Policing Jackson

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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As Jackson, MS faces the nation's highest homicide rate, the state has expanded its powers over the capital — leaving many of Jackson's Black residents concerned.

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0:00.0	I don't only been in Jackson, not even a quite nine months.
0:12.9	Oh, you just got the Jackson.
0:14.1	I just got the Jackson.
0:15.9	Wow.
0:17.4	I'm sitting with Latasha Smith outside of her apartment complex in Jackson, Mississippi.
0:27.5	Latasha moved not too long ago from Rankin County, which is just east of here.
0:33.6	We had to move over here because of what we couldn't find out and nowhere else.
0:37.5	And I was, I'm a single mother, raising two teenage daughters by myself, yes sir.
0:43.1	So was violence a concern for you at all?
0:45.8	No, not until I come to Jackson.
0:49.5	The two-story complex is busy with kids coming home from school, residents getting off
0:54.8	from work and a bunch of people just chilling out.
0:59.3	But on a winter night, late last year, it was dead quiet.
1:05.6	That night on December 11, me and my daughter, we was in the house and we was in the kitchen
1:11.6	about 10, 30, 11 o'clock.
1:14.7	We left out.
1:16.2	She went in her room and I went in my room.
1:19.4	About 30 minutes to 45 minutes, we did not hear nothing.
1:24.0	I want to tell my husband, when I heard that bang, bang and I thought I'd been shot, I'd
1:27.7	been shot.
1:29.5	And blood was going everywhere.
1:30.5	You know, it was coming at my arm going everywhere in the apartment.
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