Off Duty: The Crime

On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot Lewis several times, then took off with his gun and police star. A week later, police had their suspects: four men affiliated with a gang called the Spanish Cobras. For hours, under intense police questioning, they all said they didn’t do it. But that didn’t seem to matter. This is episode one of Off Duty, an investigation by the Guardian’s Mel...

By Presented and reported by Melissa Segura; executive producers Joshua Kelly and Kat Aaron; producer Ben Goldberg; music editing by Rudi Zygadlo; sound design by Pascal Wyse; story editing by Joel Lovell; commissioning editor Nicole Jackson