President Trump Denies Systemic Racism In Policing. Most Americans Disagree.
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
And Republicans have controlled Georgia politics for nearly two decades. Tuesday's primary in the state could be the beginning of a shift in power.
This episode: campaign correspondents Asma Khalid and Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and WABE reporter Emma Hurt.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | It's 2.09 pm on Tuesday, June 9th. |
| 0:09.9 | I must m'hull it, I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Scott Detreau, I also cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House. |
| 0:17.1 | As we tape this podcast today, George Floyd is being laid to rest in Houston. |
| 0:22.4 | His death sparked days of protests across the country, and those protests have made it |
| 0:27.0 | clear that race and policing are now even more important issues in the presidential campaign. |
| 0:32.9 | Former Vice President Joe Biden is calling for police reform, though he does not support |
| 0:37.2 | calls to defund the police. |
| 0:39.4 | That idea is something we've begun to hear more loudly from some protesters on the left. |
| 0:43.7 | And it probably goes without saying, but President Trump also does not support defunding the |
| 0:48.1 | police. |
| 0:49.1 | In fact, Tam, the president seems to deny that there's a problem of systemic racism in police |
| 0:53.6 | departments at all. |
| 0:55.1 | He really is not focused on the idea of there being a systemic problem. |
| 1:00.2 | He has said that George Floyd's death should not have happened, that it was a disturbing |
| 1:05.2 | video to watch, that it was not okay. |
| 1:07.7 | But he is going with sort of the bad apples approach to this, and his campaign is too, |
| 1:13.9 | which is to say that he said yesterday in this White House meeting that 99% of police |
| 1:20.0 | officers are good and mean well. |
| 1:23.0 | It doesn't take on the larger questions that the protesters are talking about. |
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