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What A Day

It's Been A Minute, Minneapolis

What A Day

What A Day

News, Daily News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the Minneapolis Police Department over a month ago, but achieving that goal requires getting a ballot initiative in front of residents. We discuss that effort and more with Oluchi Omeoga, a co-creator of Black Visions Collective.

And in headlines: a deadly explosion in Beirut, the census is ending early, and a whole lot of new Miami Marlins.

Black Visions Collective: blackvisionsmn.org

Reclaim The Block: reclaimtheblock.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, August 5th. I'm Achila Hughes.

0:08.8

And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what a day where we are adopting Trump's habit of always

0:13.2

carrying around a bunch of loose graphs.

0:15.4

Yeah, you know, you can never have too many loose printed charts that you don't know how to read.

0:20.0

Doesn't matter what they represent, just think of them as nice colorful bars.

0:23.7

And sweet.

0:34.9

A Today's show, a conversation with Olucci Omioga of Black Fishing's Collective about the movement

0:39.2

to disband the police and Minneapolis, then some headlines.

0:42.7

But first, the latest.

0:44.8

We want every American child to have access to pristine outdoor spaces.

0:49.9

When young Americans experience the breathtaking beauty of the Grand Canyon,

0:54.7

when their eyes widen in amazement as old faithful person to the sky,

1:00.0

when they gaze upon your semites, your seminites, towering Sequoias.

1:06.9

Wow. So yeah, that was President Trump talking about Yosemite, which I guess if you're reading the

1:14.4

word for the first time, it would be Yosemites. I don't know. But an interesting approach that I'm

1:20.3

just going to go out on a limb and say is not right or correct and it is Yosemite. So just so you know.

1:24.8

Yeah, we want to make sure you don't go in any situation where you refer to a beautiful natural

1:29.4

park in the wrong way. For sure. But on today's show, it's been nearly two and a half months since

1:35.4

George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis sparking an unprecedented movement

1:39.8

against systemic racism in the city and across the world. Just this week, video from the body

1:45.2

cameras of the police officers came out sparking renewed attention on the case and calls for accountability

1:50.2

for police. Outside of the case, we've seen incremental reforms passed in several cities and states,

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