Amy Goodman
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"I Was Almost Another Dead Black Male": Denver Teen Recalls Police Beating After 2009 Traffic Stop
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July 27, 2015
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3:53Now PlayingWe feature a video just released by the oral history project StoryCorps called "Traffic Stop," in which Alex Landau, an AfricanAmerican man, recalls how he was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when he was pulled over by Denver police officers in 2009, he lost his belief in a colorblind world when he was nearly beaten to death. Alex and his white adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, discuss what happened that night and how it continues to affect him. Landau has since become involved in efforts to curb use of excessive force by police and to foster transparency and accountability by police officers, including the use of body cameras.
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