Ep. 582 - He pointed his gun at police and didn't even get arrested.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Instead of killing him in a hail of bullets like police did to Amadou Diallo for showing police his wallet, police didn't fire a single bullet at Charles Ryan. They didn't put their knee in his neck. They didn't Taser him. In fact, they didn't even arrest him or take him to jail.
Instead, they took him to the hospital for a cut on his hand, and then literally released him back to go home. The very thing that police tell us over and over again that they just couldn't avoid was not only avoided with this white man - he's been given VIP treatment to this very day.
Police CLEARLY know how to be patient and methodical. They just have to want it.
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| 0:00.0 | Earlier this year in Tempe, Arizona, police were called to the house of an older white man |
| 0:09.2 | named Charles Ryan when he literally came out of the house with his gun, pointed it |
| 0:17.1 | at the officers, and continued to have an armed standoff with the officers. |
| 0:25.8 | Not only did they not shoot and kill Charles Ryan, and I'm glad about that. |
| 0:31.6 | They didn't choke him. |
| 0:32.9 | They didn't taser him. |
| 0:34.5 | They didn't beat him to death. |
| 0:36.9 | They didn't even send him to jail. |
| 0:39.0 | I want to unpack and explain what I think about that case, why I think it is, and why in |
| 0:46.8 | some ways it's a model for how policing should be in America, how it happens all around |
| 0:53.6 | the world, but how it never happens with black people anywhere in this country. |
| 1:00.2 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:02.0 | This is Sean King, and you are listening to The Break Down. |
| 1:09.6 | The Break Down. |
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