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Today on the Show:Community control over the Police (CCOP): What does it mean? How to achieve it? Also, Reverand Al Sharpton in Houston for the final burial of George Floyd, calls for justice for Floyd and the growing list of of black and brown people killed by Racist cops

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Today on the Show: Anti-police violence activist Marqus “Red Bear” Martinez shot at point blank range with a sting-ball grenade by cops in Santa Rosa, California: we’ll ask RED BEAR and his attorney what exactly happened and why. Also we look at the larger issues of police violence against brown and black people and all people/ Colin Powell criticizes trump for lying. What is that old saying:General’s in Glass Houses shouldn’t throw stones?

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On today’s show: Ahmaud Arbery’s killers go to court a midst the allegations of racial slurs uttered during the on-camera murder. Also Al Sharpton and members of George Floyd’s family memroialze him in a nationally broadcast service

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On today’s show: We continue our series on police violence against Native Americans in the Twin Cities and around the country. Also a brand new edition of Flashpoints Election Crimes Bulletin, featuring muckraking reporter greg palast. And Ben Crump, the lawyer for George Floyd speaks out About the murder and issues a clarion call for national action against police violence.

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Today on Flashpoints: The cold killer cop who strangled the life out of George Floyd was also part of the shooting squad of cops that gunned down a native american man in 2006. We’ll look at police violence against Native Americans in the Twin Cities, Also, we’ll get the first of series of reports from citizen live streamers on the protests happening all over the country. Today we focus on DC and Trumps troops: And we’ll look at the battle to free prisoners who are at grave risk for contracting covid19

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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll analyze and reflect on the weekends massive national protests against racist police violence in response to the choke-hold murder of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police office on May 25. Unbelievable scenes of massive protests rocked over 20 cities including the capital Washington DC where streets burned this weekend and at one point the White House went dark as Trump was forced into a secure bunker. While much of the weekends protests appeared sporadic, a few specific symbols such as the former slave market in Fayetteville North Carolina and the headquarters of the Daughters of the Confederacy were set ablaze by angry protesters who vowed to keep up the pressure.

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Today on the Show: We’ll talk to the president of the Georgia NAACP about the latest unchecked chain of police murders of black people, and how local prosecutor often times cover them up. Also a new poem by the award winning, Latino Bard, Martin Espada

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Today on the Show: Today we’ll spend most of the hour with human rights activist, Kevin Alexander Gray, author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence:

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Today on the Show: A special edition of the Electronic Intifada as Israel still evades accountability for their Mavi Marmara massacre, 10 years after it took place.

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