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Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It's hard to figure out what to say after the horrific violence of the last week, which began with two new viral videos of police shooting black men and ended with a deadly attack by a black gunman on police officers. But Shereen Marisol Meraji, Gene Demby along with Kat Chow of the Code Switch Team got some help from a Dallas resident as well as Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who has written extensively about race, crime and policing.

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0:00.0	This is Code Switch from NPR. I'm Shereen Marisol Miraji.
0:05.6	And I'm Jean Demby.
0:07.0	And we're coming at you with a podcast extra because, well, Jean, this week has been extra.
0:14.1	I mean, how else you say it?
0:17.0	Right.
0:18.0	First there was the graphic video of Alton Sterling being shot at close range by the Baton
0:23.4	Rouge Police, which was horrifying.
0:27.0	And then, if that wasn't bad enough, Diamond Reynolds Facebook lived the aftermath of
0:34.1	the shooting of her fiancee, Philindle Castile by police in Minnesota and she Facebook
0:41.0	lived him bleeding to death while she was calmly explaining what led to that happening.
0:47.5	And you can hear in the video that we're about to play the officer cursing in the background.
0:55.5	Hey, with me, we got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back.
1:01.3	And the police just, he's covered.
1:04.3	He killed my boyfriend.
1:06.5	He's licensed.
1:07.5	He's carried to, he's licensed to carry.
1:09.6	He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out his pocket.
1:14.2	And he let the officer know that he was, he had a fire army.
1:20.1	He was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm.
1:25.0	We're waiting for him back.
1:26.0	I will, sir.
1:27.0	No worries.
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