Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Hands in His Pockets as He Kills George Floyd

April 12, 2021

The message of his calm kneeling and centuries of racist violence is: you could be next, black person. Chauvin knew only 1% of police killing black people are even prosecuted. There have been others caught on film in broad daylight too, as our guest Marjorie Cohn, former president of the National Lawyers Guild explains. No surprise the police  seek to isolate him as one bad apple. And on part two, author and historian Keith Brooks asks “Since slavery unified the rebellion, would the cruelty have ended in America sooner had the British won the war?”  Listen in.