What Went Down On The First Night Of The Democratic National Convention

“We can’t let things settle down,” says Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother, calling for holding politicians “feet to the fire.” She says the uprising that followed her son’s death fizzled out over time, and she doesn’t want to see that happen again.

Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, is talking about economic empowerment in her city. Worth mentioning, though, that she hasn’t been especially receptive to talk about defunding the police, which has gotten her some criticism from the left.

Normally networks can pull away from the coverage is that there’s usually a fair amount of downtime for producers and panels to work around, which is absolutely not the case in a virtual convention that is partly pre-packaged.