{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F4dcde281-e6a8-4741-88b3-ceade4deed2a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 256 \u2013 American Riots and Covid-19 Shutdowns\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/4dcde281-e6a8-4741-88b3-ceade4deed2a\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 256 \u2013 American Riots and Covid-19 Shutdowns","description":"<br />\nIntro<br />\nWhat\u2019s Wrong with America by The Relatives live at The Bell House<br />\nGeorge Floyd.<br />\nA summary<br />\nAmerica is still lynching black men. Except now they use their knees and the people doing are police in broad daylight. Imagine what goes on behind closed doors.<br />\nSuspected of passing a forged $20 note,<br />\nwas lynched, in broad daylight, in the open street of a major US city,<br />\nThe murderer used his knee instead of a rope,<br />\nThe killer was a white policeman Derek Chauvin<br />\nwho was watched by 3 other policemen,<br />\nwhen all the policemen knew they were being filmed by civilian bystanders,<br />\nGeorge told the police I can\u2019t breathe and you are killing me and cried out for his mama,<br />\nwas held down for 8 minutes 46 seconds,<br />\nwas unresponsive for the last 2 minutes 43 seconds,<br />\nvideo shows that Chauvin did not remove his knee for a full minute after paramedics arrived at the scene.<br />\nChauvin was not charged for 4 days while investigators waited for evidence<br />\nthe criminal complaint said the autopsy revealed \u201cno physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation\u201d<br />\nBut, the cause of death, according to the private autopsy, was mechanical asphyxia and the manner of death was homicide.<br />\nShortly after the family\u2019s autopsy findings were announced, the Hennepin County medical examiner released its own findings, also concluding that the manner of death was homicide. The county attributed the cause of death to \u201ccardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.\u201d<br />\nThis was on the back of the Ahmaud Arbery case whose killers were not arrested for 74 days and only arrested after the video went viral<br />\nRiots have ensued<br />\nImages of unnecessary violence from police and the national guard. Tear gas, rubber bullets, beatings of people who were non-violently protesting.<br />\nCop cars driving over protesters. At least in China with Tianenmen square the tank driver stopped for the man with the plastic bag.<br />\nAfter being forced to hide in a bunker in the White House, today he got police to use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protestors outside the White House so he could go outside the White House and hold a bible for a photo op at the nearby St. John Episcopal Church.<br />\nTV footage showed people running, falling and scrambling for safety as officers removed them by force. \u2026 Military vehicles rolled out on Pennsylvania Avenue.<br />\nThe unprovoked action cleared the way for Trump to cross the street and visit St John\u2019s church, \u2026 He held aloft a Bible and posed for cameras,<br />\n&nbsp;<br />\nLast week you asked where I\u2019d rather be arrested. China or the USA? I said it depends if I\u2019m black. At least in China I would survive the arrest process and make it to the watchhouse alive!<br />\n&nbsp;<br />\nPlay clip, Waz referring to the China \u00a0(democracy, free speech, human rights and justice) and all those things the United States actually stands for \u2026<br />\n&nbsp;<br />\nAmerican Riots<br />\nWhy and How<br />\nWide spread gun civilian ownership creates a shoot first mentality (Cops fear for their lives more than Aussie or British cops)<br />\nPolice have been militarised with Ex-Military equipment.<br />\nPolice are often poorly paid and poorly trained.<br />\nDistrict Attorneys (in charge of prosecutions) are elected and need to show high conviction rates to get re-elected.<br />\nWhite people are scared of the police so they can imagine how black people feel.<br />\n<a href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304559\">From American Journal of Public Health</a><br />\nResults.\u00a0Police kill, on average, 2.8 men per day. Police were responsible for about 8% of all homicides with adult male victims between 2012 and 2018. Black men\u2019s mortality risk is between 1.9 and 2.4 deaths per 100\u2009000 per year, Latino risk is between 0.8 and 1.2,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}