Part 3: The People And The Police

The Promise

Nashville Public Radio

Society & Culture

4.9 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The relationship between James Cayce residents and the Nashville police is a tenuous one. In this episode, we explore two defining moments in Cayce: A viral cell phone video of a police officer being assaulted, and the most controversial police shooting in the city’s recent history. Both were caught on camera. And both reveal the strain between the people who live in Cayce and the people who patrol it.

Music Credits:
Our theme music is by The Insider, additional music by Fleslit, all found through the Free Music Archive.

Production Credits:
Writing and reporting: Meribah Knight
Editing: Blake Farmer, Anita Bugg. With additional help from Tony Gonzalez, Emily Siner, Chas Sisk
Sound Design: Tony Gonzalez
Archival news clips were from News Channel 5 and WKRN. With additional audio from the Metro Nashville Police Department and Andrew Hunter.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just a note before we begin, this episode involves explicit language and descriptions of violence.
0:12.6	Another night, another fight at an East Nashville public housing complex.
0:16.8	As I was on top of him, telling him to stop resisting, give me his hands, I got kicked in the head.
0:21.6	A metro officer was sent to the hospital injured in the line of duty.
0:25.6	This is it, like, I'm going to pass out, I'm going to die.
0:28.6	This is not an isolated incident. This is not something that's another city's problem.
0:32.6	This is our problem, too.
0:34.6	Just because I'm running from the police, that don't mean you're supposed to shoot me.
0:39.0	Man, I know the hardest job in the world
0:40.6	is being a police officer, but...
0:42.4	You don't shoot nobody in the back.
0:44.0	That's a cow move.
0:45.4	He just needs to be held up to what he did.
0:48.3	He's a murderer.
0:49.7	That's just how I feel.
0:59.1	I'm Mayor Benight, and you're listening to The Promise, a podcast from Nashville Public Radio, a series of stories about life in public housing smack in the middle of a city
1:05.5	on the rise, one neighborhood, two realities, and the city's bold promise to bring it all together.
1:12.9	Episode 3, The People and the Police.
1:23.1	In James Casey, the police are a fixture.
1:26.8	They patrol the place by car, by foot, by bike, even by camera.
1:32.3	Interacting with them is one thing you can count on here.
1:36.3	Social programs come and go, government investment, waxes and wanes,
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