The NFL after George Floyd

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Brewer on the NFL’s moment of reckoning over Black Lives Matter. Amber Phillips on the policing bill unveiled by the Senate GOP. And, Sarah Kaplan on the most famous skyscraper in New York going green.

At the lowest moment of my life, I rediscovered sports’ greatest gift: Hope.

Senate GOP unveils policing bill that would discourage, but not ban, tactics such as chokeholds and no-knock warrants.

New York’s most famous skyscraper shrank its planet-warming emissions by 40 percent. Can the rest of the city do the same?

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0:00.0	This Post Reports podcast is brought to you by Facebook.
0:07.3	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:10.8	Hello, how you doing?
0:11.6	Here's the Louisa back from the Washington Post.
0:13.7	Hi, this is Beth Reinhardt of the Washington Post.
0:15.6	Laurie Artoni over the post.
0:17.5	I'm...
0:18.0	This is Post Reports.
0:19.6	I'm Martine Powers.
0:23.5	It's Wednesday, June 17th.
0:26.2	Today, the NFL's About Face.
0:30.0	Police reform on Capitol Hill.
0:31.8	And New York's most famous building goes green.
0:39.0	Two weeks ago, a group of players in the NFL
0:41.8	released a video on social media.
0:43.8	It's been 10 days since George Floyd was brutally murdered.
0:47.2	How many times do we need to ask you to listen to your plans?
0:51.6	What would it take for one of us to be murdered?
0:55.6	About police brutality.
0:57.1	What if I was George Floyd?
0:58.5	If I was George Floyd?
0:59.7	What if I was George Floyd?
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