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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 284 - She needs to be the new District Attorney of Detroit

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Meet Victoria Burton-Harris - a badass woman who is running to be the new District Attorney of Detroit. It's one of the single most important races in the country and she needs our support. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Some of the most important work of my life has been trying to oust horrible

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district attorneys all over the country and we've talked about that over and over

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and over again here on the breakdown.

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District attorneys are like the local CEOs of the justice system.

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Each city and each county has a district attorney and there are over 2,300 district attorneys in the country,

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but just about 150 of those district attorneys oversee and control over 50% of all people who are incarcerated.

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And many of those district attorneys are up for re-election this year, including Kim Worthy, who is a horrible district

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attorney in Wayne County, Michigan, which is Detroit. But a bad-ass amazing lawyer, a civil rights attorney is running for the

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position of Wayne County prosecutor.

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That's the District Attorney of Detroit.

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Her name is Victoria Burton Harris,

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and I had a wonderful chance to interview her.

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She's brilliant. We need her in that position. We need to

1:16.1

change the justice system in Detroit from the inside out. So let me introduce

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you to her and just sit back listen and learn she's brilliant.

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The breakdown.

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Everybody.

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