Democracy Now! Audio

Prosecutors charge the Atlanta cop who shot Rayshard Brooks with murder; "Cops" and "Live PD" are cancelled; Tear gas fuels police abuse; Seattle City Council bans police use of tear gas as Trump calls for a crackdown on the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.

Trump plans a massive rally in Tulsa amid a COVID uptick, site of the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre; Moves to privatize Puerto Rico's electric grid as hurricane season begins; Insurgent candidate Jamaal Bowman challenges establishment Rep. Eliot Engel.

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court rules employers cannot fire workers for being gay or transgender; We look at the Black Trans Lives Matter movement; Artist Bree Newsome Bass on the significance of monuments to white supremacy being removed.

Protests erupt after a white police officer in Atlanta killed Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed Black man; police in San Jose shoot an anti-bias trainer in the groin with a rubber bullet; A New York police officer is charged for violently shoving a protester.

As protests against police brutality and racism continue across the globe, we spend the hour with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. She discusses the historic protests, police abolition, the removal of racist statues, the 2020 race and more.

Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis.

As U.S. COVID cases top 2 million we speak with ER doctor Craig Spencer; George Floyd's brother testifies on Capitol Hill; historian Robin D.G. Kelley examines the momentum for change; we speak with a citizen journalist livestreaming the Seattle uprising.

We continue our interview with Seattle-based citizen journalist Omari Salisbury, who has been live-streaming the uprising and police crackdown there.

Excerpts from George Floyd's funeral service; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of "The Condemnation of Blackness," on the history of policing; A fellow activist speaks about Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old peace activist assaulted by Buffalo police.

ICE agents target people at police brutality protests; the community occupies a Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to 200 unhoused people; a subway worker worries about safety as New York City reopens the nation's largest public transportation system.

The Minneapolis City Council announces it will move to dismantle the police department; We look at the growing movement to defund the police with professor Alex Vitale who wrote "The End of Policing," author Mychal Denzel Smith and activist Linda Sarsour.

Thousands gather for memorial services for George Floyd; New evidence emerges in the Ahmaud Arbery case; Black filmmaker Chris Frierson films himself being pepper-sprayed by NYPD at a BLM protest; Author Stuart Schrader on U.S. police militarization.

All four police officers are charged with murder or aiding and abetting murder in George Floyd's death; activist Tamika Mallory on protests and police militarization; Louisville calls for justice in the police killings of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee.

As 60,000 call for justice for George Floyd in Houston, his hometown, we speak to two of his friends and hear him in his own words; Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. was killed by police in 2011, now a judge says his family can sue for excessive use of force.

President Trump threatens to send armed troops into the streets to quell a nationwide protest against police brutality; Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors calls to defund the police; two autopsies affirm George Floyd's death was a homicide.