Remember To Love In A Big Way (with Coby Kennedy)

Pod Save the People

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Judge Eunice Lee, universal basic income, Simmont Thomas, and SNAP benefit increases. DeRay interviews artist Coby Kennedy to discuss his installation art piece "Kalief Browder: The Box" on display in Brooklyn's Pioneer Works Garden. DeRay: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-gorwell-retirement-20210811-ekgfhoj2cbglvklnssgolpicoi-story.html Kaya: https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-9832ab299bd1a5953f305ec1ae2b8ea9 De'Ara: https://newsone.com/4182991/eunice-lees-confirmation-continues-biden-promise-of-diverse-judiciary/ Sam: https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-new-mexico-guaranteed-monthly-payments-santa-fe-2021-8 Cody Kennedy's The Box: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/coby-kennedy-kalief-browder-the-box For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Posse, the people in this episode, it's me, Sam,
0:05.0	Kai, MDR, as usual, talking about the news as you didn't hear from the past week.
0:08.6	And then I sit down with Kobe Kennedy to talk about his installation piece,
0:12.0	Khalif Browder, the box on display in Brooklyn's Pioneer Works Garden.
0:16.6	I love the art. Love it, love it, love it.
0:19.0	My advice for this week is to love on people.
0:21.8	So this episode is dedicated to my dear friend, Jason Jerome Hawkins.
0:27.3	He passed away at 33. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in April and passed away in July.
0:35.1	Jason, I want you to know that I love you.
0:37.8	I'm so thankful that we were friends.
0:41.2	And my advice for this week is to remember to love on people that you loved on people in such a big way.
0:47.4	I'm happy that we got to play the Oculus VR in October of 2020 at your house in New Jersey.
0:55.2	And I want you to know, I love you. Let's go.
0:58.6	So my story is about a Baltimore City Police Officer who killed an unarmed black teenager in 1993.
1:06.8	This officer was Edward Gourwell, the second of the Baltimore City Police Department.
1:10.6	He killed 14-year-old Cimit Thomas who was allegedly fleeing from a stolen Congress Baltimore.
1:16.8	And this officer shot him in the back in 1993.
1:20.9	Within weeks of Gourwell killing Thomas, he said that he heard a gunshot before he opened fire.
1:26.6	But no gun other than his own was ever found at all.
1:31.0	At the first trial in 1993, it was a mistrial.
1:33.4	One of the jurors just failed to show up.
1:35.3	The second trial was scheduled in 1999.
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