Diary: The Police Brutality Protests

In this diary episode, David reflects on the events of the past few weeks, in which we've seen an unprecedented waves of protests against police brutality in the midst of a global pandemic.

Links:

• I tweet out every article I read
• Podcast recommendations:
  • Pod Save the People
  • NPR Code Switch
  • Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
  • 1619 Podcast
• Movie recommendations:
  • Just Mercy (Free rental)
  • I Am Not Your Negro (Free on Prime)
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Free on Hulu)
• Book recommendations:
  • The Guardian's anti-racism reading list
  • 25 Essential Books for Fighting Racism
• Mireille Harper's guide to non-optical allyship
• What is an anti-racist reading list for?
• An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, Biblical minutes in Washington
  • The Christians who loved Trump's stunt
  • The inconceivable strangeness of Trump's photo-op
• Cops Are Always the Main Characters
• What a world without cops would look like
• How much do we need the police?
• You Should Be Feeling MIserable
• James Mattis Denounces President Trump
• Asian American businesses looted across the U.S. during riots
• Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
• People can't stop watching videos of police and protests
• Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond with More Force
• Trevor Noah on the death of George Floyd and police brutality protests
• Eve Ewing's Viral Twitter Thread
• A crisis that began with an image of police brutality keeps providing more
• Greg Doucette's 300+ long Twitter thread featuring incidents of police brutality 
• Buzzfeed's running list of police protest hoaxes
• Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed
• The bird watcher, that incident, and his feelings on the woman's fate
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