Police Unions VS the Public, Mass Incarceration VS Restorative Justice
A radio interview by Chuck Mertz on This is Hell Radio.
Flint Taylor, co-founder of the Peoples Law Office in Chicago, who has represented the victims of police and political violence for 45 years explains the role of police unions, public defenders, the problems of supposedly progressive candidates who claim more cops will solve problems, and what restorative justice might look like.
Among much else, Flint Taylor is the author of "Blood On Their Hands: The Racist History of Modern Police Unions," and helped author model legislation now before Chicago's City Council that would guarantee reparations to the victims of police torture.
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.”
Capital is winning every round of the class war. Nissan scared Mississippi auto workers out of joining a union, and Foxconn extorted $3 billion to locate a plant in Wisconsin. Republicans cheered.
It's Congo Genocide Week, the anniversary of the 1998 invasion of the Congo by the US puppet armies of Rwanda and Uganda. Since then 5.4 million Congolese have perished.
The Democrats’ two leading congressional dissidents have finally surrendered, now that the party has “taken the lead in the project of endless war.” U.S.
