Ep. 332 - Jonathan Price & Why We Should Fight for All Victims of Police Violence
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As you may have seen, a wonderful brother named Jonathan Price was murdered by police this weekend in Wolf City, Texas, |
| 0:08.6 | which is about an hour north of Dallas. I want to break down that case and even more I want to break down |
| 0:15.8 | something disturbing and even dangerous that I see happening in regards to his case. I see us, our own folk sharing some previous Facebook post that he made, almost insinuating that he doesn't deserve our support for some reason. |
| 0:38.3 | I want to explain it to you and tell you why that's wrong. |
| 0:42.1 | This is Sean King and you are listening to |
| 0:44.5 | the breakdown. |
| 0:46.5 | The breakdown. |
| 0:49.5 | The breakdown. |
| 0:50.5 | The breakdown. The breakdown. In the tiny rural country town of Wolf City, Texas, about an hour north of Dallas, |
| 1:10.0 | Jonathan Price, was seen as a hometown hero, a legend. |
| 1:16.4 | He was a mentor, an advocate. |
| 1:20.1 | He was seen as an inspirational leader. |
| 1:24.0 | He was frequently a speaker at rallies at sporting events. |
| 1:29.0 | He was a personal trainer. |
| 1:31.0 | He was actually an employee under contract with Wolf City itself. And in a lot of ways, he was seen as, forgive me for anybody who finds this offensive. |
| 1:50.0 | In Wolf City, Jonathan Price was seen as the black man that white people could trust. |
| 1:59.2 | And I don't mean that as any insult to Jonathan, to his |
| 2:04.0 | to his legacy. |
| 2:06.0 | He existed in a lot of ways |
| 2:10.0 | as a bit of a bridge builder between white and black culture. |
| 2:17.0 | And there is a Facebook post that Jonathan made that's kind of gone viral in its own right and I even had several friends of |
| 2:26.1 | mine send it to me today where Jonathan posted and and hell I appreciate it |
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