The Ben Shapiro Show - June 15, 2020


You’ll Miss The Cops When They’re Gone | Ep. 1031


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52 minutes

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762

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00:00:00.000 The Supreme Court comes down with an enormous decision on LGBT issues, a black man is shot in Atlanta by police and new violence breaks out, and a New York Times op-ed says the quiet part out loud.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:00:25.000 Well, we're going to get to all of the unrest in Atlanta.
00:00:27.000 We're going to get to the circumstances of a shooting in Atlanta that may well end with a prosecution, although it certainly should not.
00:00:34.000 But we begin at this hour with a big decision that just came down from the Supreme Court in which the Supreme Court has decided without any evidence, without really any support, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act now protects on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
00:00:47.000 Which is relatively insane because Title VII obviously did not mean, and the court acknowledges this, did not mean to deal with gay and lesbian issues or transgender issues.
00:00:56.000 The notion of gender identity was not even familiar to people in 1964 when the Congress of the United States was passing Title VII, which prohibits Any sort of discrimination on a federal level on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
00:01:10.000 Now, the Supreme Court is making the absurd contention that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which, by the way, people knew that folks were gay and lesbian in 1964.
00:01:21.000 They did not include that in Title VII.
00:01:23.000 Not only that, but Congress has repeatedly attempted to and failed to include sexual orientation in updates of Title VII.
00:01:30.000 They failed because that's pretty controversial stuff.
00:01:32.000 I mean that's talking about, for example, you're a Catholic hospital, and now you are mandated to violate your own religious precepts in hiring gays and lesbians or transgender people.
00:01:40.000 It is something that the Democratic Party has been pushing for a very long time, but it's a controversial issue because it is not included in Title VII.
00:01:47.000 Title VII was meant to say that if you are a woman, that you cannot be prohibited against on the sole basis that you are a woman.
00:01:54.000 Not that you are a gay woman, for example.
00:01:55.000 Not that you are a gay man.
00:01:56.000 But on the basis that you are a man, you cannot be discriminated against.
00:01:59.000 And on the basis that you are a woman, you cannot be discriminated against.
00:02:01.000 Well now the Supreme Court has gone back in time and magically course-corrected to include sexual orientation and transgender identity.
00:02:10.000 in federal civil rights legislation that obviously was not meant to be there.
00:02:14.000 So now the idea is that if Bob walks into your place of employment tomorrow, and you're a large company, you have over 50 employees, Bob walks into your place of employ tomorrow, and he says, my name is Gene.
00:02:25.000 I wish you'd call me Gene.
00:02:26.000 You say, well, Bob, you know, that doesn't really fit your job description.
00:02:29.000 And like, that's not something that we're ideologically okay with here.
00:02:32.000 You're now in violation of federal civil rights law, right?
00:02:34.000 That is the idea under this decision.
00:02:37.000 Now, there may or may not be an exception for openly religious organizations.
00:02:41.000 So, not Catholic hospitals, which do a secular business, or Catholic adoption agencies, which do a secular business, but you work for a church, or you work for a Catholic school, right?
00:02:49.000 That may be part of the job description, is that you abide by Catholic doctrine or Catholic teachings.
00:02:54.000 But, for example, there are a lot of Catholic schools that have sort of religious studies in the morning, and then they have secular studies in the afternoon.
00:03:00.000 But they also do not want people in the afternoon courses who may not be Catholic, for example, to be openly violating certain religious precepts.
00:03:09.000 And so they say, listen, we teach at the school that certain types of human activity are sinful, and we don't want our teachers engaged in that.
00:03:14.000 Theoretically, that could now be illegal.
00:03:16.000 If you're a religious person and you own a corporation, you say, listen, people who work at my corporation, I just don't want them participating in certain types of activity that I don't like.
00:03:25.000 Well now, that would be the basis for a lawsuit.
00:03:27.000 What is left completely unclear here is whether it is the basis for a lawsuit, whether, let's say, you abide by this new ruling and a transgender person comes in, you hire the transgender person, but you are a conservative company and you say, as I do and as Daily Wire has said, that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
00:03:43.000 Does that now amount to discrimination under federal law?
00:03:46.000 It is not clear under this particular provision of the Supreme Court decision.
00:03:51.000 This is a very far-reaching decision.
00:03:53.000 It's a very bad decision.
00:03:54.000 And the part of it that's quite shocking is that Justice Gorsuch wrote the decision.
00:03:58.000 Now if you listen to the oral arguments way back in February, it was pretty obvious which way Gorsuch was going to go on this thing.
00:04:03.000 It was pretty obvious always where Roberts was going to go because Roberts is a garbage justice.
00:04:06.000 But Gorsuch, who is widely perceived to be a textualist, His attempt to shoehorn textualism into this decision is insane.
00:04:14.000 I mean, it's really wild.
00:04:16.000 Because the fact is that what a textualist would do, or an originalist, is they would read the text of the statute, and look at the meaning of the statute at the time, and say what it meant, or what it did not mean.
00:04:26.000 They would not say, oh yes, we've updated the wording now, so now it means something completely different than what it meant back in 1964.
00:04:32.000 But that's exactly what Gorsuch does here.
00:04:35.000 So Gorsuch says, we agree that homosexuality and transgender status are distinct concepts from sex.
00:04:40.000 Okay, that should be the end of the inquiry, right?
00:04:42.000 Once you say that homosexuality and transgender status are not sex, right, that's a completely different concept, then you have to make the argument that presumably the Civil Rights Act of 1964 talks about discrimination on the basis of sex, not on the basis of homosexuality or transgender status or sexual orientation or any of that.
00:05:03.000 But, says Gorsuch, as we've seen, discrimination based on homosexuality or transgender status necessarily entails discrimination based on sex.
00:05:10.000 The first cannot happen without the second.
00:05:12.000 Nor is there any such thing as a canon of donut holes in which Congress's failure to speak directly to a specific case that falls within a more general statutory rule creates a tacit exception.
00:05:21.000 Okay, that's not true at all.
00:05:22.000 Okay, if it is perfectly obvious that Congress has repeatedly attempted to fill a donut, And that the donut has not been filled.
00:05:28.000 And it's pretty obvious that Congress itself perceived that the donut had not been filled.
00:05:32.000 In other words, it's not that Congress created this overarching penumbra and emanation that the Supreme Court was supposed to fill in.
00:05:39.000 The idea instead was that Congress was being very specific about what it wished to prohibit.
00:05:43.000 You have a job.
00:05:44.000 All you know about the applicants is that one is a man and one is a woman.
00:05:46.000 You cannot discriminate solely on the basis of sex.
00:05:49.000 Right?
00:05:49.000 You cannot discriminate on the basis of sex in that decision.
00:05:51.000 Now, as Justice Alito points out in his dissent, it doesn't make any logical sense what Gorsuch and the majority do here.
00:05:59.000 So Gorsuch says, sexual harassment is conceptually distinct from sex discrimination, but it can fall within Title VII sweep.
00:06:05.000 Would the employers have us reverse those cases on the theory that Congress could have spoken to those problems more specifically?
00:06:10.000 Of course not.
00:06:11.000 As enacted, Title VII prohibits all forms of discrimination because of sex.
00:06:15.000 However, they may manifest themselves or whatever other labels might attach to them.
00:06:19.000 So in other words, what he is saying is that sexual orientation is covered by the prohibition to discriminate on the basis of sex because you couldn't be homosexual without being a member of the same sex as the person to whom you are engaging in sex.
00:06:31.000 So in other words, if a woman has sex with a man and is not fired, but a man has sex with a man and is fired, it is not sexual orientation that is the question, but the sex of the man.
00:06:41.000 But as Justice Alito points out, that makes no sense because you could very easily have a policy that says a woman cannot have sex with a woman and a man cannot have sex with a man.
00:06:48.000 Again, by the way, this is not to make the case that people should not hire gay men or gay women.
00:06:53.000 This is me talking about whether you are forced by law to hire people, right?
00:06:58.000 Whether you are forced by law.
00:06:59.000 That is a different question as to what I would do in a business circumstance.
00:07:02.000 I'm sure there are people who are gay and lesbian who are working for my company right now.
00:07:05.000 I don't care.
00:07:07.000 And frankly, if somebody applied as a transgender person, I wouldn't care about that either.
00:07:10.000 Okay, the reality is that I'll hire anybody of any time so long as they can do the job.
00:07:13.000 I really don't care.
00:07:14.000 But that is not the question here.
00:07:15.000 The question is whether the federal government can compel businesses to violate freedom of association, to violate freedom of religious liberty, to violate freedom of speech.
00:07:25.000 And you watch, this decision, ironically enough, will then be used as a social media club with which to beat everyone who says things like men and women exist.
00:07:33.000 So a decision which basically says that anything that manifests manhood or womanhood is now violative of federal law if you fire somebody on that basis or discriminate on that basis, that will be used as a cause by social media within the next six months, watch, to say that if you say a man is a man and a woman is a woman, you are now discriminating on the basis of transgender identity, which, ironically enough, is rejected by the court here.
00:07:55.000 Because what the court is actually saying is that it is a discrimination against a man If you fire him on the basis of transgender identity.
00:08:03.000 So a man comes in, dressed as a woman, and you say to him, well, you're not a woman, so I'm firing you.
00:08:10.000 That is a discrimination based on sex, according to the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:08:15.000 Which overtly rejects, I mean, that implicitly and overtly rejects the idea that a man who comes in and says that he is a woman is actually a woman.
00:08:23.000 Because then it wouldn't be discrimination on the basis of sex.
00:08:26.000 It would be discrimination on the basis of something else.
00:08:28.000 So logically speaking, there are a lot of holes in this argument.
00:08:32.000 As Alito makes clear in his dissent, it is unclear what the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision today are going to be.
00:08:38.000 It really is not particularly clear.
00:08:39.000 What is clear is that if you're a religious person in the United States and you own a company, then this is a very big problem for you if you actually hope to Use any sort of religious values, traditional religious values in your hiring, right?
00:08:51.000 There was something called the Hobby Lobby case.
00:08:52.000 It held that a closely held corporation, like Hobby Lobby, could not provide for abortion care in its healthcare coverage, right?
00:09:00.000 So now, under this Supreme Court decision, could a closely held religious corporation say, listen, we don't employ gays and lesbians because we're a religious Christian family and we don't want to do that, or Could they say, we don't want to employ people who are transgender because it violates our perspective on what males and females are?
00:09:17.000 All of that is left up in the air by this decision.
00:09:19.000 Also left up in the air is what does discrimination constitute?
00:09:22.000 So as I say, I'll hire anybody at my company, but I will say on the air that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
00:09:27.000 Let's say I say that just around the office.
00:09:28.000 Let's say I'm talking to some people around the office and I'm talking politics and I say a man is a man and a woman is a woman and a transgender person overhears that.
00:09:34.000 Have I now created a discriminatory work environment?
00:09:37.000 Utterly unclear from this decision.
00:09:39.000 Utterly unclear from this decision.
00:09:41.000 So the decision creates an enormous number of questions.
00:09:43.000 It is legally ridiculous.
00:09:45.000 Not only is it legally ridiculous, it does give the lie to the idea that conservatives can simply rely on the federal courts of the United States to protect them.
00:09:52.000 And this has been one of the great lies that conservatives have pushed for years.
00:09:55.000 All we need to do in Congress is give you tax cuts and judges, and then you should be happy with that.
00:10:02.000 Two of the judges who voted for this thing, two of the judges who voted for this very, very bad decision on a legal basis, two of those judges are Republicans.
00:10:09.000 Two of those were appointed by Republicans, Roberts and Gorsuch.
00:10:13.000 There are only four Democratic appointees who voted for this decision.
00:10:15.000 This thing went 6-3.
00:10:16.000 So once again, Republicans proving themselves incompetent at selecting Supreme Court judges.
00:10:21.000 I'm old enough to remember when Butt Gorsuch was the big excuse for, you have to back Trump because Butt Gorsuch.
00:10:26.000 Gorsuch was the opinion writer in this particular case.
00:10:28.000 By the way, worth noting, this is the same Supreme Court that has turned down multiple writs of certiorari.
00:10:33.000 Writs of cert are applications for a Supreme Court case on the Second Amendment.
00:10:37.000 So the Supreme Court will not decide.
00:10:38.000 Basically, the Supreme Court has established a federal right for you to own a gun in your home, but the Supreme Court has not decided whether you can carry, whether you can have a gun in your business, and they've rejected every case on that basis.
00:10:47.000 Second Amendment cases, they're rejecting right and left, but they certainly took up a case in which they basically established that If you fire somebody on the basis of your own religious conviction, and you're not an overtly religious organization, then you can be federally sued under the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 without any additional legislation, even though it is clear to everyone, right, left, and center, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act did not cover this sort of activity.
00:11:10.000 It obviously did not.
00:11:11.000 Okay, like, this is perfectly clear.
00:11:13.000 Gorsuch admits as much.
00:11:14.000 He just expands it.
00:11:15.000 Okay, that's bad law, and it's once again proof that if you're relying on judges to save you from the elements of the left, good, Good luck.
00:11:24.000 It ain't gonna happen.
00:11:24.000 Good luck.
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00:13:01.000 Okay, so meanwhile, and we are still looking at the incredible extension of civil rights law in an area where it had never been presumed to be extended before by the Supreme Court.
00:13:13.000 We'll look more at the sort of ramifications of that as we continue because I've been wading through 170 pages of legal opinion.
00:13:23.000 But first, let's talk about what's been going on in Atlanta.
00:13:23.000 We'll get to that in a moment.
00:13:26.000 So the continued attack on the police, it's ongoing and it's going to have real ramifications.
00:13:30.000 So, over the weekend, there was a flare-up in Atlanta.
00:13:33.000 The flare-up in Atlanta was essentially a man who was apparently asleep at a drive-thru at Wendy's because he was drunk behind the wheel.
00:13:43.000 The police show up.
00:13:44.000 And they start questioning him.
00:13:46.000 The questioning goes for 25 minutes.
00:13:47.000 They're very polite.
00:13:49.000 He's fairly polite to them.
00:13:51.000 Then, when they go to arrest him, he starts to resist arrest.
00:13:53.000 Not only does he resist arrest, he knocks down two of the police officers, he grabs one of their tasers, and then, as he's running away from the officers, he turns around and points the officer's taser at the officer and attempts to fire it at the officer, at which point the officer shoots him dead.
00:14:07.000 So we have the actual footage of this.
00:14:09.000 It is disturbing.
00:14:10.000 So if you're disturbed by this sort of footage, then you should probably skip the next minute and a half or so.
00:14:14.000 Here is what the actual situation was, because this is being used as yet another case in point of evil, brutal white police taking down an innocent black man.
00:14:22.000 And that is not what this case is.
00:14:23.000 Not all cases are created equivalent.
00:14:25.000 This is not like the case of George Floyd.
00:14:28.000 It is not.
00:14:29.000 This is not like the case of Ahmaud Arbery.
00:14:31.000 Okay, this is a case in which a person stole a weapon off a cop and pointed the weapon at the cop, and then he was shot dead.
00:14:37.000 So here is what the... This resulted, by the way, in the burning down of the Wendy's, which makes no sense.
00:14:42.000 It's not the Wendy's fault.
00:14:43.000 By the way, it was a white chick, apparently, who burned down the Wendy's.
00:14:45.000 We'll get to that in a second, but here was the actual footage.
00:14:48.000 And it's important to analyze these situations because the headlines that came from the media were just a lie, like an overt lie.
00:14:53.000 There were headlines from the media that said things like, unarmed black man shot by police.
00:14:57.000 He was not unarmed.
00:14:58.000 He was literally holding the taser and pointing it at the officer at the time.
00:15:01.000 Okay, here is what the footage looked like, and I'll narrate it for people who can't actually see it.
00:15:05.000 I wasn't here, so can you tell me what happened before we got here?
00:15:09.000 Okay, so they're giving him the walking test.
00:15:17.000 He obviously can't walk in a straight line.
00:15:19.000 He's having trouble.
00:15:20.000 This guy's really very drunk.
00:15:21.000 I have my daughters there right now.
00:15:23.000 My daughter's birthday was yesterday.
00:15:25.000 Hello, Mr. Brooks.
00:15:27.000 Will you take a preliminary breath test for me?
00:15:29.000 It's a yes or no.
00:15:31.000 I don't want to refuse anything.
00:15:33.000 It's yes or no.
00:15:34.000 It's completely up to you.
00:15:35.000 Yes, I will.
00:15:36.000 Just wait here while I grab it.
00:15:36.000 Okay.
00:15:38.000 What kind of drinks did you have?
00:15:41.000 I'm not sure.
00:15:41.000 It's something she ordered.
00:15:42.000 She said top shelf or whatever.
00:15:44.000 Top shelf what?
00:15:46.000 I'm not sure.
00:15:46.000 It was, like I said- So they're talking, obviously, about the kind of drinks that he's had.
00:15:50.000 This is all very polite, right?
00:15:51.000 I mean, if the police officers are out to kill the guy, this is not how that encounter starts, typically.
00:15:56.000 If it's white, racist police officers looking to kill black men, you usually don't have 25- Okay, now here's where it gets ugly.
00:16:00.000 So they go to handcuff the guy.
00:16:02.000 The body cam footage is here.
00:16:03.000 And then, next, you cut to footage from somebody else.
00:16:06.000 Now the guy's resisting arrest.
00:16:07.000 He takes these guys, the police officers, to ground.
00:16:11.000 He reaches out.
00:16:12.000 He steals the taser from one of the police officers.
00:16:16.000 And they're shouting, he's got my taser, he's got my taser, right?
00:16:18.000 One of the officers draws his taser to try and tase him, but it apparently fails.
00:16:22.000 The guy grabs the taser from him, escapes the police officers, and takes off down the street.
00:16:29.000 You'll see him throw the police officer in one second, and finally kind of bust free of them and run.
00:16:34.000 Okay, he tries to tase him there, right?
00:16:38.000 He tries to, he points it at the officer there, then he's running away.
00:16:41.000 He turns around, And he fires the taser at the police officer, at which point the police officer shoots him.
00:16:49.000 I asked several police officers last night because I want to make sure that I was getting this right.
00:16:53.000 Because I don't know police procedure.
00:16:54.000 I read the law in the city of Atlanta on use of deadly force, and this falls squarely within the law on the use of deadly force.
00:17:01.000 If someone removes a weapon from a police officer and fires it at the police officer, If it is a taser.
00:17:06.000 So people were saying idiotic things.
00:17:08.000 They were suggesting that, well, you know, a taser isn't a deadly weapon, so you can't shoot the guy if you use it.
00:17:12.000 Well, no.
00:17:13.000 The idea is that he's already demonstrated his willingness to take a weapon off an officer.
00:17:17.000 If he fires the taser at the officer and takes the officer down, what is to prevent him from then going over to the officer, withdrawing the officer's gun, and shooting him?
00:17:24.000 The officer does not have to wait around to be killed.
00:17:25.000 That is not the way this works.
00:17:27.000 The officer does not have to wait around to be seriously injured by a suspect who is resisting arrest.
00:17:31.000 So the Atlanta mayor immediately fired this officer.
00:17:34.000 Immediately.
00:17:36.000 Okay, and said that while this was, just because this was justified by law, doesn't mean it was justified in action.
00:17:42.000 Okay, in other words, yes, the law covers this sort of activity by police officers, because, again, I talked to multiple police officers, not a single one of these police officers thought this was a bad shoot, because it isn't a bad shoot.
00:17:51.000 If you knock down police officers, and you steal a weapon off a police officer, and then you fire a weapon at a police officer, even if it is a taser, they are not obligated to shoot to wound, because that's not a thing, they have to stop you.
00:18:01.000 You're running away with a police officer's taser right now, and he, again, by the way, They don't shoot him before he turns around and attempts to shoot them with the taser.
00:18:10.000 He turns around, he fires the taser.
00:18:12.000 You can see the taser light up as he attempts to fire it at them.
00:18:14.000 In the footage.
00:18:15.000 Here's the Atlanta mayor firing the guy.
00:18:17.000 And now the DA is considering prosecuting the guy.
00:18:20.000 Prosecuting the cop.
00:18:21.000 So here's the Atlanta mayor.
00:18:23.000 While there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force, I firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do.
00:18:39.000 I do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate termination of the officer.
00:18:50.000 Okay, so there's a distinction between what you can do and what you should do.
00:18:53.000 I'd like to see her on the streets actually policing.
00:18:55.000 Okay, if you're a police officer, what are you supposed to do?
00:18:57.000 Sit around until somebody kills you?
00:18:59.000 Until someone gravely injures you?
00:19:00.000 I guess that is the idea here from so many people.
00:19:03.000 So the attorney for the family here, he says, well, you know, a tailor isn't a deadly weapon.
00:19:07.000 A taser isn't a deadly weapon.
00:19:08.000 Again, if a person approaches you with a baseball bat, it is quite possible that the first blow of the baseball bat is not going to kill you.
00:19:15.000 But if they approach you with a weapon, You're justified in shooting him.
00:19:18.000 By the way, if they charge you and you don't have, and the person does not have a weapon, if they charge you with intent to do you bodily harm, you don't have to wait there until they actually physically assault you.
00:19:26.000 That is not a thing.
00:19:28.000 It's certainly not a thing when they're firing a taser at you.
00:19:30.000 But here was the lawyer for the man who was killed in Atlanta, whose name was Brooks.
00:19:35.000 The case law in Georgia, a taser's not a deadly weapon.
00:19:39.000 So they can't say it's not like he was running off with a gun.
00:19:42.000 It's not a deadly weapon.
00:19:44.000 I lose cases against officers who use it on my clients because it's not a deadly weapon.
00:19:50.000 And I'm saying that, you know, they shouldn't have done it.
00:19:52.000 But you just can't have it both ways in this.
00:19:55.000 If it's not a deadly weapon, his life was not in immediate harm when he fired that shot.
00:20:05.000 Well, I don't know.
00:20:07.000 I mean, It's immediate harm.
00:20:09.000 Like, his life is not in immediate harm.
00:20:11.000 The guy turned around and fired a taser at him.
00:20:12.000 You don't get to do that to police officers without fear of being shot.
00:20:17.000 Right?
00:20:18.000 We hear a lot about the talk, which a lot of parents give their kids, particularly in the black community apparently.
00:20:22.000 This is a talk that happens a lot where you tell your kids, you know, be careful around police because they might shoot you.
00:20:26.000 Well, part of that talk is respect the orders of the officer.
00:20:30.000 I'm pretty sure that this does not fall under the behavior that is usually covered by that talk.
00:20:34.000 Okay, again, every police officer that I have talked to says this is a good shoot.
00:20:38.000 Every single one.
00:20:39.000 I talked to multiple of them yesterday.
00:20:40.000 So if you don't like this sort of thing, and you don't have to like it, but if you don't acknowledge that this sort of thing is covered by normal police officer behavior, then you really shouldn't be in charge of police policy.
00:20:49.000 You really should not.
00:20:51.000 This did not call for lethal force.
00:20:52.000 This did not call for lethal force.
00:21:17.000 And I don't know what's in the culture that would make this guy do that.
00:21:24.000 It's got to be the culture.
00:21:25.000 It's got to be the system.
00:21:27.000 You got an African American woman mayor.
00:21:32.000 You got a woman police chief.
00:21:35.000 So the sensitivities that we look for in people are there, but it's not ingrained in the institution.
00:21:44.000 It's the institution, you see.
00:21:46.000 It's the institution.
00:21:47.000 Again, 25 minutes back and forth with the guy before he resists arrest and steals a weapon off a police officer and tries to shoot him with a taser.
00:21:54.000 So now the DA, I mean, this is how politicized this has gotten.
00:21:56.000 The Fulton District Attorney, Paul Howard, said his office will decide this week if Garrett Rolfe, the guy who was fired following the shooting, will be charged in the case.
00:22:03.000 He said that could meet a murder charge.
00:22:05.000 Howard said, quote, Brooks did not seem to present any kind of threat to anyone.
00:22:09.000 Any kind of threat to anyone?
00:22:11.000 He literally downed two police officers, right?
00:22:13.000 He took them to the ground.
00:22:14.000 You can see it in the tape.
00:22:15.000 And then he fires a taser at one of them.
00:22:17.000 He attempts to fire it at him again, right?
00:22:19.000 Twice.
00:22:20.000 He says, the fact that it would escalate to his death seems unreasonable.
00:22:23.000 If that shot was fired for some reason other than to save that officer's life or prevent injury to him or others.
00:22:27.000 Prevent injury to him or others is the operative language.
00:22:30.000 If someone fires a taser at me, I'm pretty much going to assume they intend injury to me or others.
00:22:33.000 The shooting is not justified under the law, says this DA.
00:22:37.000 I mean, this is insanity.
00:22:39.000 Like, truthfully, to prosecute a cop on these charges is full-scale insanity.
00:22:44.000 It's crazy.
00:22:45.000 But this is the world that we are creating for police officers, and it's gonna have predictable results, which is police officers are gonna quit.
00:22:50.000 And you're gonna see what a world without police look like.
00:22:52.000 Really, who'd wanna serve under these circumstances?
00:22:55.000 There are actual ramifications to the police are all racist and all evil.
00:22:59.000 It is one thing to say that you wanna curb police brutality.
00:23:01.000 It is another thing to say that in circumstances that justify a shooting, legally speaking, That you were gonna go after the police anyway.
00:23:08.000 Because now you've just made policing basically undoable.
00:23:11.000 And that's what many police officers recognize.
00:23:13.000 By the way, I talked to a lot of cops about this shooting yesterday, and nearly all of them also said, at least the ones in major city, I'm looking for a way to get out of the police force.
00:23:19.000 Because this is not a way that I can survive.
00:23:20.000 I can't keep my family.
00:23:22.000 Under these circumstances, I'm supposed to take a brick off the head rather than do anything about it?
00:23:26.000 I can't do that.
00:23:27.000 I'll get a security job somewhere.
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00:24:45.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, speaking of areas that have gone completely copless.
00:24:49.000 Exciting news from the Republic of Chaz.
00:24:51.000 It's the Republic of Chaz, man.
00:24:53.000 They've actually changed their name now.
00:24:54.000 They took my advice.
00:24:55.000 They said, they decided the Republic of Chaz is a bad name.
00:24:57.000 So now they've actually gone literal.
00:24:59.000 The Republic of Chop.
00:25:01.000 The Capitol Hill organized protest.
00:25:02.000 That is what they are calling themselves.
00:25:04.000 Chop.
00:25:05.000 So it's good.
00:25:06.000 When they bring the guillotines out, at least they'll have advanced notice to everybody.
00:25:10.000 According to KOMO News, without a leader and with more voices chiming in, some of the protesters that have been pushing for police reform and advocating for Black Lives Matter at the now-abandoned East Precinct say it's a move to get the movement back on track.
00:25:22.000 They named Chavs.
00:25:23.000 We didn't actually come up with that, said a protester.
00:25:25.000 We're not sure if it was detractors or people trying to push a false narrative.
00:25:28.000 They came in with that name.
00:25:30.000 They came in with the signs.
00:25:31.000 Oh, it was the right.
00:25:32.000 It was probably us.
00:25:33.000 It was probably people on the right who called it CHAZ, not the people who called it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:25:38.000 Okay, so CHAZ has turned into a garbage heap, naturally.
00:25:42.000 We have footage of what this area of Seattle looks like.
00:25:45.000 It is graffiti-strewn hellhole.
00:25:47.000 I mean, it looks really, really bad.
00:25:49.000 They've graffitied every building.
00:25:50.000 They've graffitied every window.
00:25:52.000 They've broken some of the windows as well.
00:25:54.000 It's really nice looking, right?
00:25:56.000 I mean, this looks good.
00:25:58.000 It says, justice for all looters.
00:26:00.000 People have spray painted on windows.
00:26:02.000 There are giant bags of trash everywhere.
00:26:05.000 All cops are bad.
00:26:06.000 That's ACAB.
00:26:07.000 If you're seeing ACAB, that means all cops are bad, which is a hell of a take.
00:26:11.000 Abolish Seattle PD.
00:26:12.000 Police are domestic terrorists.
00:26:14.000 They've graffitied everything.
00:26:15.000 They're anarchist symbols.
00:26:16.000 And then, of course, the odd genitalia, which is very important.
00:26:20.000 You have to make sure that you have a graffiti on something in order for you to really make a difference in American life.
00:26:28.000 So things are also not going well in terms of the actual governance.
00:26:31.000 The Chas protesters actually had to call the fire department after a dumpster fire was started just outside the boundary of Chas.
00:26:40.000 According to Chas, protesters in Seattle have been camped out this week in an enclave called Chas, and apparently a fire was started just outside Chas.
00:26:50.000 And so they called the fire department about the dumpster fire, which again is a very, very good indicator of exactly what Chas is.
00:26:58.000 They've been trying to grow their own crop.
00:26:59.000 They're not particularly autonomous.
00:27:00.000 They've been trying to grow their own crop.
00:27:02.000 I will say they could use a few Republicans in there with their gardening.
00:27:04.000 They're gardening on cement.
00:27:06.000 They took some topsoil, they put it on top of cardboard, and now they're trying to garden on the topsoil, which is placed on top of cardboard.
00:27:11.000 Which...
00:27:12.000 Look, looks great.
00:27:14.000 Looks great, guys.
00:27:15.000 I'm sure that your bumper crop will be coming up anytime.
00:27:18.000 Also, freedom is flourishing over in Chaz.
00:27:21.000 Certain advocates who are not black, actually, are trying to push all of the white people in Chaz to give $10 to their black neighbors on the basis of race.
00:27:28.000 So racial discrimination is like first step in Chaz.
00:27:31.000 This is exciting stuff.
00:27:34.000 I want you to find by the end, by the time you leave, This autonomous zone, I want you to give $10 to one African American person from this autonomous zone.
00:27:50.000 And if you find that's difficult, if you find it's hard for you to give $10 to people of color, to black people especially, you have to think really critically about in the future, are you going to actually give up power and land and capital when you have it?
00:28:08.000 Things are going great over in Chaz, so we have full-on racial redistribution happening.
00:28:13.000 Also, if you're black and you're carrying an American flag, that's bad.
00:28:16.000 So we're allowed to have the cops of Chaz go after it.
00:28:22.000 The American flag is banned in Chaz, that's exciting stuff.
00:28:25.000 our friend Andy Ngo who reports from these sorts of situations there's a black guy who's walking through Chaz carrying an American flag and people try to steal the flag from him which of course things are going great over there they're shouting at him they're chasing him down the street it's It's good times, it's good times.
00:28:46.000 So, excellent, excellent news.
00:28:49.000 Also, the CHAZ protesters were threatening street preachers.
00:28:52.000 So things are going great there.
00:28:53.000 They have their own police force that basically is just an armed band that goes around and threatens people, which is exciting stuff.
00:28:59.000 They have a border.
00:29:00.000 They have not been enforcing the law.
00:29:02.000 They've tripled the 9-1-1 time, according to the Seattle PD, if somebody's got a problem inside CHAZ.
00:29:06.000 So things are going beautifully inside CHAZ.
00:29:08.000 Meanwhile, over in Portland, protesters shut down the street again because Portland has been again one of these cities that has been left to the tender mercies of Antifa.
00:29:15.000 The point in all this is that when you chase away the cops and when you tell them you can't do their jobs, things get worse.
00:29:20.000 They do not get better.
00:29:21.000 And they get worse particularly in high crime communities.
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00:30:49.000 Okay, so all of this has an actual impact.
00:30:51.000 So there's this bizarre idea, like the wife of Bill de Blasio, whose name escapes me for the moment, who may run for mayor herself, apparently, which would just be wonderful because he's been so great.
00:31:00.000 She said that she looks forward to a New York without police that would actually be some sort of paradise.
00:31:06.000 She suggested it would be Nirvana.
00:31:07.000 It would be Nirvana without police.
00:31:08.000 Well, what happens to towns without police?
00:31:11.000 Well, Roland Fryer and researchers at Harvard University have just come out with a study.
00:31:16.000 And here's what they found.
00:31:17.000 They found that after federal investigations against police officers in areas with a disputed attack, so for example, Ferguson, What they saw is that after federal investigations and heavy media exposure, you know what cops do?
00:31:30.000 They stop policing.
00:31:32.000 Because they recognize that they are now on the chopping block.
00:31:34.000 So this is not an excuse for police brutality, but it is to recognize that when you sick the entire media establishment and law enforcement establishment on itself, and when instead of being deliberate in how you attempt to change policy, you with a blunderbuss basically fire at police officers and say that all police are racist, ACAB, all police are bad, When you do that, from a public policy level, what you end up doing is telling the police not to do the policing, and then what happens?
00:31:58.000 Crime rises dramatically.
00:31:59.000 So according to this new study from Roland Fryer, for investigations that were preceded by a viral incident of deadly force, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside, and Ferguson, there's a marked increase in both homicide and total crime.
00:32:11.000 The cumulative amount of crime that we estimate due to pattern or practice investigations in the two years after the announcement for this sample is 21.10 per 100,000 for homicides and 1,191.77 per 100,000 for felony total crime.
00:32:26.000 Put plainly, the causal effects of the investigations in these five cities, triggered mainly by the deaths of Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Timothy Thomas, Taisha Miller, and Michael Brown at the hands of police has resulted in 893 more homicides than would have been expected with no investigation and more than 33,472 additional felony crimes relative to synthetic control cities.
00:32:48.000 So in other words, 900 more people died because you decided that you were going to go after police departments in all of these areas.
00:32:54.000 By the way, predominantly minority police departments in the case of Baltimore.
00:32:58.000 To get a sense of how large this number is, again, this is a study from Roland Fryer and other researchers at Harvard.
00:33:02.000 The average number of fatal shootings of African Americans by police officers in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside, and St.
00:33:07.000 Louis per year is 12.
00:33:10.000 Thus, even if investigations cured these cities of all future civilian casualties at the hands of police, it would take approximately 75 years to break even.
00:33:18.000 Our estimates suggest that investigating police departments after viral incidents of police violence is responsible for approximately 450 excess homicides per year.
00:33:27.000 This is two times the loss of life in the line of duty for U.S.
00:33:30.000 military in a year, 12.6 times the annual loss of life due to school shootings, and three times the loss of life due to lynchings between 1882 and 1901, the most gruesome years.
00:33:40.000 So, in other words, when you crack down on the police and you tell them not to do their jobs, there's a predictable result.
00:33:45.000 And the predictable result is a lot more crime.
00:33:47.000 A lot more crime.
00:33:48.000 But we're going to pretend that that doesn't exist because it's more important to label the police who are saving black lives as we speak as racist.
00:33:54.000 Very, very important stuff.
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00:37:22.000 So you remember that time that a bunch of people on the left said defund the police?
00:37:32.000 And then everyone was like, we don't mean defund the police.
00:37:34.000 We just mean like, move some of the money to mental health and move it to educational programs and midnight basketball.
00:37:40.000 Well, now they're just like, no, no, no.
00:37:41.000 You know what we actually meant?
00:37:42.000 Abolish the police.
00:37:44.000 Miriam Kaba, organizer against criminalization, has a piece in the New York Times titled, yes, we mean literally abolish the police because reform won't happen.
00:37:52.000 By the way, this is not a rare perspective.
00:37:53.000 Ilhan Omar has said the same thing.
00:37:56.000 Ilhan Omar, the congresswoman from Minnesota, she said it's time to abolish the police department because you cannot reform a rotten department.
00:38:01.000 Here was Congresswoman Omar.
00:38:04.000 A new way forward can't be put in place if we have a department that is having a crisis of credibility, if we have a department that's led by a chief who's suited for racism, if we have a department that hasn't solved homicide.
00:38:20.000 Half of the homicides in Minneapolis Police Department go unsolved.
00:38:25.000 There have been cases where they've destroyed rape kits.
00:38:28.000 And so you can't really reform Okay, so that's exciting stuff.
00:38:41.000 We can rebuild the police department.
00:38:43.000 But how the hell are you going to rebuild the police department while you're telling everybody that if they defend themselves, you're going to prosecute them?
00:38:48.000 Which is essentially what major police departments around the United States are now telling people.
00:38:51.000 What they actually want to do is abolish it.
00:38:53.000 So Miriam Kaba, she writes, Congressional Democrats want to make it easier to identify and prosecute police misconduct.
00:38:58.000 Joe Biden wants to give police departments $300 million.
00:39:00.000 But efforts to solve police violence through liberal reforms like these have failed for nearly a century.
00:39:05.000 Enough.
00:39:06.000 We can't reform the police.
00:39:07.000 The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and the police.
00:39:11.000 By the way, she's right about that.
00:39:12.000 The way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and police.
00:39:15.000 There are two ways to go about that.
00:39:16.000 One is to reduce the police, which results in an increase in crime.
00:39:20.000 The other is to increase the police and reduce the crime rate.
00:39:23.000 Because it turns out you don't have as many encounters with the cops when you're not actually committing a crime.
00:39:27.000 The cops are there to police crime.
00:39:28.000 They're not there to just...
00:39:30.000 Screw with you because of your race, contrary to popular perception.
00:39:35.000 According to this idiot person, there is not a single era in U.S.
00:39:38.000 history in which the police were not a force of violence against black people.
00:39:41.000 Policing in the South emerged from the slave patrols in the 1700s and 1800s that caught and returned runaway slaves.
00:39:48.000 In the North, the first few municipal police departments in the mid-1800s helped quash labor strikes and riots against the rich.
00:39:54.000 Everywhere, they've suppressed marginalized populations to protect the status quo.
00:39:57.000 Well, I mean, first of all, just because Police departments did very bad things in, you know, 1700.
00:40:02.000 Does not mean that they are doing very bad things in 2020, like saving black lives.
00:40:06.000 And they are doing it every single day in black communities all over the United States, as that Harvard study that I just did to you suggests.
00:40:06.000 That's not a bad thing.
00:40:14.000 But the idea here from this woman is that anytime you see a police officer pressing his knee into a black man's neck until he dies, that is the logical result of policing in America.
00:40:22.000 Now, again, you're going to have to explain to me how that's the logical result of policing in America, when removing the police results in Literally an exponential increase in murder in the black community?
00:40:33.000 How is that?
00:40:34.000 So according to this woman, the idea is that police officers don't do what you think they do.
00:40:38.000 They spend most of their time responding to noise complaints, issuing parking and traffic citations, dealing with other non-criminal issues.
00:40:44.000 We've been taught to think they catch the bad guys, chase bank robbers, find serial killers.
00:40:47.000 But that's a myth.
00:40:48.000 The vast majority of police officers make one felony arrest a year.
00:40:51.000 If they make two, they're cop of the month.
00:40:53.000 Well, yes, because having police in communities actually means that you're stopping the crime before it occurs.
00:40:59.000 That is why you have to look at excess deaths.
00:41:01.000 It's not as though there's a certain number of murders and then the police ferret out the murderers and that's how you stop this thing.
00:41:05.000 If police are in a particular area, people don't murder people as much in that area because they are afraid of getting caught.
00:41:12.000 But apparently abolishing the police is going to be better for black Americans.
00:41:16.000 They say police officers break rules all the time.
00:41:18.000 And because police officers break rules all the time, that means that reform will be completely a failure.
00:41:25.000 My favorite part of this article is where this particular columnist suggests that you don't need police officers to investigate rape.
00:41:31.000 Quote, What about rape?
00:41:33.000 The current approach hasn't ended it.
00:41:34.000 In fact, most rapists never see the inside of a courtroom.
00:41:36.000 Two-thirds of people who experience sexual violence never report it to anyone.
00:41:39.000 Those who file police reports are often dissatisfied with the response.
00:41:42.000 Okay, you have still not suggested an actual way that you're going to police rape in the absence of the police.
00:41:47.000 You just said the police are not good enough at policing rape.
00:41:51.000 But saying the quiet part out loud, I mean, I'm all for it, honestly.
00:41:54.000 Like, you want to say the quiet part out loud, please, please continue.
00:41:57.000 Please go for it.
00:41:59.000 The policies that are being pushed by Democrats here are, in the end, it really is not a policy.
00:42:03.000 It is just a message.
00:42:04.000 And the message is that racism and bigotry are baked into our institutions.
00:42:08.000 That is the case that Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, has suggested.
00:42:13.000 He says, racism is baked into our institutions, says Mitch Landrieu.
00:42:18.000 It is clear that white people in America don't have a real understanding or don't really believe that racism is institutionalized.
00:42:26.000 And when they hear it, they don't particularly understand what it is.
00:42:29.000 They think that we're calling every white person in America racist.
00:42:32.000 And it's the exact opposite.
00:42:34.000 It's biases that are baked into the institutions that, when applied equally and unequally, have a disparate impact on African-Americans.
00:42:42.000 African-Americans, on the other hand, understand clearly what institutional racism is.
00:42:47.000 Okay, so this is the narrative, right?
00:42:49.000 By the way, so does Mitch Lander understand institutional racism?
00:42:52.000 Because he's whiter, he's as white as the day is long.
00:42:55.000 Apparently he doesn't understand institutional racism.
00:42:57.000 So it's all about the narrative.
00:42:58.000 It's all about the narrative.
00:42:59.000 And here's the thing, the narrative has no limits.
00:43:01.000 Because once you suggest that Western civilization and its institutions are shot through with racism and evil, There is no end to the iconoclasm.
00:43:09.000 There's no end to the statues you want to tear down.
00:43:12.000 Over in Britain, thanks to these protests, they're trying to remove the statue of Winston Churchill from the public gaze.
00:43:19.000 The guy who saved Britain during World War II, they want to remove his statue.
00:43:23.000 All these losers who live in their mother's basement and who feel very righteous when they tweet things on Twitter and they spray paint statues and couldn't hold a candle to anything that Winston Churchill ever accomplished in his life now want to tear down a Winston Churchill statue to feel good about themselves.
00:43:36.000 Very important stuff.
00:43:37.000 We're really doing important things.
00:43:38.000 We're doing important things like taking down Gone with the Wind from HBO Max.
00:43:42.000 That was very important.
00:43:44.000 The HBO executive said they didn't have a shred, not a shred, of worry or regret about taking down Gone with the Wind.
00:43:54.000 Not at all.
00:43:56.000 Censorship, taking it down, not a shred of regret.
00:44:00.000 There are episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
00:44:02.000 that have been removed from Netflix because they deleted episodes featuring characters in blackface because all the jokes must be removed.
00:44:10.000 It's very important.
00:44:11.000 You guys are doing important work.
00:44:12.000 You're ending racism.
00:44:13.000 It's really, really important.
00:44:14.000 Kyrie Irving, over in the NBA, is saying that he doesn't want the NBA players to play because of systematic racism.
00:44:21.000 In the NBA, in the NBA, which is, last I checked, what, 85% black?
00:44:27.000 There's systemic racism in the NBA?
00:44:30.000 According to Kyrie Irving, he said, I don't support going into Orlando.
00:44:33.000 I'm not with the systemic racism and the BS.
00:44:35.000 Something smells a little fishy.
00:44:37.000 Makes perfect sense.
00:44:38.000 Makes perfect sense.
00:44:39.000 So what you should do is you should deprive all of the NBA players of the ability to play this year and make any money to end systemic racism.
00:44:46.000 Makes perfect, perfect sense.
00:44:49.000 At this point, we have reached beyond anything remotely resembling an actual agenda, and we've gone straight to the virtue signaling.
00:44:55.000 My favorite virtue signaling piece of the week, by the way, was a piece from the Washington Monthly from Elizabeth Austin.
00:45:01.000 It begins like this.
00:45:02.000 I threw away my copy of Gone with the Wind.
00:45:04.000 It wasn't easy.
00:45:05.000 The book spent a couple of weeks sitting, recycling adjacent, before I came up with the will to toss it into the bin.
00:45:09.000 I held it in my hands one last time, and I kissed the title page where my father had inscribed, To Beth, Christmas 1975, and then I dropped it in the garbage.
00:45:18.000 So you're throwing away a book that your dad inscribed to you that is a classic of American literature with all of its flaws and representing a very flawed perspective, throwing away the book.
00:45:28.000 Obviously, book burning is the solution, guys.
00:45:30.000 The virtue signaling is very strong.
00:45:31.000 You want a virtue signal, you can also apparently, you know, just go to other people's houses and if they have a flag that has a thin blue line that pays homage to police, Going to somebody's house and removing the flags, that's always a very good look as well.
00:45:43.000 There's footage of that going around over this weekend.
00:45:46.000 Does any of this have to do with stopping police brutality or helping black Americans?
00:45:49.000 Obviously the answer is no.
00:45:51.000 The answer is obviously no.
00:45:53.000 So much of this is about white people feeling good about themselves.
00:45:55.000 Seriously.
00:45:56.000 Like an enormous amount of this.
00:45:58.000 By the way, including in Atlanta, where apparently that Wendy's that was set on fire was set on fire by a white girl.
00:46:01.000 And there was footage of, there was actually a black guy taking footage of her saying, this isn't us, it's this white girl over here who's burning down the Wendy's.
00:46:10.000 So much of this is driven by loser white radical leftists who have taken a legitimate cause against police brutality and then perverted it to their own end so they can feel good about themselves.
00:46:21.000 It's really well done stuff.
00:46:22.000 Really, really well done.
00:46:23.000 Okay, meanwhile, the COVID-19 hypocrisy continues apace.
00:46:27.000 It is unbelievable.
00:46:29.000 The sort of gaslighting that is going on right now is firmly, I mean, completely and completely insane.
00:46:35.000 Completely crazy.
00:46:36.000 Okay, so over the weekend, there was a black trans lives matter protest.
00:46:41.000 Because apparently it's not just black lives that are an existential threat in the United States, it's black trans lives specifically that are under existential threat.
00:46:47.000 And there were pictures from the footage from the BLM protest.
00:46:51.000 I mean, this thing was massive.
00:46:52.000 You're talking about like tens of thousands of people out in the streets, right next to each other, no masks or anything.
00:46:58.000 And here's how the news covered it.
00:46:59.000 So the media headlines, well, yeah, I mean, here's the footage.
00:47:01.000 You can see the footage.
00:47:01.000 It's crazy.
00:47:02.000 It's an enormous, enormous crowd of people.
00:47:04.000 You see a lot of social distancing there, do you?
00:47:06.000 I'm not seeing a ton of it.
00:47:07.000 Here's what's happening right now.
00:47:09.000 A lot of people are very bored, honestly.
00:47:12.000 Some people are legitimately interested in the cause, and a lot of people are very bored, and they get points for virtue signaling.
00:47:16.000 So, NBC News put out these headlines, less than an hour apart.
00:47:21.000 First headline, Rally for Black Trans Lives Draws Packed Crowd to Brooklyn Museum Plaza.
00:47:26.000 Less than an hour later, NBC News, President Trump plans to rally his supporters next Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by coronavirus.
00:47:34.000 But health experts are questioning that decision.
00:47:38.000 What?
00:47:39.000 So it's only bad when Trump does it, right?
00:47:40.000 When you're rallying for black trans lives or something, then apparently it's totally fine.
00:47:45.000 COVID is no threat anymore.
00:47:46.000 But if you're President Trump, then all of a sudden the media are on top of the threat, like full scale.
00:47:51.000 The worst in this case, of course, is Bill de Blasio.
00:47:53.000 So Bill de Blasio, apparently over the weekend he was marching because this is what he does.
00:47:57.000 He's a terrible mayor, but he was marching with people.
00:47:59.000 So that was exciting.
00:48:00.000 He said, So a lot of virtue signaling from that weird, gangly, goofy human being.
00:48:03.000 During today's East Harlem pray and protest, I felt the urgency and pain of this moment, but also confidence that change will come because of the spirit of this movement and because in this city we affirm that hashtag Black Lives Matter.
00:48:13.000 So a lot of virtue signaling from that weird, gangly, goofy human being.
00:48:17.000 Also, in other news, Bill de Blasio has announced that New York City COVID-19 contact tracers are not asking whether people who have COVID-19 have been to protests.
00:48:27.000 Not kidding.
00:48:29.000 This is according to thecity.nyc.
00:48:31.000 Over the last two weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others have voiced concerns that packed police brutality protests across the city could trigger a new wave of COVID-19 infections.
00:48:39.000 Whether or not that's the case, however, remains unknown.
00:48:41.000 And de Blasio's team won't be directly trying to find out.
00:48:44.000 The hundreds of contact tracers working for the city under de Blasio's Test and Trace campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration City Hall confirmed to the city.
00:48:59.000 No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest, said Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for de Blasio.
00:49:05.000 Instead, they will try to help them recall contacts and individuals they may have exposed.
00:49:09.000 Like, do you live with anyone in your home?
00:49:12.000 Tracers then ask about close contacts, defined as being within 6 feet of another person for at least 10 minutes.
00:49:16.000 But they will not ask if you've been to a rally.
00:49:18.000 Because what they don't want is the headline, obviously, that the rallies that de Blasio and Cuomo and the rest of the left have been promoting are actually, like, dead center for what is promoting COVID-19 at this point.
00:49:28.000 And you're starting to see all these headlines about COVID-19 reemerging in major metropolitan areas.
00:49:33.000 Be like, oh my god, how is this happening?
00:49:34.000 Well, let's see.
00:49:35.000 Most of these states reopened, like, beginning of May.
00:49:37.000 It is now middle of June.
00:49:39.000 So, hmm, what could have happened, like, two weeks ago?
00:49:41.000 About two weeks ago, what could have happened?
00:49:43.000 Any ideas, guys?
00:49:44.000 But good news, Andrew Cuomo is on top of it.
00:49:46.000 He's threatening Manhattan and the Hamptons over lack of social distancing.
00:49:49.000 The Hamptons!
00:49:51.000 He tweeted out, we have received 25,000 complaints of reopening violations.
00:49:54.000 Bars or restaurants that violate the law can lose their liquor license.
00:49:57.000 People with open containers in the street can be fined.
00:49:59.000 Police and protesters not wearing masks can be fined.
00:50:02.000 Local government must enforce the law.
00:50:04.000 Weird because he didn't have anything to say about the protesters for like five seconds.
00:50:07.000 Also he says the violation complaints are predominantly from Manhattan and the Hamptons.
00:50:12.000 Lots of violations of social distancing, parties in the streets, restaurants and bars ignoring laws.
00:50:16.000 Enforce the law or there will be state action.
00:50:19.000 I noticed you have a few rallies like right here around like this part of your face right here.
00:50:22.000 There's some rallies like just right over here, like mainly all over this area.
00:50:26.000 There's a lot of rallies happening there, Andrew.
00:50:29.000 Muriel Bowser in DC doing the same thing.
00:50:30.000 She is saying that the increasing COVID that could hit Washington DC is due to reopening.
00:50:34.000 It's not due to the fact that there were tens of thousands of people marching through DC on her watch while she was painting Black Lives Matter on the street in giant yellow paint.
00:50:41.000 Here she was yesterday.
00:50:43.000 I think it's important, though, that we not just look to protest as a reason why we might be seeing spikes across the country.
00:50:52.000 Because before these protests, we were seeing spikes.
00:50:55.000 I think at least 14 states that reopened early, or that where we saw a lot of gatherings around Memorial Day, are reporting spikes.
00:51:05.000 So the reopening of America, in some cases early, has already generated increases in cases.
00:51:13.000 Guys, Memorial Day was Monday, May 25th.
00:51:15.000 Okay, it was Monday, May 25th.
00:51:16.000 The rally started on that Thursday, on that Wednesday and that Thursday.
00:51:21.000 So, it's gonna be real hard to separate that out, but I'm noticing a bit of a narrative here.
00:51:25.000 And then you wonder why people don't take our public health officials seriously or our public officials seriously.
00:51:30.000 All legitimacy has been lost here, and it should be lost because they're a joke.
00:51:32.000 de Blasio's a joke, Bowser's a joke, Cuomo's a joke.
00:51:35.000 It's all a sick joke.
00:51:36.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:51:39.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:51:40.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
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