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To Break the “CYCLE” of Police Killing, Listen to Survivors

Season 2 Episode 232

Laura Flanders sits down with the directors of CYCLE, a newly-released investigative feature documentary that focuses on the 2019 killing of Ty’rese West, an 18-year-old Black teenager from Racine, Wisconsin who was shot to death after being pulled over by a Mount Pleasant police officer for riding a bicycle with no headlights.

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4/5/2026
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