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The Case of False Confessions - The Midnight Crew
📻 Episode #166
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 26, 2020
About This Episode
In Chicago, old habits die hard.
The Case
In Chicago, old habits die hard.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse scandals in U.S. history. For decades on the southside of Chicago, a group of white cops turned the interrogation room into a torture chamber for Black men. Those cops called themselves the Midnight Crew.
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00:03:52“Speaker 1: he spoke with had ever confessed to anything, but with Speaker 1: no other leads, the police decide to go after Ronald Kitchen, Speaker 1: and they go after him hard. In nineteen eighty eight, Speaker 1: Ronald was twenty two years old, and as he admits today,”
00:14:55“Speaker 1: After Conroy's story about Andrew Wilson ran an avalanche of Speaker 1: other allegation came forward. There were men who had plastic Speaker 1: bags put over their heads, men who were waterboarded with Speaker 1: seven up, men who'd had their testicles stood on during interrogation. Speaker 1: All black men tortured by all white cops.”
00:25:21“Speaker 1: They stay to hear the end of the story, even Speaker 1: after the bell rings. What do you think about all Speaker 1: the recent social media videos of police brutality? Students ask, Speaker 1: how can we as young people make a change. For Speaker 1: his part, Ronald Kitchen has no quick answers, but he”
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