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While Black

60: Hands Up Don't Shoot w/ Attorney Michele Rayner-Goolsby

While Black

REVOLT

Self-improvement, Education

4.11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

THIS IS WITHOUT QUESTION ONE OF OUR MOST POWERFUL EPISODES TO DATE. Our guest today, Attorney Michele Rayner-Goolsby, is featured in the recent CNN article "When African American are killed by police, these lawyers get a phone call" (CNN Article Here). In this episode we discuss her thoughts on officer involved murders of black men and women, can the justice system actually be reformed, and how we can hopefully increase our likelihood of survival when interacting with some police officers. (Plus a whole lot more -- trust us!!) This episode is, at times, emotional but often times real conversations about these very real topics impacting our lives daily are. This is for YOU because we love YOU and we want YOU to be the absolute best YOU can be --- knowledge is one of the keys and today the door is being opened - LISTEN UP! Follow Michele on IG @yourlawyerslawyer or @ civillibertylaw and on her website https://civillibertylaw.com/ Lastly, don't forget to get social with us  IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

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0:30.0

And you know, I'm thinking about, remember I'm gonna do Diallo and Sean Bell,

0:34.4

Absolutely.

0:35.3

I remember hearing about that and we're like, oh, okay, that's like a one-off.

0:39.4

Yeah.

0:40.4

So you thought and then but then you start talking to older folks when there wasn't no cell phones and there wasn't no social media

0:47.5

and hell there was no TV and then wrong you have the police killed him please kill him please

0:52.1

So this is this is our relationship

0:55.6

with law enforcement and I think that we also have to get really look back to why how law enforcement was developed. They were

1:04.7

slave patrols. They were created to hunt black folks. So if that is your

1:11.8

foundation, what do you do?

1:15.0

Like that is your foundation to hunt and kill black folks.

1:20.0

That is the modern police force. That is the modern police force. That is the modern, that is the modern, that is the modern,

1:25.0

that is the modern, that is the modern,

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that is the modern, that is the modern,

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that is the modern,

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that is the modern, that is the modern, that is the modern, that is the modern, that is the modern, that is the modern, that is the modern, Welcome to Wow Black. A seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and raw on anything happening while black.

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