The BradCast w/ Brad Friedman

'BradCast' 5/29/2020 (KY Dem U.S. Senate candidate Mike Broihier on Louisville protest shootings, ousting Mitch McConnell)

05.30.2020 - By Brad FriedmanPlay

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On today's 'BradCast':   Protests are exploding in major cities around the country in response to the police killing of unarmed African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN on Monday. The arresting officer in the Floyd case has himself now been arrested. The President of the United States issued an appalling, racist tweet that garnered another warning from Twitter for 'glorifying violence' against protesters. In Louisville, Kentucky, protests also erupted in violence, as demonstrators demanded justice for African-American emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor, who was shot in her own home by cops in late-night no-knock raid in March. Seven people were shot in that protest on Thursday night, but the city's mayor says no officers discharged a weapon. MIKE BROIHIER, a Kentucky farmer, teacher and retired U.S. Marine Lt. Colonel vying for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination to unseat Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November, offers his thoughts on the protests against police brutality around the country and in Louisville, and the recent protests against coronavirus pandemic shutdowns by armed, white, rightwing men who hung an effigy of the state's Democratic Governor Andy Beshear outside the State Capitol on Sunday. Broihier calls the threat to Beshear an act of "terrorism" and ties the incident to the Bluegrass State's long history of racism and lynchings. Broihier, who has been endorsed by Indivisible Kentucky and former Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, also discusses his opponent for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, moderate Amy McGrath (also a former Marine lieutenant colonel), and his proposals for progressive policies like Universal Basic Income and a just 'green economy' transition for Coal Country...

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