It's a devastating time and it's hard to do anything but be

heartbroken over what happened to George Floyd and

His family and you know that one of my hopes that rise out of this protests is that there is like a set of

Changes that people demand because the danger is that all of this energy and heart and spirit and passion

ends up getting channeled but like no one knows what to do so we need to fight for something real and concrete

It's been a devastating and heartbreaking time in our country every night where either

Transfixed by what's happening on streets around the country or in some cases where on the streets ourselves

I mean there are curfews that have been

Implemented in dozens of cities, but I saw a report this morning saying that 10,000 people have been arrested in relation to the

Protests and you know that's a very very small fraction of the folks who've been marching so you're looking at hundreds of thousands of people who've been

Gathering and protesting around the country. I went to a vigil here in upstate New York and hundreds of people came out and

We also what happened to George Floyd having his life extinguished before our eyes. It's like how many people are killed by police every year and

the

Sick part is you don't know that it's unclear how many people die

In encounters with police or in police custody every year because the data is not reported

Despite the fact that a law was passed that asked the Department of Justice to compile this

report

But they just never have gotten the data because it's dependent upon police departments

Submitting and so you have 18,000 police departments around the country and the best estimates are that

Thousands or more Americans die in contact with police annually

Cities spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on settlements for police brutality cases

New York City alone spends 300 million a year on direct payments

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