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
Save them for the q a at the end of the event. I want everyone to know that before we get started. As i said, this of course could not be a more important and timely conversation we are going to have today. Since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month, weve seen nationwide unrest. Weve seen protests, not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through a racial lens, in fact, all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. Its a narrative that assumes the behavior of Derek Chauvin, typical Police Behavior toward black suspects entered assumes that george floyd is a black every man in america that whatever happened to him happens to black people all the time. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which
This could quickly escalate. There is concern as a, quote, military presenceivists believe escalating and very difficult situation. This is the ingraham angle from washington, this is the refusal by authorities to institute a curfew in minnesota. I think it has backfired on Law Enforcement and protesters are starting to grow in numbers and as you can see from the video we are injecting into the system showing you live pictures of firecrackers, bottles and we will go back to mike tobin who is on the ground and we will get to that in a moment, he has to get to a safe place and we will do that, pictures coming from there tell us the story can take many forms. We keep hearing theres going to be peaceful protests through the night but mike tobin is in a safe place in a vehicle and we will go to him, what can you tell us. Reporter what it was is the rows and rows of mostly state troopers in that direction and they said media dispersed so there wasnt any uncertainty in the command and they ar
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