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All quoted material (ie. the bio material) is from here: https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-07-17/nfl-billionaire-team-owners-who-rule-sports-united-states
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Note: As most know, Green Bay does not have an owner. Officially, the Packers are owned by hundreds of thousands of public shareholders. A not-for-profit organization, the Green Bay Packers, Inc., hosted stock sales in 1923, 1935, 1950, 1997 and 2011. According to the team’s website, 361,311 people own 5,009,518 Packer shares. Fans don’t earn money for their investments in the team. The franchise is governed by a seven-member executive committee
So how many of the remaining 31 teams have owners who inherited the team and/or their wealth? It’s 17.
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Arizona. Michael Bidwell. The Cardinals are the family business. Grandfather Charles Bidwill, a Chicago attorney, bought the team in 1932. Son William Bidwill was the owner until his death last October. He moved the franchise from St. Louis to Arizona in 1988. Michael has been chairman since 2007.
Chicago. Chairman/CEO: Virginia Halas McCaskey. The McCaskey family wealth came from operating the Bears for a century. Virginia’s late father, George Halas, bought the team three years before she was born.
Cincinnati. Chairman/CEO: Mike Brown. Brown’s father, Paul, helped found the Bengals. Paul Brown eventually became coach and general manager of the team and had autonomy over the football and business operations. Over time, the family bought a majority interest in the franchise.
Denver. Chairman/CEO: The Pat Bowlen Trust, Joe Ellis. Pat Bowlen’s father, Paul, was a millionaire in the Canadian oil business. Pat had a successful law practice in Edmonton and also worked as an executive for his father’s company, Regent Drilling, and as a real estate developer. Pat Bowlen officially relinquished control of the franchise to team president Joe Ellis in 2014. Bowlen died five years later. It is believed that Bowlen’s daughter Brittany eventually will assume the role of controlling owner.
Detroit. Chairman/CEO: Sheila Ford Hamp. Ford Hamp took over as principal owner in June after her 94-year-old mother, Martha Firestone Ford, stepped down after leading the organization for six seasons. Firestone Ford inherited the team when her husband, William Clay Ford, died in March 2014. Hamp Ford has attended league meetings with her mother and had been a sounding board on key organizational decisions.
Houston. Chairman/CEO: Janice McNair. McNair’s husband, Bob, was the Texans’ original owner when he was awarded an expansion franchise in 1999. She inherited the team after he died in November of 2018.
Indianapolis. Chairman/CEO: Jim Irsay. Jim Irsay inherited the franchise — and his money — from his father, Robert, who died in 1997.
Kansas City. Chairman/CEO: Clark Hunt. Clark Hunt is the son of Lamar Hunt, who was one of wealthy oil baron H.L. Hunt’s 14 children. Lamar Hunt helped launch the American Football League and founded the Dallas Texans, who won the 1962 AFL title and then moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.
Las Vegas. Chairman/CEO: Mark Davis. Al Davis, Mark’s father, was an assistant coach at USC and with the Chargers before becoming a player personnel assistant, a head coach, a general manager, the AFL commissioner and then eventually owner of the Raiders.
LA Chargers. Chairman/CEO: Dean Spanos. In 1960, Dean’s father, Alex, founded AG Spanos Companies and would become one of the most prominent apartment developers in the country. The company remains among America’s largest family-owned businesses. Alex Spanos purchased majority interest in the team in 1984. Dean Spanos was named team president and chief executive officer of the Chargers in early 1994.
New Orleans. Gayle Benson. Benson spent more than 30 years working in the interior design business. She married Tom Benson, a businessman and owner of multiple car dealerships, in 2004, to become his third wife. She inherited the Saints and the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans in 2018 after Tom died.
New York Giants. Chairman/CEO: John Mara/Steven Tisch. ara, a former labor lawyer, is the grandson of original team investor Timothy Mara and the oldest son of Wellington Mara. Tisch, a successful movie producer, is a son of Bob Tisch, co-founder of the Loews Corp, which bought a 50% stake in the team in 1991.
New York Jets. Chairman/CEO: Christopher Johnson. Johnson is an heir to the Johnson & Johnson empire. His great-grandfather founded the company and his grandfather grew it into a global icon. Christopher Johnson assumed control of the Jets when his brother Woody became the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Pittsburgh. Chairman/CEO: Art Rooney II.Art Rooney II’s grandfather, Art Rooney Sr., founded the Steelers — as the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 10-team NFL in 1933 — and grew the operation into a financial empire as franchise values swelled over several decades.
San Francisco. Chairman/CEO: Denise DeBartolo York, John York. Denise is the granddaughter of Edward DeBartolo Sr., an Ohio-based construction magnate and commercial real estate developer who purchased the team. She is the sister of Edward DeBartolo Jr. She took control of the team in 2001 in the wake of her brother’s legal troubles. She married John York, a pathologist, in 1978.
Seattle. Chairman/CEO: Jody Allen. Paul Allen, who died in 2018, co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. He also owned the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and was part owner of the MLS’s Seattle Sounders. His sister Jody chairs the Seahawks and the Trail Blazers and also philanthropy-centered Vulcan Inc.
Tennessee. Chairman/CEO: Amy Adams Strunk. Adams Strunk’s father, Bud, was one of the founders of the AFL and the Titans franchise, which started as the Houston Oilers. Bud Adams made his money in the petroleum business. Adams Strunk inherited the team after her father died in 2013.
I ask you follow Portland and the Gestapo techniques in play by the unwanted and uninvited Fed military forces. As one letter writer put it the “night and fog” techniques by those in riot gear, no identification on their uniforms other than “Police” are indistinguishable from Hitler’s Gestapo. Demonstrators (non-violent) are being picked up and whisked away in unmarked vans as a show that Trump is tough. This will be the same in Chicago, San Francisco, New York as we near November. The United States is no longer “on the road” to authoritarianism. We have reached the destination. Trump’s answer to any form of dissent was learned from his father: Quash it.
The US Attorney for the Oregon District requested an investigation into masked, camouflaged federal authorities without identification badges who are arresting protesters in Portland https://t.co/u3lChPyXz4
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Before they drive off, he’s parked righthere, its a fake bill fromKueng:
The driver in there ?Lane: The blue Benz?
Speaker 1:
Which one?Speaker 3 :
That blue one over there .Kueng
Which one?Lane:
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yup-yup Justhead back in. They’re moving around alot. Letmesee yourhands. George Floyd:
Hey,man.I’m sorry! Lane:
Stayinthe car,letmeseeyourotherhand. George Floyd:
I’m sorry,I’m sorry! Lane:
Letmeseeyourother hand! George Floyd:
Please, Mr.Officer. Lane:
Both hands. George Floyd:
I didn’t do nothing. Lane:
Put your fuckinghandsup rightnow ! Letme see your other hand. Shawanda Hill:
lethim seeyourotherhand George Floyd :
All right.WhatIdothough?WhatwedoMrOfficer? Lane:
Putyourhand up there.Putyour fuckinghandupthere! Jesus Christ,keep your fucking handson the wheel
George Floyd:
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Keep your fucking hands on thewheel. George Floyd:
Yes, sir. I’m sorry , officer crosstalk 00:02:03) Lane:
Who else is in the ? George Floyd:
Thismy friend. Lane:
Put your foot back in George Floyd:
I’m sorry, so sorry.Goddangman.Man, got,i shotthesamewayMrOfficer,before. Lane:
Okay. Wellwhen I say “Letmesee yourhands,” youput yourfucking handsup. George Floyd :
Iam sosorry,Mrofficer.Dangman. Lane:
You got him ? Put your hands on top ofyour head. George Floyd :
Lasttime gotshotlikethatMrOfficer itwasthesamething Lane:
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Handsontopofyourhead.Handson topofyearhead.Stepoutofthevehicle,andstepawayfromme, allright?
George Floyd:
Yes, sir. Lane:
Step out and face away. Step outand face away . George Floyd:
Okay,Mr.Officer,pleasedon’tshootme. Please,man. Lane:
I’m not going to shoot you. Step out and away George Floyd:
I’lllookatyou eye-to-eyeman.Pleasedon’tshootme,man. Lane:
I’m notshootingyou,man. George Floyd
I justlostmymom ,man. Lane
320 were taking one out. Step out and face away . George Floyd:
Man, I’m so sorry. Lane
Step out and face away .
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Pleasedon’tshootme,Mr.Officer.Please, don’tshootmeman.Please. Can younotshootme,man? Lane:
Step out and faceaway. I’m not shooting. Step out and face away. George Floyd:
Okay, okay, okay. Please. Please, man. Please. Please. I didn’tknow man. Lane:
Get outofthe car. George Floyd:
I didn’tknow,ididn’tknowMr.Officer. ShawandaRenee Hill
Stop resisting Floyd! Lane:
Put your fucking hands behind yourback. Putyour handsbehind your back rightnow ! Kueng:
Stopmoving. Stop! Put your handsbehind your back then ! Lane
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Get his other arm George Floyd:
I’m notgoingtodonothing. Kueng:
Hey you come back ! Stay in the car! George Floyd
00:03:24.
I’m sorryMr.Officer, Shawanda Renee Hill
What did you say sir? George Floyd:
On man Kueng
Stop resisting then . George Floyd:
I’m not Kueng:
Yes, you are. George Floyd
getonmykneeswhatever.
Ididn’t donothingwrongman.[inaudible00:03:38]. Kueng
Stand up! George Floyd
Please, please,man. Lane:
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Against thewall. Shawanda Renee Hill
Whome? Lane:
Yes.
Shawanda Renee Hill
What I do ? Lane:
We’re figuring out what’s going on Drop the bag. ShawandaRenee Hill:
Figure out what’s going on 00:03:54 . Lane:
What’s the problem ? Shawanda Renee Hill:
Somebody said something to him , it ain’t us. Speaker 7:
Wewas getting aride, sir. Shawanda Renee Hill:
just gotmy phone fixed. crosstalk 00:04:00 ). Speaker 7:
You can ask Adam about us, Adam know me. Lane:
Are you good? crosstalk 00:04:06 ]. You got ID Shawanda Renee Hill
Come and getme, girl they going took Floyd to Jail, guna take Floyd to jail.
Comeandgetme Speaker 7:
YoucanaskMr.Adamaboutussir.YoucanaskMrAdamaboutme, coo.l Lane:
DoyouhaveID? Shawanda Renee Hill:
I’m on 38th and Chicago. 38th and Chicago. Lane:
320 for code four Speaker 7
YoucanaskMr.Adam aboutme,sir.Ijustcameandboughtatablet.AndwhenIboughtthetablet,it didn’twork orwhatever.
Shawanda Renee Hill:
OhmyGod,hedidn’t evendonothing. Speaker 7
Here you go sir. Lane:
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Do you haveID ShawandaRenee Hill
No I don’t.Myname’s Shawanda ReneeHill. Fuck, no. Lane :
Okay . Speaker 7:
Sirher andi were justgetting aride, MrAdam ,MrAdam knowsmeman. Shawanda Renee Hill
justcameovertogetmyphone.Yousee don’thaveapurseornothing,andmydaughterisonher wayto getme
Lane:
What’s his deal? Shawanda Renee Hill:
I don’tknow Speaker 7
Mr.Adam knowsme,sir. crosstalk 00:04:50 Shawanda Renee Hill:
That’smyex. Idon’tknow . Lane:
Why’shegetting allsquirrelly and not showing us his hands, and justbeingallweird like that ? Shawanda Renee Hill:
i have no clue, because he’s been shot before . Lane:
Well get that,butstillwhen officers say,”Getoutofthe car.” Ishedrunk, isheonsomething? Shawanda Renee Hill:
No,hegotathinggoing on,I’m tellingyouaboutthepolice. Lane:
What does thatmean ? Shawanda Renee Hill
Hehave problems all the timewhen they come, especially when that man put that gun likethat. It’s been one.
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What’s your firstname? Shawanda Renee Hill:
His name isGeorge Floyd. Lane:
What isit? Speaker 7
He’s a good guy. George Floyd she said. Lane:
Can you spell that? Speaker 7:
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Hername. ShawandaReneeHill
Ohmyname? Lane:
Yeah , yeah ShawandaReneeHill:
ShawandaReneeHil.l Lane:
Can you spell it? Shawanda ReneeHill
S-H-A-W -A-N-D-A. Lane:
S-H-A-W ShawandaReneeHill
A-N-D-A. Speaker 7
Heallrightsir.Like said,butMr.Adams ShawandaReneeHill
Yeah, heok. Lane:
Kueng,justputhim in thecar.Shawandawhat? ShawandaRenee Hill
Hill,orRenee, R-E-N-E-E. Lane:
What’syourlastname? ShawandaRenee Hill
Hill, H-I-L-L. Lane:
And your date of birth ? Shawanda Renee Hill
isya’llcomingto getme. 1/27/75. Okay. Lane:
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Okaywellso here’sthething, someonepasseda fakebillin there.Wecomeoverhere,he starts grabbingforthekeysandallthatstuff, startsgettingweird,notshowingushishands.Idon’tknow
what’s goingon, so you’re comingoutofthe car. So, just hang tightrighthere. Stayright here, please. George Floyd:
Ouch, ouchman! Lane:
What areyou on somethingrightnow ? George Floyd
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No, nothing. Kueng:
Because you acting a little erratic. Lane:
Let’s go. Let’s go George Floyd:
I’m scared ,man Lane:
Let’s go Kueng:
You got foam around yourmouth , too ? George Floyd:
Yes, I was just hooping earlier . Lane:
Let’s go George Floyd:
Man,allrightletmecalm downnow.I’m feelingbetternow. Lane :
Keep walking . George Floyd:
Can youdomeonefavorman? Lane:
No, when we get to the car. Let’s get to the carman, comeon. Kueng:
Stopmoving around George Floyd:
man,Goddon’tleavememan.Pleaseman,pleaseman. Lane:
Here.Iwanttowatch thatcartoo, so justgethim in. Kueng:
Standup,stopfallingdown!Standup Stayonyourfeetandfacethecar door! George Floyd:
Im claustrophobic man, please man , please . Lane
you get a search on him Kueng
No,notyet. George Floyd:
just want totalk toyouman.Please,letmetalk to you.Please. Lane
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You ain’t listening to nothing we’re saying. George Floyd
know Speaker 8
So we’re not going to listen to nothing you saying. Lane:
Can you watch thatcar? Just make sure no one goes in it. George Floyd
Im claustrophobic . Kueng:
hear you, but you are going to face this door right now . Lane:
Listen up, stop! George Floyd:
illdoanything,illdoanythingy’alltellmetooman.I’m notresistingman.I’mnot!I’mnot!Youcanask him , they know me.
Lane:
check that side. George Floyd :
Godman, won’t do nothinglike that.Why is this going on like this? Look at mywrist Mr.Officer, I’m not thatkind ofguy
Lane:
Check the other side. George Floyd:
Mr.Officer,MrOfficer,I’m notthatkindofguy. Lane:
Stop
George Floyd:
Please, I’m not that kind of guy,Mr.Officer. Please! Lane:
Just face away George Floyd:
Please,man. Don’t leavemebymyselfman, please, I’m just claustrophobic that’s it. Lane:
Well, you’re still going in the car. Kueng
Anything sharp on you? George Floyd:
Iwon’t donothing to hurt you,MrOfficer. Kueng
Do you have anything sharp on you ? George Floyd:
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No, sir. Kueng:
Not even like a comb or nothing George Floyd:
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I don’thavenothing. Why y’alldoingmelikethis Mr.Officer? Please crack thewindow formeandstuff.
am claustrophobicfor rea,lMr.Officer. Lane:
You got him ? George Floyd:
Could you please crack it for me, please? Lane:
Yes, I’llcrack it.Iwill George Floyd
Pleasestaywithmeman,thankyou.God,man.Ididn’tknow allthiswasgoingtohappenman.Please
man 00:08:05 . I don’t want to do nothing to y’allman, nothing. Lane:
You gotit? Kueng:
yougettheinsideinnerpocketrealquickon yourside.I’m listening. George Floyd:
understandthatpeopledo stuff,and Lane:
Allright,he’sgood. justlookingforguns and whatever. George Floyd:
Okay, okay, okay. Lane:
grab aseat. George Floyd:
Okay. Kueng:
Why are you having trouble walking George Floyd:
Because officer, inaudible 00:08:31]. Lane:
I’llrollthe windowsdown, okay ? George Floyd:
Please man, please don’t do this! Kueng:
Take a seat! George Floyd
I’m going in,Mr.Officer, I’m going in .
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Kueng:
No, you’renot! George Floyd:
I’m gunagoin! Kueng:
Take a seat! Lane:
Grab a seat,man. George Floyd
Why don’t y’all believeme, Mr.Officer? Kueng:
Take a seat ! George Floyd:
I’mnotthatkindofguy!I’m notthatkindofguy,man! Kueng:
Takea seat! George Floyd
Y’all goingto dieinhere! goingto die,man! Kueng:
You need to take a seat right now ! George Floyd:
And I just had man, don’t want to go back to that. Lane:
Okay, rollthe windowsdown.Hey, listen ! George Floyd:
Dang, man Lane:
Listen ! George Floyd:
I’m notthatkindofguy. Lane:
I’llrollthewindowsdownifyouputyour legsin allright? George Floyd:
[ inaudible 00:08:57 ] look at that , look at that . Look at it ! Speaker 8
putthe air on.
You’re not even listening.Wecan fix it, butnotwhile you’re standing out here. George Floyd:
Okay,man.God,y’alldomebadman.Man, I don’twant to try to twin to try to win.
Speaker 9
Quit resistingbro. George Floyd:
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I don’t want to win . I’m claustrophobic, and i gotanxiety, I don’twant to do nothing to them ! Lane
I’llroll window down. George Floyd:
Man, I’m scared as fuckman . Speaker 9
That’s okay, 00:09:12 . George Floyd:
inaudible 00:09:12 ]when I startbreathing it’s going to go off onme,man. Lane:
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Pullyourlegsin George Floyd :
Okay, okay, letme countto three. Letme count to three andthen Speaker 9:
going in, please.
You can’t win ! George Floyd:
I’m not trying to win! man, he know it
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I’llgo to the other side inaudible 00:09:21 George Floyd:
Heknow ittooMr.Officerdon’tdomelikethat,man. Kueng
Getin the car.
George Floyd :
Can Italk to youplease? Kueng
Ifyougetin this car,wecan talk! George Floyd:
I’m claustrophobic Kueng
I’m hearingyou,butyou’renotworkingwithme! George Floyd:
God, claustrophobic. Lane:
Plant your butt overhere, Kueng:
Get in the car ! George Floyd:
CanIgetin thefront,please? Kueng
No, you’re not getting in the front.
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George Floyd:
I’m claustrophobic,Mr.Officer. Kueng
Getin the car! George Floyd:
Okay,man,okay!I’m notabadguyman! Kueng:
Get in the car ! George Floyd:
I’m nota bad guy! Man, [inaudible 00:10:02 . Please, Mr.Officer! Please ! Kueng:
Take a seat ! George Floyd :
Please! Please! No, inaudible 00:10:10 . Kueng:
Take a seat. George Floyd:
I can’t choke,Ican’t breatheMr.Officer!Please! Please! Kueng:
Fine.
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Mywrist,mywristman. Okay, okay. I want to layon the ground.I want to layon the ground. I want to layon the ground!
Lane:
your getting in the squad. George Floyd :
want to lay on the ground ! I’m going down, Kueng:
Take asquat George Floyd
I’m going down Speaker 9
going down, I’m going down.
Bro, you about tohave aheartattack and shitman,get in the car! George Floyd:
I know I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe crosstalk 00:10:18 ] . Lane:
Get him on the ground . George Floyd:
Let go ofmeman , I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. Lane:
Take a seat George Floyd:
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Please,man. Please listen to me. Chauvin :
Ishegoingto jail? George Floyd: Pleaselisten to me.
Kueng
He’s under arrest rightnow for forgery. George Floyd:
Forgery forwhat? for what ? Lane:
Let’stakehim outandjustMRE. George Floyd:
can’t fucking breatheman.I can’t fucking breathe. Kueng:
Here, Comeon out! George Floyd:
inaudible 00:11:10) thank you. Thank you. Thao:
Justlayhim ontheground. Lane:
Can you just get up on the, I appreciate that, I do. Chauvin :
Do you got your ah, restraint, Hobble? George Floyd:
I can’tbreathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. Lane:
Jesus Christ. George Floyd:
can’t breathe. Lane:
Thank you. George Floyd:
I can’tbreathe. Kueng
Stop moving George Floyd:
Mama,mama, mama, mama. Kueng:
[inaudible 00:11:45] one of the frontpouches George Floyd:
Mama,mama, mama. Kueng:
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Mama,mama,mama. Lane:
320 Can we get EMScode2, for one bleedingfrom themouth. Chauvin :
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Your under arrest guy. George Floyd:
Allright, allright. OhmyGod. I can’tbelievethis.I Chauvin :
So your goingto jai.l Lane:
Affirm . George Floyd:
believe this.
I can’t believe this man. Mom , I love you. [ Reese 00:12:09] I love you. Lane:
You got 00:12:10). George Floyd:
TellmykidsIlovethem.I’m dead Lane:
Mine’sinmy side,it’s listed, it’s labeled. Itsays hobble, it’s in the top. George Floyd:
Ican’tbreatheornothingman.Thiscold bloodedman.Ah- Chauvin :
You’re doing a lotoftalking,man . George Floyd
Mama, I love you. I can’t do nothing. Kueng:
EMSison their way
welldo you wantahobbleatthis point then? Lane:
!Ah-Ah!Ah-Ah!
Um ok , allriggt George Floyd:
Myface is gone.
can’t breathe. Lane:
Can you getupon the sidewalkplease, onesideorthe other please? George Floyd:
Myface is getting it bad. Lane:
Here, should we gethis legs up, or is this good?
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Chauvin
Leave him Kueng:
Just leave him yep Chauvin :
Just leave him Lane:
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Allright.HopefullyPark’sstillsitting onthecar.Theywere,Hewasactingrealshadylikesomething’sin there .
Thao
Ishehighon something? Lane:
I’m assuming so Kueng:
Ibelieve so,we found a pipe. Lane:
Hewouldn’t get outof the car. He wasn’t following instructions. [crosstalk 00:13:10). Yeah, it’s across the street Park’s watching it, two other people with him .
George Floyd:
Please, I can’tbreathe. Please,man. Pleaseman! Thao:DoyouhaveEMScoming code3?
Lane:
Ahcode2,wecanprobably stepitupthen. Yougotit?(crosstalk00:13:29 . George Floyd:
Please ,man ! Thao:
Relax! George Floyd:
can’t breathe. Kueng
You’re fine, you’re talking fine. Lane:
Your talken , Deep breath . George Floyd:
I can’t breathe. Ican’t breathe. Ah! I’llprobably just die this way. Thao:
Relax
George Floyd :
can’t breathemy face. Lane :
He’s got to be on something. Thao
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Wellgetup andgetin thecar,man.Getupandgetinthecar. George Floyd:
I will I can’tmove. Speaker 9:
Lethim getinthecar. Lane :
Wefoundaweed pipeonhim,theremightbesomethingelse,theremightbelikePCPorsomething.Is that the shaking of the eyesrightis PCP ?
George Floyd :
Myknee,myneck. Lane:
Where their eyes like shakeback and forth really fast? George Floyd:
Im through, through. I’m claustrophobic. Mystomach hurts. Myneckhurts. Everythinghurts. Ineed
somewater or something, please. Please ?I can’t breathe officer. Chauvin :
Then stop talking, stop yelling. George Floyd:
You’re going to killme,man. Chauvin :
Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk . George Floyd:
Comeon,man.Oh, oh. crosstalk 00:15:03].I cannotbreathe.I cannotbreathe. Ah! They’llkillme. They’ll killme. I can’t breathe. I can’tbreathe. !
Speaker 8
We tried that for 10minutes. George Floyd :
Ah! Ah! Please. Please. Please. Lane:
Shouldwerollhim on hisside? Chauvin
No,he’s stayingputwherewegothim . Lane:
Okay. justworry aboutthe excited delirium orwhatever. Chauvin
Well that’s why wegot the ambulance coming. Lane:
Okay, isuppose.
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Gethim offtheground,bro.Gethim offtheground crosstalk00:16:16.Heain’tdoanyofthatshit.He a fuckingbum bro, he enjoyingthat shit rightnow bro. You couldhavefuckingputhim in the car by
now,bro.He’snotresistingarrestornothing. inaudible00:16:48] bodylanguageiscrazy. crosstalk
00:16:48] dudes at the academybro. you know thatbogusrightnow bro. Youknow it’sbogus. Youcan’t
even look atmelike amanbecauseyou now bro.
ShawandaReneeHill:
He’s aboutto passout. Lane:
I thinkhe’spassingout. Speaker 13
He’snotevenbreathingright 00:16:58]
Chauvin :
you guys alright though ? Lane:
00:16:48] bro. He’s not even resistingarrest right
He’s breathing Kueng
He’s breathing. crosstalk 00:17:26). Chauvin :
Don’t comeover here. Don’t comeover here. Lane:
Up on the sidewalk! Kueng :
Weneedyoutokeepsomedistance. Speaker 14
Ishe responsive? Chauvin :
yea, we have an ambulance coming Speaker 14
Doeshehave a pulse? Speaker 8
Get off crosstalk 00:17:42 . Lane:
Should we rollhim on his side? Speaker 13
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bro, you thinkthat’scool?Youthinkthat’scoo,lright?[crosstalk
Yeah, Imeanmykneemightbea little scratched,butI’llsurvive. Speaker 13
You’re a bum bro, you’re a bum for that. Can’t you be aman and see here he’s notbreathing rightnow . Lane:
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He’s notresponsive rightnow, bro. Speaker 14
Doeshe have a pulse? Speaker 13
No, bro . Look at him , he’snot responsive right now , bro. Bro, are you serious? Lane:
you gotone? Speaker 14:
Letme see a pulse. Kueng
i couldn’t fine one Speaker 13
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Is he breathingright now ? Check his pulse. Check his pulse. Check his pulse. inaudible 00:18:19 check
hispulse. crosstalk 00:18:19). Check hispulse, bro. inaudible 00:18:21] drugs bro. What you think that is? crosstalk 00:18:25). Youcallwhat youdoingokay?[inaudible00:18:25 .
Speaker 14
Yes, I am from Minneapolis. Speaker 15
Okay, get off the sidewalk . Speaker 14:
Showmehispulse. Check itrightfucking now . Speaker 15:
Getback on the sidewalk. [crosstalk 00:18:33). Speaker 14
He’s notmoving! Speaker 13:
Bro, you’re a bum bro. You’re a bum bro. Speaker 14
Checkhispulserightnow andtellmewhatitis. Tellmewhathispulseisrightnow. Speaker 13:
Check his pulse. Bro, he has not moved ( crosstalk 00:19:43). Lane:
What ?
Dispatch: Squad 330 EMSis at Portland and 36th theywere advised of code 3. Lane:
Therewere advisedwhat?
Kueng
Ofcode 3 Chauvin :
Acknowledge that Dispatch:
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Copy i was just giving you their updated location, they are en route. Lane:
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Therewego. Speaker 13
Bro , he was just moving when I walked up
[inaudible 00:19:43 ]. Speaker 16:
crosstalk 00:19:43 ]. Bro, he’s not fucking moving! Bro
Get the fuck off of him what are you doing? crosstalk 00:19:43 . dying bro, what are you doing ? Lane:
He’s not responsive right now , you guys probably want to crosstalk 00:19:44 ]. Yeah. Speaker 16
Get off him ! crosstalk 00:19:53 . Lane:
Should we get another car?Another car just for the crowd. inaudible 00:20:06 ) Chauvin :
Let’s get him on inaudible 00:20:11 . Speaker 13
inaudible 00:20:14 bro inaudible 00:20:16] like that. inaudible 00:20:17 thatman in front ofyou, bro ?He’s noteven fuckingmoving rightnow,bro. crosstalk 00:20:23).
Lane:
yourlightson again Speaker 17
Youguys can get out oftheway. [crosstalk 00:21:11.
Lane:
Youwantoneofusto ridewith? Kueng:
Yeah . Lane :
Ridewith? Okay. Idon’t havemyphone so I’llbeBaker (crosstalk 00:21:48].What’sthat? Chauvin:
Gelt them belted Down Kueng:
Help getbelted down. Chauvin :
Getbelted down Lane:
yup, where we going ? Speaker 17
We’re justgoing to be downthe street. Lane :
Okay
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You guyswantto shutthedoors, getout ofhere, andwe’re goingtogodownthe street. Lane:
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Doyouwanthere orno? Speaker 17:
Yeah , go to something, 40th , Tell fire where to go . Lane:
Okay.Doyouwantmein thereorno? Speaker 17
yea. Lane:
Allright. Oops. Speaker 17:
You’re fine. Kueng:
Lane ? Lane :
Yep Kueng:
This yours ? Lane:
Yeah,nope. Speaker 17:
All rightwhatwas going on ? Lane:
Itwas forgery report Speaker 17:
Yep Lane:
And he was just notcompliant with getting outof the car. Speaker 17
Okay Lane:
Weweretryingtogethim inthebackofthesquad,andhe Speaker 17:
Yep. Lane:
justbasicallyresisting.
Hewasn’tshowingushishandsatfirst.Thenweweretryingto gethim intothesquad,hekickedhis way out,he was kickingon there. And we cameout the other side, and hewas fighting us, andwewere
justbasicallyrestrainedhim untilyouguysgot . Speaker 17
Okay . You do CPR
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Lane:
Allright. You wantmedoing just compressions? Speaker 17:
Just compressions for now please, thank you. Speaker 17:
Okay.slide under. All right, keep doing compressions. Lane:
Keep checking airway or just constant Speaker 17:
Constant compressions. Lane:
Constant compressions, all right. Speaker 17
I can do an airwaycheckifyouwant inaudible00:23:53].Hehadtobedetained,physicalforce,and inaudible 00:24:05 .
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You got his arm in it? You good? Speaker 17
Yep, just getthis bar uphere. Pullitout, inaudible00:24:41] there you go. Lane:
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Wantmetopullitout?Whatdoyouneed?Ithinkit’sthecloth which waydoesithook?Therewego, therewego. Fuck,sorry
Speaker 17
You told inaudible 00:24:54 right? Thank you. [ inaudible 00:24:54 . Lane:
Should i still be touching him , or is that going to, electric go . Speaker 17
Tell him to come code three we’re working an arrest. Do you need inaudible00:26:10 location 00:26:11].
Dispatch:
Squad 320 , if you would let know that EMS, Fire needs to go to Park and 36th, patient in full arrest now .
Speaker 17:
I told her. Oh (inaudible 00:26:34 Lane:
Yeah Dispatch:
320 Lane:
320 . Dispatch:
Canyouadvisethe
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320BakertoAble,canyou,ifyou’restillonscene, withEMS,canyouadviseFire?Youguysneedme to do anything?
Speaker 17
You’re good, glove up why don’t you. Lane:
Yeah. Youneedme to hold his airway or? Speaker 17
No, onesecond Lane
Okay . Speaker 17
Okay, do this about every Lane:
One pump? Speaker 17
Every time this lights up give it a squeeze. Lane:
One pump? Speaker 17
Yep . Lane:
All right Speaker 17
Washe fighting with you guys for a long time? Lane :
No.Imean littlebit,butnotalongtime,maybeaminuteortwo.Wewerejusttryingtogethim inthe
squad, and then he cameout the other end, so wewere likewe’lljustwait. Speaker 17:
A lot of activity prior? Lane:
It took a bit to get him , I mean we got him out of the car and handcuffed him , and were walking him over there,walkingacrossthestreet. Youneedmeto trade places?
Speaker 17
Yeah inaudible 00:29:28 Lane:
You guysneedmehere stiller? Speaker 17
You’re good,we’re good thankyou. Lane:
Okay . Speaker 17:
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There’s abagover Lane:
320 Baker to Able, Speaker 19:
00:30:09
Lane:
Oh. That’s fine, that’s good. Speaker 19
Okay. inaudible 00:30:27 . So whathappened,more drama at Cup Foods? Lane:
Cup Foods, yeah . It was just a forgery report, and that was the guy that they said was the person that had given them a fake bill. Wewent over there , and yeah just …
Speaker 19:
Wentbananas? Lane:
be at Park and 36 when you’re done there. What’s that?Okay
watch the foot pedal it’s down there [ inaudible 00:30:22 .
Yeah.Imeanhewas… weretryingtogethim outofthecar,hekepthishandlikethisbasically, wasn’t showingmehis hands. So I’m like, “Letmesee yourother hand ” I gave him a couple commands forthat,hewouldn’tdoit,andthenhefinallydid.Sothenwe’relikeallrightwe’regoingtogethim out
ofthecarrightnow.Becausehekeptlookingforthekey,Ithoughthewasgoingtotry anddriveoff. Speaker 19:
geez. Lane :
Yep . Speaker 19
Man. Yeah, wedidn’t understand because itwas like come to the, so we’re there and the officers there are likenonono, andyeah, the crowdwasa little, yeah.
Lane:
Yeah Speaker 19
Man, yuck. Lane:
Notsure ifmycohort is cominghere. I gavemylocation. Otherwise, Imightjust ridewith them them there.
Speaker 19
Okay, Yeah. Lane:
Was there a big crowd there then ? Speaker 19
and help
Yeah,moreinside.Wewaited…ournewSOPsareto ,towaitlikeifihavecootiesgoingon,solike captainusuallygoesinandmaybebringstherookie,itkindofdepends.Andthen 00:31:49]
yeah we just waited because itwas like
sitting here I’m like now it says code three, I just don’t understand. And then we figured outwhere it
00:31:54] code2mouthinjury.Andthen aswe’re wasso,andthen one ofyourofficerswaslikehey,heyding-dongs,you’re atthewrongspot.”
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I’m notsureifhe’scomingherebut,ohyouguysstillhavetherolldown. Speaker 19
Oh yeah, you know . Lane:
Nice. Speaker 19:
Nothing but the best. Yeah . Yeah , so he crashed in the inaudible 00:32:22 ] . I wonder what he was on . Lane:
Not sure, but yeah he seemed very agitated and paranoid. Speaker 19
That’s a shame. Lane:
Yeah. Speaker 19
Itseemslikeifit’switnessed, theresultscanbeprettygoodifthey’redoingCPRrightaway,sothat’s
good. Because they get stuff going so quickly , … Lane
Yeah . Speaker 19
But yeah, they need more hands, that’s why . Dispatch :
inaudible 00:33:25 ] please return to Cup foods inaudible 00:33:25 ] firefighter
there. Check in with hermake sure she’s okay (inaudible 00:33:25 . Lane:
They’re goingdown to county? Speaker 19
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They’re going to go down to county . I’m going back to Cup Foods. I’m just going to talk inaudible 00:33:30 ).
Lane:
Yeah .
Speaker 19:
We can take you there. Lane:
I’lljust check and seeiftheywantmeto gowith. Do you guyswantmeridingwith or… Speaker 17
No, be allright there plenty of people, thank you though . Lane:
Allright. Yeah, if youdon’tmind giving mearide back up there. Speaker 19
Noproblem . Yeah, inaudible 00:34:14 ). Lane:
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Analysis: Fundamental differences in the balance between individual liberty and the common good are reflected in COVID-19 trends.As the coronavirus surges across the southern United States, Americans are once again seeing the profound effects of centuries-old regional differences in attitudes toward individual liberty, the common good, and the possibility or even desirability of competent, technocratic governance.
Those differences – and the abdication of federal leadership by President Trump – have turned the United States into ground zero for the pandemic, a country Canada, the European Union and other countries are now trying to quarantine themselves away from.
Distinct regional cultures make up the United States, cultures originating in the differences between the different Euro-American colonial projects on the eastern and southwestern rims of what is now the United States and the mutually exclusive swaths of the country their descendants first colonized. The cultures – described in my 2011 book, “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America” – don’t respect state or even international boundaries, and their enduring effect on history, social attitudes, elections, and public health can only be seen at the county level.
A detailed analysis of the regional variations in new case trends, using a county-level COVID-19 data set painstakingly assembled, updated and shared with the public by The New York Times, maps precisely to what “American Nations” would predict.
The fundamental philosophical divide between these regional cultures is over the question of how best to organize American society.
Three large and important ones have cultures that see freedom’s path lying almost exclusively with individual liberty and personal sovereignty. Greater Appalachia was founded by settlers from war-ravaged borderlands in the British Isles. They brought their warrior ethic and deep commitment to personal sovereignty into the United States. The Deep South was established by oligarchic slave lords from the West Indies, and championed a form of classical republicanism wherein “democracy” was a privilege for the few and servitude or slavery the lot of the many. Finally, in the Far West, environmental factors meant settlers were dependent on and directed by the federal government and major corporations – powerful institutions that often exploited them; the ethos is libertarian-inflected.
By contrast, there are four “nations” that place a greater emphasis on the common good and the need to sustain and protect a free community. Yankeedom, which constitutes much of the upper Midwest and New England, was settled by religious congregations that prize community and support self-denial on behalf of the common good. New Netherland, the modern-day New York metropolitan area, has a dedication to free expression and multiculturalism that stems from the 18th-century Dutch commitment to globalization. On the Left Coast, New Englanders and Appalachian settlers combined to create a culture with both Yankee utopianism and Appalachian individualism. The Midlands was first founded by English Quakers who believed in humans’ inherent goodness and welcomed people of many nations in the early Colonial period; it spawned the culture of Middle America, which is communitarian, even as it is skeptical of top-down government intervention. (First Nation, confined in the United States to sparsely populated parts of northern and western Alaska, is the most communitarian of all.)
That leaves three in-between regional cultures: El Norte, the far-flung borderlands of the Spanish-American empire, and Tidewater, founded by the younger sons of the southern English gentry trying to replicate the semi-feudal society of the English countryside, but now transforming into something more Midlands-like due to the massive presence of the federal government in D.C. and the Hampton Roads areas.
From the outset, the geography of the coronavirus response followed these patterns to a disturbing degree, with people and leaders in communitarian regions generally taking a robust response to slowing the spread of the virus and leaders in individualistic ones often flouting science and safety, leading their constituents to make few changes to their movements and, presumably, routines.
At the end of March, cellphone tracking data showed the changes in travel in each U.S. county for the week of March 23 as compared to Feb. 28, before the coronavirus outbreak began. Yankeedom, the Midlands, New Netherland and the Left Coast showed dramatic decreases in movement – 70 to 100 percent in most counties, whether urban or rural, rich or poor. Across much of Greater Appalachia, the Deep South and the Far West, by contrast, travel was reduced by only 15 to 50 percent.
Similarly, the initial response by state governors varied by regional culture more than by the partisan affiliation. Republican governors in Vermont, New Hampshire Massachusetts and Ohio took early and firm action to reduce the spread of the disease, while their counterparts in the Deep South left decision-making at the local level (Georgia) or declined to close or mandate changes in practices in businesses (Mississippi) or simply allowed spring breakers to party on the beaches (Florida). “I don’t like government telling private business what they can and cannot do,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said March 31, even as Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker was doing just that.
In the initial phase, the pandemic struck first and hardest in high-density places with intimate transportation and trade links to China and Europe, where the coronavirus first got out of hand. New York City, Boston and Seattle emerged as hot spots, while much of the South, Southwest and Midwest remained calm.
But this disparity has reversed itself in tragic and preventable ways as the more communitarian regions got the virus under control through social distancing, mandated closures, and a high level of compliance with public health recommendations to wear masks, maintain 6 feet of distance from one another and avoid risky activities like hanging out in crowded bars. Regions with an emphasis on individual liberty reopened early, typically had leaders who downplayed the threat, and saw far less public compliance with scientific recommendations.
Using The New York Times’ database, the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram sorted all new daily cases of the disease from the start of the pandemic to June 30 by the 11 regional cultures identified in “American Nations,” then plotted them with a seven-day sliding curve.
The gulf between the regions is stark and alarming.
The three nations most committed to individual liberty – which leads some people to refuse to wear masks to protect others – saw their case counts explode in the last two weeks of June, as did El Norte.
In the Deep South, the seven-day rolling average of new cases went from 4,276 a day to a shocking 10,271 in that two-week period, up from around 1,800 a day for much of May.d Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram sorted all new daily cases of the disease from the start of the pandemic to June 30 by the 11 regional cultures identified in “American Nations,” then plotted them with a seven-day sliding curve.
Greater Appalachia – the most populous of the 11 nations – went from 4,071 a day to 7,267 in the same period, up from around 2,600 a day in Mid-May.
The Far West’s case rate doubled from 1,936 to 3,823 a day.
El Norte’s curve has also been shocking, more than doubling from 4,113 to 8,405 cases a day.
By contrast, three of the four communitarian nations – all of them more densely populated than those mentioned above – have experienced only modest growth in the pace of new cases over the past two weeks, and remain at levels far below that of their peak in April and early May.
Yankeedom – home to Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and other major cities – went from 2,456 cases daily to 2,656 in the same period, an increase of less than 8 percent and far below the peak of 7,918 on April 29.
There are, of course, no real borders between the “American Nations,” and under the Constitution, states don’t really have the ability to seal themselves off from one another, the way Canadian provinces like New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island were able to do to stop the disease in its tracks. Airlines are flying, and several major carriers have announced they intend to fill every seat they can. It’s easy to envision this explosion of cases in the Deep South and Greater Appalachia spreading to New Netherland and Yankeedom, probably starting with major transportation hubs and then to smaller places like Maine.
While other parts of the world return to normal, we’re all likely to be living with the human and economic toll of the pandemic until someone comes up with a vaccine. Absent federal leadership, we’ve shown ourselves too divided to save ourselves.
After 15 stunning days of anti-racist protests … what happens next?
Can the phenomenal response to the police killing of George Floyd be channeled to secure lasting political change?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/george-floyd-protests-what-happens-next
The New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb captured best the sense of wonder at what is happening on the streets of America. He posted a tweet from Mitt Romney, the Republican senator from Utah, which showed the former presidential candidate marching alongside demonstrators under the banner Black Lives Matter.
“Ladies and gentleman,” Cobb remarked. “This is what you call uncharted territory.”
Fifteen days and nights into this nationwide conflagration, the protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis are truly navigating the unknown.
Enormous crowds, overwhelmingly peaceful and highly diverse, have erupted in cities across the country; a movement against police brutality has been met with police brutality; the US president has responded with one of the most memorable – and violent – photo ops of the modern era.
“The popular reaction to the gruesome Floyd murder has been astonishing in its national scope, fervent commitment and interracial solidarity,” observed the philosopher and social critic Noam Chomsky. “The malignancy that infects the White House has been exposed in all its ugliness.”
But as the demonstrations tear through their third week, with no apparent loss of momentum, the little voice that inevitably arises with all such public outbursts begins to be heard. As it grows louder, the question it poses intensifies: what happens next?
Where does all the energy unleashed by the protests go? What happens to “Defund the police” when the chanting fades? When the day comes – as presumably, eventually, it must – what will be left on the empty streets to show for it?
“Marches are a tactic,” Chomsky told the Guardian. “Not much has emerged about strategy, or even specific articulated goals, beyond major reform of police practices and responsibilities.”
A potential cautionary tale for the present-day protests is offered by Occupy Wall Street. Like the current maelstrom, those protests burst on to the public stage in September 2011 quite unexpectedly, with a thousand or so people cramming themselves into New York City’s Zuccotti Park under the rubric: “We are the 99%.”
Also in an echo of today, the Occupy protesters were met with violent police shutdowns leading to hundreds of arrests. The park was finally brutally cleared two months later.
Nobody could doubt the success of Occupy in changing the nature of the national political and social debate. It put concepts of income inequality, of the “1%”, firmly and permanently on the map.
But once the protest had been broken up, its resolutely anti-hierarchical nature, combined with the distrust of many of its activists towards institutions and infrastructure, meant that it had nowhere else to go. It dissipated into the downtown Manhattan air.
“Occupy was also a tactic, not a strategy, and one that could not continue,” Chomsky said. “It had an impact: focusing on extreme inequality that is poisoning the society under the neoliberal regime. But from that point on other forms of activism have to take over, and to some extent have.”
Nelini Stamp, the director of strategy for the Working Families party, is well-placed to comment on the “what next?” conundrum, having been deeply involved in Occupy and now being immersed as an organizer of the George Floyd protests in New York. Though she agrees that Occupy didn’t directly change America – income inequality in the US has increased steadily every year since 2011 – it did spawn a number of powerful campaigns to long-term effect.
She points to the fight for a higher minimum wage and union representation for fast-food workers. She also credits Occupy with giving Vermont’s democratic socialist senator Bernie Sanders the opening through which he burst on to the stage as a presidential candidate – twice.
“We created the space so that Bernie could do his run in 2016 and 2020, and for Elizabeth Warren running for president with her economic populist message.”
Stamp disagrees with Chomsky that the current wave of protests has failed to articulate a specific way forward. “I think the demands have been fairly clear: defunding police, reimagining public safety, and we are slowly winning.”
Certainly, today’s protesters can point to the first blossoming of change on a local level. The city council in Minneapolis, where the 46-year-old African American was killed by police on 25 May, has vowed to disband the police department and start over.
New York City lawmakers have moved to ban the use of chokeholds of the sort that killed Eric Garner. The Portland police chief is resigning amid calls for “bold reform”, and on a national level, Democrats who control the House of Representatives have unveiled the most ambitious plan for law enforcement reform in years.
In perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing signal of change, a street within spitting distance of Donald Trump in the White House has been renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza”.
In the grand scheme of things, these individual victories may amount to no more than pointillist dots on the vast canvas of America’s woes. But to the protesters they are vital oxygen.
“To maintain activism on the streets you need little successes,” said Dana R Fisher, a professor of sociology specializing in protest movements at the University of Maryland. “Think about the civil rights movement – it was a long, arduous, painful process to get the black vote, but it was sustained by these little successes along the way.”
Fisher believes that the huge sweep of protests in more than 750 cities and towns all across America holds out a golden opportunity for dramatic change to be achieved through the ballot box in November. Her recent book, American Resistance, tracked the impact of the 2017 Women’s March held the day after Trump’s inauguration.
Studying the data, she found that much of the energy released on that day – the largest day of protest in American history – was channeled back into local communities and their congressional races. The result was that Democrats took back the House in 2018 in the so-called “Blue Wave”.
She sees a repeat of that potential today. “We are seeing amazing opportunities for people to channel what’s going on in the streets into political activism, especially with such a crucial election looming.”
The question remains, though, is there a need for some structured vehicle that could absorb the positive radiation of the current protests without which the movement risks fragmenting and dissipating just like Occupy? Fisher thinks there is.
“I’m sure it will be unpopular to say this, but I think there is a need for some professionalized organizational ecosystem to support this movement. There is a void forming, and we need to fill it.”
Noam Chomsky also sees a need for greater strategic direction. He wonders whether popular movements will emerge “that seek to deal with the brutal legacy of 400 years of vicious racism, that extends far beyond police violence”.
Nelini Stamp is resolutely optimistic. She reminds us that Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013, took off the following year during the Ferguson, Missouri, protests over the police killing of Michael Brown, and has been beavering away at effecting change ever since.
“There has been a movement for black lives over the past six years that has never stopped. We have more infrastructure now for people to land and go places than we did then – we’ve built more muscle.”
Is she not anxious that the euphoria of the current protests could fade over time into disappointment?
“I mean, I’m always anxious about that,” she said. “But I’ve never seen a multiracial uprising in my life like we’re seeing right now, and for all the anxiety I have every morning about what happens next, that gives me hope.”
Wendy Chapkis, from Facebook
What have these protests accomplished so far?
5/26 -4 officers fired for murdering George Floyd
5/28 Univ of Minn cancels contract with police
5/28 3rd precinct police station neutralized by protestors
5/28 ATU Local 1005 refuses to bring police officers to protests, or to transport arrested protesters
5/29 Activists commandeer hotel to provide shelter to homeless
5/29 Officer Chauvin who killed Floyd arrested
5/29 Louisville Mayor suspends “no-knock” warrants in response to polices 3/12
5/30 US Embassies across Africa condemn police murder of Floyd
5/30 MN AG Ellison takes over prosecution of the murdering officer
5/30 TWU Local 100 bus operators refuse to transport arrests protestors
5/31 2 abusive officers fired for pulling a couple out of car and tasing them
6/1 Minn public schools end contract with Minneapolis police department
6/1 Confederate Monument removed – Birmingham, AL
6/1 CA prosecutors launch campaign to stop DA’s from accepting police union money
6/1 Tulsa Mayor Bynum agrees to not renew Live PD contract
6/1 Louisville police chief fired after shooting of David Mcatee at BBQ joint
6/1 Dems and reps begin push to shut down a Pentagon program that transfers military weaponry to local law enforcement departments – nationwide
6/2 Minn AFL-CIO calls for the resignation of Bob Kroll, the president of the Minneapolis police union (Bob Kroll is a vocal white supremacist)
6/2 ATU Local 85 announces refusal to transport police officers or arrest protestors
6/2 Racist Ex-Mayor Rizzo statue removed
6/2 6 abusive officers charged for violence against residents and protestors – Atlanta, GA
6/2 Confederate soldier statue removed – Alexandria, VA
6/2 Civil Rights investigation of Minn Police Dept launched
6/2 Resolution to prevent law enforcement from hiring officers with history of misconduct announced by San Fran DA Boudin and Supervisor Walton
6/2 Survey indicating 64% of polled sympathetic to protestors, and 47% disapprove of police handling + 54% think burning down of precinct fully or partially justified
6/2 NJ AG announces policing reforms
6/2 Minn City Council members publicly call for disbanding the police and replace safety and outreach capacity
6/3 Officer fired for tweets promoting violence against protestors – Denver, Co
6/3 Minn Institute of Art, First Avenue, Walker Art Center end use of MPD for events
6/3 Officer Chauvin charged and taken into custody
6/3 Officer Chauvin charges upgraded to 2nd Murder, and remaining 3 officers also charged and taken into custody
6/3 VA Gov announces removal of Robert E Lee statue
6/3 Richmond VA Mayor Stoney announces RPD reform measures: establish “Marcus” alert for folks experiencing mental health crisis, establish independent Citizen Review Board, an ordinance to remove Confederate monuments, and implement racial equity study
6/3 County commissioners deny proposal for $23 million expansion of Fulton County jail
6/3 Minn Parks and Rec cut ties with the Minn Police Dep.
6/3 US Army tells soldiers to disobey any orders to attack peaceful protestors – nationwide
6/3 LA Announces $100-150 million cut from LAPD budget, Reinvested into communities, moratorium on gang database, sharper discipline against abusive cops, in effect immediately
6/3 Seattle changes mind and withdraws request to end federal oversight/consent decree of police department
6/4 Breonna Taylor case reopened?
6/4 Portland schools superintendent ‘discontinues’ presence of armed police officers in schools
6/4 MBTA (Metro Boston) board orders that buses won’t transport police to protests, or protestors to police
6/4 King County Labor Federation issue ultimatum to police unions, to admit to and address racism in Seattle PD, or be removed
6/5 Minn agrees to ban all chokeholds
6/5 DC Mayor renames street outside the white house Black Lives Matter Plaza
6/5 US Marine Corp orders Confederate flag ban including on bumper stickers, and t-shirts
6/5 NFL Publicly condemns racism
6/7 A veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council pledge to dismantle the city’s Police Department.And this doesn’t even mention 10,000,000’s of people uniting to march across the globe, the 1000’s of businesses, artists, educators and professionals backing this, how many racists are losing their privileges for their demonstrations of hatred, and how many people are contributing to Black businesses and causes.
All in less than 2 weeks.
Never ever ever underestimate the power of your voice, and your right to peacefully assemble and protest!
Love & Justice will prevail.Rich Eisen, who I like to listen to sometimes, mainly because he’s not a ‘shouter,’
made me ill this morning. I doubt if i ever think of him the same way again.Remember that video of the MSM ‘news’ person who went all-ecstatic and misty-eyed-poetic over the sight of American Military bombings or some such airborn-militarism?
I forget who that was.But this morning Rich Eisen was telling a story about how proud he was of his young boy because he stopped playing nerf football when the Star Spangled Banner was being played during a tv-game, and then Eisen went on to get all misty-eyed-poetic about what he called ‘patriotism’ and the sight of an American Stealth Bomber flying overhead at a stadium.
Gag me.
I’m movin in with Zooey, in Thai-land. Or Mongolia, or Bangladesh, or Ukraine or Portland Maine or wherever we’re goin.
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