00:00:43.000So according to the New York Post, the video was taken after JT, that's what they're calling the minor, shot his teacher, Abby's Warner, in front of 16 students in their first grade class January 6th, 2023.
00:00:53.000The shooting took place the day after the kid returned to class from a suspension.
00:00:57.000So in the footage, he's told to stop by a reading specialist named Amy Kovac.
00:01:02.000who rushed into the classroom after the shooting and held the boy down in a bear hug.
00:01:06.000The three minutes of body cam footage were introduced as an exhibit by the prosecution during the trial of former Rich Nick assistant principal Ebony Parker, who was facing felony child neglect counts tied to events before the shooting.
00:01:19.000Those charges were dismissed even before the defense had to make its case.
00:01:23.000Zwarner, who is the teacher who was shot here and was severely injured, was shot through the hand and in the chest, was awarded 10 million bucks following a civil trial against Parker, which ended in November 2025.
00:01:33.000And JT's mom, A person named Deja Nicole Taylor was sent to state prison for child neglect.
00:01:39.000She spent some time in federal prison, in part for lying about drug use on a background check form when she bought the firearm used in the shooting.
00:02:38.000I will say that week, He did come home and he was talking, you know, a lot about how he felt like he was being ignored.
00:02:46.000Okay, so according to the parent, it's about ADHD or he felt like he was being ignored or whatever.
00:02:54.000And some people tried to blame the school.
00:02:56.000Other members of the boy's family tried to do this.
00:02:58.000According to ABC7, James Ellenson, who was Taylor's attorney, said the ultimate responsibility for the shooting was on school officials who prematurely enrolled the student in first grade despite knowing he had only attended two months of kindergarten and two months of pre K, and they were aware of his ADHD.
00:03:12.000And the lawyer said if they believed all of these behaviors to be true, they should not have allowed him to advance to a higher level.
00:03:17.000They should have put him back in kindergarten.
00:03:18.000Now, as we know, actually, there's a lot of controversy over holding people back because then when you hold back kids, if they're of particular races, the claim is systemic racism.
00:03:26.000Okay, so the school probably could, probably should have done more.
00:03:33.000There were charges of neglect that were filed, as we say, against the former elementary school assistant principal, Ebony Parker, who had been accused, according to CBS News, of ignoring repeated warnings that the six year old student had a gun hours before the child eventually shot.
00:03:46.000And seriously wounded his teacher, and those warnings were dismissed.
00:04:03.000The reason that you have a little six year old kid who shoots his teacher and then starts shouting about take me to jail bit.
00:04:11.000The reason that happens is because six year olds don't normally do this sort of thing.
00:04:16.000So here's what we know about the parents.
00:04:18.000Deja Taylor was charged with using marijuana while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement about her drug use during the purchase of the firearm, both felonies, in the wake of that January shooting in 2023.
00:04:29.000Federal prosecutors said at the time that the firearm used in the shooting was purchased by Taylor in July 2022, and they never found a lockbox, a trigger lock, or a key for the gun.
00:04:38.000And it turns out that it's not just that mom was irresponsible with the weapons.
00:04:42.000She and the daddy had modeled incredibly horrifying behavior for their child.
00:04:47.000Again, according to WAVY.com, Taylor was pulled over for speeding in April 2021, and Williamsburg police discovered drugs in the car, including marijuana edibles that were within reach of her then four year old son.
00:05:03.000It turns out that the dad, Malik Ellison, was in the car during that traffic stop.
00:05:09.000Williamsburg police arrested Ellison and charged him with violating a protective order that Taylor had filed against him, prohibiting him from contact with her and her sons.
00:05:16.000She already had a protective order against the dad.
00:05:19.000Why was there a protective order that she was violating and so was he when he was in the car with edibles within reach of a four year old?
00:05:24.000Well, it turns out that Taylor apparently sought a protective order against Daddy in September 2020 after he assaulted her at his St. Thomas Drive apartment.
00:05:33.000Taylor called the police and said that Ellison came to the home uninvited, forced his way into the apartment, hit her in the face, and threw her to the ground.
00:05:40.000Taylor told the police that the day before the assault, she had warned Ellison not to come to her home, and that he had followed her to McDonald's.
00:05:45.000He was then convicted of assault and battery.
00:05:48.000Taylor also reported that Ellison stalked her, showed up to her home with a gun, and assaulted her again in October 2020.
00:05:53.000And then he was charged with domestic assault in 2021, but Taylor wasn't the victim.
00:05:58.000In fact, he was already in a relationship with another woman in June 2021.
00:06:02.000That woman called Newport News Police, In August 2021 and told investigators he came to her home, put his hand around her neck and threatened to kill her.
00:06:45.000Because if we're going to speak honestly about the causes of crime, particularly juvenile crime in America, we ought to be honest, like really, really honest.
00:06:54.000Crime is not predominantly the result of permanent systemic poverty, for example, or discrimination.
00:07:00.000Both permanent systemic poverty and crime in America are generally caused by terrible, horrible decision making.
00:07:08.000Now, again, that doesn't mean that every person who experiences poverty made bad decisions.
00:07:12.000I'm using the words permanent and systemic.
00:07:15.000If you're permanently poor in the United States, if your children are criminals, that is generally not the fault of the systems.
00:07:21.000And this is why it is such a mistake to elect politicians who say they can cure all of this stuff with the power of government.
00:07:27.000In America, it remains true that if you perform the following tasks, you will not be permanently poor.
00:07:34.000Also, if you perform the following tasks, it's very unlikely your child will be a criminal.
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00:10:10.000So they walk into a preborn clinic and instead of just being recommended an abortion and being told nonsense about how there's no problem at all, there's no issue for you to think about, instead they're shown an ultrasound of the baby.
00:10:48.000In his highly controversial 1965 report, it was called, because this was the terminology at the time, the Negro Family, the case for national action.
00:10:56.000Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued, At the time, quote, at the center of the tangle of pathology is the weakness of the family structure.
00:11:04.000Once or twice removed, it will be found to be the principal source of most of the aberrant, inadequate, or antisocial behavior, which did not establish, but now serves to perpetuate the cycle of poverty and deprivation.
00:11:15.000So this requires that we ask a simple question.
00:11:16.000Again, this has major ramifications for government policy.
00:11:19.000What broke the black family structure in America?
00:11:22.000By the way, it also broke the family structure more generally in America.
00:11:26.000Here is a chart of the percentage of people Never married among those age 35 and older by sex and race.
00:12:35.000Thomas Dole writes a vastly expanded welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations of racial oppression.
00:12:43.000In 1960, Before the expansion of the welfare state, 22% of black kids were raised with only one parent.
00:12:48.000By 1985, 67% of black children were raised with either one parent or no parent.
00:12:55.000Well, what's the result of all of that?
00:12:56.000Again, those percentages are still unbelievably high today.
00:12:59.000And not much has changed since the 1980s in this respect.
00:14:22.000Now, again, I may not be an expert at math, but I can do some basic math.
00:14:26.000That means that the national violent crime arrest rate for black youth is five times the national violent crime arrest rate for white youth.
00:14:32.000And that is not because of racism in law enforcement.
00:14:35.000As of 2024, about two thirds of black kids in the United States live in single family homes, single parent homes.
00:14:43.000And this also has an impact on delinquency in schools.
00:14:47.000Again, all of this is part of a social pathology where you don't have responsible parents, dad and mom, both.
00:14:53.000available to the kids in a married family structure.
00:14:57.000You can blame that on systems all you want, but I promise you that the government intervening in these systems is actually the problem, not the solution.
00:15:04.000And the causation here is extraordinarily clear.
00:15:08.000Chronic truancy, meaning 18 or more unexcused absences, five times higher in black elementary school students in California than for white students.
00:15:20.000In 2020, Kamala Harris, by the way, when she was the Attorney General of the state championed a state law that made chronic elementary truancy a misdemeanor for parents.
00:15:29.000And then she had to walk that back because too many people got angry at her at the time.
00:15:34.000They claimed that it was racist to make chronic elementary truancy a misdemeanor for parents.
00:15:38.000Black students are getting suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students nationally.
00:15:42.000Black students self report being in a physical fight at school twice as much as white students.
00:15:47.000Schools filled with 50% or more minority students.
00:15:51.000So, at 10 times the rate of gang activity than schools with a 5 to 20% minority population.
00:15:57.000Four times as many minority majority schools reported weekly verbal abuse of teachers versus schools with less than 20% minority student populations.
00:16:17.000Now, again, this is a massive difference between left and right.
00:16:21.000Because in the rational community, we look at the facts on the ground and then we form narrative around the facts.
00:16:27.000In the irrational community, meaning in this case, the political left, we have a narrative and then we just ignore all the facts that don't fit it.
00:16:34.000So, for example, the Obama Education and Justice Department viewed disproportion as proof of teacher and principal bias.
00:16:41.000The reason that more black kids than white kids on On average, like per capita, we're getting suspended.
00:16:48.000Administration officials used litigation and threatened loss of federal funding to force schools to reduce suspensions and expulsions radically in order to eliminate racial disparities and discipline.
00:16:59.000So Obama's educational report, when he did this school discipline report, it didn't control for family structure or student behavior.
00:17:06.000It did control for the percentage of poor students who were receiving school lunches.
00:17:11.000So again, the idea was that it was just government lack that led to criminal and juvenile behavior.
00:17:20.000Again, the idea from the left is that it must be racism that is causing this wrong.
00:17:23.000It is people making bad decisions about how to procreate and raise their children.
00:17:27.000That is what is driving social pathologies that result in videotape of a six year old cursing out police officers after shooting his teacher in a classroom.
00:17:37.000Heather McDonald, who has done deep studies into all of this, wrote of Obama's government accountability office report, quote, teachers are most among the most liberal professionals in the country.
00:17:47.000Education school is one long marinade in white privilege theory.
00:17:50.000Yet, we're supposed to believe that once these social justice warriors enter the classroom, they're unable to evaluate their black students fairly.
00:17:56.000Overcome by prejudice, they see disruption and defiance where none exists.
00:17:59.000The opposite hypothesis is more likely.
00:18:01.000Teachers strive mightily to avoid removing black children from classrooms.
00:18:04.000They do so only after other means of discipline have been exhausted, and they do so in order to preserve the right of other students to learn in a safe and orderly environment and to instill a sense of consequences in students who break the rules.
00:18:15.000Okay, so why again is all of this so important?
00:18:18.000The reason all this is important is because when all the systems of the United States, your media ecosystem, your educational ecosystem, your governmental system tells you that every disparity is caused by governmental discrimination or by social discrimination and that you have no control over your own life.
00:18:35.000You end up with worse, worse results for everybody, particularly for children.
00:18:39.000And in this case, for the victims of children.
00:18:44.000So if we wish to cure America of social pathologies, we ought to look to individual decision making rather than simply blaming the system at large.
00:18:52.000And the right, by the way, should pay attention to this too, because the right has fallen into a bizarre collectivism with regard to an awful large number of problems in the United States.
00:19:03.000Well, maybe it turns out that you telling everybody, particularly young men, you can't get married, you can't have kids, nobody will even let you anymore is nonsense.
00:19:12.000It turns out that the cure for the vast majority of problems in the United States is you making better decisions yourself.
00:19:18.000This is true always and forever in a free country like the United States.
00:19:23.000Sure, there are obstacles and we should fight them.
00:19:25.000But those obstacles are so far lower than the obstacles for most of human history to making good decisions and reaping the benefits of that.
00:19:34.000That people sitting around complaining, I can't get married, I can't have kids, I can't.
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