Covering Minneapolis in the Wake of George Floyd

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Since the murder of George Floyd two years ago, FRONTLINE's local journalism partner the Star Tribune has chronicled the aftermath of that pivotal event — from the protests that spread globally, to documenting the trial and murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, to ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform in Minneapolis. The new documentary “Police on Trial,” from FRONTLINE and the Star Tribune, draws on unique on-the-ground reporting and filming to examine the police department at the center of the story.

In this new episode of "The FRONTLINE Dispatch," Star Tribune Editor Suki Dardarian in Minneapolis joins FRONTLINE Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath to discuss the newsroom’s Pulitzer-winning reporting and “Police on Trial.”

"Police on Trial" is now streaming on FRONTLINE’s website, the PBS Video app and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	The activists are demanding justice for George Floyd.
0:05.9	He is the black man who died after being arrested by police.
0:09.7	Visceral images of him taking his last breath on that video, that certainly would brought
0:15.2	people out to the streets to smoke billowing out of the police station.
0:19.7	This visual of a burning police station will go around the world.
0:24.2	It's been two years since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer sparked
0:29.6	a wave of mass protests and a national reckoning of a race and police.
0:34.4	We have a yes or no question for you.
0:37.4	Will you give makes and defunding Minneapolis police department?
0:40.8	We should and can abolish our current Minneapolis police system.
0:44.8	Reporters from Frontlines Local Journalism partner, the star Tribune, have been covering
0:49.1	the stories since day one.
0:51.1	Their work was honored with a Pulitzer Prize last year.
0:54.2	Another one killed by a local police department.
0:58.7	It's just a combustible situation.
1:01.4	This just keeps happening.
1:04.7	Frontlines latest documentary, Police on Trial, mating collaboration with the star Tribune,
1:10.4	documents the aftermath of this pivotal event in the city where it started, as well as
1:15.8	the ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform.
1:20.0	I'm joined today by Suki Dardarian, the editor of the star Tribune.
1:23.8	It's our reporting has shown these incidents happen more often than we thought.
1:28.6	I'm Rainier Ensign Roth, Executive Producer of Frontline, and this is the Frontline Dispatch.
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