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POPULAR FRONT

77. Clashes Following the Murder of George Floyd

POPULAR FRONT

Jake Hanrahan

News, Politics

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We speak to an activist who's been on the ground for the past two days amongst the violent clashes in Minneapolis in America, which kicked off after four police officers murdered an unarmed black man named George Floyd. The officers choked him to death after he paid for groceries with a bad cheque.

RIP George Floyd

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0:00.0

This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

0:08.7

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to an activist who has been on the ground protest in Minneapolis

0:18.0

since the secondly clashes began two days ago.

0:21.0

Of course these clashes started because an unarmed black man was

0:26.1

murdered by four police officers on Monday. One police officer with his

0:31.2

whole weight on the guy's neck for more than five minutes until he died,

0:34.8

two others on his back holding him down, and one police officer watching and making sure nobody

0:39.9

intervened. It is a straight up murder. I don't care if someone says that's not objective.

0:44.4

It's a murder. If you don't think that's a murder, I don't know what to

0:47.7

fucking tell you. So we're covering this situation, but I didn't want to talk to all the journalists who were kind of on the outside covering it or

0:55.6

Analysts or whatever I wanted to speak someone who is absolutely 100% on the ground

0:59.6

So we're speaking to this lad called Nevada. He's an activist from an anti-authoritarian activist movement called Vitalist International.

1:09.0

Quite interesting bunch. Like I said, you know, he's an activist. He's very anti-police, which is understandable

1:15.4

considering the situation that's just happening in Minnesota. But he's got very good

1:20.6

insight into what's going on. now this episode is mostly just to say

1:24.3

hey this is what happened you know and I from what's going on on the ground we're not looking

1:30.5

to like intellectualize it or go on about the politics of this

1:34.1

that and the other. A man has been murdered by a police officer so we really want to

1:37.1

focus on that and you know what's happened off the back of the clashes.

1:40.0

So anyway here's Nevada telling us what he's seen from the ground

1:48.1

So that video came out like what Tuesday and then almost immediately right, people started protesting, it's turned into clashes.

1:57.0

You've been there from like what day one,

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