Ep. 257 - StandWithSean.com

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We need you to know Sean Monterrosa's name. You might be tired, but we still have to fight when we're faced with such blatant injustice. Sean was unarmed, non-violent, and on his knees with his hands up when Vallejo Police Officer Jarrett Tonn shot him five times through the windshield of his car. Join us as we fight for justice for Sean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The breakdown.
0:02.0	The breakdown.
0:05.0	The breakdown. The breakdown.
0:07.0	The breakdown.
0:08.0	The breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown.
0:10.0	The break down. Oh yeah.
0:11.0	There's so so much going on in the world going on in our country. Today there are several
0:22.4	stories that I want to tell but first and foremost I want to focus us in on a case and if you go right now to stand with Sean.com stand with SEAN. S-E-A-N- Stand with Sean.
0:35.0	Our team at the Grassroots Law Project is working with the family of Sean Monterosa. We're working with the family of Sean Monterosa.
0:44.1	We're working with the attorneys, Attorney John Burris,
0:47.1	of the family of Sean Monterosa,
0:49.8	who, in his very last text, and I've seen this text with my own eyes, sent a text to his sister
0:58.8	saying, please if you do anything, sign this petition for George Floyd.
1:04.8	We're fighting for justice for him.
1:07.2	Sean in Vallejo, California, which is really a suburb in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco, California.
1:15.6	Sean was actually from San Francisco and
1:18.6	as frustrated as I am that this crime happened to Sean.
1:23.1	Sean was brutally shot and killed by police in Vallejo.
1:28.0	Had it happened just a little bit further down in San Francisco, our friend and brother Chase of
1:34.9	Boudine is the district attorney there and would be on the case. And it just
1:39.0	reminds me of how vital it is for us to be able to elect people who run these local systems.
1:46.1	Chaser and I even talked about this case and even though Sean's a resident of
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