Throwback Episode: Tennessee v. Garner - Police Brutality is Legal - Part 1 of 3
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 3am mission statement 4am staffing 5am successful series B 6am wake up and get to work |
| 0:08.8 | VW is a 5am network providing 10 gigas standard for the businesses that prefer to spend their nights dreaming rather than worrying |
| 0:15.4 | VW the business fiber network built by VW for London over the past 5 years I've written over 1500 articles about injustice in America |
| 0:38.4 | I've studied thousands of cases of police violence and I've worked directly with hundreds and hundreds of families that have experienced it firsthand |
| 0:46.4 | and even though most media outlets have stopped telling these stories police brutality is as deadly as it's ever been in the entire history of the country |
| 0:55.4 | Do you know why? For all intents and purposes police brutality is legal in America |
| 1:02.4 | Police policy manuals may discourage it and communities across the country may absolutely despise it |
| 1:08.4 | but the bottom line is that our courts are condoning it and they do so each and every time officers who brutalize people are set free |
| 1:16.4 | and the list of people unjustly killed by American police is long |
| 1:20.4 | It doesn't have dozens of names it has thousands and thousands of names |
| 1:25.4 | Over the past 10 years alone over 10,000 men, women and children have been killed by American police |
| 1:33.4 | In many developed nations over the same period of time police have killed fewer than 100 people |
| 1:39.4 | In some nations police have not killed a single person in an entire generation |
| 1:44.4 | American police on average kill at least three people per day |
| 1:49.4 | Sometimes it's many many more, sometimes it says many is 12 or 13 people a day |
| 1:55.4 | And conservatives and liberals alike seem to at least agree that most police departments have a few bad apples |
| 2:02.4 | But the bottom line is that nearly none of those bad apples including the most egregious, heinous, despicable officers in the country |
| 2:10.4 | None of them are being held accountable for their repeated crimes against humanity |
| 2:15.4 | The officers who killed Tamir Rice come to mind, the officer who shot and killed Rikio boy and Chicago comes to mind |
| 2:23.4 | The cop who killed Ezell Ford and Los Angeles comes to mind |
| 2:27.4 | The cops who killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile come to mind, the officer who killed Eric Garner comes to mind |
| 2:35.4 | Even in the worst cases the bad apples still aren't facing justice |
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