Rioters, looters, Antifa, and looters have been rioting across the U.S. since the death of a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on Friday night. Ben Shapiro says that looters should be arrested, and the police should be punished for allowing law-abiding citizens to be roughed up by looters and rioters. He also says that America is racist at every level, and that America must be remade from the bottom to top and top-to-bottom. And he calls for an apology from America for its own racism and racism in its response to the events in Ferguson and the reaction to the deaths of the police officer who responded in selflessly to a black man being shot and killed by a looter and looter's attempt to take down the Lincoln Memorial and the National Statues of the United States and the Washington, D.C. Memorial, as well as the memorial to slain police officer, George "Tipsy" Floyd, deserve to be punished, he says. This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Don't like the government spying on you? Well, visit ExpressVPN to stay anonymous. To stay anonymous, visit expressvpn.me/StayAlone and use the anonymous to avoid being spied on, and stay anonymous! This show is not a free country, it's not. . It's not a place where you should be allowed to do what they want to do in America, and it's a place you should not be doing it, and you should do it in a safe and secure place where they will be able to do it safely and legally, not in a secure, secure place. If you don't want to be spied upon, then stay anonymous? Stay anonymous, not here, stay anonymous so you won't get snooped on, not like everyone knows who you can do it and you won t have access to access to all sorts of information, and your privacy will be protected you'll be helping the government do their job better than everyone else does it better than they can do their jobs better than you do it better, and they won't have a better chance of doing their job, right here in the most efficient way possible, they'll get a chance to do their best to do the most of their best, not only that, they're not going to know who they're going to get the most effective way.
00:00:00.000Cities across America force law-abiding citizens into curfew as rioters and looters burn and smash, protesters watch their cause undermined by violent hangers-on, and Democrats in the media keep feeding the flames.
00:01:42.000Apparently it's over because what I saw over the weekend And Saturday night and Sunday, what I saw was tens of thousands of people in the streets and nobody giving a good gosh darn because bottom line is they were doing something that the media agreed with.
00:01:55.000And so there are three things that we need to talk about today.
00:01:58.000One is the legitimate cause of fighting police brutality.
00:02:02.000The second is the illegitimate argument that America is endemically racist, systematically racist, racist at every level, and that America must apologize for its very being, that America must be remade from bottom to top and top to bottom.
00:02:16.000And then there's the third argument that some are making, which is that people who riot and loot are somehow an outgrowth of justified anger.
00:02:23.000That somehow going and smashing a store window makes you some sort of hero in this society.
00:02:28.000It's bulls**t. It's bulls**t. If you are a rioter, if you are a looter, you ought to be captured, you ought to be arrested, you ought to be prosecuted.
00:02:38.000This is not the behavior of a civilized country.
00:03:09.000But using this as an excuse to destroy the Lincoln Memorial, to go and tag the World War II Memorial, to beat business owners outside their business?
00:03:22.000Have you seen some of the signs that have been put up in these cities?
00:03:24.000People attempting to put up Black Lives Matter signs in their windows to dissuade rioters from breaking their windows.
00:03:30.000I don't think most of this is Black Lives Matter, by the way.
00:03:32.000I think Black Lives Matter is a cause with which some of its points I disagree.
00:03:36.000I think that they make an overwrought case as to the nature of America itself, which is the second argument we're going to talk about today.
00:03:43.000But the people who are mostly smashing windows are folks from Antifa, And people who are vile hangers-on who are attempting to grab a TV.
00:03:52.000You're not honoring George Floyd's memory or doing anything good for America or fighting police brutality by stealing a TV.
00:04:10.000And for all the people in the media who are saying, well, you can't pay attention to this, you're paying attention to this, you're not paying attention to all the other bad stuff that's happening in the country.
00:04:16.000I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:04:18.000Not only that, we spent an entire episode on Ahmaud Arbery.
00:04:21.000We spent entire episodes talking about George Floyd.
00:04:24.000Everyone, again, agrees on this stuff.
00:04:26.000The attempt to polarize America around the question of whether rioting and looting is a justified uprising.
00:05:03.000And somehow this is being treated by celebrities as justified?
00:05:07.000Okay, so we're gonna get to the news in just one second, but I just thought that I'd put that up front.
00:05:10.000That if you're defending this, if you're defending this behavior, you are part of the problem.
00:05:14.000And I think there are some Democrats today, thank God, who are coming out and not defending this.
00:05:18.000I think that there are a lot of black leaders who are coming out today and not defending this, nor should they defend this, because no leader of any race should defend any of this, because this isn't a black-white issue.
00:05:26.000This is just, this is not a race issue.
00:05:27.000Looting is not a race issue, and police brutality should not be a race issue.
00:05:35.000And it breaks my heart for my country that the human decency that we should all be united around seems to have been thrown out the window completely.
00:05:43.000To the point where people are defending rioters and looters because America is bad.
00:05:46.000Or people are suggesting that Americans don't care, by and large, when a white police officer puts his knee on the neck of a black man for eight minutes.
00:05:55.000Who are the people who don't care about this stuff?
00:05:58.000And we're going to get to the actual news in just one second.
00:06:01.000But if you woke up not angry this morning, then it's because you haven't been watching the news.
00:06:06.000And it is justified anger to ask why in the hell, living in the freest, most prosperous country in the history of mankind, we had 50 million citizens last night who were confined to quarters, not on the basis of a virus for their own protection, but on the basis of people running roughshod through the streets and throwing Molotov cocktails at cop cars.
00:06:37.000He needs to be on TV tonight, and President Trump needs to be telling people that whatever your cause, we value the First Amendment in this country.
00:06:45.000Not only do we not value violence, we are going to make the full weight and power of the federal government available to any mayor or governor who calls for its help.
00:06:54.000All resources will be used to stomp this sort of violence out.
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00:08:59.000Now, according to the Washington Post, pockets of the United States descended into Chaos Sunday as another day of mass demonstrations over the death of yet another black man in police custody led to another night of fire and fury.
00:09:09.000Even the way this is phrased by the Washington Post demonstrates their take on what America is.
00:09:13.000The death of yet another black man in police custody.
00:09:16.000OK, yes, there have been more than one black people, more than one black person has died in police custody.
00:09:22.000But the implication of the Washington Post, of course, is that there is a widespread systematic brutality put upon black Americans across America by nearly every police department.
00:09:36.000That does not mean there are not racists in police departments.
00:09:38.000It does not mean that there is not police brutality, which is effectuated against populations in which police officers come into contact with populations.
00:09:46.000Police brutality can be affected against black people, against Latino people, against white people.
00:09:51.000I mean, the cases of police brutality are too numerous to mention, and usually it's a problem of training and a problem of who are you recruiting to the police forces.
00:09:58.000But the Washington Post's implication here is that, of course, all of policing across America is endemically racist because America has not changed from 1960 and onward.
00:10:08.000We'll see this is the argument being made by actual columnists over at the New York Times.
00:10:11.000Protests that began peacefully exploded into mayhem as windows were smashed, stores were looted, buildings were vandalized, and police vehicles were torched.
00:10:17.000The unrest spread from Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston to Sacramento, Seattle, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
00:10:22.000As protesters and police clashed outside the White House for a third consecutive night, President Trump tweeted a call for law and order.
00:10:28.000And the tweets ain't gonna be sufficient.
00:10:32.000Tell America what you are going to do to stop this violence.
00:10:35.000Tell America what you are going to do to reestablish some semblance of civilization, because this is madness.
00:10:41.000In some cities, law enforcement officers were seen marching and kneeling with protesters.
00:10:43.000Elsewhere, police and riot care continued to increase their use of force, which added to the disorder.
00:10:47.000Early Monday, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear ordered a state investigation after a man was fatally shot during an overnight confrontation with Louisville police and the National Guard.
00:10:54.000More than half of the nation's governors have called on the National Guard to help quell the unrest.
00:10:58.000Meanwhile, at least 45 million Americans were under curfew Sunday night.
00:11:02.000Many cities have extended their overnight restrictions.
00:11:04.000By the way, I will point out here that the lockdowns from COVID-19 have absolutely not helped the situation here.
00:11:10.000When you put 40 million Americans out of work, and most of them are disproportionately young, and they have nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon or a Saturday night or a Friday, they're going to get much larger protests.
00:11:19.000And that's not to call into question their passion for these issues.
00:11:23.000That is to suggest that when people have jobs, they sometimes have to go to those jobs as opposed to being out on the streets protesting and violating all of the COVID-19 restrictions in the first place.
00:11:31.000Weird how everybody who's deeply worried about Anti-lockdown protesters not wearing masks and socially distancing doesn't give two craps about people who are in the streets 20,000 strong as long as they're protesting for a cause the members of the media agree with.
00:11:43.000A number of major retailers including Walmart, Target, and Apple have temporarily closed their stores in some areas rocked by upheaval.
00:11:48.000By the way, worth noting here, if you are worried about the availability of grocery stores and pharmacies and all the things that people need in predominantly black areas, you know it'd be a great solution to that?
00:12:00.000Fighting back by local government against the rioting and against the looting.
00:12:04.000You want to want to reason why grocery stores and CVSs are not opening up in low-income areas?
00:12:08.000In some cases, they're not doing it because they're afraid that it comes with increased costs.
00:12:12.000This would be a good example of why a Walmart is not going to open in an area where it was looted two years ago.
00:12:19.000More than 4,000 people were arrested in U.S.
00:12:21.000cities over the weekend, according to the Associated Press.
00:12:23.000New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter Chiara was among the hundreds of people arrested in the city after failing to disperse law enforcement sources, told the Washington Post.
00:12:30.000People have been told for years that America is deeply evil on every level, that every anecdotal incident of bad behavior is both racist and indicative of America's broader racism, and thus any measure you take against the American superstructure is therefore okay.
00:12:48.000Some conservative commentators are urging the president to address the nation.
00:13:34.000What does President Trump have to do with a Minneapolis police officer putting his knee on the neck of a black suspect in a Democratic city that has been ruled by Democrats for 50 years?
00:13:47.000But again, this is going to be turned into a question of America writ large.
00:13:51.000As I've said, there are a bunch of issues here.
00:13:53.000Okay, issue number one, we should all agree on, rioters and looters, as we will see.
00:14:02.000Many of them are angry for good reason about police brutality.
00:14:05.000Some are angry for bad reasons, suggesting that all of America is indicated in police brutality or that all police forces across America are racist.
00:14:12.000But they're exercising the First Amendment rights, not even close to in the same category with the rioters and the looters.
00:14:17.000And then there is the other question here, which is the George Floyd case.
00:14:22.000But the George Floyd case has been left far behind.
00:14:25.000The fact is that most of the protesters are moving far beyond the facts of the George Floyd case, and certainly all the rioters and looters don't give two craps about George Floyd.
00:14:32.000If you are breaking a store window on behalf of George Floyd, let me just tell you, George Floyd's family doesn't appreciate it.
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00:14:56.000It may have lost its strength, which would be amazing and great news for America and for the world.
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00:19:34.000And that gets you from the looting and the rioting to the actual argument that's being made, which is that it's the same system that kills George Floyd that is responsible for Rodeo Drive, right?
00:19:43.000That's the underlying message that is being put forward.
00:19:45.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
00:19:47.000All of this is just the property damage, by the way.
00:19:48.000And by the way, I don't want to hear from people declaring themselves moral.
00:20:04.000Breaking into someone's store is evil.
00:20:07.000And the fact that there's an insurance company that they pay money out of their own pocket to insure against this sort of stuff does not alleviate the evil.
00:20:14.000There was looting over at the Grove last night.
00:20:17.000The Grove is a very nice sort of public-private project in the middle of Los Angeles in the Fairfax District.
00:21:14.000And people just, by the way, law enforcement just sitting there and allowing this to happen, right?
00:21:23.000You can actually see security there and law enforcement doing nothing because they've been told that they're not supposed to do anything by these feckless mayors.
00:21:29.000If you're a citizen of these cities and you pay taxes in these cities, what the hell are you paying taxes for when people who are overtly committing crimes are being allowed to run around freely and break windows and do this kind of stuff?
00:22:19.000By the way, it was not just property damage.
00:22:21.000We're going to get to the actual violent attacks on human beings.
00:22:24.000Again, I'm all for let's fight instances of police brutality, change police procedures, hire better people.
00:22:29.000I'm just wondering how it's not a national story when people are being beaten in the streets on a nationwide scale for standing outside their businesses.
00:22:38.000I'm just wondering why it is that if you mention on Twitter that this stuff is happening, it's, oh, well, you don't care about George Floyd.
00:22:42.000How about I care about George Floyd being killed?
00:22:44.000And I also care about the fact that 45 million Americans were confined to quarters last night because pieces of shit were running around beating people up on the streets of the United States.
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00:26:07.000And then apparently her husband kind of shows up.
00:26:09.000And one of these rioters, one of these looters who wants to loot the business.
00:26:13.000First, you can see him taking a piece of wood and breaking it on the storefront.
00:26:17.000Doing all this for George Floyd, presumably.
00:26:20.000Okay, they start to walk away, the husband apparently comes out, and you can see, one of these guys, this lady looks, what, maybe 55, 60 years old?
00:27:37.000So there are presumably some Antifa members kicking this guy in the face as he is down.
00:27:41.000The NYPD over the weekend was being hit with Molotov cocktails.
00:27:46.000And then when they are having bricks and rocks and bottles filled with, apparently it came out today, that members of Antifa have been stashing bottles filled with gasoline around the cities.
00:27:58.000That is not something that the protesters are doing.
00:28:00.000Notice, I'm making a hard distinction between the protesters and the rioters and looters.
00:28:03.000They are not the same group of people.
00:28:05.000But the media are fully conflating the two in order to justify the rioting and the looting.
00:28:09.000They are doing no service to the actual cause that people are marching for, whatever disagreements I may have with some of the implications of that cause.
00:28:17.000Okay, so the NYPD was hitting Molotov cocktails last night.
00:28:20.000There was a black federal officer who was killed in Oakland.
00:28:25.000There's a man who's wearing a red hat, and this is in South Carolina.
00:28:29.000Apparently, people thought that he was some sort of Trump supporter, which again, it's not illegal to be a Trump supporter in South Carolina or anywhere else in the United States.
00:28:39.000And a crowd starts running after him and just beats the living hell out of him.
00:28:57.000There was a protester, I assume a looter, who was attempting to assault a FedEx, a guy in a FedEx truck.
00:29:03.000And the FedEx truck kept driving because he's like, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna be pulled out of my car and beaten nearly to death like Reginald Denny.
00:29:22.000And the product of this is not going to be anything good either.
00:29:24.000Anybody who suggests that it is going to be something good is getting it completely wrong.
00:29:28.000So naturally, our politicians are making excuses for this sort of activity and fueling the flames.
00:29:35.000And they're doing so in a couple ways.
00:29:36.000Some of them are actually like directly giving aid and comfort to the rioters and looters.
00:29:42.000And then there are some people who are fanning the flames of the of the protests, but doing so in an extraordinarily radical way.
00:29:48.000Again, I think there's for the 1000th time, there's an absolute case to be made that we should change procedures surrounding police brutality.
00:29:56.000There's an absolute case to be made that contracts with police unions ought not to have things like sovereign immunity, or qualified immunity.
00:30:03.000There are plenty of policy changes that we can argue about and talk about.
00:30:08.000But when you suggest that the entire American infrastructure, writ large, is racist and doesn't care when people get killed in incidents of police brutality, you are a liar and you're wrong.
00:30:17.000And, by the way, when you fan the flames by suggesting that what we saw on TV was the execution of a black man, which is not what happened, that isn't what happened.
00:30:27.000What you saw in this particular case with George Floyd was an act of assault that ended with a death.
00:30:32.000That is not the same as a cold-blooded execution.
00:30:35.000It is an act of evil, but it is not a cold-blooded execution.
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00:32:10.000Alrighty, well, we're going to get back into the political response to all of this, which has been, it has ranged from cowardly to disgusting, I would say, is the political response to all this.
00:32:19.000We've seen a few people who have acted in proper ways, including the Democrat mayor of Atlanta, for example.
00:32:44.000People who break windows and loot in response to that are pieces of s***.
00:32:47.000They're not equivalently pieces of s***.
00:32:49.000People who go and beat the hell out of business owners are pieces of s***.
00:32:55.000I haven't cursed this much on a podcast ever, but my country also has not been on fire in a time when we should all be unified against acts of evil.
00:33:02.000It is an act of evil to put your knee on the neck of a man, white, black, or green, as he says, I can't breathe for eight minutes long.
00:33:45.000If you agree with me on all of these things, if you agree with me that there are many people out there who are doing very bad things, if you agree with me, then that means that you're fundamentally decent.
00:33:55.000And even if we disagree on the implications of policy, we are fundamentally decent and can have a fundamentally decent conversation.
00:34:02.000But, if you can generate some sort of political polarization off the issue, because you believe that America is inherently evil, and that Americans are inherently evil, the natural result is going to be chaos in the streets, and that is what we are watching right here and right now.
00:34:17.000In some ways, this is the outgrowth of a mentality that suggests that America as a giant country is a lie, America, its history, its philosophy, its culture are garbage, and that it deserves to be torn out by the roots.
00:34:29.000In some ways, this is the outgrowth of justification of a campaign against America as it stands.
00:34:35.000And again, I'm not talking about protesters who protest police brutality.
00:34:38.000I'm talking about people who justify rioting and looting.
00:34:40.000I'm talking about people who suggest that America is inherently racist, evil to today.
00:34:47.000That argument is inherently divisive and it's going to lead to the breakdown of all conversation.
00:34:52.000And once the conversation breaks down, you do end up with situations where people defend violence.
00:34:56.000And that's exactly what you don't want.
00:34:58.000We're going to get to more of this in just one second.
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00:36:15.000If you're in the media or if you're a politician, you at least have the sort of wherewithal to understand what you are doing and then couch your terms.
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00:36:24.000So celebrities were donating bail for protesters over the weekend.
00:36:27.000They were donating bail for, and by the way, not protesters, rioters, over the weekend.
00:36:32.000So Chrissy Teigen, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, were donating money to bailout people arrested in the nationwide protests.
00:36:38.000By the way, there were hundreds of thousands of people protesting over the weekend.
00:36:41.000The people who were arrested were, by and large, committing crimes.
00:36:47.000Teigen said she decided to make a $100,000 donation after President Trump declared Saturday night was MAGA night at the White House.
00:36:54.000She said, in celebration of whatever the eff MAGA night is, I'm committed to donating $100,000 to the bailout of protesters across the country.
00:37:01.000And then that was matched by a bunch of other liberal celebrities.
00:37:37.000Okay, meanwhile, you had Cardi B, who's tweeting out that looting was okay, because after all, what other outlet do people have but to steal shoes from a shoe locker?
00:37:44.000She tweeted out, they looting in Minnesota, and as much as I don't like this type of violence, it is what it is.
00:37:49.000Too much peaceful marches, too much trending hashtags, no solutions, the people are left with no choice.
00:37:53.000Well, it seems like there were a lot of people who were protesting who did not decide that they were going to steal a pair of shoes in order to protest the death of George Floyd.
00:37:59.000Seems like there were hundreds of thousands of them in the streets, actually, Cardi B.
00:38:03.000But Cardi B may not know the difference between criminality and non-criminality, considering she used to brag about the fact that she lured men back to her hotel room and then drugged them and stole their crap.
00:39:09.000CNN, the trusted name in news, bringing on Jane Fonda to talk about this stuff.
00:39:13.000There have been several articles talking about how in Los Angeles this is taking people back to 92, 1992 or 3 when there were, there was rioting after film of police beating Rodney King became public and then the officers were never held accountable and This is different.
00:39:38.000And I think it's important for us to recognize that.
00:39:45.000Okay, so the celebrities are of course the morons.
00:39:47.000The celebrities are the people who say the quiet part out loud.
00:39:50.000It ended with some fairly ironic stuff last night because there was one sports writer, I think it was an NBA writer, who had written that looting and rioting, that's just the natural consequence of a racist country.
00:40:00.000And then the looters and rioters came to his neighborhood and started trying to break in to the gated neighborhood where he lives.
00:40:19.000Trying to connect people who are committing heinous acts of violence and evil with people who are protesting is not helping the protesters, and it is making excuses for people who are doing evil things.
00:41:14.000It's hard to comprehend that this was about a singular event.
00:41:19.000No matter how horrific, this explosion of raw passion seeming to come from a place far deeper, a primal scream from a country that may just be fed up.
00:41:31.000Okay, so again, the attempt to conflate all of these activities is really a disservice to the protesters, but it's a disservice to America, too, because the underlying argument that Lester Holt is making here is the same as the rest of the media today, which is that the riots and the looting and the protests, they're all coming from the same place, and that is people are fed up with America as it stands.
00:43:11.000The basic notion that Americans in 2020, black Americans in 2020, are in any way similarly situated to slaves or black Americans living under Jim Crow is absolute sheer crap.
00:43:22.000But it is the media's attempt to basically suggest that nothing has changed, that this is 1968.
00:43:28.000Cornel West, who's been saying this all along, he suggested that America is a failed social experiment.
00:43:32.000This does lay bare a lot of the talk that is put forward by the media.
00:43:37.000People who are, you wanna forward riots, you wanna forward violence?
00:43:40.000Suggest that America is a failed social experiment, that America is nothing more than an agglomeration of random interests who are attempting to gain leverage and power over each other.
00:43:47.000And so however people attempt to gain leverage and power, Well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, man.
00:43:50.000Here's what Cornel West had to say about America as a failed social experiment.
00:43:53.000If it is, by the way, if America is a failed social experiment, there's nothing more to talk about.
00:44:04.000People like, for example, Barack Obama, who actually put out a Medium post today condemning the violence and making a stark distinction between the violence and what people are protesting for.
00:44:14.000I may disagree with him on what people are protesting for, but at least he's condemning the violence.
00:44:18.000You're not getting any of that from some members of the media.
00:44:21.000And also, the notion that rioting and looting, yeah, we condemn those, but all white Americans are racist and America is a racist system.
00:44:28.000When you tell people for years, for decades, that they are living under the boot of a racist, jackbooted system, then violence does become predictable.
00:45:28.000He says all white people, even the most well-intentioned white people, have a virus in their brain where they don't recognize racism, which suggests it's going to be kind of difficult to live in a republic, is it not?
00:45:36.000This kind of suggests the end of the country, does it not?
00:45:37.000Here's Van Jones suggesting just that.
00:45:39.000It's not the racist white person who's in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about.
00:45:46.000It's the white, liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park Who would tell you right now, you know, people like that, oh, I don't see race.
00:46:20.000What Van Jones is talking about, what Cornel West is talking about, what Spike Lee and Don Lemon are talking about, that's the end of the country.
00:46:26.000What Charles Blow is talking about in the New York Times.
00:46:28.000He has an article today, again, using the riots and the looting as self-justificatory, that they justify themselves.
00:46:35.000He has a piece, Charles Blow, awful columnist, he says, destructive power of despair.
00:46:39.000The protests are not necessarily about Floyd's killing in particular, but about the savagery and carnage that his death represents.
00:46:44.000He says, So now he's just openly justifying looting and rioting.
00:46:46.000He says, The people involved in the Ahmaud Arbery case are in jail right now.
00:47:11.000That Central Park lady was fired from her job.
00:47:17.000He says this all breeds despair, simmering below the surface, a building up in need of release, to be let out, to lash out, to explode.
00:47:21.000So now he's just openly justifying riots.
00:47:23.000As protests and rioting have swept across the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis, it's evident that America has failed to learn that lesson yet again.
00:47:31.000The protests are not necessarily about Floyd's killing in particular, says Charles Blow, but about the savagery and carnage that his death represents.
00:47:37.000The nearly unchecked ability of the state to act with impunity in the oppression of black bodies and the taking of black life.
00:47:43.000Now, from this rhetoric, you would think that literally the 30 million black Americans are living in everyday danger from the police, and that thousands of black people are being mowed down by the police indiscriminately every day in the United States.
00:48:27.000Two is, any racism can be attributed to the entire system.
00:48:30.000And three is, if you attribute racism to the entire system, we cannot expect you to go out and vote.
00:48:36.000We can't expect you to confine your activities to the legal.
00:48:40.000Sooner or later, it's going to burst out and you're going to start burning cop cars and breaking into Target.
00:48:44.000So Charles Blow says it's an anger over feeling powerless, stalked and hunted, degraded and dehumanized.
00:48:48.000It's an anger that the scenes keep repeating themselves until one feels exhausted and wrung out.
00:48:52.000It's an anger over people feeling, over feeling that people in power on every level are utterly unresponsible to people's calls for fundamental change and equal justice under law and equal treatment by it.
00:49:39.000But it was put out by a filmmaker and photographer named Shaggy, and it is a video of white Americans kneeling down in front of black Americans.
00:50:00.000Is this Bill Conner and George Wallace kneeling down?
00:50:03.000Or are these a bunch of people who are not racist, kneeling in front of black people because they're white?
00:50:07.000I am not in favor of anybody of any race kneeling down in favor of anybody of any other race on the basis of racial identity.
00:50:14.000America is built on the notion that individuals are individuals.
00:50:17.000The greatest sins in America's history have come from treating people as members of groups, as opposed to treating them as individuals.
00:50:23.000And yet what is being stumped for here is the notion that America is indeed a country in which groups vie for power, and that the only way that any sort of change can be achieved is if one group gives up power to another group, as opposed to equal justice under law, individuals treated with that justice, and fundamental human decency being the basis of all of it.
00:50:56.000And then we'll get to the politicians.
00:50:58.000The truth is that Floyd's girlfriend, for example, Floyd's girlfriend came out yesterday and his family pleading for peace, asking for peace, asking for the rioting and the looting to stop, even while Charles Bull is excusing it, even while Don Lemon is excusing it, even while Lester Holt is conflating the violence and the protests.
00:51:16.000Floyd's family is saying, please stop looting, please stop rioting.
00:51:19.000This is not what George Floyd was about.
00:52:54.000I'm telling you, the vast majority of law enforcement, and I can tell you 100% here in Bellevue, when we saw it, we condemned the behavior.
00:53:05.000We make sure that that is never going to happen here.
00:53:23.000In New Jersey, police started marching with the protesters because guess who doesn't like police brutality?
00:53:28.000Police officers who do the right thing.
00:53:32.000Like, this is where the hope of the country is.
00:53:35.000The hope of the country is in the idea that yes, we are all at root decent, but there's a whole cast of people out there who want to portray America as divided between the indecent and the decent.
00:53:45.000And the indecent are nearly everybody in America, and the decent are the victims of that unjust, terrible America.
00:53:51.000This is over in New Jersey, the police marching with the protesters.
00:53:55.000There was an officer in Fargo, North Dakota, holding a sign with the protesters.
00:53:59.000Over in Santa Cruz, the police were taking a knee.
00:54:02.000Now listen, I don't like the taking a knee routine, because again, I objected to it when it was Kaepernick, I object to it when it's these protesters, I object to it when it's cops.
00:54:09.000Taking a knee suggests that all of America is indicated in this situation.
00:54:14.000And I think that if you took a poll of Americans, 99.999% of them want this officer in prison, including 99.999% of cops.
00:54:23.000By the way, people in the black community are not in favor of the rioting and the looting.
00:54:28.000Only people in the media who get to sit in their cushy mansions are in favor of the rioting and the looting.
00:54:32.000Most members of the black community are not in favor of this rioting and looting.
00:54:37.000The Atlanta mayor, right, who is black, said yesterday to the rioters, go home.
00:54:42.000You're not doing any good for the country.
00:54:43.000You're not doing any good for any cause here.
00:54:45.000You're not doing any good for anything.
00:54:47.000This city that has had a legacy of black mayors and black police chiefs And people who care about this city where more than 50% of the business owners in Metro Atlanta are minority business owners.
00:55:04.000If you care about this city, then go home and pray that somebody like Reverend Beasley will come and talk to you and give you some instructions on what a protest should look like and how you effectuate change in America.
00:55:26.000Paul mayor, who also is black, he said people who burn businesses are not driven by love of community.
00:55:30.000These are local leaders who understand that this is not the right thing to do.
00:55:34.000Now, we're going to contrast some of this leadership with the leadership that you've seen from white mayors of major cities like Los Angeles and New York, which is absolutely cowardly and pusillanimous.
00:55:42.000Paul mayor saying people who burn businesses aren't driven by love of community or by any cause.
00:55:46.000They're doing this because they are bad people.
00:55:48.000What we know is there's some people in our community, there's some people in our streets who are driven there by a passion for our community, by a love for our community, and by a deep desire to never see the painful loss of life, like the killing, like the video of the killing of George Floyd that we all saw this week.
00:56:06.000And then there's folks in our streets who are there to burn down our black-owned barbershops, To burn down our family-owned businesses, our immigrant-owned restaurants, and it is very clear to me that those people are not driven by a love for our community, and there's no way you can argue that those actions are designed to produce a better future for our community.
00:56:29.000Why were Democrats— By the way, virtually all of this is happening in Democrat-run major cities.
00:56:34.000Virtually all of it is happening in Democrat-run major cities.
00:56:36.000And if you're a decent mayor, you understand that law-abiding citizens in your city—black, white, green, brown, Democrat, Republican— need to be protected from people who are committing acts of violence.
00:56:45.000And you are doing no favors to anybody By allowing this to go on.
00:56:48.000But that's not what you have seen from Democratic politicians who are so interested in the intersectional gain to be made by basically kowtowing to all of this, that they're not willing to say anything remotely true.
00:56:59.000Joe Biden took 48 hours, 48 hours, to condemn the violence.
00:57:05.000He put out a statement early on Sunday morning, very, very carefully worded statement, saying, these last few days have laid bare that we are a nation furious at injustice.
00:57:13.000Every person of conscience can understand the rawness of the trauma people of color experience in this country, from the daily indignities to the extreme violence, like the horrific killing of George Floyd.
00:57:20.000Now, once again, this is underscoring the sort of CNN, Charles Blow dynamic.
00:57:25.000America is a deeply racist, evil country.
00:57:27.000Okay, and at the same time we all condemn it.
00:57:57.00048 hours to give that sort of mild condemnation.
00:58:02.000And then, by the way, you want to benefit Trump.
00:58:06.000This will benefit Trump pretty strongly.
00:58:07.000Campaign staffers for Biden were donating to a group in Minnesota bailing out people who are violating the law.
00:58:13.000Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesperson, told the news service that Biden opposes the institution of cash bail as a modern-day debtor's prison.
00:58:21.000They're bailing out all of these people who had committed crimes.
00:58:27.000This is what you're seeing from Democratic politicians.
00:58:29.000You're seeing it from some Democratic administrators in various cities.
00:58:33.000The Raleigh, North Carolina Police Department head said, we're not even going to defend property.
00:58:37.000We're just going to allow people to go and burn the property.
00:58:39.000This is very reminiscent of the riots in Baltimore back in 2014, when the mayor said that they were going to give the protesters and rioters and looters space to burn.
00:58:47.000Okay, so meanwhile, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, again, he doesn't have the balls to say what the mayor of Atlanta or the mayor of St.
00:58:53.000Paul said, so instead, he says, I'm the problem.
00:58:58.000Okay, as opposed to, this is a major American city and we will not allow lawlessness to prevail and we are working hard every day to stop police brutality and make sure that the law is enforced.
00:59:08.000Instead, we get Bill de Blasio saying, I am white privilege and I understand my own privilege.
01:00:32.000Speaking of garbage mayors, my mayor, Eric Garcetti, he tweeted out over the weekend that he wasn't going to call for the National Guard because that would just be escalating things.
01:00:41.000And then, of course, he immediately came out and called for the National Guard because it turns out he's not in control of his own city because he was too busy cowering before protesters and then really cowering before rioters and looters.
01:00:51.000I spoke with the governor earlier today.
01:01:27.000Yeah, and then five hours later he was calling in the National Guard.
01:01:30.000He literally said, like, hours later, the California National Guard is being deployed to Los Angeles overnight to support our local response to maintain peace and safety on the streets of our city.
01:01:37.000Yeah, it turns out that basically preparing to take it from rioters and looters and begging them to show the better angels of their nature is not a particularly productive move.
01:01:54.000And speaking of cowardly, our corporations are similarly cowardly.
01:01:58.000So corporations have been putting out statements to try and demonstrate that they are on board with the social justice arguments that America is deeply racist and terrible.
01:02:06.000The idea being, of course, that if they virtue signal that America is deeply racist and terrible, then maybe they'll be left alone.
01:02:12.000That's the way this works in corporate America too often these days, is that it's not enough to simply, like, I don't know why you need to hear from corporate leaders about the killing of George Floyd.
01:02:22.000I wasn't aware that corporate leaders were making police policy.
01:02:25.000Like, if you want to on your individual capacity, that's fine.
01:02:28.000But seriously, I don't really care about Target's policy on anything.
01:02:43.000I'm just pointing out the fact that it is a very odd thing that so many members of these various institutions now feel the need to virtue signal so that they will, what, not be targeted, not be boycotted?
01:02:57.000So you had, for example, Peloton put out a letter suggesting that they are standing with Black Lives Matter The whitest company on earth, standing with Black Lives Matter.
01:03:10.000And they talked about donating $500,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
01:03:29.000If the CEO wants to march, he should go march.
01:03:31.000If the individuals want to go march, they should go march.
01:03:34.000But the fact that every corporation now feels the need to write emails to the entire public at large, signaling their politics on questions as to whether America is endemically racist.
01:03:47.000The pressure tactics that are being brought to bear on corporations and the willingness of corporations to go along with it, it's pretty incredible.
01:03:58.000Meanwhile, President Trump is involved here, but he's only involved apparently, like, kind of tangentially.
01:04:04.000The President of the United States does not seem to be supremely involved in all this.
01:04:08.000Politicians want to blame him for all of this, obviously.
01:04:10.000This is what you've seen from politicians.
01:04:13.000So, the Attorney General pointed out that there were some Antifa-like tactics here, that Antifa is involved here.
01:04:22.000Media immediately came out to defend Antifa and pretend that Antifa is not a group that exists here, as the Department of Justice had explaining, that we are seeing some organized terror-like activities here.
01:04:31.000In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchic and left Okay, meanwhile, the president was tweeting out about all of this and he's basically been on Twitter.
01:04:57.000He had a speech on Saturday in which he said he stands against violence and mayhem, but mostly he's been on Twitter.
01:05:03.000So he tweeted out, here was a little bit of his speech talking about violence and mayhem.
01:05:07.000Every citizen in every community has the right to be safe in their workplace, safe in their homes, and safe in our city streets.
01:05:18.000This is the sacred right of all Americans that I am totally determined to defend and will defend.
01:05:27.000My administration will always stand against violence, mayhem, and disorder.
01:05:38.000He should be saying then, he should be assuring Americans that they're not going to be confined to their homes for the foreseeable future because of ridiculous and cowardly local leadership.
01:05:48.000But President Trump has basically mostly been on Twitter fulminating about Antifa.
01:05:51.000And I'm sorry, Twitter is not a substitute for being president.
01:05:54.000So President Trump tweeted out, Something along the lines of he wants to.
01:05:59.000He said the United States of America will be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization.
01:06:07.000They generally apply to foreign-based terror organizations because you run into serious problems with prosecuting people on First Amendment bases for a quote-unquote domestic terrorism other than laws that already exist, like attempt to do damage, attempt to do harm across state lines.
01:06:20.000He's been tweeting out things like law and order in all capital letters.
01:06:23.000He's been tweeting out About how crossing state lines to incite violence is a federal crime.
01:06:29.000Liberal governors and mayors must get much tougher on federal government, or the federal government will step in and do what has to be done.
01:06:34.000That includes using the unlimited power of our military in many arrests.
01:07:00.000Now, what's hilarious about this is that the ineffective response from Trump, which has been mainly just tweeting stuff, is blamed by the media for all of this.
01:07:16.000In fact, Joy Reid on MSNBC was out full-on defending Antifa over the weekend.
01:07:22.000She tweeted out, What's weird is that if you spelled out what the acronym for this loose movement called Antifa stands for and rewrite Trump's tweet accordingly, it would read, The United States of America will be designating anti-fascists as a terrorist organization.
01:07:33.000Okay, if you're stupid enough that you believe Antifa is anti-fascist in actual practice as opposed to just name, it's because you are a complete moron and you were dropped on your head as a baby.
01:07:42.000That's like believing that the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is an actual Democratic People's Republic.
01:07:48.000Just because you call yourself anti-fascist doesn't mean that you are not a fascist.
01:07:52.000Antifa shuts down free speech, they beat people for wearing the wrong hat, they attempt to shut down... I mean, I've been... When I spoke in Berkeley, they showed up and they attempted to shut down the speech.
01:08:05.000And the fact that members of the media are willing to defend them, it just demonstrates where the media's sympathies lie.
01:08:09.000One MSNBC contributor said, we are now on the verge of Trump designating his enemies, enemies of the state!
01:08:15.000He's gonna crack down, he's gonna violate their rights.
01:08:19.000Like right now, I saw last night that the World War II memorial, the week after Memorial Day was defaced by Antifa.
01:08:25.000I mean with the actual anarchist symbols and everything.
01:08:28.000And yet we have MSNBC contributors suggesting the problem here is that Trump is being mean to Antifa.
01:08:33.000...are so loosely based and so diverse in their beliefs, from global anarchy to simple anti-Trump to supporting Black Lives Matter, that you cannot isolate a single body of political or ideological beliefs here.
01:08:50.000So, I'm concerned that if we're not careful, this is one small step away from the President of the United States designating his political opponents as enemies of the state, as terrorists, Oh, yes, I'm sure that's what's happening here, is that he's just going to lock up everyone he disagrees with, as opposed to, you know, the people who are actually beating heads in and breaking into Target and burning police stations.
01:09:15.000Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is, of course, blaming Trump.
01:09:22.000But if you claim that America is a deeply racist place in which one group of Americans, namely white Americans, have been systemically oppressing black Americans at the same level for 400 years, That Americans were, like, from 1619 to now, have basically acted the same way toward black Americans?
01:09:37.000That police officers across the nation are randomly executing black men for no reason at all?
01:09:42.000That's not fanning the flames, but if Trump says Antifa, that's fanning the flames.
01:09:45.000Or if Trump tweets something dumb, that's what's really fanning the flames here.
01:09:48.000It's not the generations long indoctrination in the idea that America is gravely evil, that America's constitution is rooted in racism and slavery and evil, that America's Declaration of Independence is a lie.
01:09:59.000It's not that stuff that's fanning the flames.
01:10:01.000What's really fanning the flames is that Trump is president, which is weird because I remember race riots in the United States in 2014 when Donald Trump was not president.
01:11:15.000It's not fanning the flames for CNN to be out there basically suggesting that rioting and looting are a natural outgrowth of the evils of American racism.
01:11:21.000But it is fanning the flames for President Trump to mention that there are dogs at the White House.
01:12:03.000But if you mention that, by the way, you guys all stopped talking about COVID the minute that the protesters agreed with your generalized perception that America is evil, then you're bad.
01:12:11.000So Susan Hennessey, who is a reporter, she tweeted out that, I can't believe that President Trump is going to blame this for an uptick in COVID.
01:12:16.000Well, if there's an uptick in COVID, it seems like maybe tens of thousands of people gathering and shouting In close quarters with one another, without wearing masks, that might be a problem.
01:12:27.000Susan Hennessey is the Brookings senior fellow and CNN national security and legal analyst.
01:12:30.000She tweeted out, as coronavirus numbers climb from here, I think it is a safe assumption that Trump will now attempt to blame these protests for the spread rather than his own inadequate and incompetent response.
01:12:39.000I mean, if there is a spread from the protest, it seems like that might be a good thing to point out that maybe the protest, like, amazing how COVID-19 was only ended as soon as the media found a shinier object.
01:12:49.000As soon as the media found a shinier object, namely, we like these protests because they say America's bad, then I guess COVID-19 is not a worry anymore.
01:12:54.000And if you point out that COVID-19 is still a worry, gathering in major numbers and screaming at the top of your lungs, with your spittle flying everywhere, which is what happens when you scream, whether you're singing in a church or screaming at a protest, then you're very, very, very bad.
01:13:27.000Stay safe out there and demand more of your politicians and your government.
01:13:31.000Demand more of your politicians and your government and demand more of people who suggest that America is endemically evil.
01:13:37.000Decent people agree on all of these things.
01:13:40.000And if you suggest that other people don't agree with you because you don't like the color of their skin, And that is likely because you are the indecent person in this particular situation.
01:13:48.000We'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.
01:13:50.000I'll be on All Access Live tonight, or we'll see you here tomorrow.
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