 1:40.5 | American travel to 28 countries beginning next week. |
| 1:49.4 | That's according to Matina Estevez Grindef, who reports from Brussels for the New York Times. |
| 1:50.9 | Hi, good to have you with us. |
| 1:52.1 | Great to be with you. |
| 1:54.2 | What will this mean for American business? |
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