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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 791 - ACTION STEPS for Young Ralph Yarl

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On this past Thursday, the unthinkable happened. An armed white man brutally shot a young Black boy over and over again after he rang the doorbell, just one street over from where he was supposed to pick up his younger brothers. Today I am going to unpack and explain the case and give you some ACTION STEPS to follow. Let's GO!Let me unpack and explain it. To listen to today’s FULL EPISODE of The Breakdown go now to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and search for “The Breakdown with Shaun King.” Subscribe there for FREE and listen to the whole podcast. If you are already on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please subscribe, listen, share, leave reviews, and listen daily to the entire episode. The more of it you listen to, the better it is for us. Love and appreciate you all. Shaun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this past Thursday in Kansas City, Missouri, a brilliant, kind, compassionate young black

0:07.2

boy named Ralph Yara simply rang the doorbell of a home one street over from where he was

0:16.4

actually supposed to be to pick up his young brothers. He simply typed the address wrong

0:24.2

in Google Maps and showed up at what he thought was the right house. It actually looks just like

0:30.8

the house one street over. And through the glass door, the white man who answered, shot Ralph,

0:41.1

Ralph went flying and then shot him again in his arm in his head, Ralph then fleeing for his life

0:51.2

running on adrenaline, goes to multiple homes asking for help and gets none.

0:58.2

Until someone finally sees him and tells him to put his hands behind his head,

1:04.5

I kid you not. We're fighting for justice today. For Ralph Yara, we're fighting for accountability.

1:11.9

Let me unpack and explain the story and give you some action steps.

1:15.5

This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown.

1:26.3

This story breaks my heart in a unique way because Ralph is literally the exact same age as my son

1:47.8

Ezekiel and Ralph who's a new driver, my son who's a new driver thought he was going to the right

1:59.4

address. He in fact, I have the full address just so you all know, I have the full address of where

2:08.8

Ralph was supposed to be. I just want you to know we know where this man lives.

2:13.6

Ralph was picking up his siblings, his young brothers at a house on North East,

2:22.6

115th Terrace. Right, but mistakenly went to a house on North East, 115th Street. Now why?

2:37.6

They have those two addresses that close together like why cities and counties do this foolishness.

2:45.6

I presume that Ralph typed it into Google Maps and when he saw the 115th Street and he typed

2:53.9

in the street number which we know when he typed it all in, he hit the one that he thought was the

3:00.4

right one and confidently. And I've done this. We've all done this confidently went to the house

3:07.2

that he thought he was supposed to go to. It actually looks just like the house he was supposed

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