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16 Shots

Ep 3: The Fallout

16 Shots

WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Protesters take to the streets of Chicago after officials release the a video of Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting Laquan McDonald. Critics attack the mayor and police department. A federal investigation finds a pattern of abuse by Chicago officers.

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The following podcast contains language and subject matter that some listeners may find disturbing.

0:06.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:10.0

This is a love letter to all black people.

0:14.0

Very soon a video of the execution of 17 year old

0:18.0

Lacline McDonald will be spread across the internet. It had been 400 days since Lequon McDonald's killing was captured on a police dash cam.

0:33.4

Now, two days before Thanksgiving in 2015,

0:37.0

there'd be no more waiting for the video.

0:40.3

City leaders were scared. Scared of the community fallout,

0:45.0

scared of the political fallout,

0:47.0

scared of the unknown about to hit them.

0:50.0

Activists were also worried about the fallout, but they were worried about something else too.

0:55.0

The trauma of watching another police shooting.

0:58.0

Black people, this is a love letter to you.

1:01.0

This is a love letter to black people. Before you watch this, I want you to know you

1:06.5

are loved. Before you watch. It began as Facebook videos created by a group called Black Youth Project 100.

1:15.0

Soon it became a hashtag, giving other space to spread their own words of strength on social media. I think in that moment of just like hyper visible police violence we were really afraid that you know black death was

1:35.0

becoming a spectacle. Activist and poet Malcolm London. The feeling is like if you

1:41.0

need another horrific video or someone being murdered by police to care,

1:47.0

then you don't.

1:49.0

Before you watch this, people will try to tell you to be calm and your righteous anger and I say to

1:55.6

that in the words of Frederick Douglass the only thing worse than a rebellion is

1:59.6

the reason for it. From W.B.E.Z Chicago in the Chicago Tribune, I'm Jen White, and this is 16 shots, the police

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