Beyond Justice

Doing Justice

CAFE

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, True Crime

5 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this sixth and final episode of Doing Justice, Preet tells the story of Rais Bhuiyan, the victim of a white supremacist hate crime. Bhuiyan forgave the man who shot him and launched a global campaign to get his would-be-killer off death row. The justice system isn’t only about punishment, but also about closure and forgiveness. For references and a transcript, visit: https://cafe.com/doing-justice-podcast/episode-6-beyond-justice/ Purchase the paperback of the bestselling book that inspired the podcast, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law: doingjusticebook.com Doing Justice is produced in collaboration with Transmitter Media. This episode was written by Mitchell Johnson and produced by Shoshi Shmuluvitz and Dan O’Donnell. We had production help from Jessica Glazer. Our editor is Sara Nics and executive producer is Gretta Cohn. The executive producer at Cafe studios is Tamara Sepper. And the chief business officer is Geoff Isenman. Meral Agish fact checked this episode. And Hannis Brown composed our original music and was our mix engineer for this series. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It seems like each news cycle is filled with stories of people testing the boundaries of our laws.
0:06.0	To help illuminate the complex legal issues shaping our country,
0:09.0	Cafe has assembled a team of legal experts for a new podcast called The Council.
0:15.2	You'll hear from former U.S. attorneys Joyce Vance and Barbara McQuaid, legal scholar
0:19.5	Rachel Barco, former FBI Special Agent Asher Rangapa, and of course me,
0:24.0	Elle Honegg, a former prosecutor and CNN senior legal analyst.
0:28.0	Listen to commentary from The Council twice a week by subscribing on your favorite podcast app. That's council co-u-n-s-e-l.
0:37.0	So where were you when the 9-11 attacks happened? Well, the day 9-11 attacks happened? Well the day 9-11 terrorist attack took place it was my day off.
0:48.4	Tuesday I remember still and I woke up around 830 in the morning and what I saw in TV I thought it was an upcoming
1:01.2	Hollywood movie trailer and then when the second plane hit the tower
1:08.0	that time I realize is no longer a movie trailer. And when it became clear who the terrorists were, who killed almost 3,000 people on 9-11,
1:22.0	did you have any feelings about that and about what people were saying about the fact
1:26.1	that they were Muslim themselves? I cried. I couldn't believe that, you know, seeing the horror that how people could do this kind of heinous crime
1:36.0	and how people could heart people like this and I was angry I was sad and at the same time I felt afraid I felt afraid I feel fear.ce Blyon grew up in Bangladesh, but when he was 26, he moved to the United States, New York City.
2:01.0	He was hoping to get a job in IT and then to bring over his fiance who was back in Bangladesh.
2:07.0	After a couple of years, a friend invited him to move to Dallas.
2:11.0	He invited me to visit Dallas, Texas and growing up watching wild, wild west movies.
2:20.4	I couldn't resist the invitation to visit Dallas, excited to see the wrenches, cowboys, and bars with their famous swinging doors, though I never did find one.
2:40.0	Instead of a Wild West saloon, Ray started working at a gas station in a rough part of town. He was surprised that he liked the work.
2:43.0	And I was excited that it would give me an opportunity to learn more about people, to get to know American culture,
2:51.0	and an opportunity to interact with people in Texas.
2:54.0	But it wasn't an easy job and it wasn't safe.
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