WEBVTT - Remember Our Officer's Commitment 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.440 All right, one hundred and forty one day, Scott Shannon, 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.880 thank you eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, you 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:06.400 want to be a part of the program. You know, 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.040 I said this the other night, ending the program on 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.959 Friday night to Laura Ingram, I said, yeah, my heart's 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.080 troubled again. I've been saying that a lot instead of 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.080 what you know would usually be said, let not your 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.680 heart be troubled and believe in me. And then I 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.760 believe all of that with all my heart. And I 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:29.600 gotta tell you it's troubled. I just know. I am like, oh, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:35.240 what is happening to this country? If you love America 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.480 and you're watching all this and you think of all 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.000 that we've been through. It's only June fifteenth, but we 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.040 have one hundred and forty one days we have I 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.519 think the single biggest, most important pivotal you know, the 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.040 future of America on the line election. And look at 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.280 what we've been through just from January straight on through 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.680 and it just gets worse every single solitary day, the 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.520 worst pandemic and over one hundred years. You see, you know, 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.800 you learn from things. You see some good things, you 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.920 see some horrible things. We learned what we did right, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.560 you learn what we did wrong. You're seeing resurgences now 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.400 that we've got to pay very close attention to. I've 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.520 always said, it's not if, it's when, and it's going 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.600 to happen, and how we deal with that part of 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.080 it is crucial, and I think we've learned a lot 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.600 of lessons to do a lot better with it, and 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.880 the country now struggling to reopen people craving it. Then, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.000 of course, you know, leading into what happened with George Floyd, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.800 which never ever should have happened, which shocked the conscience 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:40.240 of a nation. Then of course leading to rioting, looting, arson, 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.960 a number of dead police officers, to cop in Vegas 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.160 by the way, it looks like he's paralyzed for life. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.400 You know, so many others of Americans killed in the process, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.560 many hundreds others injured, eight hundred cops injured, rocks and 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.920 bottles and molotov cocktails and bricks thrown at the cops. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:05.280 And then we have precincts being burnt to the ground, looting, arson, rioting, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.919 And yeah, people make a good point that there are 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.800 peaceful protesters, and amongst them you have the agitators and 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.440 there are a lot of them though too, and that's sad. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.000 And those that want to march for the right reasons, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.480 I'm not bundling them in with the anarchists. But then 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.799 you go to Minneapolis defund the police and the city 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.600 council that has a veto proof majority to now get 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.920 rid of the police department, and they're serious, you know. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.360 Then we go to Seattle and the Autonomous Zone or 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.960 the Free Love Zone or the Summer of Love, and 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.000 we're gonna have street parties and we're gonna have you know, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.920 it's like when big block party going on all throughout it. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.640 I never thought that we would have entire city blocks, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:54.519 including a police precinct, taken over by anarchists and the 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.480 mayors seemingly siding with it all out in Seattle, and 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.080 the governor told really impotent and incompetent to deal with 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.400 any of it. And then you look at all of 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.880 the officers offers of help of the president, let me 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.720 help you, let me help. You have to ask for 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.680 the help, but I want to help you. I want 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.120 to help you. And the same in New York and 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.800 the same in Illinois, and you know, a lot of 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.840 things then start bubbling to the surface, and you know, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.560 we start wanting to look deeper and deeper and deeper 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.840 in to the causal effects and socioeconomics and and and those. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.079 The fact that there are some bad cops, but it's 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.240 not the majority of them. It's not it's not even 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.360 ninety eight eight percent of them, I argue, are good people. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.720 Every I know a lot of cops. Everybody that's a cop, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.840 everybody know that it's a teacher, Everybody I know that's 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.000 a fireman, everyone that I know is a paramedic. Most 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.880 people are going into medicine. They go in because it's 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.520 their calling, it is their passion for life, and they 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.760 do it knowing there's a pretty you know, look, there's 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.880 there's a limit. They're not going to get rich doing 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.120 any of those jobs. But it is a calling to 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.800 protect and to serve, and they know that they're putting 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.120 their lives at risk every time that they put on 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.080 that uniform, and they do it anyway, And because that's 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.640 our line of defense against the fact that there is 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.160 evil and there are bad people. You know, the human 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.960 condition is what the human condition is. We've all sinned 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.799 and we've all fallen short all I'll start with me there, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.400 and I'm just saying that, you know, we are better 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.960 than this, We can be better than this, We can 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.159 become a more perfect union. It's not as I don't 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.960 say this lightly. When I quote recently deceased Barry Farber 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.240 when he said there's never been a history a country 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.800 in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.400 and abused it less. Didn't say we were a perfect 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.440 country when not. And what we want to become, the 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.840 beauty of our framers and our founders, is a more 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.799 perfect union. We make strides to become a more perfect union. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.279 And I always add that there's never been a country 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.320 in the history of mankind that is a human related 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.280 more power and used it to advance the human condition 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.080 than this one. And it's all because of liberty. It's 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.960 all because of freedom. It's all because we believe that 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.400 every human being is born with talent from God. Not again, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.239 we're endowed by our creator with rights, not with government 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.440 giving us rights. That our creator gave us these rights. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.520 And then you look at you know, well, okay, we 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.920 can factor in decades and decades of Democratic Party governance 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.080 and blue states all across the country, and you see, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.599 you know, systemic failure everywhere. I mean again, I could. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.400 I didn't look today, But if I went and I 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.840 googled how many were shot in Chicago, I'm sure I 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.080 wouldn't be shocked. And nobody does a thing, lifts a finger. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.240 We have a duty to protect our American family. We 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.359 don't do it. You know, you have school systems in 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.480 big cities. We spend more per capita than any other 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.840 industrialized country on the face of the earth, with the 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:06.760 worst results. Third highest spending city for per capita per 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:11.839 student per year is Baltimore. But they have thirteen public schools. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.080 We are not one American child is proficient in math? 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.800 How do you fail? And then, but even worse, how 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.599 do you not step in and try to fix it? Why? 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.360 Because you have this on holy alliance with teachers unions 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.480 in the Democratic Party. Now we get to the inn 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.400 this weekend, we all watched, and I watched, and I've 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.839 studied this video again and again and again. Let me 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.880 let's start with the facts. Let's start with So the 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.359 police get a call from a Wendy's in Atlanta and 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.800 Ray Schard Brooks is asleep in his car in the 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.520 drive through lane. Police are called, they show up. Police 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.800 officer knocks on the window, no response. Knocks on the window, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.039 no response opens the door. Takes a while we finally 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.880 get her response. You can see Ray Shard at that moment, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.679 just waking up. Obviously is confused. And and here's that encounter. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.920 So the reason why we're here is because somebody called 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.880 nine one one because you were asleep behind the wheel 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.200 while you're in the drive through. Right do you call that? 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.680 I don't. I don't. You don't recall that. You don't 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.920 recall just minutes ago where you're passed out behind the 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.720 wheel in the drive through. You don't recall that at all, 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.920 Just complete blur. I wasn't drying, like I said, I 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.480 just name my girlfriend. She probably with sleeping. But like 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.720 I said, I faid bay, I want freaked fry. So 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.040 far as I'm aware, you're the only person that's been 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.080 seen in this vehicle. Run. Yeah, you've been in the 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.200 driver's seat the whole time. So how did the car 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.840 get into the drive through with you behind the wheel? Right? 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.360 She drove here? I said, babe, I'm drinking in a 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.520 black car in the black bottle bay and you got 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.840 into your car. I say, Hey, you know what, no problem, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.960 I'll just meet you in the hotel, all right. That 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.720 was the initial encounter. Now the first thing I want 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.080 you to observe, and all of this up until the 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.960 moment when the officers they offered a breath test. He 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.200 agreed to the breath test. You know what I noticed 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:26.920 on both sides is courtesy and respect. Courtesy and respect 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.720 by the police officers raychard Brooks. Courtesy and respect from him. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.840 Here is when he was patted down by the police. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.800 I don't have anything on him, is okay? If I 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.280 patch down to make sure if he I have this 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.280 money gas? Is it okay? If I patch you down 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.280 to make sure any weapon absolutely away for any quick? 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.120 What is this? There's just a bunch of money in 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.880 your mindy, What's what's all this money? How much money 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:04.200 do you have in your party? I mean, baby, okay, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.160 it's like a bunch of ones and stuff here. Yeah, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:15.719 absolutely welcome your question. I remember you can see the side, right. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.199 I just came to get something big and you might 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.560 just put your phone on the trunk of your car, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.160 all right. And then there was a moment too, all right, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.520 so the officer says, can you please park the car 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.960 over here, and you know, I guess he had an 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.480 out of state license. Uh okay, what are you doing here? 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.360 My mom had passed away about a year and a 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.400 half ago. He goes, oh, I'm so sorry to hear it. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.959 I mean friendly. It was professional. Uh Ray Schard Brooks 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.720 was courteous, even calling the cops by their last names. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.240 It was mutual. WO seemed like routine, very neutral. Now 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.800 he the police officer that the second officer on the scene, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.000 asks if he could take a breathalyzer test, and it's 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.760 completely up to you. Listen, will you take it for later? 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.160 Best test for me? She has her no. I don't 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.720 want to refuse any babe, And she has her no. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.079 It's completely got to us. Stop where okay, just wait 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:15.679 here while I go. Oh, man, so trying to make sure, man, 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.800 you're standing to drive, That's all I know. Man, I 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.600 just you scared me a little bit because you were 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.320 sleeping in the suns. You know why I was making 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:26.120 sure you're okay. You know, no nuts. I know. I 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:30.640 know you did see your row take a deep breath, 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.440 then get your mouth through the mouth piece. But it's 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.600 hards you can't tell take you to stop blah blah 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.600 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Stop very good, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.520 I said a few jurgis. I said how many? One 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.280 and half? Like I said, I was it to the 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.320 second cup. I wouldn't even I told her baby, let's 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.920 go because I'm hungry. I what kind of drinks did 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.080 you have? I'm not sure it's something sheet harder, she said, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.680 top show for whatever, top shop What I'm not shooting now? 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.960 We had registered uh point one? Eight point oh eight 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.040 is the legal limit? He gave it a number of 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.160 different answers as it relates to. At first it was 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.160 top shelve. What is top shelve mean? Then he said 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.920 out to Margaret Ellie had one drink. Then it was 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.000 a drink and a half, and it was Margarita's. And 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.280 then I don't know what I had to drink, So 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.559 you know, things were off. Officers said he smelled alcohol 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.480 in the car obviously between maybe drinking, getting up, waking up, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.280 you know, he became more lucid as the engagement went on, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.840 but again professional until we get to this moment. Now, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.360 by the way, if you have young kids in the car, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.680 you may don't want to listen, give you a warning. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.880 This is when this is when everything up until that moment, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.960 to me, from what I seen, and I've watched it 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.360 a lot, was the police professional doing their jobs, being 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:54.520 respectful and Raychard Brooks being respectful. Okay, as he said, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.559 we just want to make sure you're safe to drive. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.600 You know, we don't want anybody get hurt. The police 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.160 don't have any choice here. He's over the limit. That 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.360 means you don't just get to take the keys and 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.360 throw him and the bushes and ignore it. Here is 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.959 when he struggles with the police. All right, I really don't. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.440 I think you had too much to drink to be driving, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:23.400 chanting back to can't put chance money back? Hey, hey, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.280 stop stop fighting, stop fighting, Stop fighting. You get you're 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:35.240 gonna get time with the right, with the right jaser. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:13:06.280 Stop fighting. M my sticky drink from there again, up 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:11.200 to that moment, it was fine. It was the moment 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.920 of that they tried to put cuffs on. Then everything changed, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.600 and I think probably even to these of the cops, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:24.600 ray Schard Brooks initiates a battle with them. You can 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.720 hear the cops they stop fighting, pop saying you gotta 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.600 get taste you gotta get a taste, then hands off 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.959 the taser. That's what it sounded like to me. Stop fighting, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.920 stop fighting, ends up fighting the two cops. I saw 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.760 two instances where he seemed to hit the cops one 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:42.280 each grabs the taser and starts running. We'll pick it 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.360 up from the other side. Where that goes from there. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.560 Just it did not have to happen this way. It's 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.880 so sad. A dui is not the worst thing in 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.160 the world. Let's be honest. It's it's not good. Can't 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.520 have people drunk because then innocent people can get killed. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.520 All right, glad you whether it's twenty to the top 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.560 of the hour, eight hundred and ninety four one sean, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.200 you want to be a part of the program today. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:11.480 So it leads us to four specific parts with the 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.720 police in Atlanta and Ray Schard Brooks. The initial encounter 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.760 being padded down, taking the breathalyzer test, the conversations that 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.600 go back and forth about well, I'm here, my mom 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.840 passed away, going to a grave site, etc. Etc. I'm 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.720 sorry to hear that. M Listen, you know, we just 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.880 gotta make sure you're okay to drive. We're worried about 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.960 everybody's safety, and I know why. You know, you got 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.240 to do your job. I totally understand and polite professional 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.800 on both ends. And then we get into the situation 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.240 where we get to this moment and I digress for 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.320 a second here because you know, Cops, the TV show, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.960 after thirty two years, has been canceled, and Live PD, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.720 very highly rated show on cable, has also been canceled. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.040 You know, at the moment when the two police officers 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.120 in Atlanta begin to put the handcuffs on Ray Schard Brooks. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.040 You know, up to that moment, everything is fine and 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:11.400 then all hell breaks loose. And one of the things 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.400 that as I watched this video over and over again, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:20.280 I think to myself, as I'm watching this, up to 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.880 that second, it's okay, and it's gonna be take, probably 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.680 taken into custody. I don't know. I've never gotten a duy, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.920 but I assume that it's pretty much a bench warrant. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.200 You're you know, somebody comes picks you up, you get 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.480 a ticket, you get a date to show up, you 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.440 go home, and not a great thing. Nobody wants to 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.320 go through that, I'm sure, but it's a job that 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.960 has to be done. We know the devastation of you know, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.160 mothers against drunk driving. We've learned, and the age day 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.480 and age of uber, and you know, it's just too 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.440 easy now not to have these accidents. You pay the 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.480 money for the uber, You go out, you get your sandwich, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.440 whatever you want to get. You had a couple of drinks, Okay, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.040 nobody care. So I don't care how much you drink. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.400 That's up to you. But courteous, professional on all sides. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.040 And then it becomes okay, stop fighting, stop fighting. You're 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.240 gonna get tased. You're gonna get tased. Hands off my taser. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:20.240 Stop fighting, stop fighting. And then the ensuing hits. I 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.760 didn't see that there were big, big hits, but both 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.760 officers getting hit out wrestled. There was a moment. I 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.440 don't want to go back to my martial arts point 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.640 because everyone gets annoyed with that. So but there's a 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:36.520 moment that that I thought police had an opportunity to 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.080 gain control and didn't. As I watch it over and 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.600 over again and slowly, and it's easy to say, you know, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.600 after the conflict happens, he grabs the taser, he starts 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.520 running down the parking lot in pursuit of the two officers. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:57.640 The DUI officer has his taser out. Then Ray Shard 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.600 Brooks turns around, fires the taser that he took off 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.880 one of the cops and then his shot twice. And 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.600 he's no longer with us today. And that's the sad 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.240 part to me, because none of this should have happened. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.600 It is a human life. Now we get into the 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.360 question of all right, well, you know who is at 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.879 fault here because the Atlanta Police now have they have 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.800 gone forward. They announced that officer Garrett rolf he's the 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.720 one that fired the shots. Veteran department. He was the 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.560 DUI officer hired in October twenty thirteen. He has been fired. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.199 The other cop who was the initial cop on the 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.240 scene seemed to have a good rapport with Ray Schard Brooks. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:43.399 He's been placed on administrative duty. He was called to 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:48.399 the Wendy's failed to field sobriety test, resisted arrest, and 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.320 during the struggle, grabbed the taser and ran. I can 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.240 get into the technicalities of the law because we've been 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:59.159 researching it all and I know that everybody thinks this 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.800 might be all there's a slam dunk case etc. I 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.080 don't know if you look at the law, it's a 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.639 lot of it's going to depend on, for example, what 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.919 how they categorize or characterize legally what a taser is, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.240 and whether or not, you know, what was the police 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.400 offer thinking if the guy turns around, which he did 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.479 in Rayschard Brooks and shoots the taser back of the cops. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.879 But as for the written law, it says he or 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.800 she reasonably believes an employee, meaning a cop, can use 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.639 deadly forced to apprehend a suspected felon only when and 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.480 by the way, if you take the taser at that point, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.280 now you are a suspected felon. One he or she 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.040 reasonably believes that the suspect possesses a deadly weapon or 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.720 an object, device, or instrument which used offensively against a 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.200 person is likely or actually does result it's seriously serious 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.840 bodily injury. When he or she reasonably believes that the 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.399 suspect poses an immediate threat of serious bodily injury to 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.399 the officer or two others or two when there is 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.560 probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed a 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.720 crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.960 and the employee reasonably believes that the suspect's escape would 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.080 create a continuing danger of serious physical harm to any person. 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.800 That's what the law says. You know, I walk away 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.840 with this, and you know it was a lot of 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:31.520 people when I came out immediately after seeing the seven minute, 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.800 fifty five second video of George Floyd. I'm just I wrote. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.480 I just kept saying that you have no idea. This 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:40.480 is the death sentence is this never should have happened. 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.720 You can't keep your knee on somebody's neck with their 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.040 head into the pavement like that and expect any other 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:50.360 result than what happened to George Floyd. Most of my 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:54.440 life on radio and TV, I often tell the story about, well, 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.159 how did I learn not to rush the judgment? How 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.439 do I learn? How do I always end up being 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.720 right when so many others do rush to judgment? And 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.760 that's because we don't rush to judgment. And I learned 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.600 that in the Richard Jewel case. And I was on 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.119 the air in Atlanta as a local host and the 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.040 AJC comes out with, well, he fits the profile of 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.720 the lone bomber because he lives with his mother and 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.159 he was a security guard. Originally he was hailed as 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.240 a hero because he cleared out the area when he 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:25.080 saw a suspected package or backpackages laying there. It turns 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.280 out he was right, and by pushing people away he 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.439 probably saved a lot of lives that day. And I'm like, Okay, 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.480 just because the guy lives with his mother, doesn't mean 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.600 he fits the profile of a domestic terrorist. What are 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.000 you talking about. In the end, he did not. He 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:43.720 did not do this, Lynn Wood, his attorney was also 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.880 representing Nicholas Salman, swears to this day that Richard Jewel 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.919 died at forty four because of the devastation and the 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.680 stress and the pressure was overweight and all that those 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.919 other factors existed, but that was a certainly a contributing 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:00.720 cause in his death. And he has explained that on 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:05.240 this program numerous times. And then yet then I say, well, okay, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.280 how does everyone get hands up, don't shoot? How did 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.560 I get that right and everybody else got that wrong 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.080 in the media. Well, one of the reasons is is 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.440 I do my due diligence. And I talked to police 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.720 on the ground that were there that already knew that 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.800 there were numerous people that would testify that just happened 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.600 to be because again identity politics came into play in 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.920 that case. That said it was exactly how Officer Darren 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.960 Wilson described it, African American witnesses saying, yeah, he was 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.000 being charged that by Michael Brown told him to stop, stop, stop, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.600 He didn't stop. The initial shot was fired in the 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.359 car when Michael Brown reached into the car. That's what 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:45.959 the evidence showed. That's what the testimony ended up showing. 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.160 I knew in the Zimmerman Treyvon case, and I would 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.320 say I wish George Zimmerman would have just called the police, 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.560 but that there was an eyewitness that was going to 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:01.040 identify Treyvon on top of George Zimma at the moment 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:05.160 when this became deadly, you know, saying he was pounding 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.360 his head into the ground. That testimony would impact the case. 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.560 I knew that from the very beginning. If you look 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.919 at for example, Freddie Gray, there was just a consensus 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.600 that this was a slam dunk case and the six 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.120 officers there were going to end up, you know, all 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.320 being convicted. And I was like, none of them are 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:25.960 going to be convicted, because again, what my sources were 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.600 telling me at the time that knew a lot, and 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:31.399 I have a lot of friends in law enforcement. We 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.679 worked sources in the Duke lacrosse case. I took the 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.560 time and I went out to Garden City, Long Island, 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:39.600 and I met with some of the kids and some 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.720 of the family members, and a very different tale was 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:47.840 beginning to emerge. And I very early on understood that 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:52.080 in spite of, you know, just condemnation by the Duke 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.920 school community, even close to one hundred professors taken out 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.199 an article signing a petition in the newspaper based Lee 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:03.160 convicting these kids there because quote, they're a bunch of privileged, 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:08.280 you know, athletes that you know, think their blank doesn't stink. Well, 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.040 they all ended up proving their innocence. You know, Timestamp, 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.679 video stamp at an ATM machine wasn't there at the 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:19.679 time of the allegation, Timestamp going into a dorm not 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.040 there at the time of the allegation. And in the end, 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.560 the kids had to one by one prove their innocence 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:28.280 in that case, and then a lot of other things 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:30.119