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Criminal

It Looked Like Fire

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford went to his first protest. “The people, you know, I guess they were out there to be heard,” Ed told us. We also speak with Robert Cohen of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We first released this episode in 2015—this version includes an update. This episode contains references to police brutality. To see Robert Cohen's photographs, visit the episode on our website. 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

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment,

0:26.4

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.1

Today we're sharing a story from 2015. It contains references to police brutality.

0:37.0

The plan was actually I was just going out there to be nosy. I wanted to see what you know what a

0:44.7

protest was looking like because I had called my brother and he said he said they're

0:49.9

protesting and you know I didn't know what a protest was well I knew what it was but

0:54.7

I had never seen one in person I've read about them in school so I I wanted to see one

1:00.4

in person. This is Edward Crawford. On August 11, 2014, just a few days after 18-year-old

1:07.2

Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford went to his first protest.

1:16.0

There was a lot of people angry.

1:18.0

I seen signs, you hear people chanting, using profanity. I mean they were mad, you know the the

1:26.7

emotion was at all time high. It was overwhelming. There were people crying. I don't know if those relatives or friends of Mike Brown, but it was it was it was different. It was something I never experienced in my life.

1:41.0

That's how he described his first day of demonstrations.

1:44.0

When he went back out the next night, August 12th, it was a different story.

1:48.0

The people out there, like they were protesting,

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