"Police violence didn't just stop happening"

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery talks about reporting on police killings while black, and political consultant Jessica Byrd speaks about how Michael Brown’s death drove her to try to change the world. Ana’s fellow MTV News correspondent, Jamil Smith, fills in this week.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jameel Smith, in for my MTV News colleague, Annabarie Cox.
0:05.8	This is Friends Like These, a podcast about difficult conversations.
0:09.9	Since I'm talking from my home state of Ohio, I thought I'd keep this show local.
0:13.6	We won't be talking all about Ohio, but both of my guests are friends and fellow
0:17.9	bug eyes.
0:18.9	I'll start with my conversation with Wesley Lauerie, who went to Shake your Rats High School
0:22.9	in suburban Cleveland.
0:24.5	Same as me.
0:25.5	Wes is a national reporter for the Washington Post, and he covers law enforcement, justice,
0:29.9	race, and politics.
0:31.8	He's the author of They Can't Kill Us All, Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's
0:36.6	racial justice movement.
0:38.2	It was his idea that in 2015 sparked his newspaper to start tabulating the number of police
0:43.4	killings, a job the government wasn't doing.
0:46.6	That reporting won the post-apulot surprise.
0:48.9	They're still counting, and as of today, St. Patrick's Day, 219 people have been shot
0:54.5	and killed by police in America.
0:56.5	Why does it feel like we know none of their names?
0:58.8	I talked to Wesley about that, and also his recent reporting.
1:05.2	This past week, you had two really interesting reports.
1:07.8	The first was about a documentary that included previously unreleased video footage of Michael
1:13.3	Brown on the day that he died, and is also about the policemen who killed him during Wilson.
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