What You Need to Know About the Minneapolis Protests

Minneapolis is drenched in a cloud of tear gas after local police murder a man. Here's what you need to know about the ongoing protest. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart
Radio Together Everything. So don't welcome America to a an

(00:23):
emergency update episode of Worst Year Ever. Uh and this
is this is an episode we didn't expect to record,
but we have to do to some absolutely critical events
that that you need to be informed about, something that
has changed the landscape of America. Yet again. I'm of
course talking about the fact that that Joe Biden appears

(00:46):
to have soiled himself in an interview. Um. Oh, what
a setup and punchline. Yeah, out of the park got him.
I mean the first half. I did call that at
the very start of this whole project, in the first
half of the year too, So I'm proud of that

(01:07):
that that prediction. Um. And I'd rather talk about yeah, yeah,
I would rather talk about Mr Biden's fart than the
story that we are going to talk about because it
involves horrific police brutality. Um. So I thought that was
a gentle introduction. No, we're yeah, And we also we
don't want to be irresponsible to we don't want to

(01:27):
make funny to me, we don't want to share fake news.
It's like some excellent phrases. It does. Yeah, it's like
really like inspirational, absolutely nothing to do with what we're
about to talk about. I would definitely push for that
to be the title anyway, Robert continue. Yes, So this, this,

(01:55):
the actual thing that we're talking about, is a very
sad story. UM. It's the of of George Floyd, who
was um accosted by four police officers in Minneapolis on Monday,
uh and was arrested on on suspicion of like passing
forged bills. UM. Footage of him actually being arrested. Uh.

(02:19):
There there's footage both like people filming the police and
of like footage from a security camera. Uh. It does
not show him resisting in any way. UM. Not that
that would justify what came next. One officer put his
knee on Mr. Floyd's neck while he was on the
ground and held it there for more than five minutes
until he suffocated to death. And you know, throughout that process,

(02:41):
multiple other officers until eventually four officers were all on
Mr Floyd helping to hold him down while he was
essentially strangled. UM. So that that is the inciting incident
for what has become. You know, we're now in what
is our our second day of protests in the city
of Minneapolis. After this video went vi roll, people started
taking to the streets in large numbers. The mayor announced

(03:05):
that all four officers had been fired, um, but they
were not arrested, and so a number of things were
set in a motion at this point. For one thing,
just people started taking to the streets like they do
to to protest largely peacefully. UM. Some other things that
happened were a mix of people online found access to, uh,

(03:25):
the the address of the officer primarily responsible for the
death of Mr Floyd UM, and they started sharing that.
And it was weird because I was following this as
it was all breaking. It was a mix of you know,
activists who are enraged this guy being like this is
where he lives. Um. But there was also like right
wing people, boogaloo types um. And this is like a
major dimension of this protest because there's there's been this

(03:48):
movement growing in the United States kind of started on
four Chan and then kind of got free and to
read it and Facebook and it's it's the boogaloo. This
is something that you've talked extensively about. Yeah, I've been cats. Yeah,
I've been following these the evolution of this for a
while because it's not and there's a bunch of misconceptions
I kept seeing crop up. There was a lot of people,
and particularly like some black activists, who thought the boogaloo

(04:11):
was kind of a synonym for race war, and I
don't think that's accurate. There's certainly a sizeable minority of
the group who see it is that, um, but there's
also like a lot of guys, a lot of the
people because I was following this community both in in
Minnesota and across the country as they reacted to the
growing protests to the video of Mr Floyd's murder, and

(04:31):
you know, there's a chunk of them that I think
are kind of callously trying to steer this towards violence
for their own political inns, which are probably racist. But
there was a large chunk who are were as outraged
as the rest of us for the same reasons that
we're all outraged about this, right. Um, it's because it's outrageous,
and there's nothing about being like weirdly obsessed with guns
and fighting the cops. That also means that you're not

(04:54):
honestly infuriated when you see a video like this. Everybody
should be angry watching this video. UM. But so this
started to develop over the course of the twenty six.
The night of the twenty six, people started going out
of the street and getting into confrontations with police officers,
and largely what I was seeing at the beginning and
what like, I was not there on the ground. I

(05:16):
was watching a lot of different live streams, UM, and
I think it would be fair to say that the
vast majority of the serious violence deployed was by police.
A lot of rubber bullets hitting a lot of people
in the face, a lot of huge amount almost unbelievable
amounts of tear gas being deployed UM, as well as
flash band grenades, night sticks. There's numerous videos of police

(05:38):
while arresting people having multiple people punching them in the
face and head. UM. And there was there was I
would say retaliatory violence from protesters, people throwing rocks, UM,
people shooting fireworks. And one of the dimensions of this
that's really confusing is that a lot of this retaliation
was I think pretty understandable. It was people seeing violence

(06:00):
used against them, having just watched this video of a
murder and being directly confronted with these police who are
being so violent, being like, well, fuck it, I'm gonna
throw a rock at them, or I'm gonna break in
the window of one of these cars. Um. But there
is also this chunk of these kind of like far
right agitators, these boogaloo kids, who showed up at the protests,
at least sixteen of them, possibly more so. There was

(06:22):
one group of at least sixteen from the UH from
the Big Igloo Boys Facebook group, which is a Facebook
group for these folks about thirty thousand people that's spent
kind of all their time talking about their desire to
spark a new civil war. So these guys showed up
and they brought one of their boogaloo flags which has
like an igloo on it and stuff, and it's it's

(06:43):
a lot of the imagery is very silly. But the
kid holding the flag got shot by a rubber bullet. Now,
at around the same time, another individual who was posting
in these boards showed up open carrying a handgun at
one of these protests, and he later claimed that a
mix of anti in Black Lives Matter had robbed him
of his gun. I found video which Daniel, we'll put

(07:06):
in here after I finished explaining. I found a video
of an activist who is live streaming at the time,
talking about confronting this man, and the way he describes
it is that he and some other activists saw this
guy with a gun, really decided he was almost certainly
a white nationalist agitator there to stir up violence, and
took his weapon away from him and sent him packing.

(07:27):
And we can insert that that audio here. Daniel ready

(07:51):
to do, just do? How to gone on? We don't know,
comment was well, but he was the only one we're spotting.

(08:11):
We got the gun from us. But justice ly we
gonna snatch for a lot of all and people, I
know it's gonna be sna like Nashas out here. He's
not the only one. He's just one who just got
caught right now. Nice nice wark, Nice work, nice work,

(08:32):
nice one. So yeah, like that's uh kind of a
little a hint of how like complicated and uh intense
things are in Minneapolis right now. So you've got these
you've got these protesters who are rightfully furious about what's happened.
You've got these police who have been responding very violently,
and who also now at this point are cracked out

(08:55):
haven't been sleeping and are like furious, uh and getting
more aggressive of And you have these right wing agitators,
some of whom are there out of honest solidarity, some
of whom are there because they think this is their
best possible chance to start a civil war. And there's
a left coast right watch. It was a Twitter account
of journalist that I that I follow has been inside

(09:17):
some of these boogaloo telegram groups where people are talking about,
you know, the need to uh get the police to
start shooting with live rounds into the crowd so that
they the boogaloo boys can fire back with live rounds.
So there's this, this this whole mix of things that's
happening in Minneapolis right now, all of which is extremely
tense and extremely dangerous. Uh. It's absolutely terrifying, like a

(09:44):
real recipe for disaster. It's just you get that much
tension in one place, and you know, some little thing
can set off a whole series of unfortunate events. And i'
when you look at like Kent State, I mean that's
not even one little thing. Those were police terrified and

(10:05):
ready to go and and abusing people. You know, you
know what I mean it's just it's just terrifying. Yeah,
I mean things popped off on a lot of person
protests because of like a water bottles being thrown and
stuff like that. Um, and like there's it's interesting just
the that everybody knows why. Yeah, these uh protests are

(10:32):
where to do this. Like the guys who are trying
to start this violence, they can't do it at the
haircut protests. They can't do it at the ones that
are like all these right wing militias with their gear
and their flags UH doing their Nazi protests because they
know that the police are going to do anything. But
when the police are policing events like this with certain

(10:54):
kinds of protesters, they know that if they cause enough
of a problem that their police response will be something
that they can't elicit and at another maybe more um
I guess optically friendly. Yeah, that seems to be very
clearly understood by a lot of these folks. So that

(11:14):
the people who were outside of Minneapolis and kind of
the boogaloo community started immediately churning up memes where like
one of them was a screen grab from the video
of Mr Floyd being murdered. Um that shows like the
police officer with a knee on Mr Floyd's neck that says, UM,
something along the lines of, um, you can't stop this
unless you have a gun. Um. And then there was

(11:35):
another one that was a picture of Mr Floyd's face. UM.
In this kind of the specific kind of way that
they it's like a patriot wave is sort of like
the description for like the way that they edit these
images in like a certain stylized way. And they do
this for a guy named Duncan Limp. Duncan Duncan Limp
was a militia man um kind of a boogaloo guy,
boogaloo activist who was I believe twenty one years old

(11:58):
and he was shot today and a no knock raid
by the police. The police alleged that he had firearms
he was legally prohibited from possessing because of a juvenile charge.
There's debate as to whether or not that was legitimate. UM.
Duncan Limps family claims that he was shot. The police
say that he accosted them with a gun as they
were entering his home uh and that he booby trapped

(12:18):
his home. His family says that this is untrue and
he was shot to death in his bed next to
his girlfriend, who was also wounded in the rate. I
don't know what happened, but they have adopted him as
a martyr, and so they for weeks they've been sharing
images of his of his face, UM with like the
phrase his name is his name is Duncan Limp written
on it, which is kind of you know, it's like
a fight club callback, but it's also their explicit sort

(12:40):
of goal of to to turn this guy into a martyr.
And within hours of Mr Floyd's death, they were doing
the same thing to his face and they have you know,
his name is Charles Floyd UM in the same kind
of edited together in the same way. And the conscious
goal is like, we can get these people on our side.
We can get them on our tow back our idea
of fighting the police and the way we want to

(13:01):
fight the police. And I want to make it clear,
I'm not against UM. I'm not even against throwing rocks
at the police in a situation like this, UM, But
I don't think that gun battles with the police in
the middle of a massive crowded protest is a good idea. Yeah,
that's uh not going to help anybody, especially not you.
And I don't explain why by just saying that sentence.

(13:23):
Actually it would help the police more. Yeah, don't start
gun battles in the middle of crowded protests full of
innocent people as a rule, um, as a rule, don't
start guns by yeah, um yeah. And it's it's this,
there's a bunch of ship that, like, I just don't

(13:44):
know what the truth is yet. So one of the
things that's been going around is there were three open
carry protesters who appear to be both kind of into
the boogaloo stuff and more left wing. Although I don't
have a clear concrete understanding of their political ideology, they're
definitely super at least one of them is definitely super
into the boog Two of them were white, one of
them was black. They were open carrying long guns rifles

(14:06):
at the protest um. They claimed that they never discharged
their arms um, and that they were there to peacefully
show support and protect the crowd, which may be true,
I do not know. I also found video of and
it's a terrifying video which has been purged from the
Internet at this point, but the video showed it was
a live stream from one of the protests. Was a

(14:26):
large crowd of mostly black protesters marching down the street peacefully,
and as they're marching and chanting, there are a series
of dobably five loud gun shots. They sounded like rifle fire,
although it's kind of hard to tell, and then the
crowd like scattered. It was terrifying. People very clearly worried
that somebody was opening fire with a rifle into the crowd.
That isn't what happened, but there were definitely shots fired,

(14:47):
um and it was not fireworks. And then I found
another video of one of the people who was in
that crowd was taking cover with a group of other activists,
claiming that the people who had fired it were a
group of three dudes with a K forty seven's. I
don't know if she literally thought they were a K
S or if that was just kind of like term
for a rifle that occurred to her in the moment um,

(15:08):
but that they had been the ones that fired, and
so that some people suspect that that was that group
who was open carrying. They have explicitly we're denying it
on Facebook. I don't know, but that like kind of
shows you the level of like how difficult it is
to tell what is going on. There were absolutely shots
fired at the protest, it doesn't seem to have been
by cops, in part because like nobody got shot. Um

(15:32):
it like it seems like someone was just shooting and
we don't really know who it was or why they
did it. But it panicked to the crowd. And given
the number of people who are talking online on the
in this Google community about their desire to spark a
gun fight like it, you have to look into it.
And I don't know, there's a very real possibility that
that comes from them to see what happens next. Um right,

(15:56):
merely just making the sound. I mean, I've already said
this is terrifying, but it's in in many ways different
ways of terrifying. What this means, what this represents, this
escalation of tensions in general, because where everybody's primed right now,
and and it's a perfect opportunity for people to come

(16:16):
in and exacerbate tensions, right. Um. But also there's, like
you're saying, it's really hard to get track of what
actually is happening or what's going to happen, but there's
so much news from I was really grateful when I
saw you tracking this story last night on Twitter because
it's so hard to shift through everything as is. Let

(16:37):
alone make space for this very important thing that's developing
and we need to be in a radar, have on
a radars and is going to continue to develop. Yeah,
I keep a photos, I mean obviously, Yeah, it just
looks like someone is sharing photos from Ferguson and calling
it something else. Um. And like just thinking, I keep
thinking about the time period, uh, and how even you know,

(17:01):
like these protests, like there's so much going on, it's
and then when the you know, the tear gas comes out,
it's so hard to follow what's going on, and you
need to like be really locked in and tuned in
to like local reporters there and just like to get
a sense of like any sense of what's actually going on. Um.
And the idea of doing that um during during a pandemic,

(17:23):
um and like six years later when things have gotten
worse and more polarized and everything is just just worse
um and yet the same Yeah, and it's there. First off,
just as a note, if you're looking for a good
source on what's happening in Minneapolis from a journalist on
the ground and live streaming Unicorn riot. You can find

(17:45):
them on Twitter. They have a website. Just google uniform Unicorn, right,
you'll find them. Um, they've been doing great journalists for
journalism for a long time, a lot of on the
street stuff. They're incredibly good at covering this exact sort
of thing. Um and I I can't recommend them enough.
Their Patreon supported, So consider backing them. They're they're really
good people. I met him a lot of digital stuffy

(18:08):
to do them well to Yeah, yeah, they put together yeah,
incredible resources. Um. So yeah, the there's this difficulty when
talking about this, and I've even gotten slammed by some
people online for when I'll talk about like the provocateurs
coming in and trying to spark violence, where they'll be like, hey,

(18:30):
you know, funk off with this. You're essentially like means
testing the protest, or like like arguing that only non
violent protest is valid, or like denying the use of
a diversity of tactics. You're trying to push the image
that like, these are these protests are violent, And I
understand the concern over that because this is something that happens,
and I do get frustrated when particularly people have a a

(18:51):
more liberal bent get angry at protesters for engaging physically
with police and situations where the police are outrageously aggressive,
as if it's hey, as if the fact that that
that violence from protesters provokes more violence from police means
that it's okay for the police to be escalating violence
in that way. Um, which I agree as a problem
I can protests that is not. Yeah, Oh, it's just

(19:16):
that like that um is really important to address and
talk about. And it's one of those things like I'm
I'm just already seeing like rehashes at every single conversation
and that was had about for about Ferguson. It's like
it's obviously like there's a reason, but like it's just
maddening instantly that like we got to do it all

(19:39):
over again and have those conversations again, and the kind
of pain that people have to go through just like
watching this unfold. Um. Yeah, but it's also like it
is what you're not talking about that situation and those
people that's like that's the I'm not I'm not right,

(20:00):
that's it. There's a difference. Yeah, there's what you're trying
to say right now. Yeah, there's and I want to
read some of the quotes that left Coast Right watch
uh at l c r W news on Twitter found
um going through these boogaloo focus like telegram channels with
these guys talking about what they want to do with
the protest. Here's one person stating, remember that these folks,

(20:21):
and he's talking about the cops are used to everyone
fearing and cowering. They are addicted to the feeling and
addicts will do anything for another hit. But they have
to be the ones to fire first. We have to
be acting in self defense, but we can taunt the
hell out of them to push them to the breaking point.
Here's another post gunfire is getting really heavy. This maybe
it This may be the boog my bros. And then
an emoji of praying hands. Yeah, there's there's more. Yeah,

(20:44):
but a protester down to rubber and non lethal is
not the same as dropped from nine millimeter or five
five six those are types bullets. We have to wait
until it's intentionally lethal. Uh. And someone responds while they
intentionally killed that man that sparked this whole protest. Another
person saying show up in four just don't fire until
fired upon, and then another person responding make them shoot first.

(21:04):
It won't be hard. They will be pissing themselves and
itching to assert authority. And there's there's a ton of
that um like the this hope that there will be
um that the police will open fire on the crowd
with live rounds, that these this small group showing up
with weapons can defend the crowd with guns, and that
that's that's pretty clear what their intentions are here. And

(21:28):
I say this will keep happening because I believe that
we will see this continue to happen at different protests
and the tensions keep getting exacerbated. And I mentioned Kent
State because it's like far less happens to set off
the police than this. As tensions are mounting, do you
know what I mean? And it's um, yeah, I'll just

(21:49):
keep saying it's terrifying. Yeah. So for an example, and
I think these these boogaloo guys talking about their desire
to um get into a gunfight with the cops over this.
It's a mix of ones who are just so angry
at the state of affairs in this country for some
good reasons that they think the only they've become accelerationists.
They think that just a giant gunfight with the state
needs to erupt because it's the only and people who

(22:12):
really don't care about the lives of people in the
crowd and just want an excuse to have a gunfight
because they're violent. Um Like, it's a mix of those two.
But there's also trying to manipulate these these protests and
push things towards violence, an element of just straight up
nazis um. And that's embodied really by what four chan
did last night. So there was this young man who

(22:34):
was one of the very last and this isn't around.
It had to been around three or four in the morning,
Minneapolis time, Uh, Derek branch Um and Derek it was
live streaming. He's he's like he makes music and stuff,
and so he's been like has like a decent sized
platform for live streaming, and like at its high, I
think twelve people were watching his live stream. And because
the police had really taken efforts. Some people claim the

(22:57):
police had taken efforts to knock down to put up
like signal blockers and stuff to knock out live streams.
And I can tell you that a lot of live
streams were taken down by Facebook during the protests. Um,
I can't tell you that hasn't been looked into enough,
but people are investigating it currently. Derek was one of
the only people up late at night when the police
were trying to push protesters away from the Third Precinct

(23:19):
House um in Minneapolis, where like a lot of them
had were around. And so at one point in his
live stream, Derek, uh, Derek Branch like is asked by
someone on the live stream, Hey, man, how's your camera
battery doing? And he pulls a battery, like a large
black battery out of his like pants and he says
it's like locked and loaded man, and he puts it

(23:41):
back in now. At the same time on four chance
poll board. Uh, these kids, as they do anytime something
like this is happening, it started looking for ways to
like funk around with it, and they found Derek's live
stream and they all hopped onto the YouTube video. Uh
the you like the YouTube post for his live stream
and just not it was a mix of them like
making a bunch of racist jokes, but a bunch of

(24:03):
them like also started trying talking about on four Chan
and on YouTube how they could get Derek killed. And
they settled on calling the police informing them of his
live stream sending the police like clips of him saying
locked and loaded and telling the police that he had
a gun. And I was listening live to the police
radio feed and I heard, as the police say there

(24:23):
is a live streamer, he says he's locked and loaded,
he's flash just with a gun, and they were clearly
now listening to his live stream. UM. And as this
is happening on the the YouTube video, all these four
Chan kids are talking like very excitedly about like, you know,
he's about to find out, Uh, this guy's gonna get killed,
Like we're going to get this guy killed. Isn't that

(24:44):
fucking awesome? Um? And Derek is also listening in to
the police scanner at this time, so he hears his
name on the police scanner and he realizes the cops
think he has a gun, and he fucking books it.
Um gets in his car and drives away, and that
there was a fucking terrifying Uh, I don't know, like
twenty minutes or so of just watching this kid in

(25:06):
his car, like almost on the edge of tears, thinking
he's going to get murdered by the police, knowing that
the police have his address and are reading it out
over because he's hearing the police, as is everyone listening. Um.
And thankfully, because this was all being publicized, it wasn't
just the Nazis trying to kill this guy who were
aware of his dream. A bunch of people started calling
the cops and saying, you've got it wrong, like this

(25:28):
guy is is unarmed, like here's what's happening on the video,
and the police backed off and he was not He's fine,
Derek is all right. Well, what a terrifying turn of events.
It was fucking horrible. Yeah, and these kids were like
fucking Nazis. They're talking about Nazi stuff. Like one of them,
one of the quotes that I pulled out of it,
there's just one guy saying fascism miss the future. So

(25:49):
they're not very subtle about it. But also like they're
constantly talking about because like after Derek it became clear
he wasn't gonna get murdered, they switched over to another
live feed to watch Unicorn riot. Um. And this was
like in front of the liquor store when the cops
were trying to push people out of the liquor store
that had been a liquor store got occupied at one point. Um,
And yeah, they're just constantly making comments about joggers and

(26:12):
about like wanting to see police take out joggers, which,
after Ahmed Aarbury's murder, jogger is white nationalists slang for
the in word now yeah, so, um, it's not a
great time to be an American. Good you're gonna say what?
Are you gonna say? Good? We're what? Yeah? Are there

(26:36):
are other protests things on your radar that they might
also try to untiltrate in some way, anything that gets
any kind of actual cultural inertia behind it. I do
think you made a really good point, Cody, in that
the violence were likely to see from these folks or
attempts at actually provoking the police, and violence is way

(26:58):
more likely to happen at sort of a more kind
traditionally left wing demonstration like this was. Um although like
obviously like being angry at a police murdering someone isn't
left wing or right wing, but the kind of yeah yeah, yeah,
um so. I I think like the next time cops
murder a black man somewhere in America tomorrow probably uh

(27:21):
and protests erupt, you can expect to see these. You
can expect to see them continue to show up. And
thankfully like this time at least so far, may have
changed by the time this fucking episodes drops, But so
far there hasn't been like a gunfight sparked by these
boogaloo kids showing up and getting in the middle of things.
But that could change at any moment. It could change

(27:41):
at any one of these protests because most of these guys,
when you get right down to it, when like the
meat he hits the metal, most of these boogaloo kids
aren't gonna actually want to get into a gunfight. I've
been in gunfights. They suck um like they're they're terrifying,
and it's very hard to react well trained for them.
Um They're they're disorienting and confusing. And even if you

(28:02):
have a weapon, if you aren't trained to use it,
the odds of you using it effectively or low, especially
in a situation where like at least in my case,
they happen in war zones. I can't imagine the chaos
of being surrounded by tear gas clouds and protesters and
people shooting laser pointers and lights and flash banks, and
then a gunfight starts, like not the best environment for accuracy.

(28:25):
Yeah right, But what if i've Yeah, so I don't.
I don't think most of these people are actually likely
even the ones who show up, most of them are
not likely to actually start something, regardless of what they say.
But all it takes is one and then you've got
a lot of metal flying through the air and probably

(28:48):
a lot of dead and wounded people, and then more protests,
and those protests will start at a more amped up
level and will involve more armed people. And like it's
it's a cascade effect as we're seeing happen in Minneapolis
right now. Um, I think it's cascading. Um. And it
probably could have been stopped in Nenapolis's case if the
police had immediately arrested and charged these men with murder.

(29:09):
I don't know, it might have done something, um as
opposed to just firing them. Because I don't know if
you know this, but in in the city of Minneapolis,
half of the times when officers are dismissed are fired
for reasons like this, for like police brutality. They are
rehired because their union sues the department. So people were yeah, yeah,
that that's very regular. It's actually more like a dent

(29:30):
in a number of cities. Yeah, it's just so fucked up. Yep,
it's depressing. This is depressing. Mm hmm. We have something
positive to say for our listeners. You know, the way

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is to help get involved, support, pay attention, and I
guess yeah. I mean, if you're in Minneapolis, Uh, take
to the streets and try to support people protesting and
whatever way you can to ensure that justice has done.
Because whatever the like, this is a dangerous situation. It's
not safe to take to the streets in these situations.

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But I do think that of all of the bad outcomes,
the worst one is not making the city pay when
it murders citizens, when it's agents murder citizens. I don't
think the option is don't protest. I don't think that's
the answer here. Um, But if you do get out
into a protest, or if you wind up at one
later this year, because there will be more, UM, keep

(30:39):
a fucking eye out for these boogaloo kids. Keep a
fucking eye out for people who are looking to UM,
who who aren't there to actually support UM the protests
in a meaningful way, and who are there because they
want to be the star of their own little action movie. UM. Yeah,
that would be my advice. Uh, and you know, learn

(30:59):
how to do with gunshot wounds by a combat application,
turn turniquet, pick up some cellox cause not a useless
skill to have in a country with four million guns. Yeah, okay,
some positivity. The President just tweeted that, at his request,

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the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well
into an investigation as the very sad and tragic death
in Minnesota of George Floyd. Oh good, I'm glad that
he has asked for this investigation to be expedited. God,
I want to dump piece of ship. Yeah, I'm glad
that you're already doing the things. Yeah, I'm making sure
they do it really well. Yeah, it had been announced
the day before. Yeah, but that is it's interesting the

(31:47):
way that he has talked about that because he's I know,
he's scared of this, because this is a this is
a largely although not entirely conservative, heavily armed anti state
movement that is getting into the streets and aggressive during
his administration, which is actually kind of one of the
things that might be of all of the bad things

(32:09):
about having Trump in office, part of me is like,
maybe it's not the worst thing that he's the President
as this is hitting because this way, it's not we're
not seeing of a right wing insurgency form against a
liberal Democrat. We're seeing it form very very explicitly against

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the police. Um. Who Again, even if you think that
these boogaloo kids are hard widely misguided and compromised by Nazis,
which they definitely are, um Like, fuck the police. So
I guess that's what I'm saying is I can see
he definitely he seems to be scared as funck of
this because he has no control over it, and because

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it is going to harm his chances of re election,
and because every like, yeah, there's no way to spend
this to a Democrat thing because it's the fucking police.
And he has made it a huge part of his
campaign to be filmed with police, to talk about the
support he has from the police, Like there's no co
opting the Boogaloo movement for the president because these guys

(33:12):
fucking hate him. Um in part because he's passed more
gun controlled than Barack Obama did, which is another aspect
of this Interesting times at least everything makes sense, yes,
perfect sense, Yeah, interesting, crystal clear, straightforward times. Yeah, um,

(33:38):
elon Musk avoided blowing up a rocket today. That's good.
That's good. I'm glad it will be another day. The weather,
the weather was like, not today, but he's gonna kill
spend time with your child. He's gonna kill two men
on another day. That's good New York City, Right, yeah, no,
not today. We couldn't. We couldn't have handled it today.
They were like, no, just like, give it a few
do with this, do it this weekend. York City rats

(34:00):
are becoming carnivorous monsters, hungry, you know what, starving in
the subway system. Why don't we give the rats a
shot like running, let him have it. Yeah, we're not. Yeah,
they seem like they know some ship. I bow down
to our new overlords. Yeah. I don't think that those

(34:22):
little mits can hold guns. So at least there's that. Yeah. Yeah,
So our our closing advice is take to the streets
and vote rat in. Guys. They're just gonna make tiny guns.
You're right, tiny guns. Didn't we do a p s
a at Cracked for tiny guns? Yeah, it's important. That's

(34:44):
a good takeaway. Go check out our tiny gun p
s a on Cracked from years ago. Yeah, and then
that Strokes song New York City. Rats. You can check
us out online out where it's your pod, Twitter, in Instagram, Twinstagram,
twist a gram. Alright, oh yeah, yeah, alright, this is it,

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although I do want to know our name. One last one,
last bit of an update from sixteen minutes ago. Uh,
protests are still continuing around the police precinct. They've walled
off the precinct. Protesters appeared to have retaken the liquor
store UH and now have the high ground over the police.
Um so that's developing music, Yeah, I ground. But what

(35:33):
it doesn't sound like it doesn't love how my god?
I mean, it's They're already using the line. That's what
I'm saying. It certainly does not sound like it's de escalating. No,
like God, they've taken the art. I'm sure we'll have
more to say about this. I'm sure we will, all right, Um,

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