Ben Crump: Houston Police Shoot Eboni Pouncy in Friend's Apartment in Case Compared to Breonna Taylor
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This news is funded by viewers and listeners like you. |
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| 0:09.0 | This is democracy now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Amy Goodman with Nermann Sheikh. |
| 0:18.7 | As we bring you part two of our conversation with civil rights Attorney Ben Crump. |
| 0:23.2 | In part one, we talked about Crump's attempts on behalf of the Malcolm X family |
| 0:28.8 | to get information released by the federal government and the New York Police Department |
| 0:34.5 | on this 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. |
| 0:39.2 | Today we want to talk about the night of February 3rd, a totally different case. |
| 0:45.2 | Ebony Pouncey and her friend were entering her friend's apartment in Houston, Texas, |
| 0:52.1 | after they forgot their house key. |
| 0:55.0 | Suddenly, Houston police officers shot Ebony five times through a window when they arrived. |
| 1:03.7 | They say they thought they were responding to an alleged break-in. |
| 1:08.8 | Newly released body camera footage shows the shooting. can hear the barrage of bullets. shot fire, shot fire, shot fire. |
| 1:27.0 | shot fire. Ebeny Pouncey spoke to ABC News about being shot. |
| 1:35.0 | I have a baby, a beautiful baby girl. |
| 1:45.0 | She knows that I'm not able to do the things I was able to do before. |
| 1:51.0 | And I'm not able to be able to be as attentive with my baby. She's only one. So that's probably the hardest part. I started seeing holes in the walls as I was standing there. |
| 2:08.0 | And then I realized it was something coming through the apartment. |
| 2:14.0 | I thought it was something outside, but it was something coming from outside to inside. |
| 2:20.0 | I see blood, not necessarily wounds. I see blood not necessarily wounds I see blood everywhere |
| 2:25.0 | for more we're joined by Emmene Pouncey's attorney civil rights lawyer Ben Crump Ben if you can tell us the story from what you have |
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