Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and death.
On Wednesday afternoon, a guilty verdict was reached in the death of the Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. A 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela was convicted.
Rick Rojas, the Atlanta bureau chief for The Times, discusses the case, and how it became a flashpoint in the national debate over border security.
Guest: Rick Rojas (https://www.nytimes.com/by/rick-rojas) , the Atlanta bureau chief for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Ms. Riley, 22, was attacked in February while running on a trail on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. Her killer was sentenced to life in prison (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/laken-riley-murder-trial-jose-ibarra-guilty.html) .
• Lawmakers in Georgia approved tougher rules on immigration (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/georgia-immigration-law-laken-riley.html) after the killing.
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what is wrong with talking about it over and over again as long as the victim’s family has no objection?
The characterization and framing of facts are ridiculous at times in this podcast. Stop trying to “humanize” an issue that has resulted in so many assaults, deaths, trafficking, etc. I tried to give this thing an actual, unbiased listen, but it’s clear that this video has bias against anti-illegal immigration which makes it near impossible to digest.
I’ll never understand this type of reporting: trying to make Trump’s take on this look worse than the crimes committed by an illegal immigrant. Yes, his stance can be extreme, but you guys spent 24 min trying to justify the unjustifiable.
After ur preferred candidate lost this is the first time in months any left leaning media platform is reporting this while others were reporting this continuously the audience which lives in a coterie of left wing loonie toons should ask them who is concealing facts from them so that they dont act like informed people which they think they are as they have a lot of supremacy bias against others.
Undocumented means illegal