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Okay, hello everybody. Uh, Shapo or back. Um, I guess since the last time you heard from us, uh, things have gotten, um, even more intense here in this country at the city we live in. Uh, New York is now currently under not just an unofficial quarantine, but now is under an official curfew following three nights of continuing protests following the

killing of George Floyd, which have now spread to virtually every city in this country. Um, and you know, we were talking about this before and it's hard to find historical analog for this level of, um, protest in this country against the police and since, I don't know, probably 1968 after the king assassination.

It's hard to find, um, analogs for what's going on here in this country, but I think we should just start listing off, you know, what, what, you know, what has happened over the last couple days. I mean, I'm just looking here. New York has been declared, uh, you know, under under curfew many other major cities are, uh, another, another man in Louisville, Kentucky was shot and killed by the police today during your protest. David McAddy. Um, we know from leaked audio today that Trump was on a conference call.

With, um, state governors, uh, demanding that they crack down even harder and, you know, IE, uh, responds to protests about police violence and brutality with more police violence and brutality.

I don't know where to begin. I just other than to say when things like this are discussed, they're talked about, um, in the media or by politicians and they talk about, you know,

uh, you know, violence spreading or, or these protests, uh, turning violent or that there's some sort of threat to public safety. Um, what they should be talking about is the police entirely because at every single level from what I've seen, it is the police who are causing violence and, uh, just, they are, they are the, they are the threat to public safety.

There is nothing about these protesters, even if you include, you know, vandalism or looting or destruction of property that would, uh, that would justify this kind of police response.

Uh, you know, we've, we've all seen other with our own eyes or through, through videos, uh, just images of cops just, I don't know, pushing an old man with the cane into the ground, pepper spring, children, firing rubber bullets, tear gas, just waiting into crowds of people with batons who are otherwise have their hands.

Up, I guess like the thing I just, I, I, the kids out thinking about is, you know, obviously like that, that this all exploded like in a moment when I was already thinking like, yeah, well, I guess like everyone's just sort of half decided that quarantine is sort of people are sort of going to have facet or it just can't go on any longer.

And now like this is the thing where it's just like, oh, like like quarantine is over now. We're now we've shifted into an even newer, like an even newer paradigm now.

And all I can think about is just like the weeks and months ago, um, talking to the Oakland nurse and just, and just seeing images and pictures of how, of healthcare workers on the front lines of coronavirus, fighting and helping people with this disease.

Had to, you know, wear trash bags and likes and reuse certain masks and had were inadequately prepared or like we're just seemingly we were unable to get them any of the equipment that they really needed to treat people and fight this disease.

And then thinking about what I've seen over the last couple days of just a fail links of riot police in like every city that are like geared out just kidded out top to bottom with like all the equipment,

gas masks and like safety equipment that they need to be protected from protesters in the streets.

And I think it really just kind of lays bare at the end of the day, you know, where all the money in our society goes, who's it, who's it for and who it's there to protect.

And it's not us. It certainly isn't nurses or doctors or healthcare workers. It's riot cops. Like like that's yeah.

Like so many things in America, it's a case of the victors winning and winning clearly and being angry about it.

The past, I'd say 20 or 30 years of culture has just been this exercise in nonstop propaganda.

Half of every fucking show and network TV and basic cable is about some hero, telegenic cop risking their lives, having some wholesome sexual tension,

rescuing the world from sickos. They are the only people left in American public life who get any fucking money, any fucking new equipment, look at everything else and then look at the cops in your city, wherever you live in America.

And still they're not even happy about that. They are there still the victims of the world. Everyone is still working against them.

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