Things seem to be quiet in my area. The demonstrations and police confrontations got as close as a block away but no closer and the destruction seemed to be confined to commercial properties, not homes. But we sure had a lot of helicopters and sirens — police caravans and fire trucks racing by, every which way.
I still don't quite understand why problems with the broadband in my area would so impact the signals from my panelists who were nowhere near the rioting. I have a call in to someone who may be able to help me understand and I'm thinking I'll suspend webcasting until I do. Whenever I resume, all of today's panelists want to start over and do it right so we will.
I wish I could say something profound about the murder of George Floyd but sadly, this kind of thing happens so often that everything worth saying has been said…to little impact. I'd like to think it will end but in a country as polarized as this one is, it's hard to imagine that scenario…