The Police

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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On Skid Row in Los Angeles, where thousands of poor, homeless people live — many of them black — questions of how police should use force and interact with people come up all the time. We embed with both the police and the locals after the police shot and killed an unarmed black man. And we see what police tactics, from glad-handing to tough love, look like up close. Follow Kelly McEvers on Twitter @kellymcevers and Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach. Email us at embedded@npr.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the
0:05.5	news and go deep.
0:07.6	And today we are on Skid Row in Los Angeles.
0:11.5	If you don't know about it, Skid Row is a pretty notorious place.
0:14.9	It's about 50 square blocks, thousands of people are there.
0:18.6	Many of them are homeless and live on the street, others live in shelters or short term hotels.
0:25.6	Like in the spring of 2015, police responded to a call on Skid Row about a robbery.
0:32.3	Officers approach a man named Charlie Lindo Kenung and by the nickname Africa, out of the
0:37.8	sidewalk.
0:39.4	And another guy starts filming.
0:41.2	All the tape you're about to hear is from that guy's video.
0:44.2	Just warning here, there's some explicit language up ahead.
0:49.0	Kenung is wheeling around as the police try to grab him.
0:52.1	He looks like they're trying to cuff Kenung, the police get on their knees, holding him
0:56.7	on the ground.
0:57.7	And you can hear what sounds like a teaser going off.
1:03.1	And then this happens.
1:05.1	Whoa!
1:06.1	Oh my God!
1:07.1	Oh my God!
1:08.1	Oh my God!
1:09.1	Oh my God!
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