6 - Never Had a Friend Like Me

You Didn't See Nothin

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Yohance speaks to the Black minister about the notion that the attacker and his victim have become friends.

Credits

Host: Yohance Lacour

Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis

Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company

Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa

Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)

Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi

Fact-checking: Angely Mercado

Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.

Special Thanks: Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology

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0:00.0	Last time on you didn't see nothing.
0:05.0	Little Frankie goes to trial.
0:07.0	Defense attorneys tried to portray Caruso as a good boy who attended church
0:11.0	and even crossed racial lines in donating food baskets to the poor.
0:15.0	A jury finds him guilty of aggravated battery and a hate crime.
0:20.0	He's sentenced to eight years, but the other attackers, they don't even go to trial.
0:25.0	In Chicago, two young white men have negotiated a plea bargain
0:30.0	and received a life sentence.
0:31.0	They made us an offer we couldn't refuse.
0:33.3	We just couldn't refuse the probation.
0:35.1	No jail time.
0:37.3	Some of Frank Caruso supporters were pissed and the case devised a black community even deeper.
0:44.4	Nigger Martin, we still here!
0:46.4	How much murder than Frank Caruso
0:49.4	I'll give you the day?
0:50.4	You piece of snow?
0:51.4	How much you get the day niggagga, man?
0:55.0	It's a snow. It's mid-August and I'm on the edge of Bridgeport right where it meets Chinatown.
1:10.0	They got the whole street in front of this church blocked off.
1:17.0	Italian flags everywhere.
1:20.0	It's a street festival, like a big-ass block party. They got a little parade the whole nine.
1:28.5	It's called the Feast of St. Rocco.
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