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News Brief: The #Bronx120 and Preet Bharara's Woke Rebranding

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News, Society & Culture

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this unlocked News Brief we discuss New York media's racist, factually incorrect coverage of the #Bronx120 and how Preet Bharara went from careerist "gang raid" general locking up poor black teenagers to woke MSNBC platitude machine.

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0:00.0

Welcome to A Cytations Needed News Brief. I am Neema Shirazi. I'm Adam Johnson. We do these

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shorter, many episodes, sometimes just conversation, sometimes just our, you know, steaming hot

0:15.3

takes on current news, current events, things that need a little more immediate reaction that

0:21.8

we feel compelled to talk about, things that we are not necessarily going to be able to cover

0:26.4

as quickly in our full length episodes. So thank you everyone for listening to this news

0:31.0

brief. Thank you especially to our Patreon supporters who keep this show going, make it possible

0:37.8

for us to do not only our full length episodes, but also produce a newsletter, do these news

0:42.9

briefs we've done quite a few, quite a few dozen at this point over our past year and a half

0:48.4

plus more for... I remember this for a year and eight months. So there you go, 20 months. So thank

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you everyone again for listening and enough of that. What we are talking about today is a study

1:01.5

that came out recently reporting on what is known as the Bronx 120. The mass gang raid conducted

1:12.7

back in April of 2016. So pretty much exactly three years ago and this report has now come out

1:21.5

pretty much obliterating the NYPD FBI, New York Prosecutorial and mainstream media narrative of

1:32.0

what went down. So Priet Bharara who is since after having left the Southern District of New York,

1:37.4

he was a US attorney, not to be fused, but district attorney, he worked for the federal government,

1:41.1

but doesn't have a year there. He was prosecutor on the on the Bronx 120, which was this raid in late

1:45.7

April 2016 that arrested about 86 people on total 120 people overall throughout a few days before

1:52.0

and after. That was supposed to be the big, it was, I was marketed as the biggest gang takedown ever,

1:56.4

the biggest gang raid ever and that these were gang members. Yeah, targeting two very large housing

2:01.7

projects in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Yeah, so Priet Bharara has since left the US

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attorney's office after having been fired by Trump when he fired everyone when he came into office

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and he has since rebranded himself as a woke MSNBC liberal who sort of takes on Trump

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