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Police Videos: Flagstaff

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🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On Dec. 28, 2014, Robert "Bobby" Smith shot police officer Tyler Stewart and himself in Flagstaff, Arizona. The video of that shooting has since taken on a life of its own. Police use it to talk about the dangers they face every day. Other people see it as a painful loop that will never stop playing. Follow Kelly McEvers and the show on Twitter @kellymcevers and @nprembedded. Email us at embedded@npr.org

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Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from

0:34.7

the news and go deep.

0:37.5

And in our latest episodes we're talking about police videos.

0:40.3

And there's the kind of police video most of us are used to seeing, where a civilian,

0:45.4

usually an unarmed black man, is shot by police.

0:49.4

But cops watch different kinds of videos.

0:52.2

We do not hear a lot about those.

0:55.3

There's this one video that cops watch.

0:57.8

Ever since I saw it, it has haunted me.

1:01.6

Because it's this totally routine call that goes horribly wrong.

1:06.0

Okay, yeah.

1:08.0

It's from December 2014.

1:10.0

I was taken from the body cam of a police officer in Flagstaff, Arizona.

1:15.2

Watching it is like you are the police officer.

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