74 Seconds
74 Seconds, from Minnesota Public Radio, is a podcast that covered the Philando Castile trial as it happened. The Jeronimo Yanez trial that is.
The name is the amount of time that passes from the moment Yanez exits his car until he shoots seven bullets into Castile’s. Five hit Castile. One hits the armrest between Castile and his girlfriend, and one is lodged in the backseat, where his girlfriend’s four-year-old daughter is sitting.
By the time you read this, you will probably have seen those 74 seconds through the dashcam on Yanez’s squad car. By the time you read this, Yanez will be a free man.
The podcast starts from before day 1 of the trial. The first several episodes introduce the listener to Castile and to Yanez, and when the trial begins, it follows the jury selection process, the testimony, the verdict, the aftermath.
It is strange listening to it after the outcome; to relive a time when Jeronimo Yanez could have been convicted for shooting the seven bullets into Castile and into his car.
And even after the fact, it continues to be a gripping real-time true-crime drama, and a front-row seat to a trial, and by extension, a justice system, that left Castile dead and let Yanez go.
