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Race relations and policing: How to handle the relationship with police?
UCLA race historian Brenda Stevenson and Alicia Garza from Black Lives Matter and Black Futures discuss how Americans should think about protests against police violence across the United States.
By Aaron Byrd • • 18m ListenPolice have aggressively responded to protesters, firing tear gas and rubber bullets. In other cases, some law enforcement officers have joined activists by taking a knee or marching with them. But for some, there remains a lack of trust between communities of color and police.
UCLA race historian Brenda Stevenson discusses the topic with the KCRW and KQED hosts, plus Alicia Garza, co-creator of Black Lives Matter and Principal of Black Futures Lab.
