This Summer Will Be Long, Violent, and Necessary

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

George Floyd was confronted by police in Minneapolis and effectively choked to death as an officer knelt down on his neck before a crowd of onlookers. In a swelling of outrage, protesters have taken to the streets in dozens of American cities, calling for justice and reform. Floyd’s death follows on the heels of Ahmaud Arbery’s, Breonna Taylor’s, Tony McDade’s—all black American killed at the hands of police and white vigilantes over the past few months. Militarized police forces have responded to the protests with a level of violence not seen in the United States since 1968. On today’s show, Mother Jones reporters take you to the scene across the United States—from Minneapolis, where the protests began, to New York City and Los Angeles. We hear from two activists on the ground in Minneapolis, fighting fires and evacuating residents from white supremacists. We visit a rum bar turned food supply center in a Minneapolis food desert. We also go to the scene of protests across New York City. And we hear from activist Lex Steppling, who has a plan to defund the police.

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0:00.0	This episode contains content that some listeners might find disturbing.
0:04.0	Okay.
0:06.0	Hi, it's Jamila.
0:09.0	Where to start this show?
0:12.0	Protesters have taken to the streets and dozens of American cities,
0:16.0	a swelling of outrage and, thanks to militarize police forces,
0:21.0	violence not seen in the United States since 1968. We've got so much to
0:26.8	share with you today. Our team is across the country. We'll take you to
0:31.2	Minneapolis inside the community's response to heal a broken city to
0:36.1	Los Angeles here in New York to demonstrations for justice but I didn't quite know how to
0:42.4	start.
0:44.0	So, before we get to all this reporting on this historic moment,
0:48.0	I wanted to share with you something that I wrote for Mother Jones.
0:52.0	It's my attempt to try to sort out my thinking this week.
0:57.6	In the first several months of 2020, at least a handful of black people have been
1:02.1	wantonly killed by police or white
1:04.4	vigilantes.
1:05.4	Maude Arbury was jogging around his Brunswick Georgia neighborhood
1:10.0	when white men chased him down in a pickup truck and shot him multiple times.
1:19.2	Brianna Taylor was sleeping in her Louisville apartment when cops executing a no-knock search warrant
1:25.6	barking to her home.
1:26.7	I don't know what happened.
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