It’s expensive to get arrested
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A teenager protesting police brutality lands in jail, and we try to understand the tricky business of bail.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, just a heads up before we begin, today's show has audio of an arrest that some might |
| 0:06.2 | find upsetting to listen to. |
| 0:13.6 | When Harmony got to the protest on Saturday in downtown Pittsburgh, the first thing she |
| 0:18.5 | heard was chanting. |
| 0:24.0 | No peace. |
| 0:25.0 | No peace. |
| 0:26.0 | No peace. |
| 0:27.0 | No peace. |
| 0:28.0 | No peace. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm really a chanter and my voice is like, even if I try to yell, it's embarrassing. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm not a very loud person. |
| 0:37.4 | But I'm much with them and I held my fist up. |
| 0:40.7 | Harmony is 19 years old and works in retail in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:44.2 | Earlier that day, she was feeling kind of nervous about the protest, so she asked her |
| 0:48.0 | mom to help her get ready. |
| 0:49.9 | We were just talking about George Floyd and everything and I got a little sentimental, |
| 0:54.6 | I guess. |
| 0:55.6 | I was like, hey, mom, do you want to do my hair before I go? |
| 0:58.7 | She put it in like two French braids. |
| 1:02.2 | She memorized an emergency contact number and promised her mom she'd keep her updated. |
| 1:06.8 | So she was helping me in like making me laugh and stuff? |
| 1:11.0 | What were you nervous about? |
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