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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 190 - The execution of Nate Woods is NOT a moment of closure.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Working with the family of Nate Woods this weekend, Shaun noticed one big difference between an execution and a case of police violence. Today he unpacks it for us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I've noticed something very peculiar over the past few days working with the family of Nate Woods who was executed this past week.

0:08.0

For the family, his execution was an explosion of injustice.

0:16.1

For them it was like the moment of having your loved ones shot and killed by police. For them his execution was not a moment of

0:26.1

closure. But what I noticed and this is the closest I've ever worked with the

0:30.6

family through an execution that for the general public for the media the case is now basically closed that people have moved on but this is this is the reverse of what should be happening.

0:46.6

The execution of Nate Woods should anger us on a level that I just don't quite see. Let me break it down. This is Sean King and you are listening to

0:57.2

the breakdown.

1:01.4

The breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown.

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The breakdown.

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The breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown.

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The

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The past six years,

1:12.0

I've been working with families all over the country on issues of police brutality and I mean from coast to coast, north, south, east and west, even international cases of police brutality.

1:25.0

And I noticed something very, very different about how we treat police brutality cases versus how we treat this death penalty

1:36.3

case of Nate Woods. Nate was horribly wrongly executed this past week and thinking about it even now in this

1:46.4

moment makes my blood boil like I even as I pause there like I almost said like I had a combination of needing to fight back tears and wanting to scream.

1:57.4

And for Nate's family, I noticed something incredibly different about his case versus every single case of police brutality I've ever worked on.

2:10.0

When someone is shot and killed by police, that is the height of the injustice, and

2:19.3

our activism goes from there forward fighting for justice for that person who was wrongly

2:27.6

killed by by the police by the American government by the American government, by the state apparatus.

2:35.0

But somehow we're expecting, and we're kind of playing with a very different calculus

2:40.4

with Nate Woods where he was killed not shot and killed but

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