Still Marching After All These Years
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis published a scathing indictment of his presidency, and he’s been backed up by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. Lawmakers in the Congressional Black Caucus are preparing a piece of police legislation that will aim to end racial profiling and qualified immunity.
We speak with Dr. Keisha Blain, a professor of African American History at University of Pittsburgh, about how what’s happening now is an extension of the work civil rights leaders began long ago.
And in headlines: Trump signs executive order to weaken environmental protections, Zoom makes users pay for end-to-end encryption, and loud blonde man Jake Paul charged with looting.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 5th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what a day wrapping up another two-year long week here in America. |
| 0:13.6 | Honestly, time has just lost all meaning. |
| 0:16.5 | On top of everything else, we should also abolish clocks. |
| 0:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.6 | On today's show, a conversation with Dr. Kisha Blaine about the history of protest and police |
| 0:30.0 | than some headlines. But first, the latest. |
| 0:51.1 | That was Philoanus Floyd speaking yesterday at the first of many memorials set to take place |
| 0:58.4 | to honor his brother. And there was additional news that came out of that day of remembrance. |
| 1:03.6 | I'll sharp then and the Floyd family announced that they will hold a march on Washington in August |
| 1:07.8 | on the 57th anniversary of the original march on Washington. It will be led by families of black |
| 1:12.7 | people killed by the police. Gideon, we have a lot to cover in a short amount of time, |
| 1:16.8 | so what else is happening? |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah. So a few developments on legal proceedings or lack thereof pertaining to some high profile |
| 1:23.9 | and horrific ongoing cases. In Georgia, a judge ruled yesterday that there was probable cause |
| 1:29.1 | to try the three white men on murder charges for the killing of Amad Arbery. |
| 1:33.6 | The special agent in charge from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation also said at the hearing |
| 1:37.6 | that Travis McMichael who killed Arbery called him the N word after he fatally shot him. |
| 1:43.1 | That is according to what the man who filmed the video told investigators. |
| 1:47.0 | Then attorneys for McMichael denied it and said that Brian, the man who filmed it was lying to get |
| 1:51.7 | leniency. And yesterday a prosecutor in Omaha, Nebraska said that he was going to petition for |
| 1:58.0 | a grand jury to review the case of James Skirlach, a 22 year old black man who was shot and killed |
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