We talk about the charges facing the Tulsa Police Officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man last Friday, as well as the rhetoric surrounding recent police shootings; SoCal vehicle registration fees may be hiked in an effort to pay for smog reduction programs – how much are you willing to pay to meet mandated emission cuts?; plus KPCC film critics join Larry Mantle to talk about the week’s newest releases, and we pay tribute to the late Curtis Hanson.
Cell phone video of Charlotte shooting released, and the likelihood that Tulsa officer could be convicted of manslaughter in shooting
We're getting a first look at cell phone video released to the New York Times of the police-involved shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was shot by Scott's wife, Rakeyia, who can be heard telling police that her husband does not have a gun and suffers from a traumatic brain injury as officers repeatedly yell for Mr. Scott to drop a weapon.
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Meanwhile, manslaughter charges were filed yesterday against a Tulsa Police Officer.
Last Friday, she shot and killed an unarmed black man who was outside his vehicle on a two-lane road.
The officer's attorney claims she thought the man was reaching into his vehicle, failing to follow the command that he place his hands on the car.
However, the family of Terence Crutcher says the window was up and he couldn't have been reaching inside. Officer Betty Shelby was released after posting bond. Her attorney said he was surprised at how quickly the DA decided to file charges.
We’ll talk about the legal prospect of those charges and look at the latest emotional rhetoric surrounding police shootings.
Guests:
Steve Lurie, 20 year-long LA law enforcement veteran, attorney and adjunct professor of Law at Loyola and Pepperdine law schools
Jody Armour, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law and author of “Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America" (NYU Press)
AQMD clean air plan includes proposal to hike vehicle registration fees to pay for smog-reduction programs
Local smog regulators are considering a major increase in vehicle registration fees.
The money would be used to fund incentives targeting the region's largest polluters. The increase is just one possibility being considered to raise the money the South Coast Air Quality Management District says it needs to meet mandated emissions cuts. According to Wayne Nastri, acting executive officer for the AQMD, raising registration fees for drivers in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties by $30 would raise $300 million a year for smog-cutting programs.
The AQMD released a draft of their full plan back in June, and it could be up for a vote in front of the agency board as soon as December. It’s based on finding $1 billion a year to fund incentive programs to cut emissions and puts an emphasis on incentivizing would-be polluters to cut emissions rather than forcing them through regulations. How much more a year would you be willing to pay, if anything, for each of your cars each year?
Guests:
Philip Fine, a deputy executive officer for the South Coast Air Quality Management District
Adrian Martinez, staff attorney at the environmental law firm, EarthJustice
FilmWeek: ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘Storks,’ ‘Queen of Katwe’ and more
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon review this week’s new movie releases including an updated “Magnificent Seven” starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and Byung-Hung Lee to name just a few; the animated feature “Storks” including voices of Jennifer Aniston and Keegan-Michael Key; a Disney family movie based in Uganda titled “Queen of Katwe” and more. We also remember the late film director Curtis Hanson.
TGI-FilmWeek!
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This Week's Hits
Mixed Reviews
This Week's Misses
- "Storks"
- "Beauty and the Beast" - Foreign [France] Fantasy
Guests:
Wade Major, Film Critic for KPCC and host for IGN’s DigiGods.com
Claudia Puig, Film Critic for KPCC and "The Wrap"
Charles Solomon, Film Critic for KPCC and Animation Scoop and Animation Magazine
Netflix documentary features Amanda Knox's version of murder in Italy
Was she a cold-blooded psychopath who brutally murdered her roommate or a naive student abroad trapped in an endless nightmare?
A Netflix original documentary “Amanda Knox,” explores the notorious case that made headlines around the world. Twice convicted and twice acquitted by Italian courts of the brutal 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox became the subject of global speculation as non-stop media attention fed the public's fascination through every twist and turn of the nearly decade-long case.
Featuring unprecedented access to key people involved and never-before-seen archival material, the film shifts between past to present, exploring the case from the inside out in exclusive interviews with Amanda Knox, her former co-defendant and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and Daily Mail reporter Nick Pisa. The film premieres next Friday, September 30, on Netflix.
Guests:
Rod Blackhurst, Director of “Amanda Knox”
Brian McGinn, Director of “Amanda Knox”