The President

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The war This is our power. Take it down.

This is hell.

Remember, mass incarceration is human trafficking.

So, yeah, this is hell on Monday. It will be six years to the day that George Floyd was murdered in cold blood by Minneapolis police officer after being held in a chokehold, an illegal chokehold in public for nine minutes while bystanders were screaming, demanding George be freed, be let go, as recorded it for the world to later see until it was too late and George Floyd was dead,

killed by the hands they're supposed to serve and protect the people, not racially harass, eventually murder the public.

When we think about Minneapolis, we likely do not think of it as a hotbed of activism against police violence.

Because of that false perspective, it's also likely that many jump to the conclusion that this police violence and public response was an

anomaly, a one-off, completely out of the blue, and without any context to give us greater clarity

about the frontline issues on the ground. But in reality, the fact this uprising following

George Floyd's murder was so powerful, reveals a long history dating back to

before the middle of the last century for the people of Minneapolis, rising up against police violence.

Without knowing that past, it's hard to understand what happened following George Floyd's murder by cops and why activists had such immediate success.

Whether that continued or not is another question.

However, that success, as I was saying, was eventually muted when a key part of police reformers and abolitionist demands

fell victim to what our guest today calls the politics of policing.

In a few minutes, we'll try to get a better understanding of what happened in Minneapolis

and what continues to happen. There is a microcosm of the longer fight against police

violence. When we speak with Michelle S. Phillips, Michelle S., Phelps, Michelle S. Phelps.

You know, for some reason I knew I was going to make that mistake?

I have no idea why.

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