America must have a conversation on the history, purpose and practice of policing

There's much celebration in America that a murderous, psychopathic cop will spend the rest of his life in jail for killing George Floyd.

While this moment – this rare moment where a white cop who kills an unarmed Black man actually is held to account — does appropriately get nationwide recognition, it also should provoke nationwide introspection.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) @MarkPocan @repmarkpocan

Article: "Derek Chauvin Trial: Chauvin Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd".

Law: "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act" by Karen Bass (D–CA).

Article: "Qualified immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Troop vetting for Biden's inauguration tackles racism in the ranks" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].

Bill: " H.R.7136 - Police Training and Accountability Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "CEO pay doubled, the minimum wage stayed the same. But Americans still can't agree on a raise." by Ledyard King, Charisse Jones, Paul Davidson and Michael Collins.

Video: Some Truck Owners Intentionally Blast Black Smoke (coal rollers).

Article: "Officer Kim Potter resigns: 26-year veteran and former union president fatally shot Daunte Wright, police said" by Andrea Salcedo and Kim Bellware.

Speech: "Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Article: "Qualified immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes" by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Article: "2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mandela Barnes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sarah Godlewski" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Nelson (Wisconsin politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alex Lasry".

Article: "Paycheck Protection Program" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019" by Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3].

Article: "Biden signs $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law" by Grace Segers.

Article: "2020 dismissal of inspectors general" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Compton mayor calls for investigation into sheriff gang of "Executioners"" by Victoria Moorwood.

Article: "Democrats block Republican bid to censure Maxine Waters over Chauvin remarks" by Alexandra Villarreal and Joan E Greve.

Article: "Police Investigating Whether Lawmakers Gave Rioters Tour of Capitol Before Siege".

Article: "House passes $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, but McConnell calls it 'pointless political theater'" by Michael Laris.

Hour Two: Why the DOJ is Crucial to Police Misconduct, Federal Police Reforms, Civil Rights Violations and, Hate Crimes
- Ben Jealous, President - People For the American Way (PFAW) @BenJealous @PeopleFor

Article: "Keith Ellison" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Plan to revamp police force proceeds in Ithaca, New York" by AP.

Article: "The Andy Griffith Show" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Phillip Atiba Goff" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Philando Castile" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steve Scalise reportedly said he was 'like David Duke without the baggage'" by The Week.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mueller report" by Wikipedia.

Video: Video shows Minneapolis officer kneeling on black man's neck.

Article: "Inside the Pro-Trump Conference Where COVID Denial and Calls to Kill Political Enemies Reign".

Article: "Pro-Trump convention featured 'open bloodlust' as attendees cheered calls to execute political foes" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Sanders, Jayapal introduce bill to make college tuition-free for many Americans" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "Securities turnover excise tax" (STET tax) by Wikipedia.

Quote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "The history of the GI Bill" by Ryan Katz.

Article: "Jefferson's Gravestone".

Article: "Student Loan Debt Statistics In 2021: A Record $1.7 Trillion" by Zack Friedman.

Article: "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reaganomics" (voodoo economics) by Wikipedia.

Chauvin Trial Wrap Up
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator @iamdebbiehines

Article: "Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder of George Floyd" by Chris McGreal, Lois Beckett, Oliver Laughland and Amudalat Ajasa.

Article: "These 4 charts describe police violence in America" by Tucker Higgins, John W. Schoen.

Article: "Convicting Police of Murder Remains Rare in US" by Masood Farivar.

Article: "America's Massive Misdemeanor System Deepens Inequality" by EJI.

Article: "Death of Freddie Gray" by Wikipedia.

Article: "When Will America End "Slave Patrol" Policing?" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "13th Amendment".

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Robert Peel's 9 Principles of Policing, aka "General Instructions": London, 1829".

Article: "How Many Americans Do the Cops Kill Each Year?" by Daniel Bier.

Article: "Number of nonfederal police officers arrested for murder who have been convicted between 2005 and 2020, by charge" by Statista.

Article: "1033 program" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stanford prison experiment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Does the United States really have 5 percent of the world's population and one quarter of the world's prisoners?" by Michelle Ye Hee Lee.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Article: "Anders Breivik" by Wikipedia.

Video: Trump Encourages Cops To Rough Up Suspects-They Applaud.

Book: Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.

Geeky Science: "Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders At All" by Alison Escalante.

Book: "Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception" by Thom Hartmann

Book: "ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World 3rd Edition" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "US Protest Law Tracker" by ICNL.

Article: "Cagney & Lacey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frank Serpico" by Wikipedia.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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Plus, Professor Lord Martin Rees, the United Kingdom's Astronomer Royal and a founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University & the 60th President of The Royal Society / Author of 10+ books...most recently, 'On The Future: Prospects For Humanity'

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