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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 299 - Here's what they do to "good cops" who speak out on police brutality

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Every day I see people rightly ask why more "good cops" don't speak out on police violence. Well - today I'll show you why. This brave officer posted his professional opinion about the murder of George Floyd - and just got fired over it. ----- 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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Have you ever asked yourself why don't more police speak out against police brutality and misconduct?

0:08.0

I want to show you why.

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A brave brother came out just about two months ago right after the murder of George Floyd and said how horrible it was.

0:18.0

Now this was a police officer and he posted it on Tik-Toc. It went super viral. He just got fired. This is Sean King, and you were listening to

0:27.0

The breakdown. The breakdown. Breakdown.

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The breakdown.

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The breakdown.

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The breakdown.

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Every day I see people on all of my social media pages asking and it's a good question to ask

0:49.4

why don't more quote-onunquote good police officers and we can debate all we want if they're good officers and bad officers?

0:59.0

People say why don't more good police officers speak out against police brutality and police misconduct and police abuse?

1:08.8

I know the answer to that

1:15.0

because so many officers that have tried to speak out on misconduct and their departments end up

1:18.0

getting targeted and harassed by other officers in the department.

1:22.0

But let me show you what really happens.

1:24.3

First, I want to play a clip of a young man who was a police officer who filmed a video that went

1:32.1

super, super viral.

1:34.0

I mean, I saw it shared everywhere

1:37.5

in the days after George Floyd was murdered.

1:40.5

And it was a powerful video super insightful of him just saying here are

1:46.4

the things that should have been done differently and the fact that they

1:49.8

weren't is despicable. To me, it was healthy. Like if you want people to have any trust of

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