4.6 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Latif from Radio Lab. |
0:02.0 | Our goal with each episode is to make you think, |
0:06.1 | how did I live this long and not know that? |
0:09.6 | Radio Lab, adventures on the edge of what we think we know. |
0:13.0 | Listen, wherever you get podcasts. |
0:18.9 | This is the takeaway with MHP, from WNYC and PRX in collaboration with GBH News in Boston. |
0:30.2 | My child, Manuel Esteban Paesteran, was killed here in Atlanta on the 18th of January, |
0:38.3 | 2023. |
0:42.3 | We still do not know anything. |
0:47.3 | It was killed our most beloved family member and the most caring person that any group of people could have, |
1:01.5 | and there is only silence. |
1:09.1 | You're listening here to Belkis Terranan, the mother of Manuel Esteban Pais Tehran, |
1:16.0 | a young, indigenous Venezuelan activist who was known by friends and fellow activists as Tortugita. |
1:24.4 | In January, they were killed by police during a law enforcement raid of the peaceful encampment |
1:30.8 | of forest defenders. |
1:32.9 | These are, of course, social and environmental justice advocates who are part of a broad coalition |
1:38.5 | resisting the proposed 85-acre $90 million public safety facility training center known as Cop City. |
1:48.1 | Manuel loved the forest, gave them peace. They meditate there. The forest connects them with God. |
2:01.6 | Initially, official reports claimed that police fired on Tortugita after they refused to follow one officer's directions and fired on another officer. |
2:12.6 | But last week, an autopsy report conducted by the DeKal Medical Examiner's office found no gun residue on the activist's hands. |
2:21.3 | Now, back in March, the takeaway talked with some people who had known Tortugito, and they offered their memories. |
2:30.3 | I knew Tort, you know what I'm saying? |
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