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Speaker 1: Emergency nine on one Saint Louis County address for the emergency.

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Speaker 1: It's a fly my partment, life like this cause on

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Speaker 1: fire stand the phone for the fire of Park Okay.

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Speaker 1: In the early morning hours of September sixth, twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: Saint Louis rapper and activist Darren Seals was found murdered.

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Speaker 2: Police initially thought they were responding to a car on fire,

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Speaker 2: but once they put out the flames, they discovered Seal's

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Speaker 2: body inside with a gunshot wound.

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Speaker 1: New from Double Asterisk and iHeart Podcasts After the Uprising

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Speaker 1: Season two, a ten part true crime podcast series investigating

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Speaker 1: the death of iconic Ferguson activist Darren Seals and what.

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Speaker 2: They can learn.

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Speaker 1: Off for death offered none in the movement that was

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Speaker 1: birthed in the aftermath of the killing of Mike Brown Junior,

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Speaker 1: Darren was hailed by many as the successor to Malcolm

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Speaker 1: X's Ferguson PD Grab you by my heart, slam me

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Speaker 1: out the export guns. I mean, my little brother. But

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Speaker 1: the attention he garnered found him the target of police

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Speaker 1: harassment and maybe worse. She said every day, dar but

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Speaker 1: tell her all right, MA be prepared. They are going

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Speaker 1: to try to kill me. He's had a white boy game.

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Speaker 1: From out of the wound, everything you know, the car

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Speaker 1: was all find well. I'm a podcast journalist and I'm

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Speaker 1: a former state senator. Marie and Chapeladal there was a

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Speaker 1: young man in twenty sixteen that was.

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Speaker 2: Killed on this blog.

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Speaker 1: Back in twenty fourteen, I was in the streets of

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Speaker 1: Ferguson getting tear gassed alongside Darren Seals. Now to figure

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Speaker 1: out who killed him. I've spent two years working leads

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Speaker 1: with journalist Ray Novashwski and our NAACP Image Award nominated

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Speaker 1: investigative team. Over ten episodes, we crossed the landscape of

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Speaker 1: rap artists, gang members, and FBI agents from the streets

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Speaker 1: of Saint Louis to the high rises of New York City,

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Speaker 1: from government offices to prison cells to pick up the

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Speaker 1: trail left by Darren's murder with an ending you have

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Speaker 1: to hear to believe in argument. Can you give me

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Speaker 1: any sense of what the argument would have been over.

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Speaker 2: He was supposed to have a meeting with Rock Nations

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Speaker 2: up in New York.

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Speaker 1: Kind of start to shifting and hanging out casting. None

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Speaker 1: of us really trusted and They lined them up. Even

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Speaker 1: if I did want to tell you something, that's a

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Speaker 1: dangerous game to play. You're scaring me as we're trying

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Speaker 1: to investigate this and find the murder. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: let nothing change my mind. I really know who did

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Speaker 1: it myself. They've been following him for months. That's enough

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Speaker 1: proof right there. All episodes available on June eleventh. Subscribe now.

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Speaker 1: Listen to After the Uprising Season two, The Murder of

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Speaker 1: Darren Seals on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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