Savage Love Episode 710
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.8 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.4 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.6 | I say this as the son of a cop. |
| 0:27.9 | I say this as the brother of a cop, the nephew of a cop. |
| 0:33.3 | Fuck the police. |
| 0:36.1 | Oh my God, that was not easy for me to say. |
| 0:38.4 | I love my dad, who never once pulled his service revolver out of its holster during his two decades as a cop in Chicago. |
| 0:45.8 | And I love my brother, a thoroughly decent guy who has managed to keep his knee off the neck of everyone in the small but racially diverse town where he works. |
| 0:55.1 | But I got to say, I got to say it right now, fuck the police. |
| 1:00.8 | I've been watching video all weekend of police officers firing tear gas and flash grenades |
| 1:06.6 | into peaceful crowds, of police officers pepper spraying children, of police officers, pepper-spraying children, of police officers |
| 1:12.3 | assaulting protesters, arresting journalists, firing rubber bullets and news photographers, |
| 1:19.1 | terrorizing the people who gathered this week at great personal risk to protest the murder |
| 1:23.8 | of George Floyd in Minneapolis. |
| 1:26.9 | Another black man murdered by a cop, which came shortly after the attempted murder by |
| 1:32.5 | cop of Christopher Cooper in Central Park, which came not long after the murder of Brianna Taylor |
| 1:37.7 | in Louisville, Kentucky. Taylor was an EMT technician who was shot to death by the cops in her |
| 1:43.2 | own bed after police officers |
| 1:45.9 | stormed into her apartment in a no-knock raid. They were searching for a man who not only did |
| 1:51.5 | not live in Brianna Taylor's apartment complex, but who was already in police custody. |
| 1:57.5 | The scales did not suddenly fall from my eyes this weekend. The problem with the police |
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