What an incredibly frustrating week. Today’s video might have bumped up against the pace of events a bit, but I’m still pretty happy with it. The peril of the amount of time it takes to produce a video. When I wrote this last Thursday and Friday, it was still possible to imagine that things might calm down after the arrest of Derek Chauvin for George Floyd’s murder. That was not meant to be. What I don’t feel bad about is how focused this video is on the problem of policing in this country. Last night downtown New York City was destroyed, while most of the over 10,000 police making overtime were busy beating up largely peaceful protesters over in Brooklyn. It’s becoming clear to me at least that this country’s police are more interested in their budgets and their rights than they are in keeping our city safe. I’d like to be wrong about that. We’ll see. More to come.

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