The problem with grand juries

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What grand jury recordings can tell us about why there was no indictment in Breonna Taylor's death. How the pandemic is scrambling college students’ voting plans. And, how Boris Johnson was affected by contracting covid-19.

During last night’s vice-presidential debate, Vice President Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) were asked about justice, and the grand jury decision not to charge several officers for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor. From reporter Marisa Iati, the questions left unanswered by newly released recordings of the grand jury.

It’s a weird time to be a college student. And on top of navigating remote learning and housing during a pandemic, students are now being asked to figure out how and where to vote – many for the first time. Political enterprise and accountability reporter Michelle Ye Hee Lee shares advice from campus organizers trying to make the process easier to understand.

London correspondent Karla Adam reports that for Boris Johnson, catching covid-19 was a sobering experience. But so far, that is less so for Trump. “Trump is in the middle of the presidential election. So, whereas Boris Johnson disappeared from public view for about a month. That's clearly not happening with President Trump.”

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0:18.4	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:21.6	This is Cleveland, Tim of the Washington Post.
0:26.8	It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.
0:29.4	This is Postreports.
0:31.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:34.6	It's Thursday, October 8.
0:39.0	Today, new questions about Breonna Taylor's case.
0:42.6	The challenge for college students trying to vote and a tale of two leaders with coronavirus.
0:53.0	Senator Harris, in the case of Breonna Taylor,
0:56.5	was just as done, you have two minutes.
0:59.3	I don't believe so.
1:00.8	And I've talked with Rihanna's mother to make a Palmer in her family.
1:05.8	And her family.
1:07.3	On Wednesday night in the Vice Presidential debate,
1:09.4	Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence were asked about Breonna Taylor
1:13.9	and the fact that no police officers have been charged in her death.
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