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After George Floyd, We Dive Into CA Police Oversight Bills - Pt 1 With LA BLM Co-Founder

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 13: A mural painted by artist Kenny Altidor depicting George Floyd is unveiled on a sidewall of CTown Supermarket on July 13, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough New York City. George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis and his death has sparked a national reckoning about race and policing in the United States.  (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
A mural painted by artist Kenny Altidor depicting George Floyd is unveiled on a sidewall of CTown Supermarket on July 13, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough New York City.
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After George Floyd, We Dive Into CA Police Oversight Bills - Pt 1 With LA BLM Co-Founder

After the killing of George Floyd by police officers, California saw weeks and weeks of protests and calls for more stringent police oversight. 

Some of those calls to actions became bills in the California state legislature. Now that legislative season has ended, which of those bills has made it to the governor’s desk and in what form? 

Plus, we sit down with the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter to hear her thoughts on whether the measures still alive are what the movement wanted, whether they go far enough and where she’d like to see policy go from here.

Guests:

Anita Chabria, Sacramento-based reporter for the L.A. Times, where she covers California state politics and policy; she tweets

Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and professor of Pan-African studies at Cal State LA; she tweets