Two years after his release, Johnson is suing the state of Oregon for what his lawyers called a wrongful conviction that kept him locked up for 25 years.
Quakenbush said the only reason we cared about this story is because Johnson is Black. Not because someone lost 25 years of life to a potential wrongful conviction, but because journalists think it’s fashionable to talk about how police have mistreated Black people in America.
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Sottile: Here we were, in the middle of a discussion about racism and policing, and Quakenbush – on tape, four times – used a racial slur in telling the story of how he was investigated.
Interesting transcript of one episode of a series of shows OPB did on this case: https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/25/hush-episode-7-seven-the-nature-of-certain-lies-podcast-show/
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