S20 Ep15: A Hate Crime in Brooklyn w/David G. Secular
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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Summary
When Sofia Hushemi, a sheltered Albanian immigrant, carelessly collides with Sylvester Stanley on her way home from Prospect Park, both escape injury. Upon discovering the loss of her precious ring, gifted to her by Victor, the feared kingpin of the Albanian-American Mafia, she frantically presumes Sylvester, a Black man, was not a jogger, but a culprit. Hours later, Sylvester is attacked in broad daylight leaving Sofia facing life behind bars for allegedly ordering the attack.
The trial is a rollercoaster of surprises, penned by an author intimately familiar with the courtroom. Can Sofia escape conviction for the racially motivated crime which has polarized New York?
On today's TCT, we talk to the Author of "A Hate Crime in Brooklyn", David G. Secular, about his inspiration for this unique story, about practicing law in the Big Apple, the difference between social injustice and some perceived social injustice, and why it was important for him to provide a HAPPY ENDING to this story, and not tell the stereotypical race relations tale!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:26.0 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.3 | Got a good show for you today, folks. |
| 0:30.5 | Today we're going to go a little astray from the world of true crime. |
| 0:34.1 | We're going to jump into the world of crime fiction. I read a very cool book this past |
| 0:41.3 | weekend. I read a book by the name of a hate crime in Brooklyn. It's written by a man by the name of David Secular, |
| 0:48.3 | who's had an interesting career on his own before he even got into the world of crime fiction. |
| 0:53.3 | The book in itself is very |
| 0:55.9 | interesting, folks. We're going to get into it here in just a moment. It has to do literally with |
| 1:00.9 | a hate crime in Brooklyn, which highlights historical oppression of women, racial injustice, |
| 1:06.2 | and offers hope for resolutions. It's a very, very good book, which is expansive. It's a, it's a great |
| 1:14.4 | book, especially for this winter, to sit down if you've got a little bit of time to read because |
| 1:19.2 | it's a little longer than most novels, but believe it or not, action-packed has a lot of |
| 1:25.4 | good stuff in it, runs a couple of different storylines within the storyline, |
| 1:30.2 | and you get to know these characters. |
| 1:31.9 | These characters are rich, nice full story. |
| 1:35.3 | And again, we're going to talk to David in just a second. |
| 1:37.4 | I want to tell you a little bit about David before you bring him on here. |
| 1:39.8 | He was born in Brooklyn, New York, of course. |
| 1:41.5 | David grew up in New Rochelle. |
| 1:44.5 | Hey, that name sounds, or that name of that city sounds familiar. |
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