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/

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.