"Broken Doors," Episode 5
Post Reports
The Washington Post
4.4 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today on “Post Reports,” the fifth episode of “Broken Doors,” about a multi-house no-knock raid,and the drugs police say they seized.
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“Broken Doors” is an investigative podcast series hosted by Jenn Abelson and Nicole Dungca about how no-knock warrants are deployed in the U.S. justice system — and the consequences for communities when accountability is flawed at every level.
In the fifth episode of this series, we head to Missouri.
Police upended the lives of an entire block and killed a 63-year-old grandfather when they carried out a no-knock raid at multiple homes in St. Louis. But what did the police actually seize?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's me V Spear and you might be wondering what I'm doing here out from underneath the desk floating around in podcast land. |
| 0:08.5 | This is my new show, The Interesting. The idea is simple. On TikTok I explain the news in little chunks and that's great. We have a lot of fun, but I wanted more time with y'all, so I created a space where we could do just that. |
| 0:22.8 | V Interesting from Lemonade Media out now. Listen Tuesdays and Fridays wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.2 | Hey it's Martine, so lately our podcast has been airing episodes of Broken Doors, a new investigative series from the Washington Post. |
| 0:41.6 | It's about how no knock warrants are used in the American Justice system and what happens when accountability fails. |
| 0:48.8 | Today we're back with more from the series with episode 5. It examines what police actually find when they carry out no knock raids. |
| 0:57.2 | These warrants are so often used for drug searches that the posts started asking, what are these raids actually turning up? |
| 1:04.6 | And is it worth the risk of these raids? So that is episode 5, which we're playing today. |
| 1:10.8 | And if you haven't heard the first four episodes of the series, I highly recommend that you go back and listen |
| 1:16.1 | and also subscribe to Broken Doors at WashingtonPost.com slash Broken Doors. |
| 1:21.3 | And just a warning, this episode contains explicit language and descriptions of violence. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:29.7 | A video camera is recording a small empty room at the headquarters for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police. |
| 1:37.2 | The door opens and someone usher a young black woman inside. |
| 1:42.6 | This tape is from 2017. The woman's name is Raven Bias. |
| 1:57.2 | She sits down in one of the swivel chairs. When the door closes and she's left alone, Raven starts looking around. |
| 2:04.3 | She's holding a phone and quickly places a call. |
| 2:12.0 | Hello. Hello. Yeah. I'm down in town with somewhere at headquarters in the homicide wing. |
| 2:17.5 | They want to question me because they shot they shot pops. |
| 2:23.5 | The police shot pops. |
| 2:26.7 | We're in the homicide wing. So if it didn't we he'd be if he did. |
| 2:33.6 | Popps was Raven's 63-year-old neighbor. He lived three doors down for her. |
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