by Filippo DinolfoIt’s really been a week. We talk about it and get things off our chest. Plus, some positive stories to help balance things out.
6/5/2020 Show Notes – #BlackLivesMatter
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: Spock books, Doom stuff
- P: Remarkably little from last week on the non-gaming front…
- T: MCU movies, Robin of Sherwood, Shin-chan, FFXIV, Animal Crossing
- C: Just Mercy, Fuller House, Rocket League
- B: Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom, books, anime.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: The Police, Trump, Looters, and Racists
- Police responded to the peaceful protests with unwarranted force each and every time
- They also made plenty of time to attack and arrest journalists covering protests
- Two officers in Buffalo PD shoved an old man to the ground, cracking his head open, got suspended
- Over 10k people arrested at the protests
- Federal jail inmate pepper sprayed to death by guard
- After being filmed looting Phoenix Mall, Jake Paul charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly
- Man drives up to SLC BLM protest and tried to fire hunting bow at protestor charged with three felonies
- Man gets out of car with Wolverine knife gauntlet on hand to attack protestors
- Trump added to the chaos by saying he’d deploy military to US cities if the protests don’t stop
- He had peaceful protestors tear-gassed out of the way so he could get a weird photo-op at the nearby church awkwardly holding a bible
- Heroes of the Week: Communities come together to clean up after protesting the previous night
- Minnesota AG has all four cops arrested and upgrades charges to second degree manslaughter
- Rahul Dubey sheltered about 70 protestors from police hunt after curfew
- John Boyega made a great speech at UK BlackLivesMatter protest
- Ben and Jerry’s BLM statement was extraordinary
- DC’s mayor had Black Lives Matter painted in big letters on the street leading to White House while renaming that section of the street Black Lives Matter Plaza
- Primary Results
- New York Times published op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton about using troops on protestors
- 1.9 million more unemployment claims made last week, 2.5 million added
- NBA board of governors approved 22-team format to finish 2019-20 season
- Roger Goodell admits NFL was wrong about quelling peaceful protests
- Philly removed the statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo early
- Russia declared state of emergency after massive oil spill in the Arctic Circle
- Run the Jewels released their new album early with PWYW structure for charity
- Criterion’s lifting the paywall for black films on their streaming service
- WB makes Just Mercy free to rent on every digital platform
- Visit https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ to find ways to help the #BlackLivesMatter cause
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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