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The Case of Jamal Trulove
📻 Episode #146
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 05, 2020
About This Episode
In the summer of 2007, Jamal Trulove was an aspiring rapper from San Francisco’s Sunnydale projects. He had hoped that scoring himself a role on a reality television show would help his music career. Instead, his appearance on television would help police pin a July 27 murder on him. Over 30 witnesses, including Jamal himself,…
The Case
In the summer of 2007, Jamal Trulove was an aspiring rapper from San Francisco’s Sunnydale projects. He had hoped that scoring himself a role on a reality television show would help his music career. Instead, his appearance on television would help police pin a July 27 murder on him. Over 30 witnesses, including Jamal himself, would not snitch, but someone had to go down for it. His most momentous mention on television yet would occur during the 2020 Democratic Primary debate.
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00:05:16“Speaker 2: no blame, and they're getting closer to each other where Speaker 2: it's gonna end up, you know, turning into a fight. Speaker 2: So I intervened, you know, I told both of them chill, relaxed. Speaker 2: Sale was hyped up to start being kind of a”
00:20:43“Speaker 1: better in San Francisco with the new DA Chase A. Boudin, Speaker 1: who is doing incredible, incredible thing is probably the most Speaker 1: impactful six months of any new prosecutor in the history Speaker 1: of this country, I would say, in terms of what Speaker 1: he's been able to accomplish. But that's a separate issue.”
00:35:38“Speaker 1: everything he's been doing. You know, the truth is, we Speaker 1: need to clone that guy and put the clones of Speaker 1: him in DA offices all over the country. And while Speaker 1: we're on the subject of dismantling systemic racism and all Speaker 1: the other things that we've managed to talk about in”
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