In The Streets with Beverley Smith: R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Episode 65) - a podcast by the LMC Radio Network

14 year old Dedric Colvin, a black eighth-grader, recuperates after being shot by cops in Baltimore while he was carrying a toy gun. The community wants to know why a 14 year old Caucasian boy was not shot under the same circumstances in 2014.


The Dept of Justice sues North Carolina over anti-gay bill HB2 after NC initiated a lawsuit to prevent the DOJ from forcing them to change their discriminatory laws. Democrats in North Carolina try to mitigate the damage by passing an anti-discrimination law with broad protections for their residents.


The Frisco Five were hospitalized after their doctors advised them against continuing their hunger strike. They want the mayor to fire the San Francisco police chief over the repeated incidents of police brutality against unarmed people of color. The SFPD is under fire, again, for racist texts and emails circulating among their officers  In Los Angeles, a high-ranked Burbank PD officer was fired on May 1 for his role in writing and circulating racist and homophobic text messages.


Trans woman Reecey Walker was murdered on May 1, in Wichita Kansas, making her the 10 trans person this year to perish due to hate crime.


Tues, May 10, 6pm Pacific


 

Further episodes of The LMC Radio Network

Further podcasts by the LMC Radio Network

Website of the LMC Radio Network