Lucas Waldron
Lucas Waldron is a graphics editor at ProPublica.
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Lucas Waldron is a graphics editor. Previously, he was a visual investigations producer on ProPublica’s video team.
Waldron’s work includes creating data visualizations, animations and motion graphics for ProPublica stories. He has also co-reported stories on issues related to transgender and nonbinary communities.
Waldron is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, he worked at KQED and The New York Times.
We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos. Here’s What We Found.
We asked experts to watch videos showing officers using tear gas, pepper balls and explosives on protesters. Police actions often escalated confrontations.
“Alguien tiene que ayudarme”
Phillip García estaba en crisis psiquiátrica. En la cárcel y en el hospital, los guardias respondieron con fuerza y mantuvieron atado al interno de 51 años durante casi 20 horas, hasta que murió. Advertencia: material con imágenes explícitas.
“Somebody’s Gotta Help Me”
Phillip Garcia was in psychiatric crisis. In jail and in the hospital, guards responded with force and restrained the 51-year-old inmate for almost 20 hours, until he died. Warning: graphic video content.
Deadly Restraint: How a Man in Psychiatric Crisis Died in Custody
Video shows that deputies used violent force against Phillip Garcia and lied about their treatment of him in reports.
Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Coronavirus Antibody Test Results
In some situations, antibody tests generate more false positives than real ones. It’s because of math.
Seattle Allowed 33,000 Fans to Attend a Soccer Game as COVID-19 Cases Increased
Hundreds of pages of emails show officials debating how seriously to take the spreading virus.
Why This Coronavirus Is Not Like the Flu, or Even the Swine Flu
COVID-19 is unlike anything in our lifetime. But the president has repeatedly compared it to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak of 2009. Here's why it's different, and much more dangerous.
How Quickly Hospitals Could Fill Up if We Don’t Slow Coronavirus Down
How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast the novel coronavirus spreads, and how many open beds they had to begin with.
Watch: Test Videos Reveal How Evenflo Put Children at Risk
There’s no government oversight of side-impact tests, so Evenflo made up its own and gave itself passing grades.
Adrift: How the Marine Corps Failed Squadron 242
Falling from 15,000 feet, two Marines hit the Pacific Ocean at 800 feet per minute. They were bruised and cold, their rescue equipment failed and help was hours away.