Just a heads up, this episode contains language that some of you may find offensive.

I'm Jean Demby.

I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.

And this is Code Switch.

From NPR.

Pro-testers have taken to the streets across the country in Minneapolis,

Chicago, Miami, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, L.A., New York, Sering, D.C., or Iron.

700 plus cities, Jean, naming all of them would take the entire episode.

And as we all know, by now the protests erupted after three recent high profile killings made headlines.

Three black people were killed by former or current police officers.

Those people killed were Ahmad Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia. He was 25 years old, loved football

and basketball, and he was studying to be an electrician.

Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. The 26-year-old worked as an EMT. She loved singing along badly,

according to friends and family, to music from the 80s and 90s. And George Floyd in Minneapolis,

Minnesota. He was a 46-year-old father, truck driver, and bouncer.

Friendsay, his smile lit up a room.

When the protests first started, we talked on the podcast about this feeling that we have been here

before. You and I have been covering Reese Together for the past seven years, and so the George

Floyd video and the first couple days of protesting, it all felt like deja vu.

As did so much of the official response to the unrest.

Groups of outside, radicals, and agitators are exploiting this.

These agitators, we know they come in from the outside, many come from outside the state even.

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