Broken Doors, Episode 1: "That's what you get"

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sheriff’s deputies burst through the front door of a man’s home as he slept. He said they pointed a gun at his head and ransacked his home in search of drugs and cash. The no-knock search warrant they used was threadbare. But that wasn’t the worst of it.

The Washington Post’s Jenn Abelson and Nicole Dungca started identifying unusual warrants almost from the moment they began their investigation into no-knock raids. When Jenn looked more closely at documents from a rural county in Mississippi, she got a startling view into how little it took to execute a no-knock warrant in Monroe County.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Jen Abelson and I'm an investigative reporter with The Washington Post.
0:07.3	I've worked with Amy Britton, the host of Canary, The Washington Post Investigates for
0:11.8	years now, and I've been a long time fan of the series.
0:15.2	It's why I'm so excited to share with all of you Canary listeners the newest investigative
0:19.5	podcast from The Post.
0:21.4	It's called Broken Doors and I host it with another colleague of mine, Nicole Dunca.
0:26.8	One of the most aggressive and dangerous policing tools that allows law enforcement to force
0:33.6	their way into people's homes without warning.
0:36.8	We're sharing the first episode with you today, but if you're interested in hearing more,
0:41.1	we've already released all six episodes and you can binge them all by following or subscribing
0:46.1	to The Broken Doors podcast.
0:48.3	You can search for it in your podcast app or learn more at WashingtonPost.com slash Broken
0:53.8	Doors.
0:54.8	Thank you so much.
0:56.5	And now our first episode.
1:01.0	So do you want to take us through to where you were?
1:03.9	I'm kind of scared.
1:05.9	Let me move.
1:06.9	Come on.
1:07.9	I don't think I got lights though.
1:11.8	Nope, the lights not working here, but this is where I was.
1:17.8	Benji Edwards is leading me through his childhood home.
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