Introducing Radical

On March 16, 2000, two sheriff’s deputies were shot outside a mosque in Atlanta. After a days-long search, federal agents eventually capture their only serious suspect, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim leader, and Black Power activist. But did he do it? Mosi Secret, a former reporter for The New York Times and ProPublica, investigates what really happened the night of the shootout in Atlanta, and he uncovers a dark secret revealing something deeper about violence in America. From Tenderfoot TV, iHeart Radio, and Campside Media, this is Radical. Premieres December 5th.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Last year, I read a letter that I don't think
was ever meant to go public. It said that a
man convicted of shooting sheriff's deputies and killing one of
them was innocent. He's a legendary man, a man who
over the last century in America has been called a prophet,
a messiah, a terrorist, and a villain. In the sixties,

(00:25):
he was a black power activist named h Rap Brown.
We did not make the laws in this country. We
are neither Marley not legally confined to those laws. Those
laws that keep them up keep us down. H Rap
Brown had the attention of the most powerful people in America,
oh lice departments, the United States government, and their agents.

(00:46):
They hated rat Brown all the way to death. But
unlike some other black leaders at the time, he managed
to survive, and he converted to Islam, changed his name
to Jamille Alamine, and moved my hometown Atlanta, Georgia. On
the ninth of March sixteenth, two thousand, two deputies showed

(01:07):
up outside his neighborhood mosque and there was a shootout.
It was almost like an overkill, like it was a
war zone. That book killed one deputy and severely injured another.
Please don't shoot me now, Mary, don't shoot me. No, Marr,
don't shoot me, no No. Federal agents chase down their
only serious suspect, Jamil Lamine, and he was convicted, but

(01:31):
the evidence was shaky and the whole truth never came
out during the trial. To say that this gud is
the gud who fired this book is very, very difficult.
My name is Mosey's Secret. I'm an investigative journalist, and
when I started looking into the case, I discovered something
even more sinister than the shooting of two deputies. The FBI,

(01:53):
a trap brown, Jamil Lamine, local drug dealers, and even
an alleged serial killer all caught up in it. Tell
me he got the kid, he gonna star some beef
and it ain't gonna be he gonna make up or
read and kill the mother fluck. And they learned that
for years, someone else, not Jamille Allami, has been confessing

(02:14):
to shooting the two deputies that night outside the mosque.
I've got a way quit murder for real. They convicted
the wrong guy and sit the wrong guy to prison
for life for something that another guy did. From Campsite Media,
Tenderfoot TV, and iHeart Podcasts a new podcast called Radical

(02:34):
that tells the story of violence and the struggle for
power in America.