0:08 – The NYPD’s budget is nearly $6 billion. How do activists go about defunding it? We talk with Alex Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and the author of The End of Policing. Vitale has been outspoken this month in calling to defund NYPD.
0:34 – On Wednesday, three Oakland councilmembers sent a letter to Mayor Libby Schaaf demanding that she order Oakland Police to cease their use of tear gas against protesters. Meanwhile, medical professionals are sounding the alarm about dangerous respiratory irritants increasing illness and the risk of Covid-19 transmission. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is an infectious disease specialist at UCSF. He helped to coordinate a petition asking law enforcement to stop using tear gas on protesters because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
0:38 – We take your calls about protester safety during the time of coronavirus and police repression.
1:08 – Will SF stop police with histories of abuse from getting jobs in the city? San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and SF Supervisor Shamann Walton are pushing a resolution that would prevent the hiring of “problem cops” – officers with misconduct on their records. Boudin is also leading a push to bar police unions from pouring cash into prosecutor elections.
1:22 – Vallejo Police shot and killed 22-year-old San Francisco resident Sean Monterrosa on Monday night while he was kneeling. Brian Krans (@citizenkrans), independent journalist and contributor to Open Vallejo, gives an update on what we know about the killing.
1:34 – Who’s benefiting from relief from the Treasury during the coronavirus crisis? David Dayen (@ddayen) of The American Prospect talks about why the stock market is recovering, but workers aren’t.
1:52 – An estimated 8,000 people took to the streets of Oakland last night in a protest called “Fuck Your Curfew,” in defiance of the county-wide 8PM curfew in Alameda County, and in protest of police repression Monday against young people protesting police brutality. Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) and Ariel Boone (@arielboone) report from Oakland.
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