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Hi, this is Josh Dean, host of

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the podcast Chameleon Hollywood Con Queen, Hooked,

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and Witness Fade to Black, as

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well as executive producer of The Evaporated, the

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show about Japan's mysterious Johatsu phenomenon,

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which previously lived in this feed.

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I wanted to share a preview of the latest show

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from Campside Media, the company I helped start

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and which is behind all of those shows I

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just mentioned. It's called Radical,

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and it's an incredible piece of investigative

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journalism. The story is this, on

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March 16, 2000,

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two police officers were shot in one

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of Atlanta's oldest neighborhoods. One officer died,

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and the other claimed the shooter was

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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the powerful head

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of a local mosque. Once known as H.

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Rap Brown, a charismatic leader of the Black

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Power movement, Al-Amin was convicted and

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sentenced to life in prison. But was

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he actually guilty, or was it payback

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for decades of work against the establishment?

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Check out the trailer for Radical, and

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then listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Last year, I read a letter that

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I don't think was ever meant to go public. It

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said that a man convicted of shooting sheriff's deputies,

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and killing one of them, was innocent.

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He's a legendary man. A

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man who over the last century in America has been

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called a prophet, a messiah, a

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terrorist, and a villain. In

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the 60s, he was a Black

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Power activist named H. Rap Brown.

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We did not make the laws in this

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country. We are neither morally nor legally confined

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to those laws. Those laws

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that keep them up keep us down. H.

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Rap Brown had the attention of the most powerful

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people in America. Police departments,

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the United States government, and their

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agents, they hated Rap Brown all

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the way to death. But

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unlike some other Black leaders at the time, he

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managed to survive, and he

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converted to Islam, changed his

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name to Jamil Al-Amin, and

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moved to my hometown, Atlanta, Georgia.

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On the night of March 16, 2000,

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two deputies showed up outside his neighborhood mosque, and

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there was a shootout. It was

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almost like an overkill, like it was a war

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zone out there. Killed

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one deputy and severely injured another. Ask

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him to yell at him, please don't

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shoot me no more, don't shoot me

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no more, don't shoot me no more.

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Federal agents chased down their only serious

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suspect, Jamil Al-Amin, and he was convicted.

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But the evidence was shaky and the whole truth

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never came out during the trial. To

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say that this gun is the gun who fired

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this bullet is very, very

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difficult. My name is Mosse Seidritt.

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I'm an investigative journalist. And

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when I started looking into the case, I discovered

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something even more sinister than the shooting of two

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deputies. The

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FBI, A-Trap Brown, Jamil

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Al-Amin, local drug dealers, and

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even an alleged serial killer. They're

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all caught up in it. Tell me he

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got the kill. He gonna starve some beef and

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it ain't gonna be. He gonna make up a

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reason to kill him where I'm from. And

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I learned that for years, someone else,

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not Jamil Al-Amin, has

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been confessing to shooting the two deputies

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that night outside the mosque. I've gotten

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away with murder for real.

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They convicted the wrong guy and sent the

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wrong guy to prison for life for

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something that another guy did. On

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campsite media, Tenderfoot TV, and

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I Heart Podcast. A

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new podcast called Radical that tells the story

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of violence and the struggle for power in

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America.