I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the news and go deep.

And today we are talking about this story.

It's a video.

They call it a dashcam video. It's taken from the inside of a cop car.

Watching it is like you are the cop driving fast to the scene of a 911 call around two o'clock in

the morning and Charlotte North Carolina. And here's what the cop knows at this point.

A woman has called 911 and said a black man is trying to break into her house.

In the car the dispatcher says in the radio the suspect has tried to kick in the woman's door.

And you can see what happens next. Officer pulls up to the scene. His headlight shine on a black man

in a green t-shirt and light colored pants. The side of the road. Near the woman's house.

He matches the description of the suspect. His name is Jonathan Farrell.

At first you see Jonathan Farrell walking toward the cops. Then you see both his hands go to his

waist. Like you might be pulling up his pants. And then you see a red dot on his chest.

We later learn it's from another officer's taser.

And then Jonathan Farrell starts to run. And he runs right off camera. So now we don't see anyone

in the video. All that's left is audio. You hear a third officer randall west caractile Jonathan

Farrell to stop. And then you hear this. 12 gunshots. Four in six. Then one. Then one.

That's why. That's why. Officers handcuffed Jonathan Farrell. Tell him not to move.

And then he dies.

This all happened in 2013. It is one of the early shootings in the Black Lives Matter era that

was caught on video and that got national attention. Well actually this shooting wasn't really

captured on video. Like I said most of what happens happens off camera. So when people

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