How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

Behind the Police

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Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Lynching was the sharpest blade in the arsenal of white supremacy for decades, until American police replaced it with the death penalty. In this episode, Prop and Robert trace the evolution of police torture, and how the legacy of 'the third degree' persists in law enforcement to this day.

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0:00.0	911, what's your emergency?
0:03.0	It's a nightmare we could never have imagined.
0:07.0	And a killer?
0:08.0	Who is still on the loose?
0:10.0	In the 1980s, we were in high school
0:12.0	losing friends, teachers, and community members.
0:15.0	We weren't safe anywhere.
0:17.0	Would we be next?
0:18.0	It was getting harder and harder to live in Mount Pine.
0:22.0	Listen to the Murder Years on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts
0:26.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	I'm comedian Gabby Watts, and I'm hosting a new history podcast
0:34.0	called American Filth, where we're diving into the filthy underbelly
0:38.0	of the good old U.S.A.
0:40.0	I'll be talking about a founding father who died from a DIY catheter.
0:44.0	The woman who rode the Dirty is Blue Song ever recorded.
0:48.0	How the pilgrim smelled durable.
0:51.0	And of course a 17th-century beast-geality panic.
0:55.0	Listen to American Filth on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts
0:58.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.0	I'm the Wizard of Oz, I'm the one making everything happen.
1:03.0	Real Housewife of Salt Lake City star Jen Shaw
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