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Not an emergency, ma’am: witnessing Edith Rodriguez’s death

June 20, 2007 in 911, Edith Rodriguez, human rights, interpellation, race, racism, witnessing | No comments

Edith Rodriguez memorial photoI posted a little bit on this on Cypher&Syllable last week, but it’s time to listen more closely. The original 911 recording and some transcription are after the jump.

Via Racialicious, I found this article at the L.A. Times, regarding Edith Isabel Rodriguez’s death at the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital: Read the rest of this entry »