When Real Police Shootings Look Nothing Like The Movies

When Real Police Shootings Look Nothing Like The Movies

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According to The Washington Postmore than 800 people have been shot and killed by police officers in the United States this year. As videos of many of these shootings— especially ones depicting confrontations between police officers and black men— go viral, Alyssa Rosenberg, opinion writer at The Washington Post, examines how different they look from the portrayals of police shootings that we’re used to seeing in films and on TV. Her series, Dragnets, Dirty Harrys and Dying Hard examines the ways in which police officers are portrayed in pop culture. She talks to Bob about her third installment of the series: “In Pop Culture, There Are No Bad Police Shootings.”

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