My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works.

“I spoke to four witnesses, including my wife. All of them said they saw the same thing. When I called Baker back, he told me that my wife and the three others were mistaken. The car hadn’t hit the kid. The kid had hit the car.” After his family saw an NYPD car hit a Black teen, Eric Umansky tried to find out what happened.

Source: ProPublica
Published: Jun 23, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,158 words)
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