Introducing - You Didn't See Nothin

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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Here's another podcast we think you'll find interesting. Twenty-five years ago in Chicago, a little boy named Lenard Clark was beaten into a coma just for being Black. Almost overnight, the news stories turned to racial reconciliation and forgiveness. From writer Yohance Lacour, You Didn't See Nothin is an investigation into how that happened, and a memoir of coming-of-age in Chicago. Full series available now.

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0:00.0	My name is Johans LeCour.
0:02.0	And lately I've been talking to a lot of people from my past.
0:06.0	What's up, brother? I got a bottle. I got some checking.
0:09.0	You said I bring a joint, so I brought some herbals.
0:13.0	I've been talking about who I was in my 20s.
0:16.0	I mean, we all got complexities, but I definitely think
0:20.0	that you're talking more complex than most.
0:23.0	And I've been talking about a thing that happened in 1997.
0:27.0	Just last week in Chicago, a 13-year-old boy riding his bike
0:32.0	was brutally attacked for no other reason with the color of his skin.
0:36.0	I didn't know Lennard Clark, but he could have been my little brother.
0:41.0	I was angry as hell. And then almost overnight,
0:46.0	news stories turned to racial reconciliation and forgiveness.
0:53.0	Now in the history of criminal justice in Chicago,
0:57.0	have victims and the accused victimizes come together to repair it.
1:03.0	And so you'll be tough. No!
1:05.0	I'm not funny.
1:07.0	This podcast is about how that happened.
1:10.0	A witness linked to Lennard Clark's case murder.
1:14.0	Another one of missing.
1:16.0	I guess what happened was the Chicago way.
1:19.0	So the idea is that, well, let's forget about what happened
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