“It Broke Me”: A Conversation with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It broke my heart. |
| 0:03.8 | It was devastating. |
| 0:04.8 | There are no words in the English language that will convey the despair that I felt watching |
| 0:10.1 | that man, life leave his body and him scream out for his mother. |
| 0:14.8 | I have come here to get justice for my city. |
| 0:23.0 | My city has been going through a lot of pain. |
| 0:26.6 | This is not the first, second or third time. |
| 0:29.0 | You see all this, all this damage is what we have to do to get our voice heard. |
| 0:35.3 | All over the country, people are filling the streets to protest police brutality and |
| 0:40.1 | the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis while a police officer |
| 0:45.4 | kneeled on his neck. |
| 0:47.6 | Disturbing video of this was seen all over the world. |
| 0:57.0 | We are all seeing so much pain and anger and outrage. |
| 1:01.9 | In this episode I spoke with the mayor of Atlanta, Keshalant's bottoms about how she's |
| 1:07.2 | dealing with the crisis as a leader, as a mother of four children, all of it unfolding |
| 1:13.1 | against the backdrop of a global pandemic. |
| 1:16.6 | Most of America caught sight of her recently. |
| 1:19.1 | She gave an incredibly powerful press conference this past Friday. |
| 1:24.0 | We are better than this. |
| 1:26.5 | We're better than this as a city. |
| 1:29.1 | We are better than this as a country. |
| 1:34.0 | Go home. |
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