The Charlie Kirk Show - May 25, 2021


One Year Later: How the Death of George Floyd Exponentially Set Back Black America


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On May 25th, 2015, a jury of his peers convicts former NYPD Officer John Chauvin of murder in the death of George Floyd. But the facts remain that there were certain people that were testifying that could have been from a different angle.

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00:00:45.000 And we had the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd.
00:00:50.000 What do we make of it one year later?
00:00:52.000 What's the takeaways?
00:00:53.000 What have we learned?
00:00:55.000 How has the nation changed?
00:00:57.000 And is it going to get a lot worse before it gets better?
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00:02:56.000 So today is May 25th.
00:03:01.000 It's a big day, and everybody's talking about it across the Twitter sphere, across mainstream news media, legacy news media, conservative news media.
00:03:13.000 Everybody's talking about it.
00:03:14.000 This is the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd.
00:03:19.000 And, you know, it's a truly remarkable moment we are all living through because it is a one-year indictment, generally speaking, rather.
00:03:31.000 It's a one-year indictment on a vast left-wing conspiracy to gaslight the entire American public.
00:03:40.000 We now have enough evidence.
00:03:42.000 We now have enough circumstantial evidence, anecdotal.
00:03:46.000 We also have the data to back it up that what the activists have been pushing for since one year ago today, and the death of George Floyd, and it is tragic.
00:03:56.000 When anybody dies, it's tragic.
00:03:58.000 But George Floyd very well could have died from an overdose.
00:04:02.000 Now, a jury of his peers has convicted Officer Chauvin, former Officer Chauvin, of murder.
00:04:08.000 But the facts remain that there were certain people that were testifying that this could have been from an overdose.
00:04:15.000 Now, there was other people that said that Officer Chauvin didn't kill him, that he didn't actually cause the death of George Floyd.
00:04:24.000 Now, that video was a lot emotionally for everybody to get over.
00:04:27.000 It was hard to watch, no doubt.
00:04:29.000 I was in the group of folks that was assuming that this was going to be a manslaughter conviction.
00:04:34.000 But as the trial played out, there was incredible political pressure put on that jury.
00:04:39.000 They were not sequestered.
00:04:41.000 We have been all over these facts on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:04:44.000 We will continue to stay on them as it's possible that that whole trial will be appealed and could possibly get over a turn on appeal.
00:04:51.000 So we're going to be taking a close look at that as details roll in.
00:04:56.000 Nevertheless, here we are a year later.
00:04:58.000 We have seen the explosion of the defund police movement.
00:05:01.000 We have seen rising crime across the country.
00:05:06.000 And it's truly been tragic for America.
00:05:09.000 Now, the left-wing media wants to blame this on the pandemic.
00:05:13.000 The rising crime is all because of the pandemic, because of the lockdowns, and because of this unprecedented moment in our nation's history and the world history.
00:05:22.000 That's just not the truth, folks.
00:05:25.000 I think common sense, reason, and the facts all back up the fact that this is Democrat-caused chaos raging across our country.
00:05:36.000 The cities are returning to an era of urban blight that we have not seen since the 90s when finally the nation rose up and said, we've had enough.
00:05:49.000 And they elected strong, tough on crime mayors in some of America's top cities, including Mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York.
00:05:57.000 There was actually Richard Reardon, who was mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001, who also contributed in a massive way to bringing more police officers on the streets, thousands in Los Angeles.
00:06:10.000 Crime dropped across the country.
00:06:13.000 And just as the Israelites forgot the goodness of God who brought them out of slavery and bondage, the American people have forgot themselves and they have forgotten the way that we got the cities to a safe place, out of the crime-infested 80s and 90s, early 90s, into a place of booming prosperity, economic development.
00:06:37.000 And yes, that nasty word gentrification, which comes with increased economic opportunity for businesses and developers.
00:06:45.000 And it does displace people.
00:06:48.000 It certainly does.
00:06:49.000 But nevertheless, cities were getting cleaner.
00:06:52.000 They were getting safer.
00:06:53.000 They were getting more prosperous.
00:06:54.000 People were flocking to the cities.
00:06:56.000 And now, thanks to everything that's happened one year ago today, people are fleeing the cities.
00:07:02.000 People are getting out of the cities.
00:07:03.000 Now, part of that is because of the pandemic, certainly.
00:07:06.000 But a large part of that, the nail in the coffin, so to speak. 0.85
00:07:10.000 The pandemic maybe started the fleeing from the cities, but the BLM riots of the summer, BLM Inc., as we like to call them here on the Charlie Kirk show, certainly brought it to a whole new level. 0.80
00:07:22.000 And I want to focus on this article. 0.83
00:07:26.000 And I call her the professor of Turning Point USA, the professor of the Charlie Kirk show.
00:07:35.000 She's certainly one of the main thought leaders on the right, Heather McDonald.
00:07:40.000 She's a tremendous scholar, Manhattan Institute.
00:07:43.000 She's a contributing editor, I believe, for the City Journal, which is phenomenal.
00:07:48.000 She wrote a piece here for the Wall Street Journal that published last night Saying it was titled A Year After George Floyd's Murder, It's Open Season in Minneapolis, an app's title.
00:08:01.000 And she starts it by essentially railing against Al Sharpton and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump.
00:08:08.000 This guy, Benjamin Crump, if you don't know who Benjamin Crump is, this guy is everywhere.
00:08:13.000 He's at every police shooting.
00:08:15.000 He makes it his business to be on camera, to be in the spotlight. 0.62
00:08:19.000 And I frankly find it a little disgusting.
00:08:21.000 He is the new Al Sharpton.
00:08:23.000 Al Sharpton knows well enough how to stay relevant, so he brings him along with him.
00:08:27.000 They let him march in downtown Minneapolis on Sunday in advance of this anniversary of George Floyd's death.
00:08:35.000 What Heather does in this article is brilliant because she instantly takes it from the reports about the anniversary and all the emotionalism that's tied up in that. 0.96
00:08:46.000 And then we quickly move on to the fact that they are not marching for the hundreds and hundreds and thousands of other black dead people as a result of the rise in violence that these protests and these riots, these mostly peaceful protests, which is just garbage. 0.99
00:09:05.000 It's total garbage. 1.00
00:09:06.000 It's gaslighting and it is lying to the American people. 1.00
00:09:09.000 BLM riots were not mostly safe and secure.
00:09:15.000 They were not mostly peaceful. 0.63
00:09:17.000 They were oftentimes deadly and it was the most marginalized in our communities that often paid the price.
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00:10:13.000 Now, I want to get into, I was talking about before the break, this article in the Wall Street Journal by the one and only Heather McDonald, a friend of the show, a true thought leader.
00:10:24.000 She's talking about the, in general, how we have scapegoated the wrong people.
00:10:31.000 Now, this is a general theme that I'm going to be building out this entire hour: that the left has this glorification of the word activist.
00:10:39.000 They lift up the word activist like it is, you might as well be a saint, a patron saint of George Floyd or whatever.
00:10:46.000 They think activism is the end-all-be-all.
00:10:49.000 They think that rioting and protesting are one and the same.
00:10:53.000 And the problem with their activism and their protesting is that it's all chaos.
00:10:57.000 It all destabilizes the institutions that we rely on, namely, in this instance, the police force.
00:11:04.000 Now, listen to this.
00:11:06.000 This is where it gets really hairy.
00:11:09.000 There is on May 9th, actually, on April 30th, Ladavian Garrett Jr., he was 10 years old, and this is in Minneapolis.
00:11:17.000 He was riding in a car with his parents when a gunman opened fire.
00:11:20.000 A bullet pierced Ladavian's head.
00:11:23.000 Doctors put him in a medically induced coma and removed part of his skull to relieve swelling on the brain.
00:11:28.000 This is a 10-year-old in Minneapolis.
00:11:32.000 You have not heard about Ladavian Garrett because there was no police involved.
00:11:38.000 There's no protests to be had.
00:11:40.000 It doesn't line the pockets of Al Sharpton and Benjamin Crump.
00:11:45.000 And yet, this is a 10-year-old that is fighting for his life right now. 0.99
00:11:51.000 A victim of the violence that has exploded on the streets of Minneapolis, that is endemic of the same type of violence that has exploded on the streets of all of America's major cities because of jerks, opportunist race hustlers like Benjamin Crump and Al Sharpton. 0.96
00:12:09.000 On May 15th, nine-year-old Trinity Audison Smith was jumping on a trampoline at a friend's house when bullets fired from a passing car struck her in the head. 0.93
00:12:17.000 She is also in critical condition at North Memorial Hospital.
00:12:23.000 19 children in Minneapolis have been shot this year.
00:12:26.000 An increase of this is staggering.
00:12:28.000 19 children.
00:12:29.000 Imagine if this was your child.
00:12:32.000 I've got two little children, and this devastates me when I read these statistics.
00:12:38.000 An increase of 171% over the same period in 2020.
00:12:44.000 And we've got this mother crying out. 0.91
00:12:49.000 It's actually a grandma.
00:12:53.000 This is Sherry Jennings, Ladavian's grandmother, saying, Because a cop didn't shoot him, why is nobody mad about my grandson, Ladavian?
00:13:03.000 It's grandmother, yes.
00:13:04.000 Let's go ahead and play that clip.
00:13:07.000 My grandson is fighting for his life.
00:13:09.000 This ain't doing nothing.
00:13:11.000 Why is this community not angry? 0.73
00:13:13.000 Y'all tell me that because it was a black kid? 0.96
00:13:16.000 Is that why? 0.95
00:13:18.000 Is that why?
00:13:19.000 Because a cop didn't shoot him?
00:13:21.000 Is that why?
00:13:22.000 Nobody angry.
00:13:24.000 When is North Minneapolis gonna stand up?
00:13:26.000 When is enough enough? 1.00
00:13:29.000 That woman's pain is real, and she will not get a protest. 0.92
00:13:36.000 She will not get a $27 million settlement from the city of Minneapolis.
00:13:43.000 That same day that Sherry Jennings held that press conference for her 10-year-old grandson, Ladavian, another six-year-old, Ania Allen, was caught in a shootout between rival gangs while in her mother's car.
00:13:57.000 Ania is not alive still.
00:13:59.000 She died two days later.
00:14:02.000 Minneapolis homicides are up 108% compared to the same period in 2020, and shootings were up 153%, and carjacking is up a whopping 222%.
00:14:13.000 This is what happens when the left protest mostly peacefully.
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00:15:24.000 We're talking about the incredible rise in crime that's happening across the nation.
00:15:29.000 One year later, we talk about the legacy of this.
00:15:32.000 You're going to hear two different narratives emerge.
00:15:34.000 You're going to hear the activist media and the left saying that this has been a change that has been long in the making, that we need to stamp out systemic racism in America.
00:15:46.000 And then you're going to hear a minority of voices like Heather McDonald and the Wall Street Journal that are saying that you have scapegoated the good guys, that defunding the police is actually going to hurt and kill more black Americans than increasing funding to police.
00:16:03.000 Refund the police is a whole movement.
00:16:05.000 So we'll get into that in just a second, but I want to finish up here.
00:16:08.000 We just played that clip from the grandmother of the 10-year-old.
00:16:12.000 So it was Sherry Jennings, the 10-year-old boy, Ladavian, who was shot and is fighting for his life right now at North Memorial Health Hospital in Minneapolis.
00:16:24.000 But if we talk about overall crime, it's terrifying.
00:16:30.000 The increase in crime is absolutely historical.
00:16:36.000 Now, the single largest year-over-year increase of crime before 2020 was 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
00:16:46.000 Violent crime increased in the country after that assassination by about 12%.
00:16:52.000 And that was the largest on record.
00:16:53.000 The Ferguson shooting in 2014, there was a, I believe it was 11% increase.
00:17:01.000 So just slightly under the increase in violent crime nationwide that happened after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
00:17:07.000 What we saw after George Floyd was an increase of about 30% nationwide.
00:17:14.000 Now, that is much worse.
00:17:16.000 Obviously, 30% versus the previous high of 12 year over year is dramatic.
00:17:20.000 But what we saw in some of the major cities was even more appalling.
00:17:27.000 Drive-by shootings and homicides jumped nationwide during and after the Floyd riots.
00:17:31.000 Homicides rose by 50% in Chicago in 2020, 46% in New York City, and 38% in Los Angeles.
00:17:40.000 The increase has continued in 2021.
00:17:44.000 The number of shooting victims in Chicago is up 43% in the first three months of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020.
00:17:50.000 Now, there was lockdowns in at least, well, actually, I mean, January and February completely opened.
00:17:57.000 So we're really only dealing with one month that may have been a little less than average because of the lockdowns.
00:18:02.000 Through May 16th, the number of shooting victims in New York City is up 78.6% over a year ago.
00:18:08.000 In the Bronx, the number is 165.7.
00:18:13.000 The Bronx, let me repeat, has seen an increase in shooting victims of 165.7% year over year.
00:18:20.000 The media and Democrat politicians, this is straight from Heather McDonald, attribute this crime increase to the pandemic and attendant shutdowns.
00:18:28.000 But the violent surge of 2020 began only after the George Floyd riots.
00:18:35.000 That was more than two months after COVID-19 lockdowns.
00:18:39.000 No other industrialized country saw a comparable crime increase.
00:18:45.000 In fact, crime dropped in the UK and Canada, where lockdowns were more severe.
00:18:50.000 So when the left tells you that, oh, this was a perfect storm of the pandemic and this and that, no.
00:18:56.000 This is exactly because of the rioting and the violence of BLM Inc. and the bullying that happened by the mainstream news media against common sense Americans in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.
00:19:11.000 And here's the really tragic part. 0.75
00:19:13.000 The victims of that crime increase are going to be disproportionately black. 0.88
00:19:20.000 At least three quarters of Minneapolis' homicides and shooting victims are black, even though they're only one-fifth of the population.
00:19:28.000 So let me remind you, we are at the one-year anniversary of George Floyd, and there is going to be protests probably around the world.
00:19:34.000 There's going to be marches of solidarity.
00:19:39.000 But nobody's going to be talking about 10-year-old Ladavian.
00:19:44.000 Nobody's going to be talking about six-year-old Ania Allen.
00:19:50.000 Nobody's going to be talking about nine-year-old Trinity Audison Smith, who's jumping on a trampoline.
00:19:57.000 Nobody's going to be doing White House visits with their family members.
00:20:01.000 They're not going to meet Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
00:20:06.000 And there's not going to be news media and outlets all over the world covering George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, where he was dead.
00:20:16.000 Killed.
00:20:18.000 I want to play clip 46.
00:20:20.000 I think this is the most symbolic thing that I've seen of this instance.
00:20:27.000 Now, this is 46.
00:20:29.000 They are, this is, I believe, ABC News reporter.
00:20:32.000 He's got an English accent.
00:20:33.000 I have no idea who this guy is.
00:20:35.000 But he's about to do a report from the square when shots start ringing up.
00:20:39.000 Play clip 46.
00:20:41.000 This bill of comprehensive police reform to be just got to be careful here with some gunshots.
00:20:49.000 Excuse us.
00:20:56.000 It sounds like gunshots.
00:20:58.000 I'll let you know what this is.
00:21:00.000 These seem to be gunshots.
00:21:02.000 Yeah, those were gunshots.
00:21:06.000 One person has been hospitalized as a result of those gunshots, but it is the most symbolic piece of footage that you will see.
00:21:13.000 And if you didn't see it, you just heard it.
00:21:14.000 You could hear those gunshots right as he was doing the report.
00:21:17.000 It took him a second to register what was actually happening.
00:21:20.000 But nevertheless, all of this leads to the George Floyd police reform bill.
00:21:25.000 Okay.
00:21:26.000 And I want to talk about this because it's an absolute travesty.
00:21:29.000 And unfortunately, I have to say something that's a hard truth.
00:21:32.000 And that is, Senator Tim Scott is going through this right now.
00:21:42.000 He is the chief negotiator on the Republican side for this reform bill.
00:21:47.000 President Joe Biden had put a goal for Congress to get this done by the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death.
00:21:56.000 Obviously, it didn't happen.
00:21:57.000 What's the holdup?
00:21:58.000 The holdup is something called qualified immunity.
00:22:02.000 Now, first, I want to say we should not be pursuing a police reform bill.
00:22:08.000 I am absolutely sick and tired of police being scapegoated by the activist left, the radical left, by the AOCs and the Rashida Tlaibs.
00:22:16.000 They are wrong.
00:22:16.000 They are radicals.
00:22:17.000 They are revolutionaries.
00:22:18.000 They are Marxists.
00:22:19.000 Nobody should be listening to them.
00:22:20.000 Okay, full stop.
00:22:22.000 And Tim Scott should not be pandering to these demands. 0.77
00:22:27.000 I understand Tim Scott has his own personal experience as a black American, but he should not be playing ball. 1.00
00:22:33.000 There is no need for this. 1.00
00:22:34.000 Qualified immunity is essentially a, it was established by the courts.
00:22:44.000 It allows for cops to not be held personally liable if in good faith, if executing their duties in good faith, a violation of civil rights happens.
00:22:58.000 Okay.
00:22:58.000 Typically, the left will frame this as an excessive use of force.
00:23:03.000 So we've got some clips here that I want to play that kind of just lays the groundwork.
00:23:06.000 Okay.
00:23:07.000 Let's play clip 45 from Senator Corey Booker.
00:23:10.000 Now, Senator Corey Booker is the Senate representative from the Democrats that is negotiating this with Tim Scott.
00:23:17.000 So let's go ahead and play clip 45.
00:23:19.000 Qualified immunity is something I strongly believe should not be there.
00:23:25.000 And I actually fully believe that in the course of history, it will be gone.
00:23:29.000 I am trying to make that moment now, and I am fighting to make sure that's a part of this bill.
00:23:35.000 Right.
00:23:35.000 So he's fighting to make sure that that's a part of this bill.
00:23:38.000 Qualified immunity, folks, is what protects police officers.
00:23:44.000 Now, if you don't understand just how difficult it is to be a police officer, you should go look at some of the crime footage that's coming out all across the country.
00:23:51.000 We put it up all the time on Rumble, Charlie's Rumble page.
00:23:54.000 So check out Rumble.com, look up the Charlie Kirk show, and we're constantly posting clips of this.
00:24:01.000 And what you're doing, you're already seeing this attrition in the police departments across the country.
00:24:07.000 And I've got some stats here pulled.
00:24:09.000 I mean, it's just tragic.
00:24:12.000 New York PED experiences 75% increase in departures and retirements.
00:24:17.000 More than 5,300 New York Police Department officers have retired or submitted paperwork to leave the force in 2020, a 75% increase from the previous year, according to department data.
00:24:28.000 That's approximately 2,600 officers departed while another 2,700 filed for retirement.
00:24:36.000 Jeesh.
00:24:37.000 In Chicago, 560 officers retired in 2020 in a police department that had about 13,000 sworn officers as of March.
00:24:45.000 That's about 15% more cops retiring than the previous year when the number of retirements rose by 30% that year.
00:24:51.000 In Minneapolis, about 40 officers retired last year.
00:24:54.000 Actually, I've seen that number at 200.
00:24:56.000 Minneapolis is actually reporting that they have a third, they are a third underpoliced. 0.98
00:25:04.000 And actually, Jacob Fry, the mayor, the weak mayor of Minneapolis, who tried to pander to these idiots, he is now calling on federal reinforcements to police the streets. 0.98
00:25:17.000 So much for that defund movement. 0.99
00:25:18.000 Now, they've since gone back on the defund garbage, but they're still trying to restructure everything.
00:25:23.000 Now, you are putting these police in a terrible situation.
00:25:25.000 You're making them put their lives on the line, and then you are saying, hey, guess what?
00:25:30.000 In the most difficult of circumstances, in the most life-risking moments where they literally have their lives on the line, and they are asking themselves, do I get to go home and see my kids?
00:25:41.000 Do I get to go home and see my wife or my husband?
00:25:45.000 Now you're going to take qualified immunity from them.
00:25:48.000 And I got another clip from one of the squad.
00:25:52.000 This is just, I mean, she's, she's, this is Representative Presley. 0.91
00:25:57.000 She's against qualified immunity.
00:25:59.000 This is clip 44. 0.90
00:26:00.000 Let's go ahead and play it. 0.88
00:26:02.000 Well, you know, qualified immunity is an unjust doctrine that has been codified in statute after statute that has allowed for law enforcement to operate with callous disregard of black and brown bodies with reckless impunity for our lives without any consequences. 0.95
00:26:20.000 And we know that there can never truly be justice because justice would mean that George Floyd, it would mean they would all still be with us. 0.91
00:26:28.000 That's not true at all.
00:26:29.000 That's a lie.
00:26:30.000 So qualified immunity already has limitations, and people need to understand this, that if you violate somebody's, if you violate a widely established statute or procedure, you could still be held accountable.
00:26:42.000 There are still means by which you can hold police officers accountable if they are way out of line.
00:26:47.000 Qualified immunity would be a disaster.
00:26:50.000 We will lose police all over the country if you pass this bill, Senator Tim Scott.
00:26:54.000 You need to fight back with everything you've got.
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00:27:59.000 Here is the truth of the matter.
00:28:02.000 Qualified immunity is a protection that is put in place for police for a real good reason.
00:28:10.000 Okay?
00:28:11.000 Qualified immunity, and here's the definition of it, is a judicially created doctrine that shields government officials from being held personally liable for constitutional violations, like the right to be free from excessive police force.
00:28:23.000 That's the typical reason that they use for money damages under federal law, so long as officials did not violate clearly established law.
00:28:31.000 Now, even if they do it ignorantly, they can't be held liable.
00:28:35.000 So left-wing activists are very upset that there are certain police officers that don't get charged when there is a tough call, when there is a close call, when there's a shooting involved, when officers have put their lives on the line.
00:28:51.000 Again, more Americans than not want more funding for police, not less.
00:28:58.000 They trust the police.
00:29:00.000 Who's the first person they call?
00:29:02.000 Who's the first number they call?
00:29:03.000 It's 911 when they're in trouble.
00:29:05.000 They need the police.
00:29:06.000 Normal Americans love the police.
00:29:08.000 This is a narrative being led by far left-wing activists, and it's incredibly destructive.
00:29:13.000 And I want to play this powerful tape from Minneapolis police officer Steve Dykstra.
00:29:20.000 Now, he's now retired.
00:29:21.000 He's one of these officers that has left the force as a result of all of this anti-police sentiment that's been drummed up in the wake of George Floyd's death.
00:29:30.000 It's a really powerful clip.
00:29:32.000 I want you to pay really close attention.
00:29:33.000 Clip 47, play tape.
00:29:37.000 When police don't have any tools to use anymore, they feel pretty helpless out there.
00:29:47.000 You take away loitering laws, pursuit, ability to pursue vehicles.
00:29:52.000 You don't have to stop for the police in Minneapolis anymore, thanks to Mayor Fry and the city council.
00:29:58.000 That is remarkable.
00:29:59.000 So we take away cops get frustrated.
00:30:01.000 Wow.
00:30:02.000 And what you see is chaos, violence, and reoccurring crime.
00:30:08.000 You don't have to stop for the police anymore.
00:30:10.000 And this is true, by the way, increasingly across the nation, where in California, you can rob a store as long as it's not over $1,000 of goods, approximately.
00:30:21.000 And it's not a felony.
00:30:24.000 You can get away with impunity.
00:30:26.000 You can run for the police.
00:30:27.000 And it is increasingly looked upon as if police officers give chase, if they pursue suspects, that they will be held personally liable.
00:30:36.000 That the conviction of Derek Chauvin has had a chilling effect, even after the killing of George Floyd.
00:30:44.000 So now after the conviction, has had a chilling effect.
00:30:47.000 Police officers.
00:30:48.000 So guess who's going to get hurt? 1.00
00:30:50.000 Black and brown Americans. 0.97
00:30:52.000 So when you hear Ayanna Presley saying that they have no regard for black and brown bodies, that is the opposite of the truth. 1.00
00:30:58.000 It is a disgusting lie that she goes on with, you know, on MSNBC, and she purports to be this advocate for the marginalized. 0.76
00:31:07.000 And yet, it is exactly her protests. 0.98
00:31:09.000 It is exactly her gaslighting of the American public that is leading to the death of black and brown bodies in the streets.
00:31:17.000 And a lot of them are little kids, as we covered before.
00:31:20.000 The Justice and Policing Act was already passed by the House.
00:31:23.000 Joe Biden's calling for it to be passed by the Senate.
00:31:26.000 All that's holding it up right now is negotiations with the Senate Republicans.
00:31:32.000 And who's leading that charge is Tim Scott, who's already pandering way too much on this issue.
00:31:39.000 The House bill would ban chokeholds, carotid holds, and no-knock search warrants at the federal level.
00:31:45.000 It will also tie federal funding for state and local law enforcement to officials banning those practices.
00:31:51.000 It would make it easier to prosecute police and create a national database for police misconduct.
00:31:56.000 The only part of that entire bill that I am in support of is the national database for police misconduct.
00:32:03.000 That's the only part that makes any sense.
00:32:05.000 Now, Tim Scott is trying to say, well, you know, if we're going to roll back qualified immunity, maybe we just, you know, we can hold police, entire police precincts accountable, or basically trying to get it off the personal level.
00:32:21.000 That's not good enough.
00:32:22.000 Qualified immunity is the only thing that is standing between a mass, even more mass exodus of police officers leaving the force and not.
00:32:30.000 It's the only thing standing in between complete chaos and some semblance of safety.
00:32:36.000 Now, we are experiencing an incredible rise of crime.
00:32:38.000 That much is absolutely true, but it is nowhere near what we saw in the 90s and the 80s.
00:32:43.000 So let's hope that the insanity will end soon.
00:32:46.000 But I have a feeling, folks, that it's only going to get much worse before it gets better.
00:32:50.000 All right, everybody, I hope you enjoyed that episode.
00:32:54.000 There's a lot going on.
00:32:55.000 There's a lot of gaslighting.
00:32:56.000 We got to keep the facts straight.
00:32:57.000 We've got to remember that when the left gets their hands on power, it always means chaos, destruction.
00:33:05.000 And unfortunately, in this instance, it means lives lost for our most marginalized black and brown communities as well across the country.
00:33:12.000 Thanks for tuning in.
00:33:13.000 We'll have more Charlie Kirk tomorrow.
00:33:15.000 He'll be back in the seat bringing you the news of the day.
00:33:18.000 Thanks for tuning in.
00:33:19.000 We'll be back soon.