Capital Report

June 5, 2020


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High-profile killings of black people at the hands of police are raising many questions. Among them: should officers be able to claim victim privacy rights while acting on duty? As demonstrations against police violence continue, some of those who also marched with Dr. Martin Luther King say change can come if protestors will simply vote. Florida is facing a triple threat: a global pandemic, civil unrest and now, on top of everything else, it’s hurricane season! And it seems people of color are most likely to be harmed by this confluence of woe. Young climate activists get a setback in their lawsuit against the state. A national higher-education advocacy group wants to see Florida’s college students take actual courses on democracy and government in order to meet a state legal requirement for all college students to be functionally literate in civics. The number of people who were actually eyewitnesses to the D-Day invasion 76 years ago is dwindling fast. But we’ll talk with one on the eve of that momentous event’s anniversary.
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