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Speaker 3: All right, everyone, this is our mini pod is Native
Speaker 3: LAMPI Welcome home, y'all. I'm Angela, right with Tiffany Cross
Speaker 3: and Andrew gillim and today we were talking about a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff in this mini pod.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well the one thing I want to talk
Speaker 4: about because we've got some serious stuff to get too.
Speaker 4: But in our main podcast, Angela sent an email that
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have looked at because I should be focused
Speaker 4: on you guys, but I just blanked down because it
Speaker 4: popped up on my computer. Angela was invited to appear
Speaker 4: on MSNBC, and she responded, and I'm going to read
Speaker 4: that email for our Hi Blank, I won't say the
Speaker 4: person's name, Hi Blank. I was devastated by the untimely,
Speaker 4: unfortunate dismissal of my friend joy read I will not
Speaker 4: likely be making any appearance on MSNBC in the foreseeable future.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Angela, RII I do thank you for the offer.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the offer, which, if you read black
Speaker 4: Women Speak, is your fine pretty much whatever? Why do
Speaker 4: you want to say it?
Speaker 5: But why I.
Speaker 4: Found this so hilarious is because the temerity of them
Speaker 4: to even.
Speaker 5: Ask why why would she.
Speaker 4: Clearly because she said hey, following up on the request,
Speaker 4: I was trying to yeah, no, But I just think
Speaker 4: that is it's a I don't know what to do
Speaker 4: with myself because I spent my whole career building this
Speaker 4: and it is really a dying industry. So I don't
Speaker 4: even know what to do with myself. But it's like
Speaker 4: y'all killed yourself.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: The ratings have not been what they were since Joy
Speaker 4: and Joy's killing it. It was such a joy dumb, dumb, dumb,
Speaker 4: dumb decision.
Speaker 3: I just want to say to Joy that we offer
Speaker 3: ourselves up to appear on your show, Joy, but we
Speaker 3: I don't think any of us are going on MS
Speaker 3: and I just you know, for me, I could have
Speaker 3: included Tiff too, but I wanted them to know. I
Speaker 3: wanted to bring up Joy in this moment because of course,
Speaker 3: Joy just happened and we had a full on boycott
Speaker 3: that uh, that began shortly after, right when we really
Speaker 3: learned of her dismissal. And with Tiff, we didn't have
Speaker 3: that because Joy was still on, and so I think
Speaker 3: we were turning. I wasn't watching weekends, but I definitely,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: We would say don't watch except for Joy Show. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, like tuned in the Joy Show. And now
Speaker 4: it's like you ain't gonna watch anything. And there are
Speaker 4: people there who I love, dearly Aimon moy D, I
Speaker 4: think Alie Velshi amazing. So there are wonderful people over there,
Speaker 4: but and and they have their righteous frustrations too, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: So I just want those individuals to know we see you,
Speaker 4: we hear you, we feel you, and thank you for
Speaker 4: continuing to speak truth.
Speaker 5: To power on the network.
Speaker 4: And they lost Maddie to Maddie Hassan, who was brilliant too.
Speaker 4: I helped Katie fang me and Katie.
Speaker 3: Got into it online because I thought she was saying
Speaker 3: something about t if she wasn't saying it.
Speaker 5: Was I remember, but shut out.
Speaker 4: I didn't like I didn't like her tweet either, but
Speaker 4: I like Katie is such a supporter, and.
Speaker 5: She cleared her.
Speaker 4: So it was all a misunderstanding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was helping and Drew I don't know where
Speaker 3: I wasn't And I was like, oh, she got my lawyer.
Speaker 5: I don't remember that, but I definitely am grateful to her.
Speaker 4: I was mad at everybody, so when I saw Katie,
Speaker 4: I was like, what, how dares? I didn't know who
Speaker 4: to trust, like who was betraying me because so many
Speaker 4: people were betraying me at the time. So anyway, I
Speaker 4: just wanted to share that with the audience just so
Speaker 4: y'all know, so y'all know it's real and shout out in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not going on this show if they're not
Speaker 3: gonna you know, I'm just like, honestly, I don't even
Speaker 3: understand the point. I think there are other ways to
Speaker 3: cut through right now, and I am almost singularly focused
Speaker 3: on figuring out how to uplift independent voices that can
Speaker 3: be that can be guided by the strength of their convictions.
Speaker 3: And I think to that point right where we're not
Speaker 3: seeing these days as much is earnest conversations around the
Speaker 3: violence that is ensuing against black bodies all throughout this country,
Speaker 3: some with the blessing of the Department of Justice, some
Speaker 3: at the behest, and the pushing of ICE, the immigration
Speaker 3: Customs enforcement. We had just on my show on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: my live show was with Mildred Pierre, who is the
Speaker 3: wife of Rodney Taylor, who was detained in January and
Speaker 3: is still in ice custody because of a crime that
Speaker 3: he allegedly committed and was pardoned for when he was
Speaker 3: sixteen years old. A paraplegic, not paraplegic, but he has
Speaker 3: what's it call when you prosthetics. He has prosthetic lens.
Speaker 3: They accused him of jumping into a window, stealing a
Speaker 3: stereo and jumping out of the window. He had a
Speaker 3: wood foot at the time, and so they pardoned him
Speaker 3: of this. I still detained him and wants to deport
Speaker 3: him back to Liberia. Some of y'all know the history
Speaker 3: of Liberia. If you don't, we put links in for
Speaker 3: you in the podcast on Tuesday so you can understand
Speaker 3: how ridiculous this is. Rodney has a hearing August twelfth
Speaker 3: that I will be attending. I'm of course inviting my
Speaker 3: co host and anybody who wants to join us. We
Speaker 3: cannot let this stand. Tiff and Andrew and Ibery is, oh,
Speaker 3: that's important.
Speaker 5: It's in Georgia, and we'll make sure we send additional details.
Speaker 5: There's a GoFundMe.
Speaker 3: But my point in saying this is the violence on
Speaker 3: black bodies is happening at the federal level, the state level,
Speaker 3: the local level. The Jacksonville Sheriff is currently investigating and
Speaker 3: incident that happened against William McNeill Junior in Jacksonville, Florida
Speaker 3: in February, and some of us are just learning about it.
Speaker 3: I want to give y'all a trigger warning to my
Speaker 3: co host, to those who are watching at home, and
Speaker 3: even the listeners. This is not easy to hear or see,
Speaker 3: but we need to be aware.
Speaker 5: Let's roll the clip. Is there a reason why you're
Speaker 5: popping open like that?
Speaker 2: If that word is the reason that you're pulling me over? Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: there's a reason why I'm pulling you over here.
Speaker 6: For one thing, inclement inclement whether you don't have your.
Speaker 5: Lights on, two things, you're not wearing your seatbelts, the
Speaker 5: three don't need the lights, and it's not whether it's.
Speaker 6: Not okay, I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you why I'm pulling it over.
Speaker 2: Give me your driver's licenses, registration for venture costs.
Speaker 5: All your supervisor. Excuse me, how do you feel, advisor?
Speaker 1: Why did you pull meal you?
Speaker 6: Sorry? I'm a thirty five for the dog driver already
Speaker 6: told you, how do you pull me over? Step out
Speaker 6: of the vehicle, Step out of exit the phicle.
Speaker 5: Now exit the.
Speaker 2: Reason, sir?
Speaker 3: What is the reason?
Speaker 5: Step out now? All right? So there is another angle
Speaker 5: of this video.
Speaker 1: There is where you can see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I almost want to. I know that was
Speaker 3: traumatizing enough, but I almost want to play that too.
Speaker 3: Maybe we can't, We can't, teast. I was gonna say
Speaker 3: we can insert it in post, but I want to.
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, I agree with you, Andrew. It's a
Speaker 3: completely different experience. I wanted the full video, But now
Speaker 3: I understand why it was on Fox eleven because they
Speaker 3: wanted to make sure that we heard about the marijuanas
Speaker 3: that that justifies them busting him in his mouth and
Speaker 3: busting through the window.
Speaker 5: So let me see this is this is it?
Speaker 2: After refusing to get out of his car, William McNeil
Speaker 2: Junior took this open handed blow from JSO officer Donald
Speaker 2: Bowers during a February traffic stop. Just days following the
Speaker 2: release of the footage shot on McNeil phone, Sheriff TK
Speaker 2: Waters announced Bowers had been stripped of his policing authority
Speaker 2: pending the results of an ongoing internal investigation. He suggested,
Speaker 2: if McNeil had filed an official complaint, the agency would
Speaker 2: have looked into the arrest earlier.
Speaker 1: Who'd have been all over it, you know, if had
Speaker 1: that been the case, But he did not.
Speaker 2: Official JSO records, including the arrest report, the incident report,
Speaker 2: and the response to resistance report, make no mention of
Speaker 2: officer Bauer's initial hit to McNeil's face. Police body cam
Speaker 2: also fails to capture the blow.
Speaker 1: So there's he does.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3: There's another angle steal when he gets snatched out the
Speaker 3: car where they bust his head up against I think
Speaker 3: it's up against the car, Andrew.
Speaker 5: But it's just it is it is, it is. It
Speaker 5: is infuriating.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: So fourth, there are two in the afternoon.
Speaker 6: At seven, eight o'clock, nine o'clock at ninety still by
Speaker 6: the way right now where I am at Florida, right
Speaker 6: X Andville's just down the street.
Speaker 1: Four five, But four five in February. This sky, because
Speaker 1: we see the video is clear, you can, I mean
Speaker 1: it may not be clear. It could be cloudy.
Speaker 6: I have no idea, but I don't see rainfalling it's
Speaker 6: not on the lens of the camera, and it doesn't
Speaker 6: appear on the gentleman's vehicle either. So what they actually did, hear, y'all,
Speaker 6: is something called a pretext stop pretectual stop. By the way,
Speaker 6: this is something the Department of Justice has dissuaded police
Speaker 6: departments from doing. And what that means is you take
Speaker 6: a minor infraction as an opportunity to pull someone over
Speaker 6: whom you believe is involved in more serious criminal activity,
Speaker 6: and you use this pretext this this light's not on,
Speaker 6: or fail to use a signal when changing lanes, or
Speaker 6: whatever other minor infraction they could come up with, so
Speaker 6: that they can get into the vehicle and hopefully discover
Speaker 6: what are deeper crimes. The reason why the DOJ dissuades
Speaker 6: people from using protectual stops and have written consent decrees
Speaker 6: with police departments all across the country to end this
Speaker 6: kind of practice is because generally it targets black people
Speaker 6: and black communities. So if you were doing pretectual stops
Speaker 6: all over the city, it was happening in white areas
Speaker 6: as well as in black areas, it would be one thing,
Speaker 6: it'd be indiscriminated, except almost always these pretext stops are
Speaker 6: used extremely excessively and black communities and black neighborhoods, black
Speaker 6: sides of towns, and on poor sides of towns as
Speaker 6: a way to get these people caught up in a
Speaker 6: much more serious infraction. They don't even poll people for
Speaker 6: weed right now in this state pretty much unless they
Speaker 6: consider you are a dealer, and this man's got a
Speaker 6: smokable weed. And that's what you're gonna say now is
Speaker 6: the reason that justifies you coming across his face like
Speaker 6: that twice, unprovoked. It's it's insane again, not shocked, not surprised.
Speaker 6: I'm glad that the brother lived to tell the story
Speaker 6: another day because I could have easily seen this situation
Speaker 6: going completely differently, And were it not for his own recording,
Speaker 6: many viewers listeners would not have been able to see
Speaker 6: the devastation that this officer calls causes unprovoked by escalating
Speaker 6: the situation and not.
Speaker 1: De escalating it.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to watch, but it's uh.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 4: A regular occurrence. And I remember when the debate around
Speaker 4: body Ham's were coming out and it was this big victory, like, okay,
Speaker 4: now all police officers a little will wear body camps,
Speaker 4: and it hasn't really stopped or changed anything. All we
Speaker 4: have now is a better view of officers assaulting and
Speaker 4: killing killing us. You know, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4: I think it's important to look at in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: when there was a so called racial reckoning. You know,
Speaker 4: I think we all kind of knew that this was
Speaker 4: just a brief marketing ploy for corporations, and it hasn't really.
Speaker 5: Changed much.
Speaker 4: It hasn't really had an impact. And it's why I say, like,
Speaker 4: you cannot serve the corporate structure and community because they
Speaker 4: run contrary to each other. When all these companies were
Speaker 4: giving money, and again this was like a blood sacrifice,
Speaker 4: you know, like we had to watch a man be
Speaker 4: murdered on TV for them to even do anything. And
Speaker 4: so when the country's fifty biggest countries publicly traded companies
Speaker 4: were given all this money, JP, Morgan, Chase a Goal,
Speaker 4: Google gave money, it was like millions of dollars pouring in.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't real structural change like how much money precisely,
Speaker 4: but even the money they gave, more than ninety percent
Speaker 4: of that money was allocated to potentially profitable initiatives, stuff
Speaker 4: like loans and investments and mortgages. The reporting found that,
Speaker 4: and I think it was the Washington Post who dug
Speaker 4: into this. The reporting found that I think only seventy
Speaker 4: million went to organizations that were devoted to criminal justice
Speaker 4: and racial justice. And in the years I don't know
Speaker 4: the most current stats, but in the years since, so
Speaker 4: between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty four, four years after
Speaker 4: George Floyd's murder, two hundred and forty eight black men
Speaker 4: have been.
Speaker 5: Shot to death by the police.
Speaker 3: So I.
Speaker 4: You know, like these these policies, it was just a
Speaker 4: reflexive reaction to the murder of somebody, not a true
Speaker 4: racial reckoning that we want to call it. Sorry, if
Speaker 4: you're watching this and my camera is shaky, it is
Speaker 4: because I'm trying to still play with my charge or
Speaker 4: my computer's gonna die at any minute. So apologies for
Speaker 4: making the video shake, and apologies to the folks who
Speaker 4: have to deal with this in post production and the
Speaker 4: viewers who might get Vertigo watching it.
Speaker 5: But it is Andrew.
Speaker 4: The reason why we're talking about this is because you
Speaker 4: brought up You have three children, two black boys who
Speaker 4: you're raising, and the fear. It must strike in you
Speaker 4: every time. And I you know, I I experienced this
Speaker 4: on the vineyard in the summer. And you see, like,
Speaker 4: you know, the black teenagers walking around like they hard, okay,
Speaker 4: and they they on the vineyard, but they walking around
Speaker 4: with the pants and the hair, and you know, like
Speaker 4: what you know, I love to see it. I'm like, yes,
Speaker 4: black boys, be free and be joyful.
Speaker 5: You deserve that.
Speaker 4: But I look at them and I'm like, y'all are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Speaker 4: Some of y'all I'd have known since you were two, three,
Speaker 4: four and five. And I see you as these babies, right,
Speaker 4: these babies who have grown up. And I think you
Speaker 4: walk off this island and the world sees you as
Speaker 4: a threat. They see you as violent, just like this
Speaker 4: boy in his car. This young man in his car
Speaker 4: was immediately perceived a threat. Do you think a white
Speaker 4: boy in khakis would have been met with that same thing?
Speaker 4: And the fact that he had marijuana on them is irrelevant.
Speaker 4: Recreational marijuana does happen to be illegal in Florida. Florida
Speaker 4: needs to get with the times, because I know all
Speaker 4: those crazy maga folks down there are definitely blazing and
Speaker 4: snorting and doing all kinds of things. But you can
Speaker 4: have marijuana on you if you have a medical card.
Speaker 4: In Florida, they didn't even ask him, do you have
Speaker 4: a medical card for this? So I just I'm disgusted
Speaker 4: by it, and a part of me again, because I'm
Speaker 4: reading Asada, a part of me feels like, yeah, he
Speaker 4: wasn't resisting. People say well, why, you know, why are
Speaker 4: they trying to get up?
Speaker 5: Like because that shit hurts.
Speaker 4: You're being slammed to the ground, You're trying to protect yourself.
Speaker 4: You're trying to just be treated like a human being.
Speaker 5: But I do feel like.
Speaker 4: If we are to die, then I want to die fighting,
Speaker 4: you know, Like I just at some point I want
Speaker 4: them to be scared of us. At some point, I
Speaker 4: want you to be scared about putting your hands on
Speaker 4: black bodies because I've seen white folks get away with that,
Speaker 4: and I know, like, I want you all to push
Speaker 4: back and tell me like that ain't the thing, because
Speaker 4: we will get killed.
Speaker 5: I know we will get killed.
Speaker 4: But I just, like with George Floyd, I'm like, in
Speaker 4: that moment, I want them to be scared. I want
Speaker 4: them to feel like we surrounded by a bunch of
Speaker 4: black folks, and I'm kneeling on this man's neck, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we got guns, but if they descend, I don't know
Speaker 4: just how do we tap into that month I.
Speaker 1: Murdered with impunity, That's my point, because they have a
Speaker 1: license to kill.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think we'll go ahead, hands with the legally.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm saying something better. No, I think I
Speaker 3: understand what you're saying, you know, I think that we're
Speaker 3: tired of dying and in there, in it there it feels,
Speaker 3: you know, especially frustrating when your resistance is treated as
Speaker 3: the most criminal thing and not the the initial reason
Speaker 3: why you were stopped or questioned or handcuffed or busted
Speaker 3: in the face because you like, I.
Speaker 5: Don't understand why you're pulling me over.
Speaker 3: You're telling me to put my seatbolt on, Like how
Speaker 3: do you know I didn't take the seatbowt off once
Speaker 3: you pulled me over to get my license out, Like
Speaker 3: you don't really know what's going on. And I think
Speaker 3: that let's say that he didn't have a seatbelt on,
Speaker 3: and let's say that he needed to put his lights
Speaker 3: on because there was inclement weather that only this officer
Speaker 3: could see what purpose does it serve you to bust
Speaker 3: the window and to punch this man in the face.
Speaker 3: And then I think, for me, the worst offense is
Speaker 3: these black men who are present for the stop, present
Speaker 3: for the attack, because that's what it was, present for
Speaker 3: the arrest, who are no different than the officers on
Speaker 3: the screen or the officer on the screen, and boys
Speaker 3: in a hood like you are just a part of
Speaker 3: what is wrong with the with structural racism and systemic
Speaker 3: issues power with police and law enforcement for our folks.
Speaker 3: So I just I'm sending William all the love William
Speaker 3: McNeil neil Jr. And I just want to say, brother,
Speaker 3: I understand why you didn't file a complaint because it's like,
Speaker 3: what difference does it make? So now they manage you
Speaker 3: because you didn't file a complaint. Now they mad at
Speaker 3: you because you traumatize off of what happened. There are
Speaker 3: so many young black men who don't have video, who
Speaker 3: don't have, you know, the benefit of the doubt on
Speaker 3: their side because maybe they committed a crime, because maybe
Speaker 3: they look to be inherently violent and criminal whatever it is.
Speaker 3: You don't deserve that, and you do deserve our advocacy,
Speaker 3: and so we'll shed a light on this, even if
Speaker 3: it upsets our stomach, makes us naxous knowing your reality.
Speaker 3: We can't imagine what you're going through just trying to
Speaker 3: make it through. But no, you have family and us
Speaker 3: and we are going to fight alongside you. Like I said,
Speaker 3: this might be the time Andrew brings his bullhorn back out.
Speaker 1: I just think we need to update what we're telling
Speaker 1: our children, our young people when they encounter law enforcement.
Speaker 1: I remember taking my kids to the park, which I
Speaker 1: did every Sunday when they were little, little, little, and
Speaker 1: we would play outside, get the energy out, said go
Speaker 1: to bed. And I remember, you know, these white women
Speaker 1: in the park, you know, bending down that my children
Speaker 1: and saying how cute they were, and oh how polite,
Speaker 1: and oh how this. And I remember having.
Speaker 6: This just thought flushed to my mind, like when do
Speaker 6: they become your aims? And do they become the dangers
Speaker 6: that you fear. They're so cute now and so you know,
Speaker 6: precocious and all these things, and I'm thinking, when do
Speaker 6: you decide that they're now the threat? Because it really
Speaker 6: is your decision. I mean, it isn't what I determined
Speaker 6: my interaction with them is not the status quo. Because
Speaker 6: I see babies, I see boys, I see kids who
Speaker 6: are being kids, who are making kids like decisions about themselves.
Speaker 6: In that moment in time, I see bright futures, incredible
Speaker 6: contributors to the future of humanity. And I'm being humble
Speaker 6: with that.
Speaker 1: That's what I see.
Speaker 6: But unfortunately your eyes have scales on them and it
Speaker 6: can't quite reveal the truth of the matter. And so
Speaker 6: when you decide my kids are to be feared, is
Speaker 6: when I'm on hyper steroids trying to protect them. Left
Speaker 6: right center, you've mentioned I don't know my neighbors. I
Speaker 6: gotta know my neighbors, and I take my kids with
Speaker 6: me when I introduce myself to folks who are moving
Speaker 6: into the neighborhood, because I don't want them to mistake
Speaker 6: who they are when they see them walking down the
Speaker 6: street at dust or walking back through the neighborhood after
Speaker 6: school when they've been dropped off by a bus. Right, So,
Speaker 6: we don't have the luxury of just leaving it to chance,
Speaker 6: and our kids don't have the right to be children.
Speaker 6: They must now assess every situation from its most murky point,
Speaker 6: from its most sinister perspective because you lack the curiosity
Speaker 6: in the muscle memory to see a human as a
Speaker 6: human being, regardless of the color melanated or not skinned
Speaker 6: they am. It's ridiculous, but I don't expect more. So
Speaker 6: we do have to do what we can to protect
Speaker 6: our children wherever we can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a great place for us to end. Also,
Speaker 3: for those of you watching, Yes, Tips Battery finally did die, but.
Speaker 5: She hung in there.
Speaker 6: And the thing that we know she put up a fight. Lord.
Speaker 3: The thing that we know is the marathon continues. We
Speaker 3: will continue the fight and you can continue to tune in.
Speaker 3: This is still y'all's home.
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