Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A 16-year-old boy who sometimes wore skirts and makeup to school was killed in Iowa. Then the Justice Department sent a federal hate-crimes lawyer to aid in the prosecution. The trial has become part of the national debate over gender identity. Guests: Monica Davey, The New York Times’s Chicago bureau chief; Matt Apuzzo, who covers law enforcement; Shaunda Campbell, a former counselor at Burlington High School; Tremell Jones, a friend who was with Kedarie Johnson the night he was killed. Sabrina Tavernise is our host; Michael Barbaro will return tomorrow. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici. This is The Daily.
0:10.4	Today, a teenage boy who dressed like a girl was murdered in an Iowa town.
0:16.7	Now the Trump administration is deciding whether the boy was killed simply for being himself.
0:22.2	It's Wednesday, November 8th.
0:43.7	There was a trial that began last week in a town in Southeast Iowa and it was a murder trial
0:50.0	in a case involving a teenage or a 16-year-old who was named Cadari Johnson.
0:56.2	Monica Davy has been covering the case.
0:58.4	May I please the court?
0:59.2	Harris.
1:00.2	Your honor.
1:01.6	Council.
1:02.1	The ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
1:06.8	Cadari Johnson was a friendly high school student with a bright future.
1:12.3	But that future was stolen from him.
1:13.9	On March 2nd of last year, Cadari Johnson was kidnapped, suffocated, and then executed.
1:21.3	Cadari had been shot twice in the chest with a rare kind of gun, a 357 caliber revolver.
1:28.2	Your last been seen alive a few hours earlier, being followed by two men in a red Chevy Impala.
1:34.8	One of those were at recently purchased.
1:38.3	The killing took place in the small community of Burlington, Iowa and it's sort of on a hill
1:47.8	right up against the Mississippi River.
1:50.7	It's mostly white.
1:51.8	It's an old manufacturing town and it has that feel.
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