Glenn Beck speaks to a police officer who is frustrated with his job and wants to know if he should stay on the job. He also talks to a woman who calls in a letter that she received from a frustrated police officer and wonders if she should quit her job.
00:03:38.140I want to share with you before we go to the phones, a letter that I got in and we're going to talk to the police officer anonymously here in just a few minutes.
00:03:47.580But I'm looking for you to call in if you're a police officer.
00:03:50.660I want to hear from you what you're thinking.
00:03:52.920What is what are the other people in the department thinking?
00:04:14.020I'm sick and tired of emotions controlling the narrative in policing.
00:04:19.920All data and facts have consistently debunked the idea of both systematic police misconduct and systematic racism.
00:04:28.140However, the Black Lives Matter movement and social left has created fear in truth speakers by calling people such things as racist, homophobic, xenophobic whenever they disagree.
00:04:41.980It pains me to watch because they are making millions of dollars by holding down the very communities they claim to protect.
00:04:49.900Politicians have been allowing this to happen for too long.
00:04:53.380And it's time now for somebody just to stand up and simply say, no, you're wrong.
00:05:00.460We will do absolutely nothing you request because we are doing things the best we can.
00:05:09.200An adult molesting a nine-year-old child and then forcing them to masturbate on camera is ugly.
00:05:16.440Repeated domestic violence calls where significant others are beating, strangling, and killing victims are ugly.
00:05:23.600A mother stabbing her 11-year-old child 80 times is ugly.
00:05:28.220A father being murdered in front of his wife and daughters because he refused to let the suspect rape his children in front of him is ugly.
00:05:35.640Police are people breaking into a house in the middle of the night and shooting the homeowner is ugly.
01:27:16.420And a guy who has gotten hit in the head too many times and still keeps going back for more for some reason is Andy Ngo, editor at large at the Post Millennial.
01:27:27.520And you can find him at ThePostMillennial.com.
01:28:13.640So while most of the violent protests have been now under control in most parts of the U.S., it's still going quite strongly Pacific Northwest, which has been a relative stronghold of far less than Antifa.
01:28:31.120And so two days ago, this center, this part of the Capitol Hill area of Seattle has been occupied by hundreds of far-left extremists.
01:28:49.500And police have been engaging with them daily in terms of using crowd control for a number of days now.
01:28:57.960And there was all this backlash from politicians accusing police of excessive force.
01:29:04.920So it seems like some strings are pulled.
01:29:08.700And a decision was made for police to pull back completely, literally.
01:29:13.920They actually abandoned the East Precinct in Seattle by boarding up the window, taking out all sensitive and dangerous items inside, boarded it up and left.
01:29:31.100And the far-left extremists have claimed victory and now have set up barricades around this six-block square city, claiming it.
01:29:43.480They're calling it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
01:29:48.600So they're actually naming their own territory.
01:29:52.240When you go in, it says, you are now leaving the USA.
01:29:57.000And it's really, I mean, as I'm describing it, it sounds really silly in a way, right?
01:30:06.100It's people seemingly cosplaying and almost like reliving childhood buildings that are on board.
01:30:19.600If you look at all the social media accounts and various Antifa groups, they're calling for armed comrades to come and act as security at these barriers.
01:30:29.600So it's a very potentially explosive situation when and if city officials finally choose to respond, because, as always, these situations are going to devolve into a serious health and public safety crisis.
01:30:45.220Because there are still people who live in those six blocks and there are businesses there who are now in the city.
01:31:10.500This reminds me of what happened in 2018 when Antifa and other fall-off extremists seized a neighborhood in southwest Portland nearby the ISIS.
01:31:21.640So for five weeks, the mayor and those in the city council allowed this to happen.
01:31:28.080And I did a story for the Wall Street Journal at that time.
01:31:31.420I mean, those who lived there were absolutely terrorized by this literal occupying force, and the threshold for police to respond was literally in a life-death matter.
01:31:46.220So short of that, you're not going to get any help.
01:31:49.220And it seems like because politicians think what these extremists are doing are righteous, they're allowing them not only to ride, leech, and be violent, but to actually occupy territory.
01:36:14.180It's people who say that their advocacy for abolishing prisons is actually abolishing slavery.
01:36:27.520It's a way of looking at—and that's how they're able to sort of mainstream their message,
01:36:36.040convince enough people on the left that prisons operate essentially as a slavery institution for—against black Americans to today.
01:36:47.400We're doing a special tonight at 9 o'clock, and I'm going through all these groups and what they want.
01:36:55.340And as we begin to look into the revolutionary abolitionist movement, as you say, that's a lot of where BLM comes from.
01:37:04.160And it's actually a Marxist-Kurdish revolution in northern Syria that they are basing this plan off of.
01:37:12.920When you see these groups and our politicians, and Attorney General Barr says that he's looking for the connections and the funders right now.
01:37:24.420They're not going after the small guys at this point.
01:37:27.260They want to understand the whole system.
01:37:30.080How many names do you think that we know as citizens are going to go under and be in trouble when all is exposed here?
01:37:42.920Well, I think so many of the people that have been arrested, as far as I know,
01:37:49.740there hasn't really been a deep dive investigation into what they actually believe on all the various groups and networks they may be linked to.
01:37:59.400So the United States First Amendment does protect, give wide protections for people to have extremist beliefs and whatnot.
01:38:12.880You know, in contrast to, for example, in some Western European countries where involvement with social organizations is actually proscribed, completely banned.
01:38:23.720And I think I can't put a number out because it's with these anonymous sort of memberships.
01:38:35.280It can be nearly impossible to determine for sure if somebody is actually involved in one of the organizations.
01:38:47.180I mean, I, the Project Veritas video that came out last week about Rose City Antifa was very eye-opening because they were actually able to infiltrate one of the formal Antifa organizations
01:39:01.140and demonstrate the level of organization and radicalization that happens on a local level.
01:39:09.120It remains to be seen what these links are internationally.
01:41:45.800You can bake in this thing, which I don't know why I didn't think of this, but my daughter is here, and my sister was here, and they were baking bread.
01:41:55.340And because of the altitude, we keep burning the bottom of the bread.
01:42:00.140And I'm going to have to try it in the Rectech Grill, because I bet that will work.
01:42:06.340Anyway, we have had some of the best meals ever in our Rectech Grill.
01:45:24.240It's a supplement that you put on your dog's food.
01:45:26.760And it's jam-packed with vitamins and minerals and antioxidants and omega oils and probiotics and all those things my wife is always talking about that I should have.
01:48:37.320Those people seem to be in houses that are 10,000 square feet plus.
01:48:41.980And I've also noticed the people who want to be, are all about disbanding the police department seem to have their own private security fences living in gated communities behind giant walls.
01:48:52.140I don't know why that's so common, but it does seem to be the pattern.
01:48:56.540Can you imagine getting rid of getting rid of the police, how that will make the rich and the poor even further apart from each other?
01:49:43.740And look, there's a, there, it could be worse in Mexico because they actually do have a police force that is corruptly enforcing the laws to the opposite way to the people they've been, you know, who've paid them off and such.
01:49:56.380I mean, you know, there are libertarian arguments they've been making for a very long time that you could, you don't necessarily have to have a government police force.
01:50:04.680You could go in a way, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I agree.
01:50:07.760I agree with that, but that's not what we're talking about.
01:50:10.160No, that's the point I'm trying to make, which is like that, that world, which we're talking about this, you know, generally at this point in American culture, a mythical world where you'd have no police departments that is combined with a very widespread second amendment freedoms that almost everyone owns their own weapon, right?
01:50:30.500These are all things that are totally against what the left is pushing.
01:50:33.860So what you're saying is, I mean, you saw the, you may have seen this tweet on it went viral, which was someone saying, I think it was from Vox, basically saying like, what are we going to do if we don't have police departments?
01:50:43.060Night classes, you know, you know, community programs, you know, drug, you know, like drug reinforcement or rehab centers.
01:50:54.780And it's like, wait, someone's breaking in my door.
01:50:57.380You're going to, you want me to go to a night class for that?
01:50:59.500Like, I don't understand exactly how I'm going to live through the night.
01:51:03.200No, the burglar, the burglar would be going to the night classes.
01:51:07.060And that's the funny thing is there are a lot of these programs that exist, by the way, which we already spend money on, by the way.
01:51:12.780And what you'll find when you talk to police officers about it is, yeah, there are programs that will, for example, help you deal with the mentally unhealthy people who are aggressive and mentally unhealthy.
01:51:24.760And those people commit a lot of crimes, right?
01:51:28.240What you need with those programs are cops coming with the people from the programs, because a lot of times the people from the programs get assaulted when they show up.
01:54:49.160The guy is his, his, he is not a good quarterback.
01:54:52.800He had already lost his job to Blake Bortles before he started kneeling.
01:54:57.840His career completion percentage would place him 30th in the league right now.
01:55:03.76030th if he was actually in the league, which he's not because he sucks and has nothing to do every, there are dozens of teams that would love to embrace his social justice nonsense to put them on their squads.
01:55:15.340The problem with all of this is he's a terrible, terrible football player.
01:55:24.020And the other things that he does are things that you're seeing every team in the league embrace.
01:55:30.120They're all falling over themselves to release statements about how right Colin Kaepernick is about race, even though he's not right about it.
01:55:38.440He's completely wrong about it, but they're all falling over themselves to, to worship at the altar of Colin Kaepernick's ideas and dozens of players who did what he did are still in the league.
01:55:49.380He's not in the league because he sucks period.
01:55:52.500Well, where are the football teams that know winning isn't all that matters, right?
01:55:58.240But doing the right thing and having social justice warriors on the field are just important, just as important as having so-called football players on the field.
01:56:10.720Yeah, I guess that's the, that's his only chance, right?
01:56:14.460That is at some point, a team that's really bad is going to look at this situation and probably would have last year if he showed up to the tryout and say, you know what?
01:56:25.140Look at the vibes we're going to get from this.
01:56:26.760We're going to be able to get all this positive press and we can bring him in and people will cheer us and we'll get fawning media attention from everybody.
01:56:33.500And that'll be true for a while until Colin Kaepernick tells you the reason why you're not playing him anymore is not the nine interceptions he threw last week.
01:56:40.620It's because you don't like black people and you'll be on the same exact situation where you'll be defending how racist you are because you don't like that this black quarterback is on your team and all he keeps doing is throwing it to the other team.
01:57:29.160Why did Eric Reid, a guy on Kaepernick's team, play year after year after year in the league, even though he did the exact same thing as Colin Kaepernick?
01:57:38.240It's because Colin Kaepernick sucks at football, period.
01:57:53.300I'm so tempted to do what you did with Biden yesterday.
01:57:56.420So what you're saying is that Joe Biden sucks at, I mean, to Colin Kaepernick, sucks at football.
01:58:04.100But what I want to ask you is, do you really think that there are teams now that would hire Colin Kaepernick?
01:58:13.580They'll adjust to, I think it's possible, honestly, especially if they're, you know, there are, there's probably, I mean, the NFL is a relatively conservative culture for when it comes to, certainly when it comes to entertainment, all sports are, right?
01:58:27.240They're all to the right of, of Hollywood.
01:58:31.060And so there are plenty of owners who are big left-wing donors.
01:58:34.520There are plenty of coaches that are very sympathetic to these causes and would not be surprised at all to see a team just sign him for that purpose.
01:58:45.900Because at this point, there'd be no, I mean, like man hasn't played football in five years.
01:58:50.940There's no real reason that no one would think that it was a smart choice to sign this guy to a contract.
01:58:56.640And it's also why he didn't show up for this tryout.
01:58:59.020He knows he, he, he can't compete at this level anymore and he could barely compete at it when he was in his prime.
01:59:05.100And so, I mean, this is all just nonsense and it's Al Sharpton looking for attention like he always does.
01:59:12.500You know, Roger Goodell should learn this lesson, Glenn, and then I'll be done ranting.
01:59:29.000Every activist just wants more, no matter what the cause is.
01:59:32.980Folding to this stuff gets you nowhere.
01:59:36.720I think what Stu was trying to say is that Colin Kaepernick sucks at football, but I'm not, I'm not clear.
01:59:46.620Maybe he can explain that when we get back from the break.
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