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ποΈ 2 September 2020
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0:00.0 | I'm Shireen Madisul-Muraggi. |
0:02.2 | I'm Jean Demby and this is Code Switch. |
0:05.3 | From NPR. |
0:06.3 | The City of Kenosha, Wisconsin is cleaning up after overnight protests that led to broken |
0:11.2 | windows and torched females. |
0:13.6 | We are the flag lights battered by the police. |
0:18.9 | So you've been living through the summer. |
0:21.0 | It's been marked by outrage around police violence. |
0:24.4 | Most recently, the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin has become this site of national attention |
0:29.2 | in conversation about race in America. |
0:31.8 | A video went viral of local police officers shooting a black man named Jacob Blake at |
0:36.9 | least seven times. |
0:38.8 | As he walked away from those officers and toward his car, his car where several of his |
0:43.0 | children incidentally were in the backseat. |
0:46.2 | Jacob Blake somehow miraculously survived, although his family's attorney said that he |
0:51.9 | is now paralyzed. |
0:53.8 | And there's been unrest in Kenosha ever since as protesters have clashed with police and |
0:57.9 | then one incident an armed 17 year old white counter-processor has been accused of shooting |
1:03.4 | and killing two marchers and seriously injuring several others. |
1:10.5 | In response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, players on the Milwaukee books, now if you don't |
1:24.7 | know Milwaukee's about a 45 minute drive away from Kenosha, so players on the Milwaukee |
1:29.5 | books, which was one of the favorites to win the NBA championship, they did something |
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