Episode 73: When They See Us
Photo by: Brad Ogbonna for The New York Times
For this episode, Ty and Daphne discuss current events, news, and Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. They begin by catching up (00:30) and discussing “Oh Lawd” news (7:09), including a vigilante shooting (“citizen’s arrest”) in Clayton County, Georgia (7:45), a lab owner falsifying drug and paternity tests (12:30), a strip club loving Catholic school principal (16:37), the NYPD “Rap” unit (22:25), and the Virginia Beach mass shooting (33:37). Ty and Daphne then focus their attention on the Central Park Five case and Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. Specifically, they discuss their reactions to the Netflix miniseries (39:00), research on false confessions (45:22), tips on interacting with police during an interrogation (47:15), the serial rapist responsible for the Central Park jogger rape (49:30), and updates on the Central Park Five and the individuals responsible for their prosecution (50:40).
Resources:
George Zimmerman 2.0/Vigilante Shooting- https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/woman-who-allegedly-pursued-and-killed-man-after-hit-and-run-can-be-released-on-bond-judge-rules/85-b4710304-f2a0-4aea-b7bc-93a4d8fde637
Lab Owner Arrested for Falsifying Results of Drug Tests - https://www.theroot.com/lab-owner-arrested-for-falsifying-results-of-drug-tests-1834753568?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_facebook&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR1a1aLseaXVAO6OdTk2IYAU7fOmX789KInsPegGZnDgzPOsb7P0uoR47Yc
Amazon selling houses for 20k
Virginia Beach Shooting - https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/02/us/virginia-beach-shooting-sunday/index.html
The Unexonerated: Factually Innocent Defendants Who Plead Guilty- https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1116&context=clsops_papers
The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2071397
What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - https://www.propublica.org/article/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-alford-plea-guilty