“A Wholly Inaccurate Picture”: Reality Cop Show “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man

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• Mar 30, 2025

by Jessica Lussenhop, photography by Sarahbeth Maney ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Eleven days after 18-year-old Jesse Mickelson was gunned down in a South Minneapolis alley...