Ep. 739 - Why police brutality seems so permanent in the United States
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Keenan, like so many Black men before him, was unarmed and non-violent. At most he needed medical attention. Instead, he was Tasered to death.
And we continue to see this, with new names and faces, but the same story of police violence, because this country just barely tinkers with policing when the entire system would actually need to be completely overhauled in order for us to see something totally different.
It can be done. But so far not even one single large American city is willing to drastically overhaul how policing is done there. And so we continue to be the only developed nation in the world that does this, day after day, year after year, to its citizens.
Let me unpack and explain it all.
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| 0:31.0 | Last week in broad daylight in the middle of the street in Los Angeles. |
| 0:37.0 | A brilliant young brother named Keenan Anderson was brutally killed by the LAPD. |
| 0:43.0 | He really needed medical attention he had just been in a car accident. |
| 0:47.0 | He clearly was having some kind of episode. |
| 0:51.0 | And instead of being treated with compassion and medical care, |
| 0:56.0 | the man needed an ambulance, he needed to get to the hospital. |
| 1:00.0 | Instead of any of that, he was brutalized over and over and over again, |
| 1:06.0 | tasered over and over and over again. |
| 1:09.0 | And what I see from most of you is the same feeling that I have. |
| 1:14.0 | It's just too much. |
| 1:16.0 | It's so exhausting to see a brilliant young brother murdered again in broad daylight. |
| 1:25.0 | And even Keenan said they're trying to George Floyd me. |
| 1:30.0 | He believed they were trying to kill him and they did. |
| 1:35.0 | And I want us to unpack one central idea. |
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