And we the incidents were isolated, incidents of violence were isolated. but we did visit one polling unit in lagos, a place called lecki, where some voters were attacked. but they were undeterred and were determined to vote. take a listen to what they had to say, laila. some folks just arrived. and we ve noticed folks arrive, fight, chase people off, picked up chairs and hit people. i was hit several times by chairs. some of them went straight for the ballot box and just smashed it. you want to vote? you go to your village and vote, not here. that was the height of intimidation. so we actually ran we were waiting here. we were waiting here, and, oh, you re waiting around, you think you re voting?
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Sense of social isolation than ever before. and online existence is not doing. it people, i think, believe that they are checking the box of connection when they exist online. but we are finding that that just is not as healthy as in person experience, as picking up the phone and talking to somebody. so, we have got to build policies that create places where people can have real connection again instead of this sort of a connection that is happening online, predominantly. senator chris murphy, thank you very much for joining us once again, it s great to have you in the studio. thank you. and when we come back today, congressman george anthony devolder santos has given up his assignments in the house of representatives, but he s holding on to his whole paycheck as a member of the house of representatives, who will have absolutely no work to do in the house of representatives. and in an interview today, congressman santos has, for the first time ever, come out and strong oppositi
Him pay for that, this is, you know, it is, as a black man it is really hard to think that this could happen in this country. but, the reality is that it happens all the time. especially with the squads. people have pointed out that mr. nichols was 145 pounds and suffered from crohn s disease. when you get arrested in tennessee they take your measurements, all five of the officers who were arrested were over 200 pounds, two of them were college football players, that is part of their qualification for the kind of police work that they do. we were talking to the attorney general from minnesota last night about the prosecution of george floyd, you will remember that because you and i covered a lot together. it was not a slam dunk. it looked like, it people who saw videos that this is going to be obvious but it is never obvious because when they were selecting a jury they asked members of the jury do you believe in black lives matter? have you ever experienced racism yourself? with the
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