Six weeks after George Floyd was killed, activists continue to work to ensure they seize on momentum to demand significant change, but people are contributing to the movement in different ways with their individual skill set.A podcast from a recent University of Minnesota Law School graduate not only makes the legal case against the four former officers easily digestible, but explores the issues of justice and racism in context with the case.As Ian Taylor Jr. watched the uprising, friends and family were asking questions about arrests, bail, charges and what it all means. That's where the idea for
Breathless started."It makes me feel like I'm contributing to something constructive in this moment and that's important to me because I think this is a special moment," Taylor Jr. said. "I think that people feel something on a cellular level across the world, but definitely here."Some episodes feature accessible break downs of what a second-degree murder charge means, or what bail with or without conditions entails, but it's also an exploration of deep subjects of justice and racism.
