On this episode of No Cops: A Grab Bag Friday, the crew picks through some of the craziest things the New York Times has to say about the deportation of a Jamaican migrant. Plus, we play a game of Montana Cop Bingo.
00:02:34.000I know he's doing the Lord's work over there at the FBI.
00:02:36.000We're going to play Montana Cop Bingo because it's horribly offensive, and it's an episode of Media Malpractice because the New York Times...
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00:05:19.000So he actually does it from 11 o 'clock Eastern and going forward on Friday.
00:05:23.000Of course, this will be for those of you who are Rumble Premium members, where it's mostly just a chat and grab bag of what we missed with you, the members.
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00:09:13.000You know, it's like the equivalent, like, they're, like, attempted suicides.
00:09:16.000You know, where someone, like, takes a bunch of pills and, I don't know, a little bit of Chardonnay, and, like, makes a call, like, I don't know, I don't feel well, I hope I don't die.
00:10:13.000And the fact that she tries to stop him, like, some people are speculating, like, oh, it sounds like maybe she confronted him about, you know, a good thing, like, cheating or something.
00:12:38.000Well, these cops in Bozeman, Montana, they had a cop, a job-related bingo card for their shifts on duty, and you can see why maybe it didn't go over so well.
00:12:51.000Two teams of patrol officers were engaged in a bingo competition with success hinging on whether they completed actions listed on their cards.
00:13:00.000The officers made cards including multiple categories ranging from fitness tests between the two sides to putting out a fire before firefighters arrived to the types of arrests or calls the officers handled.
00:13:14.000For the police chief, the most concerning squares were ones that could possibly impact how a case or investigation was handled.
00:14:58.000So if they got this butt-ass naked, if they were hit on by the arrestee.
00:15:00.000And there was a winner, but the category, actually, the winner immediately raised suspicions when they found out that said winner was Officer McButtface.
00:16:37.000Sometimes the information, it changes, and you have to adapt.
00:16:41.000Sometimes it's not only malicious, but it's so tone deaf that you're basically putting your ear to the ground to hear the piano even though you're riddled with syphilis.
00:17:03.000All references, we make them publicly available.
00:17:05.000I highly recommend you go and read this.
00:17:08.000There might be a paywall if you don't have a membership.
00:17:10.000We have to pay for all these memberships, and I feel guilty to New York Times and Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, Forbes, blah, blah, blah.
00:17:31.000But it also shows you, when people talk about the country club sort of Democrats, you know, the parties have changed a little bit now, what they're talking about is this.
00:17:38.000The person writing this does not care about you.
00:17:41.000The person writing this doesn't believe that anyone, including serial criminals who have no business being here, should be deported.
00:17:48.000So if you just sort of follow that down the end of its logical trail, it's, oh, okay, you need to pay for these people, as we have seen in New York City.
00:17:58.000As we've seen with hotels, as we've seen with SNAP benefits, EBT cards, right?
00:18:03.000If they don't believe that this guy should be deported, and this is an entire write-up.
00:22:55.000Mr. Blair did not give them details about his past.
00:22:58.000An odyssey that began with a side hustle dealing marijuana in the New York suburbs with a 24-year-old Jamaican transplant, which led to a kidnapping conviction he disputed and a 15-year prison sentence he fulfilled.
00:24:49.000It's like, well, yeah, look, we all agreed we're going to start deporting the violent criminals, you know, certainly pedophiles, kidnappers.
00:25:54.000But to Mr. Blair and his supporters...
00:25:57.000His life story was one of rehabilitation nuanced and filled with qualities that they believe Mr. Trump's deportation machine disregards as it flies out immigrants en masse.
00:26:29.000His removal from the United States and dizzying journey back to the Caribbean raises a fundamental question Americans are grappling with as they consider the president's immigration crackdown.
00:28:38.000I also feel like if they wanted to paint him in a more positive light, like, the New York Times could have, they could have chosen a litany of different phrases, but instead it's like, abducting an acquaintance.
00:29:19.000The deportation order loomed over Mr. Blair as he rebuilt his life after prison.
00:29:25.000Mr. Blair, who lived in Yonkers, New York, and worked in Harlem, had to check in at the ICE office in downtown Manhattan seven times over five years.
00:30:41.000Mr. Blair regularly shipped barrels filled with cooking supplies, textiles, and other goods from his home in Yonkers, New York, to his family in Jamaica.
00:30:47.000Now, back in his homeland, he's benefiting from the contents.
00:30:52.000How much do you want to bet that they weren't just cooking supplies in those barrels that he was shipping back?
00:31:01.000This is a guy who was selling so much weed that a friend in his apartment building knew how much weed was being sold, and he did 15 years for kidnapping, said Snitch.
00:31:12.000And I don't know about you, but even when I ship Christmas gifts to families, they're often not barrels.
00:31:19.000They tell you how much weed was in his apartment?
00:31:23.000Very much later in the article so that you give up before then.
00:32:06.000Nearly 50 friends, supporters, and New Yorkers, an unlikely contingent of community organizers, college professors, and faith leaders, showed up outside in solidarity, bearing posters.
00:32:45.000Then it says, They had banded together to try to stop his deportation through a flurry of last-minute letters to ICE, casting him in a sympathetic light, a rehabilitated man who had repaid his debt to society.
00:32:57.000So I guess ICE didn't take it, but then you wrote a puff piece on it, New York Times.
00:34:33.000But instead, since they have to wade through the bullcrap and, like you said, tug on your heartstrings, it's just a bunch of irrelevant information.
00:34:41.000The guy came here illegally and he immediately committed a serious crime that violates an American's fundamental human rights.
00:35:17.000When Mr. Mr. Blair was transferred to a jail a short drive north in Orange County, New York, where ICE holds many people rounded up in New York.
00:35:24.000ICE officers paraded Mr. Blair and other detainees before loading them into vans posing for photos with immigrants like trophies, Blair said.
00:38:10.000You would like them to explain to him, do it at a reasonable hour so he can get a full night's rest, and then have him in a public airport with no restraints so he can easily run away.
00:38:19.000They sound like it's such a victim story to get up at 3am to go to the airport.
00:39:44.000Caribbean nations have been bracing for an influx of flights packed with repatriated citizens as well as people looking to self-deport to avoid the shame associated with deportation.
00:39:54.000So all of this and how terrible it is, they're also saying that a lot of people are voluntarily deporting.
00:39:59.000Which he could have done if he had a problem with those seven visits during five years.
00:40:06.000Jamaicans deported to the island, many of whom have criminal backgrounds.
00:40:12.000How much you want to bet most of whom, close to all of whom, have long had to grapple with social stigma that stems from a widely held perception that deportees are unemployable, dangerous, and destined to fuel crime.
00:40:30.000Yeah, yeah, I would imagine that if someone is arriving, In Jamaica, and whatever their equivalent to immigration or customs are like, reason for him getting to Jamaica.
00:40:41.000And the guy's like, oh, he's a criminal who kidnapped people.
00:40:44.000They're like, oh, so there's a good chance he'll kidnap over here.
00:41:05.000And chased dreams of playing soccer in England.
00:41:08.000Yet in 2005, less than two years after moving to the United States on a work visa to join his father, the state with the largest Jamaican pocket, he wound up sitting in a Westchester jail.
00:41:18.000Well, he did because he committed crimes.
00:42:31.000This is the New York Times person, not him again.
00:42:33.000Those dreams were resoundingly shattered on October 11, 2005, when an 18-year-old who lived in Mr. Blair's building broke into his apartment and stole half a pound of marijuana and money.
00:42:41.000Mr. Blair did not report the break into the police, fearful of getting busted for possessing marijuana.
00:43:41.000And so he got a group of other grown men to kidnap a teenager, tie him up, pistol whip him, and hold him ransom, demanding money from the kid's father.
00:43:53.000But at least they didn't call the cops on him.
00:43:57.000Then it says, the police freed the teenager that night after raiding the apartment where they found two handguns and two pounds of marijuana.
00:44:15.000Their couple deniability is they show up, they find a teenager who's been kidnapped by a group of Jamaican men, likely bruises all over his face, tied to a chair, but the New York Times wants you to believe his defense was he had the gun, went like, oh, it's on the floor!
00:44:51.000Who among us hasn't recruited two other Jamaican bodyguards and kidnapped a teenager while destroying their father's life, holding him for ransom, pistol-ripping him in the cock?
00:44:59.000I think it's also the plot of Bad Boys 2. I could go on.
00:48:48.000During the two-week trial, Mr. Blair testified that police officers beat him while he was chained to a desk and coerced testimony that was used at the trial.
00:51:12.000Here's something else that I find funny.
00:51:13.000Upon returning to Jamaica, Mr. Blair focused on his immediate needs, buying clothes, getting his belongings shipped, finding out how to obtain an ID.
00:51:20.000It's like, oh, so they make you do that in Jamaica?
00:51:23.000And they don't just give you free clothes and figure that out?
00:51:26.000They expect you to make your own way and have ID?
00:51:29.000Here's where it says, the jury struggled to render a verdict, and a mistrial seemed possible.
00:51:34.000Oh, okay, so the New York Times, right, so there was a mistrial.
00:51:36.000But a judge instructed the jurors to continue deliberating after they said they were deadlocked, according to the court documents, which are not public.
00:51:43.000After five days of deliberations, the jury found Mr. Blair guilty of kidnapping in the first degree, but not the other charges.
00:51:49.000The weapons charges, the guns that were clearly found.
00:52:16.000They did this whole thing with Tukey Williams.
00:52:18.000And I think people can be rehabilitated.
00:52:20.000But there was a huge civil rights protest.
00:52:21.000Tukey Williams, how could they put him to death?
00:52:24.000Well, Tukey Williams, I believe, was involved with...
00:52:27.000It was the murder, the Crips, the killing of four different people on three separate occasions, if I'm not mistaken.
00:52:35.000And then when he was in prison, they said, oh, he wrote children's books, sure.
00:52:38.000But he never gave up the information that would have led to the arrest of those people who likely were out there, they were still members of the Crips, killing people.
00:52:45.000So it's like, yeah, okay, we get that you want to check your little bingo card saying, look, I'm rehabilitated, but where you can actually make a difference, there are still those gang members, the gang that you helped found out there on the street, right?
00:53:10.000Now remember that because this man, Mr. Blair, he began writing poetry that he published online and in a newsletter that he circulated inside the prison.
00:53:56.000It almost seems like if you look at this, he met her while he was in prison.
00:54:00.000And she was banging him while he was in prison, and then he immediately left her, that he almost didn't actually care about her and was just banging her.
00:54:08.000Surely it goes into how he's a great father here somewhere.
00:58:11.000It's probably the job where it says he was handcuffed.
00:58:14.000There's something earlier where it says, where one of these ladies that was protesting says, I feel like if Mr. Trump met Mr. Blair, he would think that he is what makes America great.
00:58:29.000It was his criminal past that had gotten him deported from the United States, where he had been rebuilding his life and seeking redemption.
00:58:33.000He had earned two college degrees, started a trucking business.
00:58:41.000So thinking about starting a business is starting a business.
01:00:09.000Just a few days after arriving, Mr. Blair was showering and flushing with buckets of water as the family dealt.
01:00:14.000With a water outage, a frequent occurrence.
01:00:17.000Hey, can you guys bring up, and I like him, but Conan O 'Brien, remember when Donald Trump said that Haiti was a shithole or he said like these shithole countries?
01:00:24.000And then Conor O 'Brien took a picture of him in the water and was like, Haiti has always been beautiful.