Listen to "We Keep Us Safe" on NPR's Embedded podcast
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Listen to "We Keep Us Safe" on NPR's Embedded podcast

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 19, 20263 min

In the summer of 2020, teenager Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join a racial justice movement after the killing of George Floyd. Less than a week after he arrived in Seattle, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved. In this eight-part series, hosts Sydney Brownstone of The Seattle Times and Will James of KUOW team up with NPR's Embedded to investigate Antonio's death, surfacing crucial evidence and eyewitness accounts. Find "We Keep Us Safe" in the Embedded podcast feed. Listen to Embedded wherever you get your podcasts, including the NPR App, Apple Podcasts...

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Hey, ThruLine listeners, Rund here to let you know about a new investigative series from Embedded, NPR's award-winning documentary podcast. Here's the trailer. Back in 2020, a remarkable experiment took place. After an intense standoff with anti-police brutality protesters, police abandoned their own precinct.

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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.

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There was free food, a mutual aid station, a stage for speeches and music. I want my world to change. I want my world to change.

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