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On today's show, Pat and Stu talk about the increasing amount of craziness on racial lines, including a new celebrity with a blackface tape, a police shooting of a black man in a public park, and a police officer being shot and killed by a passerby. Also, a Pew Research report shows that there has been a decrease in deaths in Democratic districts but a stable decline in Republican ones.
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Welcome to the podcast. It is Pat and Stu in for Glenn today.
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We talk today about the increasing amount of craziness on racial lines
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where we see a new celebrity with a blackface tape.
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We have a confrontation in a park between a black man and a white woman that gets ugly.
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And we have the horrible situation in Minnesota with an officer and someone who,
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or several officers, and someone who is killed.
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Really a lot of ugliness there, but we try to go through it and wade through what is true and what is not.
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Also talk about the media. They're a disaster as usual.
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They are getting frequently caught wearing masks on television
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and then immediately taking them off as soon as the camera shot is over.
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There's a great piece from MSNBC where they just get called out by a passerby who just nails them.
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We not only have their footage from MSNBC, but also the guy with his cell phone recording it.
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And we get into a little bit about Brazil, which is now passing the United States
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as far as the coronavirus capital of the universe.
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It's a title I'm actually really happy to give up.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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It is Pat and Stu in for Glenn, who's on vacation this week.
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Fascinating graphic released by Pew Research, Pat, looking at the COVID deaths in red and blue districts.
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So for some reason, this is a thing we're doing now where we're just breaking this along political lines to try to prove points, I guess, on politics.
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I don't even understand what the point of something like this would be.
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But I guess the idea from their perspective is, look, let's illustrate the fact that there's been a big decrease in Democratic districts, and there hasn't been a big decrease in Republican districts.
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It says, since mid-April, COVID-19 deaths have declined in Democratic districts, but have been relatively stable in Republican districts.
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And they have a helpful graph to illustrate what has happened.
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Now, anyone who would think about this for a moment would say, well, the worst stuff happened in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
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And yes, they've had a big decrease, but from a terrible peak, right?
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So you would say, okay, a lot of Democratic districts there, it would make sense they were decreasing.
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Where in a state like Texas, that never had a huge flare-up, it wouldn't make sense for them to decrease.
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That would be, you're just right off the top of your head impression of someone who said that, right?
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Well, shockingly enough, that is exactly what the graph shows.
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And the graph actually illustrates that the Republican peak in deaths was two per, I believe it's, let's see, yeah, average...
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Yeah, I was trying to think if it's, I think it's two per million or two per 100,000.
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But point being, the whatever ratio they're using here, two for the Republicans was the peak.
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So that is almost four times as many as it ever was in a Republican district.
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And it has decreased, largely because of that Northeast area, down to 4.1.
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As the peak, more than twice as high as the peak, which situation would you rather have?
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Would you rather have the Republican situation where you peak at 2 and fall to 1.7?
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Or would you rather have the Democratic situation where you peak at 7.4 and decrease to 4.1?
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Now, that is obviously, it's obvious when you look at the graph.
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You'd much rather have the Republican situation.
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The summary being that there's been a decrease in Democratic districts, but stable in Republican.
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Because the impression you're trying to send, what are you trying to send there?
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Republican governors have opened up the states, and they're paying the price.
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Which is obviously not the story of that graph.
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The story of that graph is Democrats handled this poorly at the beginning, waited too long.
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We had people like Andrew Cuomo, who, I mean, who, I hate to criticize Andrew Cuomo by saying Bill de Blasio was right on something.
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But Cuomo was out there lighting Bill de Blasio up, saying we were never going to close New York, and then four days later closes New York.
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They blew this from the beginning in the worst possible way.
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We talked about, it wasn't until mid-May where they were saying, you know what?
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That's a, you're right on the cutting edge of fighting this virus.
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After you already have tens of thousands dead, you think you might clean a subway car.
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I'm doing more on the Andrew Cuomo timeline on Stude Does America tonight.
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Because last time I did it, I think we talked about this on Friday.
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I started in March, and I was going to do the entire timeline of all of his mistakes.
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And I could only get through the first two weeks of March.
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So now I need to do the second two weeks of March, and we'll go from there.
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You know, very rarely do we hear a news network come out, make one of these accusations like
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they made against Georgia and Texas and Florida.
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And when it doesn't go their way, and their way is a bunch of people dying.
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But when it doesn't go their way, they never revisit it, right?
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All these things have gone on over and over again because they find the red state governors.
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Now, Colorado has a Democratic governor who opened the state right around the times of
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these other states and has had no criticism whatsoever.
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Minnesota is having a much worse time right now with COVID-19 than any of these southern
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And they don't get any criticism either because that's just the way this works.
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I will give a little bit of credit to NBC News who actually revisited their Georgia predictions
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And their tone was they actually said there was no major spike in cases, which is good.
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We have very low expectations of the media at this point.
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And the fact that they would even acknowledge that they said these things in retrospect is
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However, one of the things, if you remember when they, when Georgia started opening up
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salons and such, they said a lot of people were critical.
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If you remember famously, the Atlantic ran a headline that said, Georgia's experiment in
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And that was the tone of the coverage all over the left, including on MSNBC, part of NBC
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News, who spent day after day after day after day lighting this up, really heavy criticism.
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Listen to the end to hear which criticism they highlight.
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Last month, Georgia was one of the first states to reopen and with the most aggressive
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approach, allowing barbershops, restaurants, tattoo parlors, and more to welcome customers.
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I told the governor very simply that I disagree with his decision, but he has to do what he
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Oh, the one piece of criticism they could find in Georgia was President Trump.
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Because he's been this guy who's been all over anti-opening the economy up.
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They couldn't find anything from Rachel Maddow on their own network.
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They couldn't find anything from Chris Hayes on their own network.
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They couldn't find the dozens and dozens of headlines saying everyone was going to die
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The only thing they could muster up for criticism was the one time President Trump said, I think
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you're opening up tattoo parlors and massage parlors a little early.
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That's the only thing that when it came to, that was the thrust of all the criticism, if
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Like you should, shouldn't we all be thrilled you were wrong on that?
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You know, and it's not to say that they will not have a flare up at some point.
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They may, but clearly your impression of what reality was, was incorrect here.
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If you had looked at the mobility data, you would realize that almost every state in the
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union is coming out of lockdown at the same pace, whether the governor says so or not.
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And that has to do with people realizing, you know what?
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And so it wouldn't be surprising to you if you understood the data that it's not one
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of these things where the governor says, okay, the state's open and everyone rushes to the
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The same thing was true when we went into lockdown.
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People went into lockdown before the governors said they had to go into lockdown because they
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were trying to be careful with their own lives.
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They're trying to get to be careful with their own economy.
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They're trying to get out there and be careful and go back to work.
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And none of this should be surprising to you if you followed this story at any level of
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You know, if you're just sitting here in this normal back and forth cable news box thing
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where two boxes are on one side, I think we should open it up.
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If that's your life, well, then you're not going to understand the story at all.
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When you look at the data, there's no difference between, you know, a state like Georgia as far
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as coming out and being more mobile and visiting retail stores and all these other things and tons
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There are certain areas they've opened up that are different than other states.
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But generally speaking, there's there'd be no reason to believe Georgia would have a big
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Their goal is to try to trash the president, trash Republicans, teams, teams, teams, teams,
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And usually they don't even once they've made their prediction that all hell is going
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to break loose in Georgia because they're opening up way too soon.
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And then when that doesn't happen, when all hell doesn't break loose, they usually don't
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It's it's kind of amazing that anything was said by the media, even though, yeah, you know,
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I'm beating I'm beating that report up at that part of it.
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But I do actually legitimately appreciate when they do that.
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If more of these news networks said, you know what?
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Gosh, we really thought this was going to happen.
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I'm not sure why we're going to try to figure it out and get it right next time.
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There's been plenty of times that we've blown stuff and you just go on and you say, look, look,
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And, you know, this is what I'll try to do next time to get it to get better.
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Because when it doesn't fit the agenda, they are so good at just not reporting it, pretending
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For instance, what YouTube is doing with hydroxychloroquine, where they just censored the video where medical
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doctors, these are doctors saying hydroxychloroquine might help treat COVID-19.
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So they removed that part of the video from the YouTube videos.
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We're in the middle of, you know, scientists that are in the middle of dozens of studies
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on hydroxychloroquine right now, including a statewide study in South Dakota.
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But I mean, it's not just a statewide study here.
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I mean, it's all over the world they've been studying this.
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So this was a Cheryl Atkinson at Full Measure News report, and she was examining the possible
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benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and the possible financial interest some parties
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have in downplaying the drug and promoting a separate treatment, the remdesivir.
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Yeah, that's a weird one, too, because remdesivir was mentioned by Trump in the same press conference
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I mean, you know, this idea that Trump is out there promoting hydroxychloroquine because
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he's trying to be right and show that he, you know, he also called the remdesivir thing,
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and remdesivir has shown a clinical study that has improved outcomes.
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Now, there's been some studies of hydroxychloroquine that have showed mixed results, some really
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But like I, like Trump, Trump's quote unquote false hope from that press conference was not
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I mean, Fauci came out and said the exact same thing.
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We know there was an ABC News executive who was, who, who claims it cured him.
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You know, there's a study in France of a very well-respected doctor who's a little bit of
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So there's questions about whether he's right or wrong on this, but he had a study that
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showed incredible improvement by hydroxychloroquine.
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And remdesivir, but like, like they were trying to say this thing where Trump gets blamed for
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hydroxychloroquine if it doesn't work out, but gets no credit for remdesivir, which he
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If it does work out, which both Fauci and Birx have talked about the benefits of remdesivir
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And by the way, there are some drawbacks to remdesivir as well.
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And they're not talking about those, but anything about hydroxychloroquine that they can say
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If you don't know how to administer it or you administer it wrong and not in conjunction
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with the right combination of drugs, then yeah, bad things can happen.
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People with certain types of, all sorts of ailments, you know, take it.
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It's, you know, malaria is obviously the one it was initially designed for, but it's not
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You go back to what Trump has said many, many times, which is let's look into this stuff.
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And we may find out that it doesn't help anybody, or maybe it only helps a very small
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It's another one of these dumb things that they've just made, like the Democrat team
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doesn't like hydroxychloroquine for some reason.
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A video that's not new, but it's about 20 years old from Saturday Night Live where Jimmy
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Fallon dresses up in blackface for a bit has resurfaced for some reason.
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Kind of interesting that it would, it would come up right now, but, uh, here's an instant
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where NBC apparently didn't feel the same way in 2000 as they felt in 2018 about blackface
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Uh, whereas you look at somebody like Megyn Kelly, whose crime was so egregious.
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And the question was, if someone were to dress up a kid, I think they were talking about kids,
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Um, it was Halloween and they were saying if someone were to dress up to essentially honor
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someone who they appreciated from a different race.
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If you were to dress up as Diana Ross and you use blackface, would that be the same?
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And, and, and get rid of her, which is amazing.
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Now we of course have covered how many other times this has popped up where, whether you
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are headed the state of Georgia or Virginia or the country of Canada, or whether you are,
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And again, there was no, there wasn't even, it had nothing to do with Megan Kelly's question.
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Megan Kelly's question was about something much less, uh, controversial, right?
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Like, uh, let's say a kid who's dressing up and maybe he doesn't even understand the, uh,
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the lines there and dresses up as someone they appreciate or even an adult doing that,
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but in a complimentary way, these were always critical or mocking the person who they were
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impersonating, Carl Malone was just being shown basically as dumb.
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Jimmy Kimmel in blackface is saying Carl Malone can't talk.
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That was the whole, there was nothing more to it.
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There was no, I mean like Sarah Silverman, um, who is a comedian as well and super left
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as well, uh, apparently lost a job because she dressed up in blackface as well.
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I don't know if you're recognizing a pattern here on the people who are using, uh, the blackface
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situation, but I mean, you know, Silverman, I think has a real argument to say it's ridiculous.
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She was doing a bit essentially mocking racists, right?
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She's using it in a way to mock people who are, who are racist.
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That is a, uh, should be a, if you're going to use blackface, that would be the one time
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Uh, not something that I, that I've ever entertained, but apparently everybody in Hollywood
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But Sarah Silverman is making a point against racism and she's still losing jobs because
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Jimmy Fallon is now, uh, his tape has come out.
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He has famously done a Chris Rock impression before on Saturday Night Live.
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This time he did it in a very interesting way visually.
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I've seen who wants to be a millionaire and guess what?
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Because black folks don't like to answer questions.
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Like, in 1981, how many guys have cracked in Rick James smoke when he recorded Super
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You think the only way to get a brother on the show is to name it, who wants $50 cash
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Like, black people know a lot about crack, is the joke.
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Again, like, do I think that Jimmy Fallon is a racist?
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Would Chris Rock actually make some of those jokes?
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I mean, Chris Rock does a lot of that type of humor.
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But the double standard is impossible to ignore here.
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You know, Jimmy Fallon, there's no reason to believe he's some big racist that's doing
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But it is a situation where Megyn Kelly, for asking a question on the same network, gets
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And this is something they were actually airing, not that long ago.
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But so did Megyn Kelly, and that didn't do her any good.
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But I'm sure all is forgiven already with Jimmy Fallon.
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I mean, you know, if you play by their standards, he should be fired.
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I think it, if you're going to apply the same standard to everybody else as you applied
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And I think, you know, with Megyn Kelly, they utilized that moment because they didn't
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like her reporting that was critical of NBC for sexual harassment and other things.
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I think they utilized that as a way to target her.
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They don't care that they're being hypocritical.
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Well, they don't, because nobody's going to hold them accountable.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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And we've been talking a little bit about some of the racial issues, I would say, that
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Everything from Jimmy Fallon to an interaction in Central Park to now Minneapolis, which was
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A man, police were responding to a man who was sitting on top of somebody's car, I guess.
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And I think he was inside the car by the time the cops got there.
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And now the police say that he resisted arrest.
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And I've heard that when they pulled him out of the car, he was resisting somewhat.
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But later on, after they got him in the cuffs, he's walking with the cop down the sidewalk,
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Then he sort of leans back and sits down against a wall on the sidewalk.
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The cop tells him to get up and he gets up, complies.
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They walk back around the police vehicle, still not resisting.
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Then he's down on the ground and the cop puts his knee in his neck and throat area.
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He's face down on the ground with his hands behind his back, handcuffed.
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And the cop has his knee on his neck for a full seven minutes.
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And the bystanders who are recording it on their phones are telling him, look, you're killing
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He, in fact, it looks like he kind of drives his knee deeper into the back of his neck.
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None of the police officers that are with him, the other three, they've all been fired by now.
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And, you know, in these borderline situations, a lot of times I side with the police, honestly,
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because, you know, they are in a situation where they should rationally fear for their
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I bring, it's just not the situation, seemingly, in this case.
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Honestly, like, I try, you know, you try to figure out what's their argument here.
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Their argument seems to be, well, they had the power.
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That seems to be the defense here, which is not a good defense.
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And the video is, when he's on the ground, you get all of it, I think.
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There's not a moment where they just say to the guy, look, I understand you're uncomfortable.
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Never an opportunity for him to just lay there and play dead, right?
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They never gave him an opportunity to lay there completely and say, look, here is a, if you itch yourself, I'm going to do something.
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No, there's not one moment where they have any empathy or sympathy or a moment of humanity for this man.
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When he's begging and pleading that I can't breathe, you would think, even if it's just because they're being recorded by other people.
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Just get off him so it doesn't look like you're killing the guy.
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Like, there's not a moment where the I can't breathe thing reminds you of Eric Garner, which is a big story.
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And just say, like, look, you're not one of these other officers that goes up to him and says, dude, like, I don't want to be in this next freaking Aaron Garner story.
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Or let's get him up and put him in the back of the cruiser.
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If you do anything else, you're in major trouble.
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Put the freaking stun, you know, the taser on him.
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And, you know, without pressing the electrification button, for lack of a better word, as you know, not an officer.
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But, you know, you put him and say, if you do anything, we're going to, I'm going to jam this button down and it's going to suck for you.
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You know, sometimes there may be part of this that we haven't seen that would explain why they handled it in a much more aggressive way than you would expect.
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Like, sometimes there is an interaction where they have done something.
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Maybe they, maybe he did fight back in a way that we didn't see.
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But none of that would, like, we have soldiers who go to war and capture Al-Qaeda members and ISIS members and don't do things like this to them.
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Once they get to a place where they are not fighting back and they are, they are, they have no ability to do anything, you know, we celebrate here in this country the fact that we send, you know, our fighters to foreign wars where they have killed thousands of our own people and we still don't do this to them.
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We have massive debates of whether we're allowed to pour water on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or not.
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And the fact that you would do it in a situation where you know you're on camera and you know the history, you know the context of the situation, you know how this is going to be viewed, you know people are going to see it happen, and you know the risks.
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We don't just, you know, we're not going to, you know, assassinate this guy in the street because he did something.
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But he should definitely be charged, I think, with something.
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I think negligent, negligent homicide or some sort of high level manslaughter sounds right to me.
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It may be, fall into the category where it's possible to charge them for murder.
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I mean, it looks, it looks that bad, certainly.
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You always hold back to try to understand whatever context you're missing.
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But in reality, unless there's something, I can't even think of what the thing would be that would justify this behavior.
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Guys, on the ground, face down, with his hands handcuffed behind his back.
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And it's so disturbing because of how many fantastic officers that we have and how great they usually are.
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And this plays right into the whole hysteria about the cops are just killing black people left and right.
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And, you know, we always say this about other groups, right?
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We say this about, we were talking about ISIS moments ago.
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You know, when there's a terrorist attack, it is, yes, of course, we can all say how bad it is.
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The most important people to say how bad this is are other Muslims.
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This is why people like Zutty Jasser are so important to come out and say, yes, that behavior is completely wrong.
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Those people are doing the wrong things that, you know, but, but there's also a good section of our community as well.
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Police officers need to have credibility to do that.
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Now, look, we have to also take a step back when you're talking about what's going on and what seems to be coming as far as protests and all of this.
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We have a decent amount of murders in this country more than any of us would like.
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When they happen, when a black person kills a white person, it is not appropriate to say all black people are responsible for that.
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The person, the individual who commits the crime is the one responsible for it.
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The same way, and everybody needs to remember this today, the same way that when one police officer, let's say he's guilty completely of murder,
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which again, it looks like it to me, you know, I'm no legal expert, but if he is, we should not hold other cops responsible for that behavior.
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And number two, we have to recognize that these things are terrible and they happen and we have a system to deal with them the best way that we can.
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If that system reacts the way it's supposed to, we can all be really pissed off, but that does not mean that we should, you know, be, you know, burning down cities.
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My guess is they get charged within a few days when they're, as they're gathering evidence, there has to be some time for the system to play out.
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They had, we've been informed by the police department that they all had their body cameras on.
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So there's, there's that evidence and the people who were filming it that were bystanders begging the police to get off of him and to listen to him and to ease up a little bit.
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And in fact, several of them said, you're killing the guy.
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And they still kept his knee in his neck and throat.
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At the very least, the guy had passed out at that point.
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At the very, he might've been already dead by then.
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But you think of like, if you're in a situation where you're being restrained or you, something like that, someone's choking you, right?
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Like your body is going to do everything it can to protect against that, right?
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You're going to, your chin's going to be pushed down.
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It's going to give you some level of protection.
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So now everything's just collapsing on top of each other.
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And the fact that you, and he's suffocated, it's, I just, it's, it's inexplicable.
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You know, there's one thing where mistakes do happen in police work.
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It could be something where you're trying, you don't realize something innocent is happening and you react.
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You think it's threatening and, you know, people have been shot in that way.
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This is, this, it develops over a long period of time.
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It doesn't necessarily mean, and this is, I guess, worth pointing out.
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It doesn't necessarily mean they were doing it because they wanted to kill a black guy.
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I think there's, it's impossible to avoid the racial parts of this.
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Clearly going to be part of the conversation on it.
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It doesn't necessarily mean they, they left the house that day and they were like, you know what I'd like to do today is find a black person to put my knee on their throat.
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It can be a part of the conversation, but separate of who the person is, it just seems to be absolutely horrific police work at the very least.
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And, you know, maybe, maybe if the guy resisted at the very beginning, which I didn't see because it wasn't on this particular video.
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But maybe that pissed him off to the point where, yeah, I'm just going to be on this guy's neck.
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But it is, it is, a lot of times that is the factor.
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Like, you know, you see this is happening where, a good example of this was in the NFL, was it last year?
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Where the guy in Pittsburgh hit the, hit the, the quarterback in his head.
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I can't remember the exact two, two players it was.
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It was the guy who hit the quarterback in the head with his helmet.
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Obviously, he's going to get suspended and all this thing.
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His, his comeback to that was, he called me the N-word.
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The NFL went through all the tapes, did not find any evidence of it.
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There's no reason to believe it actually occurred.
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Including other African Americans who were there, did not hear it.
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But the, the bigger part of that is, it still would not justify what he did.
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It would under, you'd be understanding why he'd be pissed off about it.
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But that does not mean you hit an unprotected head with a helmet at full speed.
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And I think a lot of times we get locked up into, well, well, how, why did he, what was
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All of those things are immaterial to what the action was at the end there.
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When the guy is, even if you want to take the parts where he's awake and dismiss them,
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the guy clearly at some point passes out and he still keeps his, his, his knee on his neck.
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I can't find anything other than this seems to be a case where whatever the legal maximum