Steven Taylor, who was killed by police in a San Leandro Walmart in April.
On this show:
0:08 – Joe Biden brought in a record-breaking fundraising haul of $364.5 million dollars in August. Kevin Robillard (@Robillard), senior political reporter for HuffPost, joins us to talk about election fundraising this cycle and what the numbers mean.
0:34 – A young man was stabbed to death while sleeping on a couch in West Oakland on July 17, 2020, and his family still does not have answers. We talk with the mother of Jeffrey Chambers Jr., Dorothy Grant, who is mourning the loss of her son.
0:45 – Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley, who hasn’t charged a law enforcement officer with the killing of a civilian since Oscar Grant’s killing, has just brought charges of voluntary manslaughter against a San Leandro Police officer accused of killing Steven Taylor in a Walmart in April. Addie Kitchen is Steven’s grandmother, and joins us to talk about how she felt when the charges were announced yesterday.
1:08 – LA County Sheriffs Deputies gunned down Dijon Kizzee in South LA, after stopping him for a vehicle violation while he was riding his bicycle. Organizers are calling for answers, and for justice from a Sheriff’s department known for harassing families and elected officials, and for unaccountable killings. Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) is chair of Pan-African Studies at Cal State-LA. She is also the co-founder of the LA chapter of Black Lives Matter.
1:20 – Alanah Odoms Hebert is executive director of the Louisiana ACLU, which is calling for justice for Trayford Pellerin, shot dead by Lafayette, LA police on August 21, 2020. Pellerin’s case has received little media coverage, in a deadly summer of racist police shootings. We also talk about the need for mental health crisis response that does not involve police.
1:34 – Around this time in normal years, Burning Man would be taking place in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Nearly 80,000 people attended the annual arts event in 2019, which started in the mid-1980s, and which has been inscribed in Burning Man lore. But there’s a deeper history that many Burners may not know – one about the original inhabitants of the land, who are still here. Our reporter Lucy Kang went to the Black Rock Desert and spoke with Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe members about their relationship with the land, and with Burning Man. You can find the full story here.