Police encounters in Minneapolis
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In the US, authorities all over the country are working on police reform. Jo Erickson is a black journalist working in Minneapolis, and has been stopped by armed police herself. She recounts her experience.
Yemen has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, following years of civil war. And now, on top of malnourishment and a decimated healthcare system, comes Covid-19. Iona Craig was in the worst-hit city, Aden, when the virus started to spread.
South-East Asian countries have been easing their lockdowns, with manufacturing and construction starting up again in Singapore this week. But not all companies made it through lockdown. Karishma Vaswani has been hearing the stories of a pizza restaurant in Singapore, and a garment factory in Indonesia.
Mali used to be a destination for travellers drawn by the music, the allure of Timbuktu, or backpacking in the Dogon valley. This gave many local youngsters jobs as tourist guides. But all that came to a halt with a jihadi insurrection and extremist violence. Mali is now a no-go zone for foreigners, much to the regret of Colin Freeman.
In Uzbekistan, on the old Silk Road in Central Asia, life in the countryside still goes on in much the way it used to, everyone knows everyone, food is shared. At family gatherings, greetings involve repeated kisses on each cheek. Not anymore though, with new social distancing rules, much to the relief of our correspondent.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:05.9 | Today, the stories our correspondence tell is of life almost everywhere in some way |
| 0:11.0 | affected by the pandemic. Not surprisingly in Yemen, fraught with civil war, |
| 0:17.0 | the virus has added to their not inconsiderable troubles. And in Singapore, |
| 0:22.0 | there may have been a relatively efficient handling of infection |
| 0:25.8 | but a pizza restaurant owner is counting the personal cost. Elsewhere the old |
| 0:31.5 | problems such as extremist violence are still around to thwart the tourist business we hear from Mali. |
| 0:39.0 | And then in a remote village in Uzbekistan we find ourselves breathing a sigh of relief for social distancing. |
| 0:47.4 | You don't have to kiss every relative several times at every family gathering. |
| 0:59.0 | First to Minnesota, where their methods of policing have come under global scrutiny following the death of George Floyd. |
| 1:01.0 | Killed by a policeman kneeling on his neck, there are now moves proposed |
| 1:06.0 | by the Democrats to reform policing nationwide. There's wider recognition that police tactics that are now being outlawed have been |
| 1:14.6 | disproportionately used on African Americans. |
| 1:18.9 | Joe Erikson, who's black and originally British, moved to Minneapolis a few years ago and experienced its policing |
| 1:26.5 | first hand. |
| 1:28.7 | My hands were shaken. |
| 1:30.7 | Panic left me paralyzed and glued to the car seat. |
| 1:34.0 | I thought he's going to shoot me. |
| 1:37.0 | I will never forget my encounter with the Minneapolis police officer and his gun. |
| 1:42.0 | In May 2016, Minneapolis Police |
| 1:43.4 | 2016, I was Cothering the police shooting of |
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