Our System Is Corroded: Carol Anderson on Rampant Police Violence and Assault on Voting Rights
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On Thursday, disturbing new details were revealed in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Black man who was chased, ambushed and shot dead by a group of white men in Georgia in what many have called a modern-day lynching. In a nearly seven-hour hearing, a state judge concluded all three men - Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Roddie" Bryan - would stand trial for Arbery's murder, after special agent Richard Dial of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation testified Travis McMichael said f-ing n-" after shooting and killing Arbery. We speak with professor Carol Anderson, author of White Rage," about Arbery's slaying, the nationwide protests, anti-lynching legislation being debated in the Senate and the upcoming election.