EPISODE · Oct 3, 2023 · 2 MIN
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from Black and Blue: Behind the Badge · host Blanchard House/Curiouscast
For Michael Morrison, the police badge is his future: his ambition, his way out of poverty, his ‘American dream’. But once he puts on his uniform, the badge starts to mean something very different. Michael takes on a new identity – but not the one he expects. Inside the force, he faces racism and violence, and on the streets he’s surrounded by hostility. Michael is stuck in the middle, between being Black and being a police officer. And when a routine day at work goes wrong and his career is thrown into crisis, Michael is forced to pick a side. Black and Blue: Behind the Badge begins October 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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For Michael Morrison, the police badge is his future: his ambition, his way out of poverty, his ‘American dream’. But once he puts on his uniform, the badge starts to mean something very different. Michael takes on a new identity – but not the one he expects. Inside the force, he faces racism and violence, and on the streets he’s surrounded by hostility. Michael is stuck in the middle, between being Black and being a police officer. And when a routine day at work goes wrong and his career is thrown into crisis, Michael is forced to pick a side. Black and Blue: Behind the Badge begins October 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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