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🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Aries and Darlene. This week police violence in Minnesota and the symbolism of the thin blue line. |
0:08.8 | Alright, let's start the show. |
0:13.1 | Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR. I'm Aries Shapiro, filling in for Sam Sanders. |
0:20.0 | This week, even as we've been reliving the trauma of George Floyd's death under a police officer's knee, |
0:25.7 | two more stories have compounded that grief. The shooting death of Dante Wright in Minnesota during |
0:31.4 | a police traffic stop and also new video that shows police shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago. |
0:39.0 | We wanted to know how all this has been affecting folks who live in Minneapolis, especially people who |
0:43.7 | cover these stories for a living. So we called journalist O'Neakin a Cole Craven. |
0:48.5 | You try to take yourself out of the story because it's really not about you, but at the end of the day, |
0:57.0 | I'm an African-American woman who lives in the state of Minnesota and Dante could be me. |
1:05.6 | It's been really tough. You know, I have brothers and uncles here in the city of Minneapolis and |
1:12.9 | you know, every time they leave the house or they go somewhere, the idea that a routine traffic |
1:20.8 | stop could end their lives and watch in the trial and then you have Mr. Wright being killed just, |
1:26.4 | you know, 10 miles away from the court. It's really tough right now. |
1:31.5 | O'Neakin is a contributor to one of the few black newspapers in the state, the Minnesota spokesman |
1:36.4 | recorder and she told me that she's experienced that same fear during encounters with police. |
2:06.4 | I see other license plates with the license frame on there and I'm like, you came to the car with |
2:13.6 | your guns drawn at me and my passenger over something that every other car basically has and you |
2:21.0 | know, so we just don't know like if I would have moved wrong, you know, that could have been my life |
2:26.4 | and so we're it's we're on edge, we just don't know, you know, and we're looking at the trial. |
2:31.4 | We see in in all our hearts that he's guilty of killing George Floyd, but we know the system |
2:38.3 | that has been set up against us. You've also been speaking with people in your community about |
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