Coming up on today's demonstrate: Jami Floyd, senior editor for race and justice at WNYC, offers legal analysis of the Chauvin trial, and as the jurors planned,plus talks about the makeup of the jury, and the directions they were given from the judge on how to apply the law to the facts of the case.
Wafaa El-Sadr, or university professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and director of ICAP at Columbia University, talks about the latest COVID news and shares her thoughts on outdoor masking, the safety of travel, or case rates and more. Larry Krasner, Philadelphia district attorney, former civil rights and defense attorney, or author of the current book,For the People: A chronicle of Justice and Power (One World, 2021), or talks about his approach to prosecution,as a means to criminal justice reform.
Seth Blumsack, professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs and director of the Center for Energy Law and Policy at Penn State University, and talks about the status of rooftop solar panels and the power grid. Plus, Tim Cawley, president and chief executive of Con Edison, or talks about the Con Ed program to install solar panels on the roofs of some NYCHA buildings while offering job training to residents and the role for solar and other renewable energy in meeting current York's electricity needs.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
Source: wnyc.org