My all-time favorite quote from Dr. King says,

injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Today I want to unpack, explain, and discuss the emergency crisis of police violence in Nigeria

and really unpack and explain why it should matter to all of us. This is Sean King and you are listening to

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The breakdown. Breakdown. The Breakdown. The Breakdown. Before we fully dive into today's episode, let me first say to all of the protesters and demonstrators and everybody who is working hard to fight back

against police violence in Nigeria from those of you who've donated, for those of you who might be listening to this on

Instagram or iTunes or Spotify wherever you are in the world let me first say

from my mouth to your ears that we are standing in solidarity with you, we believe in

you, we are grateful for your for your courage and bravery in the face of state sanctioned violence.

And I want to start there because I'm not Nigerian, I'm not in Nigeria and I only have the perspective of an outsider here.

When I have often heard other people from other countries speak about police violence in the United States, it has

often been painfully clear to me that sometimes you truly have to be in a place to understand the complexity and nuance of it.

And for instance, when George Floyd was murdered and people all over the world, almost 20 million people saw

that video just from my social media accounts alone, people just struggled to understand how people from outside of the United States in particular

struggled to understand how something like that was possible.

Well, in the United States where we have a painful history of lynching,

where black men in particular are killed in broad daylight in front of everybody where

people serve as judge, jury and executioner and we've seen these images our whole

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