Dialogue

Blue lines and Black lives, Urbana and Champaign’s police chiefs on Sonya Massey with, trauma researcher Alesha Lewis

Patricia Bradford, Nidhi Shastri, Kennedy Vincent
 

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It's been two months since Sonya Massey was killed in her own home by police. The response? Criticism, outrage and anguish from across the country... but how do we prevent these tragedies from reoccurring?

 

With an incident like this happening in Champaign-Urbana's backdoor, how do we protect the lives of Black women and men in the community? and is it possible to change the system from within? 

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GUESTS: 

Larry D. Boone

  • Chief of Police, Urbana, IL

Timothy T. Tyler 

  • Chief of Police, Champaign, IL

Alesha Lewis

  • PhD Student and Trauma Researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign