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How Black Lives Matter won at the Polls: Jody Armour


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Black Lives Matter had massive victories in the elections in America’s biggest county—L.A., with 10 million people.  They elected a progressive D.A. and passed an initiative to re-imagine public safety by moving 10 per cent of the county’s $5 billion unrestricted budget to alternatives to incarceration, to community services, and barring the county from using the money on prisons, jails or law enforcement agencies.  Jody Armour explains – his new book is “N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law."


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