Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.

One afternoon in September 2020, police in the city of Yonkers, New York were in a car chase.

A black man who they had pulled over, they say, for some traffic violations,

had sped away when they walked up to his car.

So the cops are chasing this man, and eventually he stops the car again, gets out, and starts running.

All this is happening in a place called Getty Square.

It's in downtown Yonkers.

We should say Yonkers is right outside of New York City.

Getty Square, there's the furniture store, a Dunkin' Donuts, Mexican restaurants, pharmacies,

and a lot of buses stop here, so it's busy.

There are moms and little kids, older kids after school.

And just to be clear, all of this is happening only a few months after a police officer in Minneapolis killed George Floyd.

And what you're hearing is a video that was taken by someone who was sitting in his car in Getty Square watching what was happening.

You can see the man who cops tried to pull over, run into the square with a gun.

A uniform cop comes up behind him and tackles him to the ground, and then the man starts firing.

Uniformed and plain clothes cops pile on top of him.

They cuff him, and they do not shoot.

This, of course, is what people want to happen.

The police don't shoot.

And Yonkers, this is the story the police want to tell, especially after George Floyd.

Look at us.

Our cops are doing a good job.

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