Aftereffect

By WNYC Studios

Society & Culture

What's Aftereffect about?

A SWAT team, an autistic man, an American tragedy.

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Aftereffect episodes:

05.08.2019
Listen to This: 'The Stakes'
On The Stakes podcast, host Kai Wright and team bring you more stories about inequality, health and justice... and more. In this episode: implicit bias in medicine brings life or death consequences for black moms and their children. A black woman in America is three to four times...
07.19.2018
WNYC Studios presents: The Realness
The Realness is about how a sick kid became a legendary rapper, but still couldn't escape sickle cell anemia.
07.13.2018
Episode 8: “They call him Cheese”
One day in February, a group of staff packed up Arnaldo's belongings, moved him out of Carlton Palms and into a three-bedroom house in a suburban neighborhood. On its face, it's the type of setting disability advocates strive toward. Arnaldo...
07.09.2018
Episode 7: “The man behind an empire”
For decades, Carlton Palms' elusive founder, Ken Mazik, has wielded his power and influence to sway members of Congress and state legislatures into bending the rules in his favor -- from scuttling laws that would limit the use of physical restraints, to...
07.06.2018
Episode 6: “When they don’t behave”
A cup of hot water thrown on a developmentally-disabled resident. Another kicked in the ribs. A tooth knocked out by a staff member. Carlton Palms is known for abuse and even death. So why is the state of Florida so...
07.02.2018
Episode 5: “I need to believe”
A year and a half after the shooting, there are signs of trouble at Arnaldo's new home, Carlton Palms. The staff isn't keeping an eye on him. There are unexplained injuries. His mother isn't allowed to see his room and...
06.29.2018
Episode 4: “I Baker Act you. You Baker Acted me.”
The day of the shooting wasn't Arnaldo's first encounter with the police. In fact, they'd loomed large in his life for years before that. Even as he bounced from one group home to another, the people that consistently showed up...
06.25.2018
Episode 3: “He was definitely a handful”
Since the beginning, Arnaldo's mother struggled to find adequate care for her autistic son. Her memories are often painful: the doctors who wouldn't diagnose him; the staff who punched him, drugged him, tied his hands behind his back in a...
06.22.2018
Episode 2: "Suck It Up, Buttercup"
The shooting left Arnaldo severely traumatized, unable to remain in the group home where Charles Kinsey had taken care of him. Shortly after, Arnaldo was involuntarily committed to a hospital psych ward, where a typical stay of just a few...
06.21.2018
Episode 1: "Let me get this on camera"
Just before 5pm on Monday July 18th, 2016, a 26-year old autistic man named Arnaldo Rios Soto walked out of his North Miami home. He had a silver toy truck in his hand. Hours later, his life would be changed...
06.18.2018
Aftereffect: A SWAT team, an autistic man, an American tragedy.
In summer 2016, a police shooting upended the life of Arnaldo Rios Soto, a 26-year old, non-speaking, autistic man. Aftereffect tells Arnaldo's story -- a hidden world of psych wards, physical abuse and chemical restraints -- and asks the question:...