The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 507 - Rayshard Brooks Was A Violent Criminal, Not A Victim

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in one of the worst injustices we've seen in recent memory,

00:00:04.320 the officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in self-defense is being charged with murder.

00:00:09.820 We'll talk about this case and why the charges are just completely insane. Also,

00:00:15.120 related to this, the media is attempting to make a saint, a hero posthumously, out of Rayshard

00:00:20.560 Brooks. And we know that this is what they do. This is a tactic. So I want to discuss

00:00:25.300 the actual truth about this man. What sort of man was he? I think that's important. We'll talk

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00:00:37.000 today, no big deal. Don't make a big deal out of it. I will be canceling cake. Just hear me out on

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00:02:12.440 Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard in Atlanta, who is, by the way, under investigation

00:02:18.840 for funneling funds from a nonprofit to supplement his salary and who has been repeatedly accused of

00:02:24.540 sexual harassment by a subordinate and who is now facing a primary challenge, decided to charge the

00:02:32.440 cop who shot Rashard Brooks in self-defense with felony murder. The other officer on the scene

00:02:39.080 has also been charged. Now, to review, to review the Rashard Brooks case, Brooks is the convicted

00:02:49.380 violent felon who passed out drunk behind the wheel of his car in a Wendy's drive-thru. They called

00:02:56.080 the police because he was blocking traffic because he was passed out drunk in his car. Police came,

00:03:00.940 they talked to him, talked to him for a while, gave a sobriety test. He failed. So they tried to

00:03:06.760 make an arrest. Brooks assaults the officers, steals their taser, fires it at them multiple times,

00:03:13.740 and then on the second attempt to fire it at them, they shot and killed him. All of this,

00:03:19.440 as any rational person can see, is entirely the fault of Rashard Brooks. Every step of the way,

00:03:25.580 everything that happened, Rashard Brooks' fault. In fact, let's take a look at that video again of the

00:03:31.860 shooting and the lead up to it. If you haven't seen it yet, this is important context. So take a look

00:03:35.940 at this. Hold on, Mr. Brooks. Will you take a preliminary arrest test for me? Is it yes or no?

00:03:42.960 I don't want to refuse anything. It's yes or no. It's completely up to you. Yes, I will. Okay. Just

00:03:48.260 wait here while I grab. What kind of drinks did you have? I'm not sure. It's something she ordered.

00:03:54.080 She said top shelf or whatever. Top shelf what? I'm not sure. It was, like I said, it was her birthday

00:04:00.500 and you had about one and a half drinks. Do you don't remember what kind of drinks it were? No,

00:04:05.300 sir. All right. I really don't, Mr. Ross. All right. I think you've had too much to drink to be

00:04:08.920 dry. Put your hands behind your back for me. Put your hands behind your back.

00:04:12.660 Hey,

00:04:19.700 Hey,

00:04:20.040 Hey,

00:04:20.180 Stop fighting. Stop fighting. Stop fighting. You're gonna get tased. You're gonna get tased.

00:04:26.020 Stop. It's a路.

00:04:27.020 Stop, It's a路.

00:04:29.660 Hey,

00:04:34.440 Stop fighting.

00:04:36.440 all right that officer that you saw there trying to be very

00:05:06.100 reasonable is facing felony murder for shooting a violent criminal who was attacking him

00:05:11.560 remember you can see in the video we're told that he was shot in the back maybe he was irrelevant

00:05:18.680 because he was turning around and pointing pointing a weapon at the officers after he'd

00:05:23.380 already assaulted them after he'd already made it clear that he would do anything he was going to do

00:05:29.240 anything he would resort to anything to escape so he made it very very clear he made it extremely

00:05:35.200 clear that he was a lethal threat threat to them and now he's pointing a weapon at them

00:05:42.140 in fact a weapon that is categorized as a deadly weapon by by uh by the state of georgia we'll get

00:05:48.040 to that in a second and so they shoot him now many reports surfaced last night saying that hundreds

00:05:53.740 of atlanta atlanta cops were uh walking off the job in protest of this unjust prosecution

00:06:00.540 refusing to answer calls you know go basically going on strike good for them this is exactly

00:06:07.280 what needs to happen and this should be happening across atlanta should be happening across the

00:06:10.340 country this is what cops need to do widespread strikes um if you know if if if the people want

00:06:20.600 mayhem if they want anarchy if they don't want cops there to protect them then they can have it

00:06:26.780 now before we go any further i want to talk about um and we'll talk about all this in more detail but

00:06:34.120 let's take a look at a few of the clips from the press conference that the da howard gave yesterday

00:06:41.040 where he was explaining his reasoning for filing these charges because you have to see this for

00:06:45.560 yourself if you haven't seen it it's a really incredible press conference in a lot of ways and

00:06:50.100 all bad ways uh you have to see and hear as this guy tries to justify his decision to throw an innocent

00:06:58.140 man to the wolves and he he's he's very desperate to justify it but his reasoning is tortured to say the

00:07:06.380 least so uh watch so in reaching our decision there were some considerations that we considered

00:07:15.260 important and uh one of the things that we noted from our evaluation uh was that mr brooks on the night

00:07:24.940 of this incident was calm he was cordial and really displayed a cooperative nature uh secondly even

00:07:35.580 though mr brooks was of slightly impaired his demeanor during this incident uh was almost

00:07:45.180 jovial um also we noted that uh he received many instructions from the atlanta officers and he was

00:07:54.360 asked many questions some of the questions he was asked repeatedly but for 41 minutes and 17 seconds

00:08:02.280 he followed every instruction he answered the questions yeah did you catch that brooks was brooks the

00:08:08.820 violent criminal who was assaulting officer stole a weapon was shooting it at them was calm cordial

00:08:15.500 cooperative and jovial this is what passes for calm cooperative uh cordial and jovial apparently

00:08:24.440 apparently you can cordially assault a police officer

00:08:28.920 now i'll be honest i haven't specifically looked up any of these words in the dictionary but i'm pretty

00:08:36.260 sure that assaulting a police officer is not going to fall under the definition

00:08:41.520 for any of these words although that might change i mean we know that the webster's dictionary changed

00:08:46.520 the definition of racism because blm activists told them to so maybe they'll maybe we're going to get

00:08:52.340 a change to the definition of cordial because blm demands it and it gets worse if you can believe it

00:08:59.480 listen we concluded and considered it as one of our important considerations that mr brooks never presented

00:09:10.160 himself as a threat um at the very beginning he was peacefully sleeping in his car uh after he was

00:09:19.180 awakened by the officer he was cooperative and he was directed to move his car to another location

00:09:27.160 uh he calmly moved his car uh mr brooks was asked whether or not he had a weapon uh he indicated that

00:09:34.800 he did not uh without any resistance he passed his driver's license to the officers and the officers

00:09:42.880 then asked mr brooks whether or not he would consent to a pat down or a body search and uh mr brooks

00:09:52.360 allowed them to search him and the search yielded no weapon uh we found that it was of interest that

00:09:58.840 um when the officers patted mr brooks down uh they noticed there was a bulge in his pants they did not

00:10:06.600 pull that item out of his pocket they took mr brooks's word that that bulge uh represented a number of

00:10:14.040 dollar bills uh but uh mr brooks never displayed any aggressive behavior behavior during the 70 41 minutes

00:10:24.520 and 17 seconds never presented himself as a threat peacefully sleeping in his car peacefully sleeping

00:10:33.540 that's one hell of a way for a da to describe a guy passed out drunk behind the wheel

00:10:40.260 he he blew over a 0.1 the limit is 0.08 over 0.1 for a man of his size you know you'd have to drink

00:10:50.400 five or six drinks in an hour to get to that point um which many people are capable of drinking that much

00:10:57.900 but the point is if you drink that much and then you drive and you're peacefully sleeping in the car

00:11:04.220 that's not sleeping that's passed out that's what we call passed out drunk i wonder could i go pass

00:11:12.900 out drunk on the da's porch could i go to his house on his porch sprawl out maybe bring a blanket

00:11:17.760 can i peacefully sleep on his porch after a night of drinking and you know he's not going to call the

00:11:24.360 cops right will he refrain from calling the cops because he doesn't want to disturb my hallowed slumber

00:11:30.340 now um and he keeps going in both of those clips you hear that he goes back time and again he's

00:11:38.780 hammering on this uh 41 minutes and 17 seconds thing he keeps saying that for 41 minutes and 17

00:11:43.960 seconds brooks was just a swell guy he was a great guy peaceful for 41 minutes and 17 seconds

00:11:50.620 41 minutes and 17 seconds yeah for 41 minutes and 17 seconds unfortunately at 41 minutes and 18 seconds

00:11:58.560 um he became a violent sociopath uh attacking and assaulting cops and stealing their weapon and

00:12:06.160 using it against them that's what happened at 41 minutes and 18 seconds but but from zero seconds to

00:12:11.500 41 minutes and 18 seconds um you know he was nice what so what what what are you saying exactly are you

00:12:20.360 saying that he he he had been you know once you get to 41 minutes and 18 seconds you're allowed to do

00:12:26.620 whatever you want as long as you're nice to the cops and cooperative for 41 minutes and 17 seconds

00:12:31.040 then you're fine once you get to 41 minutes and 18 seconds then the purge is on and you can do

00:12:36.200 whatever you want is that what you're saying if that's not what you're saying then who gives a damn 0.77

00:12:40.300 that he was he was he was a nice guy for 41 minutes oh 41 minutes of being a nice guy you mean he didn't

00:12:47.280 attack or try to kill anybody for 41 minutes wow that's impressive let's give him a medal let's give

00:12:54.620 him the medal of honor posthumously medal of freedom all the medals nobel peace prize let's

00:12:59.800 give rayshard brooks the nobel peace prize because for 41 minutes he refrained from trying to kill

00:13:03.900 police officers yeah i mean after that he started to try to kill him but for 41 minutes my goodness

00:13:11.040 what uh this this man is a hero

00:13:15.340 now it's interesting um that this guy howard says the officers lives were not in danger

00:13:23.580 you know brooks only had a taser that's interesting because here's what howard himself only a couple of

00:13:32.140 weeks ago said about tasers when he was charging police officers with assault for using a taser on

00:13:37.760 protesters here's what he said about tasers then listen charged with aggravated assault of uh miss

00:13:44.360 pilgrim and this is for pointing a taser at mrs pilgrim and uh as many of you all know on the georgia

00:13:52.380 law a taser is considered as a deadly weapon under georgia law a deadly weapon under georgia law

00:14:00.400 according to howard's own words uh brooks was using a deadly weapon against the officers and yet

00:14:08.300 they're being charged with murder for responding with deadly force when he's using deadly force

00:14:14.340 against them the standard here seems to be according to this crooked prosecutor that tasers are only

00:14:21.360 deadly weapons when cops use them if you use them against the cop it's not a deadly weapon anymore

00:14:26.180 this again is total lunacy it is madness it is one of the worst injustices i've ever seen and i don't

00:14:33.660 say that as hyperbole it really is i'm glad the officers are walking off the job i hope they do it

00:14:40.400 like i said in cities across america if people want anarchy let them have it if they want their cities

00:14:45.660 run by violent criminals and sociopaths like rayshard brooks good have at it enjoy

00:14:51.480 well let's be honest about this for once let's be clear about what's happening okay 0.98

00:14:57.420 officer ralph is being charged because of his race his crime is being a white cop that's his crime

00:15:07.060 that's that's that's the the the great crime that he committed is is being a white cop if this was a

00:15:15.200 black cop and a white suspect no charges are going to be filed we all know that there's no question 0.96

00:15:21.480 um this is racial retribution the da is a bigot and a racist targeting a man for his race he should 0.97

00:15:30.280 be disbarred and he should go to jail now i ask again how are cops supposed to do their jobs 0.90

00:15:37.560 like this really how are they supposed to do it they're out here every night dealing with the worst

00:15:45.200 people humanity has to offer that's most of what a cop is does is going to be that

00:15:53.060 i think i mentioned before you know i was i remember uh i got a speeding ticket this is years

00:16:01.040 ago i've gotten several speeding tickets afraid to say but this particular one was was years ago and um

00:16:05.680 and you know i i was going well over the speed limit so i deserved it but i was i was at the

00:16:11.300 court and i was talking to the cop before we went in uh to you know talk to the judge and he was saying

00:16:18.080 to me that you know he really doesn't like that that the only time that he one of the only times

00:16:25.360 on his job that he that he deals with just sort of nice law-abiding normal people is when he's giving

00:16:31.120 them speeding tickets because the rest of the time you know he's answering domestic violence calls

00:16:36.140 um he's just in he's in areas where there are a lot of crime he's dealing with criminals

00:16:40.780 and one of the only times that he's um actually just dealing with uh you know uh decent people

00:16:47.980 is because he's giving them a speeding ticket and uh he doesn't you know it's it's kind of that kind

00:16:52.080 of wears on you after a while um i remember the cop saying that and uh and you know that always that

00:16:56.940 has always stood out to me because that that's kind of true most of the time cops they're dealing

00:17:02.060 with dangerous that they're cops they're going to be dealing with dangerous people criminals

00:17:05.120 um they are doing a lot of domestic violence stuff you know that's that's gonna be a lot of the calls

00:17:10.900 they're responding to and or or you know things like this someone passed out drunk dealing with

00:17:19.500 that drug addicts and so on and so forth so they're out trying to enforce the law on people who like

00:17:28.260 Brooks think nothing of lashing out violently sometimes fatally they're dealing with sociopaths

00:17:35.100 a lot of the time this is what they're up against and now if they have to defend themselves

00:17:41.900 in a situation like that they know they'll go to jail so they're in a position where they're dealing

00:17:49.740 with a violent dangerous person and a bad person as Brooks was and he has decided to turn it violent

00:17:59.120 and immediately now the cops know they're in a position where this can go a few ways they can be

00:18:06.020 killed or they can protect themselves and kill potentially and then face the very real possibility

00:18:14.320 that they're going to go to prison for the rest of their lives and be reviled across the world as

00:18:18.360 racist and there's going to be riots and their their their family's going to have to go into government

00:18:23.380 protection for the rest of their lives i mean they know that how do you do your job

00:18:28.500 under those circumstances how do you do it why do you do it

00:18:32.780 now there's one other point i want to make here um and this is important because we've seen this

00:18:39.240 process play out many times already the game the tactic from the left whenever there's a shooting like

00:18:44.060 this is to turn the criminal into a martyr into a saint into a man of unimpeachable character

00:18:50.580 a pillar of his community a loving father and husband etc etc etc this is not just about not

00:18:57.480 speaking ill of the dead it's not just that they they don't want to speak ill of the dead this is way

00:19:01.280 beyond that because they aren't just not speaking ill they're canonizing sanctifying making heroes out of

00:19:08.180 them the point is obviously emotional manipulation make it so that rational discussion is impossible

00:19:16.500 disallowed make it so that the only thing you're allowed to say about the death of the man is that

00:19:22.320 it's an unspeakable tragedy and the world is so much worse now than it's that that he's gone and

00:19:26.360 it's the worst thing in the world and you you've been you've been crying yourself to sleep uh five

00:19:30.340 nights in a row over it make it so that that's that's the only thing you're allowed to say that's the

00:19:34.940 only acceptable take on this matter because then it's impossible to argue that he was the aggressor

00:19:40.440 that it was his fault it's impossible to um and even if even if it wasn't his fault even if he wasn't

00:19:47.140 the aggressor it's still going to be impossible to inject any kind of nuance into the conversation

00:19:52.760 at all and we've seen this happen many times it started with michael brown michael brown was a

00:19:59.560 violent sociopath who assaulted a store clerk for no reason stole something just for the sake of

00:20:05.880 stealing it the store clerk tried to stop him grabbed him by the neck and shoved him walks down 0.96

00:20:10.900 the street then tries to kill a cop it's just a bad violent person is a terrible person and they made

00:20:18.340 him into a gentle giant you know they they that was the phrase we kept hearing there's a gentle

00:20:22.860 gentle gentle gentleman uh young man and and uh we we get his graduation picture over and over again

00:20:31.760 we see it now rayshard brooks abc news has this headline um rayshard brooks remembered for hard work

00:20:41.140 and dedication to family hard work and dedication to family we'll get back to that in a second what

00:20:48.120 what um yeah in what way was he dedicated to his family i'm wondering we'll get back to that here's

00:20:56.760 the mayor of atlanta on cnn describing brooks as a guy you're rooting for this has been hard and it is

00:21:04.360 um really been difficult for me to put aside my own anger and sadness during this time and really be able

00:21:12.240 to articulate what our communities need to hear because the reality is what can you say i've watched

00:21:19.520 the body cam video i watched it for 30 minutes i watched the interaction with mr brooks and it broke my

00:21:29.040 heart when he talked about his daughter's birthday party that he was planning for this was not

00:21:35.760 confrontational this was a guy that you were rooting for and even knowing the end watching it you're

00:21:47.040 going just let him go just let him go let him call somebody to pick him up by the way mayor no you you

00:21:54.000 don't let a convicted violent felon who's passed out drunk behind the wheel go you don't just let him go

00:22:00.800 and that's not what normal people are thinking when they see that oh just let him go

00:22:04.320 you don't let him walk away you don't call him an uber the cops are not a concierge service for 1.00

00:22:10.720 drunk felons that's not what they do you idiot um and you know there's there's you don't let the the 1.00

00:22:21.760 drunk felon uh just go you enforce the law why is he special if i passed out drunk behind the wheel i would 1.00

00:22:30.960 expect to get arrested many people have been arrested for that kind of thing thousands of

00:22:36.400 people across the country have been arrested for for driving drunk uh and most of them were still

00:22:41.040 awake at least when they got pulled over why the hell is there any particular reason why ray shard

00:22:47.120 brooks should have been special and let go when nobody else would be in that circumstance

00:22:52.800 and then we also hear um that once all this happened and he's running away they just let

00:23:01.120 him go they didn't have to shoot him never mind the fact that he's pointing something he's pointing a

00:23:05.680 weapon at them but even if he wasn't you know something even if he wasn't pointing which he was

00:23:11.280 but even if he wasn't you have again a drunk violent dangerous felon who has already demonstrated that

00:23:20.160 he will do anything to get away uh he doesn't care and he'll resort to violence doesn't matter to him

00:23:28.640 you're going to just let him run off into the night

00:23:32.560 and and what hope that he goes home and sleeps it off and waits for the cops to come pick him up the next day

00:23:38.080 is that what you're going to do is that the safest thing for the community

00:23:47.040 um and uh no brooks is not a guy that you're rooting for i'm not rooting for him

00:23:54.560 i wouldn't root for him here's cnn again uh this is anderson cooper saying that brooks

00:23:59.920 is trying hard to do right by his family and he's he's reaching heroically for redemption

00:24:05.680 given the news tonight that one fired atlanta police officer has been charged with a capital

00:24:09.920 crime another also faces serious charges in the killing of rayshard brooks the next item is haunting

00:24:15.280 you'll see what might have been a story of struggle and perhaps redemption in video obtained exclusively

00:24:20.240 by cnn's van jones mr brooks talks about life after incarceration the impact it's had on his family

00:24:25.920 the ham family that he's trying hard to do right by trying for redemption which he can see within

00:24:31.280 reach and which he can not know will never come and on and on and on you get the idea okay so

00:24:36.800 let's talk about the reality and the reality is this because the truth matters the reality

00:24:40.400 matters truth matters here it is rayshard brooks was a bad man a violent man an abuser of women and

00:24:46.080 children brooks in 2014 pleaded guilty to false imprisonment family violence battery and felony

00:24:53.040 cruelty against children now if you're wondering how you get a felony cruelty to children

00:24:58.320 charge in georgia let me let me just read from a a lawyer website this is conway and strickler

00:25:04.480 um i you know i just googled this is what popped up describing the parameters of the cruelty to

00:25:09.360 children crime is what it says this is not specifically related to rayshard brooks but this

00:25:13.440 is the charge that he was uh he pled guilty to um willfully depriving a child of his or her basic

00:25:19.120 needs for survival to the point that health and well-being are jeopardized or causing a child cruel

00:25:23.280 or excessive mental or physical pain are considered first-degree cruelty to children offenses

00:25:28.160 criminal negligence that causes cruel or excessive mental or physical pain falls under the heading

00:25:32.480 of second-degree cruelty to children while the offense of cruelty to children in the third degree

00:25:36.160 can result when an individual intentionally allows a child to witness forcible felonies battery or family

00:25:41.760 violence so that's um rayshard brooks falls in somewhere that's just one of his crimes

00:25:50.320 dedicated to his family felony cruelty to children dedicated to his family a family man

00:25:58.160 and we're told he he he wanted to get home for his his daughter's birthday so he's out passed out

00:26:06.400 drunk in the middle of the night that's what you do when you want to get home and see your child for

00:26:10.720 it for her birthday i mean i relate to you know wanting to be there for your child's birthday i got four

00:26:17.360 kids i want to be there for the birthdays i want to be there you know for as long as i can through their

00:26:22.320 lives that's why i'm not going to drive pass out drunk uh you know in the middle of the night or

00:26:29.520 at any other time of day and that's why if i did do that um and i was getting arrested i wouldn't start

00:26:37.920 assaulting the cops and throw my life away that's not what you do that is not what you do if you want

00:26:42.320 to see your kids drunk driving resisting arrest assault of a police officer assault with a deadly

00:26:51.440 weapon those are the crimes we can add to the crimes he already committed so we got everything

00:26:55.440 i listed plus drunk driving resisting arrest assault of a police officer assault with a deadly weapon

00:26:59.680 on top of cruelty to children false imprisonment family violence domestic abuse

00:27:04.640 no this is not a man dedicated to his family this is not a man that you root for

00:27:08.320 i don't root for child abusers i don't know about you mayor i don't root for child abusers they're

00:27:13.760 not the people that i root for i don't root for violent sociopaths who use deadly weapons against

00:27:20.480 police those aren't the people that i root for i don't root for men like that no he was not a good

00:27:29.120 man he was not trying to turn his life around don't give me that you don't drive drunk pass out

00:27:34.320 in a drive-thru lane than assault cops if you want to turn your life around trying hard he's trying

00:27:41.440 hard to get to get back on there i mean i've never done any of those things and it required no effort

00:27:49.840 at all not to do it i've been pulled over as i've said i've been pulled over many times um

00:27:57.200 i've never assaulted a police officer it required no effort at all for me to refrain from assaulting

00:28:04.960 the police officer so you're telling me that that he's trying hard and can't manage to stop himself

00:28:12.720 from assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon in that case he's worse than i thought because if that

00:28:18.560 was the absolute best he could do if that was him at his best that's him trying hard well i'd hate to

00:28:27.280 see him at his worst and it sounds like his children did see him at his worst and paid the price for it

00:28:36.560 so don't give me this bs i don't want to hear it we can't allow this to happen this time we can't

00:28:42.960 let them turn rayshard brooks into a hero a saint anything like that this is a bad man a violent 0.95

00:28:48.560 felon that needs to be the message because it's the damn truth and it's what we need to say it matters 0.98

00:28:58.560 you can't get squeamish about it and say i don't want to you know this man passed away i don't want 0.96

00:29:02.880 to okay well you could be squeamish and you could be nice about it and they're going to build this

00:29:08.000 narrative and they're going to use that narrative to send an innocent man to jail

00:29:12.320 forever if not the death penalty that's the narrative they're going to use so you could be

00:29:17.520 a very nice person and not want to contradict that narrative then you could very nicely sit there

00:29:22.320 while a man is sent um effectively or literally to his death

00:29:31.600 let's go to uh news all right number one a couple of weeks ago it was claimed that a truck driver

00:29:37.760 made a white power sign at a black lives matter protest as he was driving by

00:29:43.280 the mob went into action of course the man was uh fired

00:29:48.400 well now he's speaking out um this this guy that supposedly did a white power sign at a black

00:29:54.400 lives matter protest explaining that he he never made a white power sign he was cracking his knuckles

00:29:59.920 as he drove by and there are other details as well about this guy that i think are relevant so watch

00:30:06.480 this local news report on it it's scary that you can be charged tried and convicted

00:30:13.280 on social media without your permission with no corroborating evidence of any type

00:30:19.440 a local sdgne worker has been fired after allegations of racism were made against him now he's speaking

00:30:25.840 exclusively to nbc7 about what he calls a major misunderstanding he says his employer jumped to

00:30:31.440 conclusions and he should not have lost his job priya shreether has the story it all started about

00:30:38.640 two weeks ago near a black lives matter rally in poway emmanuel cafferty says he had an interaction

00:30:44.400 with a member of the public that later got posted on twitter he says shortly after he was fired by his

00:30:49.840 employer sdgne this was the tweet that emmanuel cafferty says started it all it shows an sdgne worker making a hand

00:30:59.040 gesture that some say is a white supremacist sign when my supervisor said that i was being accused of

00:31:06.720 doing a white supremacist gesture that was baffling cafferty is the man in the picture and says he had

00:31:13.520 no idea what the symbol meant he was just cracking his knuckles but shortly after he was

00:31:19.680 informed that he was suspended by sdgne pending an investigation and a few days later he was fired

00:31:27.040 i do that a lot when i'm driving it has no racist intent behind it and i was confident that

00:31:36.640 i would be able to you know with my character show sdgne that i'm not a racist according to the

00:31:42.000 anti-defamation league this hand sign has been used in recent years by white supremacists as a white

00:31:48.160 power gesture but a post on the organization's website says that it is also widely used as a

00:31:54.080 sign signifying approval and therefore shouldn't be assumed to be a white supremacy symbol unless

00:32:00.560 there's other evidence to support those claims i don't know how long it's going to take me to get

00:32:05.200 over this but to lose your dream job for playing with your fingers that's a hard pill to swallow okay

00:32:12.560 so that this is and you know we have to appreciate uh the anti-defamation league explaining to us what

00:32:18.160 the okay sign means and this how many times we have to go through this the okay sign is not a white 0.99

00:32:28.240 power sign and never was that was an internet hoax i think that was 4chan made that up and they're still

00:32:34.000 going with it oh but they at least they'll admit that you know sometimes people can do that and not

00:32:39.680 mean anything by it sometimes but you know it could be that they're white supremacists so this

00:32:43.920 was a completely innocent man speaking of innocent man uh being being accused of things this that's

00:32:49.840 sort of the theme here just a normal guy just a guy doing his job now he's unemployed he's reviled as a

00:32:56.640 racist because someone caught him making an offensive shape with his fingers meanwhile he's not even white

00:33:05.120 white you saw the guy right he's mexican this is a mexican american okay a man of mexican descent 0.94

00:33:15.120 he's fired from his job for being a white supremacist and he's mexican how did that 1.00

00:33:20.560 conversation go when he when his cowardly employers pulled him in and said yes uh sorry we have to let 0.97

00:33:28.800 you go for for being a white supremacist yeah but i'm not white though 0.97

00:33:35.120 i'm not yes but uh you're you're a suspected white supremacist i'm not you see not white this

00:33:41.520 here i i literally cannot be a white supremacist it's impossible it is actually impossible i am not

00:33:47.280 white you see everything going on here non-whiteness i imagine the covers i hope the conversation went

00:33:54.160 something like that anyway um this is just it's it's collective insanity we've fallen into collective

00:34:02.400 hysteria you know it's it's you can't reason your way out of it anymore if we're firing a guy because

00:34:10.400 he was cracking his knuckles in an offensive way and saying that it makes him a suspected white

00:34:15.200 supremacist even though he's mexican yeah okay where do you go from there you can't argue against that 1.00

00:34:21.920 it's not like someone who would defend that you you can't present an argument to them that's going to

00:34:26.080 change their mind this is someone in order to argue against someone in order to present an argument

00:34:32.640 to someone they have to they have to have a functioning brain that they're willing to use

00:34:36.240 and unfortunately there are a lot of people in our country that don't have functioning brains

00:34:39.920 or at least are not willing to use them if they do and so there's nothing you could say to them

00:34:45.760 number two here's an attack that happened outside of a gas station in texas take a look

00:34:49.200 the victim says the assailants screamed black lives matter so this is basically jussie smollett

00:34:56.880 except race is reversed and it actually happened so i guess it's nothing like jussie smollett

00:35:02.240 come to think of it but um it's it's in terms of how think about how gratuitous

00:35:10.480 that attack was that just the the attack that jussie smollett claimed happened completely gratuitous

00:35:16.080 and and ridiculous that's one of the ways you knew it was fake except here that sort of thing

00:35:21.840 actually happened we know it happened because we can see it only the races are reversed and of course 0.89

00:35:27.840 we know that you reverse the races back and this is a uh you know these are white guys doing this

00:35:32.240 who are the culprits then that's national news it's headlines there's probably gonna be protests and

00:35:36.480 riots so on and so forth number three a report from the daily wire says infectious disease expert

00:35:41.440 dr anthony fauci a key member of the president donald trump's uh president donald trump's

00:35:45.520 coronavirus task force admitted tuesday that health experts including himself downplayed the efficacy

00:35:50.160 of face masks in preventing the spread of covet 19 out of concern that americans would snap up the

00:35:55.760 available stock and there would be none left for health care workers so he's just the latest person to admit this

00:36:02.240 um and

00:36:04.080 i guess most people are okay with it it seems like from the reaction they're admitting that they lied to

00:36:11.840 the public and by their own logic put the public in danger from those lies

00:36:20.000 because they thought that we couldn't handle the truth

00:36:24.160 how is that not an enormous scandal number four uh john bolton has a book out where he talks about some of the

00:36:31.280 stuff some of the stuff i don't care i don't care about this this is what i just don't care

00:36:42.880 i really don't i'm i'm i'm done with all this all the drama with trump and the personal feuds on both

00:36:50.720 sides i just don't care yeah i mean i get it okay we we know who trump is i'm not just i i get we get it

00:36:59.200 now i i personally for one i get it i don't need another book and john bolton some of the stuff he's

00:37:08.080 accusing trump of i really don't care at all to be honest with you but some of the stuff he's accusing

00:37:13.840 trump of sound you know if they actually happen sound like they'd be potentially criminal huge scandals

00:37:22.160 why didn't you say something when they happened if they actually did

00:37:24.880 why didn't you testify why didn't you say something you wait you wait until you're fired

00:37:31.680 and they waited wait another what year to put it in a book so you can sell a book off of it 1.00

00:37:36.960 so if it did actually happen then um that just makes you a horrible scumbag as well 0.97

00:37:46.240 one of the things he claims is that trump endorsed uh concentration camps in china i don't know if that 0.98

00:37:52.480 happened or not um that wouldn't be a crime on trump's part but it would be a big scandal

00:37:57.280 that's the kind if that actually happened and you're a man of integrity you you would come out

00:38:01.360 right away and say something about that while you're still in the administration right because

00:38:06.720 then you have some credibility then it's then it's not like you're a a spurned or employee or you know a

00:38:11.760 jilted it's it's not like that you're not you're not a disgruntled ex-employee

00:38:16.400 but no instead he he writes his little notebook supposedly and then brings it up uh a year later

00:38:24.480 so he can sell books off it and it's just and then trump is on hannity last night and he's and

00:38:28.800 he's tweeting and he's talking about john bolton no one cares about this this is not what's important

00:38:36.320 you know we don't care about your personal feuds mr president we care about the fact that the

00:38:41.840 country is falling apart at the seams that's what matters that should be your focus 100 of your

00:38:49.040 focus entirely nothing else number five finally variety has an article making the rounds uh the

00:38:57.040 headline 10 problematic films that could use warning labels so this is we know about gone with the wind

00:39:05.600 problematic film that now has a warning label on hbo max variety helpfully has suggested other

00:39:11.600 films that should use that should have warning labels uh they have uh what do they say they say

00:39:18.160 dirty harry should have a warning forrest gump it says forrest gump was made by intelligent people won

00:39:23.600 six oscars and is beloved by many while the film is condescending to anyone with a disability uh vietnam

00:39:29.280 vets and people with aids among others it's actually hostile to pro to protesters activists and counterculture

00:39:34.800 as a bonus lovable title character nathan bedford forrest was named after his grandfather the first

00:39:39.520 grand wizard of the klu klux klan so that's very problematic indiana jones and the temple of doom

00:39:44.480 is problematic needs a warning label steven spielberg and george lucas are generally compassionate

00:39:48.800 filmmakers but this film went a little too far in trying to replicate the mood of 1930s action serials

00:39:54.080 like those old movies the exotic villains are portrayed as primitive and bloodthirsty foreigners 1.00

00:39:59.040 resulting in negative and stereotypical depictions of india and of hindu customs

00:40:02.800 and then uh okay all right speaking of things nobody cares about how about this if you're the sort of

00:40:15.200 person who would get offended by indiana jones and the temple of doom or forrest gump uh if you're the

00:40:24.720 sort of person who would need a warning label on a film rather than us putting warning labels in all the 0.84

00:40:30.800 films why don't you just deport yourself to jupiter and leave the planet and never come back

00:40:40.880 i think that would be the best for all parties concerned

00:40:44.960 now we're going to go to our daily cancellation it's a very important one

00:40:48.080 before we do um if you're not already a daily wire member you should consider getting a reader's

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00:41:15.440 and i would highly recommend it now for our daily cancellation today on my birthday

00:41:19.040 i thought it was a perfect occasion to cancel cake i want to explain why um and this is by far the most

00:41:27.840 important issue i'm going to talk about today on the show so you need to pay attention you know the

00:41:32.800 other day i was talking to my wife and she said that she wanted to get me a cake for my birthday

00:41:38.640 and this is exactly the kind of microaggression that people around the world have been suffering for

00:41:43.920 too long every birthday is made to revolve around cake it's just assumed that if you have a celebratory

00:41:50.960 occasion birthday wedding retirement but whatever it is there's going to be a cake there should be a

00:41:56.960 cake what kind of cake do you want it's not even like do you want a cake it's what kind of cake is it

00:42:02.240 going to be there's the assumption of the cake the pro cake assumption is itself deeply problematic

00:42:10.320 meanwhile cake sits there confidently arrogantly on its on its lofty perch as humanity's celebratory

00:42:20.240 pastry of choice when in fact it is subpar okay sometimes outright bad most of the time acceptable

00:42:29.360 but not special it's kind of like the i don't know the the alex smith of pastries so let's be honest

00:42:34.720 honest and this this is what you can't deny this you have never had a great piece of cake in your

00:42:42.640 life you never have don't tell me that you have i know i know better than you do about what about

00:42:47.840 what's happened in your life and what you've what you've eaten okay so let me tell you you have never

00:42:52.960 had a great piece of cake maybe you've had pieces of cake that were great for cake by the standards of

00:42:59.760 cake they were great you've never had cake that was truly great that was that was that truly deserved

00:43:05.440 to be in the pantheon of your all-time great dessert experiences if you were to make a list of the 10

00:43:12.880 best desserts you've ever had nobody's birthday cake is going to be on the list unless you're mentally

00:43:20.400 disordered now so here's the thing you've had slices of pie that warranted those accolades you've

00:43:31.840 had brownies that did you've even had cookies that you maybe have had ice cream that did and yet those

00:43:38.960 don't get the recognition that cake gets and if somebody on his birthday say me for example uh wants

00:43:46.080 to have brownies instead of cake he sneered at mocked discriminated against belittled assaulted

00:43:55.840 killed i've seen it happen i've seen someone be murdered on their birthday for not having cake

00:44:02.880 happens all the time okay and i'm done with this so it's time to be honest it's time to confront the

00:44:09.280 truth cake is okay not special not sufficient for birthday celebrations what does it tell you

00:44:17.120 here's all the proof you need here's all the evidence you need what does it tell you that the

00:44:21.760 actual cake part of the cake has to be slathered in sugary disgusting icing nobody has a cake without

00:44:29.280 icing why is that i mean the cake the actual cake is the cake i mean the icing is just uh is just uh

00:44:34.960 an added supposed to be an added bonus icing on the cake they say right that's where the

00:44:39.920 but nobody's just gonna have the cake why is it because the cake is not that great

00:44:45.440 cake has been skating by for far too long like this and i've had enough i don't want to hear

00:44:52.000 excuses like well cake can be decorated uh you could put candles on cake those are aesthetic factors i'm

00:44:59.520 talking about taste i'm talking about what the food actually tastes like i mean i could put a can

00:45:03.440 i could put a a candle on my desk does that mean i'm going to eat my desk in fact you know there's

00:45:11.280 so many so many of the cakes i've had are so stale that i might as well be eating a desk and that's

00:45:15.200 the other problem that in order for cake to be even just passably good the person making it needs to be

00:45:25.200 an expert chef most people don't know how to make it and and even then expert chef the best you could

00:45:31.760 hope for is a b minus c plus type of cake most people their cakes are you know d's e's and f's

00:45:39.920 because you have to be an expert to really make a good cake most attempts at making homemade cakes

00:45:43.680 end up disastrously most store-bought cakes are terrible

00:45:46.800 so i don't know how many times i've been at someone's birthday party uh they serve me a cake

00:45:54.080 i take one bite i throw it directly at their head and say what the hell is this get this out of my 1.00

00:46:00.400 face what are you doing giving me this go to hell you scumbag it's a whole scene you know cops are called 1.00

00:46:08.080 everything this could be avoided if we did birthday pie birthday chocolate chip cookies birthday brownies 0.99

00:46:17.200 even a birthday donut would be better as long as it's not from dunkin donuts which is also cancelled

00:46:24.480 for being revolting uh and there we go that's my that's why cake is cancelled i'm glad we could

00:46:32.400 finally have this much needed discussion and uh of course in uh conclusion happy birthday to

00:46:40.560 myself i'll talk to you guys tomorrow godspeed

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 18, 2020

Ep. 507 - Rayshard Brooks Was A Violent Criminal, Not A Victim

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