Derek Chauvin is on trial for the death of a black man, George Floyd, who was shot and killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May of 2019. The incident was captured on video by a bystander, and the video will likely serve as a focal point for the prosecution.
00:27:18.440and second-degree manslaughter charges in Floyd's death. Second-degree murder carries the haptiest
00:27:23.320potential penalty. If convicted on that charge, he could face up to 40 years in prison. That requires
00:27:29.400the highest burden of proof, though. They're going to have to prove that Chauvin caused Floyd's death
00:27:35.440while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense. The lesser charge of third-degree murder
00:27:40.480carries a penalty of up to 25 years. The judge, who is overseeing the trial, granted prosecutor's
00:27:47.400request to reinstate the charge this month. He originally said that the circumstances just don't
00:27:54.500merit it, that this is not going to hold up because it requires proof that the person charged
00:27:59.720committed an act imminently dangerous to others, meaning more than one person, but he actually allowed
00:28:04.800it to be reinstated. The final charge Chauvin faces second-degree manslaughter, has the lowest burden
00:28:10.980of proof, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years. Prosecutors would have to prove that Floyd's death
00:28:17.720was caused by Chauvin's negligence and created an unreasonable risk in consciously taking chances of
00:28:24.840causing death or great bodily harm to another. My amateur opinion is that this third one holds up the
00:28:31.560best second-degree manslaughter, but of course, like I said at the beginning, there's a lot that's
00:28:35.980going into this, so it's hard to say what's going to happen, and no one can truly predict the outcome
00:28:40.860of it. According to Fox, the defense is expected to argue that Floyd was not killed on Memorial Day
00:28:48.320by Chauvin's knee, but rather by the drugs he ingested while resisting arrest and underlying health
00:28:53.920conditions, including high blood pressure and heart disease. According to KARE 11 News,
00:28:59.840handwritten note of a law enforcement interview with Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County Medical
00:29:05.360Examiner, say Floyd had a lot of fentanyl in his system. If we were, he said, if he were found dead
00:29:14.500at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD. Deaths have been
00:29:21.040certified with levels of a lot less than this. That is the level of fentanyl that he had in his body,
00:29:27.960this medical examiner said, is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances, but he does go
00:29:35.440on to say, I am not saying that this killed him. So he's stating the facts of what was in his body,
00:29:41.000but he can't say that that's actually what killed him, but that's what the defense attorneys are
00:29:46.800probably going to say. They've signaled that, that they're going to argue that Floyd died from
00:29:52.600the drugs and preexisting health conditions. Also, according to Fox, the autopsy conducted by the
00:29:57.280Hennepin County Medical Examiner actually did determine that Floyd's cause of death was a
00:30:02.100cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement, subdual restraint and neck compression.
00:30:09.280It was ruled a homicide. Floyd's family later hired private doctors to conduct an independent autopsy,
00:30:17.000which listed the cause of death as mechanical asphyxia and the manner of death as homicide.
00:30:23.380So the defense is going to say, look, there's no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the
00:30:30.300neck compression is what killed him. He had fatal levels of fentanyl in his system. People have
00:30:34.700reportedly been killed by less. He also apparently, according to the medical examiner, has a very
00:30:39.740serious heart condition. Beyond that, the defense is probably going to say that there was no intent
00:30:46.860there. They're going to point to the fact that apparently, reportedly, this was a hold that the
00:30:52.540Minneapolis police force had been trained to use, and there's no way that he can actually be justly
00:30:59.420convicted of murder. According to Insider, the Minneapolis police department trained its officers
00:31:06.420to use the neck restraint that led to George Floyd's killing, according to court documents. And so that
00:31:13.400might look bad for the police force, but that actually helps Derek Chauvin's case. He could just say, I was
00:31:19.080doing what I was trained to do. There was obviously no intent to murder. There was no malice behind it,
00:31:25.780whatever. So that is probably what the defense is expected to say. I am not saying that. Some people are
00:31:31.960going to listen to this and think that I am, you know, saying that the defense is my argument, too. I'm just
00:31:37.960saying that's probably what his defense is going to say. They've got a case. Wherever you land on this,
00:31:44.780both sides have their case to make. Here's what NBC tells us about the jury. The jury is made up of
00:31:51.340nine women and six men. Nine of the jurors identify as white, four is black, and two of mixed race.
00:31:57.140They range in ages from 20s to the 60s. Having an impartial jury whose anonymity is protected is crucial.
00:32:07.960To the fairness of these trials. And there was a push by some on the left to release the
00:32:13.900information, for example, of jurors in the Breonna Taylor case after that did not go the
00:32:17.700direction that they wanted, including her family. They were pushing for this information, and they
00:32:23.580actually did, I think, get the transcripts, but they didn't get, thankfully, the names and the
00:32:28.900information of the people on the jury. If that is the new precedent that we set, then again, we will no
00:32:34.820longer have fair trials for anyone of any race on either side of the aisle of any socioeconomic
00:32:41.020background. That spells trouble for everyone. That is not something that we want. So when we say that
00:32:47.600we want justice to be served here, which I think that we all should, that means that we want a fair
00:32:53.060trial with an objective judge, an impartial jury, where both sides bring their best arguments forward,
00:33:00.080the evidence is weighed, and a decision is reached that is not influenced by the media, by public
00:33:06.400opinion, or politics. That's what it will mean for justice to be served. The fact is, we're in a tough
00:33:12.820situation with all of this. If Chauvin is not convicted of the highest charge, then we will be
00:33:18.440hearing endlessly that it's because the system is racist, there will be riots, there will be looting,
00:33:23.360there will probably be murder, there will be property destruction. It will not matter how objective,
00:33:30.080or fair the process is. If BLM and Democrats and left-wing activists do not get what they want
00:33:35.480here, which I believe is the highest possible murder charge, no matter what can actually be
00:33:40.180proven in court, they will use this as a way to relaunch the anarchy that many of them have been
00:33:46.560waging for nearly a year now and redouble their efforts to convince the country that America
00:33:50.840is pervasively and systemically racist and that we need to defund the police. First of all,
00:33:57.620I know this is controversial to say, but it's just true. It needs to be said that we still have no
00:34:03.120evidence whatsoever that what Derek Chauvin did, as awful as it may be, was motivated by race or had
00:34:11.140anything to do with race whatsoever. A black Minneapolis police officer a few years ago shot and killed a
00:34:17.720white woman who had just called 911. And as she was walking up to his car, totally unarmed,
00:34:23.680just this blonde lady in pink pajamas, he shot her point blank and killed her. He only got 12 and a
00:34:31.100half years in prison. And no one talks about systemic injustice or race when it comes to that
00:34:39.080case or in the case of Tony Tempa or Daniel Shaver, if you even know who their names, who they are,
00:34:45.360and if you even know those names, or any of the white people who are killed by the police,
00:34:49.600because it's called narrative. It's called what the media use, or it's what the media use to
00:34:58.240determine whether or not a victim is worth talking about and a crime is worth discussing. That's called
00:35:04.800partiality. And God is very clear that he hates it. So we as Christians should too. Now we need to look
00:35:12.680at the facts around police brutality, because this is going to be a conversation, like I said, that is
00:35:19.500going to be had once again in the next few weeks. And it's a good conversation to have, but we need to
00:35:26.180know what the facts actually are. Now. So let's refresh our memories on some of these statistics when it
00:35:38.360comes to police, uh, when it comes to police shootings and police brutality, this is not to
00:35:44.100take away what, uh, from what happened to George Floyd, because obviously that's important, but I
00:35:48.900want us to be prepared. And I want us to know what the truth is. Um, when this trial really goes one
00:35:54.500way or another, we have to make sure that we are knowledgeable about the facts. According to the
00:35:59.260Washington post database on police shootings, uh, 1021 people were shot and killed by the police last
00:36:07.380year. Now that doesn't include other types of killing of civilians. And we'll talk about that
00:36:11.960too. The Washington post database is only about, um, police shootings in particular. So 1021 fatal
00:36:20.440police shootings of civilians, only a few more than 2019 actually, which is just interesting because
00:36:27.540there was a big uptick in violent crime in 2020. Um, 457 of these were whites, uh, 241 were black. So
00:36:35.680about 45% white, about 27% black. Now of those, most were armed, most were armed. Uh, there were a
00:36:43.480total of only about 50 or not about, there were only 55 unarmed people shot and killed by the police
00:36:50.240last year. So 95% of fatal police shootings last year involved civilians who were armed. That doesn't
00:36:57.640mean that the cases in which people were unarmed don't matter, that their lives don't matter. We
00:37:03.340shouldn't look into those because we absolutely should, but these are just the facts. These are
00:37:07.940just the, the, the statistics, um, about police shootings. Um, but by the way, unarmed doesn't
00:37:14.040actually necessarily mean not dangerous. They could have been reaching for the officer's weapon and
00:37:19.400still be considered unarmed. They could have been a threat in some way to someone else on arms.
00:37:24.520Doesn't always mean that the officer is not justified and using fatal force though. Of course,
00:37:29.500sometimes it does mean exactly that all of these cases have to be looked into. It depends entirely
00:37:35.280on the circumstance and what actually happened. So 55 unarmed people shot and killed by the police
00:37:40.880last year. We don't know all the circumstances and whether or not the action by the police was in
00:37:45.800any way justified. Of those who were unarmed, 24 were white, 18 were black. So 1.7% of fatal police
00:37:54.000shootings last year were of unarmed black men. If you look at the database, which starts in 2015 year
00:38:01.360over year, these numbers are comparable. They're about the same. Now it is true that white people
00:38:07.820make up about 70% of the population. Black Americans make up about 12 to 13% of the population. So the
00:38:14.920fact that 27% of fatal police shootings involve a black person unarmed or not, uh, is disproportionate.
00:38:22.600So you will hear, uh, that black people are much more likely to be killed by the police than white
00:38:29.760people because there is a higher percentage of total black people, um, killed, or there's a higher
00:38:36.640percentage of black people killed by the police and the percentage of total white people killed by the
00:38:43.180police based on population size. The website mapping police violence says this 36% of unarmed people
00:38:49.680killed by the police, uh, were black in 2015, despite black people making up only 13% of the
00:38:56.500population. That is true. But the reality is according to FBI data, and I know this is a
00:39:03.100controversial thing to say, I'm not justifying again, anything, but this is the context that we
00:39:09.180have to know when we're having these conversations. The reality is according to FBI data that black
00:39:14.200Americans, despite only making up 12 to 13% of the population get a lot of police attention
00:39:20.880because there's a disproportionate number of violent crimes committed in these inner city
00:39:26.220communities. In 2018, black Americans committed about 40% of all homicides while again, making up
00:39:34.340only 12 to 13% of the population. Uh, 2012 to 2015 report by the Bureau of labor statistics found that
00:39:41.600white Americans commit about 44% of all violent crime black Americans about, uh, 23% of all violent
00:39:49.940crimes, again, making up about 12 to 13% of the population. So the likely reason black Americans are
00:39:58.180more likely to have these kinds of fatal encounters with the police is because they have more interactions
00:40:04.780with the police, uh, than other races than other kinds of demographics, because reportedly of the
00:40:12.840crimes that are being committed in these communities. And I just want to say again, this is not a
00:40:18.500justification of anything, but if we're looking at, if we're asking the questions, honestly, which we
00:40:24.620should be, you know, why, why is this happening? Why is there this disproportionate number? Uh, why are we
00:40:31.920hearing, uh, about these stories? We have to look at the entire picture. There are absolutely incidents
00:40:38.980that we know of, like, uh, in my opinion, the one of Elijah McClain in which a young black man was
00:40:45.500again, in my opinion, clearly abused and killed completely unjustifiably. So I'm not saying that
00:40:52.040any of these statistics mean that there's never a case of a white police officer unjustly killing a
00:40:58.240black man. Of course that happens. Of course that happens. Or, uh, another race of a police officer
00:41:03.780killing another race of civilian of, of a civilian unjustifiably. Of course that happens again, just
00:41:10.220looking at the entire picture. And, uh, that was a case in Elijah McClain that didn't involve, uh,
00:41:17.980it didn't involve a gun mapping police violence looks at, uh, all deaths of civilians by the hands of the
00:41:25.200police, not just using a gun, uh, according to that website in 2019, 1098 people killed, uh, were killed
00:41:35.060in all ways. According to this site by the police, 114 were unarmed of those. According to the site,
00:41:42.32048 were white, 28 were black. Again, we don't know anything about those killings, what the circumstance
00:41:48.020was, but let's put those numbers, those numbers into context and not being police violence, by the
00:41:55.040way, is an activist organization against what they call police, uh, police violence. Um, and I'm not
00:42:03.860saying that their description of police violence is wrong, but that's just how they describe it.
00:42:07.300So according to the Bureau of justice statistics, there were over 50 million interactions between the
00:42:12.040public and the police in 2015, the most recent year that there is data for that I could find that number
00:42:17.620has ranged over the years, but every year, tens of millions of people interact with the police. So if we
00:42:23.540take the estimate of 50 million police interactions in 2020, and according to the Washington Post,
00:42:29.1801,021 fatal police shootings in 2020, you're looking at about 0.002% of all interactions between the
00:42:36.060police and the public ended a fatal shooting by a police officer. Um, and if we're talking about
00:42:42.260killed by any fatal force and we go to mapping police violence data, that's 28 unarmed black people
00:42:48.920killed by the police in 2019, either justifiably or not, either by a white officer or not. That's
00:42:55.0200.00056% of all police interactions. And every single one of those instances should be looked into.
00:43:04.280We can talk about every single one of them to see whether or not it was justified to see whether
00:43:08.740or not there was a racial bias there or racial motivation there, but we have to be able to look
00:43:14.900at the details of this and to look at what is actually going on before we simply believe what
00:43:21.320the media tells us that this is happening on a daily basis or that this characterizes all police
00:43:26.520officers or that, um, this justifies defunding the police or getting rid of the police.
00:43:33.880As we see fit, I don't think the numbers support that kind of argument. The fact of the matter is
00:43:39.220when we're looking at what is victimizing black communities, um, it doesn't seem to be according
00:43:45.600to the data, predominantly police officers, the homicide rate among black people is completely
00:43:50.640disproportionate to their population size. There are murders, mass murders nearly every weekend in
00:43:56.740cities like Chicago that are never reported on because it doesn't perpetuate a narrative.
00:44:00.480These are conveniently categorized as local crime stories, but the tragedies that have what
00:44:06.840progressives consider a politically useful racial makeup, even though they're more rare have to
00:44:11.880become national news. Roland Fryer, he is an economic professor at Harvard university. He conducted a
00:44:18.980thorough study in July, 2016, uh, looking at the existence of racial bias in the police force,
00:44:24.940specifically racial shootings. According to the New York times, Mr. Fryer is the youngest African
00:44:30.360American to receive tenure at Harvard and the first to join a John to win a John Bates Clark medal,
00:44:36.780um, that is given to economists under the age of 40. He conducted this study thinking that he was going to
00:44:45.460find racism, proven racism in the police force when it comes to who police officers decide to, uh,
00:44:53.620decide to shoot. But he actually, he, that's not what he found. Um, he actually found that in such
00:45:02.080situations, officers in Houston in particular is one city that he looked at where about 20% less
00:45:07.680likely to shoot if suspects were black. The estimate was not precise and firmer conclusions would require
00:45:11.980more data, but in various models controlling for different factors and using different situations
00:45:16.560of different definitions of 10 situations, Mr. Fryer found that blacks were either less likely to be
00:45:21.760shot or there was no difference between blacks and whites. The New York times says a 2019 peer
00:45:27.980review study titled officer characteristics and racial disparities and fatal officer involved shootings
00:45:33.380published a scientific journal aimed to examine racial bias and police shootings found that black cops are
00:45:38.840more likely to shoot black civilians and Hispanic cops are more likely to shoot Hispanic civilians
00:45:43.780and so on. Here's what the study found as the proportion of violent crime committed by black civilians
00:45:49.120increased. A person fatally shot was more likely to be black as a proportion of violent crime committed
00:45:54.120by Hispanic civilians increased. A person fatally shot was more likely to be Hispanic. Conversely,
00:45:59.500as white crime rates increased, a person fatally shot was less likely to be black or Hispanic.
00:46:05.000We did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings and, if anything, found anti-white disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.
00:46:18.080Now, Roland Fryer did find, according to a study, that he believes that the evidence shows that when it comes to non-fatal confrontations, like police officers just roughing up suspects or perpetrators, that the victims of that kind of brutality and abuse and harassment are more likely to be Black and brown than they are white.
00:46:37.880And I think that's important for us to know that brutality, where it does exist, is not always going to end in a fatal confrontation.
00:46:44.780It can also mean a police officer using his power in a way that is unjust, that doesn't end in some kind of fatal conclusion.
00:46:52.460And we should absolutely care about that, especially if we see some kind of racial bias behind it.
00:46:58.560But the fact of the matter is, is that most people do not know these facts.
00:47:02.300Like, most people don't know these studies.
00:47:04.160Most people don't know these percentages.
00:47:22.180First asked them to identify their political orientation.
00:47:24.820Then asked them how many unarmed Black men were killed by police in 2019 and what percentage of people killed by police in 2019 were Black.
00:47:34.520And so that first question, asking how many unarmed Black men were killed by the police in 2019, if you were very liberal, the highest percent, I have to hold my computer up close because I can't see, 31 percent.
00:47:51.480But if you were very liberal, that's the highest percentage believe that it's over, that it's about 1,000, that it's about 1,000 unarmed Black men killed by the police in 2019.
00:48:02.480If you identify as liberal, you believed, about 40 percent believed that it's about 100 unarmed Black men that were killed by the police.
00:48:11.200If you're moderate, about 40 percent believe that if you identify as conservative, you are most likely to say that it was about 10 unarmed Black men killed by the police.
00:48:24.280And if you're very conservative, you are also most likely to say that it was 10 unarmed Black men killed by the police.
00:48:33.600The reality is, is that it was 13 unarmed Black men who were fatally shot by the police in 2019.
00:48:41.980And according to mapping police of violence, 27 unarmed Black men were killed by police by any means in 2019.
00:48:49.360So when it comes to that, a large portion of conservatives are actually more informed on what the data actually is, whereas if you're a liberal, you are much more likely to overestimate the number.
00:49:01.360And that is a direct product of what they're watching in the news.
00:49:06.120And it's interesting because we are constantly hearing that conservatives are the ones who are misinformed on this subject, when in reality, at least according to this study, a lot of conservatives have a better handle on what the facts actually are when it comes to police brutality, in particular against Black people than liberals do.
00:49:24.500Now, the second question that was asked was, what percentage of people killed by police in 2019 were Black?
00:49:36.360If you're very liberal, you are likely to say about 60%.
00:49:40.520If you were liberal or just, yeah, if you identified as just liberal, about 56%.
00:49:45.800If you were moderate, you believed that it was about 45%.
00:49:50.180If you're conservative, you believe that it was about 37%.
00:49:53.300If you're very conservative, interestingly, you actually believe that it was about 44%.
00:49:58.480The real number is about 26.7% of victims of police shootings between 2015 and 2020 were Black.
00:50:09.160And so actually everyone overestimated in this study what the percentage was.
00:50:15.760But if you're very liberal or liberal, you're getting that wrong by 30 plus percentage points,
00:50:22.060probably based on what you are hearing and what you are reading, it's very unlikely for a liberal who wants to confirm the narrative that they already have to actually go in and look at the details of this.
00:50:33.660And I'm sure that happens in other issues on the other side as well.
00:50:36.520But when it comes to this, it seems, at least according to the study, that conservatives have a little better grasp on what's going on.
00:50:45.340Jason Reilly, who happens to also be Black, he talks about these issues a lot, of the Wall Street Journal, talks, he writes about this in the Wall Street Journal.
00:50:56.460He says, and this is going to sound going to sound harsh.
00:51:00.480He says, so as long as Black Americans are committing more than half of all murders and robberies while making up only 13% of the population,
00:51:07.260and so long as almost all of their victims are their neighbors, these communities will draw the lion's share of police attention.
00:51:14.500Defunding the police or making it easier to prosecute officers will only result in more lives lost in those neighborhoods that need protecting.
00:51:22.760He talks about how the narrative is being pushed without the facts, without context.
00:51:27.460It's actually going to hurt these minority communities.
00:51:31.880In Minneapolis, where George Floyd died, the city shifted $8 million away from the police force last year.
00:51:38.700According to Fox News, the police department says it only has 638 officers available to work, roughly 200 fewer than usual.
00:51:47.560Three city council members have actually proposed replacing the entire police department with the public safety department.
00:51:52.760That would include law enforcement and other services.
00:51:56.260Yes, for Minneapolis, a coalition of local community groups is collecting signatures to try to push the replacement of the police department in Minneapolis.
00:52:08.060The Star Tribune reported the Yes for Minneapolis committee is being fueled by a half million dollar grant from the Washington, D.C.-based group Open Society Policy Center linked to billionaire George Soros.
00:52:21.740Of course, he is also behind all of the pro-crime so-called social justice district attorneys or many of them in the country.
00:52:37.480The article goes on to say Minneapolis on Friday backtracked on its original push to defund the city's police department in the wake of George Floyd's police custody death after residents begged the city to hire more officers, citing longer response times and increased violent crime.
00:52:53.92081 people have been killed year to date as of December 30th, 2020, an increase of 72 percent from the same time in 2019, police department statistics show the city council on Friday voted unanimously to approve.
00:53:09.780So this is a more recent change to approve six point four million dollars in additional funding that police had requested.
00:53:17.860And part of these complaints are happening in Minneapolis because there is or there has been an autonomous zone, apparently in honor of George Floyd in Minneapolis, where people are being assaulted and murdered.
00:53:33.060People are saying the situation at the memorial, from what I understand, is that it's kind of volatile.
00:53:40.120This is Kim Griffin, a Minneapolis resident, people that want to go and support don't don't feel a sense of inclusion.
00:53:47.760There is more like a militant type atmosphere over there in a sense of fear.
00:53:52.260Her nephew, I'm as right, was gunned down within the zone over the weekend.
00:53:57.220An activist actually blocked the cops from responding.
00:54:02.220Interesting. The people who are guarding the zone have refused to reopen the area unless the city meets their list of 24 demands.
00:54:09.640Last year alone, there were 19 nonfatal shootings in this George Floyd autonomous zone where police are apparently not allowed, 14 of which occurred between May 1st and August 31st.
00:54:22.480And so this is really not being reported on quite as much.
00:54:26.980This is supposed to be a part of the revolution pushing back against the police.
00:54:30.440But the fact of the matter is, is that people are dying like people are dying because of this violence is flourishing there.
00:54:36.440And that's exactly what Jason Riley talks about in the article that I just quoted from.
00:54:40.800That actually, when you take away the police, what you see is very often an uptick of crime that disproportionately affects black and brown communities.
00:54:48.580The Daily Wire reported on five different cities in the last year that have responded to the George Floyd incident by taking funding away from the police.
00:55:00.540Portland, New York City, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, and what they saw and what was reported in each of those cities that after they shifted funds away from the police bureau, they saw upticks in crime.
00:55:16.040For example, in Portland, though year-to-date shootings had risen 10.8% in May, the months of June, July, August, and September witnessed 96.8%, 186.1%, 195.1%, and 243.8% hikes, respectively, when you were talking about shootings in Portland.
00:55:38.320The same kind of story in New York City, the same kind of story in Austin, in Seattle, in Los Angeles.
00:55:44.020I've heard many other people from cities across the country where the police force has been weakened, either significantly or just in small ways, that has seen a rise in violent crime.
00:55:55.880And there was already going to be a rise of violent crime because of the lockdowns and economic instability, so this only added insult to injury.
00:56:03.940And according to Newsweek, there was a Gallup poll that actually shows that 81% of Black Americans do not want less police presence despite protests.
00:56:15.640Now, the study does say, and quotes Black Americans, saying that, look, we want fairness.
00:56:22.100We still feel like they're not treating us fairly.
00:56:24.820We still feel like we're being overpoliced maybe in some cases, or we feel like this isn't really how we are being policed isn't right.
00:56:34.060But we don't want less police because we don't want more crime.
00:56:37.420And so the activists that are pushing for defunding the police don't seem to actually be representing most Black Americans who are not a part of this whole defund the police movement.
00:56:50.160There's an article by Stephen Malenga in City Journal that also talks about this.
00:56:56.220He talks about how when New York reformed their policing under Rudy Giuliani, and I understand that's still controversial, but crime went down and the quality of life in the city went way up.
00:57:09.340And then over the past 10 years, we've kind of seen through social justice activism, a lot of cities start to take a different approach in the hopes that crime will stay down even as they weaken their police forces.
00:57:22.340And that's unfortunately not what has happened.
00:57:26.340So we have no indication at all that defunding the police and allocating those resources to quote community measures will do anything to decrease the crime.
00:57:38.300Based on the data that we have, it doesn't seem like that's the answer.
00:57:42.060No matter what happens with the Derek Chauvin trial, there are some reforms that absolutely can be put in place that we've talked about before.
00:58:03.160I think we can invest in better training, maybe higher qualifications in some cases for police officers.
00:58:09.440Maybe we can supplement police officers with social workers, not replace them.
00:58:14.160We can offer different kinds of trainings and programs to the youth in these areas that seem to be having a disproportionate number of interactions with the police.
00:58:24.480But it does not seem, from what we know and from history, that defunding the police or shrinking the police is actually going to do anything except for cause and exacerbate current problems.
00:58:35.680Now, as a conservative, I don't want the police to have too much power.
00:58:39.120I don't want them to be above the law.
00:58:41.000I don't want them to be abusing civilians in any way.
00:58:47.500I am all for having these conversations.
00:58:49.540But we have to have them rooted in truth.
00:58:51.960And the problem is, is that we can't actually have these honest conversations if we are racializing that which we do not know is actually racialized.
00:59:04.560That is the danger of viewing the world only through the lens of race.
00:59:08.100Seeing every instance in which a black person is involved as racialized in some way and not just racialized, but ultimately about white supremacy.
00:59:16.020It causes us to ignore problems and therefore look past solutions because we are focused on the wrong narrative.
00:59:24.300So no one wants to talk about the problems with the teachers and the police unions.
00:59:27.380No one wants to talk about how Planned Parenthood sets up shop in every predominantly black and brown community.
00:59:34.440And that in New York City, year after year, according to the New York City Health Department, there are more black babies that are aborted than born.
00:59:42.540No one wants to talk about those things because that is outside of the myopic and concrete narrative that whiteness and white supremacy and white police officers are always the main problem.
00:59:56.020And the problem with that also is that there's never any concrete solution or viable solution given to that supposed problem.
01:00:03.500So when we get down to the nitty gritty and we look at what's actually plaguing these communities and we look at a lot of the problems and what the data shows, no one wants to have those conversations because people are so much more loyal to their narrative than they are actually doing anything to help these people.
01:00:20.640So no one wants to talk about the kinds of murders that happen in the black community that victimize black children every day.
01:00:25.940No one wants to talk about black on Asian crime or black on Jewish crime that we know is prevalent and why unless someone can find a way to make it about whiteness and white supremacy, we just we don't we don't want to focus on it.
01:00:39.300I'm not saying no one's talking about those things, but we're not having these big national conversations about them.
01:00:46.340We're only having the national conversations about the instances in which police kill an unarmed, an unarmed black person, which we can have a conversation about that.
01:00:55.320But we don't have a national conversation when it's an unarmed white woman who gets killed and the black police officer only gets 12 and a half years in prison because unless something is white, bad, black, brown, good, the media and many left wing activists throw it out because it's just not useful.
01:01:12.960And therefore, we end up missing out on discussions that could actually help and we should want to help.
01:01:19.460That is why the truth matters, because we want to help, because we care about people, because we want to talk about actual solutions.
01:01:26.760But when we're so wedded to a narrative and we are so unwilling to actually examine any problems, any causes or any potential solutions that don't match that narrative, then we don't end up helping anyone but ourselves.
01:01:38.980Because we're just latching on to that which is popular rather than looking into that which is true.
01:01:47.140I think tomorrow we are going to take a break from the news unless something is absolutely pressing and we're going to talk about some theology.
01:01:54.960But I hope this kind of gave you a refresher, some numbers that we've talked about before and also gave you a lot of context for what's happening in this Derek Chauvin trial.