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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Four SoCal men have been killed by police in less than a week

    An 18-year-old man named Carnell Snell Jr. was shot and killed by police Saturday afternoon in South Los Angeles. LAPD said that Snell and another man ran from a car that police suspected was stolen, and that Snell had a gun and was turning toward police when he was shot.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 3, 2016 • 52m Listen

    An 18-year-old man named Carnell Snell Jr. was shot and killed by police Saturday afternoon in South Los Angeles. LAPD said that Snell and another man ran from a car that police suspected was stolen, and that Snell had a gun and was turning toward police when he was shot. Witnesses say that Snell, or CJ as he was known, was shot in the back as he was running away. Protesters demonstrated around the Snells’ South LA neighborhood, and in front of Mayor Garcetti’s house in Hancock Park, which police say was egged. Then Sunday afternoon, news came in of another fatal shooting involving police in South LA – the fourth Southern California man to die in a confrontation with police in less than a week. Activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson spoke with Press Play about his Sunday meeting with the Snell family.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Earl Ofari Hutchinson

      journalist and civil rights activist

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Four SoCal men have been killed by police in less than a week
    1. 0:31Study: Complaints against police drop when cops wear body cams
    2. 12:10Four SoCal men have been killed by police in less than a weekYou’re reading this
    3. 20:22Patriarch of Los Angeles theater, Gordon Davidson, dies at 83
    4. 29:07'Cameraperson': a meditation on a life behind the camera
    5. 44:03Elena Ferrante’s 'unmasking' is causing outrage
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