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Speaker 4: A lot more for you to stick around for. Back
Speaker 4: to talking about h what's the name? Then you know
Speaker 4: what I'm talking about? Yes, sadly I do, mister Ron DeSantis.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about Bill ninety nine, Florida State
Speaker 1: House bill that is problematic.
Speaker 3: That's a way to put it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna definitely talk about that. And then it
Speaker 1: occurred to me that Khalif Browner is a person that
Speaker 1: we needed to talk about on the show, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna spend some time talking about him. Please brace for
Speaker 1: impact because that is a heavy story with an advanced
Speaker 1: trigger warning for you. But first and foremost, let us
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Speaker 1: Checkmajorthreads dot com. And today we'll be reading from the
Speaker 1: New York Times. As you know, those of you who
Speaker 1: listened to the show, you may have heard the name
Speaker 1: Brian Stevenson. We're big fans of Brian Stevenson around here.
Speaker 1: He is a lawyer and a great orator and a
Speaker 1: person who really inspires us. He's also the director for
Speaker 1: the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the leader
Speaker 1: of the Equal Justice Initiative. So I'll read. Montgomery, Alabama,
Speaker 1: the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, on a six
Speaker 1: acre site overlooking the Alabama State Capitol, is dedicated to
Speaker 1: the victims of American white supremacy, and it demands a
Speaker 1: reckoning with one of the nation's least recognized atrocities, the
Speaker 1: lynching of thousands of black people in in decades long
Speaker 1: campaign of racist terror. At the center is a grim cloister,
Speaker 1: a walkway with eight hundred weathered steel columns, all hanging
Speaker 1: from a roof. Etched on each column is the name
Speaker 1: of an American county and the people who were lynched there,
Speaker 1: most listed by name, many simply as unknown. The columns
Speaker 1: meet you first at eye level, like the headstones that
Speaker 1: lynching victims were rarely given, But as you walk, the
Speaker 1: floor steadily descends. By the end, the columns are all
Speaker 1: dangling above, leaving you in the position of the callous
Speaker 1: spectators in the old photographs of public lynchings. There's nothing
Speaker 1: like it in the country, which is the point. They
Speaker 1: have catalog nearly four four hundred in total lynchings. Quote.
Speaker 1: Just seeing the names of all these people, said Brian Stevenson,
Speaker 1: the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, of the nonprofit
Speaker 1: organization behind the memorial. Many of them, he said, quote,
Speaker 1: have never been named in public. We want you to
Speaker 1: check out museum and memorial dot eji dot org, learn
Speaker 1: about that, and become a better all all right Florida
Speaker 1: State House bill. So, as you know, and as we've
Speaker 1: discussed on the show, it's some people out there that
Speaker 1: they don't want us to know about history. And uh
Speaker 1: and that's where it starts. That's where it starts. And
Speaker 1: before we actually get into this, I think we've got
Speaker 1: a clip to play. Right, let's so firight out.
Speaker 5: I am Gracelynn, I am one hundred years young. I'm
Speaker 5: here to protest our school's district book banning policy. My husband,
Speaker 5: Robert Nichol, was killed in action in World War Two
Speaker 5: at a very young age. He was only twenty six
Speaker 5: defending our democracy, constitution, and freedoms. One of the freedoms
Speaker 5: that the Nazis crush was the freedom to read. The
Speaker 5: books they banned, they stopped the free press, banned and
Speaker 5: burned books. The freedom to read, which is protected by
Speaker 5: the First Amendment, is our essential right and duty of
Speaker 5: our democracy, even so it is continually under attack by
Speaker 5: both the public and private groups who think they hold
Speaker 5: the truth. In response to the book banning throughout our
Speaker 5: country and Martin County last year during the time I
Speaker 5: was ninety nine, I have created this guilt to remind
Speaker 5: all of us that these few, of so many more
Speaker 5: books that are banned or targeted need to be proudly
Speaker 5: displayed and protected and.
Speaker 1: Read if you choose to.
Speaker 5: The quote was shown on National TV as part of
Speaker 5: Ali Velshi's Band book Club segment. Band books and burning
Speaker 5: books are the same. Both are done for the same
Speaker 5: reason fear of knowledge. Fear is not freedom. Fear is
Speaker 5: not liberty. Fear is control. My husband died as a
Speaker 5: father of freedom. I am a mother of liberty. Band
Speaker 5: books need to be proudly displayed and protected from school
Speaker 5: boards like this. Thank you, thank.
Speaker 1: You all right, So yeah, book bannings, you heard it
Speaker 1: straight from the horse's mouth. The person one hundred years
Speaker 1: old that lived through book bannings that we were made
Speaker 1: aware of in this country taking place in Nazi Germany.
Speaker 1: Take control of the children and their minds. Do not
Speaker 1: have them think beyond these borders. It'll be easier to
Speaker 1: indoctrinate them if they only have one perspective rather than
Speaker 1: multiple perspectives. We've long since known that conservatives in this
Speaker 1: country often their numbers are weakened as a result of
Speaker 1: higher education. In other words, the more educated you become,
Speaker 1: the more liberal a philosophy you adopt, the more liberal
Speaker 1: your voting tends to be. You tend to see the
Speaker 1: world with more empathy and more understanding because you've expanded
Speaker 1: your cognitive boundary Greece and you recognize that certain things
Speaker 1: are possible. There's less to be afraid of, we have
Speaker 1: more in common, et cetera. You do not notice folks
Speaker 1: who have a liberal philosophy trying to hide education, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's excuse me. People that are
Speaker 1: more educated are people that are more enlightened. Right because
Speaker 1: government of scientist has a degree from Harvard Law School,
Speaker 1: so very educated. Still hyper right wing conservatives still very
Speaker 1: very selfish and or bigoted and racist. So to the point,
Speaker 1: not just the idea of more education by way of school,
Speaker 1: but more enlightened people seem to seem tend to be
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, more caring, more empathetic, more inclusive. And that's
Speaker 1: a good point because education does not completely eradicate conservativism.
Speaker 1: There are people who are just conservatives and that is
Speaker 1: the way that the world that they see the world,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, unfortunate, I mean, not really.
Speaker 3: Conservative Throughout history has meant many different things.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's it's not.
Speaker 3: I don't even like to call present day Republicans versus conservative.
Speaker 3: I think it's too light a term. It's too benign
Speaker 3: and too vague. Our current right wing extreme GOP is
Speaker 3: the new country. Those are different people, man.
Speaker 1: I'm just being funny, as you know, and as many
Speaker 1: of our listeners, I am like kind of bleeding heart
Speaker 1: liberal with mine and a lot of times, uh, the
Speaker 1: conservative folks that I engage with tend to look at
Speaker 1: that like that's a weakness of some sort. And I
Speaker 1: have a real problem with that because I believe it's
Speaker 1: a superpower.
Speaker 3: They've they've been taught that you use the word doctrinated.
Speaker 3: There's a reason why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, read as many books as I have, and
Speaker 1: then talk to me anyway back to the books. Funnily enough,
Speaker 1: so this is kind of where we are right there.
Speaker 1: There are people that do become educated and they just
Speaker 1: have conservative beliefs, and again that is okay, there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. However, overwhelmingly folks that tend to be
Speaker 1: more educated tend to find themselves with more liberal beliefs
Speaker 1: and tend to vote more more liberal.
Speaker 3: Maybe more liberal, I don't know, if they vote more liberally.
Speaker 1: Well, this is this is what I've been exposed to,
Speaker 1: you know. That's so maybe overwhelming is not the right word,
Speaker 1: but they're there.
Speaker 3: Definitely to be a bias, because I think there's a
Speaker 3: bunch of very educated people that feel differently even than
Speaker 3: they vote because of personal best interest, because of fiscal outcomes,
Speaker 3: and a bunch of other reason perhaps once upon a time, anyway,
Speaker 3: today it's a lot more straightforward. Something else.
Speaker 1: Well, I here's what I'll do. I will recheck that
Speaker 1: because I would not speak with such authority on that
Speaker 1: particular matter if I had not read it from what
Speaker 1: I believe to be a credible source, so I'll double
Speaker 1: check that, but for now, what I'm saying is based
Speaker 1: on the premise that education tends to yield more liberal voters,
Speaker 1: more liberal.
Speaker 3: People, and I'm not challenging both parts of that. I
Speaker 3: think it does yield more liberal people. Use the word voters, well,
Speaker 3: this is this is the reason why the GOP would
Speaker 3: be concerned about that and adopt these really hard nosed
Speaker 3: postures with respect to education.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, News Bill nine or sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm reading from CBS News. Florida State House Bill nine
Speaker 1: ninety nine was advanced this week, and the bill would
Speaker 1: ban state colleges and universities from using funds to out
Speaker 1: quote I'll read the quote here says, quote promote, support,
Speaker 1: or maintain any programs or campus activities that espouse diversity,
Speaker 1: equity or inclusion or critical race theory rhetoric. This means
Speaker 1: your META, your Black student Union, your Asian American Students Club.
Speaker 3: Your National Panelytic fraternities and sororities.
Speaker 1: There you go. The bill would also give the States
Speaker 1: Board of Governors the ability to remove quote any major
Speaker 1: or minor that is based on or otherwise utilizes petigog
Speaker 1: pedigdgico just a new word for me methodology associated with
Speaker 1: critical theory. The bill HB nine nine nine was passed
Speaker 1: by the House on Monday, and the Florida State Senate
Speaker 1: must now pass its version of the bill SB two
Speaker 1: sixty six before it is able to head to Florida
Speaker 1: Governor Ron Desantus's desk. Okay. Opponents of the bill worry
Speaker 1: that its language is too vague and could be used
Speaker 1: to ban activities promoted by multicultural student unions, black fraternities
Speaker 1: and sororities, and courses in Jewish history, women's studies, and
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus studies. An official analysis of the bill cited
Speaker 1: examples of current courses that would be banned under the
Speaker 1: proposed legislation, including Florida Atlantic University's Gender and Climate Change
Speaker 1: and Florida University's Social Inequities Social Construction of Difference Inequities. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: it actually goes further than this, because this bill allows
Speaker 1: the governor effectively to create a panel of deciders who
Speaker 1: get to decide on tenured teachers whether or not they'll
Speaker 1: continue to be able to teach right if they have
Speaker 1: a problematic history of teachings on you know, right right
Speaker 1: on the edge of that line.
Speaker 6: Or problematic is an interesting word to use, right, and
Speaker 6: it's it's it's in this context, it just means teaching diversity, inclusion, diversity,
Speaker 6: equity and inclusion, Like, what are our strengths?
Speaker 1: How do we best get along with each other? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: what are what are our values? What perspective can we bring?
Speaker 1: What can we learn from each other? These sorts of things. Well,
Speaker 1: basically this gives ultimately all authority to Ron de scentis,
Speaker 1: the governor the state of Florida. This man wants to
Speaker 1: be president, by the way, so he gets will run
Speaker 1: for president. By the way, he gets to side who
Speaker 1: the deciders are. And of course, as you know, if
Speaker 1: you decide, if you're the one deciding who the deciders are,
Speaker 1: you're effectively the decider, right, And then they get to
Speaker 1: decide if you can teach carbe Blanche.
Speaker 3: And this isn't people who want to be teachers. These
Speaker 3: are all teachers exactly. And here's another piece that is interesting.
Speaker 3: This comes directly from the language the Senate of the language.
Speaker 3: They want to focus their historical studies on Western European
Speaker 3: studies and civilizations.
Speaker 1: In other words, you want to say it for me, No,
Speaker 1: I don't, because I don't, so I'll say it white people.
Speaker 1: In other words, they are centering the history of white
Speaker 1: people at the expense of everybody who was not born white.
Speaker 1: Now does that sound like, hey, this is a white country.
Speaker 1: Does that sound like, hey, this is America. Speak English
Speaker 1: now that you've lost your you know, German language and
Speaker 1: your Irish you know history, and you know all the
Speaker 1: you know, all the immigrants that came. Does that sound
Speaker 1: like white supremacy. The reason it sounds like it, because
Speaker 1: I know it does, is because it is right. The
Speaker 1: thing is crafted in this language and under the guys
Speaker 1: are protecting children from feeling ashamed about themselves. These folks
Speaker 1: can get away with this. Not to mention that this
Speaker 1: is a playbook straight out of Nazi Germany, and they're
Speaker 1: not the only ones to do it. But we see oppressure,
Speaker 1: oppressive regimes ethno states, people that really try to prop
Speaker 1: up one facet of their citizenship and make all the
Speaker 1: other second class citizens second class citizens to kind of
Speaker 1: serve that elite base. This is exactly the playbook, and
Speaker 1: it might sound good to people who are susceptible to
Speaker 1: fear monitoring.
Speaker 7: But the fact is is that looking at it for
Speaker 7: what it is, it is very hurtful and it's very obvious.
Speaker 7: And because.
Speaker 1: This man has that level of authority in that state,
Speaker 1: and you know, he has the support of you know,
Speaker 1: I believe it's both houses in his state, the Senate
Speaker 1: and the the House of Representatives in the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: They're both primarily conservative or have a conservative majority. This
Speaker 1: will actually be the law gerp it is is and
Speaker 1: everybody who's not white suffers, whether you know it or not.
Speaker 3: Some white people will suffer too, Yeah, they and they
Speaker 3: do know what they just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, when I went to Africa, I went
Speaker 1: to Egypt, which is in Africa, and I saw exactly
Speaker 1: how much history is there and how far back it goes.
Speaker 1: You know, this country is four hundred some years old.
Speaker 1: They have so much stuff there and the four hundred
Speaker 1: years ago. They're like, this is the baby stuff. Who
Speaker 1: has this four thousand years old? We live of this
Speaker 1: forty thousand years old? Like that's you know. So I
Speaker 1: learned about all this stuff here and none of this
Speaker 1: stuff there. And when I got there, I realized, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm at a loss. I'm learning things that I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I'm realizing the genius of these people, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's and it's not just there. I've been in France,
Speaker 1: been in Switzerland, you know, I've been a lot of
Speaker 1: places around the world. You know, we both have and
Speaker 1: the history is so deep. But we and you might
Speaker 1: know this about us. We in the United States, we're
Speaker 1: so focused on us that it's kind of like rude.
Speaker 1: We're kind of a self centered country. Arrogance is the
Speaker 1: words you look, Yeah, definitely, and I think that it's
Speaker 1: ultimately it is to our own detriment. We live in
Speaker 1: this small little peace of the world where everything is
Speaker 1: we think everything is safe. We're afraid to travel, afraid
Speaker 1: to expand our boundaries, and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: happy to just allow us to live our lives in
Speaker 1: a very small way and significant way, because again, the
Speaker 1: more we know, the more we expand our boundaries, the
Speaker 1: more we understand that we're all basically the same. When
Speaker 1: I was in Southeast Asia for I don't know, four
Speaker 1: or five months, bouncing around from Singapore to Malaysia, to
Speaker 1: Vietnam to Hong Kong to all of them, you know, Indonesia,
Speaker 1: I learned something that seemed very simple, but it was
Speaker 1: very profound for me. Every time I ended up on
Speaker 1: a new piece of dirt, I saw people there who
Speaker 1: were using what grew out of the ground to put
Speaker 1: some food together or make some money so that they
Speaker 1: could feed their babies, because they love their children. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, if that ain't the most human thing
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen. And here I am on the
Speaker 1: other side of the world. It's dark as night. It's
Speaker 1: four in the morning where I live. Over here, the
Speaker 1: sun is shining. These people's working, happy, laughing, listening to
Speaker 1: the music, dancing, kissing each other, loving each other, deserving
Speaker 1: of whatever life could hold for them. They don't live
Speaker 1: under the stars and stripes. Ain't no guns in the country,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Happy as they want to be.
Speaker 1: They go up hike a mountain, drop off a little
Speaker 1: bit of incense that a buddhas, say a prayer for
Speaker 1: their you know, pass away loved ones, back down the mountain,
Speaker 1: keep it pushing. That grew me up a lot seeing
Speaker 1: that beautiful. And the sad part about it is most
Speaker 1: of the people that I know in the United States
Speaker 1: never will have that eye opening moment where they like
Speaker 1: get to see that and recognize, like, yo, these people
Speaker 1: are just like me. So it's so much easier to
Speaker 1: see like, these are my brothers and my sisters over
Speaker 1: here doing their thing. I'm happy to support. I know
Speaker 1: what that's like. If you're up here crying and praying
Speaker 1: because you have a sick grandmother, I know what that's like.
Speaker 1: My grandma was sick too. You love your grandma too,
Speaker 1: You're doing your best for her. I respect you. I
Speaker 1: know what that. I've been there. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And now we don't speak the same language.
Speaker 3: But the kind of curse of having traveled the world
Speaker 3: is learning exactly what you just said. And this is very,
Speaker 3: very common information. We're not breaking new ground here. We
Speaker 3: have far more in common with our brothers and sisters
Speaker 3: and the human race all over this planet than the
Speaker 3: things that divide us. There's just so many people that
Speaker 3: stand to benefit and profit, or actually not even so
Speaker 3: many people. There are just powerful people that profit and
Speaker 3: benefit from the things that divide us that they spend
Speaker 3: a lot of resources making sure they highlight those things
Speaker 3: and keep us from you. Not because the haves love
Speaker 3: that there are so many have nots It gives them
Speaker 3: a much bigger pie to split between each other.
Speaker 1: Sappy, Well, the best I can say is stay woke,
Speaker 1: you know, stop being afraid. Know what it is that
Speaker 1: we're dealing with. You know, like everything that you're likely
Speaker 1: afraid of, somebody wants you to be afraid of it. Now,
Speaker 1: that's not to say that that's a conservative thing or
Speaker 1: or a liberal thing. That's just that's just the thing.
Speaker 1: But there's far less to be afraid of than you
Speaker 1: may know. And education is the last thing anybody should
Speaker 1: be afraid of. So yeah, stay woke. And if this
Speaker 1: dude does run for president, which is you know it's
Speaker 1: pretty much a sure thing, do everything that you can
Speaker 1: to keep this man from getting power, because we've seen
Speaker 1: what he'll do. All Right, it's time for the Way
Speaker 1: Black History Fact. And in today's way, Black History Fact
Speaker 1: is sponsored by the Black Information Network Daily Podcast and
Speaker 1: I will be reading from Wikipedia. In other words, you
Speaker 1: can check this out for yourself. There is mention of
Speaker 1: suicide in this story, and so fair warning, so I
Speaker 1: will read. Kalif Browner was born May twenty, nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: and he lived until June sixth, twenty fifteen. Was an
Speaker 1: African American youth from Bronx, New York, was held at
Speaker 1: the Rikers Island Jail Complex without trial twenty ten and
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen allegedly stealing a backpack containing valuables. During his imprisonment,
Speaker 1: Brouder was in solitary confinement for seven hundred days. I
Speaker 1: also need to let you know that if you do
Speaker 1: want to read this or real long, I'm skipping around,
Speaker 1: just how to condense it a bit here for the show,
Speaker 1: all right. On May fifteen, twenty ten, police apprehended Brouder
Speaker 1: and a friend on Arthur Avenue near East one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty six Street in the Belmont section of the Bronx.
Speaker 1: Broder said he was going home from a party. He
Speaker 1: thought police were carrying out a routine stopping frisk, a
Speaker 1: police procedure he had undergone on a number of occasions.
Speaker 1: Police officers were responding to a nine to one one
Speaker 1: call placed by Roberto Bautista about the theft of a
Speaker 1: backpack containing a camera, seven hundred dollars, a credit card,
Speaker 1: and an iPod touch. Baltista said, two black, two male
Speaker 1: black guys, they took my brother's book back. Brouder told
Speaker 1: the attending police officers. I didn't rob anyone. You can
Speaker 1: check my pockets. The police search Browder, but they didn't
Speaker 1: find the backpack. Seventeen hours after the arrest, Browder was
Speaker 1: interrogated by a police officer and a prosecutor. The following day,
Speaker 1: Brouder was charged with robbery, grand larceny, and assault. Because
Speaker 1: he was on probation, Brouder was not released At his arraignment.
Speaker 1: He was charged with second degree robbery and bale was
Speaker 1: set at three thousand dollars with a bail bondsman. The
Speaker 1: amount needed was nine hundred dollars. Brouder's family could not
Speaker 1: raise this amount. Brouder was jailed at the Robert N.
Speaker 1: Dverreen Center, and I want to make it known that
Speaker 1: his prior arrest. He also claimed that he was innocent
Speaker 1: for that arrest too, okay. Brouder was jailed at the
Speaker 1: Robert Inn Devern Center on Rikers Island. Greet Burana, the
Speaker 1: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
Speaker 1: said that the R and D C had a deep
Speaker 1: seated culture of violence in which inmates suffered broken jaws,
Speaker 1: broken orbital bones, broken noses, long bone fractures, and lacerations
Speaker 1: requiring stitches. Brouder said inmates washed their own clothes with
Speaker 1: silk and a metal bucket, causing rustines on the clothes.
Speaker 1: Router's mother began visiting him weekly and provided him with
Speaker 1: clean clothes and snack money. To avoid becoming a target
Speaker 1: of the inmates, he slept on the top of his belongings,
Speaker 1: including his bucket. Browder said he felt pressure to gain
Speaker 1: physical strength and to defend himself from carcerl violence. He said,
Speaker 1: quote every here and there, I did a couple of
Speaker 1: pull ups or push ups when I went in there.
Speaker 1: That's when I decided I wanted to get big. Router
Speaker 1: was a victim of carcel violence. On one occasion, he
Speaker 1: and other inmates were lined up against the wall. Correction
Speaker 1: officers wanted to find the instigator of the fight Broader,
Speaker 1: and the inmates were punched one by one. He said
Speaker 1: their noses were leaking, their faces were bloody, their eyes
Speaker 1: were swollen. The guards threatened the inmates with solitary confinement
Speaker 1: if they reported their injuries. On December tenth, twenty ten,
Speaker 1: a potential trial date was set after prosecution and defense
Speaker 1: had submitted notices of readiness On January twenty eighth, twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty eight days after his arrests, Browder
Speaker 1: appeared in court. The prosecution requested a defermative proceedings. On
Speaker 1: June twenty third, twenty eleven. Brouter's record showed the people
Speaker 1: not ready request one week August twenty fourth to twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: the people not ready request one day November fourth, twenty eleventh,
Speaker 1: the people not ready, prosecutor on trial request two weeks
Speaker 1: and December second, twenty eleven. Prosecutor on trial request January third,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. On June twenty ninth, twenty twelve, Browder's record
Speaker 1: showed the people not ready request one week September twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, the people not ready request two weeks November second,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, the people not ready request one week December fourteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, the people not ready request one week. After
Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty one days in Rikers, Browder had
Speaker 1: appeared before for eight judges. He later opemed these guys
Speaker 1: were just playing with my caste. March thirteen, twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: Brouder appeared before Bronx judge Patricia de Di Mango shoffered
Speaker 1: Brouder a plea bargain of immediate release for his admission
Speaker 1: of guilt on two misdemeanors, with consideration of time already served.
Speaker 1: Brouder refused the offer and was returned to Rikers. On
Speaker 1: May nine, thirteen, De Mango freed Brouder in anticipation of
Speaker 1: the dismissal of the charges against him one week Hence,
Speaker 1: Bautista had returned to Mexico and could not give testimony
Speaker 1: against Brouder. While incarcerated. In twenty ten, Browder made his
Speaker 1: first suicide attempt. He tried a second time on February eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, trying to hang himself using strips of sheet
Speaker 1: tied to a ceiling light in the cell. Rouder later
Speaker 1: said the CEOs goaded him to commit suicide. On another occasion,
Speaker 1: after an appearance before judge, Brouter made sharp implement from
Speaker 1: the bucket in his cell and started to slit his wrists.
Speaker 1: An officer intervened. After released, Brouder continued to have symptoms
Speaker 1: of depression. He said, people tell me, because I have
Speaker 1: this case against the city, I'm all right, But I'm
Speaker 1: not all right. I'm messed up. I know that I
Speaker 1: might see some money from the case, but that's not
Speaker 1: going to help me mentally. I'm mentally scarred right now.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. There are certain things that changed
Speaker 1: about me. They might not change. Back before I went
Speaker 1: to jail, I didn't know about a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: and now that I'm aware, I'm paranoid. I feel like
Speaker 1: I was robbed of my happiness. In November twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: Browder made another suicide attempt and was admitted to the
Speaker 1: psychiatric ward of Saint Barnabas Hospital, the first of three
Speaker 1: admissions to the war. On June sixth, twenty fifteen, at
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen pm, Browder hanged himself from an air conditioning
Speaker 1: unit outside his bedroom window at his mother's home. His
Speaker 1: mother discovered his body, And that was the story of
Speaker 1: Anthony Browder.
Speaker 3: Sorry, there's so many things about his story that are
Speaker 3: messed up, and so many things about his story that
Speaker 3: are not singular to him. And yeah, that sucks, man.
Speaker 3: The criminal justice system in this country being privately controlled
Speaker 3: and for profit is a really, really, really messed up
Speaker 3: thing that does not get the attention or outrage that
Speaker 3: it deserves. Because you're listening to that story of this
Speaker 3: kid accused of something, no evidence found to even suggest
Speaker 3: that he did it, and we're just gonna throw him
Speaker 3: in jail anyway. And that decision being made by someone else,
Speaker 3: as he said, robbed him not just his happiness, but
Speaker 3: his innocence of thought, his blissful ignorance, if you will.
Speaker 3: And it is really sad that again, that's not just
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