The Matt Walsh Show - July 24, 2020


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


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

174.19774

Word Count

8,052

Sentence Count

554

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The claim that racist police are prowling the streets looking for black men to murder is absurd on its face and even more absurd when you look at the facts. Despite all the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year.


Transcript

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.
00:00:53.300 Um, it's now, I think, been pretty well publicized, at least in some corners,
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
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
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,
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
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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
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
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
00:16:42.220 now. So those are the other eight. No reasonable person could describe, no reasonable person could
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
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.
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
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
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.
00:24:48.240 I walked back out and there were reporters in the front of the Capitol and in front of reporters,
00:24:55.220 representative Yoho called me and I quote, a f***ing b***h. These are the words that representative
00:25:02.920 Yoho levied against a congresswoman, the congresswoman that not only represents New York's 14th congressional
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.
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
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
00:27:13.780 everywhere. In fact, I'm guessing that well over half the women in the country, or at least half,
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
00:31:11.800 filth out again on bond, I believe. And he murders three people. So, you know, I say again,
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
00:31:51.260 and then are let go. And then they commit another crime. Let go again, commit another crime. They
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
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
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
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
00:38:14.100 from their, from their heads. And, uh, and then whichever queen emerges will then go and murder the other
00:38:20.120 baby Queens seizing power and beginning her reign of terror. And that's the whole reason I like these
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
00:45:14.920 Uh, something for us all to think about and reflect on. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for
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