WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 040922 Black Florida Hotel Clerk Arrested After Calling Police (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.040 And now moved my mic back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.080 You're like that. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.840 Strike waters from headquarters behind him. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.600 And if you're just tuning into Civic Sipher, I'm your host, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:16.840 ramses Jah. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:18.800 I go by the name q ward List. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.479 Indeed, we should to stick around. We got a lot 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.239 more to talk about. Not the least of rich is 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:30.680 body camera footage that we had to review comes from 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.680 Fort Lauderdale, and we were talking about a hotel clerk 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.960 who was arrested after calling the police on one of 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.240 his guests. We're also going to talk about the Harlem 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.880 hell Fighters for our way Black History fact and first 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.239 we are going to talk about how to become a 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:53.440 better ally. And so sometimes we get to say some 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.800 cool stuff and this is one of those times. So 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:00.960 I'm happy to say this. On this show, we've you know, 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.760 people ask us all the time, how do we support 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.319 what you're doing? How do we support our African American 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.200 brothers and sisters? How do we do this sort of stuff? 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.679 On this show, we've mentioned the NAACP and their efforts 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.399 recent efforts to combat the voter suppression initiatives across the country. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.520 Well got an email today says thanks to the support 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.360 of our incredible NAACP network. Florida's unconstitutional and racially motivated 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.319 election law changes have been struck down, and that's not 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.560 all and a win for the Voting Rights Act. Florida 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.520 is now barred for making any changes to its election 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.479 law for the next decade without federal approval, in order 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:41.600 to stop future attempts to silence black voters. That has 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.919 a lot to do with people like you, people listening 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.320 to the show, people making donations. You know, if you 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.960 can't get out there, knock on doors, if the conversations 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.760 don't come your way, and you can't change the minds 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.880 of the people in your social circle and your family, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:02.160 maybe you can make a donation. And you know, money 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.360 makes the world go round, you know, And the truth 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.280 is you might have a lot more fiscal resources than 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.560 your African American brothers and sisters. And so that's one 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.720 way that we always suggest that you can help that 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.280 is meaningful, it's impactful. I do want to mention while 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.079 we're here for this show, you can become a Patreon. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.639 You can donate through our websites off excipher dot com. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.200 We have been growing as well, and it's largely due 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.840 to the fiscal support of our listenership, but just you 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.160 tuning in, listening sharing the content that goes a long 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.760 way too. We do want to mention this. If you 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.840 want to continue to support the NAACP, they're taking on 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.280 niches in Alabama and other places as well. Visit NAACP 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:54.280 dot org, slash donate and make a donation. Now let's 0:02:54.320 --> 0:03:03.280 talk about this video. This comes from the Grio. Body 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.640 camera footage recently released by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.760 shows officers pushing a hotel employee who called them for 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:15.400 help after a customer attacked him. According to a video 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.440 report from NBC News, the incident occurred in January at 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.320 a Best Western Plus hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.720 the video of it has gone viral after being shared 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.960 by civil rights attorney ben Jamin Crump. Quote, hotel employee 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.200 Raymond Raschal tried to exercise his right to cancel a 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.360 white hotel guest stay for spewing racial slurs at him, 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.840 but Fort Lauderdale police officers allowed the man to stay, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.240 and Raschal was attacked arrested in charge for defending himself, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:48.000 Crump wrote. Crump's tweet contradicts police records, as NBC reported 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:53.640 the white alleged assailant, Jason Rabe, did not stay in 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.080 the hotel. The incident, captured by security cameras and police 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.200 body cams, involved two separate leducations, and the first conference tation, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:07.880 police officers forced Rabe to leave the hotel. WSBN previously reported. However, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.640 the report also notes that Rabe, who is white and 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.640 who instigated the altercation, was visibly drunk. He was charged 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.440 with trespassing and giving a given a courtesy ride to 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.560 a friend's house. NBC reported. In the second confrontation, police 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.919 shows Rachall sitting at a desk when Rube returns to 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.040 the hotel after police have left, and he charges toward Rachelle. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.839 Raschall has heard saying that he has been attacked and 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.920 he has to defend himself. The NBC report features excerpts 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.360 from the police report where Fort Lauderdale police returned for 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.599 the second time. In that footage, an officer is seen 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.479 pushing Rachelle and arresting him, charging him with disorderly conduct 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.120 and resisting an officer with violence. The charges were eventually 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.960 dropped by the state attorney's office one month after the incident. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:55.720 According to WSBN News, now had to tell the full story. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:02.440 But Q sent me this video earlier this week, sent 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.080 it to my inbox. Q said, we have to talk 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:12.120 about this. We have to breathe life into the experience, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:27.120 the black experience in this country, and I agreed. You know, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.920 the show has grown in a lot of significant ways, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.800 and so we don't always get to do stories like this, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.880 but this one stood out, and I know why. But 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.120 I will let Q explain why this one stood out, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.039 because this is kind of the origin story of this 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.559 coming our way this week. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:51.000 Imagine driving down the street what would be considered a 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.000 benign day. You just got off of work, stopped at 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.560 the grocery store, you got some milk, and you turn 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.400 out of the parking lot and onto a main street, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:04.080 and there's a cop car behind you. For some people, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.599 that just feels like driving home. For people that look 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:15.320 like us, that is a terrifying experience in and of itself. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:22.680 We have to hope that we survive driving home from 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.920 work with a cop car behind us, because we understand 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.800 that stories like this are not isolated. Because we are 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.640 the police, and because you look like you, if we 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.880 feel like beating you up, you have to allow that 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.839 because if you don't. We're going to charge you with 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:50.920 resisting with violence for simply trying to protect yourself. If 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.120 we pull you over and we want to conduct an 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.680 unlawful search or seizure, you should probably let us do 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.520 that too, because you don't want to make yourself our 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.760 adversary just because we're annoyed or having a bad day. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.000 Because that's what they've said before, he was having a 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.560 bad day. We really could just shoot you. And if 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.480 we present to an attorney one representing the city, state 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.440 of municipality that you live in, that we were scared 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.240 for our lives even though you had no weapon, imposed us, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:28.040 no threat, they might not even see fit to press charges, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:35.520 let alone get a conviction. This young man, after he 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:41.960 called the police, was then assaulted by the police and 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:47.320 then charged for it. Now this should sound ridiculous if 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.320 you're listening to this, and I think most people would 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.920 like to think that instances like this are isolated and 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.480 they're just a couple of bad apples, But rams is denied. Unfortunately, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.400 by the nature of the job. We do have seen 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.680 far more footage than we get to share. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.360 With you, and this is the recorded stuff. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.720 Yeah, most of the require more bad actors than everyone 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.680 would like to admit. And when these bad actors make 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.120 a mistake, and you have to understand how charitable we're 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.880 being by calling all of these incidences of murder a mistake. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.600 We're being very charitable. You guys think it's coincidence that 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.600 very large numbers of these victims whose families get no 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:37.760 justice look like Ramses and I. And then we have 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.880 to also believe that every time that that person really 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.280 was trying to do the right thing and just slipped 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.120 up and made a mistake, it is not by chance 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.480 that these people are not convicted, that charges are not 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:58.640 even pursued. That becomes the reality for people that look 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.880 like us in a country that we love to be 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.760 in that has proven over and over again that it 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.920 does not love to have us here. And we have 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.200 to still sing proud to be an American when it plays, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.640 and still stand for the anthem and still proclaim this 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.920 country the greatest? How dare we question it? 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:19.400 Be it not? 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.200 Just go back to where you're from, except where six 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.760 generations deep here not that far removed from most of 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:33.880 you whose ancestors also came from somewhere else. So when 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.719 you start down this rabbit hole of history and patterns 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.280 that repeat themselves and that not have not, by any 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.400 fracture of measurement, decreased much over the last hundred years. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.880 It is very, very difficult to sit in the position 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:55.000 of Ramses, who is the eternal optimist and hopeful and 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.240 it sees the best that this country is and can be, 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.080 when sitting across the table from someone like myself who 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.000 is just really exhausted with being disappointed by the same 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.800 things over and over again. In this case, this young 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:15.040 man didn't die, thank God, But imagine having to have 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:20.680 zero dignity when faced with something that's just grossly unfair 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:26.480 and obviously unfair to anyone who won't pretend that these 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:32.120 things are random. You cannot have dignity or self respect. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:37.280 You cannot demand that your rights be upheld, and you 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:38.920 have to hope. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:39.840 As I said. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.440 Before, even in the most benign situations, you forgot to 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.760 put your blinker on before you change lanes, or someone 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.880 assaulted you and you called the cops. When the cops arrived, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.120 you have to pray that you survive that interaction. You 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:03.079 have to understand what that does to the the mental 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.480 space of a person that has to live under that 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.200 amount of pressure every day and in the event that 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.480 the trained professional with the killing machine. Because Ramses says 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.440 that all the time, he's not being dramatic, there is 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.839 no other purpose for the weapon than to kill. Right, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.520 the nightstick or any type of baton could be used 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.720 to subdue or just harm, or just cripple or just 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.400 slow down a person. The gun is meant to kill. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.320 So the person that's licensed to carry and trained. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.920 He put air quotes when he said trained, is the 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.640 person that gets to make the fatal mistake over and over. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.600 Because please get this, please have this in your mind correctly. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.280 If the cop shows up on the no knock warrant 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.679 and the cops murder and not the person who sleep 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.800 on the couch, that person's going. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.920 To jail under the jail cops don't get. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.559 Their justice right there on the spot. Yeah, and then 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.839 not go to jail themselves because now they've proven their point. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:10.800 Yeah. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.560 This is the pattern that people that look like me 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.720 are forced to live inside of in the greatest country 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:19.920 in the world. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:26.839 Now you might be listening to this and think, now, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:32.520 most like the police are not the biggest enemy of 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:39.240 black people. There's other things. There's socioeconomic conditions, there's you know, whatever, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.080 whatever thing that you have in your brain as a 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.000 much bigger issue for black people to tackle. And you know, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.120 I won't even say that you're wrong. You probably are, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.760 but I won't say it for this purpose, for our 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.280 purposes right now. But I think the Q you bring 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:04.319 up a great point because the psychological implications of knowing 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.079 that there will be no justice, that these people can 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.080 show up and even if you're the good guy, the 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.360 person that called the police, they can still treat you 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.440 like the bad guy. Like what that does to your psyche, 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.160 to your self image or self concept of who you are? 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.160 What prospects do you have? You know, am I worthy 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.160 of growing? Developing? You know, you know those sorts of things. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:40.440 It's impossible to fully explain the impact that that has. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.840 You know, you went to school, and I went to school, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:48.800 and you know what, the teachers they love the students. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.680 Right now, Imagine if the teachers loved only some of 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.800 the students and they treated the rest of the students back, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.520 what that would do to them psychologically. Now, let's swap 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.280 out teachers, because you know, not too far away from there, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.320 when you learn what the fireman does and of course 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.000 what the teacher does you learn what the police officer does. Right. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.720 So these are the people that you feel hold up 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:11.439 a society. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:12.240 Right. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.200 So when you see over and over again, I saw 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.520 this since I was little. The police were the people 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.800 stealing from the pockets of the people that they had 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:27.000 in handcuffs. I saw it happen. They would take the 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.080 money and then they would put it in their pockets. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.880 It didn't go in evidence bags anything like that. And 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.240 once they took the money, they took the handcuffs off, 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.520 and then they let them go. I saw it happen. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.720 That was stealing, right. And you can say, hey, as 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.880 just those police officers in Compton, California makes sense. Not 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.480 all police officers are like that. But the point I'm 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:54.000 making is that we have seen, we have experienced these things. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.200 And imagine what it does to you psychologically to know that. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.360 Just me, you know, I'll I'm almost forty years old, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.760 I'm thirty nine years old. I saw this video of 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:11.480 this man calling the police after subduing a drunk guy 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.120 that came into his hotel as he was working. He 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.040 was working, the guy walked in and he had to 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.000 get up and defend himself and subdue the guy. Call 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:25.400 the police. The police show up and put him in handcuffs. Right. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.560 We saw the video the other day, two kids fighting 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.200 in the mall. The police set the white kid down 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.600 on the bench, the big him up the black kid. Right, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:43.520 this is our reality, and so you say things like, well, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.240 you know, there are bigger challenges. There's you know, we 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.200 really don't like that black on black crime narrative around here, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:56.240 because there are things that have a positive and a 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:01.320 negative correlation with violent crimes around the country, you know, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.920 and most of the people live near people that look 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.400 like them. So there is such a thing as white 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.400 on white crime if you want to have that argument, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.880 But no one talks about it, no one sensationalizes it, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.040 because it's just a way that the media and politicians 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.200 can shift the narrative away from what their real responsibilities 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:24.640 are and try to put the responsibilities of the conditions 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.440 that black people live in on themselves, and they don't 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:33.000 take into account even governmental policies redlining. That's the precursor 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.400 to a lot of things that happen in this country. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.320 You know, why crime rates might be hiring this neighborhood 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.640 than that neighborhood, you know, and I know that might 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.880 be some high level stuff. If you're just casually listening 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.800 to the show, I employ you to look it up, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.040 you know, just google YouTube video on redlining. If you 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.800 really want to do right by your African American and 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.360 Native American and Hispanic brothers and sisters in this country, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.400 just google redlining and then start down that rabbit hole, 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.600 because that's facts and they'll tell you what you need 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:09.359 to know. Now, Public Enemy, it's so good that were 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.199 on hip hop stations. Man, I love it because at 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.680 least we can make some connection to our listenership that 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.240 you know might land, you know, and to all the 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.200 stations that aren't hip hop stations. If you're listening and 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.159 hip hop's not your thing, you still appreciate you just 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.760 to say you might even know who Public Enemy is. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.679 Public Enemy had a song came out when I was 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.560 really little, So if you don't know about it, it's 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.720 all good, but listen up or check it out. Rather 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.520 it's called nine to one. One is a joke, right. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.480 NWA of course has a famous song called f the Police, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.200 and that song has been remade a bunch of times, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:54.639 and you know, basically there's a lot of there's a 0:17:54.640 --> 0:18:00.840 lot of hip hop artists that have expressed how the 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.440 police look in our stories. Right. But the long and 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:09.560 the short of it is, there is a culture in 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.919 Black America where we especially when you come from like 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:17.560 certain neighborhoods Detroit, Michigan, for instance, shout out to that 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.480 motor one time, the three one three qore putting that 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.359 sign up for y'all. And you know, I'm from Compton, California. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.800 You know, people from Chicago South Side, people from you know, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.520 Fort Lauderdale, people from Atlanta, the atl people from you know, 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:40.320 places like this where we don't call the police for 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:48.240 what so they can make it worse. Uh, one time recently, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.520 I'm going to share this story. One time recently in 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.600 my life. This might have been I guess it wasn't 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.120 real recent, but recent for me with respect to calling 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.680 the police, we'll call it seven years ago, maybe a 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.959 little more than that. I had to call the police. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:11.639 I had a situation with a person and she was 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.760 very angry with me for no reason. She was just 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:24.280 kind of having an episode. Nothing happened, nothing crazy. Still 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.720 someone that I interact with on a regular basis, but 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.240 in that moment, she was kind of making a big 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:35.520 deal out of nothing, and't wasn't aware that it was 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.560 nothing in that moment, I didn't even know what the 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.359 problem was, you know, and she just kind of reacted physically, right, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.000 So I started getting hit and punched and you know, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.960 so forth, and this person ended up cutting my face. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.720 For those that see me, I wear a beard, pretty 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.159 substantial beard. The result that this substantial beard is I 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.919 had to have surgery on my face from this altercation. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.000 And as she's yelling and screaming. You know, I have neighbors. 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.600 My neighbors know I'm black. Last thing I need. This 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.200 is the way the world feels to me. You guys 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:10.879 hear me every week, right, you know I'm not an 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.640 awful person. I hope you think that, you know, But 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.880 the reality is I have to be mindful of things 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:20.879 that maybe you don't. Right. So, my neighbors, you know, 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:22.439 I don't know what they're afraid of. I don't know 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.239 what prejudices or stereotypes they have, but I know if 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.320 they hear a woman screaming in my house and things 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.080 banging on the wall, that they might assume the worst. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.680 They might assume she's the one getting hurt and call 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.719 the police, and the police show up, and then I 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.320 don't have a leg to stand on because it doesn't 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.000 matter because she could say anything, right, so I can 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.520 read the play in the beginning, right. So as soon 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.359 as I my face got cut up and then I 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.680 started bleeding everywhere, I was like, well, it's probably time 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.639 for me to leave, right, So I gathered up the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.639 things that I could gather that I was hoping she 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.840 wouldn't destroy, some cash, you know, some jewelry that I had, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.720 and so for pocketed it all and left my own 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.240 house that I pay the bills and left her here 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.880 by herself. It's totally fine, you know, I needed to leave. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.760 I drove to a circle k. You know I live 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:13.520 in Arizona. Circle k's are out here, so I drove 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.480 to It's basically like a convenience store, gas station, corner 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.560 store sort of thing for those that don't know. Drove 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:27.240 to a circle K and called the police terrified, But 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.199 I had a little bit of game, And what I 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.160 did was I called nine to one one. I explained 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:38.960 to them calmly what happened, right, I told them, I'm 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.960 at this store, this circle K on the corner of 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.440 this street and this other street. It's well lit. I'm 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:49.840 in a black range rover, I'm wearing these clothes. I 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.520 am the good guy, and I don't have any weapons, 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:57.760 and you know, feel free to come and approach. And 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.400 you know, they came and went off without incident. They 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.159 took pictures and all this sort of stuff. And that 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:03.720 was the reason why I needed to call them, is 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:05.800 because I needed to make sure that I had enough 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.359 evidence to prove that I was in fact injured and 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:16.800 still actively bleeding, and that a different narrative couldn't get 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:21.200 chronicled on the other side of that. But imagine those steps. 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.840 I can't call from my own home because I'm afraid 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:26.399 that if they show up here and they see this 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.679 woman here and they see me, then it's going to 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:30.560 be a problem. Now, I know that was a super 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.760 duper personal story, and I hope that I didn't freak 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.520 anybody out. Nothing happened. Obviously, me and this person were 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:41.760 still cool. It was a mental breakdown episode, and then 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.080 once all the information came out, everything was fine and 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.439 there was a ton of apologies. But the point of 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.760 that story is to explain why calling the police is 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:54.200 a dangerous thing. You know, I remember speaking to my 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:56.720 lawyer at that time and she, my lawyer, told me, 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:58.480 she's like, I'm so glad you didn't call the police, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.440 because all they need to do is hear something from 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.919 a neighbor, from anything like that, and they'll put you 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:08.040 under two jails. She said, it just like that. So 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:13.880 for this young man at this hotel in Fort Lauderdale, 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:15.560 let me say his name again, where did I put 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:24.480 his name? Rashall for him? I understand why you needed 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.879 to call the police, and I feel bad that it 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:31.120 didn't go the way that you had hoped, but I recognized, 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.680 as you probably did, that there was perhaps a small 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:35.639 chance of it working out in that way. Anyway. With 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:37.760 that said, you probably didn't have much in the way 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:45.080 of options. So that's that. Moving on, it's time for 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:52.960 the Way Black History fact. This comes from abcnews dot Com. Today. 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.280 We're going to be talking about the Harlem hell Fighters. 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:59.040 These guys are awesome. I loved kind of putting a 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.239 little bit of research into this one, so yeah, buckle up, 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:07.520 all right, New York City. The three hundred and sixty 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.720 ninth Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem Health Fighters, were the 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.760 first African American Regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:18.040 Force in World War One. Their accomplishments and heroism stood 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:21.000 in star contrast to the racism and discrimination they faced 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:25.000 on the home front. Their story has largely been overlooked 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.680 in mainstream US history. Shout out to us one time, 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.879 Shout out to civic cipher, because we're here to make 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.560 sure it doesn't get overlooked anymore. All right, your way, 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:38.280 black history effect. All right, I'll continue now one hundred 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:40.160 and three years act to the regiment service in World 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.760 War One. It will receive Congress's highest award, the Congressional 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:47.520 Gold Medal. The House and Senate voted unanimously to honor 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.320 the health Fighters, and President Joe Biden signed HR thirty 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:53.920 six forty two, the Harlem Health Fighters Congressional Gold Medal Act, 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:58.880 into law. That happened last year. Okay. In nineteen sixteen, 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:01.680 New York Governor Charles Whitmen formed the fifteenth New York 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:04.879 Colored National Guard Regiment, which became the three hundred and 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:08.320 sixty ninth Infantry Regiment after the US entered World War One. 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.000 The majority of the men were from Harlem. In their 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.440 ranks were hotel porters, mailmen, and doormen. The men were 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:19.400