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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 163 - Letters for Michael Thompson and an update on Parchman Prison

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday, over 10,000 of you went to FreeMichaelThompson.com and wrote a letter on behalf of Michael Thompson! A great job, but we need more! Shaun updates us on Michael's case as well as gives an update on Mississippi's Parchman Prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're now just six days away from the family and attorneys of Michael Thompson

0:07.0

submitting a new application and petition for his clemency. And yesterday, over 10,000 of you went to free Michael Thompson.com and wrote

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a letter on behalf of Michael Thompson and I am so so grateful

0:26.7

but we need 10,000 more of you to do it today and tomorrow and the next day our goal is to get somewhere close to a hundred thousand

0:36.9

letters from Michael to the desk of Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of

0:41.6

Michigan.

0:42.8

So if you already know everything about the case,

0:45.4

stop right now and go to free Michael Thompson.com.

0:48.3

If not, I'm going to break some things down about his case

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and talk some more about some horrible things going on at

0:55.4

parchment prison in Mississippi. This is Sean King and you are listening to

1:00.6

The Breakdown. listening to the breakdown. So I just checked and yesterday 10,246 of you went to free Michael Thompson.com, filled out the form and sent in a letter to the

1:28.8

governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, and I am grateful for all 10,246 of you, but I do have some advice.

1:37.0

If you've already filled it out, you don't have to do it again.

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Okay, that's fine.

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But for everybody who has not yet filled out this form from Michael Thompson, when you go to free

1:47.1

Michael Thompson.com and you see the form, we have some suggested information in the little letter box.

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You can send that.

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That's better than nothing, but I would much rather you put in your own information, your own thoughts and ideas, why you

2:07.2

think he needs to be free or why you think he spent enough time in prison.

2:11.5

So feel free to just put in your name and information and hit

2:14.0

send, but I'm telling you there's nothing more impactful than you writing your

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