‘Left, Right & Center’: Police Troubles and Rolling Stone’s Apology
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists consider the grand jury's clearing of a white police officer in the chokehold death of black Staten Island man Eric Garner. "Are grand juries going to allow police officers to be held accountable?" Scheer asks.
Demonstrators in New York City “die-in” at a protest against a grand jury’s effective exoneration of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Photo by anokarina (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists consider the grand jury’s clearing of a white police officer in the chokehold death of black Staten Island man Eric Garner. “Are grand juries going to allow police officers to be held accountable?” Scheer asks.
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Finally, host Matt Miller recommends a documentary about coffee farming Costa Rican women called “A Small Section of the World.”
Miller moderates from the center, Scheer speaks from the left, Lowry from the right, and Keli Goff of The Daily Beast is the special guest.
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