This Season on Somebody
Somebody
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Chicago mom Shapearl Wells investigates her son Courtney’s murder on her own, teaming up with journalists to challenge the police’s story of what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | This season on Somebody. |
| 0:03.0 | And so every black person in this country must rise up and say, |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Somebody. |
| 0:11.0 | I have a rich, proud and noble history, however painful and exploited it has been. |
| 0:22.0 | Approximately around 215 a.m. I receive a thunderous beat on my door. |
| 0:29.6 | The cover-up happens after the first day or so, but the beginning you get the truth. I was |
| 0:35.2 | working in emergency room. I remember a call coming on the radio, so it was a |
| 0:40.0 | gunshot victim and I remember him specifically being handcuffed to the bed. |
| 0:45.0 | My theory is that the gang bangers, the police, everybody is a suspect until they ruled |
| 0:51.1 | themselves out. I have to see the video in order to rule them out. |
| 0:57.0 | The camera should and the police don't work. |
| 0:59.0 | The camera should and the police don't work. |
| 1:02.0 | I know there was a shooting over here right in front of the rectory. |
| 1:05.0 | In the middle of the conversation they said you killed my cousin and they punched me the face. |
| 1:09.0 | Y'all was talking to him, y'all was talking to him, he was talking to y'all on the camera. |
| 1:14.0 | What did you say? |
| 1:16.0 | I'm Chance the rapper, you know, walking in a room and seeing all these familiar faces. |
| 1:20.0 | Just like realizing like that somebody had taken him, it was just hard for me to deal with that |
| 1:27.7 | shit there. |
| 1:28.7 | The last few moments is right here. I believe that somebody knows something and it just |
| 1:36.0 | takes a lot of courage to tell what they saw. |
| 1:40.3 | Find somebody on the I-Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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