Systemic oppression are real, but only for this guy. i think when you look at the powell case, misused in this fashion, let s not go back to the 1930s. let s go to the 1990s when five young black and brown men were falsely accused of raping a white woman in central park. it was donald trump that took out ads in the papers in new york saying they should get the death penalty. so they want to cite how blacks have been abused by the criminal justice system, cite the case where we lost and eventually it was proven these five young men that donald trump called on to get the death penalty was in fact innocent. so we don t have to go back go by trump s history and what he did. the only case of race in the criminal justice system that i have ever seen donald trump stand up for in new york where
bing bong. that s it. here we are trucking. this is what it looks like when we do a news show from the road. you are great, but i would be more happy if this was our viewer. we re in brooklyn. it s friday it s time to fall back. you can find me on tiktok at ari melber or right here on msnbc. the reidout with joy reid is up next. . tonight on the reidout i was so offended the minute i read page one of trump s filing when they were asking for that absurd trial date of april 2026, because on page one, they cite powell versing alabama. the powell case involved nine african american teenagers ages 12 to 19, who were accused of sexually assaulting a white woman. they were arrested, arraigned,
Absurd trial date of april 2026, because on page one, they cite powell v. alabama. as some kind of a measuring stick against which to judge whether donald trump and his battalion of lawyers and his billions of dollars should be made to go to trial within about six or eight months, and as you say, the powell case involved nine african american teenagers. ages 12 to 19, who were accused of sexually assaulting a white woman. they were arrested, arraigned, and forced to go to trial in less than two weeks, without qualified counsel, in a death penalty case. that is the measuring stick against which we are to measure donald trump s burden of having a full battalion of lawyers, you know, preparing his case to go to trial six or eight months down the road? offensive is the nicest word i can come up with. and i tell you, i got goosebumps when i heard judge chutkan, who
There s been a potentially grim development in the case of a missing utah woman. two years ago, susan powell, a 28-year-old mom of two vanished without a trace. yesterday, they found human remains in a desert not far from where her husband claims she was last seen. susan s parents now say they re just waiting for word from police. it raises our hopes that we re going to have some kind of closure of what happened to her. but on the other hand, it also takes away the hope she s alive. it is both edges of a sword, i don t know where we go with that, it is something we re living with. michelle, it feels like the family has been on a roller coaster ride a dozen times or more in the last 22 months, trying to get clues. it is not the first time bones have been found in the powell case. remind all of us about the case, what might make this discovery