Friday, March 17, 2017

Embedded on Police Shootings

NPR's podcast Embedded is doing an ongoing investigation into videos of police shootings: why the shootings happen, how peoples biases affect how they see them, etc. Thus far it's been remarkably even-handed. The first episode, "Police Videos: Charlotte," is about the shooting of Jonathan Ferrell and why Officer Randall Kerrick's trial ended in a hung jury. The second episode, "Police Videos: Flagstaff," is about the shooting of police officer Tyler Stewart during a routine call and the footage changed policing. This series has been updating once weekly.

4 comments:

  1. Always keep this in mind on why police shootings also occur and why many times the police are found innocent of wrongdoing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi3Ndh3n-g

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  2. This definitely sounds really interesting and very informative, and I think its really cool that its a podcast, because you can listen to it while doing homework. I'm definitely gonna check this out!

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  3. I haven't heard anything about this podcast, but I think that this is a really cool thing because it is continuously shining light on the events that have occurred. It is common for us to worry about an event and then forget about it soon after, but I feel like this podcast can continuously make us think about these situations.

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  4. Ive always loved learning about news and how the police and government systems work. This sounds like a very good way to learn about some events and help people understand a lot of recent events with the police, ill be sure to check them out.

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