Today is the day that we stand with Brianna Taylor.

It's time that we fight.

It's time that we fight with a ferocity and an energy and a passion

that this young woman and her family deserve. and a

energy

this young woman and her family deserve. This is a special action steps episode of the breakdown.

I'm going to give you clear action steps,

clear marching orders, and we need all hands on deck.

This is Sean King and you are listening to The Breakdown.

The Break down.

the breakdown. The breakdown. Listen, I know this work and I know the brutality that we are dealing with and staring down.

In the midst of this pandemic I know it's exhausting. I am exhausted by it and I know that many of you are traumatized and exhausted by it, but here's what also know. The family of Brianna Taylor and I spoke to her

dear mother to meika and her sister and aunts and others yesterday. they need us.

They need us to stand with them,

to stand for them.

If you think you are exhausted, please, and I don't say this flippantly, please consider Brianna's mother. If you think you are

exhausted, please for a moment, consider Ahmad's mother.

And when people ask me, Sean, how do you do what you do over and over and over again?

Let me tell you.

I had a brutally, painfully difficult conversation yesterday with

Brianna's mother where she broke down as she explained to me in graphic detail how wrong she was done.

How wrong her mother was done.

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