Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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about the cloak and dagger world of spies.

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First up, though, Minneapolis has been engulfed by protests this week over the killing of an unarmed black man by police.

On Monday, George Floyd died after a white officer pinned him down, kneeling on his neck.

In a video, he can be heard repeatedly telling police, I can't breathe.

Overnight, protesters threw fireworks at police and set a police building a light.

The governor requested reinforcements from the National Guard.

The protests have spread to New York, Denver, Phoenix.

In Columbus, Ohio, demonstrators tried to enter the statehouse.

In Los Angeles, members of the movement Black Lives Matter gathered outside the Hall of Justice.

For them, the phrase, I can't breathe, harks back to an incident that galvanized the movement in 2014.

Then, Black Lives Matter had momentum, real cultural currency. It felt like their calls for

systemic change might be answered. This week's fiery protests are a reminder that the anger

behind the movement hasn't diminished, even if it might seem the movement itself has.

So that phrase, I Can't Breathe, that we heard in Minneapolis is is very resonant of what we heard from 2014 with the man Eric Garner, who was choked to death by a policeman.

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