Shaun King is a journalist, podcaster, activist and community organiser and one of the most vital voices fighting social, political and racial injustice in America today.
He is a co-founder of Real Justice, a political organisation helping to elect progressive District Attorneys across the US, who then seek to change and remake the system from within. Audia Jones is one of them. She is standing to be DA in Harris County, Houston. On a phone line between Brooklyn and Texas, Shaun and Audia discussed the task of making America a fairer place to live…
Then the next year Freddie Grey was killed, and Sandra Bland died in police custody. Then it was Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and each time we fought for justice and got nothing. I had a real reckoning with myself. Whatever we were doing was not working and it wasn’t because we didn’t put enough effort in, or because we didn’t care enough.
On the flipside, we see a lot of poor, black and brown individuals who just are picked off by the justice system. When I worked in the prosecutor’s office, I saw it first hand. These low level offenders get put in jail. When I tell people the numbers they are disgusted. Of the people in our jails in Harris County, Houston – where I’m running for office – 75 per cent are nonviolent. The media makes you think everyone in prison is a murderer or a robber, but that’s just not true.
What we’ve seen is a real awakening, people love the fact that we have a plan. It’s not just about being exposed to these videos of horrific police brutality, because you can feel so helpless when you see this stuff. It’s about knowing that I can get on the phone and call the DA. That I can vote. It’s so inspiring to see you lead this charge, and to see other people come up behind you.
Before my family moved to California, we didn’t know where to move to. We found this city in southern California called Irvine, and it was actually listed as the safest city in America. So we moved to Irvine and it was the weirdest experience – there were no police. I was in Irvine for eight weeks before I saw a police car, and it was parked in the lot of a grocery store and the officer was running errands.
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