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Jinho's Journey

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Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A hip hop artist from Oakland leaves his mic behind to join the police force and fight for justice from the inside.

This story includes scenes of police violence and strong language, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Thank you, Jinho Ferreira, for sharing your story with us! Listen to “I Can’t Breathe” from Jinho’s hip hop group, Flipsyde.

This story was adapted from the piece originally produced for WorldAffairs, an incredible weekly podcast and radio show. Special thanks to Jarrod Sport and Joanne Elgart Jennings, who originally edited and co-produced this story.

If you liked Jinho’s story, check out the WorldAffairs podcast. The world is shifting beneath our feet and if you want help making sense of it, WorldAffairs will break it down! Listen and subscribe to WorldAffiars wherever you get your podcasts.

Reported & produced by Teresa Cotsirilos, edited by Nikka Singh

Original Score by Renzo Gorrio

Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 12 - Episode 3

Transcript

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0:00.0

What I've reached to her!

0:05.4

In prison I was out in jail after going to fashioned the court for the second time

0:07.6

And trying to protect her clay-bloom.

0:09.6

I live in a cell called Rolleytown courts, where no need to eat in the garden unless

0:14.0

there's someone else sitting next to him.

0:16.6

In prison I watched the church call too indulctivity, but then another old kid danced

0:25.0

on the meantime due to my vulnerable arms andahn.

0:28.1

I've completed it with no reason for snakes to rot or hold the방.

0:29.1

I've been in news junkie.

0:31.6

Like to know what was going on, right?

0:34.1

And even now I subscribe to five or six newspapers,

0:38.3

several magazines, but these days,

0:42.9

I find myself this self-described news junkie,

0:46.6

opening those newspapers, those magazines,

0:48.4

listening to news programs less and less.

0:54.8

I still haven't been able to watch the eight minute

0:59.0

and 46 seconds of George Floyd's murder.

1:04.5

Haven't seen the video of a mod obry fleeing.

1:07.5

I haven't looked at pictures of Brianna Taylor's murder.

1:11.9

I want to hold my arm over that fire

1:14.4

and feel that flame burn, but I know.

1:18.5

I know it will consume me.

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