It's Been A Minute, Minneapolis
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 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
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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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