The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 528 - When The Media Says An ＂Unarmed＂ Man Was Shot By Cops, It's Usually A Lie

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we're told, of course, that many unarmed black men have been

00:00:03.280 killed by police, are killed by police every year. This is a claim that is extremely misleading

00:00:08.160 on multiple levels, and today I want to give you the real facts about that claim. Also,

00:00:13.680 five headlines, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having a temper tantrum on the House floor

00:00:17.760 because someone called her a mean name. She decided to take quite a bit of time to talk

00:00:22.860 about the mean name she was called. And in our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel the

00:00:26.460 football team in Washington, as they are now known. They got rid of Redskins because it was

00:00:31.900 offensive, but they replaced it with a name that is even more offensive, and that's why they're

00:00:36.660 canceled. We'll talk about all of that coming up. You know, I've already made the case that systemic

00:00:41.060 racism in law enforcement is a myth. The claim that racist police are prowling the streets searching

00:00:46.980 for black men to murder is absurd on its face, and then even absurder when you look at the facts. 1.00

00:00:53.300 Um, it's now, I think, been pretty well publicized, at least in some corners, 0.99

00:00:57.900 that despite all the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, uh, allegedly race-based

00:01:04.800 police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year.

00:01:10.560 Um, but an even closer look at the data and a study of, of, of each quote-unquote unarmed killing

00:01:18.920 reveals that the real number of unjustified police shootings of actual unarmed people,

00:01:27.460 black, white, or any other race, is much, much smaller than it even first appears.

00:01:34.620 Now, first of all, um, because this is, this is important to put everything into perspective.

00:01:40.480 I think it's helpful to begin with, and I haven't seen enough people do this.

00:01:44.080 Let's begin with the overall number of arrests. Now, according to the DOJ, they do keep track of

00:01:51.040 this information. And from what I found on the website, they don't have the exact information

00:01:56.540 for 2019 yet, but you can go back over the last, I don't know, 20 years or more and look at it.

00:02:01.200 Uh, so based on that, you look at an average, it's, you could see that police make about 10 million

00:02:07.380 arrests every year of black, white, um, all races. As a rough average, uh, 7 million whites and 3

00:02:17.800 million blacks are arrested, or I suppose I should say, cause there are going to be repeat offenders.

00:02:22.340 So there are 7 million arrests of white suspects and 3 million arrests of black suspects. Uh, now 0.79

00:02:28.480 black apparently includes Hispanics, by the way, just by, by the way they tabulate this information

00:02:32.820 on the DOJ website. Um, and that's, that's how you get most of the 10 million figures.

00:02:39.200 Now, out of that number last year, 25 unarmed whites were killed by police compared to 14

00:02:48.120 unarmed blacks killed by police, according to the Washington post database of police shootings.

00:02:53.100 This means that about 0.0004% of all blacks arrested were killed while unarmed.

00:03:02.820 Um, and that percentage for whites is, is pretty much exactly the same. It's, it's definitely 0.99

00:03:09.120 comparable in total. You've got a thousand people who were shot and killed by police in 2019,

00:03:13.880 the, the vast majority of whom were armed, but still that's a mere 0.01% of all arrests that lead

00:03:21.880 to, uh, the killing of the suspect. Now the numbers aren't going to be exactly the same every year.

00:03:28.520 Of course, for example, the post says that 22 unarmed blacks were killed in 2017 compared with

00:03:34.920 31 whites, but the percentage doesn't change very much. So that 0.0004% is, is basically where we're

00:03:43.260 at every year. Now, also we should acknowledge that the numbers vary depending on what source you use.

00:03:49.520 Not everybody's going to say the same thing. U S to USA today, for example,

00:03:52.780 cites a crowdsourced database, um, that has 25 unarmed black killings in 2019 post says 14,

00:04:03.860 this, this database says 25. However, you look at the individual cases, which is what you have to do.

00:04:09.100 And most people don't have the time or don't take the time to do it. And this is one of the reasons

00:04:13.140 why the media is so easily can mislead us. Um, but you take that 25 number, you look at the,

00:04:18.600 you look at the actual cases, which I did, and you find that they count as police shootings,

00:04:24.460 any shooting involving a police officer on or off duty. So violence stemming from domestic disputes

00:04:31.580 or, you know, an off duty bar fight between two guys, this is going to make it onto their list.

00:04:37.080 I think, I think that clearly is not how you determine whether there's a systemic problem,

00:04:43.020 uh, of racial bias in law enforcement. We need to look at cases of uniformed police officers shooting

00:04:49.680 unarmed black people in the line of duty. We know that number is already quite low,

00:04:54.900 but a closer inspection of the actual cases shows that it's even lower than we think.

00:05:00.900 Um, and this is really important because it reveals that the whole category of unarmed shootings

00:05:07.700 is extremely misleading. And I think intentionally so now I read into all 14 cases included in the

00:05:16.300 post 2019 database. Um, a few of those cases were straightforwardly unjustified. Uh, Tatiana

00:05:23.980 Jefferson was shot while sitting inside her mother's cell. We talked about this case actually when it

00:05:28.400 happened a few months ago. And, uh, the officers were responding to a call from a neighbor who was

00:05:34.440 concerned that there, that there might've been a break in at, uh, uh, you know, at, at the house,

00:05:39.620 the door was left open. It was the middle of the night. I'm not sure if the neighbor saw anything

00:05:43.940 else that made them think there was a break in, but officer Aaron Dean shows up. He's peering into

00:05:48.600 the, into the windows in the dark spots. Jefferson screams for her to show her hands, 0.96

00:05:54.100 doesn't identify himself as a police officer. So who knows what she's thinking? She could think that

00:05:58.480 this is, you know, who knows who it is. Just someone outside of her window with a gun telling her,

00:06:02.040 put her hands up. Um, she doesn't respond right away. So he shoots her. Now Dean has been charged

00:06:07.280 with murder. It's a, as I think as well, he should be. It's a horrible case. It's outrageous

00:06:11.840 behavior by Dean. Um, but it hardly amounts to systemic racism all on its own. And there's no

00:06:18.520 reason to think that this is, that this is even an isolated case of racism. There's no reason to

00:06:22.260 think that Dean was, did this because he's racist. It seems that he could hardly even see who he was

00:06:27.460 shooting, which makes it, which, which, which makes his behavior all the more egregious because

00:06:32.840 he couldn't even see what he was doing. And he's still shooting into a house, but also it means

00:06:37.280 probably not racism. Um, officer Carmen DeCruz in Texas fatally shot a man named Michael Dean.

00:06:44.880 Body cam footage apparently shows that DeCruz accidentally discharged his firearm while he was

00:06:49.160 trying to confiscate, um, Dean's car keys during a traffic stop, stopped him, uh, told him to turn the

00:06:56.520 car off. I guess he was hesitant to turn it off. So then, uh, DeCruz tried to reach in. He had his

00:07:01.760 gun drawn, tried to reach in, take the car keys and, uh, accidentally discharged the weapon and killed

00:07:08.000 Dean. Um, and, uh, and he's being charged with manslaughter for that. Both of these cases are clearly

00:07:14.960 unjustified. These are, are obviously people who should not have been killed. It's a horrible tragedy.

00:07:20.560 Both of the officers received criminal charges appropriate for the offense.

00:07:24.440 Most of the rest of the cases, however, so those are the pretty clear cut ones and they're two,

00:07:32.480 two. Okay. The entire year out of 3 million arrests, two that were clearly absolutely unjustified.

00:07:43.380 Um, and then when you go on from there, you get to some cases that are questionable, not,

00:07:49.080 but questionable, but not quite as, as, uh, as clear cut. Christopher Whitfield was shot,

00:07:53.940 allegedly during a scuffle with police after trying to steal from a convenience store.

00:07:58.100 The sheriff's, the sheriff's office claims that, uh, the shooting was accidental.

00:08:02.300 Police came, they chased him. There was a scuffle. And, uh, and then, and then, uh,

00:08:08.000 Whitfield was killed. A grand jury cleared the officer of any criminal wrongdoing in that case.

00:08:12.820 Joseph Richardson of Louisiana was shot by officer Vance, uh, Matranga Jr. During a no-knock raid,

00:08:19.000 raid at a motel, a budget seven motel. Uh, this was a drug raid. They come in. Richardson was unarmed.

00:08:26.040 He was shot in the back of the head. Deputies on the scene said that Richardson turned and reached

00:08:30.300 for his waistband. Um, the officer in that case was not charged with a crime. Officer Giovanni Crespo

00:08:35.900 was indicted for aggravated manslaughter for shooting Gregory Griffin during a car chase.

00:08:41.360 Crespo says that he thought Griffin pointed a gun at him. Um, body cam footage shows Crespo actually

00:08:46.180 jump out of his police cruiser on multiple occasions. Somebody else was driving. His partner

00:08:50.700 was driving and fire multiple shots at the fleeing vehicle, killing Griffin eventually. Um, officer

00:08:57.440 Sung Kim shot and killed Jimmy Atchison while trying to arrest him for allegedly stealing a, uh, a cell

00:09:03.640 phone at gunpoint. Atchison was backed into a broom closet and then came out and was killed. Okay.

00:09:10.460 So then we have six shootings. They range from outrageous, the Jefferson shooting to questionable,

00:09:19.680 but these are still only six out of the approximately 3 million black suspects arrested in 2019.

00:09:28.160 Half of the officers have been charged with crimes. So it's not as though cops are given legal license

00:09:33.620 to kill on a whim. Uh, despite what we're told, that's not the case. When you've got a clear cut case

00:09:40.100 of cop murdering somebody or committing manslaughter, most of the time there's going to be criminal

00:09:44.600 charges. Only one of these cases though is murder. Two might be manslaughter. You could potentially

00:09:49.800 make an argument for manslaughter in, in, in, in the other three cases, though the officers weren't

00:09:54.120 charged or were cleared by comparison, 48 police officers, police officers were victims of felony

00:10:03.340 murder in the line of duty during the same year. So you've got one felony murder of an unarmed

00:10:09.540 black, uh, person and 48 felony murders of police officers in the line of duty.

00:10:18.920 And at any rate, whatever you say about whatever else you say about those six cases in none of these

00:10:24.540 cases, is there any reason whatsoever to suspect racial bias? The last officer I mentioned wasn't

00:10:30.720 even white. Um, but there were 14 unarmed shootings. Remember so far we have accounted for six. What about

00:10:38.420 the other eight? This is where the unarmed designation really confuses matters. And this is, this is the

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00:12:02.060 know that we sent you. Okay. 14 unarmed shootings. We talked about six so far. There are eight

00:12:08.360 more. Um, and this is where this is the really important part because it shows that when you

00:12:17.100 hear unarmed person killed by police many times, perhaps most of the time, at least in 2019, this

00:12:25.360 was the case. Most of the time, the person is not really unarmed. Melvin Watkins was shot by a

00:12:33.820 sheriff's deputy after Watkins family called 9-1-1 to report that he'd become violent and they feared

00:12:40.220 for their safety there. Watkins family was gathered in a home for some sort of party, some sort of

00:12:44.940 gathering. They didn't want Watkins to come because they knew he was volatile and violent. Apparently,

00:12:51.040 um, from what I understand, he tried to get into the house with a, with a, with a screwdriver.

00:12:56.660 They called police. Police came. Officers arrived on the scene. At that point, Watkins allegedly tried

00:13:03.920 to run them over with his car and was shot. Multiple witnesses and video support this version of events.

00:13:11.140 Knoxville police officer Dylan Williams was cleared of any wrongdoing by the DA after fatally shooting

00:13:16.980 Channera Feepe last year. Five eyewitnesses plus video evidence and dash cam, um, uh, footage

00:13:25.720 confirmed that Feepe assaulted Williams, choked him, grabbed his taser and used it on him and then was

00:13:31.840 killed. Ryan Twyman was shot by police attempting to arrest him for possession of illegal firearms in

00:13:37.300 June of 2019. Um, there's security camera footage of this case too. It shows Twyman, uh, they, they,

00:13:43.220 they go to his apartment complex. They're looking to arrest him illegal firearms. Um, he's in his car

00:13:49.440 trying to get away. They catch him in the parking pad. They're trying to get him out of the car

00:13:54.860 and he starts to drive while one of the officers has his door open and it's trapped behind his door.

00:14:02.340 So he's, he's driving and the officers is, is, is backing up quickly because he's trapped behind the

00:14:07.340 door. The other officer on the scene, fearing for his partner life's partner's life opens fire

00:14:13.100 and kills Twyman. Um, Kevin Pudlik killed by police during a car chase. The driver of the car

00:14:20.040 that public was in public wasn't driving his, his friend or cohort Christopher Lee Calvin was driving

00:14:26.280 nearly pinned an officer between the car and a concrete wall at one point. Another point he was

00:14:32.140 gunning for an officer. Um, and the, the other police officers on the scene believed that he was

00:14:37.100 intentionally trying to hit them. Cops on the scene finally opened fire and, uh, and, and Pudlik was

00:14:43.360 killed. Um, uh, Christopher Lee Calvin is the one being charged with public's death, not the police

00:14:51.380 officer. Isaiah Lewis, uh, call the, who the media would call an unarmed black teenager shot by police.

00:14:59.440 Only in this case, he pounced on an officer and knocked him unconscious. And at that point was shot

00:15:07.320 by another police officer, Marcus McVeigh called by a local news article that I found described him as

00:15:15.180 a renowned criminal. Um, and I guess because he had a bevy of, of criminal offenses, you know,

00:15:22.620 attract, you know, a rap sheet, as long as the Bible, including assault on a public servant.

00:15:27.160 He'd committed many crimes in the past. He was killed by police after assaulting an officer during

00:15:31.460 a foot chase. They tried to pull him over. He got out of the car, ran into the woods. He was pursued

00:15:36.100 when the officer followed him into the woods. He assaulted the officer and was shot in the struggle.

00:15:41.220 Marzuz Scott can be seen on body cam footage, attacking a female police officer was trying to 0.67

00:15:46.400 arrest him after he assaulted a store clerk moments before the footage clearly shows that the officer

00:15:51.760 was knocked to the ground by Scott and that she tried to use a taser, but that didn't stop him.

00:15:56.480 And she had no choice but to resort to her firearm. Finally, Kevin Mason of Baltimore

00:16:00.320 was shot by police responding to a domestic violence call. Uh, a woman in the house feared

00:16:06.400 for her safety because of Kevin Mason called the police, the police show up. Mason sent dogs after

00:16:11.980 the officers. When that didn't scare them off, Mason called nine one one threatened to blast them

00:16:17.460 quote unquote, and quote, kill every last one of them talking about the police officers. Then when 0.78

00:16:22.640 Mason, uh, emerged from his house a second time, an officer justifiably believing Mason to be a

00:16:27.720 lethal threat because he said he was a lethal threat, open fire. They didn't find any firearm

00:16:32.780 in the house. When they looked later, whose fault is that? Uh, you, you called nine one one and say,

00:16:38.420 I'm going to kill all these police officers and then come out of your house. You're going to get shot 1.00

00:16:42.220 now. So those are the other eight. No reasonable person could describe, no reasonable person could 0.99

00:16:52.280 describe any of the eight cases I just listed as cold-blooded murder, much less racist murder.

00:16:58.900 These were violent criminals who were shot in most cases while in the act of physically attacking and

00:17:05.160 threatening the lives of police officers. None of them were truly unarmed either. Some of them were

00:17:11.540 using cars. One used a dog. Others use their, their hands and nearly succeeded in arming themselves

00:17:17.880 with the officer's weapon. This is what the media and BLM activists mean when they scream about the

00:17:24.560 epidemic of unarmed black men being killed by police. They mean that a very tiny fraction of black people 0.60

00:17:30.900 arrested by police are killed in the process, a very tiny fraction, and that an even tinier fraction

00:17:36.440 are unarmed at the time. And that an even tinier fraction of that fraction of the fraction actually

00:17:42.740 had no weapon of any kind because the majority of the unarmed did in fact have weapons. It just,

00:17:48.600 they don't count as weapons, um, in the official reports and the media don't count them as weapons

00:17:53.640 either. Now, when you look at it like that, it doesn't seem like there's much of an epidemic here at

00:17:59.000 all. Does there? In fact, there are a couple other things that you, you think when you read about

00:18:05.120 these cases. Number one, um, I think again, if you're reasonable, which is a big if these days,

00:18:14.600 you come away very impressed with police officers for the incredible restraint they so often use.

00:18:22.460 That, um, uh, the body cam footage of the, the female police officer, for example,

00:18:27.020 is perfect example of this. She's trying to apprehend the man who's violent and in a danger

00:18:34.440 to others. He assaulted a store clerk. The clerk, the clerk called the police. What else are you going

00:18:38.980 to do? The officer is like pleading with this man to just listen. She does everything she possibly

00:18:46.080 can, putting her say, putting her own life on the line to preserve this man's life. She does not run

00:18:54.240 up hoping to kill somebody. This is not how most police officers operate. Um, she only finally

00:19:03.160 resorted to lethal force because she had no choice because the violent criminal gave her no choice.

00:19:10.140 He was determined either he's going to die or she is. That's the way he was looking at this.

00:19:16.460 Why? I mean, what was the point? He assaulted a police, a store clerk for, for no reason. Why

00:19:22.900 did he have to do that? And then the police show up, you know, it's, I mean, I think that should

00:19:27.000 be a felony, but these days he probably wouldn't even been charged with a felony for it. He probably

00:19:30.660 would've gotten off with a misdemeanor. All he had to do was cooperate. He did commit a crime after

00:19:35.160 all. What is it? It's not like it's unreasonable for the police to show up and, and, and try to arrest

00:19:40.340 him. What else are you going to do? He assaulted someone. Are they going to say, Oh, you're fine. Go,

00:19:43.580 go for it. This man did everything in his power to get himself killed. 0.99

00:19:50.900 And this, as you can see, it's pretty common in these cases. And most of the time, the officers

00:19:57.660 do everything they can. The other officer, the one, uh, I think it was the Isaiah Lewis,

00:20:03.360 um, case that officer there was so reluctant to use lethal force that he got knocked unconscious.

00:20:11.660 Thank God the other, there was another officer nearby to save his life. I mean, what do you

00:20:15.700 think Isaiah Lewis is going to do after he knocks the police officer unconscious? What

00:20:18.920 do you think he's going to do next? You know, put a blanket on him and, and, and tell him

00:20:24.000 night, night. No, he's going to kill him. Um, but that officer so reluctant to use lethal 0.99

00:20:31.440 force doing everything he can that he, that he ends up getting knocked unconscious in the

00:20:35.220 process. I mean, he should have used lethal force earlier. Did he? So that's what you take

00:20:40.760 away from this is, is actually being very impressed with the restraint that police officers usually

00:20:44.440 show. Um, and when there's a police officer who is, is way on the other end of the spectrum,

00:20:51.260 who has an outrageous lack of restraint, that is pretty damn rare. And in those cases, there's,

00:20:59.120 uh, you know, universal condemnation and those officers end up going to jail most of the time.

00:21:05.920 Just like the officer that shot Jefferson is probably going to go to jail as well. He should.

00:21:11.300 One other quick thing that you take from this is, uh, when you, when you hear about these cases,

00:21:15.440 what do you think is going to happen when we defund police? Who's responding to these calls in these

00:21:23.280 calls that, you know, the, the eight that I just read, especially most of the time, these are,

00:21:28.120 you know, uh, relatively, uh, run of the mill. They, they begin as run of the mill, uh, calls

00:21:38.520 for police, you know, a domestic violence thing. Unfortunately that's run of the mill, uh, shouldn't

00:21:42.800 be, but it is, um, trying to pull someone over for a traffic violation, you know, just responding to

00:21:50.600 an assault or a scuffle or something like that. Just run of the mill cops show up, turns into a deadly

00:21:56.560 encounter just like that. And not because the cops want it to, but because the criminal, the violent

00:22:01.620 criminal has decided to take it there. What are you going to do if they're not, what are you going

00:22:05.640 to have social workers? What's going to happen? All those officers, the, in the Isaiah Lewis case,

00:22:11.140 let's say those were social workers responding and not officers. Rather than having one dead violent

00:22:17.180 criminal of, by the name of Isaiah Lewis, we probably have about four or five dead social workers.

00:22:21.860 So when you look at the actual facts, you see that the leftist narrative across the board utterly falls

00:22:32.980 apart, which is why we have to look at the facts and not take their word for it. Okay. Now we're going

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00:22:52.140 at Benham brothers.com slash Walsh. So representative Yoho of Florida, a few days ago, got into a bit of

00:22:59.360 a heated exchange with representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside of the Capitol building

00:23:05.180 in Washington. And in this exchange, Yoho was mad at Cortez for specifically for some of the stuff

00:23:11.080 she's been saying about the rioting and chaos and the violence and how she tried to claim that all

00:23:15.220 this is happening because people just want bread for their families. And, um, he say,

00:23:19.900 Yoho said to Cortez, you're out of your freaking mind. Um, which, you know, you could see why he 0.97

00:23:26.460 would think that. And then she called him rude. And as they left parted ways, Yoho said of Cortez,

00:23:35.200 but I don't think to her, but said it sort of under his breath as he was walking away,

00:23:38.980 effing B word. Only he didn't say effing B word. He said the words themselves.

00:23:43.680 That was overheard by a reporter. So you may not believe it, but we should note that Yoho was asked

00:23:49.280 about it and his response was no comment. And then the guy he was walking with another lawmaker

00:23:54.120 was asked what happened. And here's, here was his response. He said, I was actually thinking as I

00:24:00.800 was walking down the stairs, I was thinking about some issues I've got in my district that need to

00:24:04.380 get done. I don't know what their topic was. There's always a topic, isn't there? So that's a good,

00:24:08.900 that's a good friend folks. That's a, he ain't snitching. Um, I just love that his excuse is

00:24:13.660 that he didn't hear the argument because he was just so immersed in thinking about his district

00:24:18.160 and wanting to help the folks back home. Um, you know, totally believable. Of course,

00:24:23.500 great stuff there. Now this is all a setup to tell you about the only part of this that concerns

00:24:29.660 anyone. Really Cortez decided to spend time on the floor of the house, pandemic going on,

00:24:36.240 chaos in the street, country in turmoil. She decides to waste taxpayers, payers time on the

00:24:41.980 house floor, complaining about the mean words that someone said to her. Uh, here she is. 1.00

00:24:48.240 I walked back out and there were reporters in the front of the Capitol and in front of reporters, 0.99

00:24:55.220 representative Yoho called me and I quote, a f***ing b***h. These are the words that representative 0.97

00:25:02.920 Yoho levied against a congresswoman, the congresswoman that not only represents New York's 14th congressional 0.98

00:25:11.280 district, but every congresswoman and every woman in this country, because all of us have had to deal

00:25:18.520 with this in some form, some way, some shape at some point in our lives. This issue is not about one

00:25:27.600 incident. It is cultural. It is a culture of lack of impunity, of accepting of violence and violent

00:25:36.580 language against women in an entire structure of power that supports that. And that went on for almost

00:25:43.600 10 minutes. Get over it. He said a bad word. This isn't nine 11. Okay. It's not a national tragedy.

00:25:52.520 We don't need your 10 minute speech about someone saying something mean to you.

00:25:59.880 This doesn't concern anyone, but the two people involved. No one else cares. Why should anyone

00:26:04.840 else care? What possible relevance is it? You guys got into an argument. He called you a bad word. Okay.

00:26:10.720 Hey, you know, sorry. I, what do you want? And no, Yoho was not using abusive language towards women.

00:26:18.840 You know, she's trying to turn this into an attack on all women. It's not an attack on all women. 1.00

00:26:22.460 He wasn't abusing. He wasn't using abusive language towards, towards women. He was using

00:26:27.820 abusive language towards one particular woman. It was an attack on one. It was a personal attack on

00:26:34.460 one particular individual. It was not an attack on all women everywhere, a personal attack.

00:26:40.740 And that's relevant because personal attack means deal with it on your own time, deal with it on your

00:26:46.400 personal time. Go talk to him and tell him that he hurts your feelings. That's fine. It's, it's not

00:26:51.580 something that everyone needs to hear about. I mean, this, this, this whole thing that we get

00:26:55.940 from, especially from liberal women, anytime they're insulted or attacked, this is an assault on all 1.00

00:27:02.140 women everywhere. No, it's not. He just doesn't like you. I'm not defending what he said, not saying it

00:27:07.420 was the right thing to say, but this concerns you and him. You're not a representative for all women 0.86

00:27:13.780 everywhere. In fact, I'm guessing that well over half the women in the country, or at least half, 0.94

00:27:20.220 would, would, would, would say that you don't quite represent them or their values. I, I, I feel pretty

00:27:26.620 safe saying that there are millions of women in this country who do not consider Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:27:30.900 to be a representative of them. And then, and then of course, you know, she, she, during this

00:27:37.140 soliloquy, she, uh, proceeds to act as though, you know, this, this never happens to men's,

00:27:43.680 you know, this, this is happens to women far too often. We get it. Yeah. Okay. Men get insulted

00:27:48.560 too all the time. Okay. Men get called sexually degrading names also. Um, and, uh, you know,

00:27:55.280 it's even actually more acceptable in society to do that. So, you know, it really happens to

00:27:59.280 everybody, not a huge deal, deal with it on your own time. Um, number two, president Trump at a press

00:28:07.540 conference yesterday said something that people of course are upset about as usual, but tell me

00:28:12.080 what's wrong with this. Take a listen. If schools do not reopen the fundings, you go to parents to

00:28:19.380 send their child to public, private charter, religious, or homeschool of their choice. The

00:28:26.660 keyword being choice. Yeah. You want to talk about defunding things? Well, if it's, if there is a

00:28:32.720 certain service that the government refused, refuses to render, then we shouldn't be funding

00:28:38.000 that service. Money shouldn't be going. I shouldn't be paying for a service that the government will not

00:28:43.740 provide. Now, as a homeschool parent and a taxpayer, I'm already paying for educational services that I

00:28:50.100 don't use, which is bad enough as it is. But if, if it's a service that no one can use because the

00:28:55.860 government refuses to fully provide it, then it shouldn't be funded. We shouldn't have to pay for

00:29:00.780 it. I think that's pretty simple. Number three, a horrible case in Florida. Three friends out on a

00:29:04.620 fishing trip were murdered, um, by a man named Tony Wiggins, Tony TJ Wiggins. Wiggins had two

00:29:10.620 accomplices, but it seems that he's the one who led this thing and pulled the trigger. Now this is pretty

00:29:16.940 chilling. Um, there's CCTV footage, not of the murder, but of what happened 10 minutes before.

00:29:22.320 Okay. Damien Tillman, one of the victims, along with two of his friends were killed on a fishing

00:29:28.160 trip, um, ran into a convenience store on the way to, uh, you know, to, to their fishing spot,

00:29:34.760 pick up a few things. And there, uh, Tillman ran into Wiggins and they had a, an exchange and you

00:29:42.380 would think that, okay, this is going to be an exchange of them having an argument or some kind of,

00:29:47.060 uh, fight or something. And then that led to violence, but no, uh, that's actually not what

00:29:53.640 happened. Watch this. You know, you can't hear what they're saying, but you can see the exchange

00:29:56.940 there. So you see, this is appears to be, and, uh, I believe the store clerk confirmed just a

00:30:03.340 friendly conversation they're having. Um, they had a friendly exchange, no argument, completely polite

00:30:08.800 and normal or so it seemed. But as Tillman left Wiggins and his brother and, and, uh, his girlfriend

00:30:15.480 follow them in their truck, track them to a spot in the woods where they were going and then murdered

00:30:21.680 all three of them. Apparently there was some story Wiggins had about how one of the friends had

00:30:26.320 stolen a car engine or, or, or something like that. Um, that was the pretense for the murder.

00:30:33.140 I don't know if there's any evidence that any theft occurred, not that it matters at all. This was

00:30:37.960 cold-blooded execution for no real reason. Now here's the point to take home from this aside from

00:30:44.640 how evil and tragic it is. Wiggins had 230 felonies. No, that's not, I'm not misreading that 230 felonies

00:30:55.180 on his record. 15 convictions had already been to state prison twice. And many of his convictions

00:31:00.880 were for violent crimes. These weren't all drug crimes. Okay. These were assaulting police

00:31:05.400 officers, assaulting the elderly among others. And yet here is this scumbag, this evil satanic 1.00

00:31:11.800 filth out again on bond, I believe. And he murders three people. So, you know, I say again, 1.00

00:31:21.260 we talk about criminal justice reform. Oh, we need criminal justice reform. We do need criminal

00:31:25.640 justice reform, but that is reform that keeps dangerous criminals in prison. That's the real

00:31:32.260 problem we have with our justice system. It's not that a bunch of innocent people are going to jail.

00:31:36.820 Now that does happen, but it's not happening on a large scale. I'll tell you what is happening on a

00:31:40.260 large scale. Dangerous parasites are sent to prison because they commit, you know, violent crime 0.97

00:31:51.260 and then are let go. And then they commit another crime. Let go again, commit another crime. They 1.00

00:31:57.780 just keep, they, they keep filtering them back into the community until eventually they do something

00:32:04.020 so horrible that now the system has no choice, but to keep them behind bars. You shouldn't get 15

00:32:10.060 chances. Okay. Number four, America magazine, which is a Jesuit publication has this article today,

00:32:17.680 uh, an article, which proves my point that all Jesuits should be excommunicated. Um, the article

00:32:24.260 is, uh, the article is titled the crucifixion of George Floyd. Yes. Crucifixion of George Floyd.

00:32:32.540 Let me give you a little sampling, a little morsel of this. It says the parallels between particulars of

00:32:39.940 the, of the crucifixion most familiar to us as reported in the new Testament and that of George Floyd are

00:32:44.960 haunting it. No, it's not haunting because there are no parallels. There are zero parallels, but let's

00:32:52.060 see the argument they make here. It should be stressed at the outset that in 33 AD crucifixion

00:32:56.480 was not reserved for those who claim to be the son of God or the King of the Jews or who posed other

00:33:01.100 threats to the civil authority. It was the great show no mercy lesson to thieves, murderers, and other

00:33:06.360 criminals. The authorities wanted to punish in the most degrading way possible. Jesus was laid on the

00:33:11.000 ground and be nailed to the cross. George Floyd was laid down on the ground and pinned by Derek Chauvin's

00:33:16.300 knee on his neck. As time passed, Jesus suffered from thirst. George Floyd asked for water. Both

00:33:22.540 Jesus and George Floyd were repeatedly mocked by their killers. Jesus cried out to his father and

00:33:27.900 George Floyd called for his mother. Shortly before he lost consciousness, he said, I'm through. I'm

00:33:33.240 through. In other words, it is finished. The story of Christ's crucifixion was not written down for

00:33:39.180 almost half a century. In our time, to a great credit, the crucifixion of George Floyd was 0.99

00:33:43.060 instantaneously touched and galvanized the nation and beyond. Daddy changed the world, his six-year-old

00:33:48.060 daughter said. At the funeral service for George Floyd in Houston, Texas, Sam Cooke's great civil

00:33:52.240 rights anthem, A Change Is Gonna Come, rang out. Seeing it through, all the way, whatever it takes,

00:33:58.100 now falls to us, the living. I mean, this is, I mean, what else can be said about this kind of thing

00:34:05.280 that I haven't already said? Literal, literal canonization and more of George Floyd.

00:34:14.400 And by the way, I know I have to, I shouldn't have to tell, this is, you know, supposed to be

00:34:18.780 a Christian magazine, but these are Jesuits, so I do have to say that George Floyd, when he said,

00:34:27.060 I'm through, I'm through, yeah, he meant, I'm gonna die. When, when Jesus said, it is finished,

00:34:33.420 he meant his saving act was finished. So this had a much deeper meaning than just,

00:34:39.400 I'm gonna die. And many other differences as well. I mean, I, that's just one, one difference

00:34:48.880 between the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and the death of George Floyd, which

00:34:55.700 I think has been well-established by now, is a sad thing and unjust. And fortunately, it's in the

00:35:07.400 courts now, it's in the hands of the court, as it should be. All of that is true. It's also true

00:35:14.120 that George Floyd was not a good man, to put it mildly. This was a man who

00:35:19.700 forced his way into a woman's home, robbed her at gunpoint in her home in front of her child.

00:35:28.740 An unspeakably violent, evil act George Floyd committed, among other crimes.

00:35:36.580 Does that mean that he deserved to die? No. Okay. But it does mean that we should be very reluctant

00:35:42.760 to canonize him or turn him into Jesus Christ, or, you know, to, to memorialize him in a way

00:35:49.980 that celebrates the man he was, because there's not a lot to celebrate there.

00:35:57.580 So it, it, it requires a certain restraint that I think a lot of people these days are not

00:36:02.120 capable of. Um, if you're capable of just saying, he didn't deserve to die, this was a terrible thing,

00:36:10.800 uh, and you want to leave it at that. Fine. Agreed. You start going into this nonsense.

00:36:19.340 Okay. Now we have an issue and now it becomes necessary to bring up that, oh, by the way,

00:36:23.500 this was a man who committed a horrible act against the woman. Um, again, among other crimes,

00:36:29.640 number five, finally, a swarm of bees, uh, descended onto a beach in New Jersey. This is bee news. You know,

00:36:35.280 I have to, I have to hit it. The, they, uh, the, the bees gathered on the back of a chair,

00:36:39.780 about a beach towel. So there's the picture of it. And here's a local news report about this

00:36:45.280 incident. Watch new video showing a different kind of beach overcrowding in Cape May. That big

00:36:50.920 brown blob on the back of the beach chair is a swarm of bees. The stinging insects stormed the

00:36:56.480 sand yesterday. They were swarming around until they landed on a towel. A beekeeper wrapped them

00:37:01.220 in a towel, placed them in a box. And word is around there that the bees took flight when somebody

00:37:05.580 knocked the queen out of her nearby nest. So you mess with the queen, you mess with them all.

00:37:10.740 That's right. And you see there, that's why when we talk about first responders,

00:37:15.580 we should be talking about beekeepers too. I've always said this, my community,

00:37:20.920 we are also first responders. We are the first people who are called in any bee related emergency.

00:37:26.320 And we save many lives every year, thousands of lives, mostly bee lives, but, but still lives 1.00

00:37:33.640 are lives. All right. We're all equal. I believe that. And can I just say also, there's, there's

00:37:41.020 some misinformation in that report. Um, they didn't swarm because someone knocked the queen

00:37:45.620 out of a nest. All right. Bees swarm when the original hive is overcrowded. So the queen will take 1.00

00:37:50.760 about, you know, a third or so of the, of the workers. They go off to start a new hive.

00:37:53.980 They were looking for a new home. That's, that's why they were there. Okay. They had every right

00:37:58.040 to be there just like anybody else on the beach. Uh, the bees at the old hive will appoint a new

00:38:04.880 queen and actually they, they will, they don't really, they, they select a few larvae, um, and

00:38:09.560 they convert them into, into Queens by feeding them Royal jelly, which is the substance they secrete 0.97

00:38:14.100 from their, from their heads. And, uh, and then whichever queen emerges will then go and murder the other 1.00

00:38:20.120 baby Queens seizing power and beginning her reign of terror. And that's the whole reason I like these 0.96

00:38:26.100 really, because I can relate so much, um, to, to that and to their experiences in general,

00:38:33.100 in many ways. So a little bit of B news. That's good. Let's go to our daily cancellation before we 0.99

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00:39:33.500 join today. Okay. Today for our daily cancellation, I will be canceling the football team in Washington

00:39:38.480 and I'll explain why. Um, first of all, you know, that in this cultural moment that we currently are

00:39:46.280 in, um, where the racist origins of, of many things of everything is finally coming to bear.

00:39:53.620 Um, we talked a few days ago about the racist origins, for example, of sleep. Okay. Sleeping is

00:39:59.880 systemically racist. I don't know if you knew that. So in that environment, naming or renaming a sports

00:40:07.620 team is a hazardous pursuit that, that, that must be handled with the utmost care. Um, this is gonna

00:40:13.320 be very difficult to do without being racist. Obviously the professional sports team in Washington

00:40:17.520 had to get rid of the Redskins name. It was deeply offensive to white liberals and even a few Native

00:40:22.700 Americans perhaps, but the fear was always, here was my great fear. And I think I said this, this was a 0.80

00:40:29.180 case that I made. Okay. Get rid of the name. I'm worried that the new name might be more

00:40:36.720 dehumanizing than the old. That's the thought that's kept me up at night. And finally, my nightmare 0.98

00:40:44.760 scenario has become a reality. ESPN reports that the team formerly called the Redskins will at least

00:40:50.220 for the 2020 season officially call itself the Washington football team. That's the new name,

00:40:56.500 at least for now. And their logo is just a red background with yellow letters that says the

00:41:01.640 Washington football team established 1932. Now, needless to say, when I saw this for the first

00:41:07.880 time, I vomited. Um, what, what they had before was merely degrading racist and offensive. This new name 0.58

00:41:19.260 is traumatizing to a nearly lethal extent. I almost died when I first saw this.

00:41:27.380 First of all, let's go through the problems here. Right off the bat, obvious one here. Washington was

00:41:35.000 a slave owner. His name should not be found on a football helmet or anywhere else on earth.

00:41:40.160 Also, the word foot is inherently otherizing to those who identify as disabled. It invalidates their

00:41:48.560 lived experience and it relegates them further to the fringes of mainstream society. The word ball

00:41:55.060 obviously brings to mind anti-trans stereotypes, not to mention it marginalizes those who, uh,

00:42:01.620 marginalizes those who identify as two-dimensional. Now it's hard to even know where to begin with a,

00:42:08.200 with a slur like team. I can't believe that it's the year 2020 and anyone is calling themselves a team,

00:42:14.840 which for one thing is an anagram for meat. So are we just pretending that vegans don't exist now?

00:42:20.580 So we're just erasing their existence also? Also, the concept of team has sexist and patriarchal

00:42:28.060 roots evoking a time when women were not able to participate in team sports because they were

00:42:32.520 considered too fragile and weak. Now, 1932. So you think, you know, we've, we've, we've, it's bad

00:42:41.960 enough Washington football team. Um, that's the worst part. No, 1932, perhaps the most atrociously

00:42:48.300 offensive aspect of the entire revamped logo. Remember that Arabic numerals were appropriated

00:42:53.580 from Arab culture. And now they bring to mind the West history of colonization and violence against 0.86

00:42:58.660 black, black and brown bodies. Um, 1932 also happens to be the same year that Charles Lindbergh was

00:43:05.340 kidnapped, making the memorialization of this year, very traumatizing for, for trafficking victims.

00:43:11.840 Um, and of course, as, as everybody knows, I don't have to tell you, 1932 is also the year that

00:43:16.720 Mahatma Gandhi began his hunger strike against the British new caste separation laws, which is an

00:43:21.640 event that Hindus still solemnly remember and celebrate today. I assume by claiming 1932 on

00:43:28.140 their logo, Washington is ruthlessly appropriating from Indian culture and erasing Gandhi's legacy at

00:43:34.040 the same time. Um, now on the plus side, of course, the great depression did impoverish a lot of white 0.76

00:43:39.340 people in 1932. So that's good, but it's not nearly enough to balance everything out here.

00:43:44.220 If Washington wants to pick a name that will not minimize, marginalize, otherize, dehumanize,

00:43:51.080 patronize, problematize, criticize, villainize, or vaporize any protected class or minority group,

00:43:56.160 it could go with something like the Saris, um, with a mascot of a tearful white man,

00:44:02.860 prostrating himself and humiliated submission. Okay. That would be good. If they're not ready to take

00:44:09.460 a very socially conscious step like that, then I think the next best option would be a name that

00:44:14.740 is nothing more than incomprehensible sounds mixed together. Like, um, you know, I mean,

00:44:21.600 really anything just as long as it's not a real word, just, uh, like the, the, the, ah,

00:44:27.200 for example, or even, uh, the Flindershins, you know, which I kind of like actually, not that the

00:44:36.660 Flindershins has a, has a ring to it, just something that there's no, there's no word. It's

00:44:42.340 not associated with anything. And then people can create their own associations with it.

00:44:48.480 Um, really anything would be better than the old name or the new one. Though I fear that whatever

00:44:56.060 name they ultimately choose, um, whatever it is, the emotional damage has already been done.

00:45:06.560 And so that's why they are canceled with great prejudice. We'll leave it there for the week.

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