Who’s Responsible for Jordan Neely’s Death?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Neely’s death raised deep, fundamental questions about our society; about what kind of people we are, and why? Our colleagues at The Brian Lehrer Show talked with Eli Mystal from the Nation to confront these questions.
Last week, our show talked about homelessness. “Homelessness Hides in Plain Sight. So Does Its Fix.” is available in your feed. We recommend listening alongside this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Kai. |
| 0:10.4 | On this past Sunday's show, we talked about homelessness and the fact that both the |
| 0:14.6 | problem and the solutions to homelessness are hiding in plain sight. |
| 0:19.6 | If you missed the episode, scroll back one on your feed. |
| 0:22.2 | I do think it's an important one. |
| 0:24.9 | The context for that show was the killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway |
| 0:29.0 | train. |
| 0:30.0 | We didn't talk in detail about history because we wanted to focus on solutions. |
| 0:35.4 | But for me, Jordan Neely's death raised deep and fundamental questions about our whole |
| 0:41.8 | society, about what kind of people we are and why. |
| 0:48.0 | Right after the news broke, my colleague Brian Lehrer had a live conversation in which he confronted |
| 0:52.8 | those kinds of questions with the nation's justice correspondent, Ellie Mistal. |
| 0:58.2 | It's an emotional exchange and one that eventually does talk about the legal ramifications |
| 1:02.7 | in the case as well. |
| 1:04.2 | So I want to share that with you. |
| 1:06.2 | Here's WNYC's Brian Lehrer. |
| 1:08.9 | The nation magazine's justice correspondent, Ellie Mistal, has an article this morning |
| 1:13.3 | headline, one man killed Jordan Neely, but we all failed him. |
| 1:19.7 | Ellie Mistal joins us now. |
| 1:21.9 | Thanks for coming on with us again, Ellie. |
| 1:23.8 | Sorry it's under these circumstances. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, hi, Brian. |
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