Host Mary Whiteside, is joined by returning guest, attorney Don Thompson, who provides an update on what is happening with the various Daniel Prude cases, which include prosecutions of the Police Officers, civil lawsuits, and the independent investigation into the official governmental response. Don also updates us on the federal and state prosecutions following the violent police crackdown of the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after the coverup of Daniel Prude’s death was revealed.
Next Don and Mary discuss the violent, deadly insurrection incited by Trump on January 6th. As we know, an overwhelmed, understaffed, under-equipped, and ill-prepared Capitol Police force were thrust into hand-to-hand combat akin to an hours long medieval battle against armed Trump supporters without backup. The police were overtaken and the insurgents swarmed the Capitol, stopping Congress's certification of President Biden’s election and sending the Legislative Branch and support staff running and hiding for their lives. Don and Mary discuss the infiltration of white supremacists in the police and military, the revelation that Blue Lives actually don’t matter, and the social media silence of the Blues Lives Matter/All Lives Matter crowd in the aftermath. They discuss possible ways to combat extremism and how to remove dangerous officers from police forces.
Finally, Mary and Don discuss the Trump Administration’s restarted Federal executions after a 17 year moratorium so they could rush to execute 13 people in the last few months of Trump’s term. Facilitated by the Department of Justice who enacted new and untested execution protocols and blessed by the Right Wing Justices of the Supreme Court. These executions were fast tracked through the Supreme Court’s emergency Shadow Docket. Justice Breyer and Sotomayor blistering dissents in the last case highlight how their colleagues ignored black letter law, as well as refused to let lower courts decide meritorious legal claims so that these executions could be completed before President Biden, who is against the death penalty, was inaugurated.
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Links to research cited in this episode
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-breach-security-failures/2021/01/06/e1e09b80-5061-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html
- https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958915267/nearly-one-in-five-defendants-in-capitol-riot-cases-served-in-the-military
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/the-insurrection-at-the-capitol-has-renewed-democrats-calls-for-police-reform/
- https://www.vox.com/2021/1/16/22233514/capitol-riot-rally-police-white-supremacy
- https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/01/an-fbi-agent-went-undercover-to-study-white-supremacists-hes-now-speaking-out-about-racist-police/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/politics/trump-lawyers.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-927_i42k.pdf
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