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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, August 15th, the all-criminal

justice edition. I am hijacking the Gab Fest, taking it over, holding a New Haven show with two

excellent guests, James Foreman, who is a law professor at Yale Law School, and Veshla Weaver,

who is a political science professor at Yale. Thank you for joining me.

When we planned doing this edition, this will be the all-criminal justice edition of the

Gab Fest. We didn't know that our topic was going to be burning a hole in the news,

but that is what's happening. We will start first by talking about the death of Michael Brown,

who was shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri last Saturday, and the protests that have followed

that shooting. Our second topic will be the death of a man in New York City in a police chokehold

and the investigation that has followed. Our third topic will be a new book by sociologist Alice

Goughman. It's called On the Run, and it's about criminality and mastervalence in a poor inner

city neighborhood in Philadelphia. And then of course we will have cocktail chatter.

Michael Brown was supposed to leave for college on August 11th. Instead, he and a friend,

named Dorian Johnson, got into some sort of altercation with the police that left Michael dead.

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