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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 401 - White police would never brutalize a 9-year-old white girl

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It's taken me days to allow my anger and fury to simmer just a bit on this. Yes, I saw the video of the 9-year-old Black girl being brutalized by police in Rochester, New York. Here are my thoughts.

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Like millions of you, I saw the horrible video of a nine-year-old girl in Rochester, New York.

0:43.0

Let me back up just a little bit.

0:46.0

A nine-year-old black girl, and I think that's essential to the story.

0:53.0

A nine-year-old black girl, brutally assaulted, pepper sprayed, and handcuffed,

1:02.0

thrown into the back of a police car during what was supposed to be a family dispute.

1:11.0

And she is screaming for her father the entire time.

1:17.0

I want to start by asking you to remember what you were like, who you were when you were nine years old.

1:24.0

She's a baby.

1:26.0

I have a daughter who's just about that age. She's a baby.

1:31.0

And the idea that anybody would pepper spray a nine-year-old child in the face

1:40.0

is absurd and infuriating.

1:47.0

And I want to make a few key points today, not only about change, reform, but also about reality.

1:56.0

And it's taken me a few days.

1:59.0

That video infuriated me so much I couldn't post it.

2:05.0

I felt just a real sense of rage and anger and hurt for her and for us.

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