20 shots and a cell phone

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🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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289. That’s the number of people who have been shot and killed by police in 2018 alone. One of them was Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old black man from Sacramento. His death sparked a wave of protests and renewed scrutiny of the police. But less than one percent of those fatal police shootings result in charges. The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery explains why convictions are even fewer, and what it’s going to take to reduce fatal police shootings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.8	50 years ago today Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis his speeches still sound like they could have been written yesterday
0:45.4	Now those who are asking the devotees of civil rights
0:50.2	When will you be satisfied
0:53.2	We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality
1:02.2	We can never be satisfied
1:05.1	Just over two weeks ago in Sacramento, California the police received a call about a man behaving erratically
1:14.8	It's going down street breaking windows and cars. He's busted both my truck windows out
1:18.5	He's in the people's backyard right now
1:20.5	I have cars to shoot for my place
1:22.5	But do you my one is any book the cars window out of course to me?
1:26.4	Okay, I'm warning and I need people back there right now. Do you know which yard he's in what the address is?
1:31.2	As they responded they encountered Stefan Clark at his grandmother's house
1:35.5	He's standing on the side of his house. He runs around to the back when he's encountered by police
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1:45.3	They follow him they run they pull their guns out
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