Why They're Protesting

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This episode includes disturbing language including racial slurs. They came together to protest the killing of George Floyd — and because what happened to him had echoes in their own experiences. Today, we speak with five protesters about the moments in their lives that brought them onto the streets. Guests: Donfard Hubbard, 44, from Minneapolis; Rashaad Dinkins, 18, from Minneapolis; Joe Morris, 32, from Tallahassee, Fla.; Azalea Hernandez, 12, from Minneapolis; and Joyce Ladner, 76, from Washington. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

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0:00.0	Sunday morning, I'm telling you, I was sitting in my house.
0:04.8	I was contemplating and I got up, I got my car and I just drove.
0:15.6	I drove through North Minneapolis and I drove through South Minneapolis and I landed
0:20.0	at the area where Mr. Floyd got killed.
0:25.4	And when I got out, I walked up and I felt comfortable.
0:29.3	Like I was in a surrounding of my own people that we're going to be out here and we're going to try to make
0:38.3	the best of a bad situation.
0:41.3	So we out there chanting, they out there talking, I'm out there listening.
0:46.3	And I feel good and this is one of those things.
0:49.3	It was so beautiful to see people coming together and trying to have their voices heard.
1:07.3	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
1:10.3	This is the Daily.
1:13.3	Today, they came to protest the death of George Floyd and because his experience spoke to their own.
1:24.3	Five protesters on the moments that brought them into the streets.
1:31.3	It's Friday, June 5th.
1:49.3	My name is Don Farad Hubbard.
1:52.3	I am 44 years old.
1:54.3	I grew up in Minneapolis.
1:56.3	I've been in Minneapolis since 1978.
2:00.3	So when I was 10 years old, I was up at the park.
2:04.3	It's like eight, nine blocks away, like nine of my friends.
2:09.3	We was having a snowball fight.
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