Legal Docket: Brownback v King - S2.E1

Legal Docket

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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough analyze a case of simple facts and complicated law. In 2014, college student James King is beaten up by FBI agents who had the wrong guy. Now in 2021, he still hasn’t received recompense for his damages after going all the way to the US Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	July 18th, 2014.
0:04.1	9-1-1 emergency.
0:06.0	They're pounding them in the head.
0:08.0	They're going to kill this man.
0:10.0	This man is 21-year-old James King.
0:13.0	He's on the ground.
0:14.0	Two older men are beating him up.
0:16.0	He's fighting back.
0:17.0	Police answer the 911 call and arrive moments later,
0:20.0	and they questioned King.
0:22.5	Did you have any weapons on you at all?
0:24.7	No, sir, I thought they were trying to mark me.
0:27.3	Okay, man is right.
0:30.6	Please, guys, be a real police.
0:32.6	Did you catch that? King said, please God, be real police.
0:54.3	Because he just learned that the two older men who beat him up were also real police. FBI agents in plain clothes, unshaven, wearing baseball caps. Those agents say they mistook the dark-eyed, dark-haired king for a guy with blue eyes and blonde hair five years older.
0:58.3	And if you compare photos of the two men, they look nothing alike.
1:00.8	The suspect's name was Aaron Davison.
1:03.3	James told them his name was James.
1:09.2	But when uniformed police arrived at the scene, the suspicion remained focused on King. Stay on your stomach.
1:12.3	Relax.
1:12.8	You have been in the condition?
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