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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 63 - Revolution in Puerto Rico, Cops Fired, Ethnic Cleansing

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Massive protests are going on in Puerto Rico. Two cops in Louisiana were fired on Monday after saying that they’d like to shoot and kill Alexandria Occasio-Cortez. Palestinians are being forcefully evicted from their homes. On today’s episode, Shaun breaks down these stories and what they say about the moment of history that we’re in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's a whole lot going on in the world today, so I'm going to unpack and explain three really important news stories for us.

0:12.0

Have you seen the pictures and videos out of the world? really important news stories for us.

0:12.7

Have you seen the pictures and videos

0:14.8

out of the protest in Puerto Rico?

0:17.2

First, I am so proud of them

0:19.7

for standing up to their corrupt governor,

0:22.4

but I also have to admit that I am jealous that our streets don't look like that after all

0:29.2

that Trump has said and done.

0:31.7

After that, I want to tell you the story of two Louisiana police officers

0:36.0

who were just fired for threatening to shoot and kill Congresswoman Alexandria Casio

0:41.7

Cortez. Firing them in my opinion is not enough.

0:45.0

Lastly Israel is now openly and publicly engaging in ethnic cleansing.

0:51.0

At this very moment they are forcefully evicting Palestinians

0:56.2

from their home and tearing the homes down right there on the spot and the whole

1:01.2

world is bothered by it, but the United States has made defending the

1:05.7

human rights of Palestinians somehow politically incorrect. And today we're

1:10.6

going to end with an exciting new update about the action pack, the brand new political organization that we formed to take our action steps to a whole other level.

1:22.0

Let's dig in. This is Sean King and you are listening to

1:25.8

The Breakdown.

1:27.8

The Breakdown. Breakdown. In September, the Breakdown.

1:34.0

The Breakdown. In September of 2017, a category 5 hurricane hit Puerto Rico, and it was the strongest,

1:50.1

deadliest, costliest hurricane to ever hit Puerto Rico.

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