The NYPD and Social Distancing; Appreciating Building Service Workers; Race and the Pandemic; Where Did You Catch COVID-19?
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 5, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- A NYPD officer was put on modified duty after a violent social distancing violation arrest filmed. Donovan Richards, Council member for the 31st District of the New York City Council and Chair of the Committee on Public Safety, talks about the NYPD's role in enforcing pubic health measures, and concerns around over policing and violence against marginalized groups.
- Kyle Bragg, president of 32BJ SEIU, talks about the essential workers who keep large residential buildings running -- the doormen, porters, and cleaners.
- Peniel Joseph, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Basic Books, 2020), talks about his new book, plus the racial disparities in the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Dr. Jessica Justman, senior technical director at ICAP at Columbia, a global health center at the Mailman School of Public Health, associate professor of Medicine in Epidemiology at Columbia University and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, talks about the latest COVID-19 news, including what scientists know so far about how the virus spreads.
