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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
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We be begin with the nationwide rash of police shootings and altercations involving the use of force against minorities. From a Texas pool party with teenagers, to a video of officers killing a Boston terrorist suspect, to the unusual intervention of African American community leaders in Cleveland distrustful of the criminal justice system in the case of the shooting of 12year old Tamir Rice, who have invoked a rarely-used Ohio law asking a judge to charge two Cleveland police officers with murder. Vernellia Randall, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Dayton, Ohio and author of “Dying While Black” joins us to discuss these and other incidents.
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Then we look into the political instability in Turkey following parliamentary elections that left no clear winners and no apparent roadmap to forming a governing coalition. Soner Cagaptay, the Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a regular columnist for Hurriyet Daily News joins us to discuss what possible ruling coalitions could be formed following the electoral rebuke handed to President Erdogan. |
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Then finally we speak with Rob Sisson, the former Mayor of Sturgis, Michigan and President of ConservAmerica, formerly Republicans for Environmental Protection. We discuss the $175 million pledge by a North Carolina businessman to the GOP in the hope that the current Republican Party, that is skeptical if not hostile to climate science, will accept the reality of climate change and find market-based solutions to stimulate green energy.
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