Flint Taylor of the Peoples Law Office on Challenging Chicago PD Violence and Government Corruption In Courts

This week, Ian spoke with G. Flint Taylor of People's Law Office in Chicago and his new book, The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago, out now from Haymarket Books. The conversation vacillates between the past and the present as Taylor talks about the misconduct and cover-up by the FBI and Chicago PD in the assassination of Chicago Black Panther's Leader Fred Hampton, the forty year effort to free Andrew and Jackie Wilson, the tradition of movement lawyering, and the legacy of the People's Law Office. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) . ... . .. Featured Track: TFSR by The Willows Whisper