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W. Kamau Bell returns in 'United Shades' with painful look at policing in Bay Area


Justin Phillips May 1, 2021Updated: May 2, 2021, 1:08 pm
Video from the Vallejo Police Department’s body-worn camera footage of the fatal shooting of Willie McCoy in a Taco Bell drive-through is part of the season six premiere of CNN’s “United Shades of America: Policing the Police.” Photo: Vallejo Police Department
The sound bullets make when breaking through a windshield of a vehicle is hard to forget. And it’s a noise that still echoes in my ears after watching body cam footage of Vallejo police killing Sean Monterrosa and video of Vallejo police firing 55 bullets in 3.5 seconds at the car of Willie McCoy, both shown during the season six premiere of CNN’s “United Shades of America.” ....

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W. Kamau Bell on why it was so hard to film the Bay Area episode of CNN's 'United Shades of America'


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W. Kamau Bell is the host of CNN s United Shades of America, which filmed an episode in the Bay Area to explore what defunding the police really means.CNN
People often ask me if I grew up here. Sometimes they outright assume that I did. The “city” that they “know” that I’m a “native” of changes. Could be San Francisco, Oakland or Berkeley. And even though I was born in Stanford Hospital and lived as a baby in East Palo Alto, I grew up back east. I lived in Chicago, Boston, Alabama and Indianapolis, like one does. ....

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W. Kamau Bell: What you need to know about 'defund the police' (opinion)


W. Kamau Bell: What you need to know about defund the police (opinion)
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5/2/2021
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United Shades of America returns tonight with an episode on policing in America. And while that may seem like we ripped it from all the recent headlines, in reality the headlines just haven t changed that much since the show went off the air last summer.
From the murder of George Floyd to the killings of Adam Toledo; Daunte Wright; Mario Gonzalez, Ma Khia Bryant and Andrew Brown, Jr., we are having many of the same conversations about policing over and over. Many of us (like me) are getting frustrated that the conversations don t evolve. Many of us are getting stuck in the same rhetorical cul-de-sacs. And some of you out there won t even Google the thing that frightens you most about this conversation: Wait for it . Defund The Police. ....

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