Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Cheating, Murder, Botched surgery and more death (EP17) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 17

Cheating, Murder, Botched surgery and more death (EP17)

In this episode 17, YNW Melly trial update, he is requesting speedy trial and wants jury selection for his upcoming double homicide case to go immediately. Did Bill Clinton's 10 year assault weapons ban from 1994 to 2004 saves lives regarding mass shootings? Should the current president ban AR-15 type weapons? Judith Huff is on the stand in the case against Bill Cosby this week. She claims he sexually assaulted her in 1974 or 1975 and rapper Young Thug was denied bail by Judge Ural Glanville in Georgia.

An Indianapolis woman, Gaylyn Morris, 26, kills her boyfriend, Andre Smith, with her car for cheating. She allegedly drove her vehicle over him three times around midnight last Thursday. She followed him to an Indianapolis watering hole using Apple tag tracking. And a Correctional Captain from Rikers Island dies after Brazilian Butt Lift surgery in the Domincan Republic.

 

Disgraced Dr. Hector Cabral was indicted in NYC several years ago for bad medical practicing. At least 5 other women have died from his surgeries but Tandra Bowser-Williams, who died from a stroke, decided to use his services despite knowing the doctors terrible record. And thats another FIRE episode of Streets & Scholars. 

 

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.