Episode 438 - Minority Report (w/ Michael Bloch & Ben White)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Civil rights defense attorneys Michael Block and Ben White join Bad Faith to discuss the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility in New York and a similar case that their law firm Bloch & White is handling. How has advocacy for criminal justice reform changed since the BLM era, and to what extent did Democratic leadership fail the moment? Is there any optimism that liberals will recommit to the criminal justice promises they claimed to espouse during Trump's first term now that he's returning to the White House? Or does the decision of blue state liberals like NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to run to the right on these issues portend a further rightward drift over the next four years? And did the left bring this rightward shift on itself by not taking crime concerns seriously (à la Ana Kasparian's argument)? Or is something else at play?
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:22.6 | I'm so glad to have on Bad Faith podcast, Michael Block, who is a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, a partner at Block and White, and a former public defender from the Bronx defenders. Welcome, Michael. |
| 0:57.7 | Thank you. Great to be here. Thanks for having us. Also, a partner at Block and White. |
| 1:02.1 | Ben White is joining us. Also a civil rights lawyer and a commercial litigator. Welcome, Ben. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you. Likewise. I thrilled to be here. |
| 1:17.0 | I reached out to you, Michael, because I saw you tweeting about with concern and gravity, |
| 1:23.1 | I think, of very much merits. This recent video that I think pushed criminal justice issues back into the foreground after what has felt to me like a real lull post the 2020 era. |
| 1:29.7 | The video was of correctionals officers involved in what ended up being a fatal beating of |
| 1:38.1 | inmate Robert L. Brooks. |
| 1:40.9 | And like many of the cases that made 2020 the protest year that it was, it really did feel |
| 1:47.4 | like it was the visceral nature of the imagery that forced the conversation, however briefly, |
| 1:54.1 | back to criminal justice as a priority. And so I want you just to start maybe by telling us what |
| 2:00.5 | happened. And then we can move into a very |
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