Bruce Springsteen Dedicates Radio Show To George Floyd Protests

Bruce Springsteen took over his E Street Radio SiriusXM station on Wednesday for the latest edition of his From His Home To Yours DJ broadcast series, which he started a couple months ago during the pandemic. He dedicated this week's show to George Floyd. Springsteen played songs inspired by the protests and talked throughout about the current situation in the US.

The first song he played was his own "American Skin (41 Shots)," a track Springsteen wrote in reaction to the 1999 murder of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo by the New York Police Department. "Eight minutes,” Springsteen said during the show. “That song is almost eight minutes long. That’s how long it took George Floyd to die with a Minneapolis officer’s knee buried into his neck. That’s a long time. That’s how long he begged for help and said he couldn’t breathe. The arresting officer’s response was nothing but silence and weight. Then he had no pulse. And still it went on ... May he rest in peace.

"As we speak, 40 million people are unemployed," he continued. "100,000 plus citizens have died from COVID-19 with only the most tepid and unfeeling response from our White House. As of today, our black citizens continue to be killed unnecessarily by our police on the streets of America. As of this broadcast, the country is on fire and in chaos."