Summary: ACAB Radio is a police accountability podcast that is broadcast LIVE every Tuesday on Facebook out of Las Vegas by 2 local activists from Food Not Bombs Las Vegas and Nevada Cop Block. We're your hosts: Kelly "Special K" Patterson and Jay Lyfer. We focus primarily on local, national, and global police news stories that make headlines every week. We also discuss issues surrounding the homeless crisis here in the US and abroad. We cover these topics because it's something that we are all very passionate about, but we do talk about other stuff too. We hope you all enjoy the show! If you find value in our content please consider supporting our work... As always, we have plenty to talk about on this episode of ACAB Radio. This week we have Ballentine, a longtime friend of the show, on as a guest. Back in August of 2013, Ballentine, along with ACAB Radio host Kelly W. Patterson and three other members of Nevada Cop Block (the "Sunset 5"), was arrested and charged with "graffitti" crimes for writing on public sidewalks with sidewalk chalk. We'll discuss chalk activism in general, as well as those retaliatory arrests, and the reasons why those protests were happening. Ballentine has since moved to Olympia, Washington. Among other things, we'll also discuss activism in the Northwest and the many differences between Vegas and Olympia. In addition, we'll obviously be discussing some of the local issues with police including the recent spate of shooting. Metro is now up to 18 shootings for the year and (when you include Henderson) there have been 8 shootings by the police within the past month, mostly in the last two weeks. We'll also have some updates on previous stories, including some videos that have "gone viral" nationally. Once again we'll also be reminding people about the LVMPD's actions on the behalf of Officer Kenneth Lopera, who murdered Tashii Brown at the Venetian last year on Mother's Day. It's been announced that there will be a public "fact finding" review held where they will attempt to justify District Attorney Steve Wolfson's decision to drop the charges against Lopera. Of course, they picked September 11th as the date for that Orwellian titled hearing to ensure people's attention will be elsewhere. ( https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/public-hearing-regarding-death-of-tashii-brown-scheduled-for-sept/article_cf615802-73c5-57d1-8e15-d65283b8ed45.html ) Web-pages: www.patreon.com/acabradio www.acabradio.com www.nvcopblock.org www.foodnotbombslasvegas.org www.snlsnetwork.com - (Mirror) www.somenextlevelshit.com Follow, Like and Share: www.soundcloud.com/somenextlevelshit www.facebook.com/ACABradio www.facebook.com/NVCopBlock.org www.facebook.com/SomeNextLevelShit www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgCGpfqZkvGy7ZNyScT-tQ
