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🗓️ 26 May 2021
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In the year since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass mobilization of protest that followed — the largest collective gesture against police violence in this country’s history — there’s been a constant and energized call to defund or outright abolish policing as we know it in the U.S. This week on Intercepted: The U.S. has been grappling with this same cycle of violence for more than nearly a century: A Black person is killed by police, and protests follow. In 1968, the U.S. tried to find out why this kept happening in cities and small towns across the country with an unprecedented frequency. President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the Kerner Commission to study the extraordinary violence and destruction of uprisings in cities like Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit the year prior. Their findings should surprise no one. Systemic and institutionalized racism was to blame. Structural white supremacy maintained two societies: “One Black, one white. Separate and unequal.”
Historian Elizabeth Hinton, author of “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion since the 1960s,” argues that protestors were not rioters but rather political participants in rebellion against their own poverty, inequality, and constant surveillance and brutality by the police.
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0:00.0 | This is intercepted. |
0:30.0 | I'm Jack DeZadoro, lead producer for Intercepted. |
0:37.0 | You want to say say his name for your fifth sub? |
0:40.0 | Great. Say say his name. |
0:42.0 | Say his name. |
0:44.0 | George Floyd. |
0:45.0 | Say it again. |
0:47.0 | Say it now, baby. |
0:49.0 | Say it that time. |
0:50.0 | Say his name. |
0:52.0 | George Floyd. |
0:54.0 | Thank you all. |
0:55.0 | That's for his family, there. |
1:00.0 | In the years since the murder of George Floyd and Minneapolis, |
1:03.0 | in the mass mobilization of protests that followed, |
1:06.0 | the largest collective gesture against police violence in this country's history, |
1:11.0 | there's been a constant in energized call to defund or outright abolish policing |
1:16.0 | as we know it in America. |
1:19.0 | Much of this sea change is due in large part to the tireless work of grassroots activists, |
1:24.0 | and organizers, under the banner of Black Lives Matter, |
1:28.0 | and the countless others who preceded the current iteration of the movement. |
1:33.0 | Over the past year, there have been actual legislative attempts at reimagining policing. |
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