Hello, media consumers. This is the press box. You've got Brian Curtis and David Schumaker

here joined by Ringer, staff writer Justin Charity. Today's agenda is pretty obvious.

We're going to talk about the killing of George Floyd and now six days of protest across

the country that followed dozens of things to talk about today, guys, but I don't want

to skip past George Floyd. He was a 46 year old African American man when he was arrested

on May 25th in Minneapolis, a police officer named Derek Shaven. Pin Floyd's head to

the ground for eight minutes and 46 seconds during which time Floyd said, please, please,

please, I can't breathe. His killing was filmed by security cameras and onlookers. Let

me start with you, Justin. Can you put us in your mind when you saw that video for the

first time? What were you thinking and what were you feeling? Well, there are so many of

these kinds of videos, right? These police brutality, police killing videos. And this one, I

thought, was remarkable for the video itself, right? Because the video captures Derek Shaven,

George Floyd captures Derek Shaven's colleagues. It also captures the bystanders at the scene,

including the young, I think 17 year old woman who recorded the incident. And it's kind

of surreal how explicit the conversation between the police and the bystanders is, right?

The bystanders are saying, you don't, this is excessive. And the police are like, listen

back off. And it feels like they are very explicitly sort of reciting the conversations

that have been happening for the past decade about these videos inside the video itself.

And I don't know, the whole time watching the video, there is, I just felt this profound

sense of Black Lives Matter as an activist moment sort of slipping through my hand. I think

it's the only way I can really put it, right? It's such a, it feels like we're back at

square one of what all of the activism about police brutality and these kinds of videos

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