WEBVTT - Criminalization By Any Means 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.560 What's up. Family, it's your girl to make a d 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.240 Mallory and it's your boy, my son general And we're 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.760 your hosts of street politicians the place with the streets 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.880 and politics. So there's a lot to cover today in 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.239 a little bit of time. And I'll tell you over 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.919 the last few weeks, so much is happening that our 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.560 shows have just been changing on the fly. But you were, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.040 you know, you was handling the camera to UM tape 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:38.800 a press conference for Stanley Davis the Third who's thirteen 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.680 years old, young boy. Uh, much more focus has to 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.360 be on this situation too. He's in Boyton Beach, Florida. Uh, 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.360 he was riding a dirt bike and went to the 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:55.200 gas station to fill up. UM and an officer in 0:00:55.280 --> 0:01:00.280 the community mark soon that many people know for twenty years, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:05.959 this man has been terrorizing this particular community, including Stanley 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:11.559 Davis Jr. Which is Stanley Davis the third father. Twenty years. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.800 The community knows him. And Stanley Davis told us that 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.959 he actually UM informed his son about this officer, so 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.560 everyone knows. Now. You see Stanley Davis in the gas station, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.600 it's all on video, and you see, uh, the officer 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.959 sort of pull up behind him. It looks like Stanley 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.600 Davis doesn't even pump his gas, he just runs because 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.679 he knows this guy. He knows this officer, and he 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:46.520 leaves the gas station and Mark Song follows him, driving 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.960 in a high speed chase, and at some point, little 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:55.280 Stanley loses control of his dirt bike and he dies. Now, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.640 some would say, because you know, there is the critics 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.200 that say, oh, well, you know, why did he run him? 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.279 What was he doing in you know, and all of that. Well, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:08.239 here's the deal. Jaden Reardon's family, which is a six 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.760 year old young boy, was also at the press conference. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.560 Why because of the same behavior by the same officer 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.160 that killed their son. He was in a high speed 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.519 chase and as a result of that chase, UM, this 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.720 six year old Jaden Reardon was killed. And then there's 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:33.480 little Cyrus, another child who was killed by in a 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:39.000 high speed chase situation with UM officer Mark Son. So 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.360 this officer and and by the way, as you know 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.840 my son, because we learned this is just one three 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.800 things that he's done. Three children that have died because 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:54.840 of him and his negligence, but his racism towards black 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.160 folks on the police force as a police officer is clear. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.080 It's well documented. There's twenty years of stuff in his 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:08.680 record that he has a little rap sheet people suing him. Uh, folks, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:14.760 He's been reprimanded several times, He's had supervisors speak about 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.639 his issues, and and and and they actually in his report. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.040 They are supervisors that have written things to say that 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.920 he's dangerous, that he doesn't do his job properly, that 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.640 he has he's biased. And still twenty years later, the 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.920 man is working on the police force and a child, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.320 a thirteen year old child, was killed. It doesn't make 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.480 a bitter sense to me. It doesn't make sense period. Man. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.000 Like I said at the press conference, this is a 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.280 serial killer. You know, this is you know, and and 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.960 what happens for me is like I said, I don't 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.280 really have an issue with a racist and someone who 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.560 is the killer, because that's who he is. Right. But 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.880 we have a justice system that is supposed to protect 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.360 those that is opposed to, you know, protect the the 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.680 the basic citizens against things like that. Right, there are 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.840 laws and things set in place so that when you 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.080 are racist, person that commits crimes out of racialism commits 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.120 crimes period. Their consequences and the justice system is failing 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.120 these these parents. It's failing these families because they're allowing 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:28.680 this person to commit murder without any consequences. It is 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.640 state sanctioned murder, is state sanctioned white supremacy, and you know, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.799 and we're seeing that more and more, and I'm really 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.359 heartbroken for the children, I mean for the families of 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.840 the children. You know, just looking at um Stanley Davis Jr. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.719 The father, Stanley Davids, the third and just hearing how 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.960 this is wearing on him, Just trying to understand. I have, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.120 you know, three sons, and if this was any of 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.599 my sons, I know, the you know, the minds that being, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.839 I know, it would crush me totally. So just hearing 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.680 what he's dealing with, hearing the mother of the other one, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.279 the yeah, yeah, the mother of Jaden Rear was dead 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.760 and and just hearing her and she would hold back 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.880 tears hearing Stanley, Stanley Davis's mother, you know, she she 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.279 even got choked up to what she couldn't even continue 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:31.200 to talk. So these things child, their only child was killed. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:38.640 But because an officer is unhinged and just running wild, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.400 and no one has done anything about it, there's so 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.240 there's so many things happening that I'm trying to figure 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.440 out who is responsible, Like nobody pays for any of 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.480 the things that's happening to black people. And I just 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.080 don't know. I can't believe it, like I don't. I 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.359 cannot believe that a thirteen year old child was killed 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.839 after two other children and at some point even still 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.960 to right now, this man hasn't been by you. It's 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.919 disgusting then, you know, And then to move on to 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:17.280 more things. Then now we have nineteen babies, twenty well 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:24.160 nineteen people, eighteen babies and two teachers. It's just unbelievable. Man, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.880 Like I don't understand where we are in this country. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.000 I don't understand in the mind's sake. I tell a 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.480 lot of prayers every night, praying for not only my 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:37.359 family and myself, but just every human being. We're just 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.960 in very dark times and you know, I don't even 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.679 know what to say. Every day you turn on the news, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.360 there's another atrocity, you know, and and we have to 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.400 deal with those things. Trauma, the trauma that is setting 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.160 in on just the average human being is very high. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.839 You look, you look at um suicide rates is just violence. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.719 And it's so much trauma that we're dealing with, and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.000 we're in taking all of the trauma and it's causing 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.800 you the last show, it's causing you to do things 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.640 that are irrational, it's causing mental health issues. So I 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.800 would ask anyone if you're feeling like, you know, suicidal, 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.800 you feel like you're dealing with trauma, find you know, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.560 they are definitely hotlines to what you can call and 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.120 speak to people you know, speak to someone who's who 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.200 specializes in mental health, if you have some individual that 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.520 you just like to talk to who calms you down. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.880 But don't hold it in, don't internalize a lot of 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.600 this trauma and pain, because I know it's a lot. Well, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.920 you were saying that it's designed like that is what 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.360 white supremacy does. It creates so much confusion intention that 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.960 it's designed to make people lose their minds, take their lives, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.440 take the lives of others. Because the whole premise of 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.480 of white supremacy is to gain control, power and to 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:09.000 be able to maintain whatever it is that they believe 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.160 makes them period, right, And so with that being said, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.920 the only way to have control, the only way to 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.440 have power and dominion over a people, a land and 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.280 all its resources is you have to keep the people confused. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.080 You have to keep the people stressed. You have to 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.440 keep the people feeling like they can't get their bearings 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.760 because therefore they can't stop to focus on fighting the 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.240 real enemy, which is the white supremacy and the and 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.959 the institutions that uphold it. So they're doing a damn 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.880 good job. And you said that to me. When I 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.120 was telling you yesterday, I said, I'm not doing well. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.920 Today has been a bad day. I was crying off 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.560 and on after I learned that Erma Gonzalez, the teacher, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.440 one of the teachers who was killed in Texas. When 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:01.720 I learned that her husband had a heart attack and died, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:07.000 I was finished. The day before, my legs were struggling 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.840 to walk towards the top supermarket while we were in Buffalo. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.400 In Buffalo, like as I was walking, I was getting 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.160 to like I was videoing I was gonna live. There 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.080 was so much family and love and support that was 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.160 out there. We fed five people and it felt so 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.079 good to see, you know, until freedom out there partnering 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.800 with other groups and doing what we could do. But 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.680 I was trying to take the people on the phone 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.640 on the journey and bring them all the way to 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.400 Tops and I couldn't walk over there. So then you 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.560 come back and now his husband has died. It's a lie, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.480 and you said, this is what it's designed to do. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.319 It definitely is man so much, but I do want 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.000 to shine. I like the one good thing we did, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.479 like you said, we were in Buffalo, you know, um 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.040 our condolences went out to the families who lost the 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.640 loved ones in the Buffalo mass massacre, and we went 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.559 out there and we decided to partner with them Feed 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:12.440 Buffalo and our brother Trade the Truth to get some resources, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:17.920 get food, get vegetables, fruits, get all of the resources 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.480 that some of the families need, because like you said, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.680 it's a food desert. That Tops Market was the closest 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.880 market within about the twenty mile radius. So we decided 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.880 that what we would do will go out there and 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.720 make it easier for those in the community who couldn't 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.640 get or just didn't have the resources. They just try 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.920 to provide them with something of joy. There was music, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.719 There was a food truck out there which you can 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:45.400 get free food to eat, hot meals, you know, So 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.560 for me. It was a little bit of sunshine in 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:54.599 all of it. And I seen hit Sunshine Sunshine. Sorry, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.920 you know, I've seen a lot of kids out there 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.880 laughing that the music was good. It was just a 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.600 little little yeah. Elders are out there. People were happy 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.440 to see us, They hugged us, you know, they took pictures. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.400 You know, to try to provide a little bit of 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.280 positivity in this time is very necessary. We overwhelmed with negativity, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.840 and we hear all the negative things. But I'm glad 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.360 that um Our Until Freedom team were able to connect 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.839 with other people who have the same mind state and 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.520 the same hearts like we did to provide that. So 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.400 shout out to Until Freedom, shout out to trade, shout 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:42.760 out to media. Um Uh, every bottom covered feed Buffalo. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.680 I mean, there were so many out there with us. Uh. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.680 And we had our brother Jamal Crews on the I 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:55.160 guess two episodes ago on Street Politicians, and we worked 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.800 with him right immediately following that interview to set up 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.840 a time for us to go to Buffalo. And we 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.400 were there and like you said, it was a lot 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.559 of love and you know a lot of just heartfelt 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:12.120 conversations and to the point that we were talking about 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:17.360 before this, um I was doing. I was on live 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.200 because we were raising money, like right on the scene. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.840 We took people to Target for two hours while we shocked. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.920 Linda and I were there in Target putting things in 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.720 the cart. The folks were on the phone on the 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.160 lives saying, I'm sending a hundred dollars, get some more 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.400 can to tune. It's not enough tuna in the car. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.680 You need more rice. You need this, you need spaghetti sauce, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.640 you need this, you need that. People we're helping right there. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.160 We was doing it. Why because unfortunately there is this 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.679 narrative that like people aren't in the community, and and 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.000 maybe that's our fault, right, maybe because especially a person 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.319 like me, I don't use my devices all the time 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.680 to talk about what it is that I'm doing. I 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.560 don't always like to show people or even and sometimes 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.839 I kind of feel like because me and you know this, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.480 I spend a lot of my personal money donating giving. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.839 I certainly um M A M A A. I'm a 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.920 very I'm a strong donor of campaigns, local races. I 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.360 give people my personal money across the country all the time. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.800 I support organizations if something happens. I try my best 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.560 to do as much as I can, and of course 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.520 I wish I could do more, but I do spend 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.640 and try to give, donate investor, as you say, and 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.280 so I don't often talk about that. But I also 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:46.120 don't necessarily use my social media to bring a light 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.600 or to shed light on what I'm doing in the 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.800 moment um. And so I decided to do that right then, 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.160 so people could help, and they did. Folks were helping 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:01.240 us out, giving us ideas, sending um Investor mints, donations 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.600 and um and we did that all day. And then 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.000 as I was talking to this one family and they 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.520 and it was a live conversation with a mother and 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.800 her niece, UM, and they were like, you know what, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.360 we're not letting anybody lock us up. They were they 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.440 were elderly. One woman was actually on a motorbike, a 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.920 motor you know the I don't know the scooter or 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:27.440 it's not even a scooter, it's a bike. So she 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.800 was sitting there. She had all bags of groceries. We 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.640 didn't give people one thing. They had bags. People left 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.680 with five bags of baby whites and of color rocks 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:41.400 whites and canned goods and perishables and all types of things. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.320 Bread like you said, shout out to trade the truth 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.760 for the bread the vegetables. And so they were like, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.360 we're not letting anybody lock us up in our homes. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.600 And that gave me so much like joy to hear 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.480 them say that and make me feel like I could fight, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.520 because they were like, we're not We're come our song, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.880 and for the seniors that can't come, we're picking up bags, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.000 taking it down there and coming back to help them. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.160 And that is what it's all about. We can't even though, yes, 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.240 sometimes you might have to take two or three days 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.920 to sit down, get yourself together, but we're in a fight. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.080 There's a war that has been waged against us, and 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.800 we better know that we're in this war and that 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.680 they're gonna be people who are not supposed. When you 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.240 say white supremacy, what do you mean because the kid 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.960 in uh In, Texas who killed those he's not white. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.200 It's white supremacy is not about color. White supremacy, it's 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:42.280 about a the ideology. It's about systematic oppression. Right, it's 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.320 a it's it's it's bigger than just the person who's 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.800 carrying it out and that's what happens because the country 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.200 is so off the chain with mental health issues and 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:58.200 hunger and everything that's going on social media helping to 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.760 drive people crazy. You're gonna see more people acting out 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.000 these horrific incidents because folks are not in their stable 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.360 mind and that is something that we have to tackle 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.320 to do. You know, Shot once again shout out to 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.080 trade the truth. He left directly from Buffalo to go 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.800 all the way out to his hometown in Texas. He 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.480 went to your All Day you know, elementary school, and 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.640 he was out there with the families, um and he 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.360 reached out to us, and you know, we're trying to 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.320 help with some of the finances for the funerals, whatever 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.880 we can do. You know, it's a tracked it's been 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.320 a lot of tragedy. It's been so much tragedy. But 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.480 you know, people like what we do and what other 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.720 organizations which Trade does. It gives some level of solnce 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.840 knowing that there are people, individuals and a bunch of 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.680 people who wants better man, who are willing to get 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.720 on those front lines, willing to go outside, as we say, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.760 because when we say we're outside, and ain't that we 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.000 outside with the community. We work for the people, and 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.800 you know, and it's good too. It's good to be 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.000 able to after those things to come and get a 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.119 hug from somebody that you know was dealing with a 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.640 lot of trauma and paint. And when you hug them, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.640 you feel that you've you've given your energy to them 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.879 or they give you and they smile laughter because they 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.399 know someone kids. So you know, I'm I'm happy to 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.199 be a part of that process, the rebuilding process, the 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:31.440 love process, the the community process, the unity process for sure. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.120 And you know, speaking of just all the things that's happening. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:42.840 Last year, on May which was the anniversary UM of 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.400 the murder of George Floyd, something that changed the world 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:52.080 forever and ever and ever will never ever be the same. Um, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.639 we saw Joe Biden, President Biden say that he wanted 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:01.399 to UH the House to pass the George Floyd Justice 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.680 and Police and Bill, and it didn't happen. And so 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:15.240 for a whole year we've been using fighting, protesting, demanding, meeting, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:21.120 organizing to get something done. And on this week, UH 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:26.240 the anniversary again of second anniversary or yeah, the second 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.000 anniversary of George, of the murder of George Floyd. Um, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:35.000 the President signed several executive orders. Uh, and this was 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.359 a part of the George Floyd Justice and Police and Acts. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:42.879 He focused on some important things. Um, and you know, 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.040 at least we got that done. Does it go far enough? No? 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.520 First of all far enough for us. First of all, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.200 George Foyd Justice and Police and Act was not far enough, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.680 so that in and of itself did not have all 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.280 the things in it, and it wasn't as strong as 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.080 it needed to be in order to address some of 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.800 the key issues. However, there was some important things, and um, 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.040 you know, there will have time. I think what we 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.280 should do is bring maybe Congressman Jamal Bowman back to 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.760 talk through all of the different things that's in the 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.280 executive order, so we're not just talking off our head 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.520 but really looking at what these things mean. But there 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.879 was one piece that is extremely important, and that is 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.240 the registry, the National Registry. So because at this point, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.320 can you believe it were in two and there is 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:38.480 no national registerstry where a police officer who has committed 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:43.719 some act of violence, racism, excessive force, or what have you, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.520 is in a system that all over the country people 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.000 have access to it and other police departments, and so 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.080 you could get a job, you could be working over 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.879 here and then and kill somebody and then go, you know, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.879 fifty miles away and get a job on another police force, 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.600 and they will say they didn't know or they didn't 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.160 have the information, even though a lot of times they 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.840 do know and they just don't do anything about it. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.960 But the registry allows us to hold people's feet to 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.919 the fire, and it allows us to also manage and 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.280 maintain data and know what is going on with these 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.840 different offices. Now, the point that it's always a step 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.720 to process. We have to fight with local municipalities to 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:33.600 participate in the registry. And that's what makes the executive orders, um, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.399 you know, challenging, and it makes people say it's not 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:41.679 enough because these are all federal pieces of legislation that 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.080 he signed, and so it doesn't always reach us in 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.679 this on the state side the way that it needs to. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.960 So there's always fighting. There's still so much to be done. However, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.920 we demanded that the president do something, and he has 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.520 signed the executive orders. Now, one of his issues, one 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.639 of his key issues in our next our guest is 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.840 on for today, But one of his key issues is 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.960 that he did not want to do things around criminal 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:12.800 justice from an executive order perspective, because once he leaves office, 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:17.639 and especially if the Democrats do not win again, the 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:22.760 Republicans will more than likely overturn everything that he's done. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.560 And in fact, even if the Democrats are in place, 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.439 and you have a situation where the Republicans are able 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.240 to win that control of the House, and you know 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.159 right now, it's very slim, and in fact, we're the 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.119 Democrats and I'm a Democrat. Um, we're in jeopardy because 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:44.480 there are two Democrats, particularly Joe Manchin and Christian Cinema, 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.560 who vote unfortunately or especially over the last several years, 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:52.040 they have been leaning in a Republican direction. They've been 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:56.280 leaning with conservative politics. And therefore we are not as 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.520 strong as we should be with our fifty plus one. 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.560 If the plus one means we've got half of the 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:07.280 House plus one vote. Being Kamala Harris as the vice president, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.879 she has the tie breaking vote. And so if this 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.800 situation flips in any way where we lose more seats, 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.000 which in the mid term elections, I believe it is 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.959 very very very possible, and we might not win. The 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:25.199 Democrats may not win the presidency. Then everything that he 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:29.120 signed as an executive order, everything that has been signed, 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.080 it will be overturned. Um, it can be overturned, and 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:35.159 more than likely will be. And so he did not 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.080 want to do executive orders. He wanted to get real 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.960 legislation passed from the House, which would have made it permanent. 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.320 And and so these things are always a challenge. It's 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.200 not enough, and it's a whole hell of a lot 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.960 of more work to be done. And sure is man 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:53.440 but like you said, something is being done. A lot 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:55.399 of people are on the fence with this and that 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.359 for me, you know, I just understand the government in 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.879 a different manner and understand and you know, the kragmire 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.320 that we deal with. Understand that the government structure is 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.600 really not set up to favor the least of these 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.959 or the man generalized communities. It's not really set up 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:15.560 to benefit us. Right, so when you look at situations 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:19.560 like these bills, like having the past executive orders at 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.919 this point, that's really all we have. But we know 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:25.360 that that is uh. You know, it's a band aid 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.639 on a on a on a gunshot wound. You know 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:30.320 it's not gonna it's not gonna really make any change, 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:34.440 because each individual state has the ability to just say 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.960 we're not following that because it's just on the federal 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.600 level and it doesn't apply to our state. So we 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.800 understand what we're dealing with. You know, hopefully we'll get 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:46.360 to a state where we actually have real power within government, 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.560 where we have people who are willing to be radical 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.359 make radical changes, people are willing to stand on it 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.760 and and fight for what it what's necessary, and what's honorable, 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.920 and what's decent and what's you know, the right thing 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:01.000 to do. But until then, you know, we just gotta 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:04.560 take what we have to take that's right. So so 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:08.159 that talking about laws and all of that takes us 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.200 right into our next guest. Um I noticed that last 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.199 last week while we were a matter of fact, it 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:15.400 may have been this week. It has been this week. 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:19.400 It's been. I mean, stuff is just happening, man um. 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:25.600 I saw that gonna the artists when he went to court, 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:30.720 the courts denied him the right to be what is 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:33.840 it uh, what is it called? He wanted to be, wanted, 0:24:34.440 --> 0:24:36.240 he wanted to know. He was trying to get a bill, 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:39.840 and that was the word, that was the word bail. 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.800 Um So they denied it, and he um, you know, 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:46.640 has his next court date is not until sometime late 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:49.080 in January, so he would basically have to be in 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:53.119 jail all of that time. And um, you know, people 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:55.480