Jul 07 Darnella Frazier, who recorded George Floyd’s death, loses uncle in police crash By Associated Press The teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd's life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against racial injustice said her uncle has died in a crash involving a Minneapolis police car. Continue reading
Jun 21 Watch 8:48 COVID, police violence took an excessive toll on Black Americans’ psyche. Can they heal? By Stephanie Sy, Jaywon Choe COVID-19 has taken a disproportionate physical toll on people of color — especially Black Americans, who are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized and twice as likely to die from it than whites. Experts are now also warning… Continue watching
Jun 15 Violent Colorado arrest puts spotlight on how police treat people with mental disabilities By Leigh Paterson, Kaiser Health News The amount of training law enforcement officers receive on interacting with disabled people varies widely. Continue reading
May 17 A majority of Americans say policing should be reformed. But most white people still don’t think police treat Black people differently By Laura Santhanam According to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, Americans were more likely to say race relations had gotten worse than had improved in the year since George Floyd was killed. Continue reading
May 04 Watch 6:18 What Breonna Taylor’s name and image is teaching America about Black lives By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport A year and a half after the police killing of Breonna Taylor during a raid of her home, no one has been charged in her death. Now her life, death, and the larger questions they raise about policing, and the… Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch 10:38 ‘Recipe for conflict:’ How a heavy dependence on police enables the use of lethal force By Stephanie Sy Stephanie Sy takes a deeper look at America's policing practices and the obstacles to meaningful reform with Christy Lopez. Lopez oversaw the "pattern-or-practice" investigations of police departments at the Department of Justice from 2010 to 2017, and now teaches at… Continue watching
Apr 28 Judge denies requests for video in North Carolina shooting By Ben Finley, Jonathan Drew, Associated Press The decision came shortly after a North Carolina prosecutor said that Andrew Brown Jr. had hit law enforcement officers with his car before they opened fire. Continue reading
Apr 28 Prosecutor says man killed by deputies hit them with car By Ben Finley, Jonathan Drew, Associated Press District Attorney Andrew Womble told a judge at a hearing that he viewed body camera video and disagreed with a characterization by attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr. Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch 7:10 Chicago sees massive protests after police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo By Stephanie Sy, Mike Fritz, Maea Lenei Buhre Questions over the fatal shooting and the role of the police in the death of a teen are front and center in Chicago. There, the mayor, city officials and community leaders are taking stock of how police respond with force,… Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch 11:28 Brooks and Capehart on police shootings, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including police shootings of people of color, and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Continue watching