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51. The Current Events Episode: We Know That We Don't Like the Police State, Now On to Building a Positive Vision of the Future
In case you were concerned that this podcast has too much structure, we tried experimenting with even less structure in this episode, and just went where the wind blew us. If you are curious where it blew us, we started off at Mount Rushmore, where we talked about the Native American leaders who are calling for the removal of Mount Rushmore, and then moved on to Minneapolis, where we followed up on some of our conversation from the Defunding Police Episode and talked about the pivot among many activists away from calling for Breonna Taylor's killers to be locked up (as this reinforces the current prison system that many of these activists are trying to abolish), and eventually wind up back in DC, where we consider the branding of police cars and whether they could benefit from a friendlier look and feel instead of being steeped in militarism.
Links:
Dakota tribal leaders calling for removal of Mount Rushmore: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505474-second-tribal-leader-calls-for-removal-of-mount-rushmore-before-trump
The Police and Black Men Project, co-founded by Bill Doherty at the University of Minnesota: https://innovation.umn.edu/policeandblackmenmn/
Jocko Willink, former Navy SEAL talking about the way police are trained: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6166633935001#sp=show-clips
When Isabel was talking about the podcast episode with Malcolm Gladwell where he was talking about the Sandra Bland case as a prime example of when cops misunderstand the words and actions of the people they are policing, she mistakenly said it was on the Tim Ferris Show, when actually it was on the Joe Rogan Experience: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/malcolm-gladwell
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In case you were concerned that this podcast has too much structure, we tried experimenting with even less structure in this episode, and just went where the wind blew us. If you are curious where it blew us, we started off at Mount Rushmore, where we talked about the Native American leaders who are calling for the removal of Mount Rushmore, and then moved on to Minneapolis, where we followed up on some of our conversation from the Defunding Police Episode and talked about the pivot among many activists away from calling for Breonna Taylor's killers to be locked up (as this reinforces the current prison system that many of these activists are trying to abolish), and eventually wind up back in DC, where we consider the branding of police cars and whether they could benefit from a friendlier look and feel instead of being steeped in militarism.
Links:
Dakota tribal leaders calling for removal of Mount Rushmore: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505474-second-tribal-leader-calls-for-removal-of-mount-rushmore-before-trump
The Police and Black Men Project, co-founded by Bill Doherty at the University of Minnesota: https://innovation.umn.edu/policeandblackmenmn/
Jocko Willink, former Navy SEAL talking about the way police are trained: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6166633935001#sp=show-clips
When Isabel was talking about the podcast episode with Malcolm Gladwell where he was talking about the Sandra Bland case as a prime example of when cops misunderstand the words and actions of the people they are policing, she mistakenly said it was on the Tim Ferris Show, when actually it was on the Joe Rogan Experience: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/malcolm-gladwell