I Don't Want To Shoot You, Brother
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
GBH
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A young black man was dead. A young white cop was quickly fired. If that sounds surprising, you don’t know the half of it. This is a shocking story about police and the use of lethal force. Just not the one you might expect.
This story was done in collaboration with ProPublica. It was reported by Joe Sexton and produced by Sophie McKibben. You can read an accompanying print piece written by Joe Sexton here.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, C |
| 0:10.7 | Cag Cone 911, where Sherman? |
| 0:03.0 | Please, right now, please, right now. |
| 0:08.0 | Okay, 19, what? |
| 0:10.0 | 119, Marie Avenue, where in West Virginia? What's the problem? |
| 0:15.0 | It's 2.5? |
| 0:18.0 | It's 2.51 a.m. in Wheerton, West Virginia, |
| 0:22.0 | an old steel town outside of Pittsburgh. |
| 0:24.0 | Wierton likes to call itself one of the safest small cities in America. |
| 0:28.0 | This batch 31. |
| 0:31.0 | 31. |
| 0:32.0 | I had a female stating she was at 119 Marie Avenue |
| 0:36.7 | stating they needed someone right now she sounded hysterical hung up the |
| 0:42.4 | phone will not answer on call back It sounded hysterical, hung up the phone, |
| 0:42.8 | when not answer on call back. |
| 0:44.9 | I believe it's going to be a 119 Marie Avenue. |
| 0:48.8 | The officer who shows up is Stephen Mader, a white rookie cop with a hometown pedigree. |
| 0:58.0 | He graduated from the local high school, served with the Marines, had started a family with the girl he took to the prom. |
| 1:05.7 | The streets of Wheerton are quiet at that hour. |
| 1:08.1 | It takes Officer Mader, alone in his patrol car, |
| 1:11.2 | just under three minutes to get to 119 Marie. |
| 1:13.4 | Hancock County dispatch. |
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