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Bad Faith

Episode 250 - Race, Class, Cop City (w/ Matthew Clair & Kamau Franklin)

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Briahna speaks to Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders and a long-time organizer/attorney/writer in Atlanta who has been working against Cop City and around policing broadly, and Matthew Clair, a Stanford professor of sociology with a focus on how race and class inequalities in the criminal legal system are embedded in and reproduced through the attorney-client relationship. The panel discusses the proposed cop training development known as Cop City, the recent murder of Cop City protester Manuel "Tortuguita" Páez Terán by the police, the murder of Tyre Nichols and debates over whether "racism" could have played a role in the killing of a black man by black police officers. The panel then debated the utility of framing criminal justice reform as a "black" issue, the failures of the Biden administration's criminal justice efforts, and the role black mayors play in affirming the status quo.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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I'm

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. I am thrilled to be joined by an all-Star, shall I call it a criminal justice panel.

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We have for the first time on Bad Faith podcast, Matthew Clare.

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He's an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, an author of the acclaimed privilege and punishment, how race and class matter in criminal court. Welcome, Matthew.

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Thanks for having me. Or I should say Professor Claire. My apologies. I should confess to the audience

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that I've known Matthews since he was about two years old. Basically, your younger sibling.

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Exactly. So I apologize for any lapses in professionalism. And also for the first time on Bad Faith podcast, Kamau Franklin,

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who was founder of community movement builders, an organization that was originally based

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out of New York, if I understand it, but is now in Atlanta, which is germane to some of the

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subjects we'll be talking about today. And also co-founder of Black Power Media. Welcome to the podcast.

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Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

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Okay. So the reason I said that the Atlanta connection is of relevance is because one of the stories that obviously has been at the center of a contemporary conversation about criminal

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justice reform is Cop City. Camille, can you set up a little bit for those who haven't

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been following the story very closely? What Cop City is and why protests around the building of this

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