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Minnesota Public Radio

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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A man is dead, his last moments captured on Facebook Live. The police officer who pulled the trigger is now on trial. What happened the night of July 6, 2016? And what happens now?

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0:00.0	The first trial of the former officers charged in the killing of George Floyd is
0:04.9	underway. Police officers are rarely prosecuted in such cases and the world will be
0:10.3	watching. The Minnesota Public Radio Newsroom which has followed this
0:14.3	case in detail from the beginning will bring listeners updates on this
0:18.3	monumental trial and the consequences it holds for the city and the country.
0:24.0	Listen to in front of our eyes, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.0	This is the story of a traffic stop.
0:33.0	It's July 6th, 2016, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. It's hot and humid, the kind of weather that makes you want to roll your windows down. Let the breeze in.
0:51.0	Falcon Heights is a suburb outside Minneapolis and St. Paul.
0:55.0	It's a mostly white town of bungalows and ramblers and fewer than 6,000 people.
1:00.0	It's just after 9 PM. people.
1:03.0	It's just after 9 PM.
1:05.0	A black man is driving his white old mobile down the suburbs main street.
1:09.0	It's still light out.
1:10.0	The sun's just starting to go down the tail end of a long summer day.
1:15.0	The man's girlfriend is in the passenger seat.
1:19.0	Her four-year-old daughter is buckled up in a car seat and back.
1:22.0	They've got a load of groceries. They're
1:23.7	heading back from the store. At 9.02 p.m. a police officer runs the plates on that
1:29.7	white old's mobile. He radios Oldsmobile. 21 to 20. What's your location?
1:34.0	He radio's his partner, who's just down the road in another car.
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