Ep. 124- James Byrd Jr.

It's About Damn Crime

It’s About Damn Crime

True Crime, Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Society & Culture

4.0 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk about one of the hardest stories; the death of James Byrd Jr.

James was a black man who was dragged 3 miles behind a truck by 3 white men in Jasper, TX in 1998. It's very heartbreaking so be sure to have a tissue ready.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of It's About Damn Crime where two best friends get together and talk about what, Justine?
0:26.0	True crime. There you go. I'm Brittany and I'm Justine. That's Justine.
0:31.4	Yes. And if you are a first time listener, what we do here is that we focus primarily on cases featuring people of color.
0:41.4	We do have dark senses of humor.
0:44.1	We do like to make inappropriate jokes.
0:47.7	That's us in a nutshell.
0:49.2	We are not a very serious storytelling podcast.
0:53.5	But, I mean, this case is a pretty serious one.
0:56.9	Yeah, it'll probably be pretty serious throughout this one.
0:59.7	Yeah, it's a very serious one.
1:01.2	There'll probably be no jokes in this case.
1:03.5	Yeah.
1:05.3	Just like a lot of outrage, I feel.
1:07.4	Yeah.
1:08.6	Maybe we'll be crying.
1:10.0	Who knows?
1:11.9	But anyways, before we get started, is there anything?
1:16.5	Any funny stories?
1:18.8	Well, we just did our first ever live show.
1:21.4	Oh, yeah.
1:21.9	So I feel like we should talk about that.
1:23.0	We should recap that whole event.
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