FIRST WORD
IT WAS SURREAL BECAUSE I HAD NEVER MET A PERSON WHOSE SON HAD BEEN KILLED BY THE COPS.” Charles Barkley, referring to a woman who challenged him during a taping of his new series for TNT, “American Race.” He had made a reference to police having to make difficult split-second decisions, and she asked him why, then, did it take police 15 to 20 minutes to “beat my son to death?” The fourepisode series will be shown May 11-12.