Called Before She Knew It

In 2019, a journalism student named Darnella Frazier was walking her nine-year-old cousin to Cup Foods, a corner store in Minneapolis. She had no grand plan, no platform, no audience. She was seventeen years old, living an ordinary Tuesday afternoon. Then she saw a man pinned to the pavement under a police officer's knee, and she did the only thing she knew to do — she pressed record on her phone.…