Why Don’t We Know More About the Atlanta Victims?
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:40.5 | Over the weekend, city after city sounded like this. This is Seattle. In Minneapolis, protesters |
| 0:48.7 | filled a local park. In Pittsburgh, the actress Sandra O. got out of bullhorn and led the crowd |
| 0:55.7 | in a chant. All of these people were coming together to try to make sense of the shooting |
| 1:24.7 | that took place last week in Atlanta, a shooting that left eight people dead, six of them, |
| 1:29.7 | Asian women. In Atlanta itself, newly elected senators Rafael Warnaq and John Assof spoke |
| 1:37.5 | to a crowd of hundreds at the Georgia State Capitol. |
| 2:08.5 | But Lisa Hagen, who's been reporting on the shootings for WABE, the local public radio |
| 2:13.7 | station, says there's one way in which these protests sounded different than other protests |
| 2:21.7 | she's covered. |
| 2:23.2 | You know, it's become sort of mainstream and normal after a horrific act of violence, |
| 2:30.7 | especially in the black community, to say their name, to say out loud the people who've |
| 2:36.2 | been taken from their communities. And in this case, apparently family members have asked |
| 2:43.7 | for that not to happen. This is a private kind of grief for a lot of the family members. |
| 2:53.9 | You're not seeing them show up in person to sort of mourn in front of news cameras. It's |
| 3:00.9 | a different kind of reaction to this level of devastation. |
| 3:06.9 | Lisa doesn't know why the families made this request, though she says it could be because |
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