On today’s show, we spend the hour looking back at the five years of abolitionist and community organizing since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th, 2020.

First, we speak with Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County Attorney. Hennepin County’s most known city is Minneapolis.

Then, we’re joined by Melina Abdullah, a professor and the chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Alongside Melina Abdullah, we speak with Chauntyll Allen, a longtime front-line community organizer and educator who leads Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, founded Love First Community Engagement, and works as the Director of Criminal Justice and Activism at the Wayfinder Foundation — among many other community leadership roles. 

Then, we’re joined by ​Alex Vitale, a Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults community-based movements, human and civil rights organizations, and governments internationally. He is also the author of The End of Policing.

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