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Thu Dec 4, 2014, 10:01 AM Dec 2014

The Sentiment In New York Captured In A 25-Second Audio Clip

"We've written a lot about the emotions that poured out onto the streets of U.S. cities and across the Internet when a grand jury in Staten Island declined to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner.

There is one piece of tape, however, that sticks with us. It comes from NPR member station WNYC, and in 25 seconds, it captures the anger, the desperation and the resolve to keep things peaceful in New York.

On the tape you'll hear Benjamin Carr, Eric Garner's stepfather, trying to calm a protester who pleads, "What's the future for me? For my son, for my child?"

Listen:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/04/368422790/the-sentiment-in-new-york-captured-in-a-25-second-audio-clip


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