Just to heads up y'all, this episode contains explicit content and descriptions of violence.

I'm Gene Demby and this is Code Switch from NPR.

Y'all know on this show we've talked a lot about people, usually black people who have been killed by police officers.

And we try to give context to those deaths and it's honestly like one of the most grim and unfortunately consisted part of our reporting area.

But of course, there is so much police violence that falls short of being fatal of taking anyone's life.

But still forever alters the life the people on the business end of that violence.

Killing are really just the tip of the iceberg.

Injuries, property damage, harassment, legal and hospital bills.

That's what so much more of police violence actually looks like and that rarely makes national news.

So this week we're going to turn the show over to our colleagues from the Onar Watch podcast.

It's from KQED, which is in the Bay and NPR's investigations team.

It's about one of these quotidian cases of police brutality, the kind that doesn't go viral.

It was a rainy day in Stockton, California when a woman pulled into a gas station with her two kids.

Well, I was in the store trying to buy some candy from my little sister.

While mom fills up the tank, her 16 year old son Joseph Green pays at the counter.

He's got a dollar bill left over, so he tries to buy his little sister some gummy worms.

And my dollar was partially ripped, right?

Also making a pit stop at the gas station that day was a Stockton police officer, Robert Johnson III.

How do you know the incident? I do.

It was February 17, 2011, and Officer Johnson and his partner were just finishing their shift on the gang suppression unit.

They stopped to get something to drink at the same store, the California stop.

Detective Wang and I were there. We went to get a bottle of water.

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