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On July 7, 2022, Timothy Reynolds, 48, parked his car and held an aluminum baseball bat while he confronted the teens who were harassing motorists by squeegeeing their windshields and trying to extort money by using violent force. The youths reportedly 'earned' $90 to $200 per day.

Author John Potash joins me in the first hour for a discussion of his book The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. John describes the radical political life that Tupac was born into; mother Afeni Shakur and step father Mutulu Shakur were both prominent Black Panthers. We talk about the impact that this had on Tupac and how this would ultimately shape his life and his untimely death. John talk about the political messages with in Tupac’s songs, as well as his efforts behind the scenes to broker peace between gangs such as The Bloods and Crips.