Ep. 442 - Now we wait

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There is something ugly about the waiting game we are playing right now as the jury deliberates in the trial of Derek Chauvin. The jury is doing what they have to do, but it's like the whole nation knows that our country could fall apart if Chauvin isn't held accountable.

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0:00.0	There's something gross for a lack of better words about what's going on in this country right now as we all
0:08.3	wait
0:09.5	nervously with baited breath
0:12.5	To see whether or not a man who clearly broke the law
0:17.0	Who clearly violated policy and the murder of George Floyd
0:22.1	As we all wait nervously
0:24.4	To see if he'll actually be held accountable
0:27.2	There's something
0:30.6	unsettling about
0:32.9	the spectacle of it
0:35.9	Because all of us have have been through this
0:39.8	cycle of trauma over and over and over again and
0:44.5	Here we are
0:46.0	just waiting
0:48.1	To see if this country will finally do something like right by us
0:53.2	Let me unpack and explain what I mean. It's another big day as the jury deliberates in the trial of Derek Sholven
0:59.9	I'll try to unpack and explain where we are what I think is going to happen today
1:03.8	The jury is deliberating literally as I speak. This is Sean King. You're listening to the break down
1:17.9	I'm really
1:28.9	Earlier this morning at the North Star calm I wrote
1:33.2	Just a new column a new op-ed on
1:38.0	whether or not
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