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The Police vs. the People

Jody Armour, plus Amy Wilentz on Ivanka and That Bible.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

June 11, 2020

A protest against police brutality in Glendale, Calif., June 7, 2020.(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation to reform police practices nationwide and hold bad cops responsible—while Los Angeles has spent decades trying to reform its police force. Jody Armour comments—he’s the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, and speaks widely on Black Lives Matter and the movement’s agenda. His book N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law will be published in August.

Also: Trump’s disastrous walk across Lafayette Square for that Bible photo-op outside St. John’s Episcopal Church apparently was Ivanka’s idea—she’s also been tweeting Bible verses. Amy Wilentz, our Chief Ivanka Correspondent, has a report.

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