It's Monday June 8th. I'm Gideon Reznik.

And I'm Erin Ryan, filling in for Achila Hughes, who is taking a very well-deserved vacation

this week.

Achila, we hope that you are buying turnips and using bells to your heart's content.

I think that's a thing.

I don't think that's a thing, but I think animal crossing is a thing, and I intend to find out what

that thing is.

On today's show, a conversation with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about the George

Floyd case and why it's difficult to prosecute the police in America and then some headlines.

But first, the latest. It has been two weeks since Minneapolis police officers killed George

Floyd, sparking massive and sustained protests throughout the country and world against police

violence toward black Americans, and also police violence at the protests against police violence.

Protest continued over the weekend, drawing even larger crowds in some places and showing no

signs of slowing down. So let's go through some of the newest responses we've seen from cities

and the federal government.

Yeah, so things moved quite quickly in the last few days. So let's just start in Minneapolis.

On Friday, the city banned chokeholds and necrestraints by police officers.

And officers will now be required to try and stop their fellow officers if they observe

any improper use of force. And they would face the same disciplinary action, those officers would

face if they don't intervene. Then yesterday, nine of the city councils, 12 members announced their

support for disbanding the Minneapolis police department and replacing it with a community-based

public safety model. That number constitutes a veto-proof majority and it comes a day after the

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