George Floyd’s brother to Congress: ‘I am here to ask you to make it stop. Stop the pain’

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Philonise Floyd testifies on Capitol Hill one day after his brother George Floyd’s burial in Houston. He asked the House Judiciary Committee to take action on policing in the United States. Anderson speaks to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democratic member of the committee, and CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. Amber Ruffin, a comedian and writer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” speaks to Anderson about the personal, painful, and dangerous interactions she has had with the police as a black woman. CNN’s Gary Tuchman takes us to Camden, New Jersey where several years ago every member of the police department was fired and a new police force was created. Plus, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute projects another 100,000 people in the United States will die from Covid-19 by September. Dr. Leana Wen talks about the rise in coronavirus cases as states are reopening around the country. “We know how to prevent the next 100,000 deaths, but we are not doing that,” says Dr. Wen. Airdate: June 10, 2020 To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening today on a day that saw heartbreaking congressional testimony from the
0:04.1	brother of George Floyd, the president of the United States, staked out a position on
0:07.6	race in this country that falls short of what protesters are demanding.
0:11.4	Short of what lawmakers and branches of the military are now contemplating.
0:14.6	Short of where the National Football League went in a remarkable about face last week,
0:19.1	and where NASCAR went late today.
0:21.1	Quoting from their statement, the presence of the Confederate flag at NASCAR events
0:24.9	runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for
0:28.6	all fans, our competitors, and our industry.
0:31.8	The display of the Confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.
0:36.2	The president, as you know, claims to be a big NASCAR fan.
0:39.1	Today, he tweeted his opposition to renaming military bases named after men who fought
0:43.8	under that very same flag.
0:45.8	Quoting now, the United States of America trained and deployed our heroes on these hallowed
0:49.9	grounds and won two world wars.
0:52.3	Therefore, my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled
0:56.6	military institutions.
0:58.8	Just as an observation on the president's own point, the bases are indeed hallowed, as
1:03.0	he says, but they're hallowed for the troops of all backgrounds they trained, not the
1:08.2	men that they are named after who took up arms against this country.
1:12.4	The president may not know this, but those troops who fought and died in those two world
1:16.2	wars, many of them were black, but they were not treated equally by the US military at
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