1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Podstream 3 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: studios here in Times Square. Folks, it seems as if 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: our bipartisan negotiations around police reform have done exactly what 5 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: we all knew it was going to do, which is 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: completely and totally combust Why is that, Well, because we 7 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: like to protect killer cops in the United States, and 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter what party you are a part of. 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: We like to believe that Democrats want to do the 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: quote unquote right thing and have qualified immunity, meaning that 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, we don't just believe police officers when they 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: say that they feared for their lives, so we don't 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: just believe police reports and that you can actually be 14 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: criminally held liable for the death of someone that you 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: have killed. But you see in the United States, which 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: you know, grew its police force out of the slave catchers, 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me that then when we finally have 18 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: a another national killing of an unarmed black person, as 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: we did in the summer of twenty twenty right on 20 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 1: the CUSP, right, we had Ahmad Aubrey, then we had 21 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: George Floyd. Then in the mixed Brionna Taylor and so 22 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: many others that were killed in that summer of uprisings, 23 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: we would say, we need to reform the police, we 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: need to defund the police. And you know, we've had 25 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: conversations about the Carcerol Cohn with the authors of that 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: book last week. Well here's what happened this week. Senator 27 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: Corey Booker and Senator Tim Scott, both Black senators, one 28 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: on one side and one on the wrong side. Their 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: talks fell apart, folks, and Corey Booker released this statement 30 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: that I want to read to you. And you know, 31 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: here's the thing. I adore Cory Booker. I think that 32 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: he's a great senator. I think that he has a 33 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: great vision of who this country could be right if 34 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: in fact we did the right things. If in fact, 35 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: every time we had an opportunity to take ten steps forward, 36 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: we wouldn't decide to take forty five steps back. But 37 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: that's what we do all the time. But this is 38 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: what he said about the bipartisan right. We love to 39 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: throw this fucking word around as if we are not 40 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with a group of domestic terrorists, but 41 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: alas let me read the statement. America has a serious 42 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: problem when it comes to discriminatory policing and excessive and 43 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: deadly force used against communities of color. We can't properly 44 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: honor the lives of the victims of this violence if 45 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: we don't take meaningful steps to prevent future violence and 46 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: deaths from occurring and make our communities safer. We made 47 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: it clear from the beginning of our negotiations that a 48 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: bill must ensure true accountability, transparency, and the policing standards 49 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: necessary to bring an end to horrific incidents of violence 50 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: Americans are routinely seeing, like the murder of George Floyd. 51 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: After months of exhausting every possible pathway to a bipartisan deal, 52 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: it remains out of reach right now, even after working 53 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: collaboratively with and securing the support of policing groups like 54 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: the Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs 55 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: of Police for our proposals. Unfortunately, even with this law 56 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: enforcement support and further compromises we offered, there was still 57 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: too wide a golf with our negotiating partners, and we 58 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: face significant obstacles to securing a bipartisan deal. The time 59 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: has come to explore all other options to achieve meaningful 60 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: and common sense policing reform. I will not stop fighting 61 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: until we achieve change that keeps our communities and police 62 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: officers safe. I got to tell you that reading that 63 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: statement by Cory Booker, I wish it wasn't filled with 64 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: so many euphemisms. I wish that Cory Booker would just 65 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: tell the truth right, because I feel like we should 66 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: be living in a time of radical honesty and radical transparency, 67 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: which is this. Republicans love police. However, they don't give 68 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: a fuck about the one hundred and sixty five police 69 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: officers that were harmed on one six in the insurrection. 70 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: They don't care about the four police officers that testified 71 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: about their post traumatic disorder. They don't care about the 72 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: police officers that took their own lives right after the 73 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: unrelenting pressure of what happened on one six. You know, 74 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: those police officers they could give a fuck about. Who 75 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: they do love, however, are the Derek Chauvin's of the world. Right. 76 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: They love those police officers that, you know, according to 77 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, can rough people up a little bit. You know, 78 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: just just do that a little bit. When you put 79 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: him into the back of the car. Don't be too nice. 80 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: That's what Donald Trump said in twenty seventeen to a 81 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: group of Suffolk County police officers on Long Island. Do 82 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: you know what was returned after he said that? Laughter? 83 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: Laughter from a largely white police force. This is the 84 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: police force of my youth, right because I grew up 85 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: in Suffolk County. So to see them giggle at the 86 00:05:53,640 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: idea of harming a citizen who pays their salary is wild. 87 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: But to believe that after headline after headline, hashtag after 88 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: hashtag stories of how police officers turned off body cameras, 89 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: how they have beaten and abused their badges, how Derek 90 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: Chauvin is now standing trial again for another time because 91 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: had he been stopped the first time he put a 92 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: knee on the neck of a fourteen year old black boy, 93 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: maybe George Floyd would still be alive today. But you 94 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: see what police departments love, and what Republicans love even 95 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: more are cover ups. They love to tell us that 96 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: good cops exist, except I wonder where the fuck they are, 97 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: because we never seemed to see any good cops around. 98 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: All we do is see more and more press conferences 99 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: about how hard it is to be a cop, and 100 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: now hard it is to distinguish these things, and that 101 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: you know, we us give them more leeway what to 102 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: have public hangings, public beatings, what to be able to 103 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: be on horseback and using whips like border patrol. We 104 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: have no system of accountability in this country. It is 105 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: why police continue to do harm to communities of color 106 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: because they know that they can. Because much in the 107 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: earlier conversation about critical race theory and the understanding of 108 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: where these systems and policies and policing come from, we 109 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: like to pretend that there is no connection to slavery 110 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: and the slave trade. We like to believe that it 111 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: is just, you know, the norm to see the loss 112 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: of black life because you know they had it coming. 113 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: It's always, well, why was he holding a cell phone 114 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: in his own backyard? To his ear, It's always why 115 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: were they sitting in a car, Why were they walking 116 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: home at the hood on? Why were they playing on 117 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: a playground, Why were they asleep in their own fucking 118 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: bad Why were they going to it for a jog 119 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: in their own neighborhood. But we never asked the police 120 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: or the white vigilante, why is it that black people 121 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: are not able to roam free in this country where 122 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: they were emancipated right centuries ago because the residue and 123 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: I don't even want to call the residue because that 124 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: would presume that most of the bad stuff is gone. No, 125 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: it is not. It is just morphed and taken different forms. 126 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: But we wanted to believe that in light of this 127 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: horrific killing that we saw with George Floyd, that something 128 00:08:52,920 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: must be done, but nothing ever is Just like earlier 129 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: this week, Madam Vice President said when asked about their 130 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: horrific photos of patient migrants being beaten, we'll have to 131 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: investigate that. What the fuck is your investigation going to 132 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: turn up? Currently? Right now, multiple police departments are under 133 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: investigation by the Department of Justice because you know, they 134 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: have a series of abuses while they continue to get 135 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: federal funding. And by federal funding, I mean your tax dollars. 136 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: They collect our money so that they can build up 137 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: their arsenals so that they can then turn them on 138 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: the American public, but particularly the black and brown American public, 139 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: because why do we need to be over policed, Well, 140 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: because we're riddled with crime. And why do you think that, Oh, 141 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: because our communities are suppressed and oppressed with poverty. And 142 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,079 Speaker 1: why is that? Oh, because there is no investment that 143 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: is given into those places. And oh well why is that? Well, 144 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: you know, when your grandfathers and great grandfathers are able 145 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: to get loans to buy homes and start businesses. You know, 146 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: our ancestors were denied that. And so then how does 147 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: that all build on to where the fuck we are today? 148 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: So is it a surprise that the talks broke down? 149 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: Is it a surprise that we can't come to the 150 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: table to make sure that klu klux Klan members in 151 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: blue police uniforms and badges can't just run a muck 152 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: and kill every black person that they see, all claiming 153 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 1: that they're fearful. I am exhausted by the performance that 154 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: we have been fed that somehow we can spend months 155 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: twirling around while more people are turned into hashtags. There's 156 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: no fear from police officers that they'll lose their jobs. 157 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: There's no fear from police officers that their whole districts 158 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: will be shut down, and they're funding rerouted to Let's say, oh, 159 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,199 Speaker 1: I don't know the public school system, or community investment, 160 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: or healthcare or any of those things. No, because as 161 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: long as we can continue to feed the lie that 162 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: defunding the police means that people will be less safe, 163 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: while I ask you go into those communities that are 164 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 1: over policed and under resource and ask them how fucking 165 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: safe they feel. Police don't stop crime, they cause it, 166 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: and they show up after the fact. That is a pattern. 167 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: You can read that in any report and study. It's 168 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: a disgrace that we've wasted so much time on something 169 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: that we knew was never going to happen to begin with. 170 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: It's why when we watched as a nation the trial 171 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: of Derek Chauvin, where like, oh my god, withholding bated breath, 172 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 1: finally somebody is going to be held accountable. And then 173 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: that motherfucker had the audacity to try and appeal. We 174 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: saw you. But what they love to feed us in 175 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: the mainstream media is that you know, he is one 176 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:19,479 Speaker 1: bad apple. He is one bad apple from a spoiled 177 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: orchard that reaches across from sea to shining sea. In 178 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: this country. Nothing will be done about the other Derek 179 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: Chauvin's of the world, because you know, there was a 180 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: breakdown in our bipartisan performative action. I am so over 181 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with Republicans, trying to negotiate with these 182 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: domestic terrorists to do anything. Mitch McConnell came out again 183 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: this week. My one mission is to stop Joe Biden. 184 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: Know your one mission is to stop America, full stop. Period. 185 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: This isn't democrat versus Republican, this isn't any of that. 186 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: These evil, cruel, white supremist, misogynist, racist people. They believe 187 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: that they can steal their country back from the grips 188 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: of anti racism, from the grips of progress, and that 189 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: is what they will do, and that is what we 190 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: continue to allow them to do without any critical, massive, 191 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: organized pushback. They'll keep going until there is nothing left 192 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: unless we take some notes from the young people in 193 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: Central York and decide that we've had enough and that 194 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 1: their voices are not representative of us. And it is 195 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 1: not one march and done. It is strategic and unrelenting 196 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: pushing forward, challenge the mansions and the cinemas. I don't 197 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: give a fuck if they lose their seats and are 198 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: replaced with the Republicans for the short term. What I 199 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: am interested in is the long term preservation of our democracy, 200 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: which is on a crash course right now, a collision 201 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: course with white supremacy, and it seems that there are 202 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: no breaks to be found anywhere. We are the breaks, 203 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: dear friends, It is up to us to do something 204 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: about the destructive forces that are at play right now 205 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: and stop pretending that any one of them are on 206 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: our side when we know it to be untrue. That 207 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: is it for today's woga F Daily Podcast. 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