Brittney Griner's Arrest and Sentence

from Black and White and Thin Blue Lines · host Clarke Ahlers & Serge Antonin

Send a textSerge and Clarke discuss the tragic circumstances surrounding the arrest, guilty plea and sentenced in the Brittney Griner case. Brittney, a WNBA all star, was arrested at a Moscow airport in February of 2022 for .7 grams of cannabis oil in her luggage. She was convicted and sentenced to 9 years of hard labor in a Russian penal colony. It appears that the Biden administration is negotiating a prisoner exchange for the notorious "Merchant of Death," Viktor Bout. The Griner case implicates race, gender and sexual identity in an international injustice.

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