Today on AirTalk, our weekly political roundtable recaps the major headlines you might’ve missed in politics news over the weekend and looks ahead to the week to come. We also examine the latest updates on the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting; discuss the latest on San Luis Obispo's decision to no longer allow monuments to people; and more.
Updating The Latest As Details Continue To Emerge About The Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting
A shooter cut through a fence and opened fire on a crowd eating and listening to music at a popular food festival in California, killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding about 15 others before police quickly shot him dead, authorities said.
A law enforcement official said the gunman was identified as Santino William Legan and believed he was 19. The official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday. Police searched the Legan family's two-story Gilroy home and a dusty car parked outside before leaving the house Monday with paper bags and what appeared to be other evidence.
The shooter appeared to randomly target people when fired with a rifle Sunday afternoon, the end of the three-day Gilroy Garlic Festival that attracts more than 100,000 people to the city known as the "Garlic Capital of the World," Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said. Some witnesses reported a second suspect, Smithee said, but it was unclear whether that person was armed or just helped in some way. A manhunt continues Monday.
The Gilroy Garlic Festival features food, cooking contests and music. It's a decades-old staple in the agricultural city of 50,000 about 80 miles (176 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco. Festival-goers pass through metal detectors and their bags are searched at the event.
With files from the Associated Press
Guest:
Rachael Myrow, acting Silicon Valley bureau chief for KQED News; she tweets
Week In Politics: SCOTUS Rules That Trump Can Use Pentagon Funds For Border Wall, Guatemala Asylum Deal, New 2020 Polling And More
AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable recaps the major headlines you might’ve missed in politics news over the weekend and looks ahead to the week to come. Here are the headlines what we’re following this week:
Border news:
The new director of national intelligence has been chosen, and it’s Texas Representative John Ratcliffe
2020 check-in:
According to a new South Carolina Democratic primary poll, Biden is still well ahead of the pack, with Harris, Sanders and Warren tightly grouped behind him
Democratic presidential candidates are prepping for the second debates, coming up July 30 and July 31. What is the line-up like this time?And what does each candidate need to do after their performance in the last debates? And what has been the public’s response (or lack of response) to the debates?
Sen. Harris pledged to invest in HBUs, if she becomes president
Healthcare in 2020
In a tweet, President Trump said he’s considering declaring ANTIFA a terrorist organization. Can he do that? What’s the criteria for identifying a terrorist organization?
Guests:
Pete Peterson, dean of the School of Public Policy and senior fellow at The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University; he tweets
Jennifer Merolla, professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside
San Luis Obispo No Longer Wants To Dedicate Monuments To Real People
The role of art in public spaces has been questioned time and time again over the course of art history and from city to city.
Last Tuesday, San Luis Obispo’s city council heard the results of a study of cities with monuments in public spaces, which led to Mayor Heidi Harmon opposing the plan to erect a privately funded statue of Theodore Roosevelt in a city park.
Harmon expressed that humans are complex and while their achievements may be worth celebrating, they are also capable of making harmful decisions.
The conversation resulted in the city council updating San Luis Obispo’s public art policy to say that there would no longer be monuments to people, but that statues of concepts would still be allowed.
The update to the city’s public art policy comes about two years after protests around the country demanded that confederate statues be taken down because the figures represented in the monuments are problematic.
A range of responses from San Luis Obispo residents have ensued in response to the decision.
Guests:
Tyler Pratt, reporter with KCBX Central Coast Public Radio, an NPR affiliate serving San Luis Obispo and other communities; he’s reported on the city’s push to update its public art policy
Bill Deverell, professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California
What Did You Learn From The Things Your Parents Left Behind?
Often when parents pass away, grief isn’t the only thing the kids are left with. Usually a house or an apartment full of their belongings comes with the feeling of loss. Going through the stuff and deciding what to keep, what to toss and what to donate can be a daunting task, but it can also be a time where you learn a lot about them and maybe even yourself.
But it’s not necessarily an easy task. You can’t keep it all, but you probably want to keep their memory alive somehow.
What interesting, confusing or shocking thing did you find when you cleaned out your parent’s house? Did you learn something about them you didn’t know before? Join the conversation at 866-893-5722.
Guest:
Alene Dawson, a lifestyle and culture writer who contributes to the LA Times; she’s written about how we can learn from the death of parents; she tweets