Good Day citizens and thank you for listening to the Thomas Jefferson hour.

Clay you wanted to reflect a bit on what's going on in the country now.

It is June 11th and things are much different than they were two weeks ago.

A month ago we were talking exclusively about the pandemic and its aftermath.

And now suddenly the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota

has touched off not only a national protest and response, but it's touched off a world response.

I was stunned to see Trafalgar Square, which had been bone empty in London a month ago.

I mean, the only time I've ever seen it when there was not a single human being in it,

but more recently, tens of thousands of British people,

with signs honoring George Floyd, signs saying I can't breathe or justice

for George Floyd, stop police brutality and so on.

So we're living in an extremely important flash point.

It bears some resemblance to events in France in 1787, 1788, and 1789.

We don't yet know how far this is going to extend,

but its longevity is already shocking to me.

And I don't know how you feel David but I do believe from what I'm

observing that we have reached a kind of a tipping point that this is

different from Ferguson this is different from from previous instances of overzealous and over violent police

response to African Americans it feels like this was so probably appalling and

indefensible from any point of view. What happened in Minneapolis that it has

inspired a very large percentage of the American people to say enough

this must stop we must do whatever it takes to reform our police procedures, our manuals of engagement, whatever it's going to take

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