Amanpour: Thenjiwe McHarris, Alex Vitale, Adam Kinzinger and Roula Khalaf

Amanpour

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Black Lives Matter protests inspired by the killing of George Floyd continued around the world over the weekend. Minneapolis City Council is now pledging to dismantle the police department, and replace it with community-based strategies, but not everyone agrees that abolishing the department is the right approach. Christiane Amanpour is joined by Thenjiwe McHarris, a strategist for The Movement for Black Lives, and Alex Vitale, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, to discuss what defunding the police could look like. And then, partisan politics has played a major role in conversations around police defunding, with only one Republican senator having come out in favor so far. U.S. House Republican Adam Kinzinger spent the weekend serving in the National Guard in Wisconsin and he joins Christiane to give his perspective on the defunding initiative and reflect on President Trump’s now infamous photo opportunity outside St John's Church, Washington. And Editor of the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf, speaks to our Walter Isaacson about how the Trump administration’s response to the current protests is impacting America’s moral authority and where the U.S. now stands in relation to the world’s autocracies. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Our commitment is to do what's necessary to keep every single member of our communities safe and to tell the truth that
0:16.7	the Minneapolis police are not doing that.
0:20.9	The first step in the defunding debate, what will policing look like?
0:26.1	I are sociologist Alex Vitali and Black Lives Matter strategist Tengy Wei Macaris.
0:32.1	Then Senator Mitt Romney marches with protesters in
0:35.4	Washington and steps out from the Republican Party ranks. GOP Congressman Adam
0:40.8	Kinzinger joins me. Plus, this whole episode
0:44.0	further erodes the credibility of the U.S.
0:50.0	Al Walter Isachtson talks to the Financial Times editor Rula Kalap about America's moral standing
0:55.8	in the world. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in London.
1:15.0	Another weekend of protests over the killing of George Floyd both here and in the United States.
1:21.0	Demonstrators in the city of Bristol pulled down the statue of an
1:25.1	infamous slave trader and pushed it into the harbour where his ships once left to
1:29.9	collect their human cargo. While in Minneapolis, the first signs that Black Lives Do Matter are coming from the City Council,
1:38.0	which is pledging to dismantle the police department and promising a shift towards community-based strategies
1:44.2	instead. However, like the Mayor of Minneapolis, not everyone agrees that
1:48.7	abolishing the entire department is the right approach. As Congress proposes sweeping new legislation aimed at
1:55.4	eliminating police brutality, we want to take just a moment to remember what
2:00.5	leadership in the face of historic injustice looked like.
2:05.0	The day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy made a famous
2:10.6	speech, and he is an excerpt of that audio recording which is also covered with
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