Cop City

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Maria and guest co-host Fernanda Santos talk about former President Donald Trump being found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. And they get into two recent tragedies in Texas that left multiple people dead. Then in our roundtable, Julio is joined by Kamau Franklin, the founder of Community Movement Builders, and Jacqueline Echols, board president of the South River Watershed Alliance in Georgia, to discuss the movement to stop the building of a massive police training facility in Atlanta, dubbed “Cop City.”

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0:00.0	Hey, in the thick listeners, today's episode includes some discussion about sexual assault.
0:12.1	If you need to skip today's episode, we understand.
0:14.6	Hey, what's up, fam?
0:18.9	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick, a podcast about politics, race and culture.
0:24.8	I'm Maria Inohosa, and I'm a little bit happy because I'm here with...
0:29.0	Fernando Santos, filling in for Julio Ricardo Varela.
0:32.2	And I'm so happy to be doing the show with you, Fernando.
0:35.0	That's great. It's wonderful to be sharing the show with you.
0:38.4	Welcome, and we have some big news, which actually...
0:41.1	I'm really glad that you and I are having a chance to talk about this,
0:44.3	because there was a decision in the defamation case against Donald Trump.
0:50.1	So on Tuesday, a federal jury in New York found former president, Trump,
0:55.4	libel for sexually abusing and forcibly touching E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s,
1:02.0	and for defaming her last year.
1:05.0	And they awarded her $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
1:11.3	But none of that before we started, I just said, you know, as somebody who is a survivor of rape,
1:15.4	and it took me so long to be able to say that.
1:18.3	So just knowing what she had to stand up for herself in taking this case to court,
1:29.1	many people have no idea who is E. Jean Carroll, but I grew up reading her.
1:33.9	She was my favorite advice columnist.
1:37.7	She was in the magazine L, and she was just very...
1:41.4	Very hip, very smart.
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