How Is This Still a Law? - Citizen's Arrest Edition
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Season 25 E 137 • 08/11/2020

Roy Wood Jr. talks to Georgia State Representative Carl Gilliard and historian Alan Singer about how a racist Civil War-era law has allowed Ahmaud Arbery's killers to avoid prosecution.
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How Is This Still a Law? - Citizen's Arrest Edition
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