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Kamala: Next in Line

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Kamala: Next in Line

Wondery | MSNBC

Vice President, Politics, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Senator, Society & Culture, History, President, Election, Joe Biden, News

4.23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Just months after being sworn in as San Francisco District Attorney a police officer is shot and killed and Kamala Harris faces her toughest test. She must decide whether to stick with her values or cave to public pressure. Her decision gains her enemies - and will haunt/plague/torment her as she rises in California politics.


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0:00.0

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0:07.0

It was a Saturday in 2004, the day before Easter.

0:20.0

Kamala Harris had been the district's attorney of San Francisco for less than five months.

0:25.0

Her first few months on the job had been received positively,

0:28.0

as she took the reins of the office that Tarant's Halanand,

0:31.0

the man she had defeated, had run for eight years.

0:35.0

Gary Delanis had been president of the police union for even less time,

0:39.0

when he got a call that would change everything.

0:42.0

I don't think he told me that Isaac was dead,

0:46.0

but he told me that Isaac had been very seriously injured, shot,

0:52.0

and was admission emergency hospital.

0:55.0

Isaac Espinoza was an officer in the San Francisco Police Department,

0:59.0

who had been on duty with his partner in the Bayview neighborhood that night.

1:04.0

Gary headed over to the hospital.

1:06.0

When I arrived out there, the press was already all over the place,

1:11.0

and I saw Kevin Martin, the guy that called me,

1:15.0

he was the secretary of the union, and I saw he was crying.

1:20.0

So I knew at that point that Isaac was dead.

1:24.0

He was such a popular cop.

1:28.0

I mean, just a wonderful kid with really a nice young wife,

1:33.0

and they had just had a little baby.

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