It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Monday, June 8th.

On day 100 since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York City, day 12 since the first protest over the

death of George Floyd in town. And on this day 100, the city enters phase one of reopening.

And on this day 12, Mayor de Blasio will see a protest out his office window and his home office

window as members of his own administration,

unhappy with how he's handled protesters and the police, will be marching from City Hall to

Gracie Mansion. Yesterday, however, he did change his tune about cutting police funding as part of

the coronavirus budget deficit. Now the NYPD will take some cuts,

he says, along with all the other agencies. The city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed,

of course, plans to dismantle and reconstruct its police department now. The New York State

legislature will take up repeal of the so-called 50A law today.

That's the law that shields police disciplinary records from public view. Congress will take

up police reform today, too. According to the New York Times, the legislation would make it

easier to prosecute police misconduct and recover damages. It would also create a

national registry to track police misconduct and ban certain chokeholds and other tactics,

according to a draft provided to the New York Times. With us now, El Joy Williams, president of the

Brooklyn chapter of the NAACP.

She is also a political strategist who has worked on the campaigns of candidates, including

Jamani Williams, Letitia James, and Cynthia Nixon.

She's been a Wisconsin get-out-the-vote supervisor for the John Kerry for president campaign in 2004.

Getting out the vote in Wisconsin will certainly be a really important job for someone this year,

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