Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden.

I want to welcome you to episode 154 of my podcast.

Who's paying attention?

Man, what a week.

As everyone except Mike Pence's Republican vice presidential nominee, as everyone else knows,

there were two police shootings this week, two more police shootings of unarmed black men.

Well, one is questionable as to whether he's unarmed, which I'll get into in a minute.

But we do know that

Terrence Crutcher was shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We watched it. We literally watched it on TV.

The helicopter was flying overhead. The cop in the helicopter can be heard saying that he looks like a

bad dude. Somebody better taser this guy because, you know, he looks like a bad dude. That was,

that was his crime. That was his crime. So the man had his hands up. He was backing away from the police.

He turned toward his SUV.

One officer tasered him.

The other officer, Betty Shelby, shot him dead.

And since then, Officer Betty Shelby has been charged with manslaughter.

It is said that she got emotional and overreacted.

I don't know.

It was so obviously wrong that even Donald Trump said that the shooting was wrong. And I'm going to get

into that in a few minutes. But there were some peaceful protests in Tulsa after a couple of days.

She's been charged with manslaughter. We'll see how it plays out. If she's found guilty

from what I've read, from what I've

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