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Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.2 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On March 16, 2000, two police officers were shot in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods. One officer died and the other claimed the shooter was Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the leader of a local mosque. Once known as H. Rap Brown, a charismatic leader of the Black Power Movement, and an honorary officer in the Black Panther Party, Al-Amin was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But was Al-Amin truly guilty? Or was it payback for decades of work against the establishment?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Matt, the host of suspect.
0:02.8	I want to tell you a little bit about one of my favorite new shows, which is available now
0:06.8	in its entirety to binge.
0:08.4	The show is called Radical.
0:09.7	It's the story of Jamil Alamine, former black power activist who was convicted in 2002 of the killing of a law
0:15.8	enforcement officer in Atlanta. For years, questions have swirled about Alamine's guilt.
0:20.8	Was he actually responsible? Was he framed? Radical is both a
0:24.1	reinvestigation of his case and a look at some of the most fascinating and vexing
0:29.0	parts of American history. You'll love it. I'm going to play you a bit of the
0:32.1	show right now and then I'll be back with a little more information after the clip is done.
0:37.0	How far are you willing to go because like most of the people definitely never talk to me, they never talk to people that knew me, so now they have what they think is the truth and they have run with that.
0:50.0	In November of 2021, Johnny Kaufman got a call from a man in federal prison.
0:58.6	Johnny is the lead producer of this podcast and the call came to him months before he convinced me to help
1:04.4	him do more reporting, to host the podcast and make the story my own.
1:09.1	Johnny had been filing open records requests looking for problems with a ma'am Jamil's prosecution, and talking
1:15.2	to this man in prison, an interesting man, a man who over the course of his life has gone
1:20.4	by at least three names. Otis Jackson, Silas Muhammad, and James Santos.
1:27.0	I'm going to call him Otis Jackson.
1:30.0	On the phone, Otis was serious, didn't really joke much, and he sounded like a smart guy.
1:37.0	He said violence was a part of his childhood, and he moved around a lot as a kid.
1:42.0	I floated from family... He moved around a lot as a kid.
1:48.0	I floated from family member to family members of different people, you know what I mean? Until I got old enough to go my all things, you know.
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