Civic - Exploring mourning, place and change at YBCA

Exploring mourning, place and change at YBCA

04/29/21 • 28 min

Civic

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In two shootings a decade apart, police said officers confused their Tasers and guns

In 2009, BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, later claiming he had meant to use his Taser and not his gun. In April 2021, Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright — and police say this, too, was due to getting the less-lethal weapon and the gun confused. To get a better sense of how much these two shootings blamed on Taser confusion more than a decade apart have in common, and how the trial of Derek Chauvin is changing the conversation about killings by law enforcement, we hear from journalist Demian Bulwa, now director of news at the San Francisco Chronicle, who covered Oscar Grant’s death and Johannes Mehserle’s trial extensively.

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A military coup's impacts in Burma and the Bay Area

On February 1, after a democratic election, the Burmese military seized control of the government and declared a year-long state of emergency. Burmese people have been protesting that takeover, and the military has cracked down with deadly use of force, killing hundreds including children. Demonstrations in solidarity have also been held around the world, including in San Francisco. Ko Ko Lay, co-founder of Free Burma Action Committee, and Jane Pak, adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, both of whom are board members of Refugee and Immigrant Transitions, talk about how these events have affected people living in Burma and the Bay Area.