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People Power Podcast

Jan 14, 2023

In the summer of 2022 I interviewed Suzanne Medes after she got famously dragged on Twitter for exploiting George Floyd's namesake and profiting without the family's consent. Episode #14 of the People Power Podcast is my unedited Q&A with Suzanne Medes.

Music by Isaac Specktor.

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Episode 6: Reactions from GFS to the Chauvin Guilty Verdicts

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Despite charges of second degree manslaughter brought against former officer Kim Potter, who murdered 20 year-old Daunte Wright on April 11, people want her charged with murder. Activists do not accept the narrative police have created that this was an “accident” or even an act of “negligence”.

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Apr 16, 2021

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