Just to give a heads up, we will be talking about police terrorism and police killings in this episode.

No Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no Trump, no. No K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-D-N-K-K-D-N-S-S-A.

In the summer of 2020, protest against white supremacy and police terrorism broke out across the country after George Floyd, Brianna Taylor,

Omar Arberry, Sean Reed, and countless of others were killed by the hands of police officers and white supremacist.

It's a shame that it took so long for the call to defund and abolish the police

to hit mainstream media.

Revolutionaries been organizing around this.

Yeah, bro, the fight to abolish the police and the movement for black lives

didn't just start from these protests.

We can't forget about what popped off in Ferguson after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in 2014.

Tempers flare on the streets of Ferguson for a second night of unrest over the death of Michael Brown. Police in

riot gear facing off with protesters. And a lot of people probably don't know, but

there's another case that also inspired the Black Lives Matter movement today.

It was the killing in 2009 of a 22 year old black man right here in Oakland,

and his name was Oscar Grant.

I'm a boss, Montekeen, and I'm to Lindsay Parham,

and this is Tales of the Town,

a podcast about Black Oakland. It was early New Year's Day in 2009.

Oscar and his Patna's took Bart to celebrate New Year's Eve in the city, also known as San Francisco.

For those who aren't familiar with what BART is, it's the equivalent to what the

subway is to New York City. It's the Bay Area's train system.

Five-car train for each minute in four minutes.

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