We Keep Us Safe

We Keep Us Safe is the investigative true-crime series promoted in New NPR Series: “We Keep Us Safe” from the Embedded podcast. The trailer identifies it as a new series from NPR’s Embedded podcast, The Seattle Times, and KUOW.

The series focuses on CHOP and the unresolved killing of Antonio Mays Jr. after protesters fired on a Jeep they believed was a threat. Its central frame is Safety Ideal Fatal Contradiction: a space described as protecting Black life ended with a Black teenager dead.

Key Claims

• Will James and Sydney Brounstone say they spent more than a year investigating what happened that night.
• The trailer says the reporting involved rumors, new witnesses, and never-before-seen evidence.
• The series is presented as an investigation into both responsibility and how fear, armed security, and threat perception changed the protest zone.

Connections

• Embedded podcast, The Seattle Times, and KUOW - producing and reporting organizations.
• Will James and Sydney Brounstone - reporters.
• Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), Antonio Mays Jr., Police-Free Protest Space, and Armed Protest-Zone Security - core subject matter.
• Black Lives Matter - anti-police-brutality protest context.