Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva at a press conference at in Los Angeles, in April 2021. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva at a press conference at in Los Angeles, in April 2021. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The sheriff of Los Angeles County: He’s got 10,000 deputies, in America’s biggest county, with 10 million people—and he’s become LA’s biggest political problem as he faces reelection. Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, recently interviewed the LA sheriff, Alex Villanueva, and is on the show to talk about the LAPD’s war on LA’s Black community.
Also: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson won’t be seated on the Supreme Court until late June, but we’re still thinking about the significance of her confirmation as America’s first Black female supreme court justice and of that horrible confirmation hearing she endured. We have UC Irvine Law professor and Nation contributor, Michele Goodwin on the show to reflect.
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