A Police Video From Charlotte

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🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This encore presentation goes deep on a case involving a white police officer and an unarmed black man in Charlotte, NC. Videos in police-involved shootings can add detail to these cases, but as our colleague Kelly McEvers of the Embedded podcast reports, what you see depends on who you are.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, this case is not about race.
0:05.4	It never was.
0:07.4	This case is about choices.
0:10.0	Jonathan Fieryles, man, choices.
0:14.0	Just what did he do to deserve to be shot so many times?
0:18.8	This is Code Switch.
0:19.8	I'm Gene Dempsey.
0:20.8	I'm Shrine Marisol Maragi, and we're listening to voices from a court case that took place in
0:25.8	Charlotte, North Carolina.
0:27.5	Jonathan never made any verbal threats to any of the officers.
0:32.3	He never tried to fight, kick, bite, scratch any of the officers.
0:37.8	There are many choices in this video, and it was clear from the very first time I viewed it.
0:42.1	Stop, sit down, put your hands up, do any of those things, other than what you chose to do,
0:47.1	which was to charge the officer's carick.
0:51.7	A white police officer named Wes Carrick was tried for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting
0:56.1	death of an unarmed black man named Jonathan Fieryles.
0:59.5	Part of that incident was caught on dash cam video.
1:01.8	In the last month, there have been several high profile cases that ended with police officers
1:06.3	walking free after shooting and killing black men.
1:10.0	All of these incidents involved police videos.
1:12.8	A mistrial was declared for a second time in the case of former University of Cincinnati
1:16.5	police officer Ray Tenzing.
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