Hey there Shankar here. Today we wanted to bring you a bonus episode.

It's a story we reported several years ago. It's about race and bias and the power of culture

to affect our behavior. A quick note before we get started, this story begins with the police

shooting of a man named Terrence Croucher and this discussion of police violence against African

Americans throughout the episode. On a September evening in 2016, Terrence Croucher's SUV

stopped in the middle of a road in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A woman saw him step out of the car.

The doors of the car were open. The engine was still running. The woman called 911.

Officer Betty Shelby was on her way to an unrelated incident when the call came in. Terrence was 40,

African American, born and raised in Tulsa. He was a church-going man with four children.

Betty was 42, white, a mother. She was born in a small town not far from Tulsa. In an ideal world,

these two Oklahoma natives, close in age, ought to have had more to bring them together than hold them apart.

But on this evening, there was no small talk or friendly chatter. The police officer told Terrence

to take his hands out of his pockets. According to her attorney, he first complied. He then put

his hands up in the air. Moments later, he put his hands back in his pockets. By this point,

multiple police officers had gathered and drawn their guns and tasers. Overhead, a police

chopper filmed events as they unfolded. From the video, it's hard to tell exactly what's

happening on the ground, but an officer in the helicopter thinks Terrence is not cooperating.

I'm for a taser, I think. That looks like a bad dude too. To be honest, I'll tell you.

Moments later, one officer on the ground does fire a taser. Betty Shelby fires her gun.

She kills Terrence Crutcher. Later, police discover that he was unarmed. At a press conference

after the shooting, a journalist asked Scott Wood, Betty Shelby's attorney, why she opened fire.

Did him being a big black man play a role in her perceived danger? No, him being a large man

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