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🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Now I knew it was too good to be true. I knew the coronavirus was not going to end police brutality. |
0:09.0 | But there for a few days it seemed like we weren't going to see the viral videos of police |
0:16.2 | brutalizing and harassing people all over the country, but the videos are back. |
0:20.8 | Police brutality is still here. And today I want to play a throwback |
0:25.3 | episode of the breakdown. It's one of my favorite episodes that I've ever |
0:28.3 | recorded. It's where I breakdown where I unpack and explain a case called Graham versus Connor, a Supreme Court case, |
0:36.8 | it's the first or second most important case that really ruled as crazy as it sounds to say this, it really ruled that police brutality |
0:47.9 | is legal. |
0:48.9 | And I want you to have this knowledge. |
0:51.1 | It's a case that we really need to overturn. This is Sean King and you |
0:55.7 | are listening to the breakdown. |
0:58.1 | The breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown. |
1:03.0 | The breakdown. |
1:05.0 | The breakdown. If Tennessee versus Garner provided the modern framework for how police could literally |
1:14.4 | get away with murder. Graham versus Connor pumped it with steroids, it's |
1:19.5 | supercharged it, and it has done more to protect brutal police than perhaps any other law in the country. |
1:25.8 | Don't just take my word for it. Police magazine, yes there's a magazine called |
1:30.9 | Police magazine. They have an article called |
1:34.0 | Understanding Graham versus Connor. And in there they say, quote, a quarter |
1:39.6 | century ago, the United States Supreme Court ruled on a case that determines the legality of every law |
1:48.1 | enforcement use of force incident. |
1:51.1 | End of quote. Graham versus Connor is that crucial. |
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