New York police union head Mike O’Meara wants police to stop being treated like animals and thugs.
Former cop, Paul Manning, shared a story detailing how he was treated when he attempted to call-out officer misconduct.
Are prisoners being used as slave labor? Do police act as guards to private property? Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann exposing Capitalism’s dirty little secret….
Graham talks with artists in Santa Monica who painted the boarded up stores after the protests from 5/31/20.
Jimmy Dore on Bernie Sanders, his disappointment with the CARES Act, and more . . .
Red Lines Host Anya Parampil speaks with Alec Karakatsanis, the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and author of “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System,” about police efforts to win positive coverage amidst a nationwide uprising against their increased militarization and abuse of power. Alec reveals the shocking record of Chris Swanson, the Sheriff in Flint, Michigan, who won positive coverage for “joining” demonstrations in the city while personally profiting off the imprisonment of poor people of color in his jails. They also analyze the record of Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who has emerged has a leading voice in mainstream media coverage of the protests.
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