and by frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from koo and patricia yuen and from laura debonis. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: washington, d.c., late 2019. the international consortium of investigative journalists began receiving a trove of leaked documents. in all, nearly 12 million confidential financial files from firms that set up shell companies and offshore accounts for clients seeking to keep their wealth in the shadows. the leed records are called the pandora papers, and they expose a financial system that shields the deals and assets of some of the world's richest and most powerful people. >> we arrived at the conclusion pretty quickly that this was going to be bombshell material. bank accounts of politicians that showed tens, or even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets that have never been publicly associated with these politicians or public figures bere. >> narrator: over the past two years, journalists from 150 news organizations, including "frontline," have been examining the leaked documents, e

and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from koo and patricia yuen. additional support for “shots fired” is provided by the hollyhock foundation and the john s. and james l. knight foundation. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: in the summer of 2020, a group of murals went up in salt lake city. they included faces of people killed by police over the past decade. they went up amid the growing reckoning over police violence around the country and after salt lake city police officers killed 22-year-old bernardo palacios-carbajal. "frontline" reporter taylor eldridge retraced his steps from where police had been called to a nearby motel over reports of an armed robbery. >> officers stopped here. >> the officers see bernardo right there. >> narrator: the officers shouted to him. >> hey! >> show me your hands! >> narrator: and then ran after him. >> we have a male on foot, running fast. show me your hands! >> narrator: a sergeant arrived. >> drop it, drop it, drop it! >> show me your hands! he's got something in his pocket!

and by frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. support for this program is provided by: the wnet group's chasing the dream, a public media initiative reporting on poverty, justice, and economic opportunity in america, with major funding by the jpb foundation. and additional funding from the peter g. peterson and joan ganz cooney fund. (overlapping news reports) >> right now, breaking news here, stocks all around the world are tanking. >> jacoby: if you want to understand how today's financial world has grown so far removed from the real world-- and the role of the federal reserve-- you need to go back to 2008, when investors, speculators, and wall street bankers nearly brought down the global economy. >> get on the train! otherwise it is gonna leave the station without you. >> wall street shaken to its very foundation today. ♪ ♪ >> we will need to stabilize, repair, and reform our banking system and get credit flowing again to families and businesses. >> jacoby: the new president and congress spent hundreds of billions of dollars

and by frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler.group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> for more on this and other "frontline" programs, visit our website at pbs.org/frontline. ♪ ♪ frontline's, "pandora papers" and "massacre in el salvador" are available on amazon prime video. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ you're watching pbs. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ (gentle music) - [narrator] this historical marker is all that's left of camp savage. it commemorates a little known military intelligence service initiative that took place in minnesota during world war ii. 6,000 second generation japanese-americans, or nisei, came through minnesota's language school where they were trained to be translators, interrogators, and japanese military experts. (bombs whizzing) (bomb exploding) - after pearl harbor, the army as an institution, would have been very happy to discharge all nisei. - [kimmy] ye they are serving their country, but meanwhile their family members are imprisoned. they themselves were imprisoned. - [peggy] but i think now what i can feel is the fear that they must've had. - your