Short Creek | E8 Can I Get A Witness?

Unfinished

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As divisions deepen in Short Creek, the Department of Justice puts the two towns on trial for religious discrimination... forcing the community to change, one way or another.

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:07.0	Pull up to those gates and we'll just walk around.
0:13.0	In the last episode, Andrew Chatwin showed us some of the footage he'd gathered in
0:17.5	Shor Creek. He was part of an effort to document the ways FLDS were discriminating
0:23.0	against ex-believers who had returned to the community.
0:28.0	Andrew also took us to a large property on the edge of town.
0:31.0	How cute little bunnies!
0:33.0	It's covered with old trees and there's a dirt path that leads around a pond.
0:37.0	And there are lots of animal pins.
0:41.0	It used to be the old zoo. We had bears and camels, zebras and kangaroos.
0:46.0	Oh wow, there are some.
0:48.0	He moves. I've raised these he moves as a baby.
0:51.0	They're gonna be curious so they might pack at your stuff.
0:54.0	That's all right.
0:56.0	Today, part of this property is privately owned and the other part is a nature center,
1:02.0	a space for the community.
1:04.0	It's a really beautiful property.
1:07.0	But back in October 2015, it was the scene of a confrontation.
1:12.0	Would you turn your recorder back on? We need all the evidence we can get.
1:16.0	The UEP had leased this land to an ex-believer.
1:19.0	But the FLDS didn't see that leases valid.
1:23.0	To them, the land and everything on it was still the property of the church.
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