The Social Issues Underlying the Recent Subway Chokehold Killing

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 3, 2023

Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, consultant for Radiolab, and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022), unpacks the intersection of social problems at play this week when train riders watched as one passenger put another in a chokehold (and killed him), and discusses the responses from the legal system and the public.

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