Ep. 334 - Tahanie Aboushi is going to change New York's justice system from the inside out.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In presidential election years, it's super easy to focus all of your attention on the presidential race. |
| 0:08.5 | And in some ways, that's a ruse, it's a trick. It's a it's a distraction. I'm not saying it's not important. It's |
| 0:16.7 | Uber important. But there are so many vital essential races and what I think might be the second most |
| 0:27.4 | important race could be the race for District Attorney of Los Angeles. I am backing and supporting George |
| 0:37.1 | Gascon who is running to replace Jackie Lacy who's been horrible. But now is the time, not tomorrow, not next week, not next month. |
| 0:48.4 | Now is the time to start caring about who the next district attorney of Manhattan is going to be. |
| 0:57.1 | As you probably know, the Manhattan DA's office has been terrible for generations. I mean destructive. It was that office that |
| 1:08.7 | was singularly responsible for prosecuting the Central Park 5 and tens of thousands of other |
| 1:18.2 | young black and brown children and teenagers and have refused to prosecute so many privileged white people for |
| 1:28.6 | actual crimes and here we are and it's now time for us to decide who we're going to back, who's going to stand up for us, who is going to be able to have the backbone, the credibility, the character, the |
| 1:46.8 | integrity, to not only lead that office, but to change it from the inside out. |
| 1:53.6 | Today I have that answer for you. |
| 1:55.6 | I want to tell you why I am endorsing and supporting |
| 2:00.3 | Tahani Obushi to be the next district attorney of Manhattan. |
| 2:05.0 | I want to tell you why it matters to you. |
| 2:07.0 | This is Sean King, and you are listening to |
| 2:10.0 | The Breakdown. The breakdown. The breakdown. |
| 2:15.0 | The breakdown. The breakdown. |
| 2:17.0 | The breakdown. The breakdown. No single position in the entire country has a bigger impact on the justice system and on the tens of millions of people. |
| 2:37.6 | It's not millions. |
| 2:39.5 | It's tens of millions of people who interact with this system. |
| 2:45.3 | That's not even including family and children |
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