NYPD Accused of International Human Rights Violations For Violent Crackdown on Protest

News Beat

English - October 09, 2020 16:27 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
Politics News News Commentary civil culture hiphop journalism justice liberty media music news politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: UPDATE: Federal Court Strikes Blow to Voting Rights in Florida

Next Episode: Slavery & Genocide: How Indigenous People Remember Christopher Columbus (in 6 minutes)

Human Rights Watch, an international nongovernmental organization, released a report accusing the NYPD of serious international human rights violations and has called into question some of the justifications made by the top brass of the department after a June crackdown in the South Bronx. Ida Sawyer, co-author of the report and acting crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch, joins us for this special episode.

News Beat is an award-winning Morey Creative Studios podcast.

Producer/Audio Editor: Michael "Manny Faces" Conforti
Editor-In-Chief: Chris Twarowski
Managing Editor: Rashed Mian
Episode Art: Jeff Main
Executive Producer: Jed Morey

Support the show: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=EYkdQRkbZ6vNTGfNSGWZjx7_15orqqDl8vkmrAg3TkxLprft1OguFwxlheC3tAkNd-KVPG&country.x=US&locale.x=US

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.