Pushkin.

Quick heads up, this episode contains depictions of violence that may be upsetting to some listeners.

In a small, elegant apartment in Hollywood, a young man sits on his couch looking out the open window, remembering the saddest day of his life.

His name is Philippe Navarro, 30 years old, short black hair, a beautiful, wide smile.

Angel was my brother. He was my only sibling. We were born exactly like a year and two weeks apart.

So my birthday is mid-October and he was born the following year on Halloween.

That was the beginning and this was the end.

He died Thursday, May 26, 2016 and it was about to be Friday, Memorial Day weekend.

And we were not notified until that Sunday morning and they claimed that they couldn't find us even though they had his wallet and his NID.

So then that Sunday my parents had gone to breakfast and they came back and there's about four or five cop cars at their home.

Angel had been in New Mexico visiting with a friend. Philippe and their parents were in California.

Philippe doesn't know why it took so long for the New Mexico police to notify them. Three days. Didn't his brother have his ID on him?

And even after the police came, the Navarro didn't know what happened to Angel.

I called it Detective and every time I spoke to her they were like, unfortunately, like we can't give you any information because it's under investigation.

And everything was always under investigation. And at first I didn't really think anything, any sort of malice on the police department because I don't even think I knew at that point that he had been killed by the police.

And I certainly didn't even know the backstory of how he even got into that altercation with the police.

I should say incident in all altercation, but I think all I was trying to figure out was what had happened.

Angel Navarro was killed by the police on Interstate 25 in New Mexico outside Albuquerque on May 26, 2016.

The officers fired 27 times. They thought Navarro had a gun in his hand. He didn't. He had a cell phone.

My name is Malcolm Gladwell. You're listening to Revisionist History, my podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood.

This is the final episode in my three-part mini-series on Thinking Like a Jesuit.

I will warn you now what I'm talking about in this episode is not for the faint of heart.

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