John McWhorter & Peter Moskos – The Killing of Tyre Nichols

0:00 The “utter horror show” and incompetent policing of the Tyre Nichols killing

7:52 The relatively peaceful reaction to the killing

15:25 What set off the cops?

21:53 Why Peter thinks police units like SCORPION should not be disbanded

27:25 Should we get rid of qualified immunity?

30:21 Policing and white supremacy

40:45 Peter: We on the left have ceded law and order to the Trumpian right

46:00 Tyre Nichols’s funeral

53:59 John: I disagree with Sharpton, Crump, and Dyson, but they’re sincere

Links and Readings

Video of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols

Al Sharpton’s eulogy for Nichols

Benjamin Crump speaks at Nichols’s funeral

Official trailer for Spike Lee’s film, Bamboozled

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