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What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Police arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday for killing two protestors and injuring a third at demonstrations in Kenosha, Washington against police brutality. Professional athletes joined in calling for justice for Jacob Blake, with teams from the NBA, WNBA, MLB, and more going on strike.
Biden and Trump are averaging a near tie at the moment in North Carolina, which is sort of the site of the RNC this week. North Carolina is also a state where Republicans have repeatedly practiced voter suppression, through voter ID laws and gerrymandering. We discuss the state’s role in the 2020 election.
And in headlines: Hurricane Laura makes landfall, the CDC gets USPS’d, and the MTA needs billions to keep running on time.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 27th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we're hoping someone will cut our |
| 0:11.9 | internet access so we don't have to watch the RNC tonight. |
| 0:14.7 | I mean, literally, who do I have to pay to just help me not see this? |
| 0:19.8 | I am currently in the process of knocking down a telephone wire. Sorry. |
| 0:30.0 | Today's show we check in on North Carolina and what's at stake for the battleground state |
| 0:37.3 | in this year's election than some headlines. |
| 0:39.9 | But first the latest. So many people have reached out to me telling me they're sorry that |
| 0:46.2 | this happened to my family. Well, don't be sorry because this has been happening to my |
| 0:51.2 | family for a long time longer than I can account for. |
| 0:58.4 | It happened to Emmett Till. Emmett Till is my family. |
| 1:03.3 | Follando, Mike Brown, Sandra. This has been happening to my family and I shared tears |
| 1:10.5 | for every single one of these people that it's happened to. |
| 1:14.4 | This is nothing new. I'm not sad. I'm not sorry. I'm angry. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm tired. That was Latitra Widman, Jacob Blake's sister acknowledging what frankly |
| 1:26.2 | too many people in the US cannot that this violence is continued violence that we as |
| 1:30.7 | black people face and mourn and endure and have since the beginning of the country. |
| 1:35.4 | As we went to record yesterday's podcast episode on Tuesday night, news started breaking |
| 1:38.6 | of the shooting at the racial injustice and police brutality protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
| 1:42.8 | And yesterday, 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested for killing two protesters |
| 1:47.1 | and injuring a third with an automatic weapon. Videos on social media appeared to show |
| 1:51.0 | armed civilians like Rittenhouse, exchanging pleasantries with Kenosha police prior to |
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