Ep. 520 - Here’s what happens when Black police speak out against injustice in their own departments
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the questions that I've heard over and over again, really not just for the past |
| 0:05.8 | 10 years, but for my entire life, is why don't more black police officers speak out on |
| 0:13.8 | the injustices inside of their police department? |
| 0:17.2 | Well, you get a clue into why they often don't. |
| 0:21.8 | When you look at the case of a Louisiana state trooper named Carl Cavaliere, a young black |
| 0:27.7 | man who spoke out against the horrible police murder of Ronald Green by state troopers |
| 0:36.2 | there in Louisiana and is now being threatened with termination to be very clear, he has been |
| 0:43.0 | officially terminated, he is challenging it, but because he spoke out against an injustice, |
| 0:51.5 | they're trying to fire this man. |
| 0:53.8 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 0:55.2 | Let's dig in. |
| 0:56.2 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:57.2 | This is Sean King, you were listening to? |
| 1:00.2 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:22.9 | You know, back in the day, many of you are young, so you don't even know what back in the day |
| 1:26.8 | is, back in the day for you is five years ago. |
| 1:30.5 | But back in the day for me, we used to actually have to wonder what was playing on television. |
| 1:35.6 | Now we wonder what streaming service we're going to use to watch the thousands of things |
| 1:39.6 | that are available. |
| 1:40.6 | And it could be hard to know where to start. |
| 1:42.8 | And the same thing goes for books. |
| 1:45.2 | Instead of standing in front of your bookshelf waiting for a title to jump out at you, I want |
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