To protect and serve: police reform one year after George Floyd

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

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Protests have followed police killings in America with saddening regularity, but the scope of demonstrations following George Floyd’s murder may mark a turning point in how policing is monitored and regulated. We speak to Lee Merritt, an attorney for Mr Floyd’s family, and to our United States editor—asking how likely cultural and structural changes are to take hold. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio.
0:07.2	I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
0:09.4	Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:33.5	Thank you. The conviction of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for murder last month came as something of a surprise.
0:39.3	We better! Black lives better! Black lives better! Black lives better!
0:41.3	Black lives matter!
0:43.3	Black lives!
0:45.3	When Mr. Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck
0:48.3	at the corner of 38th in Chicago,
0:50.3	on a warm, cloudy night in Minneapolis a year ago today, there was little unusual about the
0:56.0	scene. Not for Mr. Floyd, who had been arrested before. Not for Mr. Chauvin, who had been
1:02.3	disciplined twice for misconduct and had 17 complaints against him. And not for America, where
1:08.6	black people are twice as likely as white to be killed by the police,
1:12.1	and where those killings have routinely led to widespread protests.
1:15.9	Day in day!
1:17.4	Eric Garner!
1:18.6	Who they kill?
1:19.9	Eric Garner!
1:22.9	Who they killed?
1:23.9	Eric Garner in New York, in July 2014, then Michael Brown in Missouri in August, and 12-year-old
1:29.5	Timir Rice in November. Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Stefan Clark, Brianna
1:37.3	Taylor shot eight times in her home last March. Those are just the cases that made news
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