We now have the final numbers for how many people were killed by police last year.

And ultimately it ended up being the largest number ever recorded.

Painful, painful truth, and I need us to confront it.

I need to explain and unpack what I think we can conclude from the fact that after all

the work we've done, the problem that we aim to confront has effectively got worse.

And if we don't really examine this, we'll continue to make the same mistakes we've always

been making.

I have at least three conclusions I want to share with you.

I'm glad you're here.

This is Sean King, and you're listening to The Breakdown.

We now know that nearly 1,176 people were killed by American police last year.

And that means it was at least that number, 1,176, but police departments do not all report

their numbers.

So that's the minimum number.

It's at least 1,176 people, nearly 100 people per month, that are killed by police in

this country.

And on one hand, the number doesn't surprise me.

It's literally the worst number ever recorded.

It doesn't surprise me because I see the police brutality continuing to happen.

I continue to be contacted by families day after day after day that needs some help, that

need advice, that need insight, because they're loved one, their mother, their father, their

son, their daughter, their brother was just killed by police.

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