Together, as if our lives depend on it,

because the life of an innocent black man does depend on it,

we are going to free Marvin Guy.

Let me unpack and explain it. This is Sean King.

You are listening to...

The Breakdown.

The Breakdown.

The Breakdown.

In the middle of the night, on Friday, May 9th of 2014,

before the Black Lives Matter movement had even begun,

two months before Eric Garner was murdered,

before Ferguson, half a dozen years before we would chant Brianna's name.

Police in the rural central Texas town of Colleen

performed a disastrous, reckless,

and fundamentally racist, no-knock raid on the home

of a brilliant black man named Marvin Guy.

The entire raid was a clumsy, poorly executed debacle

that violated countless department policies,

ultimately left an officer dead,

and has an innocent black man facing the death penalty

for a crime he didn't commit in right now.

Even if you have to pause this,

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