Reparations For Police Brutality (UPDATE)

Planet Money

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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For years, some Chicago police officers tortured suspects. Survivors fought for reparations — and got them. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Mary Childs.
0:02.8	A few years ago our correspondent Nual King did a show about police brutality and reparations.
0:07.9	It originally ran in 2016 and we are re-running it now.
0:11.1	We will have a short update at the end.
0:13.2	Just before we get started, a quick warning.
0:15.1	Know that this story does include graphic language, police violence and a racial slur.
0:20.5	Okay, here it goes.
0:23.2	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:28.8	On November 2nd, 1983, Darrell Cannon was home in bed on the South Side of Chicago.
0:34.3	And he woke up to this loud bang, bang, bang at the door.
0:38.6	Anytime you hear some banging like that, you know it's got to be a police.
0:42.1	This was not Darrell's first run in with the police.
0:44.6	He'd served time before.
0:46.2	The cops rushed in and Darrell thought I should hide.
0:49.2	So he jumped into a closet.
0:51.1	How did you hide in the closet?
0:52.5	Just hid in the closet and put clothes in front of me.
0:56.5	And at first they opened the closet door and then he left the door and he thought I wasn't
1:02.1	in there.
1:03.1	And then another one of them happened to move the clothes to the side and there I was.
1:07.2	And there was the cop.
1:09.0	He had a shotgun and he jumped back and put on the shotgun and me, get me she in, let
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