Police on Trial

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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FRONTLINE and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters from our local journalism partner Star Tribune examine one of the most pivotal events in the history of race and policing in America. "Police on Trial" draws on unique on-the-ground reporting and filming, from the earliest days after George Floyd’s death, to documenting the trial and murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, to ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform in Minneapolis.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:08.1	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.9	In the latest episode, Executive Producer Rainy Aronson talks with the Minneapolis Star
0:18.7	Tribune editor, Suki Darderian.
0:22.1	Right now, here is the audio cast of Police on Trial, narrated by Star Tribune reporter
0:28.3	Lapura Janie.
0:30.3	A special two-year collaboration with reporters from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Frontline.
0:57.7	Investigating the city's police.
1:00.7	There had been a long history of heavy-handed police and police violence.
1:05.3	If Mr. Shovans saw my nephew as a human being, do you want to trade him that way?
1:10.1	It's not part of our training, and it's certainly not part of our ethics or our values.
1:14.0	The department's culture.
1:15.3	What did the administration do to keep this from happening before it even gats at this point?
1:19.7	The impact on the community.
1:21.4	It's just a combustible situation.
1:23.7	And the struggle for reform.
1:25.6	We should incant abolish our current Minneapolis police system.
1:29.6	There was no explanation on what the plan was going to be after abolishing the police.
1:35.6	It's not like you can just reform or dismantle MPD and it's a job well done, and you're going
1:41.9	to wake up in this utopia.
1:43.9	There's plenty more work to be done.
1:46.6	Now on Frontline, police on Trial.
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