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/ LA County Jail’s High Power and Tory Lanez, Dre sues politician, and robber gets killed during robbery | Streets & Scholars (EP48) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 48

LA County Jail’s High Power and Tory Lanez, Dre sues politician, and robber gets killed during robbery | Streets & Scholars (EP48)

In this episode 48 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss: 

* In episode 48 we discussed Tory Lanez being incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jail after his conviction of shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Celebrities such as Tory are held in the "High Power" section of the jail. In this episode we talked with Isaac Pedroza (02:31) who spent 5-years in LA County jail's High Power and he explains this section of the jail. 

* How did Julie Hudson, 31, (15:08) who lives in Philadelphia get arrested for a crime that occurred in Webster, Texas a state that she had never been too? She spent one week in a Philadelphia jail before they figured out she was innocent. Does this warrant a law suit? If so how much money can Julie get? 

* Dr. Dre (Andre Young) (24:16) has sued Congress women Majorie Taylor Greene for using his music without properly licensing it from his company.  Green is considered an extremely divisive and racially insensitive politician that has been a strong supporter of Donald Trump

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/dr-dre-marjorie-taylor-green-cease-desist

* Rapper Meek Mill (29:01)was pardon by the governor of Pennsylvania for a 2008 drug and gun arrest that has impacted his life for 10 years. Gov. Tom Wolf  pardoned almost 369 former defendants last week. The impact of joint suspended sentences and clemency and pardons are discussed. 

* Eric Eugene Washington (45:02) who was black, was shot and killed in a restaurant that he was robbing when a patron pulled his weapon and shot him nine times. This shooting was captured on video which showed Washington robbing each person in the restaurant and before he left, a white patron shot him in the back multiple times. After, the shooter learned that Washington was actually using a fake gun. Should the shooter be charged or was he justified?   

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO54t_NFUQ8

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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.