Revisited: The Division: New Orleans – part two

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

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In 1995, Kuantay Reeder is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. He spends years doing hard labour in the fields of the prison, and trying to have his conviction overturned. By 2020, he has exhausted almost every legal avenue available to him. But 2020 is also the year that Jason Williams is elected to be the new district attorney of New Orleans. Will the creation of a new civil rights division in his office offer hope to Reeder?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:09.2	This week we're going back to some of our favourite episodes of the year so far.
0:13.2	We're starting with a special investigation, the division New Orleans.
0:18.8	Today, episode two or four.
0:21.8	If you haven't listened to episode one, I recommend going back and listening to that first.
0:27.4	And do stay with us until the final episode for an update on what's happened since the podcast First aired back in May.
0:34.8	A quick warning.
0:36.2	This series features strong language and depicts scenes of violence.
0:49.6	Previously on the division New Orleans.
0:52.6	In 2020, New Orleans, the incarceration capital of the world,
0:59.0	the city elects a progressive black district attorney, Jason Williams.
1:03.8	He promises to change the system from within.
1:07.4	We must reckon with our past.
1:11.4	A quarter of a century earlier,
1:14.4	Quante Rida says he's playing basketball.
1:17.4	While we were playing some guys came moving to the man some guys got shot.
1:21.4	Mark, his childhood friend, has been killed outside of foodstall.
1:27.8	There are two suspects.
1:29.8	A guy called Bird, who is apparently furious with Mark for dating his ex.
1:34.8	And then Quante, who the cops decided did it.
1:38.8	He took the book and slapped me across my head with it.
1:43.8	And knocked me out of the chair.
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