After Sacramento police shot and killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was in his grandparents’ backyard, activists set out to change California law. They want to make it harder to legally justify police shootings. That’s sparked a heated debate in the state Capitol between the powerful police lobby and families whose loved ones have died at the hands of law enforcement.
"Force of Law," a new podcast series by CALmatters and Studiotobe, will follow the issue all year as California politicians decide whether to approve the nation’s toughest statewide standard for justifying deadly force.
The first episode, hosted by CALmatters reporter Laurel Rosenhall, explains how California got to this point in the debate over police accountability, looking back at the decade since police killed Oscar Grant in Oakland.
Rosenhall joins Midday Edition Tuesday to talk about the questions the podcast will try to answer.
