Civil Rights and Wrongs for July 6, 2021

Our guest this Tuesday is Beth Schwartzapfel, award-winning Staff Writer for The Marshall Project, which seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency regarding the US criminal justice system.  Their goal is to render that system more fair, effective, transparent and humane.  In May, Beth co-authored an article in the Austin American-Statesman that covers a particularly egregious case of police misconduct.  We focus on the matter of qualified immunity for law enforcement personnel.  Jim Harrington, retired founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, speaks from his own experience in dealing with police misconduct.  And we also have Michelle Manning-Scott, the associate producer of this program. 

Later in the second half, Austin Sanders discusses his recent article for the Austin Chronicle, the subject of which is Ground Game Texas, a new left-leaning political mobilization organization, founded by Julie Oliver and Mike Siegel.  In addition, we talk about the indictment of Daniel Perry, recently charged with the murder of Garrett Foster during one of the Black Lives Matter marches a year ago.