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Attorney general and just lets keep that in mind that when ever you see her on the Judiciary Committee seriously challenging those witnesses and the skills she honed during what we do every day. I was honored to serve with general becerra for 20 years in congress and he was my mentor and still is but i just want to say that our philosophy here is to help people afford their lives and liberties in respect. That means prosperity that every america should be expected and it is our job to make sure that they have that chance fighting economic and fighting abuse of people with human rights and honored to be with you guys and i have been to that station many times and want to say net roots nation is tailormade for online advocacy and we have been doing it it was cool. Not to be insensitive. I know it is not cool but weve been doing it and youve been doing this and we ready for the moment is what i am trying to say. Thank you and i am glad to be here. Thank you. Lets send it over to ag. Hello
The house Newt Gingrich offers his thoughts on why donald trump should be reelected with his book trump and the american future, solving the great problems of our time. Watch booktv on cspan2 this weekend. Welcome to the Manhattan Institute webcast on race, riots and the police. Thank you for joining us for this important and timely conversation. Im jason riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Throughout the program please enter your question on any of the platforms you are watching us on and we will either wrap them into the discussion or save them for the q and a at the end of this event. I want to let you know that before we get started but more important for timely conversation, since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month we see nationwide unrest, protests not only here in america but internationally in a certain narrative take hold that starts with the assumption the only way to view George Floyds death is through a racial lens lose all the accounts be
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. So as i said, this, of course, could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last night. We have seen nationwide unrests, we have seen protests not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It start with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through racial lens. In fact, all of encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly view this way. Its a narrative of Derek Chauvin and that george floyd is every black man in america. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback, very little skepticism and it leaves with us with the impression that the biggest probl