Chaos and violence continue to wrack Wisconsin, as protesters try to mob D.C. diners into pledging fealty to Black Lives Matter, and the Trump Campaign rolls out the second night of the RNC. Ben Shapiro explains why the media should not be so quick to condemn rioters and looters, and why they should be quick to point the finger at the police, not the looters and rioters, even if they were involved in the shooting of a Black man. Ben also points out that the real reporting on the ground is being done by center-right outlets, including the Daily Caller and Townhall, and is not being covered by the mainstream media, which is not even doing its job. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Stop putting your online data at risk, and get protected at ExpressVpn. Slash Ben Shapiro. The country is in chaos. It's impossible to look at the images coming out of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and not feel that something is fundamentally broken in our society. When you slander all police officers as systemically racist, when you make excuses for rioters and looters and then you say, No, no, no no, that s not a protest. And then when new details emerge, it actually does extraordinary chaos to the narrative that was trotted out by the media and the mainstream press? We'll get to those in a second night in New York Times and the NY Times and The Daily Caller, and we'll talk about those in the night before in the Second Night of the R. Night in the R, and a third night in the Third Night of The R. and the Fourth Night in The R . And we'll cover those in full detail in a fourth night of The Weekly Standard and a fifth night in The Nation, and much, and so much more! more on that on The Ben Shapiro Show, coming up on The Tonight Show with Rachel Maddow and The Five on the Fourth of July! and much more. Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! And don't forget to Like and Subscribe on Podchaserx Subscribe and Retweet! Subscribe on iTunes and Shoutout on Stitch Out! - The Weekly Shout Out! by Ben Shapiro on Instapreneurs and The Root on Insta-Reeves and Friends
00:00:26.000It's impossible to look at the images coming out of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and not feel that something is fundamentally broken in our society.
00:00:32.000Violence broke out again in Kenosha last night.
00:00:35.000I look forward to the statements of empathy.
00:00:37.000From Vice President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and from Governor Tony Evers, we heard politicians on all sides of the Democratic Party discussing the evils of America, the systemic racism of the United States, discussing the awful, terrible, evil Kenosha Police Department without full evidence being in, in the Jacob Blake shooting, based on fragmentary video taken from a distance without any lead up, without any understanding of what exactly happened.
00:01:01.000Well, now there have been more shootings in Kenosha.
00:01:02.000There are businesses that have burned down in Kenosha.
00:01:05.000It turns out that when you slander all police officers as systemically racist, when you say the country is systemically racist, when you make excuses for rioters and looters and people who would do violent assault to other human beings, when you do all of those things, and then you incentivize the police to move out, well, what happens to follow is quite terrible.
00:01:23.000Last night in Kenosha, three people were shot.
00:01:26.000I look forward to the lamentations and empathy from all of these same Democratic figures.
00:01:30.000Perhaps they will, because it turns out that some of the people who were shot were some of the protesters.
00:01:34.000It turns out that according to various media reports, and the information is still coming in, it is unclear who was shooting and who was shot.
00:01:41.000It appears that the quote-unquote protesters, who in this case were rioters and looters, were shot, and that some of the people who may have done the shooting may have been.
00:02:15.000It is not, in fact, being done by anybody in the mainstream media who are just cribbing off the work of these right-wing outlets, mainly because it turns out that so many of these insane mainstream left-wing outlets have decided that it was totally not worth even covering all of this stuff.
00:02:31.000These were all just normal goings about a business.
00:02:34.000It was left to center-right outlets to actually cover what's going on on the ground.
00:02:38.000So according to the New York Times, three people were shot early on Wednesday, two fatally, according to law enforcement officials, during a chaotic night of demonstrations over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black resident whose children were nearby as their father was shot this week by a white police officer.
00:02:51.000Now, they're not going to tell you the full story of Jacob Blake.
00:02:53.000There are new details that are emerging in the shooting of Jacob Blake.
00:02:56.000We'll discuss that in a moment because, as it turns out, we now have a spate of high-profile police-involved shootings in which you have not been told the full story.
00:03:04.000Or police killings in which you have not been told the full story.
00:03:07.000And then when new details emerge, it actually does extraordinary, extraordinary chaos to the original narrative that was trotted out by the media.
00:03:26.000And the media don't get to play this game.
00:03:28.000Where when President Trump condemns rioters and looters, or when people on the right condemn rioters and looters, they say, ah, you're just trying to shut down First Amendment-approved protest.
00:03:36.000And then as soon as you say, no, no, no, the protesters are different than the rioters and looters, they say, no, they're all part of the same group.
00:03:42.000OK, well, you can't have it both ways.
00:03:44.000But people who are running around in the streets trying to break stuff and do violence to people are not, in fact, protesters.
00:03:49.000They're, in fact, rioters and looters and people who are violating criminal law.
00:03:52.000In Kenosha, a third night of protests over the shooting of Mr. Blake stretched into the early morning hours of Wednesday after demonstrators clashed with law enforcement officials near the county courthouse downtown.
00:04:01.000Tuesday evening was spent in a shifting, hours-long standoff between police and protesters.
00:04:05.000Protesters assembled outside a newly erected metal barrier protecting the courthouse and threw water bottles, rocks, and fireworks at the police.
00:04:13.000And we can actually see all of this stuff happening.
00:04:15.000Here's some rioters trying to tear down the fence outside the Kenosha County Courthouse and chucking fireworks at the police.
00:05:00.000By the way, for the Republican National Convention, honestly, they should just livestream this.
00:05:04.000They really should, because this is what Democrats allow to happen in their states.
00:05:09.000Because as it turns out, Governor Tony Evers, the jackass governor of Wisconsin, he was offered more National Guard by the federal government, he turned it down.
00:05:15.000We'll get to that in a moment as well.
00:05:17.000Now, this is a continuation of a trend that has been happening overnight.
00:05:21.000We're gonna get back to these shootings that happened in Kenosha in just a second.
00:05:23.000There's been a trend that's been happening over the course of the last 48 hours, and it's resulted in some pretty astonishing tape.
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00:06:46.000Okay, so, the tape over the last 48 hours from Kenosha, Wisconsin is absolutely astonishing.
00:06:52.000There is a looters were assaulting a business and a business owner charged out and started spraying them with a fire extinguisher, which is not a deadly weapon.
00:07:03.000And naturally, this led one of the looters to run over.
00:07:06.000It looks like a young black man runs over and he clocks this elderly business owner, a guy probably 60 maybe, clocks him directly in the face, knocks him directly out.
00:07:15.000What's going to happen to every one of you when this president goes nationwide?
00:08:11.000And again, as I mentioned yesterday, this unbelievable Antilogical shift has happened on the left.
00:08:17.000It used to be that the left was interested in fighting racism because they wanted people to have the ability to make free decisions and bear the consequences of those decisions.
00:08:24.000That was the purpose of getting rid of racism.
00:08:26.000Now, if you make a free and bad decision, we just blame racism.
00:08:30.000So racism becomes a tool rather than an obstacle.
00:08:34.000Using racism as a tool becomes a purposeful attempt to excuse awful and evil behavior like beating the living hell out of business owners and looting their businesses.
00:08:44.000Another tape came out from Kenosha yesterday, a BLM supporter telling members of the media that, you know what, when this sort of stuff happens, all right, because I feel their pain, I condone this sort of activity.
00:09:42.000I know that the Democrats have been poo-pooing this and pretending it doesn't exist, or making excuses for it in the ugliest possible fashion.
00:10:09.000Remember last week was all Empathy Week at the Democratic National Convention?
00:10:12.000Not seeing a lot of empathy for business owners who for no reason at all have their businesses completely burned to the ground by rioters and looters sporting the Black Lives Matter slogan.
00:10:20.000Here are these business owners who just watched their life savings disappear in smoke.
00:10:58.000Well, the predictable result of all of this is the business owners whose businesses are being left to the handling, the tender mercies of rioters and looters who are being basically allowed to roam free by the governor of the state, Tony Evers.
00:11:11.000As I mentioned before, Tony Evers rejected more National Guard help.
00:11:48.000Today, Mark Meadows, the chief of staff at the White House, called the governor and offered 500 additional guards to meet the police needs, and Governor Evers declined.
00:12:04.000Listen to the harshness of the language he uses with regard to America versus the tender mercies that he uses with regard to people who are violently looting and burning things.
00:12:12.000Quote, the ability to exercise First Amendment rights is a critically important part of our democracy and the pursuit of justice.
00:12:17.000But there remains a line between peaceful assembly and what we saw last night that put individuals, families, and businesses in danger.
00:12:23.000We cannot forget the reason why these protests began.
00:12:26.000And what we have seen play out over the last two nights and many nights this year is the pain, anguish, and exhaustion of being black in our state and our country.
00:12:34.000Also, the natural consequence of being black in the United States and black in Wisconsin is apparently putting individuals, families, and businesses in danger.
00:12:40.000I mean, that's his language, which is absolutely insane.
00:12:43.000It is derogatory toward black Americans.
00:12:46.000It assumes they cannot obey the law or should not obey the law, given the status of black Americans in our society, which is patently loony.
00:12:54.000As I said yesterday, as I'll reiterate today, everyone should be able to exercise their fundamental right, whether a protester or member of the press, peacefully and safely.
00:13:02.000We cannot allow the cycle of systemic racism and injustice to continue.
00:13:05.000We also cannot continue going down this path of damage and destruction.
00:13:09.000Notice the disembodied language he uses with regard to damage and destruction.
00:13:27.000We are assessing the damage to state property, and we'll be increasing the presence of the Wisconsin National Guard to ensure individuals can exercise their rights safely, protect state buildings and critical infrastructure, and support first responders and firefighters.
00:13:37.000Tonight, and in the days ahead, if you are going to protest, please do so peacefully and safely.
00:13:41.000Please do not allow the actions of a few to distract us from the work we must do together to demand justice, equity, and accountability.
00:13:54.000Others lingered and walked to a gas station several blocks away.
00:13:57.000There, a group of men with guns stood outside, promising to protect the property and verbally sparring with the arriving protesters.
00:14:02.000As the night stretched on, the gas station became a tense gathering spot, with bystanders watching from parked cars and people milling around in the street, arguing and occasionally shoving each other.
00:14:11.000Police officers had crept closer to the gas stations in armored trucks, urging the people who were still there to go home.
00:14:17.000After midnight, shots were fired outside the gas station.
00:14:20.000Three people were struck, according to Sheriff David Beth in an interview.
00:14:23.000The Kenosha Police Department said in a statement there were two fatalities.
00:14:26.000One person had been taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
00:14:30.000Sheriff Beth said the investigation was focused on the group of men with guns outside the gas station, and that investigators were scouring video taken just before the shooting.
00:14:37.000In one video, the men are shouting at each other and clutching their guns and occasionally pulling each other away to defuse the conflict.
00:14:43.000He said, I've had people saying, why don't you deputize the citizens?
00:14:45.000This is why you don't deputize citizens with guns to protect Kenosha.
00:14:49.000OK, so now citizens are being put in the situation of you can't defend your own business because if you defend your own business and you get into an altercation and you shoot somebody, then obviously that's a bad thing.
00:14:58.000And also the cops can't defend your business.
00:14:59.000So presumably they should just allow all of this to happen.
00:15:03.000There's some video that has emerged of what appears to be a young white man who's being chased down by a group of protesters slash rioters and looters, and he falls to the ground, and when they approach him, he shoots them.
00:15:14.000And this is being used as proof positive of white racism, of course.
00:15:18.000Now, we don't know if all the people who were shot were white.
00:15:31.000A lot of this is still up in the air, so I'm just gonna bring you what I know at this point.
00:15:34.000There's one guy, there's video of Daily Caller, reporter helping the guy out, shot in the head as he was approaching a car dealership, presumably to do damage to the car dealership.
00:15:43.000Then there was another incident in which several people were shot when it appears that a white young man, apparently about 17 years old, Okay, so all of this will be investigated.
00:16:02.000Chaos breaks out when you allow it to break out.
00:16:04.000You know why this stuff doesn't happen on a normal basis in the United States?
00:16:07.000Because we have police officers on the streets who are allowed to do their jobs.
00:16:10.000And we don't imply that every time they do do their jobs, they're a bunch of brutal racists.
00:16:14.000It turns out that when you imply that every situation without further evidence is evidence of police brutality and systemic racism, and then the cops are removed from situations, people will defend their property, people will get violent, people will do stupid things on all sides, rioters and looters and predators will attempt to prey on victims, people who don't want to be victimized will go out there, and they will sometimes do things that are ill-advised, protecting themselves or their property, or even not protecting themselves or their property.
00:16:46.000This is what happens when you completely deride the police.
00:16:51.000On the basis of no evidence, by the way, okay?
00:16:53.000Because I'm gonna bring you some more evidence in the Jacob Blake case.
00:16:55.000It turns out that the entire original story, at least large parts of it, were a lie.
00:16:59.000We were told by Benjamin Crump that Jacob Blake was going to a house to break up a domestic disturbance.
00:17:03.000Good Samaritan Jacob Blake, who had a warrant out for three separate crimes, including one involving domestic abuse and another involving sexual assault.
00:17:34.000It shows the police knew full well that there was an open warrant out for the guy, and he was apparently, according to the police scanner, the instigator of the incident that caused all of this to happen in the first place.
00:17:42.000He went to somebody's house where he wasn't supposed to be, and he stole the woman's keys.
00:17:46.000He stole the woman's keys, and that's why the cops got called in.
00:17:49.000And they were called in, presumably, by somebody who is a person of color.
00:17:53.000That's why the cops were there in the first place.
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00:19:05.000Okay, so here are some of the police audio of the Blake call, the Jacob Blake call.
00:19:12.000It turns out that the police were called to the situation knowing there was a man there with an open warrant who was apparently harassing a woman and stealing her keys.
00:19:19.000So no, he was not there apparently by the police audio to break up a fight.
00:19:33.000It doesn't mean that this is a fully justified shooting.
00:19:36.000It means it's going to be very difficult to prosecute police officers when literally you buck the police officers off your back Walk away from them while you're under... There's an open warrant for his arrest, right?
00:19:58.000But apparently this is worthy of burning down the entire city of Kenosha and every major politician in America claiming that this is an incident of police brutality and police racism.
00:20:07.000Here's some of the radio scanner audio of the Blake call that caused the police to show up in the first place.
00:20:47.000The 911 was called because he had stolen keys from a woman.
00:20:51.000This was not the case of innocent black man being pulled over by the police for no reason, complying with all police orders, and then being shot for his trouble.
00:21:02.000But it doesn't matter, because our media and our politicians have an interest in polarizing the debate and suggesting that America is systemically racist, and thus, every flashpoint shooting that is caught on tape is evidence of police racism.
00:21:13.000This has driven piece-of-human-debris Sean King, an absolutely awful human being, to tweet out, and Bernie Sanders' delegate, by the way, to the Kenosha Police Department.
00:21:21.000If you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may not be him.
00:21:33.000Well, maybe they're not naming him because pieces of crap like Sean King are then going to activate a bunch of people to harass the police officer in the absence of evidence and the absence of an investigation.
00:21:41.000Maybe because this mob justice is no justice at all.
00:21:44.000It's just garbage people doing garbage things.
00:21:48.000And by the way, the fact that Sean King is doing this is unbelievable, considering that there is a person who actually committed suicide not all that long ago because Sean King misidentified him as a particular criminal.
00:21:59.000According to ABC13.com, this is just last year.
00:22:02.000Robert Paul Cantrell, 49, was found by staff at the Montgomery County Jail early on Tuesday, July 29th.
00:22:55.000I don't have all the details on Jacob Blake, but I'm happy to wait until all the details come out.
00:22:59.000You know what nobody else is happy to do?
00:23:00.000Wait until all the details come out, because they have a pre-existing narrative by which mob justice and social justice matter more than individual justice.
00:23:07.000The minute you add any modifier to justice, other than the word individual, you are now part of the bad guy crew.
00:23:13.000You are the problem, not the solution.
00:23:15.000Individual justice is the solution, not collective justice, not social justice, and certainly not the mob justice that we are seeing right now.
00:23:23.000Jamal Bowman, who is a person who's about to enter Congress.
00:23:26.000He just took over Elliott Engel's seat in the primary.
00:23:28.000He's one of the new members of the squad.
00:23:31.000We need Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to condemn the armed militias that killed two people in Kenosha yesterday while working in tandem with local police.
00:23:38.000These militias are domestic terrorists looking to incite a race war.
00:23:41.000Protecting private property is cover for their agenda.
00:23:45.000So in other words, if you showed up and you protected your own private property, according to Jamal Bowman, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden should condemn you.
00:23:49.000But if you're there to burn down somebody's store, well, then you're a member of the good guy crew.
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00:26:01.000For a business that was struggling to get back to normal and pushing through these hard times, we will not be able to come back from this.
00:26:06.000The damage to our building, the cost to replace the exterior damage, and to top it off to replace everything stolen is going to be catastrophic.
00:26:12.000As we look to see the total cost, at this point we'll be closing down completely.
00:26:16.000And this is what happens in cities when you allow all of this crap to happen.
00:26:20.000When all of this crap is allowed to run roughshod.
00:26:23.000Where the mob rules, again, chaos follows.
00:27:09.000And then Modiano, and this Modiano character, Chuck Modiano, he decided that he couldn't understand why she was the only diner in the area who wouldn't comply with their man.
00:27:37.000I've been marching with them for weeks and weeks and weeks.
00:27:40.000But here's Captain Deadspin over here, bullying a woman and getting in her face and screaming in her face in the middle of a COVID pandemic.
00:27:44.000So solid stuff here from your BLM crew.
00:28:23.000Now, the same people claiming John Lewis' mantle are trying to shout people into submission and bully them into putting up a fist.
00:28:29.000Hey, if you're trying to claim John Lewis's mantle and you're doing that, you're a piece of crap.
00:28:33.000Meanwhile, more people were being threatened at dining yesterday.
00:28:36.000Here's another tape from Washington, D.C., where people were being mobbed and shouted at for the great crime of not raising a fist in solidarity with this Marxist BLM organization.
00:29:22.000And in Seattle, according to my friend Jason Rant over at KTTH, Seattle rioters used a substance suspected to be quick-dry concrete to seal shut the door to the East Precinct, the Seattle Police Department has confirmed.
00:29:34.000And then, a rioter attempted to set fire to the building after concreting people in the building.
00:29:40.000Now, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is working with the Seattle PD on this investigation.
00:29:46.000Rioters assaulted Seattle's East Precinct on Monday night.
00:29:49.000This marked another night of violent criminal activism against police officers, unconnected to anger, over a recent police shooting in Wisconsin.
00:29:56.000According to KTTH, as some in the crowd vandalized the building and tormented police, others brought quick-dry cement to seal police officers inside the building.
00:30:05.000So just wonderful, wonderful behavior all the way around.
00:30:08.000Good thing that they slashed the salary of the police chief in Seattle, Carmen Best, forcing her to quit.
00:30:13.000The black female police chief of Seattle, who has now quit.
00:30:16.000So all of this, it turns out, is not resounding to the benefit of Democrats, which led Don Lemon to say the quiet part out loud, which is, guys, the writing and the looting were all fine.
00:30:24.000And you know, the beating of people in the streets and the bullying, all of that was fine.
00:30:26.000But now people are starting to become aware.
00:30:28.000So probably Joe Biden should say something about it.
00:30:30.000Here is Don Lemon saying, oh, you know, it was fine until it started to affect the Democrats' poll numbers.
00:30:36.000I think this is a blind spot for Democrats.
00:30:40.000I think Democrats are ignoring this problem, are hoping that it will go away.
00:30:55.000So it's not going to, the problem is not going to be fixed by then, but what they can do And I think maybe Joe Biden may be afraid to do it.
00:31:36.000They continue to push false narratives about police action in the absence of evidence.
00:31:39.000They've been doing it for literally years.
00:31:41.000Every major incident of the last five years, probably, has been misconstrued by the media originally without waiting for any of the available facts.
00:31:52.000I'm struggling to think of one that has not been misconstrued.
00:31:54.000Maybe the only one I can think of is Philando Castile.
00:31:57.000That is the only one that I can think of that has not been actively misconstrued or miscovered by the media.
00:32:02.000The Freddie Gray situation in Baltimore was considered an act of police racism.
00:32:07.000The autopsy found that the police did not, in fact, beat Freddie Gray to death or purposefully kill Freddie Gray.
00:32:12.000The Eric Garner incident was considered an act of police racism, despite the fact that the sergeant on duty and who was watching over all of it was black.
00:32:18.000And the fact that Eric Garner died of the fact of his preexisting conditions, he did not actually die of being choked out in that particular situation.
00:32:24.000I mean, he should have died, but the original details are not the original story.
00:32:28.000The Rayshard Brooks shooting is a situation where a man took a taser, tased two cops, wrestled them to the ground, and then was shot for his trouble.
00:32:34.000The Michael Brown shooting was not a situation of a black man surrendering to police, hands up, don't shoot.
00:32:45.000It is difficult to think of a situation where the media did not miscover the situation dramatically and in the wrong direction from the very outset declaring that it was a symptom of deeper underlying American racism.
00:32:55.000And we're watching that right now in a variety of cases.
00:32:59.000I'll get to more details on that in just one second.
00:33:01.000The deep irresponsibility of our media that have one job, and that is to actively report the facts, not to report a narrative, not to report the 1619 Project's lies about America, to report the fact.
00:33:11.000And their abject irresponsibility and refusal to do so is leading to what we are seeing in the streets right now.
00:33:16.000I'm gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:34:27.000Okay, we're gonna get to the dramatic media miscoverage of nearly every major police involved incident of the last several years.
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00:35:34.000So, are garbage media continuing to try to have false story after false story, not to look at details, to ignore the realities of situations on the ground?
00:35:50.000So the one obviously that is most celebrated is George Floyd, in which Derek Chauvin supposedly murdered George Floyd, like murdered him.
00:35:54.000They're going to charge him with second-degree murder, which is a completely ungettable charge.
00:35:58.000Keith Ellison is not going to be able to get a conviction on that charge.
00:36:01.000Prediction right now, not based on the available facts.
00:36:04.000Now, Derek Chauvin may have engaged in assault.
00:36:07.000He may have engaged in police brutality.
00:36:09.000There is no evidence that he murdered George Floyd at this point.
00:36:12.000Okay, the autopsies, there have been a couple of separate autopsies.
00:36:15.000George Floyd did not die of asphyxiation from Derek Chauvin.
00:36:18.000In fact, there is now a Hennepin County Attorney's Office memorandum that has been released.
00:36:24.000This was a medical examination that was done by Dr. Andrew Baker.
00:36:28.000Okay, he did the final toxicology results on George Floyd's blood samples.
00:36:34.000And he analyzed a bunch of factors, and here's what he found.
00:36:39.000Dr. Baker said that he walked down the list of substances for which the labs tested.
00:36:44.000He said that there were low levels of methamphetamine.
00:36:48.000But when it came to fentanyl, he said the fentanyl levels were, quote, pretty high.
00:36:53.000This level of fentanyl can cause pulmonary edema.
00:36:56.000Mr. Floyd's lungs were two to three times their normal weight at autopsy.
00:36:59.000That is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.
00:37:04.000According to the doctor, if Floyd had been found dead in his home or anywhere else, and there were no other contributing factors, he would conclude it was an overdose death.
00:37:12.000So in other words, you actually have to show causation if you're going to show murder.
00:37:16.000It's very difficult to show causation in this particular case.
00:37:18.000This is true from the original county autopsy.
00:37:40.000And they're going to ignore the fact that George, the tape shows that George Floyd was saying he couldn't breathe before he was on the ground, that he was resisting arrest.
00:37:46.000They're going to avoid the fact that Minneapolis police procedure allows you to put somebody in a submission hold in that way if you believe that they are suffering from a particular type of condition.
00:38:09.000In the Breonna Taylor death, Oprah Winfrey is taking out full-on billboards about Breonna Taylor's death.
00:38:14.000Now, the original claim is that Breonna Taylor was the girlfriend of a guy who was a drug dealer, and that she had nothing to do with the drug dealing, right?
00:38:20.000She was not involved in any way, that they basically falsified an arrest warrant to go to Breonna Taylor's apartment and search her apartment, but they had no real basis for doing so, and so, therefore, the warrant was flawed.
00:38:31.000Okay, then there's a dispute as to what happened.
00:38:33.000They had a no-knock warrant to go into Breonna Taylor's apartment.
00:38:39.000According to Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, who is still alive, the alleged drug dealer, They did not announce themselves.
00:38:46.000And so when they started to force in the door, he took a shot at them, at which point they shot into the apartment and they shot him and killed Breonna Taylor.
00:38:52.000Now, number one, if they have a no-knock warrant, they don't actually have to announce themselves.
00:38:55.000Number two, the police say they did announce themselves.
00:39:00.000But the entire case that the cops are going to be criminally liable for any charges in the Breonna Taylor shooting are likely to rest on the insufficiency of the warrant itself.
00:39:10.000The suggestion that the warrant was falsified.
00:39:13.000Well, earlier this month, ABC News reported that experts say there are serious obstacles to charging police in the Breonna Taylor case.
00:39:21.000Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the first African-American elected to the job in Kentucky, spoke at the RNC last night, has declined to put a timetable on his decision since taking over the case in May.
00:39:30.000According to Christopher Slobogin, director of the criminal justice program at Vanderbilt University, he said it's a tough issue.
00:39:35.000He has to figure out whether there's probable cause to believe there was an unreasonable use of force.
00:39:38.000Difficult to make that case when somebody is literally shooting at you from inside an apartment.
00:39:43.000Taylor's boyfriend, Kenny Walker, was with her at the apartment and fired a shot at Louisville Police Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly after the door was broken down.
00:39:50.000Mattingly was struck in the leg and returned fire, along with other officers who were outside the apartment.
00:39:55.000She was shot several times in her hallway and died on the scene.
00:39:58.000The officers were not wearing body cameras, there's no video of the raid.
00:40:01.000The warrant they were carrying has come under scrutiny, and the police lieutenant who sought it, Joshua Jaynes, has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation.
00:40:08.000Attorneys for Taylor's family said it was based on erroneous information that a drug dealer was sending packages to Taylor's apartment.
00:40:15.000So according to the experts, Sam Markeson, University of Louisville law professor, he says, the warrant, combined with the fact that they were fired upon, would make for a powerful defense argument that they acted in valid self-defense while conducting a lawful police operation.
00:40:28.000Basically, they have to prove several things to prove that these officers should go to jail.
00:40:32.000One, they would have to show that the warrant were obtained fraudulently.
00:40:34.000Two, they would have had to show the officers were aware that the warrant was obtained fraudulently.
00:40:39.000Police department protocol allows the use of lethal force when officers feel threatened.
00:40:44.000Even if they had a valid no-knock warrant and properly announced themselves, blazing away could theoretically be an excessive use of force.
00:40:50.000But when somebody is firing at you, that sort of changes the math a little bit.
00:40:53.000So in other words, it's going to be nearly impossible to reach conviction in the Breonna Taylor case.
00:40:57.000And if somebody's firing at you from inside an apartment where you have a warrant, a justly based warrant, how do you make the case that the police officers ought to go to jail?
00:41:18.000According to the Courier Journal, the Louisville Courier Journal, Apparently there's a new report, it's a 39-page report, and it details significant ties between Breonna Taylor and the alleged drug dealer.
00:41:29.000So this is only relevant, it's not relevant to her being shot.
00:41:32.000It is relevant to whether they properly obtained the warrant.
00:41:34.000If it turns out there was significant evidence that Breonna Taylor was part of a drug distribution network, then it would make sense that they had a no-knock warrant for her apartment.
00:41:42.000So again, you have to fulfill three steps to convict the Breonna Taylor officers.
00:41:45.000One, you have to claim that the arrest warrant was fraudulent.
00:41:47.000Two, the officers knew it was fraudulent.
00:41:49.000Three, they then went in guns blazing to shoot somebody.
00:41:53.000All three of these are going to be found false.
00:41:59.000According to the Courier-Journal, an internal report written by Louisville Metro Police after officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor on March 13th sheds more light on the reasons why they chose to forcibly enter her South End apartment the night she was killed.
00:42:10.000The 39-page report and corroborating evidence show Taylor had more extensive ties than previously made public with an accused drug trafficker who was at the center of a larger narcotics operation in Louisville.
00:42:21.000Apparently, according to the report, corroborated by jail phone recordings and other documents obtained by the Courier-Journal, detail multiple links between Taylor and Jamarcus Glover of Louisville, a main target in a drug probe that prompted police to request the search warrant for Taylor's apartment.
00:42:35.000Plainclothes officers that night battered in her door searching for drugs and illicit cash.
00:42:39.000Glover was arrested the same night as Taylor's shooting.
00:42:41.000He was picked up at an alleged drug house 10 miles to the north in Louisville's West End.
00:42:46.000So it is unclear whether prosecution should take place here of the officers.
00:42:51.000It is certainly not clear that this arrest warrant and the warrant that was out for opening up the apartment, the no-knock warrant, was improperly based.
00:43:01.000Of course, the mayor condemned the release of the report because only one side of the information can get out.
00:43:06.000When you're condemning information for being dropped, that's generally an indicator that you don't like the information that is being dropped.
00:43:13.000Apparently, the Courier-Journal reported that a sworn affidavit from the Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Joshua Jaynes said Glover, who is the boyfriend, was seen walking into Taylor's apartment one January afternoon and left with a suspected USPS package in his right hand and then drove to a known drug house on Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
00:43:31.000Jaynes said he verified through a U.S.
00:43:32.000Postal Inspector Glover had been receiving packages at Taylor's address.
00:43:37.000As the police report reviewed by the Courier-Journal goes beyond the information in the affidavit, it details evidence into police surveillance of Taylor and Glover, as well as recorded phone conversations from the jail involving the two of them.
00:43:47.000Okay, so, again, these are new details that you probably will not see a lot in the national media because the narrative has been set that the police officers did something deeply wrong, and not only wrong, racist.
00:44:00.000The only way that you can explain the consistent pattern of the media refusing to cover in the national press the details of these cases before allowing the jump to the conclusion that the police are systemically racist is because they have an agenda.
00:44:23.000If you can name something that has gotten better in America over the last several months since the George Floyd killing, then I'm willing to hear it.
00:44:29.000But I have yet to hear a single thing, one, like a thing, that has gotten better.
00:44:33.000We've been told that America is getting better day by day because of the BLM movement.
00:44:36.000I'm waiting to see evidence that this is the case.
00:44:38.000I've not seen any evidence that this is the case, in fact.
00:44:40.000And in fact, most Americans have gone back to their prior opinions of what they thought the state of play was before BLM really gained national prominence again after the George Floyd death.
00:44:51.000And so all of this was the backdrop for the RNC last night.
00:44:55.000Well, the RNC last night was sort of a kind and friendly RNC last night.
00:44:58.000In fact, the RNC actually opened with a prayer for Jacob Blake as well as the police.
00:45:02.000It was the beginning of the RNC night two.
00:45:05.000I'm going to invite you to join your faith with mine and let's pray in agreement.
00:45:11.000Lord, we come before you to ask for your spirit of peace to come over hurting communities in Wisconsin tonight.
00:45:19.000We pray for healing and comfort to Jacob Blake and his family.
00:45:24.000We pray for your protection over those who put their lives in harm's way to bring safety and security to our streets.
00:45:35.000Now, it seems to me that with the Democrats in absolute hiding over all of this, Joe Biden refuses to condemn it.
00:45:40.000Joe Biden refuses to condemn the rioting and the looting and the violence.
00:45:43.000All he does is mouth platitudes about systemic racism with no possible solutions in sight.
00:45:48.000Except for elect the octogenarian democrat who's done nothing over the course of his career to alleviate racial tensions, and actually significant things to exacerbate racial tensions, and who was called a racist by his own VP candidate five minutes ago.
00:46:17.000They pursued some issues on foreign policy.
00:46:19.000They pursued some issues on the media.
00:46:20.000A lot of attention to the media last night.
00:46:22.000Well-deserved, because the media are just an arm of the Democratic Party at this point, pushing a narrative rather than a factual fact pattern.
00:46:28.000Nick Sandman was featured here, and the media went nuts.
00:46:35.000So Nick Sandman, of course, is the teenager who is targeted by the media as a racist for the great crime of standing there wearing a MAGA hat as a Native American activist got in his face and banged a drum in his face, along with members of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
00:46:48.000Well, Nick Sandman spoke at the RNC last night about the full war machine of the media.
00:46:56.000What I thought was a strange encounter quickly developed into a major news story complete with video footage.
00:47:04.000My life changed forever in that one moment.
00:47:07.000The full war machine of the mainstream media revved up into attack mode.
00:47:11.000They did so without researching the full video of the incident, without ever investigating Mr. Phillips' motives, or without ever asking me for my side of the story.
00:47:33.000A CNN analyst named Joe Lockhart, he actually tweeted out that this kid, he said, I'm watching tonight because it's important, but I don't have to watch this snot-nosed entitled kid from Kentucky.
00:47:44.000Yeah, I feel like the lack of self-awareness in the media is half the problem here.
00:47:58.000And there were several themes last night.
00:47:59.000The biggest theme of the RNC overall continues to be that Trump is really not what this election is about.
00:48:04.000So the entire DNC was based around the idea that Trump is the election.
00:48:08.000But as it turns out, many Americans looking at what's happening on their TVs now, and looking at it on the internet, because you can only get the news from the internet now, from center-right sources.
00:48:17.000They're beginning to realize that this election is not about Trump.
00:48:19.000It's, in fact, about movements in the country.
00:48:21.000One movement that suggests that the mob ought to rule, that the protesters ought to be treated as wonderful and good, even if they evolve into rioters and looters over the course of the night, that they are the best among us, as Barack Obama suggested.
00:48:32.000And another group of people who say, you know what?
00:48:44.000And the idea of the Democratic Party, that the mob should rule in the absence of Democratic rule, and that if Democrats do rule, then the mob should basically go away because the mob's agenda has been channeled into legislation, that is an ugly, ugly election item.
00:49:08.000And the only way they're going to keep it is if they back it.
00:49:11.000Don't give one shred or iota of power to people who promulgate false narratives on the basis of lack of fact and then give credence to mobs of rioters and looters and violent thugs in order to do so.
00:50:15.000We know the first line of the First Amendment protects our freedom of religion.
00:50:20.000But what we often forget, the actual words, are free exercise of religion.
00:50:26.000That means living out our faith in our daily lives, in our schools, in our jobs, and yes, even in the public square.
00:50:35.000Our founders did not envision a quiet, hidden faith.
00:50:39.000They fought to ensure that the voices of faith were always welcomed, not silenced, not bullied.
00:50:47.000She, of course, is ripped up and down because how dare she say things about faith?
00:50:51.000No one's trying to silence your faith except for the Democratic Party agenda, which actually wants to make faith subservient to whatever is the government's social position of the day.
00:51:19.000They went to commercial break while Abby Johnson was speaking, specifically because you're not allowed in the mainstream media to graphically discuss what abortion constitutes.
00:51:25.000This is the one thing you're not allowed to do.
00:51:27.000You're allowed to pretend that abortion is just reproductive healthcare.
00:51:30.000One of the things you're not supposed to do is openly discuss what abortion is, which is one of the reasons why every time I speak about abortion publicly, I do exactly what Abby Johnson does here when I'm at the March for Life.
00:51:38.000I graphically discuss what an abortion is, and what the feelings of the baby are, and how well-developed children are in the womb.
00:51:45.000In fact, when I was on Fox News, and I did an election special in 2018, I did a full segment on abortion, and I actually wanted to show pictures of unborn babies in the womb, and some graphic images, and even Fox News, which is a right-wing network.
00:53:20.000Okay, seriously, if you think public officials don't push politics on public grounds, you're out of your mind.
00:53:25.000The Obama administration violated the Hatch Act seven ways from Sunday by this broad iteration of it.
00:53:29.000By the way, six separate cabinet secretaries spoke on behalf of Barack Obama in 2012.
00:53:34.000But when Mike Pompeo speaks from Jerusalem on behalf of Donald Trump, then apparently that's very bad.
00:53:38.000Here was Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, speaking on behalf of the Trump foreign policy, which by the way, again, his Middle Eastern policy has achieved the first serious peace deal in the region since 1994.
00:53:49.000And Donald Trump is being given no credit in the media by it, like literally no credit.
00:54:53.000This idiotic notion that politicians shouldn't speak politically once they're off the stage, or that if you're the Secretary of State, we have to assume that you're a nonpartisan political figure is asinine in the extreme.
00:55:03.000So, and not only am I not hypocritical on it, I actually said it last week with regard to Barack Obama.
00:55:07.000These are precedents that just don't matter.
00:55:08.000I'm glad that Mike Pompeo spoke at the RNC.
00:55:11.000Okay, it was also family night at the RNC.
00:56:04.000He said that one of the big conflicts here is there's a group of people who would like to erase American history, and there's a group of people who would like to preserve American history.
00:56:11.000Here is Eric Trump speaking last night.
00:56:13.000In the view of the Radical Democrats, America is a source of the world's problems.
00:56:18.000As a result, they believe the only path forward is to erase history and forget the past.
00:56:24.000They want to destroy the monuments of our forefathers.
00:56:27.000They want to disrespect our flag, burn the stars and stripes that represent patriotism and the American dream.
00:56:34.000They want to disrespect our national anthem by taking a knee while our armed forces lay down their lives every day to protect our freedom.
00:56:43.000Again, these contrasts are very useful to Republicans.
00:56:45.000The DNC was largely about pasting over a bubbling pot of anti-American sentiment.
00:56:52.000You know, no under God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
00:56:55.000In the early hours of the DNC, you can kneel for the national anthem.
00:56:59.000America is systemically racist with some Joe Biden sort of pasteboard patriotism where he talks about how much he goes to church and how much he loves the American flag and all of this kind of stuff.
00:57:08.000And the fact is that it goes a little bit deeper than that for a lot of Republicans.
00:57:11.000By the way, this is what the polls show.
00:57:12.000The polls show that Democrats are patriotic when Democrats are in office.
00:57:15.000And when Republicans are in office, the patriotism dives.
00:57:17.000Republicans have generally been patriotic whether or not a Democrat is in office.
00:58:08.000Okay, then Melania got into COVID and she acknowledged that people are worried about COVID, but she points out the federal government has been doing its best to prevent the transmission.
00:58:15.000By the way, there are upticks in Europe right now.
00:58:16.000Again, nobody has a great strategy on COVID.
00:58:19.000The best you can do is protect the vulnerable and encourage people to take steps to slow the spread by keeping social distancing and wearing masks in crowded areas.
00:58:29.000Here's Melania Trump talking about COVID.
00:58:31.000I want to acknowledge the fact that since March, our lives have changed drastically.
00:58:40.000The invisible enemy COVID-19 swept across our beautiful country and impacted all of us.
00:58:48.000My husband's administration will not stop fighting until there is an effective treatment or vaccine available to everyone.
00:58:59.000Donald will not rest until he has done all he can to take care of everyone impacted by this terrible pandemic.
00:59:09.000Melania Trump also took a nuanced view of American history.
00:59:12.000Now, this is something we've been told Republicans can't do, which is amazing, because in my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, I think I took a pretty nuanced view of American history, pointing out all of its flaws.
00:59:20.000Melania did the same thing last night.
00:59:21.000We've been told Republicans refuse to acknowledge the flaws of American history.
00:59:28.000Like all of you, I have reflected on the racial unrest in our country.
00:59:35.000It is a harsh reality that we are not proud of parts of our history.
00:59:42.000I encourage people to focus on our future while still learning from our past.
00:59:48.000We must remember that today we are all one community, comprised of many races, religions and ethnicities.
00:59:58.000And she concluded by saying, we should all come together in a civil manner.
01:00:01.000I mean, this is a very mild and well-spoken speech.
01:00:04.000It granted a sense of normalcy to the convention in a time of great abnormalcy.
01:00:07.000Again, the Joe Biden pitch has been return to normalcy, but things were not normal under Barack Obama.
01:00:12.000They have not been normal under President Trump.
01:00:14.000And they're not normal right now while Democrats completely ignore the fact that we are watching our cities burn.
01:00:19.000Here is Melania Trump trying to provide that sense of normalcy.
01:00:23.000We still have so much to learn from one another.
01:00:27.000With that in mind, I'd like to call on the citizens of this country to take a moment, pause, and look at things from all perspectives.
01:00:38.000I urge people to come together in a civil manner so we can work and live up to our standard American ideals.
01:00:49.000I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice.
01:00:56.000Okay, all of this prompted Bette Midler, great democratic mind Bette Midler, to tweet, oh god, she still can't speak English.
01:01:02.000She can say that about Melania now, so that's exciting.
01:01:05.000She can speak English, and I guarantee you she speaks, what, five or six other languages?
01:01:08.000She speaks all of them better than Bette Midler speaks any of those languages.
01:01:12.000In any language, Bette Midler is a fool.
01:01:14.000Even Politico acknowledged, this was their analysis, quote, First Lady Melania Trump restored a sense of normalcy Tuesday night, closing night two with a speech that was remarkable for its restraint and deliberate adherence to etiquette.
01:01:24.000That's a very strong night again, night two for the RNC, reaching out to people in the middle who may be somewhat alienated by the fact that our cities are burning and the media continue to root for it and continue to say the only reason Democrats might want to address it is because their poll numbers are starting to drop.
01:01:38.000OK, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.
01:01:41.000Otherwise, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more.