It's Tuesday, June 2nd. I'm Ekela Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Rye's second. This is what the day wishing you a very happy Pride Month.

Yeah, I am so sorry that this is the situation for a Pride, but you know what? The first Pride was a riot, so...

There you go.

Today's show, a look at what works and what doesn't when it comes to reducing police brutality, then some headlines.

But first, the latest.

Educate yourself. Don't wait for somebody else to tell you who's who.

Educate yourself and know who you're voting for.

And that's how we gonna hit them.

Because it's a lot of us.

It's a lot of us.

It's right. It's a lot of us.

That was Terrence Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, speaking yesterday in Minneapolis.

He and others have called for demonstrators and their message not to get sidetracked by destruction.

But anyway, let's get into the protests. We are now over a week since Minneapolis police killed George Floyd

and marches and rallies are continuing across the nation.

The National Guard has been activated in over 20 states as we record and protesters in well over 100 cities

have come out to make their voices heard.

We've also seen more policing, so Gideon, give us an update.

Yeah, that's right. So last night, New York City joined many other cities in imposing a curfew as well.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also announced that he was going to double the number of police officers on duty to 8,000.

And that is despite the recent documented incidents of escalation and brutality that we've seen from the NYPD.

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