Hey guys, just a quick announcement to say we are working hard on our next series.

And in the meantime, we're posting another show in this feed. It's called On Our Watch.

It's a collaboration between NPR and Member Station KQED. And it's all about what happens when

police do something wrong. A recent law in California has opened the door for reporters to

get tons of information about how police investigate each other when an officer is accused of wrongdoing.

But what happens when an officer is accused of racism and bias during a violent confrontation with

someone? How can you prove that? Here's the episode. This podcast deals with policing and people

affected by it. It contains explicit content and descriptions of violence. It was a rainy day

in Stockton, California, when a woman pulled into a gas station with her two kids.

Well, I was in the store trying to buy some candy from my little sister.

While mom fills up the tank, her 16-year-old son Joseph Green pays at the counter.

He's got a dollar bill left over, so he tries to buy his little sister some gummy worms.

And my dollar was partially ripped, right?

Also making a pit stop at the gas station that day was a Stockton police officer, Robert Johnson the

third. How do you know the incident? I do. It was February 17, 2011, an officer Johnson and his

partner were just finishing their shift on the gang suppression unit. They stopped to get something

to drink at the same store. The California stop. Detective Wang and I were there. We went to get

a bottle of water. We've been out working out a South that day. It was a stressful time for the

teenager Joe Green and his family. They had been a fire the day before that destroyed their house.

And now they're trying to figure out where to stay. And he was trying to get this gas station clerk

to take his damaged bill. I would just try to give him the ticket, and then he would say no,

and I would like, come on man, the bank's gonna take it.

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