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Riots in the police, thank you for joining us for this important and timely conversation. My name is jason riley and im a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and i want the viewers to know that throughout the program please enter your questions on any of the platforms that youre watching us on and we will either wrapped some some into the discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. As far as i said this was of course not be a more important ormore timely conversation that were going to have today. Since the death of george floyd and in Police Custody last month, weve seen nationwide unrest. Weve seen protests not only here in america but internationally. And weve also seen a certain narrative take hold area it starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd step is through a racial lens. In fact, all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. I
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