Thursday, August 13, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 14:56): ────────────────── Clueless in Seattle: Which Is Basic in Society, Order or Disorder? WALL STREET JOURNAL (DEANNA PAUL AND DAN FROSCH) Seattle Police Chief Resigns After Budget Cuts NEW YORK TIMES (MIKE BAKER) ‘Can’t Do It’: Chief Resigns Amid Seattle’s Divide Over Policing NEW YORK TIMES (NELLIE BOWLES) Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure NEW YORK TIMES (JOHN ELIGON) Distrust of the Minneapolis Police, and Also the Effort to Defund Them PART 2 (14:57 - 22:10): ────────────────── Portland and Chicago: Two Portraits of America — What Do They Mean? WASHINGTON POST (E.D. MONDAINE) Portland’s protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they’re white spectacle. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (REUTERS) In Portland, Some Black Activists Frustrated With White Protesters WASHINGTON POST (CHRISTOPHER SEBASTIAN PARKER) How reckless White allies could lead to the reelection of Trump LOS ANGELES TIMES (PATRICK J. MCDONNELL AND MELISSA ETEHAD) Portland, America’s ‘whitest’ big city, is an unlikely hub of Black Lives Matter NEW YORK TIMES (JULIE BOSMAN, CHRISTINE HAUSER, AND JOHNNY DIAZ) Chicago Police Arrest More Than 100 People After Looting Batters Downtown WALL STREET JOURNAL (JON HILSENRATH) Homicide Spike Hits Most Large U.S. Cities PART 3 (22:11 - 28:30): ────────────────── From California: The Abortion Industrial Complex and the State’s Attorney General Are Determined to Deny the Personhood of the Unborn NEW YORK TIMES (JACEY FORTIN) California’s Attorney General Condemns Murder Charges Over a Stillbirth