George Floyd BLM Protests: 'Policing As We Know it MUST END!' (Prof. David Ikard)

On this episode of Going Underground, first, we speak to David Ikard, Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University about the Black Lives Matter uprising in the United States, resulting from the murder of George Floyd by US police. He discusses Trump's tactics which he sees as deliberately flaring up the long-standing racial divisions in America, why he believes Joe Biden, although immensely flawed, is a better candidate than Donald Trump, the need for policing as we understand it to end, the growth of the prison-industrial complex, what reforms he believes should be enacted, why he believes the violence and riots following George Floyd's murder and more!