Why Are Police Attacking Protestors?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. Across the country, the police have responded to protests over police brutality with more force. Today, we listen in on confrontations at demonstrations in New York. Guest: Ali Watkins, a crime and law enforcement reporter at The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Across the country, police officers have responded to growing protests over police brutality with increasingly violent crowd control techniques, using batons, tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets on protesters, bystanders and journalists.In New York, officers have charged and swung batons at demonstrators after curfew with seemingly little provocation. The mayor said he would review any reports of inappropriate enforcement.

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0:25.6	From New York Times, I'm Mike of Abarro.
0:32.6	This is the Daily.
0:40.6	Today, as protesters across the country demonstrated against police violence, they were met over
0:49.2	and over with police violence.
0:53.5	My colleague, Ali Watkins, was on the streets of New York.
0:59.4	It's Monday, June 8.
1:05.3	Ali, you cover the New York City Police Department and they have been consumed by these protests.
1:10.9	Where did that story start for you?
1:13.0	So I came into the story last Sunday.
1:15.6	It's the first weekend of protests in New York and we had kind of been seeing them grow
1:20.1	in intensity for a few days at that point.
1:23.8	We had seen police cars burned.
1:25.7	We had seen a lot of clashes between protesters and police.
1:29.4	And by Sunday night, we had this kind of growing tension between demonstrators and the cops.
1:38.8	I went out and linked up with a group of a couple thousand protesters who were marching
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