Louder with Crowder - June 09, 2020


John Oliver's Anti-Cop Lies DEBUNKED! | Good Morning #Mugclub


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On this episode of Crowder Bits: A Crowder's Bits Podcast, we have a special guest on the show this week, and it's not a good one. We have a counter to John Oliver's "anti-police" video, and a new segment from CNN's "Sideshow Bob" on the latest episode of "The Sideshow Show."

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00:06:09.000 Mug Club. Really quickly let's check in with CNN and Sideshow Bob about to step
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00:06:30.000 This was something funny that I just saw.
00:06:31.000 They were talking about it on CNN earlier this morning.
00:06:33.000 They said, you know, why don't we defund the police and put some of that money, for example, like they make it a crime to be homeless, put more money into public housing.
00:06:40.000 I thought, oh, okay, well that makes sense.
00:06:41.000 Hey, public housing, um, the projects, more crime or less crime?
00:06:46.000 Can we get stats on that?
00:06:49.000 Defund the police!
00:06:50.000 What was that thing you burned down in Minneapolis first?
00:06:52.000 Like on night one?
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00:06:55.000 And we are going to be doing a rebuttal here too.
00:06:57.000 We haven't done one of these in a while.
00:06:58.000 A full, from stem to stern, rebuttal on John Oliver, his anti-police video.
00:07:04.000 My question is, let me ask you this.
00:07:06.000 Why do you think today so many in the news, and often I'll say progressive left, but news, I repeat myself.
00:07:12.000 Why do you think they can get away with these unfounded claims when there is data available, specifically regarding the police?
00:07:18.000 I think a lot of us would like to find some common ground on fixing issues with the police.
00:07:23.000 I've talked about police unions for a very long time, but that is not what is being requested, and the requests are predicated on lies.
00:07:31.000 Absolutely, and everybody believes them.
00:07:33.000 Everybody just runs with this two and a half times number, and we'll get to that in a little bit, but it blows my mind that nobody's challenged this openly.
00:07:39.000 A lot of people have.
00:07:39.000 You just use a lot of absolutes.
00:07:41.000 You don't hear it on CNN.
00:07:42.000 You don't hear it on any other stream.
00:07:44.000 That's four people in a connect in Charlotte.
00:07:47.000 Yeah, well we've got a cultural problem where when people read a headline they don't check it out.
00:07:52.000 They're not going to go actual police statistics or let's find out what the other side has to say.
00:07:56.000 It is a cultural problem, it's not just a news problem.
00:07:58.000 I wasn't listening because I was thinking about in the Charlotte airport when they have connect flights with US Airways.
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00:08:16.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:08:17.000 No.
00:08:18.000 It was an explosion in my mouth with Escrima sticks.
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00:08:25.000 You are such uncultured rubes. 1.00
00:08:28.000 I have no idea what you're talking about.
00:08:30.000 Before we get to John Oliver, by the way, I'm hearing that buzz in my ear a little bit.
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00:08:43.000 Listen, now you're in my line of work.
00:08:45.000 Gerald's going to be walking around like he's an electric eel.
00:08:49.000 Right?
00:08:50.000 That's a long way around for a dad joke, Gerald.
00:08:53.000 The old guy who was pushed down by Donald, not by Donald Trump, the old guy who was pushed down by the police.
00:08:58.000 That's what happens, David.
00:08:59.000 Out of my way!
00:09:02.000 One old guy pushes another old guy, you know?
00:09:05.000 Mr. Clyburn, uh, double permanent, uh, push it, push it good.
00:09:11.000 Which reminds me, I was just looking up, before we get to this, the old guy who was shoved down by police officers and Donald Trump tweeted about it, 6ix9ine, this guy, I started, I just went down the rabbit hole.
00:09:23.000 Deplorable.
00:09:24.000 We're not, we're not the old people when we go like, this is really bad, like, people would say to us because we listened to, you know, punk rock, like Antiflag or something.
00:09:32.000 There was still some semblance of, there was a bridge of musical connection to now, this 6ix9ine character. 0.94
00:09:39.000 I don't know that I've heard anything.
00:09:40.000 Not with 6ix9ine. 1.00
00:09:41.000 Mr. 6ix9ine.
00:09:42.000 It's just, literally one of his lyrics is, That's one of the things, because he's just looking for a rhyme.
00:09:49.000 Oh, okay.
00:09:50.000 And when you just think about how far we've gone to, like, every one of these videos is just, just, it's just asses, and like, and I will say, by the way, I'm just saying, like, literally, it's women pressing their buttocks against a man's crotch area. 0.95
00:10:03.000 And then they're going like, well, no, it's not culture, because there's, no, when people, when people go, oh, this goes back to Elvis, listen, we can go back to the Beatles, and I want to, shut up, please, just once, for crying out loud, I'm trying to say something, Jill just keeps talking, what is it that you're saying?
00:10:03.000 That's culture.
00:10:17.000 I said geez.
00:10:18.000 Oh, okay.
00:10:20.000 I was supporting your point.
00:10:21.000 Before that, have you seen the crotch rubbing with the butts?
00:10:25.000 No.
00:10:25.000 Okay.
00:10:26.000 I'm trying to educate you and bridge the cultural divide.
00:10:30.000 I was responding.
00:10:30.000 Do you not want to hear about crotch rubbing with butts?
00:10:33.000 This feels like a trick question.
00:10:34.000 Trick question, he's married.
00:10:36.000 I don't, but I know you need to tell the story.
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00:10:42.000 So, No, it's not cultural.
00:10:45.000 You go back to The Beatles and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
00:10:46.000 You can find any society.
00:10:47.000 You can go to Egyptian hieroglyphics and see people holding hands.
00:10:51.000 You can even go to, like, Afternoon Delight.
00:10:52.000 It's still about a lover and wanting to engage in making love with a lover.
00:10:57.000 Rubbing the booty.
00:10:58.000 Even let's go a little bit more modern.
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00:11:03.000 It was push it, push it real good.
00:11:06.000 Now it's just rubbing my ass on your crotch, my neck, my back. 0.99
00:11:10.000 I'm like, oh my god.
00:11:11.000 This is going to be someone's wedding song?
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00:11:16.000 God!
00:11:16.000 Let's dance, that's our song!
00:11:18.000 Not at all.
00:11:20.000 Anyway, so I don't get it.
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00:13:35.000 Newton, the old guy who was pushed at the protest, Donald Trump tweeted this out that it seems like the old guy he was saying could be, and there's no way to necessarily confirm this, that the guy could have been Antifa, the old man looking for Trying to actually obtain police scanner information.
00:13:53.000 No idea if it's true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
00:13:57.000 Like he's Tom Cruise.
00:13:59.000 They're looking around at the Antifa meeting like, who are we gonna send in there?
00:14:02.000 No, you look like a criminal.
00:14:03.000 Hey John!
00:14:08.000 My opinion changed in real time.
00:14:11.000 I was watching like oh that looks really bad because an old man is being pushed but then you go wait a second he's walking up to a police officer they said leave they shove him and then he's reaching stopping short reaching for the hip where a gun wasn't I don't know how else he... It's unfortunate that he fell, of course.
00:14:24.000 We'd rather that not happen.
00:14:24.000 Right.
00:14:25.000 But this is where we are now as a society.
00:14:27.000 When you riot and you loot and people support that and say that violence should play a role in protests, well guess what?
00:14:33.000 You're gonna get more violence.
00:14:35.000 That's when you get the military.
00:14:36.000 That's when you get the National Guard.
00:14:38.000 I don't know how you expected this to end.
00:14:39.000 Yeah.
00:14:40.000 Put people on edge, this stuff happens.
00:14:42.000 So let's go right now to John Oliver, speaking of...
00:14:46.000 I don't know.
00:14:47.000 John Oliver.
00:14:50.000 What do you think about John Oliver?
00:14:52.000 We were talking about this just before the show.
00:14:53.000 Is he a smart guy?
00:14:55.000 Yeah, I think he's smart.
00:14:56.000 Or is he just dumb sometimes?
00:14:58.000 I think John Oliver is smart and I think he's very funny.
00:15:00.000 I think he's absolutely funny.
00:15:00.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:15:02.000 I do have a bit of a different perspective.
00:15:03.000 I think a lot of Americans are like, oh, stupid red coat.
00:15:06.000 I don't know if I actually say that.
00:15:09.000 But you know what I mean?
00:15:09.000 Stupid Brit.
00:15:10.000 They're Eric.
00:15:10.000 Yeah, they're Eric.
00:15:12.000 Um, but as a Canadian, I have a bit of a different- because we still have the Queen and her money.
00:15:16.000 That's true.
00:15:18.000 We're big fans of kneeling in Canada.
00:15:19.000 We've been doing it for a very long time.
00:15:21.000 We're kissing the ring.
00:15:21.000 Sim's our inception!
00:15:22.000 It's part of your culture.
00:15:23.000 Almost the reason for our inception!
00:15:26.000 So I have a different perspective because I just think a lot of people don't realize that someone like John Oliver can be smart, but he's smart operating with the information that he has.
00:15:33.000 There is no, in Canada there really was, in Quebec there was no real conservative party.
00:15:37.000 It would be basically sort of a centrist Democrat with maybe pro-life leanings in Canada, and you might get that in Britain, now it's changed a bit with Brexit.
00:15:45.000 But they do have blind spots, and it doesn't mean they're dumb, but he certainly is misinformed because he comes from an inferior country. 1.00
00:15:52.000 He seems like he's willfully ignorant at times.
00:15:55.000 Did you say Wilford?
00:15:56.000 Wilford!
00:15:57.000 Is there stroke gas going through the vents here?
00:16:00.000 Diabetes.
00:16:01.000 Something was sprayed earlier, yeah.
00:16:03.000 But he seems very knowledgeable sometimes.
00:16:04.000 You're like, oh, that's a great point, and you're right, he is funny.
00:16:07.000 And then other times he says stuff and I'm like, wait a minute, you sound like an idiot.
00:16:10.000 You sound like somebody who's never looked into anything that you're talking about.
00:16:12.000 Well, he does, and he has 54 researchers and writers do it.
00:16:16.000 There's 55 idiots then.
00:16:17.000 A little less grace.
00:16:20.000 Um, but he did a whole video here on the police and, uh, like always doesn't really call for concrete solutions.
00:16:28.000 You know, it's always just bitching about what is wrong and where the right is wrong. 1.00
00:16:31.000 It's a lot easier to criticize without offering any sort of constructive solutions than it is to try and put in the legwork.
00:16:37.000 So, um, that being said, he gets so much of this wrong.
00:16:39.000 I encourage you to go watch the entire video.
00:16:42.000 I don't know if you can pirate it.
00:16:43.000 Like I used to do with Michael Moore films.
00:16:45.000 I'd be like, no, I want to see, uh, I spy with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy.
00:16:49.000 No one wants to see.
00:16:50.000 Yeah, nobody saw that.
00:16:51.000 They should have known.
00:16:52.000 The people at the movie theater should have known.
00:16:54.000 It was Fahrenheit 9-11.
00:16:55.000 You won't get a dime out of me because I don't want it going to Enron, one of your investments, Michael Moore.
00:16:59.000 That's creative.
00:17:00.000 I like that.
00:17:00.000 Let's start this off with John Oliver and everything wrong with his police bias, anti-police video.
00:17:07.000 Let's go.
00:17:07.000 In response to those protests, which have been a stirring pushback against institutional racism and brutality, it's been frankly sickening to see them met with this.
00:17:17.000 Across the country, peaceful protests have too often devolved into standoffs with heavily armed police using military-style tactics.
00:17:25.000 Oh, military style.
00:17:26.000 What does that mean?
00:17:27.000 Are these the same people who, by the way, say military style weapons when they talk about AR-15 and conflate semi-automatic with fully automatic?
00:17:33.000 And by the way, we need to be really, we need to be deliberate about this.
00:17:36.000 You know the reason that police moved from, say, revolvers to semi-autos is because of the 96, I think, Miami shootout?
00:17:42.000 I don't have a source for this, but I believe it was eight FBI agents and two perps who had committed many violent crimes.
00:17:48.000 They killed two officers, so eight of them, and they were outgunned.
00:17:51.000 120-something rounds were fired.
00:17:53.000 And they realized they were outgunned by people on the street.
00:17:53.000 Wow.
00:17:55.000 And they didn't even have, I don't believe, AR-15s.
00:17:57.000 They had .223s.
00:17:58.000 And so they said, oh, we can't have service revolvers anymore.
00:18:01.000 Because this is one thing where you talk about using military tactics against civilians.
00:18:06.000 Are the Crips and Bloods just civilians? 1.00
00:18:08.000 Are we going to put them all under the same umbrella?
00:18:11.000 I think we sort of need the police force to be adept and to be equipped.
00:18:15.000 I don't mean that there should be this crazy superpower like the American military, which I do support.
00:18:19.000 I like us being number one there, because they need to protect civilians.
00:18:23.000 If you need to protect civilians from people who have military-style weapons, and many of them actually do, you know, if you go down to the wrong area of Los Angeles, they have fully automatic AK-47s.
00:18:33.000 Well, that's the Koreans protecting their businesses.
00:18:36.000 They don't break the law.
00:18:36.000 No, no, no.
00:18:37.000 They have guns that are legal.
00:18:38.000 I'm talking about people who illegally use firearms in Los Angeles, which really in Los Angeles means anyone who owns firearms.
00:18:44.000 So good point.
00:18:46.000 It's like a small arms race.
00:18:48.000 They get armor-piercing.
00:18:49.000 They get better guns.
00:18:53.000 So you just keep going up and up.
00:18:55.000 And do you notice there's no mention, by the way, from John Oliver, no mention at all of any violence at the protests.
00:18:59.000 So this sets the whole tone so you think, wow, these are mostly peaceful protests.
00:19:04.000 No, in major cities, All of them without exception.
00:19:06.000 Maybe now there might be two exceptions.
00:19:08.000 I'm not talking about 40 people in some place in West Texas or 20 people in a separate protest in Hermosa Beach.
00:19:14.000 New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Detroit, Dallas.
00:19:18.000 Take your pick.
00:19:19.000 The majority of them, the vast majority, if not all, once the lights go out at night, have resulted in violent protests.
00:19:26.000 That is not mentioned during this video, or at least not really touched upon considering
00:19:30.000 it's 30-something minutes berating police officers.
00:19:33.000 Let me give you a couple numbers in case you don't know.
00:19:35.000 Thirteen people last week were killed from the riot.
00:19:38.000 The number's now over 20 people, 400 officers injured.
00:19:43.000 If at that point officers don't have the right to respond with riot gear, then I guess just
00:19:48.000 completely disband the police.
00:19:49.000 Well, what do you think was happening in LA and Chicago and New York when they met the next morning after night one of the protests?
00:19:56.000 Guys, here's the footage of what happened last night.
00:19:58.000 This is coming to a theater near you.
00:20:00.000 We have to be ready.
00:20:02.000 The tone was set by the first night of burning everything down and looting.
00:20:06.000 You want to have a peaceful protest?
00:20:07.000 You want to have peaceful protests around the country?
00:20:09.000 Don't start off like that because the police are expecting it to turn violent.
00:20:13.000 Right now is you have to send in the firefighters.
00:20:15.000 If you want to remodel your home, great.
00:20:17.000 But if it's on fire, send in the firefighters first.
00:20:19.000 Right now, cities are on fire.
00:20:20.000 Exactly.
00:20:21.000 We need to be clear about that.
00:20:22.000 So what we really need to deal with is systemic discrimination.
00:20:24.000 No, what we really need to deal with is several dozen people being killed by looters and rioters and 400 officers injured, and the vast majority of Americans, 70-something percent, supporting the National Guard going in because they're afraid in their own cities.
00:20:34.000 So, no, no, no, no.
00:20:35.000 I get that you want crown molding moving forward, and that would be nice.
00:20:38.000 Right now, I want to prevent the house from setting the neighbor's house ablaze.
00:20:42.000 Let's go to the next clip.
00:20:43.000 The protester's message has taken many forms, from chants, to signs, to a man who called into an L.A.
00:20:50.000 police commission meeting held over Zoom.
00:20:52.000 How about shooting David Doren?
00:20:54.000 Why don't they talk about all of the forms that this protest has taken?
00:20:58.000 It's like taking Drac... Dracula can take many different forms, a human... What about, what about...
00:21:07.000 You're limiting him!
00:21:08.000 Don't do that!
00:21:09.000 David Dorn, Patrick Underwood, for people who don't remember, these are officers, black officers, who've been killed, and you can find more footage than you could watch in the span of this show of black officers being berated by privileged white protesters.
00:21:21.000 Right, and John Oliver doesn't get to pick which of those is representative.
00:21:24.000 They're both happening, and we can see videos of both of them, but has John Oliver seen these videos?
00:21:29.000 I don't know.
00:21:29.000 I mean, a lot of people have been insulated from a lot of the violence.
00:21:32.000 Right, yeah.
00:21:33.000 It's a tragedy.
00:21:33.000 Well, later on in the video, and this is one of the segments that he just kind of brushes over, he's like, and if you're worried about, and he shows like a Macy's store's boarded up, he's like, if you're worried about this more than you're worried about something else, then you're wrong.
00:21:43.000 Yeah, he says something much more vulgar than that, like F off, right?
00:21:46.000 And I'm like, okay, so you definitely know.
00:21:48.000 See, now I'm saying OGs.
00:21:50.000 My sensibilities on the OGs.
00:21:53.000 No, but now you know he's seen it, and he's just saying that doesn't matter.
00:21:56.000 And so your point's very valid, right?
00:21:58.000 The house is burning down right now.
00:21:59.000 What we have to do is make sure that we save the house.
00:22:01.000 We can't worry about the furniture right now because you burned down the freaking house. 0.57
00:22:04.000 Well, let's be honest, John Oliver's house is pretty safe.
00:22:06.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:22:07.000 He's got hedges and gates and walls.
00:22:09.000 These violent rioters and looters will be shocked to find out you are not amongst them!
00:22:15.000 You are a man of the people, sir.
00:22:17.000 Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
00:22:17.000 You know what?
00:22:18.000 Let's go to the next clip.
00:22:19.000 There's so many from John Oliver.
00:22:21.000 In announcing job numbers on Friday, invoked George Floyd's name saying, this was a great day for him, which is utterly f***ing disgusting.
00:22:29.000 It would be if that were true at all.
00:22:32.000 Oh.
00:22:33.000 Oh, wait!
00:22:34.000 I would agree!
00:22:35.000 How many times on this show have we said, yeah, Donald Trump's an asshole, but he's our asshole?
00:22:38.000 I just heard talking about it yesterday.
00:22:39.000 They said this must be a typo.
00:22:42.000 300 jobs gained!
00:22:45.000 Gained, people!
00:22:46.000 It's hilarious because of the assholery.
00:22:49.000 I agree with you.
00:22:50.000 But in this case, that is not what it is.
00:22:51.000 He was actually talking about, specifically, people receiving equal treatment under the law.
00:22:57.000 Here's the actual clip for context, which John Oliver doesn't show you.
00:23:00.000 Equal justice under the law.
00:23:03.000 Must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement regardless of race, color, gender, or creed.
00:23:12.000 They have to receive fair treatment from law enforcement.
00:23:17.000 They have to receive it.
00:23:19.000 We all saw what happened last week.
00:23:23.000 We can't let that happen.
00:23:25.000 Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying there's a great thing that's happening for our country.
00:23:30.000 There's a great day for him.
00:23:31.000 It's a great day for Everybody.
00:23:34.000 Wow.
00:23:34.000 Sounds great.
00:23:35.000 Not only does that entirely change the context, who would have thought, let's say, in the
00:23:39.000 year 2008, that that would be a controversial statement?
00:23:44.000 Right, yeah.
00:23:45.000 And remember when we were watching the stream, Don Lemon also said, why can't our president
00:23:48.000 let the name of George Floyd leave his mouth?
00:23:50.000 He just did it there, and you lie about it!
00:23:53.000 Exactly.
00:23:53.000 That's why.
00:23:54.000 25% of his speech that day was devoted to George Floyd and the incident that happened, but we can't talk about that.
00:23:59.000 Yeah, and we've got to cover every other Donald Trump tweet.
00:24:02.000 Right, of course.
00:24:05.000 Except for that awesome video that he put out.
00:24:07.000 Well, it doesn't exist anymore.
00:24:08.000 Nothingness!
00:24:12.000 Alright, um, I'm trying to see what else we have from John Oliver.
00:24:16.000 Oh, oh yeah, this next clip is great.
00:24:18.000 It didn't start this week, or with this president, and it always disproportionately falls on black communities, because here are some hard facts.
00:24:27.000 In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered, Police use force against black people at seven times the rate of whites.
00:24:33.000 Black Americans are two and a half times more likely than whites to be killed by police.
00:24:38.000 And about one in every thousand black men can expect to be killed by police.
00:24:44.000 If you're black in America, I can't even begin to imagine how scared, angry and exhausted you must feel.
00:24:52.000 Let me ask you this.
00:24:52.000 What do you think, when you're talking about interactions with police officers, and all of those numbers are accurate, I want to be clear, the numbers that he cites, but the context there does matter.
00:25:03.000 What do you think should be the most relevant number when talking about disproportionate violence committed against people of a specific race in the United States?
00:25:11.000 Police interactions, how many times do you know?
00:25:12.000 How often do you commit violent crimes?
00:25:16.000 If it's 2.7 times the amount of killings of black people from officers, let's say in Minneapolis or whatever the number is that he says, well hold on a second, it matters if they make up 10 to 15% of the population and commit, I have it right here, 53% of known homicide in the United States. 0.77
00:25:34.000 60% of robberies.
00:25:36.000 But they're only 25% of those killed by police.
00:25:39.000 So it doesn't matter just what the percentage of the population is black or white.
00:25:42.000 It doesn't just matter the numbers don't exist in a vacuum.
00:25:44.000 It is how often are these groups of people committing crimes.
00:25:49.000 And again, this is why we talked about George Floyd versus David Dorner, Patrick Underwood.
00:25:53.000 Why does it matter?
00:25:53.000 It's not just to go tit for tat.
00:25:55.000 Hey, Black Lives Matter, black officer. 0.99
00:25:57.000 It's because we need to address the actual problems in the community just like we need to address the actual problems with police.
00:26:03.000 Defunding police won't work.
00:26:05.000 It's not going to help.
00:26:06.000 I know you're trying to shift the Overton window, but really you're just in rear window looking through a telescope going, oh, I don't have a dog in this fight.
00:26:12.000 Yeah, defund the entire police.
00:26:13.000 I know that's never going to happen.
00:26:17.000 And then the guy looks.
00:26:18.000 Yeah.
00:26:18.000 I know.
00:26:20.000 Give me the look.
00:26:21.000 Spoiler, I'm sorry.
00:26:21.000 That was a good look.
00:26:22.000 Give me the look.
00:26:22.000 Yeah.
00:26:23.000 Oh, wow.
00:26:25.000 I got chills.
00:26:25.000 This is a Raymond Burr.
00:26:26.000 I got an erection.
00:26:27.000 So.
00:26:29.000 Reef.
00:26:30.000 No, not.
00:26:30.000 Yeah, really.
00:26:31.000 Geez.
00:26:32.000 There's another geez for ya.
00:26:35.000 Again, police fatally shot nine unarmed black men last year, 2019.
00:26:40.000 Not as bad as during the Obama years.
00:26:42.000 19 unarmed whites, which really, that's a startling statistic when you consider how much of the crime is made up by black American offenders. 1.00
00:26:50.000 And again, this goes back to the idea of, we don't need police, we need more public housing.
00:26:54.000 You can't find a ne'er-do-well in public housing or the projects, as it's been heard on every single hip-hop mixtape since 1994, right?
00:27:03.000 There's a reason!
00:27:04.000 That's where you go to get street cred, okay?
00:27:05.000 Exactly!
00:27:06.000 That's where you go when a rich, white record executive says, you're not hard enough, let's send you to the projects on a weekend getaway.
00:27:13.000 Somebody will shoot you, it'll go straight through the cheek, and then you come back in and we make you look mean.
00:27:17.000 You'll be just fine.
00:27:18.000 We're having an emotional response right now to this, and that's understandable, right?
00:27:22.000 It's understandable to be emotionally angry at stuff that's happening in the world around you, right?
00:27:26.000 We don't need an emotional response when we wanna change things.
00:27:29.000 We don't wanna respond emotionally because our feelings are real,
00:27:32.000 but they're not always reliable.
00:27:34.000 And right now, they're not very reliable saying get rid of the police.
00:27:37.000 They're not very reliable when it says two and a half times the number of black people are shot by cops than white people.
00:27:42.000 It's like saying that I'm still one of the top 1% of tight ends in the nation.
00:27:46.000 That's true, if you take the entire population of people, and include people who don't play football.
00:27:51.000 Put me in the NFL where it matters, where the stat really matters.
00:27:54.000 I'm not in the top 1%, okay?
00:27:56.000 That's where it matters, and that's what people are doing right now when they're saying, of the entire population, and they're not taking into context anything else.
00:28:02.000 Also, again in the NFL, you'd stick out like a very white sore thumb.
00:28:07.000 No, there's tons of white tight ends. 0.93
00:28:09.000 Are there any tight ends?
00:28:09.000 Tight ends are still predominant.
00:28:11.000 I don't know.
00:28:12.000 I don't know if there's... Hey, remember the tight ends.
00:28:14.000 Not that I care, it's just like... Do you want to swap seats?
00:28:17.000 I'm sorry.
00:28:17.000 I'm sorry.
00:28:19.000 This is going to be musical chairs.
00:28:21.000 Na na na na na na na na.
00:28:23.000 Wait, cut.
00:28:25.000 There's a chair in the hall.
00:28:28.000 I never win!
00:28:29.000 That's the point!
00:28:31.000 Many studies have found, by the way we can bring this up, that police are no more likely to shoot black people than white people.
00:28:36.000 Now, and I hate the fact that I have to say black, white, black, white, because this is the way it's framed from the left.
00:28:43.000 And we'll go to Drew Brees in a little bit.
00:28:44.000 When you try to make people feel ashamed exclusively because of their race, don't be surprised when people all of a sudden take pride in exclusively their race.
00:28:53.000 There will be more racists created than ever in my lifetime because you have asked white people to kneel in subservience for a crime they didn't commit.
00:29:03.000 This is why I said weeks ago, stop this, please.
00:29:06.000 Please, it's going to get bad.
00:29:08.000 Please stop this.
00:29:09.000 There's a better way to go about it.
00:29:10.000 Well, here we are, and John Oliver is leading the charge from his penthouse, of course, not actually down on the ground.
00:29:14.000 He has a drone that goes, let's go, guys!
00:29:19.000 Some of America's first law enforcement units were the slave patrols tasked with capturing and returning people who'd escaped from slavery.
00:29:25.000 And when slavery ended, white people had no intention of letting that be the end of white power. 0.50
00:29:32.000 What was a British colonial police force like there?
00:29:35.000 Any relation to slavery, John Oliver?
00:29:38.000 And he uses this to transition into, of course, so this is indicative of systemic racism because it's based on systemic discrimination.
00:29:44.000 Okay, name a single racist law today.
00:29:48.000 Name a single form of systemic oppression.
00:29:50.000 In this case, specific because it changes, whether it's transgenders taking a dump in Target, right? 1.00
00:29:55.000 But today we've gone back to black.
00:29:56.000 So, name me one law that specifically discriminates, oppresses, or targets black individuals, putting them at a systemic disadvantage.
00:30:06.000 One.
00:30:07.000 One.
00:30:09.000 I can name several that give legs up to try and correct this, whether you're talking about affirmative action, whether you're talking about diversity hires, quotas, which is supported by everyone at the DNC.
00:30:16.000 Name me one that is pool-dunking a black person in 2020. 1.00
00:30:20.000 Stay down there because we had slavery and police. 0.69
00:30:23.000 Don't you know that police were created to keep slaves in this country?
00:30:25.000 What are you doing?
00:30:26.000 Is that what he really thinks is going on?
00:30:27.000 Name me one.
00:30:28.000 That's a challenge to anybody out there.
00:30:30.000 Yeah, and if they could, we could target that.
00:30:31.000 We could fight that.
00:30:32.000 We could go after that and get rid of that policy.
00:30:36.000 If you can name me a racist politician, or if you can name me racist cops, if you can tell me people that you can prove this person is targeting people based on race, we can deal with that.
00:30:44.000 You know what we can't deal with?
00:30:46.000 Systemic racism.
00:30:47.000 This ethereal concept that the whole thing is rigged against you.
00:30:49.000 Everything gets labeled that nothing is.
00:30:51.000 And the whole concept of systemic racism removes any personal responsibility from an individual.
00:30:56.000 Right.
00:30:56.000 So if you're down, it's not because you've chosen to be down, or even relatively chosen to be down, it's that you are oppressed by this particular system.
00:31:04.000 Or now, even as it's gone further, if you commit a crime, it's not really your fault.
00:31:07.000 It's because of the system!
00:31:08.000 because of economic discrimination.
00:31:09.000 It's because the system, but you burned a car.
00:31:13.000 Toyota's bullshit.
00:31:16.000 I don't own that car!
00:31:17.000 We don't own nothing, so we can burn it!
00:31:18.000 But I tell you what, I'll share it.
00:31:20.000 I'll get y'all cars.
00:31:21.000 Y'all want a Toyota?
00:31:22.000 I got a Lexus over here.
00:31:24.000 By the way, what you want to target?
00:31:26.000 I'm making a run.
00:31:29.000 If this is all true, why is nobody talking about married privilege?
00:31:32.000 People who are married tend to commit crimes at the same level no matter their color. 0.99
00:31:37.000 Right.
00:31:37.000 Right?
00:31:37.000 They tend to be arrested at the same level no matter their color.
00:31:40.000 Right.
00:31:40.000 So yeah, we should all be talking about married privilege.
00:31:42.000 We should also be talking about having a dad privilege.
00:31:43.000 Having a mom and dad privilege.
00:31:44.000 Children, at that point.
00:31:45.000 I just want to apologize for my having a dad privilege.
00:31:48.000 Yes, you absolutely should.
00:31:48.000 You should feel horrible.
00:31:49.000 You jerk.
00:31:49.000 And I will say this.
00:31:50.000 You know what?
00:31:50.000 That is something that I do consider a privilege.
00:31:52.000 Sure, yeah.
00:31:53.000 Like, I don't consider... The term white privilege is so loaded.
00:31:56.000 And by the way, when we talk about racism for the longest... What do we mean?
00:31:59.000 We meant vilifying people or condemning people exclusively because of their race.
00:32:04.000 Not seeing people as different because of their race.
00:32:06.000 So at one point, that was considered racist because we're all supposed to be colorblind.
00:32:09.000 Now, you're not a good ally if you're colorblind.
00:32:11.000 But specifically, indicting someone based on the color of their skin.
00:32:15.000 That's racist.
00:32:16.000 I don't believe in reverse racism.
00:32:18.000 I believe in racism, period.
00:32:19.000 So let me ask you this.
00:32:20.000 Who is more racist?
00:32:22.000 Any of the white guys here, quarter black guy here in this room, who's saying, listen, name us a single racist policy that we can fix so we can actually find out what the problem is, if it exists, or the person saying, kneel, white devil!
00:32:36.000 That is textbook racism!
00:32:38.000 Demanding that somebody kneel.
00:32:40.000 Kneeling, let's be clear, is not equality. 0.68
00:32:43.000 Kneeling is subservience.
00:32:44.000 Kneeling, specifically, it means without question.
00:32:47.000 It means giving authority without question, regardless of the request made.
00:32:51.000 That is why I will talk, I will listen, I will discuss, I will hear your grievances, I will never kneel, and I will never vote for a politician who kneels.
00:33:00.000 That includes Donald Trump or Mike Pence.
00:33:02.000 If Donald Trump or Mike Pence take a knee, I'm not voting for him.
00:33:04.000 And the people who are kneeling, if you're a black person making a white person kneel, the person, the white person kneeling in front of you is afraid of you.
00:33:12.000 Right.
00:33:12.000 Yeah.
00:33:12.000 Right?
00:33:13.000 Is that what you want?
00:33:13.000 Is this the relationship that you want?
00:33:15.000 Right.
00:33:15.000 Or do you want friendship?
00:33:17.000 That's the quality.
00:33:18.000 It's the quality shit feels good!
00:33:21.000 Well, didn't you know that the easiest way to fix racism is just to add more racism?
00:33:25.000 And so, it just helps.
00:33:26.000 I don't know why, but it does.
00:33:27.000 How do we solve the greatest evil of this country?
00:33:30.000 Let's bring in more black slave traders! 1.00
00:33:32.000 That should even the playing field.
00:33:34.000 Oh, that didn't work the first time.
00:33:35.000 Yeah, there were black slave traders.
00:33:37.000 That's true.
00:33:37.000 I forgot.
00:33:38.000 It's called revenge.
00:33:39.000 But the point is, you need to have—anyway.
00:33:41.000 Equality, blah, blah, blah.
00:33:42.000 Okay, let's go to the next clip.
00:33:43.000 What the major obstacles to reform have been, because one of the biggest issues is police unions.
00:33:49.000 Even in cities where the mayor and police chief say all the right things, it's important to know that the union can stop whatever they are proposing dead in its tracks.
00:33:58.000 And unions can make it incredibly difficult to discipline officers even for egregious misconduct.
00:34:04.000 Take what happened in Minneapolis with two officers who belong to our friend Bob's union.
00:34:10.000 Okay.
00:34:10.000 Pulp.
00:34:11.000 Common ground solutions.
00:34:13.000 I've said this many times.
00:34:14.000 Dissolve police unions.
00:34:16.000 Right now, if we're talking about complete abolition of the police, which a significant
00:34:19.000 portion of protesters are, including the protesters who berated the mayor, let's be clear.
00:34:24.000 Some people are now trying to sort of sugarcoat and say, well, we just mean defund some portions
00:34:28.000 of the police for social workers, which by the way, I would be on board with if I didn't
00:34:32.000 know that then you were going to demand defunding all police.
00:34:34.000 But we should start with that, dissolve police unions, and then if we want a union, build
00:34:38.000 one up with some kind of accountability.
00:34:40.000 Now, there's some common ground.
00:34:42.000 But John Oliver has done segments on unions, has done segments on right to work states.
00:34:47.000 So if we are trying to find a common ground solution, we are considered radical right-wing extremists.
00:34:52.000 Let me ask you this.
00:34:53.000 When I say dissolve police unions, it is 100% consistent with my views on unions across the board in every other sector of life.
00:35:02.000 When John Oliver says, we need to do something about police unions, it is entirely an anomaly with his view of unions in every other aspect of his life.
00:35:10.000 So who is the radical if the common ground solution that we can find right now is consistent with my view the all year long?
00:35:19.000 I'm glad he said it.
00:35:20.000 I'm just glad that he acknowledged, like, hey, these guys are part of the problem.
00:35:24.000 Guess what?
00:35:25.000 Hopefully you'll keep walking down the road and see that most of them are part of the problem.
00:35:29.000 How many Democrats do you think are going to vote to dissolve police unions and set that precedent?
00:35:34.000 I think he said it in this clip, but I'm not sure.
00:35:36.000 He keeps using the word we, as if we need to be part of the solution.
00:35:41.000 Who are you?
00:35:41.000 You're some brummie from England, right?
00:35:46.000 You lie me!
00:35:49.000 No, you're absolutely right!
00:35:50.000 But yeah, does he think that he's part of the problem?
00:35:52.000 I mean, you know, Britain had the slave trade too.
00:35:55.000 Yeah, and a lot of people are like, well, Britain abolished it before.
00:35:57.000 Well, it still existed in the English Empire long after we abolished slavery.
00:36:00.000 That's one thing that people don't understand.
00:36:01.000 Some people are like, oh, I had families fed in Canada.
00:36:04.000 Depends on when that happened, because in Canada they'd say, oh great, look, more slaves! 0.98
00:36:07.000 Okay, I'll go over here and join your slave plantation. 0.99
00:36:10.000 They're the ones that sent out the flyers, come to Canada, you'll be free!
00:36:16.000 As if he thinks that because he's a white person living in America that he was part of the problem and he needs to be part of the solution. 0.61
00:36:21.000 He's an Englishman.
00:36:22.000 How is he going to solve American racism?
00:36:23.000 Which is also something to me that is so... There are protests in Paris and London and Marseilles.
00:36:29.000 Hold on a second, are you saying that all of your police forces Are racist?
00:36:33.000 Well, let's discount the French because they're just always looking for a reason to riot and there hasn't been a soccer game because of the COVID. 0.99
00:36:39.000 So are you saying that your police force is racist, in which case it's not inherently unique to American history, or are you rioting and burning down your cities because you have a problem with the Minneapolis police force, in which case you're just looking for a reason to burn down cities.
00:36:53.000 There's no reason that people should be rioting anywhere in Europe.
00:36:57.000 Yeah, if you've got a cinder block about to throw it through a CVS or whatever they have over there, then the problem is not in your system.
00:37:08.000 Is in you.
00:37:09.000 Well, the problem's in your hands.
00:37:10.000 There we go.
00:37:11.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:11.000 You are the problem.
00:37:12.000 It is the cinder block, largely.
00:37:14.000 Go for a brick that's a little thicker.
00:37:15.000 Yeah, thicker, a little bit thicker.
00:37:17.000 You can break cinder blocks really easily.
00:37:18.000 Especially if you pre-break them like Bruce Lee in his little demonstrations.
00:37:21.000 Like, ha ha!
00:37:22.000 Oh, yeah, I saw you already pre-cracked that.
00:37:24.000 Here, use my cinder block.
00:37:26.000 I don't want!
00:37:27.000 Okay, I understand.
00:37:28.000 I don't do party tricks!
00:37:29.000 It's so, such bullcrap!
00:37:30.000 I watched that thirty first... and listen, Bruce Lee, brilliant theorist, martial art, on that front, of course we've talked about this, but this idea of breaking boards and... No one is going down to a construction site and telling the foreman, hey listen, if you need a hand, I can one-inch punch... No!
00:37:43.000 It's a charade, they're charlatans.
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00:38:05.000 This is fantastic.
00:38:06.000 By the way, how is this not sticking to Democrats at all?
00:38:10.000 Like, all of these problem cities that we hear about are controlled almost exclusively by Democrats.
00:38:15.000 That's pretty much all large cities.
00:38:16.000 I know, but for decades are people not going, hey, I keep voting for these people and they can't change anything.
00:38:22.000 Like, if it's systemic, they're a part of the system.
00:38:24.000 The people that you put in office are the system!
00:38:26.000 There is no other system than that!
00:38:28.000 Look at the Baltimore Mayor and City Council when that stuff happens.
00:38:31.000 I forget who said it, but how did Donald Trump end up being able to mess up only Democrat-run cities?
00:38:40.000 He's like a selective intestinal binder.
00:38:42.000 It only binds to toxins, not nutrients, for the detox.
00:38:48.000 A little inside baseball.
00:38:49.000 Let's go to the next clip.
00:38:50.000 And if a city doesn't feel that it has to settle with you, you're in real trouble because civil suits against cops are nearly impossible to win.
00:38:58.000 Just listen to a defense attorney explain one reason that it was going to be difficult for Michael Brown's family to sue the Ferguson officer who killed him.
00:39:05.000 Civilly?
00:39:05.000 Sure, they could go after him civilly.
00:39:07.000 The problem is he has qualified immunity.
00:39:09.000 He's going to say that I was acting within the scope of my employment.
00:39:12.000 This is what I was doing.
00:39:13.000 Yeah, and he is right about that.
00:39:16.000 Okay, so let's be clear, with hundreds of staffers over there at HBO and a multi-million dollar salary himself, his source, not like the FBI, DOJ, or any of the New York Times that we use here, is a guy.
00:39:30.000 With a kind of defense attorney who likely hasn't practiced law in many years because he's mostly spending his time being a guy on television.
00:39:38.000 I trust that guy, he's on the TV.
00:39:39.000 It's very hard to sue, just listen to this guy who I handpicked to make my point.
00:39:45.000 It's not even a good point.
00:39:46.000 And he's right.
00:39:47.000 And he's right.
00:39:48.000 Because I wouldn't have picked him otherwise.
00:39:51.000 No, the reason it was difficult for Mike Brown to sue Darren Wilson's family of the officer in question is because, unlike the hands-up-don't-shoot lie, Mike Brown was repeatedly punching the officer in the head and reaching for his gun.
00:40:11.000 Specifically an officer, by the way, who was known to serve underprivileged minority communities and had a stellar track record.
00:40:16.000 Very different from the George Floyd situation.
00:40:18.000 Mike Brown, which was the catalyst for all of this, it would be really hard to sue someone for murder when you're trying to murder them.
00:40:26.000 Well, this was in our montage, I think on Thursday, where a guy was going in to loot a store and a white guy who owned the store was holding a shotgun at him.
00:40:36.000 This guy starts walking toward the guy with the shotgun saying, hands up, don't shoot.
00:40:41.000 Like he's the victim in this scenario.
00:40:43.000 It's not parlay!
00:40:45.000 Hands up, also I'm gonna steal everything.
00:40:49.000 I think we'll be talking about this tomorrow on the show, all of the myths of these protesters like Scurlock.
00:40:53.000 One of them, Ilhan Omar tweeted out, the lady who was being choked by the officer.
00:40:55.000 She was never choked by the officer.
00:40:57.000 And then when you see the full context, the lady was hitting the gear shift while the officer was pulling over, refused to provide ID, kept reaching into her purse when he said, don't reach into the purse.
00:41:05.000 And then finally when he's trying to get her to the ground, she goes, I SAID I WANT A SHERIFF! 1.00
00:41:10.000 I don't get a rat's ass!
00:41:12.000 I mean, I don't know what the Black Lives Matter equivalent to Karen is, but let's find a name for it. 0.76
00:41:17.000 That's not how it works!
00:41:18.000 I asked, did you not hear?
00:41:20.000 I said, Sheriff!
00:41:22.000 It's like, I said I'll be acting free!
00:41:26.000 That's not how this works!
00:41:29.000 Could you imagine?
00:41:30.000 No one would ever be arrested!
00:41:31.000 It's like, all right, is this bag of methamphetamine and this AK-47 yours and those underage children in the back of your car, did they come in from Honduras as sex slaves?
00:41:41.000 Sheriff!
00:41:42.000 Damn it!
00:41:42.000 Well, we're gonna wait here for another... We're gonna be here a while.
00:41:45.000 You want some decaf?
00:41:46.000 I'm on base.
00:41:47.000 I'm safe.
00:41:47.000 I'm safe.
00:41:48.000 I'm on base.
00:41:48.000 Oh my...
00:41:49.000 Oh my God!
00:41:49.000 I know you're right.
00:41:50.000 This is just absolutely ridiculous to me.
00:41:52.000 The hands up, don't shoot, the mantra is a lie.
00:41:56.000 You have the right, by the way, you have the right to not allow an officer to search your vehicle.
00:42:01.000 Just to be clear, if there's not a valid warrant, when you get, and I think this is important for people to know, there are videos on this, you have the right to not be detained unless you are being charged.
00:42:10.000 You have the right to ask officers questions.
00:42:12.000 You should never say, when the officer says, do you know why I pulled you over?
00:42:15.000 Your answer should always be, uh, no.
00:42:18.000 Yeah.
00:42:19.000 You tell me.
00:42:19.000 It's a fishing question.
00:42:21.000 I learned that one the hard way.
00:42:23.000 When I said broken taillight, he said, uh, speeding.
00:42:25.000 I said, damn it!
00:42:28.000 The taillight's been fixed.
00:42:29.000 Yes.
00:42:31.000 You know what else makes it hard for you to sue somebody?
00:42:33.000 Is when he was performing his job, not just because that shields him, but because he was defending his life, right?
00:42:38.000 Not all shootings are crimes.
00:42:39.000 And in this case, we talked about he was defending his life, and you make that sound like it's a bad thing.
00:42:43.000 John Oliver's making it sound like he was murdered.
00:42:45.000 Right.
00:42:46.000 It wasn't murdered.
00:42:47.000 When you're beating somebody up, And that's why I understand your question.
00:42:49.000 Is he stupid?
00:42:50.000 This is one of those points.
00:42:51.000 You know what I mean?
00:42:52.000 It's like someone who says women get 77 cents on the dollar.
00:42:54.000 I don't think Barack Obama is stupid.
00:42:56.000 I believe that Barack Obama has decided the ends justify the means and he's going to perpetuate that lie in the American public despite the fact that he's probably read The Economist once.
00:43:04.000 At least.
00:43:04.000 Yeah.
00:43:05.000 There are people surrounding him.
00:43:06.000 All of John Oliver's researchers have the same perspective.
00:43:09.000 They're not going to send him the sources that don't agree with him.
00:43:12.000 Right.
00:43:12.000 So obviously he has things hand-selected before they get to him, so he can't reason through it.
00:43:17.000 But this is the weakest of all of their arguments, right?
00:43:17.000 Right.
00:43:20.000 Of all the people, right?
00:43:21.000 Because Trayvon Martin wasn't a police officer that had any interaction with him, but this is, in my opinion, the weakest one of all of them.
00:43:27.000 Yeah, it's the worst one.
00:43:28.000 Why do you pick Mike Brown?
00:43:29.000 Tamir Rice was pretty bad, too, because he had his hood on in the park and he was aiming what looked like a real gun Yeah, exactly.
00:43:35.000 And people were like, he shot someone with a toy gun.
00:43:37.000 Listen, it wasn't like a translucent Dollar Tree squirt gun.
00:43:42.000 It looked like a replica.
00:43:44.000 And it wasn't like it was just sitting in his backpack and threatening people with it.
00:43:46.000 Yeah.
00:43:47.000 It wasn't some guy who was in a Nerf or Nothing commercial.
00:43:52.000 Shootin' down barrels.
00:43:54.000 Um, let's go here to the uh, oh by the way we have Manny the art critic.
00:43:58.000 Yeah, yeah, he's coming up.
00:44:00.000 He has strong opinions on post-modern art, so that'll be a little bit later. Let's move on to the next clip.
00:44:04.000 Defunding the police absolutely does not mean that we eliminate all cops and just succumb to the purge.
00:44:11.000 Instead, it's about moving away from a narrow conception of public safety that relies on policing and punishment
00:44:18.000 and investing in a community's actual safety net.
00:44:20.000 Things like stable housing, mental health services, and community organizations.
00:44:25.000 Ah, yeah, stable housing.
00:44:26.000 Again, more crime or less crime?
00:44:27.000 How do you deal with the crime in stable housing?
00:44:29.000 The projects!
00:44:30.000 Ooh, yeah, that's right, you need police.
00:44:32.000 How do you deal with the crime in Baltimore-Ferguson, where there was potentially irreparable economic damage?
00:44:37.000 Why do you think that people in those cities said, we want the police back in here?
00:44:41.000 Stat!
00:44:42.000 Because it's necessary to protect people who are actually trying to keep an economy alive in these cities.
00:44:48.000 You don't base policy around the people tearing down lives and economies.
00:44:52.000 You base policy around protecting people who are actual contributors.
00:44:56.000 And what you don't know, Steven, is that when police are present, that's what causes crime.
00:44:59.000 So if there weren't police in these communities, it would be a utopia.
00:45:01.000 get a voice on CNN. Absolutely and what you don't know Stephen is that when
00:45:04.000 police are present that's what causes crime. So if there weren't police in
00:45:07.000 these communities there would be no it would be a utopia.
00:45:09.000 Right. It would just be like a nice apartment building. Well yeah right the problem
00:45:13.000 is that they actually do believe that people are inherently good. Right. Take
00:45:16.000 away the outer constraints.
00:45:18.000 If you take away any outer constraints, everybody will be able to live up to their full potential and be able to creatively express themselves.
00:45:24.000 But it's a Marxist lie.
00:45:25.000 It's this idea that, again, the problem is authority.
00:45:28.000 The problem is power.
00:45:29.000 No, actually, the problem is our hearts.
00:45:31.000 The problem is that we hate each other, right?
00:45:34.000 That we love evil.
00:45:35.000 And you know, only it's like every Every year before this year, you know?
00:45:40.000 In history, forever.
00:45:44.000 It's ridiculous how they think that... All of a sudden, everybody's going to hug each other, and we're just going to give each other free things, and we can barter, and it's going to be fine.
00:45:53.000 And the problem is with authority, and how do we fix it?
00:45:54.000 By monumental authority, in a sense.
00:45:56.000 Right, right.
00:45:57.000 Like, how do you enforce it?
00:45:59.000 How do you enforce it?
00:46:00.000 It's a self-defeating worldview.
00:46:05.000 It cannot work.
00:46:06.000 And I tell you what, not only have you turned more people racist, which just terrifies me to think of the ramifications 10 years down the line, but you've also turned more people who were libertarian into semi-populist nationalists.
00:46:18.000 Because I will tell you this, I'm someone who obviously has espoused personal liberties in defunding the police or dissolving the police union, sorry, for a very long time.
00:46:25.000 But now at this point I go, I would have never imagined myself saying, send in the United States Army.
00:46:32.000 But when you have to react to a city on fire, you've moved people like me to actually trusting the authority of the government to some degree because of social media.
00:46:42.000 They're more dangerous sometimes than even the United States government.
00:46:44.000 Because people who are killing over 20 Americans in cities and harming our officers and demanding the total defunding of police and city councils are actually complicit with it.
00:46:54.000 It makes me go, I guess we do need the feds to step in. 0.88
00:46:57.000 I don't like this about myself!
00:47:00.000 It's the exact same reason a lot of conservatives have adopted the social security thing as being a necessary thing, because they see that, in a lot of ways, churches, families, have all failed to take care of their people.
00:47:12.000 Right.
00:47:12.000 And so, okay, well, I guess some other higher... By the way, their people could be black, could be white, could be black, could be Tudor-Bismarck!
00:47:21.000 Yeah, so do we really think that we're in a position culturally where we can actually take away all of our safety nets that we've put in?
00:47:27.000 I don't think so.
00:47:28.000 I think we should take away the safety nets, but the safety nets are a symptom of a larger cultural problem, again, that starts with ourselves.
00:47:35.000 Disagree.
00:47:36.000 The safety nets have been working like a charm.
00:47:37.000 While we're talking about defunding the police, nary a criticism of the social safety nets.
00:47:46.000 It doesn't mean totally defunding the police.
00:47:48.000 Take it from MPD150.
00:47:49.000 This is the activist group, by the way, that's pushing for the complete abolishment of Minneapolis police.
00:47:54.000 When we talk about abolition here in Minneapolis, we're not talking about rebranding police or privatizing police or community policing or any of the reform tactics that could potentially be used to undermine this work.
00:48:03.000 We're talking about building a police-free future.
00:48:06.000 So, what are you supposed to do in this police-free future?
00:48:09.000 Let's say someone like a George Floyd who broke in and jammed a pistol into a pregnant woman's gut.
00:48:14.000 What do you do if you're that woman today? 0.90
00:48:17.000 Here, let's watch on CNN.
00:48:19.000 Do you understand that the word dismantle or police-free also makes some people nervous?
00:48:25.000 For instance, what if in the middle of the night my home is broken into?
00:48:29.000 Who do I call?
00:48:32.000 Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality, where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
00:48:54.000 That's the city council president, just to be clear.
00:48:57.000 That's not some random person.
00:48:58.000 Why do you take an extreme example to make a point?
00:49:00.000 That's the person in charge of the pledges and votes.
00:49:04.000 Isn't that terrifying?
00:49:05.000 So my body, my choice, unless we're talking about rape, then it's wombs for all. 1.00
00:49:13.000 Yeah, well, if the system's not working for you, tear down the system.
00:49:16.000 I guess that's the idea.
00:49:17.000 Right.
00:49:17.000 And does anyone actually believe for a second that if a black woman is being raped and calls the police, the police show up and be like, huh, good job, go get him, tiger, and walks out?
00:49:24.000 No, of course not.
00:49:26.000 And even if you believe that what happened with George Floyd is indicative of the entire police force, which I don't, I do think we have some bad police officers, and I think the unions protect them, and we need to do something about that.
00:49:36.000 Absolutely.
00:49:37.000 That does not mean that police are not answering calls in these neighborhoods.
00:49:40.000 Because keep in mind, most of these police live in these communities.
00:49:43.000 Yeah, you know who gets the most upset about this?
00:49:46.000 Law-abiding citizens that live in those communities that are like, why won't the police come and help me?
00:49:50.000 In some of the worst places in America, in Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, and I named them because they have some of the worst places in America, right?
00:49:56.000 Detroit, cops just sometimes don't go to certain areas at certain times because it's not safe And do you know who's most harmed by it?
00:50:02.000 While we're talking about all these gaps and we're talking about pain.
00:50:04.000 Do you know who will be most harmed by this?
00:50:05.000 It's black women. 1.00
00:50:06.000 Yes.
00:50:06.000 Black women specifically.
00:50:08.000 Black women will be defenseless and helpless. 1.00
00:50:11.000 And I want to see, well first off I want black women out there to arm themselves. 1.00
00:50:14.000 I want black women to be able to defend themselves because police response time isn't the same in the whole country. 0.99
00:50:18.000 I want to read more stories of strong black woman shoots would-be intruder and rapist instead of black woman victim of repeated domestic abuse like 6ix9ine girlfriend of seven years by the way. And unfortunately we 0.74
00:50:33.000 also do have a community that glorifies it when you look at a lot of our culture and
00:50:36.000 when you look at hip-hop. I was amazed I went down the rabbit hole of Charlemagne and the 6ix9ine 1.00
00:50:42.000 guy, 6669, this guy committed sex acts with a minor on videotape, he beat his girlfriend for seven
00:50:50.000 years, admitted to it, joined a gang, put a hit on somebody to have the guy shot, and then snitched
00:50:56.000 on the gang so he got a plea bargain and then he was sentenced to prison and he got out because
00:51:01.000 of coronavirus and his asthma condition.
00:51:03.000 Could you have more of a pussy? 1.00
00:51:06.000 And this guy is being glorified?
00:51:09.000 Well, and who has the privilege in that situation?
00:51:11.000 This guy obviously does because he's famous and has asthma.
00:51:14.000 Are we calling it an asthma privilege?
00:51:18.000 I can't be in with coronavirus because my asthma!
00:51:23.000 My asthma!
00:51:25.000 Take his glasses, make a magnifying glass, start a fire!
00:51:30.000 Well, what about the black cops, too?
00:51:31.000 I mean, when you make a call for the police, it's not like you're just going to get white cops every single time.
00:51:35.000 You're going to get black cops and Asian cops. 1.00
00:51:36.000 There are more black cops than there are black people in this country.
00:51:39.000 So can I check my phone and say, is this like a menu when I call in an emergency?
00:51:44.000 Can I say, I would prefer black police officers or Hispanic police officers? 0.99
00:51:49.000 Is that the privilege that we're talking about as well?
00:51:50.000 I like my police officers a la race cart.
00:51:54.000 Sir, what is your police officer preference?
00:51:55.000 Unfortunately right now, our whole police system is family style.
00:52:01.000 It's like tapas.
00:52:02.000 Also, no Italian cops.
00:52:03.000 Don't trust the guineas.
00:52:04.000 Let's go to the next clip.
00:52:06.000 This clearly isn't about individual officers.
00:52:09.000 It's about a structure built on systemic racism that this country created intentionally and now needs to dismantle intentionally and replace with one that takes into account the needs of the people that it actually serves.
00:52:22.000 And this is going to take sustained pressure and attention over a long period of time.
00:52:27.000 Okay, um, a couple of things to get to here.
00:52:30.000 How funny would it be if I got taken off YouTube for Guinea?
00:52:34.000 That's the least of all your offenses.
00:52:35.000 If that's what it is, if that's what it is, if he said Guinea, there's one guy like, Hey! 0.80
00:52:39.000 I used to be a fan!
00:52:41.000 What does that mean?
00:52:42.000 What does it mean?
00:52:43.000 I'm from Sicily!
00:52:45.000 He has changed.
00:52:45.000 He has changed.
00:52:48.000 I can't even watch a true romance without my blood boiling!
00:52:56.000 You're banned from Italy.
00:52:57.000 One thing that I know here, well, you know, listen, if they ban me, if it comes along with banning rapist migrants, I'll take the out. 1.00
00:53:07.000 When they talk about serving their community, again, many of these officers are from these communities, why isn't anyone asking how we can serve noble police officers?
00:53:16.000 That's something people say, mostly peaceful protesters.
00:53:18.000 Well, I disagree, but certainly mostly peaceful officers, right?
00:53:23.000 How about we find out how we can serve?
00:53:24.000 Because I'll tell you what, this is something that I challenge everybody to do out there, and I would like you to comment, let me know that if you've done this, but I have been just driving up to cops, and again, I always make sure my hands, I don't say, hands up, don't shoot, and then reach for the gun.
00:53:34.000 No, no.
00:53:37.000 And I say, hey, listen, thanks.
00:53:38.000 I appreciate you.
00:53:40.000 I know that it's a tough job right now.
00:53:42.000 I had one officer choke up. 0.59
00:53:43.000 Yeah.
00:53:44.000 If everyone out there just does that, and listen, there's a 1 out of 10 shot that you say it to a dick who's like, yeah, that gives me the right to go give swirlies.
00:53:50.000 And that's a problem.
00:53:54.000 So, this is one thing I really do.
00:53:56.000 We're talking about the marginalized, we're talking about people who've been stereotyped.
00:53:59.000 Listen, what about the good black cop, the David Dorns out there?
00:54:03.000 That really is the forgotten hero.
00:54:04.000 As far as John Oliver's final point, it really is.
00:54:07.000 That's what I'm talking about.
00:54:08.000 It's about individual officers.
00:54:09.000 The nine unarmed black victims from last year that I talked about, nine total fatally shot unarmed black victims, that represents 0.1% of all African-American deaths in 2019.
00:54:20.000 Blacks are far more likely in this country to be killed by other black Americans than by any other race.
00:54:27.000 It's not even close.
00:54:29.000 That is a problem that we need to address.
00:54:31.000 And by the way, it doesn't address creating more government housing.
00:54:35.000 If people go into government housing, they're still being raped, abused, and killed by other fellow black members of that government housing project. 0.92
00:54:46.000 Throwing money at it doesn't solve the problem.
00:54:47.000 We see it with schools in Detroit, and we see it with project housing.
00:54:53.000 People want to say you're being superficial, you don't want to get to the root of the problem.
00:54:56.000 Well, it seems to me the only root of the problem that you see is white people and more money please, more money please. 0.94
00:55:02.000 And we know that hasn't worked, period.
00:55:04.000 Yeah, and you'll have willing and sympathetic ears on the Democratic side because they know that if they just keep promising you free stuff, promising a better tomorrow, promising that it's going to get better, but never actually delivering, you'll vote for them for the rest of your lives.
00:55:16.000 It's the one thing that just, again, blows my mind that the people that you elected can't deliver for you, and you keep voting for them every single time.
00:55:23.000 And you and I would agree We want better training for police officers.
00:55:26.000 We want more funding to go to programs that keep people from getting into crime in the first place.
00:55:30.000 But there are two sides to this conversation.
00:55:33.000 The police can do a better job, and every single community in America can also do a better job.
00:55:38.000 The black community can do a better job with their kids, with their families.
00:55:41.000 White community can do a better job with our kids and our families.
00:55:44.000 Why are we only talking about one side of the issue?
00:55:47.000 Because if you just don't be a jerk when a cop comes up to you, most of the time you're gonna be just fine.
00:55:52.000 If you don't have an attitude when you say officer, You don't have the right to search my car, but if you're like, you do not have the right to search my car, get out of here!
00:55:58.000 Like, what do you think the cop is going to do in response?
00:55:59.000 You said the same thing, but added a get out of here.
00:56:01.000 I did, yeah, the get out of here part.
00:56:01.000 I didn't buy it.
00:56:02.000 It was over, it was a little higher.
00:56:04.000 I'm unconvinced.
00:56:06.000 If I'm an officer, you'd be getting the baton very quickly.
00:56:12.000 Here's the thing, in the national conversation we talk about bad cops, right?
00:56:16.000 And we talk about peaceful protesters, and yeah, some people talk about bad actors, as they say, rioters and looters, or as I describe them, the majority.
00:56:25.000 And we also talk about bad white people and good white people. 0.55
00:56:28.000 But there is no national conversation about recognizing good cops, specifically good black cops.
00:56:34.000 And that does matter, as we're going to parse everybody into statistics by race.
00:56:39.000 It's something that is worthwhile discussing when you have a higher percentage of police officers who are black than the general population in America.
00:56:49.000 Why do we examine the intricacies and get granular as it relates to race in every other facet where there really isn't any kind of consistency if we're talking about unarmed black people shot versus unarmed white people, if we're talking about government project housing, if we're talking about people spending.
00:57:01.000 But it is undeniably right in front of us that there is a higher percentage of black officers than black Americans.
00:57:08.000 If you want to ask the tough questions, how about you ask why those black Americans have decided that the best way to serve their community is to join the police force, and why they don't get a spot on your quadrant view on CNN.