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The Documentary Podcast

US election: Race and policing

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the presidential election campaign nears its conclusion, another American city witnesses protests for racial justice after police officers shoot dead a black man on the streets of Philadelphia. Host Nuala McGovern shares several conversations on the prominence of race in this election campaign including two police officers from New York and Missouri and several Black Lives Matter protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina. After the presidential debates promoted controversy around white supremacy groups, we also hear the individual stories of a man and woman who joined Neo Nazi groups in the US and their fears for post-election America.

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0:00.0

Some podcasts are about the news,

0:04.0

some podcasts are about politics and science and history,

0:09.0

but my new podcast for the BBC World Service is about losing man I loved. It's called

0:18.1

Goodbye to All This and you can find it by searching for goodbye to all this wherever you get your podcasts.

0:27.6

Hello, I'm Nula McGovrin on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, US Election Conversations, Race.

0:37.0

In the final days before America elects its next president, race and white supremacy is once again under the spotlight.

0:50.0

As two former neo-Nazis look back over their lives, they reveal what made them susceptible to recruitment.

0:58.0

Unprocessed trauma doesn't dissipate if festers, and in my case it fester mostly into like deep self-patrid and

1:07.3

self-loathing and manifested mostly as rage.

1:11.3

The Black Lives Matter Movement was founded in 2013 after the fatal shooting of a black

1:18.3

teenager in Florida. The shooter in this case was a civilian, but over the last few years protests in cities across the United States

1:27.2

have mostly centered on the deaths of black men and women while being taken into police custody.

1:35.0

The most recent unrest was in Philadelphia after police officers shot dead Walter Wallace Jr. a 27 year old African American with a history of mental illness.

1:50.0

Walter's mother had called an ambulance, but the police arrived first.

1:55.0

Her son was brandishing a knife in the street before being shot.

1:59.0

Later, Walter Wallace Sr. called for an end to the violence and looting and

2:04.9

address the circumstances of his son's death. We got good cops and we got bad.

2:10.0

That's the system in the system. I'm not faulting somebody had to be all accountable for what they did.

2:18.0

If you're going to call a justified shooting multiple times, I mean, what kind of law we had. Racial

2:25.9

inequality has been an important election issue for both presidential

2:29.9

candidates. Donald Trump often refers to himself as the law and order president

2:35.4

and reiterates his support for the police. He called the latest shooting a terrible

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