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Episode 306 Promo - Cop Shitty (w/ Kamau Franklin & Tiffany Williams Roberts)

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Tiffany Williams Roberts, Director of the Public Policy Unit at the Southern Center for Human Rights, joins Bad Faith along with Community Movement Builders, Inc. founder and #stopcopcity activist Kamau Franklin to weigh in on the state criminalization of protest that’s been happening around the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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0:00.0

I think that's the whole point of the AG's indictment is to make a smear and a sweeping

0:06.4

indictment of anyone and everyone who's been involved in the resistance and with the

0:12.2

movement to stop cop city.

0:14.2

That is where we're at.

0:15.2

So you're completely correct.

0:17.1

People who have done things are speaking out.

0:20.0

People who potentially have made donations.

0:23.3

People in other cities who've done actions and protests to say that they don't support

0:27.7

the building of cop city.

0:29.4

After the ideas and theory of this particular indictment, everyone in us potentially can

0:34.8

be charged in this conspiracy for supporting the stopping of cop city.

0:41.0

And so we're reaching a very dangerous precedent where basically organizers and activists and

0:47.1

their activities are being criminalized to such an extent where everyone is at danger

0:52.5

merely for just speaking out against the activities or the building of this government facility

0:58.2

that no one asked for in the first place.

1:00.2

I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around this because I understand that there

1:04.4

have been criticisms of Rico generally for being overly broad and I am very much attuned

1:10.4

to those.

1:11.4

But it also seems that even if you accept the value of Rico in a mob prosecution context,

1:17.9

the underlying crime is doing mob activities.

1:20.8

It's selling drugs or murdering people or doing whatever like actual crimes on the books.

1:26.5

I'm just really struggling with how they are even framing.

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