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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 451 - I'm never going to stop raising money for these families

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday we raised nearly $100,000 for Myon Burrell, who was wrongly convicted for a murder he had nothing to do with in Minneapolis nearly 20 years ago. He was just a kid and spent 18 years of his life in prison. I'm so grateful for everybody who gave. And I just want to be clear - no matter how many lies people tell on me across the Internet, I am literally never going to stop raising money for these families impacted by police violence, racial injustice, and mass incarceration.

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Today is just one of those days where I am incredibly proud of what we just did.

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We just raised at last count nearly 83,000 dollars from my own braille

0:42.0

who was wrongly arrested, charged and convicted as a child in Minneapolis.

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A child, a literal teenager, and sent away to prison for 18 years for a crime he had nothing to do with.

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And I just want to say and I'm going to unpack and explain it here in just a second.

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I am never going to stop raising money for families like this ever.

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I don't care what lie you tell on me, I don't care how much I trend on social media.

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Of all the things that I've done over the past 10 years in this Black Lives Matter movement.

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There are few that make me as proud as the literal financial relief

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that we're able to provide families that have been impacted by police violence

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and racial injustice and mass incarceration.

1:30.0

I'm going to tell you all about it. This is Sean King and you are listening to...

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The Breakdown.

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The Breakdown.

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