Whether or not Adnan is guilty, it's difficult to come away from this deep dive into his case without concluding that he would've gotten a fairer trial in ways big and small if he had not been a Muslim. In previous episodes, we've also heard how stereotypes about Muslims tinged the prosecution's account of Adnan's motives. The Tyranny of ‘Sorry for My Delay’ Joe PinskerĪt the same time, Koenig presents evidence that anti-Muslim prejudice played a definite role at different points in Adnan's case, from jury selection, when one potential juror confessed that he couldn't be fair to a Muslim defendant because a Muslim friend of his mistreats his wife, to a bail hearing when a prosecutor keeps referring to Adnan as a Pakistani (instead of American) and fabricates a pattern of cases where Pakistanis kill women and flee back to their home country.
And was it really easier for police to take Adnan, an honor student and part-time EMT voted most popular at school dances, than Jay, a black drug dealer with piercings and tattoos? I can't perform a rigorous analysis of the competing kinds of racism at play, but it's at least unclear.
When the ex has no alibi, of course that makes it even worse. When another person, with no apparent motive to lie, flat-out accuses the ex-boyfriend of the murder, of course he is a suspect. When a teenage woman dies, of course the ex-boyfriend is at least a person of interest. Sarah Koenig is skeptical of anti-Muslim bigotry as The One Cause, presumably because there were definitely other factors that played a significant role. "It was easier to take him than other people." "Because it was a Muslim child, that's why they took him," she said.
She believes her son is innocent, that anti-Muslim prejudice is the reason he was arrested, and that everyone in the local Muslim community feels the same way. Did it play a role in putting Adnan in prison? Adnan's mother declares that when she explains to herself what happened, discrimination against Muslims is the only rationale she can come up with.
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The viral nature of this video would help Spencer’s case against Amiott and the other off-duty officer, Shane Rivera.īut what happened? Koenig ended the episode in a way that made it sound like she would continue in Episode 4, but Episode 4 was about a completely different case.Conor Friedersdorf, Lenika Cruz, Tanya Basu, and Katie Kilkenny discuss the latest episode of WBEZ Chicago's popular non-fiction podcast Serial.įriedersdorf: Episode 10 of Serial begins by addressing the question of anti-Muslim prejudice. Police officer Michael Amiott was in a viral video that showed him beating a black motorist. At the very end of the episode, Spencer’s lawyer called Koenig with good news for his client’s case. In court, police officers tried to justify beating Spencer by saying that they found a small amount of marijuana on him and he had resisted arrest. Read on to find out what happened to Spencer, but know that this will contain spoilers for Episode 3 of Serial. The episode ended on a cliffhanger that was not resolved in Season 3 Episode 4, as many listeners had expected. Sarah Koenig follows the case of Erimius Spencer (spelled wrongly by some listeners as Aramis), who was unjustly beaten by police officers while in his own building, knocking on a friend’s door to borrow a cigarette. At the end of Serial Season 3 Episode 3, we’re left with a bit of a cliffhanger.
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