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The Vergecast

Recording police brutality: how technology is driving the new civil rights movement

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Nilay Patel talks with Verge reporter Bijan Stephen and video producer Mariya Abdulkaf about The Verge's new multimedia project Capturing the Police. Capturing the Police is a project from The Verge about how people use technology to bring awareness of police brutality and racism — and what it costs them when they agitate for justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.

0:02.6

And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.

0:05.2

We're making a new show.

0:06.5

Have a nice future.

0:09.0

I'm more have a nice future, question mark.

0:12.5

It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.

0:16.9

We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.

0:20.5

We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,

0:24.9

and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.

0:29.3

So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.2

Hey, everybody.

0:35.7

It's New Life from the Vergecast, really special interview episode this week.

0:39.4

Yesterday, the Verge published a feature package we're calling Capturing the Police,

0:43.9

which was a months-long effort from almost everybody at the site to really

0:48.5

integrate the role of technology in the movement against police violence.

0:52.8

The heart of the package is a feature where we talk to 11 people who

0:57.7

would film somewhat viral videos of police violence, asking them why they did it,

1:02.3

what happened next, how they felt in the moment, whether they would do it again,

1:05.6

really contextualizing some of these videos that we've seen over and over and over again.

1:10.2

We also made two videos.

1:12.0

One is about a specific incidence, with a specific set of men in Baytown, Texas,

1:18.2

who filmed police violence and what happened next.

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