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Speaker 3: In New York City, there was a march on Wall
Speaker 3: Street today sponsored by the group Occupy Wall Street and
Speaker 3: oddly enough sunny.
Speaker 2: D for extreme protest thirst. The Occupy Wall Street movement has.
Speaker 3: Basically been a four week downtown Manhattan live in which
Speaker 3: has spread the cities all around the country, causing the
Speaker 3: media to move its coverage dial from blackout to circus.
Speaker 3: It's about those are the only two settings it has.
Speaker 3: Intrepid reporters from all the major networks, and CNN went
Speaker 3: down to talk with the protesters.
Speaker 2: Of course, the reporters.
Speaker 3: Changed into their undercover twenty one Jump Street outfits.
Speaker 2: What's up? Protesters? Mind if she relaxed with you, n
Speaker 2: HD because the aspect ratio on the shots, it'll be
Speaker 2: why are the protesters there? Well?
Speaker 3: The answers ranged from extremely earnest college roommate to powerful
Speaker 3: and kajent.
Speaker 4: What do you guys want bring attention to the pervasive
Speaker 4: influence that corporations have in the political process?
Speaker 2: What do we as Americans agree on? What do we
Speaker 2: do about it?
Speaker 5: We the people are here to take the.
Speaker 6: Power back now after thirty years of having our living
Speaker 6: standards decrease, while the luckiest four percent have had it
Speaker 6: better than ever.
Speaker 7: I think it's time for maybe, I don't know, some
Speaker 7: participation in our democracy.
Speaker 3: Geam that brought game.
Speaker 2: You know what he's saying, what's up tea party?
Speaker 3: I see your track corner hat and I raise you
Speaker 3: a Union soldier Kepi.
Speaker 2: So those are the protesters. Or to put their words
Speaker 2: another way, I.
Speaker 8: Think if you put every single left wing calls into
Speaker 8: a blender and hip power, this is the sludge you'd get.
Speaker 2: So one guy with a guitar and they asked.
Speaker 9: Him very hippie, like woodstock meets burning man meets people
Speaker 9: with absolutely no purpose.
Speaker 2: There are some of the most uninformed people. If you
Speaker 2: listen to them.
Speaker 10: They're all over the map demolition of capitalism.
Speaker 2: If we learn to share, we can all live in prosperity.
Speaker 11: All of those quotes could have been said in seventeen
Speaker 11: eighty nine France, before the French Revolution or the Russian Revolution,
Speaker 11: or with only slight modification, when the Nazis were coming
Speaker 11: to power. This is always the beginning of totalitarianism.
Speaker 3: This group is a laughable gang of disorganized, confused Nazis.
Speaker 3: This is an ill disciplined, highly trained, weed smoking fascist organization.
Speaker 3: But the protesters do have some surprising.
Speaker 12: Defe You know, the average American taxpayer knows that at
Speaker 12: the end of the day, they're going to be on
Speaker 12: the hook for the trillions and trillions of dollars that
Speaker 12: we're using to bail out these companies, some of whom
Speaker 12: have been irresponsible, and they are expressing their frustration, which
Speaker 12: I think is quintessentially American.
Speaker 3: Bravo, bravo Sean Hannity breaking ranks with your conservative friends.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a clip from two thousand and nine about
Speaker 3: the Tea Party. Ah, what does Sean Hannity think about
Speaker 3: these protesters frustrations?
Speaker 12: They hate corporations, they hate capitalism, and in the end,
Speaker 12: ultimately they want statism over free markets. So they really
Speaker 12: don't like freedom.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, So rage against duly elected government is patriotic,
Speaker 3: quin essentially American, whereas rage against multinational shareholder accountable corp
Speaker 3: operations is anti America.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. Here's a group of Americans disenchanted,
Speaker 3: railing against big government bailouts, angry because they played by
Speaker 3: the rules, worked hard. Now they're in debt from student
Speaker 3: loans and they're unemployed. I mean, look, if this thing
Speaker 3: throws it turns into throwing trash cans into Starbucks windows,
Speaker 3: nobody's going to be down with that.
Speaker 2: We all love startars. But these protesters, how are they
Speaker 2: not like the Tea Party?
Speaker 11: All right?
Speaker 3: Some of them, you know, smoke and have pants made
Speaker 3: out of pot, So call them.
Speaker 2: The THCHC Party.
Speaker 3: Aren't these folks real citizens with real problems?
Speaker 2: Aren't they also speaking for America?
Speaker 13: These folks aren't speaking for America.
Speaker 14: Just your basic green, anti capitalist, anti bank, anti Wall Street,
Speaker 14: anti American demonstration.
Speaker 13: That's not Tea Party behavior. That's not America loving behavior.
Speaker 3: They probably don't even masturbate to the constitution.
Speaker 2: That's what I find, all right, I'll buy it.
Speaker 3: Why Why are the Occupy Wall Street folks unworthy of
Speaker 3: Tea Party respect and ideals?
Speaker 13: They're not law abiding citizens. They're camping in a park
Speaker 13: where camping isn't allowed. They're breaking the laws on the
Speaker 13: Brooklyn Bridge. That's not Tea Party behavior.
Speaker 3: Everything you described there, I believe is a misdemeanor. The
Speaker 3: actual Tea Party was a felony. Do you know how
Speaker 3: much trouble I mean, do you know what the Tea
Speaker 3: Party actually was? You know how much trouble you get
Speaker 3: it if you broke into a ship, stole the cargo
Speaker 3: from the ship's owners, and just threw it overboard, not
Speaker 3: to mention the EPA finds and the damage it would
Speaker 3: do to your Indian costume. The Tea Party namesake. You're
Speaker 3: named after the most celebrated act of theft and vandalism
Speaker 3: of private property in our nation's history.
Speaker 2: And you can't stomach a little park camping.
Speaker 3: But if there is one criticism that nearly everyone, even
Speaker 3: their supporters, seem to share, it was this.
Speaker 4: When you look at the message, though, what is it
Speaker 4: these protesters are trying to get across here? Because it
Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily seem a very cohesive one.
Speaker 3: Seems like they're really going to have to crystallize their message.
Speaker 15: The message is muddled.
Speaker 16: Did you just call the protesters muggles?
Speaker 2: But I watch a lot of movies, but this guy
Speaker 2: brings up a good point.
Speaker 3: We cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park dwellers to
Speaker 3: come up with a coherent solution to our nation's economic woes.
Speaker 3: We have a political ruling class to do that.
Speaker 12: Congress demanding answers on what caused the economic meltdown.
Speaker 8: A bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of
Speaker 8: Six is working on a proposal to cut the deficit.
Speaker 17: The Congressional super Committee created to cut the deficit, the
Speaker 17: Simpson Ball.
Speaker 18: Plan Senator Coburn's plan.
Speaker 15: Doesn't this sound like a great idea?
Speaker 1: Simpson bowls sound like a great.
Speaker 10: The bowl Simpson dead on arrival.
Speaker 19: The ten of you spent months working on this, though,
Speaker 19: and now you have this significant descent.
Speaker 2: I mean, what we should do is break these banks up.
Speaker 20: To break up every institution right now could have been destabilizing.
Speaker 10: You haven't put your own budget the.
Speaker 2: Truth of the match.
Speaker 3: Just just get I think I got it. I think
Speaker 3: I got it. Yeah, I think I got it. That's
Speaker 3: for God's sakes, people. Now, I see why you're mad
Speaker 3: at them for being muddled and incoherent.
Speaker 2: That's your job. All the way.
Speaker 3: We did pass Dog Frank, the greatest Wall Street reform
Speaker 3: since the Great Depression.
Speaker 21: In just over two weeks, the Dodd Frank Law will
Speaker 21: be a year old, and we're not really any closer
Speaker 21: to fully implementing it.
Speaker 22: The stuff that would have addressed the fraud, too big
Speaker 22: to fail derivatives from almost all those measures were either
Speaker 22: rejected out right or what are down to almost near meaningless.
Speaker 21: Out of an estimated four hundred regulations to be written,
Speaker 21: just thirty eight are complete, and those.
Speaker 2: Thirty eight were the easy ones.
Speaker 3: No spitting, don't take your out before five on the wall.
Speaker 3: You know what if the people who were supposed to
Speaker 3: fix our financial system had actually done it, the people
Speaker 3: who have no idea how to solve these problems wouldn't
Speaker 3: be getting for not offering solutions. And while we all fight,
Speaker 3: the real victims, as always, continue to suffer.
Speaker 14: I was up in Boston this weekend and they had
Speaker 14: occupy Boston.
Speaker 2: There were a thousand people that do AP protest.
Speaker 17: I was just driving by. I was trying to get
Speaker 17: to supper and a thousand people were between me and
Speaker 17: a steak dinner.
Speaker 3: Steve Doocy reacting to the revolution, Let me eat steak.
Speaker 2: But first, obviously, the big.
Speaker 3: News of the past few weeks the town of Ferguson, Missouri,
Speaker 3: where the shooting by police of teenager Michael Brown has
Speaker 3: sparked a series of protests, which in turn sparked a
Speaker 3: let's say stern response by police who appear to be
Speaker 3: auditioning for RoboCop. It's a story that has a lot
Speaker 3: of people outraged and upset.
Speaker 12: I came back from vacation because I am furious.
Speaker 2: Of course, you are.
Speaker 3: An unarmed black teenager gunned down in the street by
Speaker 3: police under suspicious circumstances. Who wouldn't cut their vacation short
Speaker 3: to register their fury. You'd have to be a monster,
Speaker 3: or in my case, enjoying a particularly nice vacation. But
Speaker 3: good on you, mister O'Reilly for coming back, unless, of course,
Speaker 3: you're furious.
Speaker 2: About something else.
Speaker 12: Furious about how the shooting death of eighteen year old
Speaker 12: Michael Brown is being reported and how various people are
Speaker 12: reacting to it.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is the outrage. The shooting of Michael Brown
Speaker 3: and any lack of transparency from the police department responsible
Speaker 3: for said incident is outrageous in how it has been reported.
Speaker 3: And I guess that's not the only reason to be angry.
Speaker 23: Is he going to get a fair shake this officer?
Speaker 2: There has been a rush to judgment here.
Speaker 19: Calder flies into Ferguson, you know with this, you know
Speaker 19: superhero Kape.
Speaker 4: This mantra of the unarmed black teenager shot by a
Speaker 4: white cop. You know that description in and of itself
Speaker 4: actually colors the way in which we look at this story.
Speaker 3: Yes, describing the actual facts of the case really does
Speaker 3: color the way we look at it. White cop shoots
Speaker 3: unarmed black team does sound terrible, whereas say, hero cop
Speaker 3: kills alien hunting humans for sport.
Speaker 2: Would put a completely different spin.
Speaker 3: On things, which, though a very accurate description of the
Speaker 3: plot of Predator Too, is in this case.
Speaker 2: Not what happened. And you know what, there's so many
Speaker 2: other stories out there.
Speaker 12: Why aren't we covering New York?
Speaker 18: Why aren't we covering black on black crime?
Speaker 3: Yes, why all the interest in holding police officers to
Speaker 3: a higher standard than gangs?
Speaker 2: They both flash colors, and yes one of them has
Speaker 2: been sworn to protect and defend.
Speaker 12: But still, well, this weekend, forty two people shot in Chicago.
Speaker 12: You know, I don't see the protests, don't see the anger.
Speaker 23: If I were African American, I would be outraged that
Speaker 23: more journalists aren't covering what's happening in Chicago, and more
Speaker 23: outraged of people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson donhead
Speaker 23: to those areas.
Speaker 3: Yes, what could explain the lack of outrage about Al
Speaker 3: Sharpton and his ILK not doing anything about black on
Speaker 3: black violence in Chicago.
Speaker 24: With Chicago's violence making national headlines, a group led by
Speaker 24: the Reverend Al Sharpton plans to convene an anti violent
Speaker 24: summit of national civil rights leaders here.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right, because African American leaders did hold the
Speaker 3: summit about that in November, and I've met at least
Speaker 3: three times in the city. Doesn't the last thirteen months,
Speaker 3: which is not to say it's been effective, but taken
Speaker 3: along with the presidents, my Brother's Keeper initiative, which attempts
Speaker 3: to address this violence, and the countless vigils and marches
Speaker 3: within these violence torn communities, means they are trying actually
Speaker 3: to do something.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 3: You being ignorant of those attempts doesn't mean the issue
Speaker 3: itself is being ignored. In the same way that when
Speaker 3: it snows where you live doesn't mean the world isn't
Speaker 3: getting hotter. Oh you know what, there's something else bothering you,
Speaker 3: isn't there.
Speaker 25: When a cop pulls me over, I say, I put
Speaker 25: my hands outside of the car. If I'm carrying a
Speaker 25: weapon which I'm licensed to carry in New York, the
Speaker 25: first thing I tell the police officers, Officer, I want
Speaker 25: you to know I have a legal firearm in the
Speaker 25: in the car.
Speaker 3: And then I braced myself for the taser. Well without
Speaker 3: getting into the fact that you get pulled over so
Speaker 3: much by the cops that sometimes you're carrying a weapon,
Speaker 3: sometimes you're not.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just depends on how I'm feeling that day.
Speaker 25: But continue, I often would would even take my step
Speaker 25: out of the car, lift my shirt up so we
Speaker 25: can see where the gun is.
Speaker 2: You really do have no idea, you really do it basically.
Speaker 15: Basically, you're saying.
Speaker 3: If only Michael Brown, instead of holding his hands over
Speaker 3: his head, had reached down to his waist.
Speaker 2: And lifted up his shirt.
Speaker 3: To show the gun he did not actually have.
Speaker 2: This whole tragedy could have been avoided.
Speaker 3: Do you not understand that life in this country is
Speaker 3: inherently different for white people.
Speaker 2: And black people.
Speaker 23: A lot of people are trying to make this data
Speaker 23: about black and white and trying to make this about race.
Speaker 17: But this is part of this effort to make it
Speaker 17: everything about race.
Speaker 2: Is this a story about race?
Speaker 18: Do we know that?
Speaker 4: I think it is playing the race card, and I
Speaker 4: think it's disgraceful.
Speaker 1: The only racial divide that has created here is being
Speaker 1: created by the race baders.
Speaker 14: He who talks about racists, did you just he who
Speaker 14: smelt it dealt it racism?
Speaker 2: Did you really.
Speaker 1: Here smelt the govert racism?
Speaker 16: Hi?
Speaker 3: Forget that in Ferguson, ninety four percent of the police
Speaker 3: are white and sixty three percent of the people are black.
Speaker 3: Forget the ninety two percent of police searches and eighty
Speaker 3: six percent of car.
Speaker 2: Stops are for black people.
Speaker 3: Forget that the white municipal government finance is nearly a
Speaker 3: quarter of its annual budget through the fines and penalties
Speaker 3: disproportionately leveled against the black portion of the population. Forget
Speaker 3: that the history of this town includes this tasty nugget.
Speaker 20: The fifty two year old man named Henry Davis said
Speaker 20: that four Ferguson police officers beat him then charged him
Speaker 20: with image in government property because his blood had gotten
Speaker 20: on the officer's uniforms.
Speaker 2: So they get this straight.
Speaker 3: You guys got tanks, but you can't keep a couple
Speaker 3: of tide sticks around. Because here's the problem with everything
Speaker 3: that's going on in this conversation. This isnt all about
Speaker 3: just one man killed in one town. It's about how
Speaker 3: people of color, no matter their socioeconomic standing, face obstacles
Speaker 3: in this country with surprising grace.
Speaker 2: Look at.
Speaker 3: Look at how upset you all get about certain things
Speaker 3: tonight Christmas.
Speaker 1: I'm attacked.
Speaker 12: Why are we allowing anti Christmas madness?
Speaker 9: Why do I have to drive around with my kids
Speaker 9: to look for Nativity scenes and be like, oh, yeah, kids,
Speaker 9: look there's Baby Jesus behind the fest of his pull
Speaker 9: made out of beer cans.
Speaker 2: It's nuts.
Speaker 3: Remember you were furious that America's eleven month long celebration
Speaker 3: of Christmas.
Speaker 2: Wasn't enough.
Speaker 3: But now if you can just imagine that instead of
Speaker 3: having to suffer the indignity of a Festivus poll blocking
Speaker 3: something you could have just set up in your own
Speaker 3: yard anyway, imagine that instead of that, on a pretty
Speaker 3: consistent basis, you can't get a cab even though you're
Speaker 3: a neurosurgeon, because you're black.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you, I guarantee you.
Speaker 15: That every I guarantee you.
Speaker 3: That every person of color in this country has faced
Speaker 3: an indignity from the ridiculous to the grotesque, to the
Speaker 3: sometimes fatal. At some point in there, I'm going to say,
Speaker 3: last couple of hours because of their skin color. Quick story.
Speaker 3: So we live in New York City, a liberal bastion.
Speaker 2: Recently, let me.
Speaker 3: Finish, recently, we sent a correspondent and a producer to
Speaker 3: a building in this liberal bastion where we were going
Speaker 3: to tape an interview. The producer, white, dressed in what
Speaker 3: could only be described as homeless.
Speaker 2: Elf attire.
Speaker 3: And a pretty strong five o'clock from the previous week's shadow,
Speaker 3: strode confidently into the building, preceding our humble correspondent, a
Speaker 3: gentleman of color dressed resplendently in a tailored suit.
Speaker 2: Who do you think was stopped? Let me give you
Speaker 2: a hint. The black guy. And that happens all the time.
Speaker 2: All of it.
Speaker 3: Race is there, and it is a constant. You're tired
Speaker 3: of hearing about it. Imagine how exhausting it is living it.
Speaker 3: The Grand Jury and Ferguson, Missouri, was deciding that Ferguson
Speaker 3: Police officer now former Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson did
Speaker 3: nothing indictable when he shot unarmed but large Michael Brown.
Speaker 3: The angry reaction to this decision.
Speaker 2: Was swift and sustained.
Speaker 3: The protests breaking out throughout the country. But if those
Speaker 3: who took to the streets thought that they were speaking
Speaker 3: out against systemic injustice, it could not have been more wrong.
Speaker 2: This is not a civil rights issue. It's not a
Speaker 2: black white situation. It's a thug a police officer situation.
Speaker 2: People forget he had committed a robbery. Michael Brown was
Speaker 2: the bad guy in this case.
Speaker 17: And please America, let's not turn this kid into some
Speaker 17: kind of civil rights martyr because that.
Speaker 2: He is not. Ferguson, Missouri is not Selma Alabama.
Speaker 3: Right, almost by definition, Ferguson, Missouri is not Selma Alabama.
Speaker 3: Of course, if Fox had been around for Selma Alabama,
Speaker 3: the headline would probably have been relaxed.
Speaker 2: Selma is in slavery.
Speaker 3: So this isn't a civil rights thing, although I don't know,
Speaker 3: the protests I saw seemed pretty civil rights, from those
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles to the NFL to the streets right
Speaker 3: here in New York.
Speaker 7: Inger the voices and they picked people the way you
Speaker 7: can hear.
Speaker 10: These people are.
Speaker 2: I feel you, but I get what you're saying there.
Speaker 3: This is an isolated incident, like the police shooting of
Speaker 3: Tamir Rice in Cleveland, or Dante Parker in San Bernardino County,
Speaker 3: or Kendrick mcdadeen Pasadena, or Armond Bennett in New Orleans,
Speaker 3: or John Crawford in what time does Colbert start? What
Speaker 3: time does his show start? It's in like a half hour, right,
Speaker 3: All right, we'll just move on. The point is these
Speaker 3: shootings are clearly not a manifestation of systemic inequality and
Speaker 3: mistrust between the African American community and these somehow always
Speaker 3: justified police American community. But these are merely an unending,
Speaker 3: bizarrely similar series of isolated incidents. But if there's nothing
Speaker 3: to justify the anger and protest in these communities, why
Speaker 3: would so many individuals around the country spend their precious
Speaker 3: hard earned pre Christmas sales stampeding time protesting a non
Speaker 3: existent problem.
Speaker 1: You look at fergus So, they had a community that
Speaker 1: really worked, or it seemed to have worked, and now
Speaker 1: all this hatred's coming out. You have so many other
Speaker 1: people inciting and trying to get their own two cents in,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to incite problems.
Speaker 15: Pitting whites against blacks.
Speaker 12: I think the racial arsonists in this country have worked
Speaker 12: these people up so much with propaganda that facts don't matter.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why they take to the streets.
Speaker 3: They were incited by racial arsonists. You know, I have
Speaker 3: a dream that one day we can evolve as people
Speaker 3: to a time when arsenists no longer see race, but
Speaker 3: see really only the beautiful consuming fire they are criminally
Speaker 3: compelled to life. When an arsenist can say, the only
Speaker 3: color I see is orange, but I get it there
Speaker 3: obviously wouldn't be a problem if a racial arsonist, if
Speaker 3: a racial arsonist hadn't.
Speaker 2: Racial arsenist had lit.
Speaker 3: The fire under Ferguson with his telling of what happened match.
Speaker 3: And by the way, racial arsonists were not the only insiders.
Speaker 18: These racial racketeers are race hustlers.
Speaker 2: Race grievance industry leaders.
Speaker 3: Your race rifters, your race counterfeiters, your race litterers, your
Speaker 3: race financial advisors, your race your race somaliers.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with a nice white.
Speaker 16: But but the point is these protests may look like
Speaker 16: a spontaneous groundswell of frustration, grief, and anger amongst the
Speaker 16: community that feels disenfranchised, but they're actually just the.
Speaker 3: Prescribed bidding of America's race grievance puppeteers.
Speaker 2: And who might they be? You ask, professor?
Speaker 12: The floor is yours, the President and Eric Holder and
Speaker 12: Al Sharpton. I think they've been terribly irresponsible. Ferguson Burns
Speaker 12: because of in part, a mindset was created by Al Sharpton,
Speaker 12: by Eric Holder and the President.
Speaker 3: Be honest, my friend, are those the three people responsible?
Speaker 3: Or did you just name the only three black guys
Speaker 3: you could think of?
Speaker 6: Which one?
Speaker 2: Ferguson Burns.
Speaker 3: Ferguson Burns, my friend, in part because of jay Z,
Speaker 3: the guy who plays Urkle And.
Speaker 2: Let's say, thank Aaron. I don't know. Now Here's where
Speaker 2: it gets interesting.
Speaker 3: What is the mindset that has been instilled that creates
Speaker 3: the conditions for this upset within the African American community.
Speaker 12: The head of this network, Roger Ailes, has brilliantly said
Speaker 12: that if you see yourself.
Speaker 15: As a victim, then you'll become a victim.
Speaker 26: But if you see yourself as a winner, then you'll
Speaker 26: eventually win.
Speaker 3: Keep a dream, journal, folks. A victim mentality is what's
Speaker 3: causing this? A victim mentality? A gentleman on Fox A
Speaker 3: gentleman on Fox News said that black people have been
Speaker 3: convinced by a network of shrewd propagandists that they are
Speaker 3: somehow victims, and that is wrong to agitate a population,
Speaker 3: to scare them, utilizing all the tools of modern communication, graphics, music,
Speaker 3: et cetera, to stoke these people into a resentful frenzy.
Speaker 3: Fox News feels that's just damaging to this great nation.
Speaker 2: And tears at are very fabric.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine anyone would do such a thing at
Speaker 3: Just roll the tape.
Speaker 7: The president is selling class warfare. Is there a growing
Speaker 7: anti white people movement in America?
Speaker 25: The FEDS and many state governments are working hard to
Speaker 25: take away your guns.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, they'll take your money.
Speaker 12: The invasion of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 27: We have terrorists crossing the Mexican border singled out for
Speaker 27: its Christian message.
Speaker 17: We can pick on white guys, We can pick on
Speaker 17: Christians in this country. Books, damp, abusers beating on taxpayers
Speaker 17: the United States of entitlements.
Speaker 12: They're stealing our money, and the taxpayers should rise up.
Speaker 27: We are under ay now.
Speaker 15: All hail King Obama, an imperial president.
Speaker 17: America's freedom is slipping away.
Speaker 12: America's best aids are behind her.
Speaker 21: America, you have.
Speaker 14: A choice to make it is time that we take
Speaker 14: our country back.
Speaker 2: You need to get angry.
Speaker 21: Our worst fears might very well be here.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm supposed to overthrow the government
Speaker 3: or get one of them panic rooms.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: But either way, I'm just happy to not be incited.
Speaker 3: It almost makes you think that the crime that they're
Speaker 3: really upset about over there isn't race pimping or race arson.
Speaker 2: It's race plagiarism.
Speaker 18: So I thought, you know what, I'm going to go
Speaker 18: back to America and just chill. Turns out I left
Speaker 18: the third World and landed in the third.
Speaker 20: Reich White Nash the list descending on Charlottesville, Virginia to
Speaker 20: protest the removal of a statue of Confederate leader Robert E.
Speaker 9: Lee.
Speaker 12: In Charlottesville, Virginia, where protests are turning violence. At at
Speaker 12: least one person.
Speaker 27: Is dead after car woud into a group of counter protesters.
Speaker 10: President Trump turns an infrastructure of vent into a rambling rant,
Speaker 10: blaming both sides for the violence.
Speaker 1: That group.
Speaker 26: But you also had people that were very fine people
Speaker 26: on both sides. I think this blame on both sides.
Speaker 26: You look at you look at both sides. I think
Speaker 26: there's blame on both sides, and I have no doubt
Speaker 26: about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either.
Speaker 18: Like I know he was trying to convince us, but
Speaker 18: Trump just looks like an untrained Jedi failing hard.
Speaker 27: You know.
Speaker 28: It's just like you don't have any data, but you
Speaker 28: don't naziason.
Speaker 18: The people protesting are equivalent. And also KFC is a vegetable,
Speaker 18: you know, you know, and you know what, Like I
Speaker 18: know that this happened a week ago, but I'm not
Speaker 18: gonna lie. I'm still processing everything.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 18: First of all, a racist neo Nazi killed a peacefully
Speaker 18: protesting woman with his car. Right then the presidents of
Speaker 18: the United States defended the neo Nazis who that dude
Speaker 18: was marching with. And this is the thing, it's not
Speaker 18: once but twice, like Donald Trump said it. Then three
Speaker 18: days later he came back and said, hey, hey, you
Speaker 18: know how I said that Nazi defending thing. Well, I
Speaker 18: just realized that I messed up. I didn't defend them enough. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 18: my support was here and I was trying to get
Speaker 18: it here. Yeah, And I'm not gonna lie. I don't
Speaker 18: know about you, but it seemed for a moment that okay,
Speaker 18: this was it. This was clearly not what presidents do
Speaker 18: you know, after tragic national events, a leader, even a
Speaker 18: mediocre leader, says the things to unite the country, to
Speaker 18: calm the tensions, not inflame them, and especially not express
Speaker 18: sympathy for Nazi sympathizers South Africa.
Speaker 7: This is how crazy this is.
Speaker 18: In South Africa during apartheid, right, we had a Nazi
Speaker 18: organization known as the AWB, and they wanted an all
Speaker 18: white country. They had their own hip new Swastika. Right,
Speaker 18: it was full of Nazi, full of Nazi organization, and
Speaker 18: back then South Africa was under apartheids. But the government, right,
Speaker 18: the apartheid government, they'd restricted where black people could live,
Speaker 18: it didn't allow them to study. Most importantly, it stripped
Speaker 18: away their right to vote. And even then, in the
Speaker 18: midst of apartheid, when the AWB would hold its rallies,
Speaker 18: the apartheid government would be like, no, no, no, whoa whoa, whoa,
Speaker 18: whoa whoa whoa nazis no no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 28: I mean, come on, I like racism just as much
Speaker 28: as the next guy, But come on, Nazis. Nazis, Come on, people,
Speaker 28: I think we can all agree as humans or as
Speaker 28: black people, that Nazis is a step too far.
Speaker 26: People.
Speaker 18: It's a step too far even in apartheid South Africa.
Speaker 18: But today in America, we're not even at that point.
Speaker 18: Seven months into his term, forty one months to go,
Speaker 18: by the way, and the President of the United States
Speaker 18: has officially legitimized white supremacists, basically saying, we need to
Speaker 18: see things from the Nazis points of view. You know,
Speaker 18: march a mile in their boots, and you would think,
Speaker 18: you would think that surely this would be the straw
Speaker 18: that broke the camel's back. Well, it turns out that
Speaker 18: the president's party has a lot of camels.
Speaker 12: A new CBS newsport out this week showed that sixty
Speaker 12: seven percent of Republicans approve of the way President Trump
Speaker 12: handled the response to the Charlottesville attack.
Speaker 18: But how but how like two thirds of Republicans two
Speaker 18: thirds of Republicans thought that Trump handled Charlottesville. Well, like,
Speaker 18: I know it sounds crazy to say this, but that's
Speaker 18: the shocking part for me. You know, Donald Trump did
Speaker 18: his thing, But sixty seven percent are like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 18: you know, he did his things. Like, let me put
Speaker 18: it this way. Anyone can fight, right, a person can fart,
Speaker 18: they do their thing. They fought, but it takes a
Speaker 18: special group of peop people, two thirds of them to
Speaker 18: be like, nicely done. Yeah, I like the way you
Speaker 18: handle that.
Speaker 13: That was nice.
Speaker 7: That was really nice.
Speaker 15: I like that. Who are you? Hey, Here's the thing.
Speaker 18: If so many of Trump's supporters are willing to give
Speaker 18: Nazis the benefit of the doubt, then clearly anything goes.
Speaker 18: There's no line that they won't cross, and clearly no
Speaker 18: cross that they won't burn. You know, with all these
Speaker 18: protests sweeping across America, people have been comparing this moment
Speaker 18: to the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties, and
Speaker 18: much like the nineteen sixties, law enforcement officers have met
Speaker 18: these calls to end police brutality with even more police brutality.
Speaker 10: Across the country. Peaceful protests have too often devolved into
Speaker 10: standoffs with heavily armed police using military style tactics flash bangs,
Speaker 10: tear gas, rubber bullets, helicopters, armored vehicles.
Speaker 27: Law enforcement in riot gear approach a barrier. Protesters on
Speaker 27: the other side hands up in the air, chanting don't shoot,
Speaker 27: But that's exactly what they did, shooting tear gas and
Speaker 27: rubber bullets.
Speaker 10: The threat of terrorism after nine to eleven convinced many
Speaker 10: departments to stock up. Now those departments are facing off
Speaker 10: against their own citizens.
Speaker 18: Just take a moment to think about that. The police
Speaker 18: department got this heavy duty equipment to fight terrorists, that's
Speaker 18: why they got the equipment post nine eleven, and now
Speaker 18: they're using it against Americans who are exercising their right
Speaker 18: to protest. And I'm sorry, what about these people, screams
Speaker 18: terrorists to you, Like, maybe I've forgotten my history, but
Speaker 18: I don't remember the part where al Qaeda attacked America
Speaker 18: with cardboard signs. And an argument I've heard some people
Speaker 18: make is that the only reason the police are doing
Speaker 18: this is because the protesters are looting or being violent.
Speaker 18: That's what they say. No, they're doing this because the
Speaker 18: people are violent. But as happens so often, the police's
Speaker 18: story never matches the actual footage.
Speaker 2: Because for the.
Speaker 18: Past week, the Internet has been full of videos of
Speaker 18: police officers attacking protesters with no provocation whatsoever.
Speaker 6: Caught on camera from coast to coast. Alleged excessive force
Speaker 6: by police officers attacks against protesters who are demonstrating against
Speaker 6: police brutality.
Speaker 19: And New York police drove a vehicle into a crowd
Speaker 19: of people protesting there.
Speaker 11: In Los Angeles, police swing battens at people who witnesses say,
Speaker 11: we're simply standing with their hands up.
Speaker 5: A New York police officer is caught on camera pushing
Speaker 5: a woman who was demonstrating.
Speaker 23: An officer pulling a man's face mask off and spraying
Speaker 23: him with pepper spray.
Speaker 4: Unsettling image of an officer kicking a woman who was mazed.
Speaker 3: Caught on camera a protest to run over by an
Speaker 3: HPD mounted patrol unit at the height of the protests.
Speaker 8: We as black people deal with this every day.
Speaker 13: Black and brown people are treated brutally every day.
Speaker 18: I don't care who you are. Those images have to
Speaker 18: be upsetting to watch because these images are the antitheses
Speaker 18: of what America is supposed to stand for. This is
Speaker 18: supposed to be the country where you have the freedom
Speaker 18: to say whatever you want. A democracy right, you can
Speaker 18: say whatever you want, whether it's Black Lives Matter or
Speaker 18: let's all drink bleach. The government is not supposed to
Speaker 18: physically punish you for that, and that hasn't always been
Speaker 18: the case in America, but that is the ideal. Right
Speaker 18: When people were protesting in Michigan, saying that they want
Speaker 18: to go out, they want to go back to work,
Speaker 18: they want to get haircuts, they don't care about the coronavirus.
Speaker 18: They weren't getting beaten up. And that's what America is.
Speaker 18: The freedom to protest, and the freedom to protest isn't
Speaker 18: the only American ideal the police have been trying to
Speaker 18: suppress lately. It seems like they've been really making a
Speaker 18: concerted effort to go after the free press.
Speaker 17: More than three hundred journalists have faced press freedom violations.
Speaker 25: Across the United States.
Speaker 3: The camera is rolling when law enforcement seemed to be
Speaker 3: targeting journeys, I am press. We identified ourselves as press,
Speaker 3: and they fired tear gas canisters on us pointlank Range.
Speaker 9: This Australian cameraman and reporter were shoved and hit while
Speaker 9: live on air.
Speaker 21: Police now advancing fun shot I'm.
Speaker 6: Getting in Louisville, pepper balls fired a crew on live TV.
Speaker 15: Who are they aiming that at?
Speaker 27: So it's like directly at us?
Speaker 18: Yeah, those videos are what's happening in America right now.
Speaker 18: Cops are just openly firing tear gus and pepper bullets
Speaker 18: and everything on journalists. I mean, I can't blame them.
Speaker 18: If I was doing the shit that the police have
Speaker 18: been doing, I wouldn't want anyone recording it either. So
Speaker 18: the police are attacking unon protesters, defenseless reporters. I mean,
Speaker 18: at this point you might be wondering, is there anyone?
Speaker 18: Is there anyone non threatening enough that the police would
Speaker 18: not get violent with them? And what we're learning is
Speaker 18: that the answer is no.
Speaker 10: A Salt Lake City police officer in full riot gear
Speaker 10: using his shield to push an elderly man with a cane.
Speaker 10: The man falls face first onto the ground.
Speaker 17: Two officers in Buffalo, New York pushing a seventy five
Speaker 17: year old man who falls to the ground, hits his
Speaker 17: head and starts bleeding. None of the officers in the
Speaker 17: video appear to help him.
Speaker 18: I don't care how many times I see that video.
Speaker 18: I will never get used to it, because it's bad
Speaker 18: enough that these cops push an old man who's walking
Speaker 18: over to them, but the fact that they walk over him,
Speaker 18: they walk past him while he's bleeding out on the sidewalk, Like,
Speaker 18: who are you protecting and serving if not that old man.
Speaker 18: And think about it, these were just two that were
Speaker 18: caught on video. Now, as usual when videos like this
Speaker 18: come out, the excuse is always the same. People always
Speaker 18: want to defend those police by saying those are just
Speaker 18: a couple of bad apples. That is not a signify
Speaker 18: that is not representative of the entire police departments. The
Speaker 18: only issue is that argument falls apart when you see
Speaker 18: what happened after they pushed this old man to the ground.
Speaker 17: A police statement released before the footage was posted online
Speaker 17: said only that a man tripped and fell.
Speaker 7: But after the video surface, the police commissioner ordered an
Speaker 7: internal affairs investigation and the immediate suspension of the officers
Speaker 7: without pay.
Speaker 5: As the officers leave the court house, cheers from the
Speaker 5: crowd of fellow officers and law enforcements. In another show
Speaker 5: of all, fifty seven members of the Buffalo Emergency Response
Speaker 5: Team resigned, but they remain on the police force.
Speaker 18: Think about this for a second. Not only did the
Speaker 18: police department try to cover up what happened, not only
Speaker 18: did they try and lie about something that we all
Speaker 18: saw on camera, but once the truth got out and
Speaker 18: those cops were punished, the entire team resigned to protest
Speaker 18: those police being held accountable. In fact, they even showed
Speaker 18: up at the courthouse to cheer them on as they
Speaker 18: came out. What are you cheering that buffalo is finally
Speaker 18: safe from old men walking around in public? What are
Speaker 18: you cheering?
Speaker 2: What are you cheering?
Speaker 18: The fact that you've come out, the fact that you
Speaker 18: said like, it's a scary thing to think about. What
Speaker 18: are they cheering for? And something I think people need
Speaker 18: to understand about the police is that in a way,
Speaker 18: they have the same code that a gang does in
Speaker 18: that above all, you are loyal to your crew. That
Speaker 18: is a culture that is within every police department, and
Speaker 18: that's the heart of this issue. If good police are
Speaker 18: willing to look the other way or even join in
Speaker 18: when the bad police abuse their powers, you can make
Speaker 18: new rules and regulations all you want, but it won't matter.
Speaker 18: America is not going to be able to fix this
Speaker 18: problem until we have police whose first priority is protecting
Speaker 18: and serving the people instead of protecting and serving themselves.
Speaker 8: Are in DC. It's an exciting day. Almost half the
Speaker 8: adults in our country are asking for a do over.
Speaker 8: I suppose if you bought all of these flags all
Speaker 8: of these garments.
Speaker 15: You gotta do something like this. I mean they've been.
Speaker 8: Prepping for this, at least startorially for years.
Speaker 15: Tell me about your what's on your back h Q
Speaker 15: flag flag? Thy people? QQ is somebody who just helped
Speaker 15: wake us up? Yees.
Speaker 8: It makes you ask questions, It makes all of us
Speaker 8: asked questions. Is like, why would people believe in this
Speaker 8: conspiracy that a twelve year old the Basement put on
Speaker 8: the internet and now it's affecting our country?
Speaker 15: People can think.
Speaker 19: Whatever Joseph Biden and Cammu Law your buddy Kamu Law
Speaker 19: Harris are not legitimate. You know what I think this is?
Speaker 19: This is a gang rate of our nation. We are
Speaker 19: watching our country be gang rate.
Speaker 17: Like look at your heart.
Speaker 15: Okay, it's not a joke. Look, you make a good point,
Speaker 15: but you are you are you not?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 15: A onesie? That is a flag?
Speaker 9: So it does give you like because I'm about what
Speaker 9: I represent here?
Speaker 15: Yeah, how'd you get your bike in over here?
Speaker 8: What kind of bike best works for a futile attempt
Speaker 8: to thward democracy?
Speaker 15: Like a crosscheck situation?
Speaker 18: That's that's just a weird question.
Speaker 8: I don't The revolution will not be televised. They will
Speaker 8: also not be providing chairs, so bring your.
Speaker 27: Own chairs up there for everybody.
Speaker 15: Great, thanks Pilatan chair planning ahead.
Speaker 10: People are mad about it, and it came here to
Speaker 10: make a statement.
Speaker 2: I want to read it.
Speaker 15: You want to redo, I want to redo.
Speaker 8: The good news is the Constitution has set aside a
Speaker 8: way to do a redo, and that's we'll just come
Speaker 8: back and do it again in four years.
Speaker 19: I don't.
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