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I'm Dorothy Wickendon. On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb talks with Ronald L. Davis.

A former police officer, Davis ran the Justice Department's Office of Community-oriented

Policing Services during the Obama administration, and he has become a strong advocate for policing reform.

To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep.

James Baldwin wrote that in 1978, and the same thing can be said of the terrible moment in

which we live now. The cruelty, the heedlessness with which George Floyd was killed is sickening to consider.

With Floyd face down on the street and begging for his life, a Minneapolis police officer

dug his knee into Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. Every second of it captured on video

by bystanders.

But perhaps what was most appalling is that it was hardly exceptional.

It follows the recent killings of Ahmed Arbery and Brianna Taylor,

and many other deaths at the hands of law enforcement

in a decades-long litany of racist police abuse.

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