Ep. 69 - 10-year-old Charged with Felony Assault for Dodgeball

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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If you have ever played a game of dodgeball, you have seen kids get hurt, end-up with bloody noses. You know that it happens. Last week in Michigan, a ten-year-old boy was charged with adult felony assault for accidentally injuring another child in a school-sanctioned game of dodgeball. Shaun breaks down the larger problem in America’s school system that this case exposes and ends with an action step for us to take together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	Did you hear about the case where police charged a 10 year old boy with felony assault after a child got hit in the face with a ball during recess while playing a game of dodgeball.
0:45.8	Now of course you can easily guess the race of who threw the ball and the race of who got
0:50.4	hit with it.
0:51.4	But today I'm working with the attorneys for this young boy who was charged with a crime and we have an action step for us to all take together.
1:00.0	This is Sean King and you were listening to The Breakdown.
1:04.0	The Breakdown.
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1:08.0	Breakdown. The Breakdown. down.
1:15.0	This past school year on April the 30th,
1:20.0	during recess at Ericsson Elementary School in Canton, Michigan, which is about 35 minutes
1:26.6	outside of Detroit, but it's still in Wayne County where Detroit is.
1:31.0	Some kids were playing Dodgeball at recess and I wasn't sure if kids still played
1:36.0	Dodgeball but my own kids have been in camp all summer this summer here in
1:40.3	Brooklyn where they played it every day. It's still a thing. And while kids
1:45.0	were playing dodgeball at Ericsson Elementary School, which again the school
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