MINNEAPOLIS ON FIRE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trahern Crews - Black Lives Matter Minnesota
As Americans rise up against police terror, the far right has a horrible plan that could backfire on all of us...
Thom Hartmann reveals the white supremacist plans for to use the unrest in Minnesota after George Floyd's murder by police officer was caught on tape, sparking massive outrage.
Will the protesters be able to get justice for George Floyd or will this right wing plan disrupt them and our democracy?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, Minneapolis is on fire, I mean literally still on fire. |
| 0:22.0 | A lot of dimensions, a lot of pieces to this story |
| 0:25.2 | that I want to touch on. |
| 0:26.7 | And then I want to get into a little riff about right-wing media |
| 0:30.1 | and its role in all this. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm particularly interested in hearing from our |
| 0:33.4 | listeners in Minneapolis, one of our larger stations, KTNF, is right there in |
| 0:37.4 | Minneapolis, St Paul, and AM 950. And your thoughts on what's going on you look at times in our history I've you know |
| 0:48.9 | specifically even thinking of the American Revolution when people felt like they were being oppressed they were being killed |
| 0:54.2 | they were being their lives were not being valued and what did they do they rose up |
| 0:59.6 | and if white people had been subject to regular police violence and killing and |
| 1:08.2 | disproportionate imprisonment and job discrimination and all those kinds of things year after year, decade after |
| 1:16.4 | decade, don't you think that they would rise up that they would raise hell? |
| 1:20.0 | Oh yeah that's right they did in 1776. |
| 1:24.0 | Anyhow, Jacob Frey, I think it's pronounced Frey, F-R-E-Y, the mayor of Minneapolis, has come out and said |
| 1:31.0 | these police officers, you know I don't know why these guys aren't in |
| 1:34.5 | jail and it's like yeah I don't either and maybe they will be today we'll see |
| 1:39.5 | but Derek Chauvin who is the specific cop whose photo was taken a month or so ago when |
| 1:45.3 | Donald Trump was in Minneapolis, with Donald Trump smiling together, oh yeah |
| 1:49.4 | magga hats and all. That guy, he has just hired Tom Kelly. Tom Kelly is the lawyer who represented |
| 1:59.3 | police officer Yeronimo Yanez who is acquitted in the murder of Philando Castile back in St. Paul, |
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