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Criminal

It Looked Like Fire

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographer with the St. Louis Post Dispatch, ended up taking a photograph of Ed that would be seen around the world, and change both of their lives. To see the photos, visit http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-32-it-looked-like-fire-12-11-2015/. We released an update to this episode in June of 2020. Please find the updated story here: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-141-it-looked-like-fire-6-5-2020 Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts.

0:03.8

Sometimes you get an urge to look back at your past,

0:06.4

and the decisions you regret or the connections you lost.

0:10.1

And you start to wonder, what if things have gone differently?

0:14.1

Heavyweight is a podcast that looks into that question and tries to make things right.

0:18.7

Listening to a single episode, you can laugh, cry,

0:21.1

reflect on crossroads in your own life,

0:23.2

or even find the closure you might be searching for.

0:26.0

Listen to heavyweight right now on Apple Podcasts.

0:31.3

The plan was actually I was just going out there to be nosy.

0:34.9

I wanted to see what a protest was looking like

0:37.8

because I had called my brother, and he said, they're protesting. And, you know, I didn't know

0:44.8

what a protest was. Well, I knew what it was, but I had never seen one in person. I read about

0:49.0

him in school. So I wanted to see one in person. This is Edward Crawford.

0:55.0

On August 11, 2014, just a few days after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri,

1:03.0

Edward Crawford went to his first protest.

1:07.0

It was a lot of people angry. I seen signs.

1:12.6

You hear people chanting, using profanity.

1:15.6

I mean, they were mad.

1:17.6

The emotion was at an all-time high.

1:20.6

It was overwhelming.

1:22.6

There were people crying.

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