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I'm Jean Demby.

I'm Shireen Marifalmaraji and this is Code Switch.

From NPR.

The family of a Kentucky woman shot and killed by police is demanding answers.

The former cop and his son both white are accused of killing the unarmed black men.

We begin with the breaking news from Minneapolis violent protests, raged for a second straight

night following the death of George Floyd after being arrested by a Minneapolis police officer.

Last night protesters turned their attention to the city's third police precinct.

The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news.

Stories about police killing black people.

And what is sick is that these stories have become the kind of news that we in the business

call evergreen.

Their stories that are always relevant and always in season.

These calamities are so familiar at this point that their details have begun to echo each

other.

In July 2014, a cell phone video captured some of Eric Garner's final words.

As New York City police officers sat on his head and pinned them to the ground on a city

sidewalk.

I can't breathe.

On May 25th of this year, those same words were spoken by George Floyd just before he

died.

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