Hello media consumers. This is the press box. Brian Curtis and David Schumacher here.

Our topic once again is the protest across the country in response to the killing of

George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. Later in the show, David and I will touch on

Donald Trump's photo op in front of the church near the White House. But first and

much more importantly, we want to get the perspective of two reporters who are actually

on the ground covering the protests. In a second, we're going to talk to the Washington

Post-Robert Klemko who's in Minneapolis. But here first is the ringer's very own Tyler

Tines who's covering the protest movement in Brooklyn and now Washington DC. He's got

a great, beautifully written new piece up with the ringer, which you need to read right

now. A night of protest, pain and peace in Brooklyn. Tyler, thanks for doing this.

Now the Vobbs, North Philly, you know what's going on.

You started covering the protests in Brooklyn on Monday. First question for you. What was

the biggest difference between the protests as you saw and experienced them firsthand

versus the version that got filtered back to the rest of us on social media and cable

TV.

Right. So let me kind of preface this with a bit of context, right? I've been covering

protests more or less since 2015 as a national reporter in summer sex as I was 21. I'm

26 now. And so that's five years since the robust start of this, which was this laying

of Trayvon Martin in Florida. Since then, it's been Michael Brown, it's been Sandra

Bland, it's been a Tatiya Mejephris said, it's been countless names to the point that

we don't have the time to even get through all of them because it's over a thousand per

year by police. And so that perspective sort of kind of, it's a bridge for me when I go

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