From K-QED. It was a boiling hot afternoon in San Francisco in September of 1966. A police officer pulled his patrol car up next to a Buick in San Francisco's Hunter's Point neighborhood. Inside were three black teenage boys. They hopped out of the car, which police

would learn hours later, was stolen and two of them ran. They started running and I by this time stopped my car and I jumped out and I yelled him to stop

when I talked to you.

That's Officer Alvin Johnson in an interview from that night.

Exact accounts of what happened next differ,

but all agree there was a short pursuit.

And the boy saw me again, and I said,

well, you're stop and let me talk to you hold it and I had the gun in my hand and I said hold her I'll shoot

The boy continued running with his hands up and the boy was running down the hill and I put the gun in the air and I shot three times in the air and I shot one shot in his direction.

And I ran down there and I saw the boy lying flat in his face and blood out of his mouth.

The boy's name was Matthew Johnson. His family called him peanut. He was 16 years old. The officer shot him in the back and the

bullet pierced his heart. He died within minutes. An eyewitness would later say

all four shots were aimed at the boy.

What came next would be a defining moment for San Francisco's black residents.

And in many ways, it's similar to what we're seeing play out on the streets across America in 2020.

This week on Bay Curious, we look to movements of the past to understand where things might be

headed today, and we learn how protests can lead to change.

I'm Olivia Allen Price.

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