Blue lines and Black lives, Urbana and Champaign’s police chiefs on Sonya Massey with, trauma researcher Alesha Lewis 

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It’s been two months since Sonya Massey was killed in her own home by police. The response? Criticism, outrage, and anguish from across the country… but how do we prevent these tragedies from reoccurring?

With an incident like this happening in Champaign-Urbana’s backdoor, how do we protect the lives of Black women and men in the community? and is it possible to change the system from within? 

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GUESTS: 

Larry D. Boone

  • Chief of Police, Urbana, IL

Timothy T. Tyler 

  • Chief of Police, Champaign, IL

Alesha Lewis

  • PhD Student and Trauma Researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
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Penny Bradford

Patricia "Penny" Bradford is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in public relations at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. She is a producer for Dialogue and a native of the Champaign-Urbana area.