I truly see the movement to end SARS and end police brutality in Nigeria as a global part of the Black Lives Matter movement and we have been trying for weeks

just to show and express our solidarity with young people and organizers and leaders who were taking a bold stand against police brutality in Nigeria.

And yesterday, as the military literally opened fire on peaceful protesters and demonstrators.

We saw what I think is not only going to be one of the most painful days in the modern history of Nigeria,

but one of the most painful days of this Black Lives Matter movement.

I want to unpack and explain it. Tell you what really

happened because a lot of new sources are incredibly unreliable. Like many of

you I was watching so much of it unfold yesterday on Instagram live.

I want to again show my solidarity with all of you

who are there in Nigeria or a part of the diaspora all around the world. I know today is a hard day.

We're going to push through. Let me unpack and explain some things. This is Sean King

and you are listening to the breakdown. Yesterday in Nigeria there was a peaceful protest and demonstration. I've seen the videos and photos from it all day long at a

what we would call a toll road in in Lagos Nigeria it's called the Lecke toll gate but it's just

the basically the toll road payment center where you go through the toll road

itself and there at the Lecky Tollgate people have been protesting and

demonstrating all day. I saw them I literally saw people praying people

singing people taking photos, and as the crowd grew and there at the

Lecky Tollgate were even many Nigerian celebrities and influencers and

artists and and everyday people who were all just there gathering together to continue to demonstrate

against police brutality.

And if you've seen the videos, you can watch them now on my Instagram timeline, you can see it very clearly.

When the military, at first I thought it was police, functionally it is still law enforcement but it's the military

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