Ep. 507 - How much has our country truly changed since Rodney King was beaten 30 years ago?
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
30 years ago the LAPD brutally beat a Black man named Rodney King and a man with a camcorder a few blocks away just happened to catch it all on film. It was obviously a crime, but not a single officer was held responsible. The question today is this - as we try the men who murdered George Floyd, who clearly committed multiple crimes, will they be held responsible? Clearly police in our nation are still causing harm 30 years later, but will a jury in this country finally say enough is enough?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Sean King here. |
| 0:01.7 | We're rerunning some of our favorite episodes of the breakdown |
| 0:05.2 | and other North Star podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | The breakdown. |
| 0:09.8 | Almost 30 years to the day. |
| 0:13.6 | The LAPD brutally beat Rodney King. |
| 0:17.5 | Now this was before cell phone videos, |
| 0:20.9 | but a man just two blocks over from his back porch |
| 0:24.8 | filmed it with his camcorder. |
| 0:27.2 | Had he not filmed it, we wouldn't even know that it ever happened. |
| 0:31.2 | And it was so clear that the officers not only violated |
| 0:35.5 | policy, which is one thing, but that they violated the law |
| 0:40.1 | over and over and over again. |
| 0:43.1 | Yet not a single officer was found guilty of a single crime. |
| 0:50.7 | And the question that I want us to ask today, |
| 0:53.2 | as I continue to unpack and explain what's happening |
| 0:56.3 | at the Derek Chauvin trial, guarding the murder of George Floyd, |
| 1:01.2 | is how much has this country changed in 30 years? |
| 1:05.8 | This is Sean King. You are listening too? |
| 1:09.0 | The breakdown. |
| 1:12.8 | The breakdown. |
| 1:16.0 | The breakdown. |
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