Officer Get's Away With Snatching A Life-Yet Again!
The Gangster Chronicles
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Tonight on the podcast, we step into a conversation that demands attention.
We sit down with filmmakers Laura Dylan Kerman and William Howell to discuss their powerful documentary Cycle— a film examining the death of Ty'Rese West, an 18-year-old Black teenager from Racine.
On June 15, 2019, Ty’Rese was stopped for a bicycle light violation by a sergeant from the Mount Pleasant Police Department. What followed ended with Ty’Rese being fatally shot. The officer, Eric Gizi, stated he acted in self-defense after allegedly seeing a firearm. Prosecutors later declined to file charges.
Cycle does not just revisit headlines — it explores the broader patterns, the community impact, and the questions that still echo years later.
Tonight’s conversation dives into:
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The making of Cycle
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The emotional weight of telling stories like this
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Accountability, policy, and the meaning of justice
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The ripple effects on families and communities
This is not just about one night.
It’s about the cycles we repeat — and whether we’re willing to break them.
Join us for a thoughtful, necessary dialogue. Listen with an open mind. Share with intention.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. All right, all right, all right. It's another episode of The Gangsta Chronicles Podcast. You know who I am, so there's no need to say my name. MCA.N is in the hospital, so y'all keep my boy prayed up. And don't start spreading rumors that he's on this. There's something like that ain't that serious. Got some stuff going on with this. but he'll be back next week. |
| 0:24.2 | Kind of seriously. don't start spread rumors that he's on this. There's something like that ain't that serious. Got some stuff going on with his, but he'll be back next week. |
| 0:24.3 | Kind of serious episode tonight, a little departure from what we normally do, |
| 0:29.1 | and I wanted to start doing more of this and talk about something that's plague in our community, |
| 0:33.3 | and that's police brutality. |
| 0:36.6 | June 19th, 2019, I believe. |
| 0:41.3 | A young man is riding a bike lost his life, |
| 0:44.2 | but they said he didn't have a light. |
| 0:45.7 | Tyrese West. |
| 0:48.5 | I have two people on the show tonight. |
| 0:51.2 | Powerful documentary. |
| 0:52.5 | When are you guys releasing this, by the way? |
| 0:56.2 | Right now, actually, we're still on the festival market, on the festival circuit, |
| 1:00.1 | and we think that's the perfect way to kind of roll out this film to be able to go into all |
| 1:05.4 | of these communities to really deal with real filmmakers and real film circles and be able to get this film into just like the places |
| 1:13.4 | where I think that it matters most right now. |
| 1:16.0 | And so that's what we definitely want to maintain our focus after them. |
| 1:19.9 | Oh, for sure. |
| 1:20.7 | The gentleman who you just heard is William Howe, |
| 1:24.3 | one of the producers on the film. |
| 1:26.1 | Next to him is the quiet but deadly, I believe. |
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