Amy Goodman
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Will Obama's Police Reforms Bring Change? Admin Urged to Seize Political Momentum of Ferguson Moment
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15:12Now PlayingResponding to the protests in Ferguson and cities nationwide, President Obama has announced several new actionsa new task force to come up with concrete steps for "building public trust" in police forces nationwide; a $263 million "Community Policing Initiative," which includes $75 million to provide body cameras for around 50,000 police officers; and an executive order that will tighten rules on the provision of militarygrade equipment and weapons to local police forces, such as those used in the crackdown on the Ferguson protests. But in a rejection of activists' demands, Obama vowed to leave the transfers mostly intact. Obama has also sent Attorney General Eric Holder on a tour of communities nationwide. Holder will soon release new federal guidelines to limit racial profiling, but they will not apply to state or local police agencies, such as in Ferguson. We are joined by James Peterson, director of Africana studies at Lehigh University and the author of "The HipHop Underground and African American CultureBeneath the Surface."
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