This week we discuss a police killing in Chicago after the establishment of a system of community control of police, and a Black member of a Canadian provincial parliament is ordered not to wear a keffiyeh in an ongoing campaign to silence Black voices and to exclude Palestinian solidarity from the public sphere. But first, we hear about the latest effort to use the United States Supreme Court to end New York’s rent regulation system, which is now led by the man who Mayor Eric Adams has chosen to lead the City’s Law Department.