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🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | I need you to know the name Myon Burrell. Say it with me. Myon Burrell. I literally would like for you to say that name in your head. |
0:12.0 | Then say it out loud because this is a young man who was |
0:15.8 | wrongly charged, wrongly arrested, wrongly convicted, and is now wrongly imprisoned in Minneapolis, Minnesota, say his name, Myon Burrell. |
0:27.7 | We're going to start doing the work to help set this young man free. |
0:31.3 | I've talked to his family. We've decided to take on this case and |
0:35.8 | we're going to push hard. I'm going to tell you about it today. Explain why it matters. |
0:41.4 | Let's do the work together. We'll start today. We'll push all week long. Let's get |
0:46.6 | ready to help free Myon Burrell. This is Sean King and you are listening to |
0:52.2 | The Breakdown. |
0:54.0 | The Breakdown. |
0:57.0 | The Breakdown. The Breakdown. On February the 1st of this year, a brilliant journalist named Robin McDowell wrote a piece about Myon Burrell and by |
1:18.1 | default Senator Amy Klobuchar who's running for president, |
1:23.0 | that I actually think could win the Pulitzer Prize. |
1:25.9 | It's a brilliant, deep investigative piece. |
1:31.5 | Not only do I think it could win the Pulitzer Prize, I think it is the |
1:36.1 | spark that is going to eventually build into a momentous moment to set this young man free and so before I say |
1:47.0 | anything about Mayon's case I want to tip my hat and give a major major |
1:52.4 | shout out to Robin McDowell. This is why we started the North Star is to be able to put out the type of journalism that Robin McDow, who doesn't write for the North Star, |
2:04.4 | writes for the Associated Press. Like, her journalism is an example of what we want to do here |
2:10.5 | on the breakdown, it's what we want to do for the North Star that not only |
2:15.7 | tells stories of injustice but tells stories of injustice and tilts them in a way that brings about justice. of |
2:25.0 | and tilts them in a way that brings about justice. And so what I want you to do, I do have some homework for you. |
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