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The Daily

A Weekend of Pain and Protest

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains strong language. Demonstrations have erupted in at least 140 cities across the United States in the days since George Floyd, a black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis. We were on the ground in some of them, chronicling 72 hours of pain and protest. Guests: Nikole Hannah-Jones, who writes for The New York Times Magazine; John Eligon, a national correspondent who covers race for The Times; and Mike Baker, a Pacific Northwest correspondent. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: The video discussed by Nikole Hannah-Jones in the episode is featured here.The Times has reporters on the ground in dozens of cities across the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing.George Floyd died one week ago today. Here’s a timeline of what has happened since.

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0:00.0

You might have had a few couple questions there?

0:10.0

No, sure.

0:11.0

My name's Hans, I'm from New York Times.

0:13.0

Hi.

0:14.0

So, can you tell me where we are?

0:16.0

We're on Lake Street at the Arbys that burned down.

0:21.0

Cleaning up.

0:22.0

A bunch of us are just cleaning up all the steel and grabbing glass,

0:27.0

getting anything we can and cleaning up.

0:30.0

Yeah.

0:31.0

Yeah.

0:32.0

Can you describe the building for me?

0:35.0

Demolish pretty much.

0:37.0

It's pretty much just soot and bricks and melted glass, melted steel.

0:44.0

You couldn't really tell that there was ever a building here.

0:47.0

Your hands were black.

0:49.0

Yeah.

0:50.0

Even through the gloves.

0:51.0

Yeah.

0:52.0

Went right through the gloves.

0:54.0

Thank you very much.

0:55.0

Tell me your name.

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