Minneapolis Was a Powder Keg

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Minneapolis police lost the faith of their community long before the death of George Floyd. How did things get so bad?

Guest: Jon Collins, reporter for Minnesota Public Radio and host of 74 Seconds.

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0:00.0	For me, for a lot of people, there's this one slate headline that sums up what happened over the weekend.
0:11.5	Police erupt in violence nationwide.
0:15.6	Maybe you saw coverage on TV.
0:17.8	Maybe you scrolled through videos on Twitter.
0:20.5	Maybe you were there.
0:22.2	Don't shoot! Don't fucking shoot!
0:26.5	A few blocks from my house in Brooklyn. I watched police brawl like they were hoping for a fight.
0:33.6	And then I went online and saw police tasing and dragging two black people from their own car in Atlanta.
0:40.2	We turn around and we see several officers go up to the car and start breaking the glass.
0:45.8	I saw police arrest a CNN news crew in Minneapolis live.
0:50.3	I'm being arrested now.
0:52.0	And shoot pepperballs at reporters in Louisville, Kentucky.
0:55.1	Directly at us.
0:56.6	Why are they doing that?
0:58.0	We're shooting our crew.
0:59.6	Police!
1:01.6	Police!
1:02.8	I saw Grace, too.
1:05.0	Rare, powerful examples of leadership and police acting as guardians, not aggressors.
1:12.9	Like the sheriff in Flint, Michigan.
1:18.7	I took my helmet off to lay the batons down. I want to make this a parade, not a protest.
1:32.4	He heeded the protesters' calls to walk with us. You tell us what you need to do. But the violence, it was overwhelming, and it seemed to intensify by the day.
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