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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, April 12, 2021. I am John

Bob Hortz, the editor of commentary, Christine Rosen is out this week with us in her stead today,

Washington Freebeak and editor, Eliana Johnson. Hi, Eliana, how are you?

Hi, John. I'm doing well. How are you guys? We are good. Also with us, executive editor,

Abe Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi, John. And Noah Rothman, associate editor, High Noah.

Hi, John. Eliana, you are a twin city's native and things are not good in the twin cities this morning,

following a police involved shooting and yesterday in a suburb of Minneapolis, right,

or is that a neighborhood of Minneapolis Brooklyn Center? I'm not quite clear.

It is a suburb. I would call it a suburb rather than a neighborhood, but

yeah, you're right. A night of riding and looting taking place in Minneapolis and the backdrop

to the most recent shooting about which we don't have a whole lot of details is of course the

Chauvin trial, which there's just a tremendous amount of security. My dad had been going in and

said it's just astonishing. The courthouse is totally barricaded. And so I think this happened

when the city is already a tinderbox and it's not going to take much now for riots and

looting to break out in Minneapolis just because of the emotionally and politically charged

atmosphere during this trial. Great. Because you know, that's, as you were saying before,

you know, it's like the city is a tinderbox. We may have been lulled into some, I mean,

just it's been, you know, months since the summer and the hottest points in the summer,

the trial has started. And so we are sitting in a country that could go up at any moment.

I was speculating at some point that merely the goings on in the courtroom itself rather than

the verdict could trigger, you know, riots and terrible thing particularly. I think when the

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