KCRW-FM featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the value of changes to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Safety Partnership. “Why do we give [police] social worker duties and responsibilities? Wouldn’t it be better to have social workers discharge those duties and responsibilities without the badge and Read more…
Jody Armour,of the USC Gould Law School was interviewed live by Ted Chen on NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV in regard to Roger Stone’s racist remarks. Negro isn’t quite the other n-word used these days. It IS a word that packs quite a discriminatory punch. Jody Armour Tweet Read Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on qualified immunity and the inability to sue law enforcement officers who violate people’s rights. Under the doctrine of qualified immunity, even if a police officer acts unreasonably, you have no remedy against them. Jody Armour Tweet Listen to Read more…
KPCC-FM interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on whether a juror can be struck from a jury pool for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Panel discussion point: In the coming months, a California court of appeals will be examining whether a juror can be struck from a Read more…
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on how District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s ties to law enforcement may hurt her chances of reelection. Close ties to law enforcement, however, could become an “albatross” for Lacey if energy around criminal justice reform remains high through November. “Those Read more…
KALW-FM San Francisco interviewed Jody Armour and Thomas Lenz of the USC Gould School on the ethical and legal implications of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. Radio show YLR host Jeff Hayden is joined by a distinguished panel including professors, attorneys, athletes and analysts – Read more…
Jody Armour of the USC Gould School was quoted by Los Angeles Times on the value of protesting injustice in wealthier parts of the city. “We’ve seen for so long that the cost of injustice has been limited to certain communities and geographic areas. Now, with these marches, we are Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the value of this year’s Juneteenth in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. “Here in L.A., we walk down Skid Row, on the fiercest expression of structural violence in the country, with the largest homeless encampment in the Read more…
MEL Magazine featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the call to defund the police. He was also featured in CNET on how videos of brutality changed our view of police and quoted in ESPN’s The Undefeated on the NFL’s hypocrisy regarding Colin Kaepernick. “That’s not just a Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the significance of Juneteenth, especially during this year’s Black Lives Matter protests. “Juneteenth was, for me, always my Fourth of July, my Independence Day. Remember, this country was founded on a promise of liberty for all, but that Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the need to create real change by addressing actual racial inequality. He was also featured on KCRW-FM and quoted in The Guardian. “Often, what we do after an incident like [the death of George Floyd] Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the need to dismantle institutional racism. “Institutional racism goes to what banks will loan what money to what customers, what neighborhoods they will make mortgage loans in.” Jody Armour Tweet Read the full article
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the steps American society must take to dismantle systemic racism. He was also featured in The Nation. “It seems we’re figuring out that you can’t solve these problems technologically with body cams, or with de-escalation Read more…
Univision News featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the history of protests and pushback against structural racism in America. “What we are seeing is the culmination of 400 years of oppression and resistance,” he said. Armour was also quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV will feature a virtual town hall on rooting out racism that will include Jody Armour of the USC Gould School, Najuma Smith-Pollard of the USC Cecil Murray Center and Erroll Southers of the USC Price School. NBCLA’s Virtual Town Hall, “The Time is Now: Read more…
CNBC featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the additional charges filed against the four police officers involved in the George Floyd case. “It signals to the country at large that the prosecution takes what happened in this case, the death of George Floyd, seriously.” Jody Armour Tweet Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour on the protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. “There are some grievances here that are legitimate; the Floyd tape tore a scab off some festering wounds that haven’t completely healed.” Jody Armour Tweet Read the full article
NPR featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the history of protests in Los Angeles amid the response to the murder of George Floyd. He was also quoted in The New York Times (via The Associated Press) and interviewed on NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV and KCRW-FM. Read more…
USC Law professor Jody David Armour discusses the national fallout following the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody with KTLA Weekend Morning News.
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on how the recent videos of racial injustice may be shifting perceptions of how African Americans are treated. “Over time, as you see incident after incident, it starts to look like a pervasive and persistent pattern,” Read more…
“Police brutality cases are kind of like a scab over a festering wound. Anytime there’s an incident anywhere in the U.S., it reminds people here of some of the traumas and dramas we’ve gone through.”
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the recent viral video documenting white privilege in Central Park. “It reminds me of the Emmett Till case,” said USC law professor Jody David Armour, who studies race and criminal justice. “A white woman who alleged that a Read more…
Zeroing in on just a few problematic pardons cast a shadow and undermined the legitimacy of the entire clemency effort, making it look like it’s a serious harm to the public.
Unlike private individuals, when state actors attack and disrespect citizens, they implicate all Americans because they act in our name and on our behalf.
KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk” interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on if federal judges should be barred from membership in certain ideological groups.
