It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Friday, June 26th.

Yesterday, June 25th was exactly one month since the police killing, what Minnesota prosecutors call the murder,

of George Floyd. What has changed and what still can. With us now is Rashad Robinson,

president of the racial justice group, Color of Change. Rashad, always great to have you on. Welcome

back to WNYC. Thanks for having me. Can I start with that big picture

question? One month later, significant protests every single day since. What, if anything,

can you say, has changed? Well, we're seeing changes around the country as proposals around

reduction of police budgets are going to the table

magically.

Money that cities felt like they couldn't cut just a month ago are now suddenly they're

putting things on the table.

We recognize that most of what's being put on the table right now is simply not enough,

but the fact

of the matter is that conversation has changed from more police and bigger police budgets

to reducing police budgets and investing money into the things that we know actually keep

communities safe.

We're watching a reckoning inside of corporate America as black folks and allies and people of color

are speaking out and pushing back against policies that previously seem like things we

couldn't move. We're seeing a growing movement stop hate for profit, really challenging all

the ways in which Facebook in their algorithms and their incentive

structures, have created a platform, the sort of largest privately owned public square the

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