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investigative series that's coming out from our colleagues at Embedded, which is NPR's
award-winning documentary podcast.
“We could explain what that series is, but honestly, they've put together an incredible trailer,”
and we'd like to just share that, so here's that trailer. Back in 2020, a remarkable experiment took place. An intense stand-off with anti-police brutality protesters, police abandoned their own precinct, protesters stayed, and started occupying about eight city blocks in the middle of Seattle.
There's several hundred people being completely peaceful. It's like a block party.
They set up tents, there was free food, a mutual aid station, a stage for speeches and music.
“Getting involved into this community. They called it "chomp."”
But Capitol Hill organized protest. A place with no police, it was their attempt to build a better world. For a moment there, it was Utopia. But protesters feared an attack from right-wing activists. Taking my group down around city hall to monitor the group of the proud boys.
Some protesters appointed themselves chop security. Begin walking around in tactical gear, carrying guns.
“And then one night, a Jeep drove into the camp.”
Protesters thought they were under attack and shot at the Jeep. After the shooting ended, one of the Jeep's passengers was dead. 16-year-old Antonio May's junior. That night, protesters saw him as a threat. But his dad, who taught him what it means to be black in America, says his son was there for the cause.
To be honest, if it meant that I had my thumb back, I wouldn't teach my thumb back here. Because I want to have him back right now. That's meant to help with black history. Six years later, the case remains unsolved, and no one has been able to explain how this place built to protect black life and did up killing a black teenager. I'm Will Jams, and I'm Sydney Brownstone.
For more than a year, we've been investigating what happened that night, sifting through rumors. That's why he got killed. Digging up new witnesses, is someone chasing you? Oh yeah, we're currently in a car chasing you.
Yes, like multiple cars.
And uncovering never-before-seen evidence.
See this right here, that's a long gun out of the front seat. Holy ****. Listen to We Keep Us Safe, a new true crime series from NPR's Embedded Podcast, The Seattle Times and KUOW. You can find embedded wherever you get your podcasts or at npr.org.
The slash embedded.
