Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The All Criminal Justice Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon with Vesla Weaver and James Forman, both of Yale University. This week: The deaths, at the hands of police, of Mike Brown and Eric Garner. Also, a discussion of On the Run, by sociologist Alice Goffman.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by The Great Courses, engaging video and audio lectures taught by top professors. |
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| 0:13.1 | Get 80% off the original price for a limited time when you visit the greatcourses.com slash GabFest. |
| 0:26.2 | Thank you. visit the greatcourses.com slash gabfest. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, August 15th, the All-Criminal |
| 0:31.9 | Justice Edition. |
| 0:33.6 | I am hijacking the Gab Fest, taking it over, holding a New Haven show with two excellent guests, James Foreman, who is a law professor at Yale Law School, and Veshla Weaver, who is a political science professor, also at Yale, because we're in New Haven. |
| 0:50.3 | Thank you guys so much for coming and joining me. I'm so grateful. |
| 0:53.8 | Thank you for having us. |
| 0:55.6 | So when we planned doing this edition, this will be the all-criminal justice edition of the Gab Fest, |
| 1:01.7 | we didn't know that our topic was going to be burning a hole in the news. |
| 1:06.2 | But that is what's happening. |
| 1:08.2 | We will start first by talking about the death of Michael Brown, |
| 1:11.6 | who was shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri last Saturday, and the protests that have followed |
| 1:17.2 | that shooting. Our second topic will be the death of a man in New York City in a police chokehold |
| 1:22.7 | and the investigation that has followed. And our third topic will be a new book by sociologist Alice |
| 1:29.0 | Goffman. It's called On the Run, and it's about criminality and mass surveillance in a poor |
| 1:34.7 | inner city neighborhood in Philadelphia. And then, of course, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:39.9 | Michael Brown was supposed to leave for college on August 11th. Instead, he and a friend named Dorian Johnson got into some sort of altercation with the police that left Michael dead. |
| 1:51.1 | Dorian says the confrontation began when he and Brown were walking in the middle of the street |
| 1:55.3 | and an officer approached and told them to get on the sidewalk. |
| 1:59.0 | There was an eyewitness who says there was a verbal confrontation, |
| 2:02.5 | and when Brown started to flee with his hands in the air, |
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