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The Girlfriends S4/Bonus Ep 4: A Girlfriends Guide to Making a Change

January 19, 2026·29 min·2 clips
Activist Nikki Richardson argues Dupree could unilaterally stop prosecuting marijuana possession today—and is choosing not to.
"I got you, I got you, I got you." The refrain cuts through the ad noise, then the episode shifts from promotion into something much heavier. Lamar McIntyre had been exonerated, and in 2017 that exoneration becomes the turning point for Mark Dupree, Wyandotte County's first Black DA. He steps into the office and starts looking around. What he says he finds is not one bad part in an otherwise clean machine, but a justice system and DA's office that had not always put fairness first. The host says he was horrified by parts of the office he inherited and by how elements inside it had worked before him. Dupree keeps the principle plain. The job is not only to protect people outside the system. It is also to make the system behave. If a prosecutor wins by the law, that is justice. If they lose by the law, the law has still done its job. The excerpt points to miscarriages of justice, threatening of witnesses, and a failure to stand against sexual violence. It does not soften much. The language stays close to the people in the community who were supposed to be protected and served. Dupree is both the DA and someone reading the damage from inside the office. The ads keep pressing in at the edges, but the episode itself seems to be about what change takes when the institution helped cause the wound.

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A sober look at what justice requires beyond the case itself.

The episode follows Lamar McIntyre's exoneration and Mark Dupree's view of what fairness should mean inside a justice system that has not always earned trust. Dupree comes across plainly and without theater, which helps the moral point land.

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Listen if you want a justice-story episode that follows Lamar McIntyre's 2017 exoneration into Mark Dupree's push to rethink how the system treats his community.

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