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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 287 - 10 Ways to Defund the Police Today - Part 1

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Alex Vitale is one of my favorite scholars in the country on how and why we must defund the police. He recently listed 10 ways we can do that safely. Today I'll break down the first five. ----- 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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0:00.0

How do I tell them? How do I pay the bills? How do I pay the bills? I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. The questions, the fears, the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with

0:17.1

cancer too. That's why I joined the Macmillan online community and we can help people like you whatever you need to ask.

0:27.0

To join us search Macmillan Online Community.

0:30.4

It's kind of hard to believe but it's already been two months since the killing of George

0:34.9

Floyd in Minneapolis.

0:36.9

It's kind of wild to think about and I honestly don't know if it feels like it's been two days

0:41.9

or two decades.

0:43.0

But what I do know is that a lot has changed

0:47.0

since I first saw that painful, infuriating video

0:51.0

of police officers murdering Big Floyd in broad daylight.

0:55.0

Now this doesn't mean that our work is done, of course it's not done, it's nowhere

0:59.4

near done. In fact, it's really only beginning.

1:03.0

But what I can say is that the battle lines in this fight against racist policing and police brutality

1:11.0

have shifted a lot over these past two months.

1:15.0

We've learned some important lessons from our past battles.

1:18.2

We're no longer simply demanding police reform.

1:21.8

We're no longer content to settle for loose promises of incremental

1:26.2

change, which has more often than not really only led to symbolic gestures that protect the racist and unjust status quo.

1:36.4

Instead, we're now fighting for a future in which police are no longer seen as the one-stop response to every public health and public

1:48.8

aid problem that our communities face.

1:51.8

We're standing up and we're saying that armed police officers are not

1:56.6

the best people to respond to everything from traffic violations to domestic

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