Ep. 277 - Joe Biden needs to go back to the drawing board on his justice plan.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Joe Biden just released the 2.0 version of his policy plan for criminal justice reform. He refuses to end qualified immunity and refuses to stand for the legalization of marijuana. It's literally worse than the 1.0 version of every leading presidential candidate. He needs to go ahead and work on plan 3.0. This isn't good enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yesterday, Joe Biden released his revised justice reform plan.
0:07.0	It's terrible.
0:09.0	Oh my God. Yeah, there are two parts of it that I want to talk about. No, I'm not trying to get Trump re-elected, but this plan it needs another revision.
0:26.9	Obviously, I wish we could revise the Democratic candidate for president.
0:31.5	That's not an option, but he's going to have to go back to the
0:35.1	drawing board on this plan. Let me tell you why. This is Sean King and you
0:40.5	are listening to the breakdown.
0:43.0	The breakdown.
0:45.0	The breakdown.
0:47.0	The breakdown.
0:48.0	The breakdown.
0:49.0	The breakdown. Listen, I know that I know that Joe Biden is not Bernie, but he's also not
1:03.7	not Elizabeth Warren or Corey Booker or Julian Castro or really any of the
1:12.2	leading presidential candidates who have all come out and said openly and clearly that we need to end qualified immunity in this country.
1:24.8	It is the starting point of criminal justice reform.
1:31.4	It's not the revolutionary end. It's the beginning. It's not radical. Doctors in this
1:41.1	country don't have qualified immunity.
1:45.0	If they have misconduct on the job,
1:48.0	if they have anything in their behavior or work that is egregious or unethical, they can be sued.
2:00.0	And that's all this means is that currently American police cannot be sued,
2:11.0	cannot be held personally liable or responsible for their actual misconduct, which is preposterous.
2:27.6	When we say we need to end qualified immunity,
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