News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this News Brief we are joined by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of The Real News Network to discuss their new documentary, "Freddie Gray: A Decade of Struggle" about the lessons, pitfalls and genuine reforms stemming from the 2015 Baltimore Uprisings.

You can watch the documentary here: therealnews.com/freddie-gray-the-…ng-10-years-later

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.
0:07.0	I'm Adam Johnson.
0:08.0	You can follow Citations Needed on Twitter and Blue Sky at Citations Pod. Facebook, Citations Needed,
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0:19.0	all your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated
0:22.4	as we are 100% listener funded. We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled
0:28.1	full-length episodes of citations needed. And today, we are so thrilled to have a couple
0:34.6	guests, reporters from the Real News Network, Teagram, and Stephen
0:38.3	Janice. So we'll be bringing them on in just a moment because today we're going to discuss
0:43.4	the recent 10th anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray. Freddie Gray died on April 19, 2015,
0:51.3	after suffering severe injuries to his spinal cord while in police custody in Baltimore.
0:57.5	Now, a new documentary from the Real News Network entitled Freddie Gray, A Decade of Struggle,
1:03.3	reflects upon the past 10 years since the police killing of Freddie Gray.
1:07.8	And we are so thrilled that we can speak today to the reporters behind the
1:13.7	documentary, as I said, Tea Graham and Stephen Janice.
1:17.0	Tea and Stephen are both award-winning investigative reporters and hosts of the Real News
1:21.1	Network's police accountability report.
1:23.0	Tea is also producer and co-creator of the award-winning podcast Truth and Reconciliation on Baltimore's
1:28.6	NPR affiliate WYPR and Stephen has co-authored several books on policing, corruption, and the root
1:35.3	causes of violence, including Why Do We Kill, the Pathology of Murder in Baltimore, and You Can't
1:42.3	Stop Murder, Truths About Policing in Baltimore and Beyond. Taya and Stephen, and you can't stop murder. Truths about policing in Baltimore and beyond.
1:46.7	Taya and Stephen, thank you so much for joining us today on Citation's Needed.
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