MLK Holiday Reflections On Police Brutality And Racial Justice

In a lesser-known part of his March on Washington speech, Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” Many people, upon hearing this, might assume that King was simply referring to the violence wreaked by the police department in Birmingham, Alabama, and its commissioner, Bull Connor, during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s desegregation campaign. But King understood that police brutality like segregation wasn’t just a Southern problem. Sixty years later police brutality and racial injustice are still a problem in the black community, join the co-host Chiefs on Thursday at 6 PM CST. For a Martin Luther King Jr. Special podcast with their guests Garland Pruitt Oklahoma City Chapter President with the NAACP and Larry Hicks with the Little Rock, Arkansas NAACP. They discuss Reflections on MLK's fight to stop police brutality and racial injustice in the United States.