'It's time to get comfortable with having uncomfortable conversations'
"My White privilege carved an easy-to-traverse path," writes Reporters Inc. Executive Director Mark Saxenmeyer. After being confronted for his silence on George Floyd's murder, he decided to share his experiences with race -- from the community he was raised in to the schools he attended, from the career he forged to his daily interactions.
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He spent 20 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit
Larry Floyd claims that as a teenager he was coerced into a murder confession by his own father. After serving 10 years in Mississippi's infamous Parchman prison, Floyd made a daring escape in 1991, leading to a classic manhunt. The beating he sustained by more than 20 officers after his capture nearly killed Larry, and prompted an FBI investigation into the brutal conditions inside the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Larry miraculously survived and lives to tell his story.
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Police take pro-democracy crackdown to new levels
Pro-democracy activist Kong Tsung-gan recounts his experience being followed and harassed by Hong Kong police.
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When police stay silent about stress, the results can be deadly
Sworn to serve and protect, police officers are taught that weakness, any weakness, could put their lives, and the lives of others, at risk on the job. And so they stay silent out of fear. Yet every year in the U.S., more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty. In the new book Public Safety Suicide: The Human Dimension, co-author Mary Van Haute tells the story of Bolingbrook, Illinois police officer Chris Prochut, who suffered a frightening downward spiral that cost him his law enforcement career, and nearly his life. The Reporters Inc. shares exclusive experts.
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