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  1. Okay,
  2. Hey guys, I'm Michelle Alvarez and welcome back to different voices,
  3. different stories on today's episode.
  4. We will be talking about police brutality and racism
  5. in today's world and stories we don't really hear about
  6. the new york times article talks about police brutality and misconduct.
  7. There's a video that appears to show the death
  8. of a Californian man held down by police.
  9. The man yelled, I can't breathe as officers pinned him down.
  10. Also, according to Nicholas
  11. Bogle burrows.
  12. The officer who killed Mccabe bryan will not face charges.
  13. News reporter a Jazeera posted on a website.
  14. Different black people who have been killed by
  15. police with no reasonable cause one of them was
  16. Dante wright who was killed by police as he was trying to get back in his car,
  17. Brianna taylor was shot eight times while she was trying
  18. While she was sleeping at home unarmed and one
  19. you have all probably heard of George Floyd,
  20. he was handcuffed on the ground and officer nail
  21. on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds.
  22. George Floyd repeatedly told them he couldn't breathe.
  23. Some stories.
  24. We don't really see it here,
  25. but our police officers doing good things for the community on BBC news.
  26. They show photos of white officers helping white americans.
  27. As you can see on the screen.
  28. There have been a lot of times where police help
  29. people without paying attention to rates or skin color.
  30. Okay,
  31. Writer Kirstie Crawford wrote an article about
  32. a police officer helping someone in need while
  33. they called the police because the man was
  34. in distress and thought he was intoxicated.
  35. She brought him food and found some shoes and clothes to give to this man.
  36. Instead of telling the man to leave the area,
  37. she asked him if he was okay and that's something we don't see on the news all the time.
  38. So why do we see more of police brutality but not
  39. so much of the good police officers do for our community.
  40. We see more of the negative stuff police do
  41. because of the mistake singular police have made,
  42. that have impacted a lot of people and caused people to protest.
  43. There are no good or bad police.
  44. We tend to focus on the bad stuff because that is
  45. what we see more all around the news and social media.
  46. The truth is there will always be good at police who
  47. do good things to serve our community and help people.
  48. And there will also be bad police who break the
  49. law and don't do what's best for the people.
  50. It depends how you look at it as a person and what you decide to focus on.
  51. Well, that's it for today's stories on police brutality and racism.
  52. I'm gonna show Alvarez and we hope to see you on the next episode of different voices.
  53. Different stories