Hello, and welcome to Planet Money.

I'm Nick Fountain.

A little after the killing of George Floyd, we here at Planet Money were watching protests

sweep across the country looking for what economics could tell us about how centuries of racial

inequity had led us to this very moment.

And our newsletter writer Greg Rzealski stumbled upon a dusty report written by a presidential

commission more than 50 years ago that seemed like it could have been written this year

in 2020.

It was about systemic inequity and police misconduct and how they had combined to ignite

a summer of protests and riots.

So Greg wrote a newsletter about it.

If you haven't already subscribed to the newsletter, you can do that at npr.org slash Planet Money

newsletter.

Do it.

So his research kind of inspired our friends at the podcast through line to take a deeper

look into that dusty report because that's what they do.

They're an awesome history show and they look at the past to understand our current moment.

So today we're going to play that episode of through line.

The hosts, Romteen Arablui and Rund Abdel Fata start the show in Detroit in the summer

of 1967.

Early Sunday morning in July of 1967, there was a raid of a after hours bar in Detroit.

Police had it under surveillance for several weeks.

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