NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the impetus for the violent confrontation at the Capitol. “It seemed to be the natural consequence of living in our own information silos. Our own hermetically sealed little worlds,” he said. He was also featured Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol. He was also featured on Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV on what comes next in Washington, D.C. “It’s a moment of reckoning for us as a nation. We Read more…
HuffPost featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the Los Angeles County district attorney election. “I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the second most important race in this country was the race for L.A. DA. This is the linchpin for mass incarceration.” Full article here
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election results. “This is standard operating procedure in a lot of ways: recounts and lawsuits after elections. But the stakes seem extra high this time around; the urgency seems Read more…
Spectrum News 1 interviewed Jody Armour on criminal justice reform in L.A. “This election in L.A. County put L.A. County at the very vanguard of criminal justice reform nationwide”
KCRW-FM and KNX 1070 AM featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on George Gascón becoming the next district attorney of Los Angeles. “His victory was the result of strong grassroots organizing by Black Lives Matter L.A. I really see it as a triumph of the possibility of protests Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the importance of Black voter turnout in the 2020 election. “The Black vote is the backbone of the Democratic Party for sure. It has been the most loyal and reliable constituency. It helped to pull Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on issues around supposed voter fraud. “The claim of voter fraud that is widespread doesn’t have a lot of empirical support from the studies I’ve seen, but that doesn’t mean that a lot of people aren’t Read more…
CALmatters quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the changing perception of political candidates who are endorsed by law enforcement. “It used to be something prideful, to have police union endorsements. Now it may be stigmatized.” Full article here
NPR featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the efforts to unseat Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey. “Her strongest critics are also Black women. And so there’s growing understanding that representational politics alone are not enough.” Listen here
KPCC-FM interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the potential impact of San Francisco’s CAREN Act, which gives the targets of racist 9-1-1 calls the right to sue the caller. “There are real risks that are generated by false reports to the police about blacks.” Listen here
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the negative community impact of hunting for crimes during routine stops. “It really robs people of their full participation in core community activities. It starts to make second-class citizens out of people in stereotyped groups.” Full article here
The Washington Post (via The Associated Press) quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on claims of self-defense from drivers who ran over protestors. “What you have is bookend cases to compare when two alleged perpetrators can each claim some kind of self defense or duress as an excuse Read more…
MEL Magazine featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on why body cams will not eliminate police brutality. “Breonna wasn’t killed by the absence of a body cam. She was killed by the bad legal precedent and bad police policy. As long as the law allows them to do Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the lack of charges against the officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor. He was also interviewed on Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV, LAist and Insider. “And when we see that sometimes the Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on his new book and the complicated history of Black people dividing themselves as us-versus-them. “The heart of Black Lives Matter is a rejection of respectability politics. What BLM says is, a lot of these victims, you’re putting them on Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on his new book and the history of racist language deployed against Black people. “What makes so many people who aren’t Black feel like they have a license to use the word is because Blacks use the word in Read more…
KPCC-FM interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on his new book that explores race, justice, policing and the law. “Jody talks about some of the major themes he explores in his new book, including critical race theory, criminal justice reform, why he chose the title he did and how Read more…
CALmatters quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the lack of meaningful police reforms enacted by California lawmakers. “We wag our fingers piously at protesters and tell them to cast a ballot, just go vote, that’s more productive and reasonable to get what you want in the way Read more…
L.A. Weekly highlighted an upcoming conversation on Sunday, Aug. 30, with Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the criminal justice system and racial oppression in America. “Professor Armour argues, “it can signal a rejection of respectability politics, promote political solidarity with violent Black criminals, and spark a revolution Read more…
CW News Los Angeles affiliate KTLA-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the protests that have resumed across the country after the shooting of Jacob Blake. “It just seems like we’re stuck in this racial injustice Groundhog Day,” he said. Full broadcast here
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour on protesters gathering at the homes of public officials. “The idea is to shut it down. Disrupt.That is cut through our collective complacency about racial injustice and the pain & suffering that its causing and then compel some uncomfortable conversations,” Armour said. Read more…
U.S. News and World Report interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School as part of a new series on inequality and how people of color are affected in areas like health care, education and the criminal justice system. Listen here
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate. “It’s an extraordinary selection in a lot of ways. It’s powerfully historic, of course, and symbolic. On the other hand, maybe people on the Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the legacy of civil rights hero John Lewis. “Striving for justice, trying to overcome the biggest injustices or at least the more flagrant ones of his day, have made him [John Lewis] a timeless figure Read more…
