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🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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0:00.0 | 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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