Ep. 665 - Of all people, a brutal cop with the NYPD was just given "restorative justice."

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This morning I woke up to the news that one of the single most brutal cops from the NYPD of the past few years, Officer Vincent D'Andraia, a huge man, was just given "restorative justice" and won't receive any jail time and will keep his job after assaulting a woman a third his size.

I have to be honest here. It's not that I am against cops getting restorative justice, per se, but what I know that makes me call foul on this, is that THOUSANDS of Black and Brown boys, girls, men, and women are STRUGGLING to survive RIGHT NOW @ Rikers Island here in New York. THOUSANDS. And they aren't being offered ANYTHING restorative. It's brutal in there. And so many of them are first time offenders locked up for crimes less harmful than what this man did.

So my problem is this - how is it that THIS MAN is getting restorative justice when thousands of others are being denied such a thing?

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0:00.0	At Honda, we listen to the unexpected for inspiration.
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0:11.9	that's a lot of energy.
0:13.7	Energy that could be used to charge a battery.
0:17.6	The Honda CLV hybrid turns braking into charge for a more efficient drive.
0:23.5	Which means less stopping for fuel.
0:25.1	Honda, the power of dreams.
0:30.4	This morning, a friend of mine who does great work in Brooklyn
0:34.7	sent me a perplexing article and I don't know what to think about it.
0:43.1	A police officer who brutally assaulted a young woman in the middle of protest for
0:50.1	George Floyd in the summer of 2020.
0:53.0	Shove the hell out of her literally caused her to fly off the ground and hit her head
1:01.2	causing a traumatic head injury on the ground.
1:05.7	His charges were just dismissed and he will keep his job with the NYPD
1:13.3	and they're calling it restorative justice.
1:20.6	Okay.
1:21.9	I've got some thoughts here.
1:25.2	I definitely have some thoughts.
1:28.1	I'm not 100% sure that this is what we mean by restorative justice.
1:35.4	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:36.9	This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown.
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