The Division: New Orleans – part two

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🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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	Today, the second part of the division, New Orleans,
0:13.6	a today-in-focus investigative series.
0:16.8	If you haven't listened to Episode 1,
0:18.6	I recommend going back and listening to that first.
0:22.2	And just a heads up,
0:23.0	a series features strong language and depicts scenes of violence.
0:36.6	Previously on the division, New Orleans.
0:41.0	In 2020, New Orleans,
0:43.0	the incarceration capital of the world,
0:46.0	the city elects a progressive black district attorney, Jason Williams.
0:51.0	He promises to change the system from within.
0:54.0	We must reckon with our past.
0:59.0	A quarter of a century earlier,
1:01.0	Quante Rida says he's playing basketball.
1:04.0	While we were playing some guys,
1:06.0	came over to the man and some guys just got shot.
1:10.0	Mark, his childhood friend,
1:12.0	has been killed outside of food store.
1:15.0	There are two suspects,
1:17.0	a guy called Bird,
1:18.0	who is apparently furious with Mark
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