More African Americans are now living in suburbs than anywhere else. And some of the countryâs most recent controversial police shootings of unarmed black men took place in the suburbs outside St. Louis, St. Paul and Orlando.
In suburban Antioch, police chief Allan Cantando is trying to bridge divides with the new community. To do that, he meets with a class of college students and asks them to role play as cops. Meanwhile, a budding group of community activists who say theyâve faced police brutality are learning how to organize. Â The challenges of policing and protesting in suburbia, in this episode of American Suburb.
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