Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Podstream
Speaker 1: studios here in Times Square. Folks, it seems as if
Speaker 1: our bipartisan negotiations around police reform have done exactly what
Speaker 1: we all knew it was going to do, which is
Speaker 1: completely and totally combust Why is that, Well, because we
Speaker 1: like to protect killer cops in the United States, and
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter what party you are a part of.
Speaker 1: We like to believe that Democrats want to do the
Speaker 1: quote unquote right thing and have qualified immunity, meaning that
Speaker 1: you know, we don't just believe police officers when they
Speaker 1: say that they feared for their lives, so we don't
Speaker 1: just believe police reports and that you can actually be
Speaker 1: criminally held liable for the death of someone that you
Speaker 1: have killed. But you see in the United States, which
Speaker 1: you know, grew its police force out of the slave catchers,
Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me that then when we finally have
Speaker 1: a another national killing of an unarmed black person, as
Speaker 1: we did in the summer of twenty twenty right on
Speaker 1: the CUSP, right, we had Ahmad Aubrey, then we had
Speaker 1: George Floyd. Then in the mixed Brionna Taylor and so
Speaker 1: many others that were killed in that summer of uprisings,
Speaker 1: we would say, we need to reform the police, we
Speaker 1: need to defund the police. And you know, we've had
Speaker 1: conversations about the Carcerol Cohn with the authors of that
Speaker 1: book last week. Well here's what happened this week. Senator
Speaker 1: Corey Booker and Senator Tim Scott, both Black senators, one
Speaker 1: on one side and one on the wrong side. Their
Speaker 1: talks fell apart, folks, and Corey Booker released this statement
Speaker 1: that I want to read to you. And you know,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I adore Cory Booker. I think that
Speaker 1: he's a great senator. I think that he has a
Speaker 1: great vision of who this country could be right if
Speaker 1: in fact we did the right things. If in fact,
Speaker 1: every time we had an opportunity to take ten steps forward,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't decide to take forty five steps back. But
Speaker 1: that's what we do all the time. But this is
Speaker 1: what he said about the bipartisan right. We love to
Speaker 1: throw this fucking word around as if we are not
Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with a group of domestic terrorists, but
Speaker 1: alas let me read the statement. America has a serious
Speaker 1: problem when it comes to discriminatory policing and excessive and
Speaker 1: deadly force used against communities of color. We can't properly
Speaker 1: honor the lives of the victims of this violence if
Speaker 1: we don't take meaningful steps to prevent future violence and
Speaker 1: deaths from occurring and make our communities safer. We made
Speaker 1: it clear from the beginning of our negotiations that a
Speaker 1: bill must ensure true accountability, transparency, and the policing standards
Speaker 1: necessary to bring an end to horrific incidents of violence
Speaker 1: Americans are routinely seeing, like the murder of George Floyd.
Speaker 1: After months of exhausting every possible pathway to a bipartisan deal,
Speaker 1: it remains out of reach right now, even after working
Speaker 1: collaboratively with and securing the support of policing groups like
Speaker 1: the Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs
Speaker 1: of Police for our proposals. Unfortunately, even with this law
Speaker 1: enforcement support and further compromises we offered, there was still
Speaker 1: too wide a golf with our negotiating partners, and we
Speaker 1: face significant obstacles to securing a bipartisan deal. The time
Speaker 1: has come to explore all other options to achieve meaningful
Speaker 1: and common sense policing reform. I will not stop fighting
Speaker 1: until we achieve change that keeps our communities and police
Speaker 1: officers safe. I got to tell you that reading that
Speaker 1: statement by Cory Booker, I wish it wasn't filled with
Speaker 1: so many euphemisms. I wish that Cory Booker would just
Speaker 1: tell the truth right, because I feel like we should
Speaker 1: be living in a time of radical honesty and radical transparency,
Speaker 1: which is this. Republicans love police. However, they don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck about the one hundred and sixty five police
Speaker 1: officers that were harmed on one six in the insurrection.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the four police officers that testified
Speaker 1: about their post traumatic disorder. They don't care about the
Speaker 1: police officers that took their own lives right after the
Speaker 1: unrelenting pressure of what happened on one six. You know,
Speaker 1: those police officers they could give a fuck about. Who
Speaker 1: they do love, however, are the Derek Chauvin's of the world. Right.
Speaker 1: They love those police officers that, you know, according to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, can rough people up a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: just just do that a little bit. When you put
Speaker 1: him into the back of the car. Don't be too nice.
Speaker 1: That's what Donald Trump said in twenty seventeen to a
Speaker 1: group of Suffolk County police officers on Long Island. Do
Speaker 1: you know what was returned after he said that? Laughter?
Speaker 1: Laughter from a largely white police force. This is the
Speaker 1: police force of my youth, right because I grew up
Speaker 1: in Suffolk County. So to see them giggle at the
Speaker 1: idea of harming a citizen who pays their salary is wild.
Speaker 1: But to believe that after headline after headline, hashtag after
Speaker 1: hashtag stories of how police officers turned off body cameras,
Speaker 1: how they have beaten and abused their badges, how Derek
Speaker 1: Chauvin is now standing trial again for another time because
Speaker 1: had he been stopped the first time he put a
Speaker 1: knee on the neck of a fourteen year old black boy,
Speaker 1: maybe George Floyd would still be alive today. But you
Speaker 1: see what police departments love, and what Republicans love even
Speaker 1: more are cover ups. They love to tell us that
Speaker 1: good cops exist, except I wonder where the fuck they are,
Speaker 1: because we never seemed to see any good cops around.
Speaker 1: All we do is see more and more press conferences
Speaker 1: about how hard it is to be a cop, and
Speaker 1: now hard it is to distinguish these things, and that
Speaker 1: you know, we us give them more leeway what to
Speaker 1: have public hangings, public beatings, what to be able to
Speaker 1: be on horseback and using whips like border patrol. We
Speaker 1: have no system of accountability in this country. It is
Speaker 1: why police continue to do harm to communities of color
Speaker 1: because they know that they can. Because much in the
Speaker 1: earlier conversation about critical race theory and the understanding of
Speaker 1: where these systems and policies and policing come from, we
Speaker 1: like to pretend that there is no connection to slavery
Speaker 1: and the slave trade. We like to believe that it
Speaker 1: is just, you know, the norm to see the loss
Speaker 1: of black life because you know they had it coming.
Speaker 1: It's always, well, why was he holding a cell phone
Speaker 1: in his own backyard? To his ear, It's always why
Speaker 1: were they sitting in a car, Why were they walking
Speaker 1: home at the hood on? Why were they playing on
Speaker 1: a playground, Why were they asleep in their own fucking
Speaker 1: bad Why were they going to it for a jog
Speaker 1: in their own neighborhood. But we never asked the police
Speaker 1: or the white vigilante, why is it that black people
Speaker 1: are not able to roam free in this country where
Speaker 1: they were emancipated right centuries ago because the residue and
Speaker 1: I don't even want to call the residue because that
Speaker 1: would presume that most of the bad stuff is gone. No,
Speaker 1: it is not. It is just morphed and taken different forms.
Speaker 1: But we wanted to believe that in light of this
Speaker 1: horrific killing that we saw with George Floyd, that something
Speaker 1: must be done, but nothing ever is Just like earlier
Speaker 1: this week, Madam Vice President said when asked about their
Speaker 1: horrific photos of patient migrants being beaten, we'll have to
Speaker 1: investigate that. What the fuck is your investigation going to
Speaker 1: turn up? Currently? Right now, multiple police departments are under
Speaker 1: investigation by the Department of Justice because you know, they
Speaker 1: have a series of abuses while they continue to get
Speaker 1: federal funding. And by federal funding, I mean your tax dollars.
Speaker 1: They collect our money so that they can build up
Speaker 1: their arsenals so that they can then turn them on
Speaker 1: the American public, but particularly the black and brown American public,
Speaker 1: because why do we need to be over policed, Well,
Speaker 1: because we're riddled with crime. And why do you think that, Oh,
Speaker 1: because our communities are suppressed and oppressed with poverty. And
Speaker 1: why is that? Oh, because there is no investment that
Speaker 1: is given into those places. And oh well why is that? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, when your grandfathers and great grandfathers are able
Speaker 1: to get loans to buy homes and start businesses. You know,
Speaker 1: our ancestors were denied that. And so then how does
Speaker 1: that all build on to where the fuck we are today?
Speaker 1: So is it a surprise that the talks broke down?
Speaker 1: Is it a surprise that we can't come to the
Speaker 1: table to make sure that klu klux Klan members in
Speaker 1: blue police uniforms and badges can't just run a muck
Speaker 1: and kill every black person that they see, all claiming
Speaker 1: that they're fearful. I am exhausted by the performance that
Speaker 1: we have been fed that somehow we can spend months
Speaker 1: twirling around while more people are turned into hashtags. There's
Speaker 1: no fear from police officers that they'll lose their jobs.
Speaker 1: There's no fear from police officers that their whole districts
Speaker 1: will be shut down, and they're funding rerouted to Let's say, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know the public school system, or community investment,
Speaker 1: or healthcare or any of those things. No, because as
Speaker 1: long as we can continue to feed the lie that
Speaker 1: defunding the police means that people will be less safe,
Speaker 1: while I ask you go into those communities that are
Speaker 1: over policed and under resource and ask them how fucking
Speaker 1: safe they feel. Police don't stop crime, they cause it,
Speaker 1: and they show up after the fact. That is a pattern.
Speaker 1: You can read that in any report and study. It's
Speaker 1: a disgrace that we've wasted so much time on something
Speaker 1: that we knew was never going to happen to begin with.
Speaker 1: It's why when we watched as a nation the trial
Speaker 1: of Derek Chauvin, where like, oh my god, withholding bated breath,
Speaker 1: finally somebody is going to be held accountable. And then
Speaker 1: that motherfucker had the audacity to try and appeal. We
Speaker 1: saw you. But what they love to feed us in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media is that you know, he is one
Speaker 1: bad apple. He is one bad apple from a spoiled
Speaker 1: orchard that reaches across from sea to shining sea. In
Speaker 1: this country. Nothing will be done about the other Derek
Speaker 1: Chauvin's of the world, because you know, there was a
Speaker 1: breakdown in our bipartisan performative action. I am so over
Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with Republicans, trying to negotiate with these
Speaker 1: domestic terrorists to do anything. Mitch McConnell came out again
Speaker 1: this week. My one mission is to stop Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Know your one mission is to stop America, full stop. Period.
Speaker 1: This isn't democrat versus Republican, this isn't any of that.
Speaker 1: These evil, cruel, white supremist, misogynist, racist people. They believe
Speaker 1: that they can steal their country back from the grips
Speaker 1: of anti racism, from the grips of progress, and that
Speaker 1: is what they will do, and that is what we
Speaker 1: continue to allow them to do without any critical, massive,
Speaker 1: organized pushback. They'll keep going until there is nothing left
Speaker 1: unless we take some notes from the young people in
Speaker 1: Central York and decide that we've had enough and that
Speaker 1: their voices are not representative of us. And it is
Speaker 1: not one march and done. It is strategic and unrelenting
Speaker 1: pushing forward, challenge the mansions and the cinemas. I don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck if they lose their seats and are
Speaker 1: replaced with the Republicans for the short term. What I
Speaker 1: am interested in is the long term preservation of our democracy,
Speaker 1: which is on a crash course right now, a collision
Speaker 1: course with white supremacy, and it seems that there are
Speaker 1: no breaks to be found anywhere. We are the breaks,
Speaker 1: dear friends, It is up to us to do something
Speaker 1: about the destructive forces that are at play right now
Speaker 1: and stop pretending that any one of them are on
Speaker 1: our side when we know it to be untrue. That
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