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to register for our blog and join the Progressive Army. Today is Monday, January 30th, 2003.

Thank you so much for joining me.

I want to begin with an apology for our public audience.

The podcast from Friday was not published until this morning.

It was in the queue ready to be published, all prepared to send out to you on Friday and somehow

I did not push the publish button.

Nevertheless, you have two episodes to catch up on, the one I'm doing now and of course the

one from Friday and I want to apologize to the public audience, the patron audience, got it on Friday.

Patreon.com, foreslash the BPD show.

On Friday we dealt with the impending release of the Tyree Nichols body cam footage. the

footage has been released and as well as surveillance footage. The footage has been released and to the

dismay of many conservatives who wanted to use this as an opportunity to to the rioting, no one rioted. There were no protests, the size of George Floyd,

and much of that is because the family requested

that everyone remain calm and peaceful.

And because of the public relations job that everyone

involved including the chief of police of Memphis Tennessee all the way to

the president of the United States did getting ahead of the story to make sure

everyone was prepared for how graphic it was if you watch the video it was extremely

graphic but something came out of it that we have a lot of questions about.

There was a sixth officer. There were many officers around them. There were EMT. I mean, there are a lot of people who should be held accountable, but there was a sixth officer who was physically involved, a white officer who maced Tyrene Nichols, and he has since been suspended, relieved of duty.

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