Broadcasting black death

The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile have played for thousands and thousands of hours on social media feeds. Viral videos of their final moments captured on cell phones – chilling and violent. Their deaths came at the hands of police officers, broadcast for the world to see.  For many in the African American community, these videos are virtual reminders of the real life threat of being black.   

Before Sterling and Castile, the world watched the deaths of Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice. The official terms are “police-involved incidents” or “officer-involved killing”. Police have killed at least 138 black people in 2016. That’s according to The Counted, a project by The Guardian that tracks police killings in the United States. Black males accounted for at least 25 percent of all 2015 deaths from law enforcement encounters.

On Tuesday join our discussion on the trauma, and toll, of police brutality on the African American community. 

On today’s episode, we speak to:

Shaun King @ShaunKing 
Senior justice writer, NY Daily News

Damon Young @VerySmartBros
Editor-in-chief, Very Smart Brothas
verysmartbrothas.com

Evelyn Ngugi @EVEEEEEZY
Vlogger
youtube.com/user/spicyeve

Terrell J Starr @Russian_Starr
National Political Correspondent, Fusion

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