Nuance - from Journalist Roberto Alejandro and Police Scientist Mike Wood

In the latest from Nuance, StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro and police scientist Michael A. Wood Jr. discuss the claims made by Betty Shelby, the Tulsa, OK, police officer who killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man whose vehicle had broken down on the side of the road in 2016, in a recent interview with CBS's 60 Minutes (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/officer-betty-shelby-says-race-was-not-a-factor-in-terence-crutcher-shooting/). The episode was recorded as Michael and Roberto watched the 60 Minutes segment together, and, despite the length of the episode, has been significantly edited for time. The 60 Minutes segment was broken into two parts, divided by a commercial break, in the online broadcast. This week's episode of Nuance contains Michael and Roberto's commentary on the first part of the segment.

In the latest episode of Nuance, police scientist Michael A. Wood Jr. discusses the limitations of notions like "fear" and "reasonable" in police use of force standards with StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro.

On the latest episode of Nuance, police scientist Michael A. Wood Jr. discusses the possibility of effective civilian police oversight with StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro.

In the latest episode of Nuance, StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro and police scientist Michael A. Wood Jr. discuss why there is cause for optimism in the fight for social justice and reform. They even manage to keep the discussion under the 20 minute episode length threshold, which has become more of a theory than a practice.

In the latest episode of Nuance, StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro and police scientist Michael A. Wood Jr. discuss the way Hip-Hop and other forms of music can challenge our biases by introducing us to alternative vocabularies. We also nominate Nas for the Nobel Prize in literature.