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Life in prison wasn’t enough for the Knights of Mary Phagan. They wanted Leo Frank to pay with his life, and they were going to make sure it happened. In Georgia, vigilante justice wasn’t new, but this time was different. This time, it would change the nation. Would the vigilantes actually get away with it? 

Join us for the final episode in this seven-episode series, The Vigilantes.

Special thanks to former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes for his time and contribution to this episode. 

Host/ Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder 

Writers: Amy Watkin, Sharon McMahon

Researched by: Kari Anton, Sharon McMahon, Amy Watkin, Mandy Reid, Melanie Buck Parks 

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The heat in the Atlanta courtroom was sweltering and unbearable, as the trial against Leo Frank began. A Black man was testifying against a white man, which was nearly unheard of in the Jim Crow south. And the evidence against this man was mounting… A suspect who was at the murder scene, and continued to lie to the police.

Join us for part four of this seven-episode series, The Vigilantes.

Host/ Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder 

Writers: Amy Watkin, Sharon McMahon

Researched by: Kari Anton, Sharon McMahon, Amy Watkin, Mandy Reid, Melanie Buck Parks 

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Josh Dubin is an Ambassador to The Innocence Project, Criminal justice reform advocate, attorney, and president of Dubin Research and Consulting. Derrick Hamilton spent more than 20 years trying to overturn his wrongful conviction, and he now helps others that have been wrongfully convicted.

www.innocenceproject.org

The House passes a sweeping marriage equality bill, Dulcé Sloan examines gender stereotypes in children's books, and comedian Jenny Slate discusses her film "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On."

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A Times investigation last year found that minor traffic stops in the United States were far more deadly than widely thought — in the previous five years, 400 unarmed motorists who were not under pursuit for any violent crime were killed by the police during such checks.

We look at the different efforts across the country to rethink the stops and at the pushback from opponents who say that restrictions on the practice could keep more guns and criminals on the streets.

Guest: David D. Kirkpatrick, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.

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Background reading: 

• A recent example of a fatal end to a traffic stop was the death in Grand Rapids, Mich., of Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed 26-year-old Black man who was pulled over for a mismatched license plate.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

Josh Dubin is a criminal justice reform advocate and civil rights attorney.

This episode contains strong language and scenes of violence. 

Over the past five years, police officers in the United States have killed more than 400 unarmed drivers or passengers — a rate of more than one a week, a Times investigation has found.

Why are such cases so common, and why is the problem so hard to fix?

Guest: David D. Kirkpatrick, a national correspondent for The New York Times. 

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Background reading: 

• Officers, trained to presume danger, can react with outsize aggression during traffic stops — sometimes with fatal consequences.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

This episode contains strong language.

As a police officer in his hometown of Flint, Mich., Scott Watson has worked to become a pillar of the community, believing his identity has placed him in a unique position to do his job. He has given out his cellphone number, driven students to prom and provided food and money to those who were hungry.

After watching the video of the killing of George Floyd, his identity as a Black police officer became a source of self-consciousness instead of pride.

Today, we speak to Mr. Watson about his career and the internal conflicts that have arisen from his role.

Guest: Scott Watson, a Black police officer in Flint, Mich.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

Background reading:

• Many Black and Hispanic officers in New York City have found themselves caught between competing loyalties in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

Not long after his sixteenth birthday, Fred Clay was arrested for the murder of a cab driver in Boston. Eventually, Fred was found guilty — but only after police and prosecutors used questionable psychological techniques to single him out as the killer. This week on Hidden Brain, we go back four decades to uncover the harm that arises when flawed ideas from psychology are used to determine that a teenager should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

When U.S. police departments didn't evolve out of slave patrols, they tended to form out of a desire to protect the property of the wealthy. In practice, this meant beating, murdering and arresting people who didn't want to work 12 hour days until they died.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Krypteia: A Form of Ancient Guerrilla Warfare 
2. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
3. The Beginning of American Policing
4. How Stereotypes of the Irish Evolved From ‘Criminals’ to Cops
5. REMEMBERING THE 1906 STRIKE FOR UNION IN WINDBER, PENNSYLVANIA
6. State Police were warned about possible racial bias in car searches. The agency's answer? End the research.
7. The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep

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Comedian D.L. Hughley discusses "How Not to Get Shot," his book that examines white Americans' reactions to police shootings of unarmed black people.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we are told that racist cops are out hunting and killing black people. But is this narrative true? Is there any actual evidence for it? Today we will look at the evidence and see where it points. Also Five Headlines, including a CNN “journalist” going to desperate extremes to justify rioting and looting. And in our Daily Cancellation, I cancel the FBI. I’ll explain why.

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President Trump shocks the world by pulling troops from northern Syria, Michael Kosta and Roy Wood Jr. talk sports, and Chanel Miller discusses her memoir "Know My Name."

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In the past I have been too dismissive towards those who raise concerns about unjust police shootings. I have realized that I was wrong and they are right. As a few recent cases demonstrate, there is a serious problem here. Too many innocent people have lost their lives at the hands of those sworn to protect and serve them. Why? That's the question I'll try to tackle on the show today. Date: 12-06-2018

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A "poop train" causes problems in Alabama, Trump tells reporters about a clandestine meeting with Kim Jong-un, and Chelsea Clinton discusses "She Persisted Around the World."

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