Law & Disorder

Oakland PD’s Robotic Shotgun; Plus, October 22 is National Police Brutality Awareness Day

On today’s show, we begin with our weekly State Terror Roundup. Then we transition to a conversation of the Oakland Police Departments brief consideration of acquiring robots that could shoot shotgun rounds. We are joined by the reporter who exposed this news in an article at The Intercept. Sam Biddle is a reporter focusing on … Continued


On today’s show: 0:08 – Steve Phillips (@StevePtweets), host of the podcast Democracy in Color, joins us to discuss the Democratic party’s approach to Black voters in the midterm elections and the Republican party’s messaging around Black candidates. His new book, How We End the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy … Continued