Black and White and Thin Blue Lines

Brittney Griner's Arrest and Sentence

November 16, 2022 Clarke Ahlers & Serge Antonin Season 2 Episode 17
Black and White and Thin Blue Lines
Brittney Griner's Arrest and Sentence
Show Notes

Serge 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.