Surveilling The Police
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Viral videos of police brutality against Black people have generated outrage, protest, and sustained national attention this year. We talk to Bijan Stephen, a reporter at The Verge, about his latest project called “Capturing The Police,” which examines the impact these videos have on the people who film them.
Another 884,000 people filed for unemployment last week, which is more than economists were expecting. The Republicans failed to pass their “skinny” relief bill in the Senate, and it’s not clear whether another deal will be reached before the election.
And in headlines: the NFL kicks off their season, Microsoft announces election hacks, and Mike Pence gets friendly with QAnon.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 11th. I'm Achila Hughes, and I'm a list of Master Monaco filling in for Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:11.0 | And this is what a day where we're scared to see what the sky looks like today. |
| 0:15.0 | The sky needs to play the hits. What happened to Blue and Clouds? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, I mean, I'm not ready to be living in a Paris sunglasses, so figure it out. |
| 0:30.0 | Alyssa, glad to have you along again today as a reminder, and just because I really like saying it. |
| 0:40.0 | Alyssa served in the Obama administration, and among many other fabulous things, she co-hosts the podcast hysteria. |
| 0:46.0 | All right. On today's show, a conversation with reporter Bijan Steven about videos of police violence and their impact on the people who filmed them. Then some headlines. |
| 0:56.0 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:57.0 | Bob Woodward is somebody that I respect just from hearing the name from many, many years. |
| 1:03.0 | Not knowing too much about his work, not caring about his work, but I thought it would be interesting to talk to him for a period of calls. |
| 1:12.0 | So we did that. I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't even know if the book is good or bad. |
| 1:16.0 | So that was some bizarre posturing from none other than Donald Trump yesterday saying he had heard the name Bob Woodward for decades, |
| 1:24.0 | wasn't familiar with his work before he spoke to him for a total of 10 whole hours and told him that COVID was deadly and airborne way, way back in February. |
| 1:32.0 | Before he called it a hoax, a million times on Twitter for the rest of the year. |
| 1:35.0 | Akila, let me just get this straight. |
| 1:38.0 | Wasn't familiar with his work. |
| 1:41.0 | Donald Trump has been watching all the presidents men for like 40 years and misunderstanding the plot for as many years. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, I had no clue though. |
| 1:52.0 | He had no clue. And all I really want to know is when do we get to file the class action lawsuit because he talks about being a boss. |
| 1:58.0 | And I guess that makes us as employees. |
| 2:00.0 | And if a boss treated their employees like this, they'd file a class action lawsuit. |
| 2:04.0 | So someone start the online petition. |
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