Introducing Hashtag Matter, a brand new eight episode scripted podcast. Michelle, Okay, yeah, come on here. And last night I was thinking about canceling all you. And it's not that I don't want to do this, it's just a lot to revisit. Everything has happened, response happening, Thank you. We already responded to that location in response to a shoot You're gonna point. A little over twelve months ago, an eighteen year old African American young man named Niles Hayes was driving a family friends luxury vehicle when he was stopped for a routine traffic violation. Things escalate quickly. Now his father, Gerald Hayes, sees his son in peril and instinctively rushes into the fray to protect him from Shonda land Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. I'm author and journalist Kate Bell, and this is hashtag matter. Within hours of the police stop, footage of the entire altercation between Niles and the investing officers gets posted online and it goes viral. Gerald is a hero for taking madis into his own hands. And if you can't see that, then I'm not working with you. I'm Colleen Sanders and We're here live from the Los Angeles Valley outside of Jace's forty two sports bar and Grill, where a carjacking suspect opened fire on police, leaving one officer dead and the second officer wounded. This case presented a lot of challenges from the start. Once the HTS retreated into the building, the standoff had begun. You got the whole l a p D outside of my building ready to light in hire block up. I mean, any number of outcomes could have happened if different choices were made. Doctor, Doctor, I guess what I am struggling with. Come, okay, you struggle with it because you live in a different reality than we do. So let me ask you something. If a man sees his child getting beat down in the street like a dog, what is a man supposed to do? From now on? We gotta do something different. If we really want to understand what went on that day, we have to get into Gerald's head. And in order to do this right, the first thing we have to do is go back to the beginning, the part you don't know. Hashtag Matter premieres February nine on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast,

Introducing Hashtag Matter, a brand new eight episode scripted podcast. Michelle, Okay, yeah, come on here. And last night I was thinking about canceling all you. And it's not that I don't want to do this, it's just a lot to revisit. Everything has happened, response happening, Thank you. We already responded to that location in response to a shoot You're gonna point. A little over twelve months ago, an eighteen year old African American young man named Niles Hayes was driving a family friends luxury vehicle when he was stopped for a routine traffic violation. Things escalate quickly. Now his father, Gerald Hayes, sees his son in peril and instinctively rushes into the fray to protect him from Shonda land Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. I'm author and journalist Kate Bell, and this is hashtag matter. Within hours of the police stop, footage of the entire altercation between Niles and the investing officers gets posted online and it goes viral. Gerald is a hero for taking madis into his own hands. And if you can't see that, then I'm not working with you. I'm Colleen Sanders and We're here live from the Los Angeles Valley outside of Jace's forty two sports bar and Grill, where a carjacking suspect opened fire on police, leaving one officer dead and the second officer wounded. This case presented a lot of challenges from the start. Once the HTS retreated into the building, the standoff had begun. You got the whole l a p D outside of my building ready to light in hire block up. I mean, any number of outcomes could have happened if different choices were made. Doctor, Doctor, I guess what I am struggling with. Come, okay, you struggle with it because you live in a different reality than we do. So let me ask you something. If a man sees his child getting beat down in the street like a dog, what is a man supposed to do? From now on? We gotta do something different. If we really want to understand what went on that day, we have to get into Gerald's head. And in order to do this right, the first thing we have to do is go back to the beginning, the part you don't know. Hashtag Matter premieres February nine on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast,