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listeners. This is Emily Garon. I'm one of the hosts and senior producers of this show.

We're doing something a little bit different, and we're bringing you an episode of the NPR

podcast Code Switch. My colleague Josie Huang, who's a reporter at KPCC, is talking to one of

their hosts about the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, and what it says about the dark

side of the Asian American dream. I hope you like it.

Hey, y'all. This is Gene, and before we get into the episode this week, we wanted to stop

for a second to talk about the killing of Tyree Nichols in Memphis. Tyree Nichols was 29.

He was a skateboarder.

He was a dad.

And he worked the late shift at FedEx.

And that's what he was doing on the evening of January 7th, when five police officers from

a specialized police unit in Memphis pulled him over during his lunch break for what

they claimed was reckless driving.

Within minutes, those officers were beating him, they were pepper spraying him, and Tyree

Nichols would die three days later in the hospital from the injuries he sustained in that

attack.

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