1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: We have not seen racist Sisco, so perhaps maybe that's 2 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: well this happened there has there was not any trouble 3 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: on ourst That's not true. I will not be aware 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: of racism the way my black brothers and sisters will 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: be the way my Hispanic brothers and sisters will. So 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: I think it is very important to listen. The chief 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: is very much committed to addressing any issues of racial inequality. 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: I believe very much in peaceful protests. This place is 9 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Sai full of rich retired life. I support filing charges 10 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: against people who block off our highways. It's really important 11 00:00:54,560 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: for our highways to be safe. I think the police 12 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: department around here we really do anything like that as 13 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: far as I'm going to. When you start condemning me 14 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: for being racist simply because of my complexion and we're 15 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 1: not knowing anything about my background, that's frankly pretty disgusting. 16 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: I don't like that. This is Ceo Henderson from Lelian House. 17 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: Today is August twenty fifth, twenty twenty, and I'm here 18 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: in a very gloomy applaudy San Louis, Obisco. We're here 19 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: because we're here a second time to cover the rally 20 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: and the press conference for Tiana Rata. It will be 21 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: the courthouse here in San Louis Abisbo, and we would 22 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: find out from the people on the ground as well 23 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: the protesters for Tiana, and maybe we make it some 24 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: that are against Tiana and find out what is the 25 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: really the tensions here in San Louis Abisco. I wanted 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: to make sure I could also add an extra element 27 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: to it. Jacob Blake here from Wisconsin was shot and 28 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: recently found out that he's paralyzed seven times by the police. 29 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: So this is in the wings of this and in 30 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: the element and the environment of this. Saint Louis Abisbo 31 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: has sent a message out to protesters here to stay 32 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: in their place, the protests and the way that they've 33 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: considered it to be protesting, as well as holding people 34 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: accountable that are young that are protesting against the justice. 35 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: They just want you to shut up. But they're using 36 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: every method if they possibly can, to make an example 37 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: out of Tiana Arno. So what do we do? Do 38 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: we allow these criminal acts will continue? Do we act 39 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: that we allow respectability politics to continue to thrive. In 40 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: order for a protest to be heard, it has to 41 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: make people uncomfortable. It has to get your attention, and 42 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: based on the environment here, that's going to be very 43 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: difficult to do because Theodore Henderson's luding your house. I 44 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: thank you all for listening, and may we again meet 45 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: in the light of understanding. This is Theo Henderson from 46 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: Median House. We are here at the city of San Luisabisco. 47 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: We are here to reinvestigate and find out the further 48 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: status about Tiana'radick. Today she holds a press conference at 49 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: ten o'clock. A rally will insue to support her as 50 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: well as to raumatize the rights for her and to 51 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: remove the ape ladies and the other misdemeanors that they 52 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: have tapped on Tiana Orado. The second thing is this 53 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: is a veiled message from people that wanted the people 54 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: of color here to keep stay in their place or 55 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: protests according to their expectations. They're setting the standards. They 56 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: do not want uh people to speak out against injustice 57 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: here cause they don't wanna hear it in the first place. 58 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: Saint Louis of Bisbo is a very wealthy white area 59 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: where the people of color have to watch their steps 60 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: in order to be considered a threat by the Saint 61 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 1: Louis of Bisbel's police. This is becoming much more clearer 62 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: by having a conversation with one of the white gentrifiers 63 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: here that came up ahead a conversation with me and 64 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: tried to tone police me and try to tone police 65 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: to be movement about Tiana Arabi. They're blaming her for 66 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: some pictitious arm about somebody that got arms which didn't happen. 67 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: This is still Henderson from William House. More to follow. 68 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: I want this, oh is that the fourth of July. 69 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: Every day is the fourth of July here in America. 70 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: How would we and how I have a few questions, 71 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: what is this the Kuba Highway fav what's going on here? Well, 72 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: what I'm concerned about because I believe very much in 73 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: peaceful protests, but I'm concerned that when the highways were 74 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: blocked off by protesters, that that's illegal for a good reason, 75 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: and so I support filing charges against people who block 76 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: off our highways because it's really important for our highways 77 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: to be safe. But the person that they filed with 78 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: was not even there. She was gone. So there's pictures, 79 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: there's pictures and video of her on the highway standing 80 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: in the media. She was standing in the media and 81 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: she was telling there was a car that had a 82 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: pregnant woman in him and she said sorry, and you 83 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't let them through. She was delivering her baby on 84 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: the highway. Oh, she was part of that. You needed 85 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: watched the little video. I did watch the What's is 86 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: What's interesting how we could see the different see it differently. 87 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: But so my question is what if you guys are 88 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: going to creactive the correctly or eradicates the racistm things 89 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: that goes on here Sad Louis Abisco. We have not 90 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: seen racist, so perhaps maybe that's what well this happened. 91 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: There was not any trouble on our st That's not 92 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: true because video people's color have I've interviewed have said 93 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: that there has been some issue and that you guys 94 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: maybe have been resisted or dismissed as both their issues. 95 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: So the question really again remains, is what are you 96 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: guys are going to do. Maybe they won't have to 97 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: be on the highways if you guys will take the 98 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: tize and listen. So so what did that if I 99 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: could speak to that? Okay, because I've drew up here 100 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: on the Central Coast, I've lived in Los Angeles, I've 101 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: lived in San Francisco. One of the things that really 102 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: impresses me about slow PD is the chief is very 103 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: much committed to addressing any issues of racial inequality, whether 104 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: it's perceived or actually. And you know, if we look 105 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: at the Los Angeles PD as an example of what 106 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: they did after the Rodney Keen riots of nineteen ninety two, 107 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: they cleaned up that department. There were issues in the 108 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: partner no one, no one will argue that, and they've 109 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: really addressed a lot of those issues. And I still 110 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: and so all of us here support our law enforcement. 111 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,679 Speaker 1: I could speak for myself that we support our chief 112 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: who is addressing those issues and listening to members of 113 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: the community. Yes, that's that's excellent point you said. And 114 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: listening to the community. It seems like that only to 115 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: select people that are listening to this person of the community. 116 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: But the people of color have a different conversation. That 117 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: seems like it's deliberately overlooked because from what I hear 118 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: from you, doesn't exist here. But yet the people of 119 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: color have been trying to get you intensive and maybe 120 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: if possible, just possible. So so have you talk to 121 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: the chief. I've talked that experiencing. Okay, have they talked 122 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: to the chief because from what I hear, what she's 123 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: saying is that she has an open door policy with 124 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: organizations like that and double a CP like the Jewish community. 125 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: Issue is the patina in general. It's the chief is 126 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: not represented of everybody. The chief is not the person 127 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: necessarily the adulation incident. The issue is what again is 128 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: the people of color are saying that there's a racial problem, 129 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: and here are a bunch of people be saying that 130 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: he doesn't this I just heard. Could I address that 131 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: I'm actually wearing a hat that says making racism wrong again? 132 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: Because I'm very concerned about it. And you bring up 133 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: a good point that since as a white person, I 134 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: will not be aware of racism the way my black 135 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters will be the way my Hispanic brothers 136 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: and sisters will. So I think it is very important 137 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: to listen. And one of the things that concerns me 138 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: why I believe in peaceful protest is that the message 139 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: can be obscured when there's breaking a law, when people's 140 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: lives are put in dangers. Because I've been around long 141 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: enough and I've engaged in peaceful protests I've engaged in 142 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: civil disobedience and so I fully support. And then they 143 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: ask you a question that if that's the case, that 144 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: you guys are fully committed it, why would they need 145 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: to do that? If if they keep hearing the same 146 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: thing that there is no racial problem to you, and 147 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: the people of color keeps saying that there is and 148 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: trying to get your attention, and no one wants to 149 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: hear them. But then as soon as they go and 150 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: make a protest, a dramatic protest on the freeway, everyone 151 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: is up in the arms. Maybe it would not have 152 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: been that way if they would have been listening to 153 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,839 Speaker 1: in the first place. That's what I see seem to me. 154 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: It's a lot of blame going around, but it seems 155 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: like it always seems to be the cruption of color 156 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: who have to rig it up to people who refuse 157 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: to hear them in the problems. That's what my investigation 158 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: is recovering. And right now he can hear us. You know, 159 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: I haven't seen anyone says, you know, what we have 160 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: we need to see cut up some times and lifting 161 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: to me who they have had it happened to what 162 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: I hear is we need to follow the law. They 163 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: keep our highway fakes, the hell would we don't have 164 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: rare It's just a bunch of trouble maker out to 165 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: adjucate the community. That that's what it looks like to me. 166 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: But maybe maybe that racism doesn't exist it Maybe it's 167 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: like Walt Christy polyannimal existing. Maybe America, we've we've got 168 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: individual cases of racism. Of course, you've got Racism is 169 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: a US. Whether racism is a scion of stupidity, you've 170 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: got to be student can be a racist. I can't 171 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: say it any other way. You have the occasional white 172 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: racist out there, you have the occasional racist of every 173 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: ethnic group, stupid people who prejudge others based on the 174 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 1: color of their skin. Now you've got the other concept 175 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: that's been sold out there in the meantime, and I 176 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: think it's a fraudulent concept of systemic racism, which is 177 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: boiled out to people actually saying all whites are racist 178 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: and no person of color can be racist because of 179 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: all it's all about power. And that is as far 180 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: as I'm to When you start condemning me for being 181 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: racist simply because of my complexion, and when not knowing 182 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: anything about my background. That's frankly pretty disgusting. I don't 183 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: like that now. But I'm involved in Pastor Robles and 184 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: the culture task Force we set up there because I'm 185 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: on the school board up there, and we know that 186 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: they're individualists of racism and we want to combat that 187 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: in our school district and elsewhere in the community. It's 188 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: now being more shifted over to the city government that 189 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: they're putificate with their power. Before when I first came 190 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: up here, there was no such thing of racist. Now 191 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,199 Speaker 1: I'm hearing that individual case of the rapist. Oh that's 192 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: the point. That's the point what they're trying to get to, 193 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: you guy under fat and maybe it would not have 194 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: been to that point where they would have to get 195 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 1: out in the freeway in the birthplace. But they're not over, 196 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: they're not I don't think they're protesting that. They're protesting 197 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: what they call systemic racism, which, as I say, is 198 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, and I've studied the issue 199 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: quite extensively, it's fraudulent scheme setup that's developed through academia 200 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: since about nineteen fifth or nineteen seventy, and it's this 201 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: way of just blog bludge lasting the entire society has 202 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: been a racist society and therefore we have to tear 203 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: it down. There's a lot in America I want to preserve. 204 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: It's a great country. And where we do run into 205 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: individuals who are racist them, you know they should they 206 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: should be push pushed in their corner and taught differently. 207 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: But you don't see you don't see racism as employed 208 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: an employment, your discrimination employment. Any employer will be a 209 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: fool to do that. He gets sued immediately. There have 210 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: been cases that have been shown that they have been 211 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: discrimination against. They get then they get sued. God, but 212 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: you're keep saying that there's no racism, that ex it 213 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: does the thing and it started the time. We started 214 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: out from a race of sension. And if if we 215 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: can't get around them, well, because they left actual Indi 216 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,680 Speaker 1: indigenous people that we are on. This is the course 217 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: not but you apply the morals of today to the 218 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: society of the world two hundred and fifty years ago, 219 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: it's very You know that that's a that's called hindsight bias. 220 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: You know you got hindsight. It's a term from accounting. Also, 221 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: you're looking looking back at the situation. Then from the 222 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: situation that it is from the morals of today. At 223 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: the time when our founding fathers were active, they were 224 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: terribly in like books. At that time, slavery was worldwide, 225 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: a green pro My parent was lived through Jim Crow, 226 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: and my parents lived through rim Pro and my parents 227 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: lived through Sugar Hittor. So that the idea of when 228 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: you say that white priivalente, that's the fifth that was 229 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: a systematic system had approach And I didn't. I remember 230 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: the man the nineteen sixties. I'm I'm an old guy. 231 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: I grew up that stat in the fifties, and I 232 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: remember the situation, and I remember sitting in front of 233 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: my TV with my parents and we were rooting myself 234 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: from Martin kat and no, well b we thought it 235 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: was nancastic, but his teachers talk about this a great 236 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: from them through his peaches were more yeah about my 237 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: habit brands. I knew, I got the faith, I knew 238 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: the family art. We was concerned about the historic impact 239 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: of racism. That we've done a lot where we had 240 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: in the wrong commy. We've had countless programs for the 241 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: last two generations on the big Combat at night, and 242 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: we've done a pretty good job. But uh, there's there's 243 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: still social issues we have to address. What I found 244 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: is to get systemic races and being used as sort 245 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: of an alibi. We've got serious issues in Chicago, New 246 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: York receivings. You know, the situation in some of our 247 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: inner cities. I lived in the inner cities a couple 248 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: of times in that work going and lived and then 249 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: it's it was. It was tough, but through lame systemic racism. 250 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: Then you've got a good alibi and we don't have 251 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: to look at so many other aspects and the local 252 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: communities that are causing problems, such as condemning this nich Mentally, 253 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: I think if we keep the one that have the 254 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: lading scene next some of them under dead valuers, you 255 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: gotta snitch on him. I work with the police, not 256 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: against the plinth for Luca Haaf in the carrising a 257 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: community being a very difficult and awful. Even more, get 258 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: the fult when you two here and people thought that 259 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: ray for them, that's some good. How are you going 260 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: to get here? We always got to get back to 261 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: that definition of racism. There's the Martin Luther King definition 262 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: of commons definition pre judging somebody by the color they're scared. 263 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: You guys do the care about that? Well, I couldn't 264 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: give here if you go to but then jet back. 265 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: That's the problem that people already will go banks over. 266 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: There will be lost relatives in the Holocaust. You know 267 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: Potoker talking about racist and that of the alchemist non 268 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: plus all thought raciously right, and so a lot of 269 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: people know a lot of people can relate to the 270 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: the pain of being judged by your definity, but really can't. 271 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: And that's what I think you makes now makes racism 272 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: itself so deboard, It's so stupid because it is looking 273 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: at somebody and just by hearing judging them without basically 274 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: protest John as fact, what is that? Because I know 275 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: that I know about the blue, but lots of the 276 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: green is for a military and for our veterans the 277 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: reader for are awesome firefighters that are risking their lives 278 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: right now. Fake Califord, this is awesome. So you are 279 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: with h For example, I've been hearing from the majority 280 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: of people here that there's not such thing as racist 281 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: that's going on in St. Lucid, Boller. It's just a 282 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: bunch of troublemakers that this came out and just protesting 283 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: so what is your perspective? One My perspective is I 284 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: believe I'm father. I believe fights like the matter. I 285 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: made an Indian matter of excell advice. Everybody like the matter. 286 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: They have the right to protest. They don't have the 287 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: right to hijack the store. They're extorting our business support here. 288 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: Thanks know that? Huh? I didn't know. Yeah, they are 289 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: actually going in and saying because some of these businesses 290 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 1: sported up then it made them look bad and they 291 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,360 Speaker 1: want reparation for them. And they've actually gone into different 292 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: businesses and personally and like, you know what, goodness, I 293 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: would love to interview those people. You know what. I'll 294 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: get in touch with a couple of people and like, 295 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: you know, because I just talked to one one the 296 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: other day and she was afraid. So that's what's wrong. 297 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: And you know, if if you or I any immediately 298 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: block the freeway if any of our people or tip 299 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: what they did, we we did rested. Can I just staff? 300 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: Why is blast they? And well this is kind of 301 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 1: comple famous question, but let's put it this way. The 302 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: in word with you by majority of light and society 303 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: and our way of reclaiming it and of mitigating the 304 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: harm because that word would easily use with people of 305 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: color blacks by white people that if that period of 306 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: time they didn't believe that there was a racial question. 307 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: What the point? Why is it heard us say that 308 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: I'm disapling. We see's reclaiming that word. That cause a 309 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: lot of pain to that and a lot of white 310 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: people feel have a sense of irritating and jealousy of 311 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: the and they don't really want to learn the truth 312 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: about the truth is we're trying to reclaim a piece 313 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: of us that was last by the people as America 314 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: because all the people are still music when they go 315 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: to place. Now we're the tribe to get the call. Yeah, okay, 316 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: that's interesting. So that would think America calling themselves and stay. 317 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: That's that's what's so disrespectful. I take their change to them, 318 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: but again with the person of colors who have the 319 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: right of choosing the respects to be and it isn't 320 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: in their own commitute. That's one of the things. But 321 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: thank you very much, I have a well I appreciate you. 322 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: No flu and everyone has a right to speak in 323 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: protests that America, no variety, no making like the party. 324 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: That's right that's right. War. I say free, You say 325 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: Tiana free, Free, yaa free, Thank you, thank you for 326 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: coming out. My name is Curtis Briggs. I'm one of 327 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: the attorneys for Tiana Randa. You're here for three reasons today. 328 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: One to respectfully ask Dan daud or reject these charges 329 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: as they've been recommended by the Slow Police Department, not 330 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: just for moral reasons, but because these charges are false. 331 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: All right, I'll train. Two we're calling for the immediate 332 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: termination if Deanna Control police chief of Slow. Three masking 333 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: the citizens of Slow to keep an open mind. Because 334 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 1: you're called for this jury. You're gonna need to hear 335 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: the real facts, not what Deanna Control put out in 336 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: the media. We're gonna need you to serve on this jury. Yeah, 337 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: Chief Controls actions or bile, they're reckless. The reason we're 338 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: here today because she retaliated against Tian Rana, a beautiful 339 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: young woman who's doing everything that we want American youth 340 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: to do. Yeah. Chief Controls Blunder drew national attention and 341 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: put Slow in a spotlight in a national controversy. Chief 342 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: Controls Blunder amplified demonstrations and protests. Chief Controls Blunder jeopardize 343 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: the peace and safety of this community that day. Yeah, 344 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: Chief controls police officers deserve better than that. Yeah, instead 345 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: having slowed about money, sports, training or time off at 346 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: our equipment learning how to do you escalate? Hay raises, 347 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: She's going to have this city spend millions of dollars 348 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: litigating this case. She's robbing the taxpayers and the citizens 349 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: of what they are entitled to, which is justice. Yeah. Finally, 350 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: I have a message for the citizens of Slow. He 351 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: was born and raised in southern California. This community is 352 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 1: built on principle. Slow citizens believe in the truth. They 353 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: believe in the Constitution, They believe in the principles of 354 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: our founding fathers. We may disagree on politics, we may 355 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: disagree on race, We may disagree on a lot of things. 356 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: Or we might agree, we might be surprised. But what 357 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: no citizen of Slow disagrees on is that no one 358 00:25:39,119 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: wants this innocent young woman wrongfully convicted and going to prison. No. Free, free, free. 359 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: Thank you. You're going to hear from about ten speakers. 360 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: All of them are extremely powerful. Many of them are 361 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: members of this community. Business leaders, social leaders, moral leaders. 362 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: Please hear them out. Thank you. Good morning everyone, and 363 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: thank you for making it out this morning. My name 364 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: is Melissa Elizalde and I am a twenty year old activist, 365 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: student and the campaign manager for Free Tiana Coalition. I 366 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: have been an organizer in the community advocating for black 367 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: and brown lives alongside my best friend Tiana Rata. I 368 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: knew that I had a responsibility to myself all in 369 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: all the Ipop community, to be the voice of the voiceless. 370 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: My whole life, I have struggled on where I fit 371 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: in in society because I was systematically taught I was 372 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: less than for being a Mexican woman. As I got older, 373 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: it became clear we are not living in post racial America. 374 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: Racism did not end when they told me it did. 375 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: In school, I began to realize that the very things 376 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: I was being bullied in school for was blatant racism. 377 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: Ever since I became aware of the systematic and social 378 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: oppression in our society, I began learning how to use 379 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: my voice. Following the death of George Floyd, Tiana, myself, 380 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: our friends, and our supportive Slow community came together to 381 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: not let injustices go unseen. In San Luis Obispo. What 382 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: we want to see is a community who loves and 383 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 1: supports each other, a place where all can call home 384 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 1: and be comfortable, happy, and proud of that. July twenty 385 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: one at four pm was a beautiful day, full of 386 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: clear skies and a positive community coming together to demand change. 387 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: What the day ended was a terrifying display of police 388 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: force and lasting trauma. I do not wish on anyone. 389 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: I will never be able to explain the pain and 390 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: terror that I felt. However, to this day, I still 391 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: have hope for a community of San Luis Obispo and 392 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: a country as a whole. While I was being escorted 393 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: to my car the night that night, in a state 394 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: of fear and shock, a random community member, a mother, 395 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: someone I had never met before, approached me. In the 396 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: midst of my crying. She pluled me close and hugged 397 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: me and let me know that she's there for me 398 00:28:51,960 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: and will not allow this to continue. That gave me 399 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: hope that we can be an eye opener and people 400 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: can realize we have the power to come together and 401 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: support and embrace everyone in the community. I will continue 402 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: for the rest of my life to stand up for 403 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: black and brown and all marginalized communities. Myself and the 404 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: Free Tiana Coalition demand that all charges not be filed 405 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: against Tiana Arrata and any other protester arrested. Okay, Buenosias 406 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: and Luisa. My name is Rita. I'm the chair of 407 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: this local Democratic Party. I don't pretend to represent every 408 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: single Democrat in this county, but I am here probably 409 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: representing the party that welcomed me, a brown immigrant woman, 410 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: with open arms. I'm here today because of two reasons. First, 411 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: this is personal. July twenty first was a different day 412 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: to each one of us here. For me, it was 413 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: an awful day from the get go. I've experienced racism 414 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: by individuals and institutions in this county many times. So 415 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: waking up to the news of Sheriff Ian Parkinson saying 416 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: that he had never seen any indication of systemic racism 417 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: in this county was in something. The same day, we 418 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: witnessed hateful comments towards protesters in the DA's Facebook post 419 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: that evening Tiana was arrested. It's that level of hostility 420 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: that makes it hard to be here. It is also 421 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: these small things. For example, many years ago, I was 422 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: at a concert and I've got my favorite sweatshirt. It 423 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: has the name of a song that I really like. 424 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: The song is called time Bomb. I love this sweatshirt, 425 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: but I'm brown. I can't wear that sweatshirt. It's this 426 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: time bomb written all over it. You might think it's 427 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: silly that I'm overthinking this, but I've seen too many 428 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: comments in the last couple of weeks talking about Tiana's 429 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: riot t shirt to know that I'm not overthinking it. 430 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: We don't all share the same freedom, even if they're 431 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: screaming about it. The second reason, let them hear us, 432 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: because I reason today we need to move forward. Look, 433 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: I don't think everyone in this county is ready to 434 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: have an honest conversation about race. Some even in this community, 435 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: I think, will support the status quo that benefits some 436 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: and prosecutes others. But I think they're the minority. I 437 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: think that the majority of our county is ready to 438 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: move forward and deal with temporary discomfort in order to 439 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: get loud and long lasting positive change. This here today, 440 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: you here today is a great step forward. Today we 441 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: are donating our voices or time to have these tough conversations, 442 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: and we're coming together stronger because of Tiana and because 443 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: many young people who are non conforming and that are 444 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: asking for better. Slow County needs Tiana's vibrant, colorful, and 445 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: powerful self to be freed, and the Slow County Democratic 446 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: Party is here to support it. I'll close my statement 447 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: with a Mexican proverb tratardos nos amilias, which translates to 448 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: they try to bury us. They didn't know we were 449 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: seeds thinking. Good morning friends. My name is Rick Stollmyer. 450 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: I'm a Navy veteran. I wore the cloth of our 451 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: nation to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, 452 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: and that constitution hasn't shrined it freedom of speech, especially 453 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: speech that we don't agree with. So honor the speech 454 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: here and honor the speech across the street. I love 455 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: all of you. I'm also the founder of my Body. 456 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: My co founders and I started a scrappy little company 457 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: in my garage twenty years ago and today it's the 458 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: largest private employer on the Central Coast. I care deeply 459 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: about economic opportunity and jobs, and we've got a challenge 460 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,360 Speaker 1: here on a central coast, and that challenge is entirely 461 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 1: wrapped up in this topic. The lack of diversity in 462 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,240 Speaker 1: this community. In addition to being a moral and ethical 463 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: issue is also an economic issue for us. I'm a 464 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: founding member of Reach, the regional coalition of local leaders 465 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,399 Speaker 1: that are striving for economic opportunity, and I'm a father 466 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,879 Speaker 1: and a husband. Jill and I have raised four kids 467 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,800 Speaker 1: here in San Luis Abyss. But we're committed to this 468 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: community and we plan to spend the rest of our 469 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 1: lives here. We count among our circle of friends people frankly, 470 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 1: on both sides of the street. We have friends that 471 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: we have a deputy sheriff who's a friend. She was 472 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 1: one of the first responders in a POMO when that 473 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: mentally ill man got out of a car started shooting people. 474 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 1: Those first responders, those chp and deputy sheriffs saved people's 475 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: lives last Friday in our community, and we owe them 476 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: a debt of gratitude. Thank you. You're heroes. So what 477 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: do we have in common here today? I think we all, 478 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: all of us love this community, and we're all worried 479 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: and afraid for our future. And the events of twenty 480 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: twenty had shaken us to our core. Who of us 481 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: could have imagined on New Year's Eve what was in 482 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: store for us in this magical New Roaring twenties, a 483 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,279 Speaker 1: pandemic wreaking havoc on our lives, a pandemic tearing apart 484 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 1: our economy, and then these horrible killings of ama On, 485 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,879 Speaker 1: Aubrey Brown and Taylor George Floyd bringing the surface deep 486 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: systemic problems in our country, problems that are really uncomfortable 487 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,840 Speaker 1: to face, but are realities that have been here for 488 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 1: decades and decades. I had as a middle aged white dude. 489 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 1: I had to come to the realization that the promise 490 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: of a quality of the civil rights movement of my childhood, 491 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: of Martin Luther King and John Lewis and so many 492 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: other heroes isn't done yet. They did amazing things, we've 493 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: made some products that it's not done yet. And when 494 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 1: I see happening today, what I see in this beautiful 495 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: audience I want to see with Tiana as I see 496 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: young people who are idealistic, who care about our future. 497 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: And you know what, older folks like me, the future 498 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: is theirs. This will be their country, this will be 499 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,359 Speaker 1: their society and their community. And I think what they 500 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: stand up for is powerful, it's important, and it's precious 501 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,000 Speaker 1: that we have young people who are idealistic in care. 502 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: That's why I'm here right now. The first time, the 503 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: first time I saw a Black Lives Matter sign was 504 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: when my daughters Madison and Elena, sixteen and twenty years old, 505 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: went online on Amazon and ordered one. Okay, the thing 506 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: shows up on our front door. They plant it in 507 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: the front yard, and I was like, Okay, black lives matter. Yeah, 508 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: I mean, don't all lives matter, you know? And then 509 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 1: I didn't really get it at first. I want to 510 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: admit that to you. And then I begin to hear 511 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: from my own children. I heard from our friends, and 512 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: our and the mind Body employees. There are nine hundred 513 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 1: mind Body employees in this community. I listened to stories 514 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: of racism and bias, I mean firsthand subtle racism and 515 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,839 Speaker 1: also much more overt racism, stories of black people being 516 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: treated as suspect or different simply because of the color 517 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,320 Speaker 1: of their skin. Really, in twenty twenty, I was shocked. 518 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: So when the Black Lives Matter protests started in our community, 519 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 1: I was preak the first surprise at the level of intensity. 520 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 1: I mean, really, like, we have that much to be 521 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: upset about here. I didn't get it because I'm not 522 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: black and I'm not young. But then I remember the 523 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: first rule of parenting, and that is that when your 524 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 1: child feels what they feel is their reality. When they 525 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: skin their knees and they come home and they're sobbing 526 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: because they hurt or somebody bullied them at school, a 527 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,359 Speaker 1: parent doesn't tell their child, no, you don't hurt, that's 528 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: not real. No. We first acknowledge their pain, We tend 529 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,760 Speaker 1: to their wounds, and we help them heal. And as parents, 530 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: we listen, we show compassion, we practice empathy, and then 531 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,919 Speaker 1: we help them address the problem. And so I feel 532 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 1: that that's what needs to happen today with all of 533 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,479 Speaker 1: the young people here, and can we just take a moment? 534 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,800 Speaker 1: Can we take a moment? If you live here on 535 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,439 Speaker 1: the Central Coast, regardless of how you stand on the issue, 536 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,319 Speaker 1: would you please just raise your hand as a member 537 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:48,920 Speaker 1: of this community. So, these are our neighbors, These are 538 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: our children. Above all, we just need to listen to them. 539 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: And look, we don't have to agree on everything. Yeah, 540 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: by the way, how many people have reached out to 541 00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,359 Speaker 1: me since I heard I was going to be here 542 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 1: and say have you seen those video clips? Yeah? I 543 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: can't say I agree with all of it. I can't 544 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: say that I think that that was all the best 545 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,440 Speaker 1: way to go about it. But we're all human beings, 546 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: you know, And I put my life on the line 547 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: for this country to give people the right to speak 548 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 1: their mind, even when I disagree with them. And the 549 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: principle at work here is all the right principles. It's 550 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 1: the principles of freedom, of freedom of speech, of equality 551 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,240 Speaker 1: and diversity. So while I know there are many different 552 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 1: points of view represented here today, I believe we can 553 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: all agree that we have a real problem in our country. 554 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,920 Speaker 1: I mean, just yesterday, a black man was shot eight 555 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: times in the back by police officers while he's attempting 556 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,399 Speaker 1: to get into the car with his children. We don't 557 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,600 Speaker 1: know the fact share, we don't know what happened, but 558 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 1: my god, what is going on in this country? Yes, 559 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,200 Speaker 1: of course, all lives matter, but the focus right now 560 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 1: is there is a specific group of people in our 561 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: country who have had their lives put at risk. And 562 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: this is opinion, this is fact. The numbers supported its data. 563 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 1: So black lives matter absolutely, just like all of our 564 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:24,440 Speaker 1: lives matter. We're living in troubled times. How do we 565 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 1: find our way out of this? How do we make 566 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,760 Speaker 1: our community, our nation and our world a better place 567 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,759 Speaker 1: for our children. I don't know exactly, but I think 568 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,319 Speaker 1: it has something to do with consciously choosing love over fear. 569 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,800 Speaker 1: It comes from just practicing the hard work of empathy. 570 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,359 Speaker 1: It's about putting down these damned devices for a few 571 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,240 Speaker 1: minutes and actually listening to each other and having real conversations. 572 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 1: And it comes from assuming good intents. Let's assume that 573 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,040 Speaker 1: the other person is actually trying to do something good, 574 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: as most people in the world are trying to do 575 00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:00,000 Speaker 1: something good. Let's acknowledge their humanity, and let's especially practice 576 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,879 Speaker 1: these things when there's issues that we disagree about. At 577 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 1: the honor a couple of years ago, meeting Michelle Obama, 578 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,840 Speaker 1: and she said, it is hard to hate up close. 579 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,160 Speaker 1: And I think in these troubled times, we all need 580 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,360 Speaker 1: to get a bit closer to each other. That is 581 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 1: Jill's and my hope and prayer for San Luis Obispo 582 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: and foundation. Thank you, hey, I like that like a 583 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: lives better. Well, hello you guys. My name is Melane Martin. 584 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 1: I have been born and raised here on the Central Coast. 585 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 1: That's what's up. It's been an honor and a privilege 586 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: to live here my whole life, aside from the four 587 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,239 Speaker 1: years that I spent in San Diego in college. I 588 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: currently operate as a junior high youth pastor at New 589 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,960 Speaker 1: Life Community Church in Pisno Beach. So I'm back here 590 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 1: on the Central Coast. Can't get rid of me very soon. 591 00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,760 Speaker 1: I assume I'll be here for a while. And because 592 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,600 Speaker 1: I'll be here for a while, that also means that 593 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,520 Speaker 1: you won't get rid of my voice for a while. 594 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 1: I'm also a seminary student, so and I'm not mentoring teenagers. 595 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,560 Speaker 1: I'm studying. I'm all these things. I'm a student, I'm 596 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,040 Speaker 1: a leader, I'm a pastor. But before I was any 597 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:37,880 Speaker 1: of that, I was a black woman. And I know 598 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,719 Speaker 1: that a lot of us here on the Central Coast 599 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,200 Speaker 1: like to quote Oprah who said San Luisabeth Though was 600 00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,800 Speaker 1: the happiest city in America. But Oprah Winfrey didn't go 601 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,360 Speaker 1: to high school here as a black woman in America. 602 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,719 Speaker 1: It's easy to paint smiles on this city when you 603 00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,399 Speaker 1: ignore the blatant racism that young black and breather people 604 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,719 Speaker 1: have been experiencing since the moment they came out of 605 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,920 Speaker 1: the womb. If they were born here and since the 606 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,080 Speaker 1: moment they moved here. If they're from out of town, 607 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,080 Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Tiana's and Tiana Rata has by 608 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 1: far become the spearhead of the movement against racism here 609 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:29,280 Speaker 1: in San Luisabspo County, Woo. But all of Tiana's opposers 610 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,799 Speaker 1: seem to enjoy to negate the trauma she's experienced at 611 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:39,480 Speaker 1: the hands of racism. See, people don't understand that trauma 612 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:44,120 Speaker 1: actually lives in the body. So when someone experiences trauma 613 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,520 Speaker 1: at the hands of racism, like myself or Tiana, that 614 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,320 Speaker 1: trauma tends to express itself through panic attacks, through fear, 615 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:59,839 Speaker 1: through anxiety, and protest is actually an extremely healthy out 616 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:06,640 Speaker 1: to release that trauma from our bodies. So physically marching 617 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:11,439 Speaker 1: through the streets, physically shouting with everything in our being, 618 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:27,759 Speaker 1: physically crying publicly as a healthy, beautiful outlet of trauma. Y'all, 619 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: Tiana Rata did not choose to spearhead this movement. We 620 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:38,600 Speaker 1: the movement chose her because we need her. Tiana's voice 621 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 1: is not the loudest, but it's filled with purity. It's 622 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:48,560 Speaker 1: filled with honesty, it's filled with loyalty, it's filled with love. 623 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,719 Speaker 1: It's filled with joy, and it's also filled with the 624 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: echoes of personal tragedy as a result of racism. We 625 00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,200 Speaker 1: need her voice. And just because it challenges and disrupts 626 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,200 Speaker 1: and confronts our racism does not make it bad and 627 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,239 Speaker 1: actually makes it an extremely healthy component of growth. Roa. 628 00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: Tiana does not hate the Central Coast. Tiana loves the 629 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,040 Speaker 1: Central Coast so much that she is dedicated day in 630 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,520 Speaker 1: day out, week in week out, month after month to 631 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,800 Speaker 1: the streets speaking up for black lives on the Central 632 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:37,680 Speaker 1: Coast because she wants us to be better. And the 633 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,359 Speaker 1: fact that not lightning has been looted and not one 634 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,279 Speaker 1: riot has been has started on the Central Coast is 635 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,920 Speaker 1: actually directly because of the president that Tiana set for 636 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 1: us as a leader. So we ope her a giant 637 00:45:53,200 --> 00:46:26,680 Speaker 1: thank you, drop her charges. Good morning. My name is 638 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,440 Speaker 1: Michael Boyer. I'm a founding director of the Diversity Coalition 639 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,479 Speaker 1: of San Luis Obispo County. I'm also a business owner 640 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,359 Speaker 1: and a community leader working every day to make San 641 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:47,879 Speaker 1: Luis Obispo a better place to live. I haven't run 642 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 1: and operated businesses here in San Luis Obispo for over 643 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,839 Speaker 1: twenty years. I support both the business community and Black 644 00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:08,600 Speaker 1: Lives Matter demonstrations. They are not mutually exclusive. We are 645 00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:13,759 Speaker 1: working as a community to build an anti racist environment. 646 00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:25,160 Speaker 1: Disruption is the PA is the purpose of protesting. It's 647 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:30,640 Speaker 1: a fundamental tenet of our democracy. Black people who are 648 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:37,920 Speaker 1: peacefully protesting should not be targeted by police just because 649 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:47,960 Speaker 1: they're black. Yeah. By targeting and arresting the high profile 650 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,000 Speaker 1: of black women without without arresting any of the hundreds 651 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,839 Speaker 1: of white people who also participated in the false imprisonment, 652 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:11,120 Speaker 1: the slow PD has proven its role in local systemic 653 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:23,520 Speaker 1: racism because of this action. I am even more fearful 654 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,080 Speaker 1: of racial targeting. I've been pulled over twenty plus times 655 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:32,879 Speaker 1: in my life. I know what targeting is. I fit 656 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:39,080 Speaker 1: the description way too many times. Tiana should be revered 657 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,840 Speaker 1: for standing up for racial justice. Her courage, her leadership, 658 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:55,200 Speaker 1: her enthusiasm will improve black lives in the future. Tianna 659 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,319 Speaker 1: is fighting for our freedom. She is fighting for all 660 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:14,680 Speaker 1: of us, all Americans. Tiana is an American patriot. As 661 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:20,239 Speaker 1: another American hero, Fanny Louhimer once said, nobody is free 662 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:50,600 Speaker 1: until everybody is free. Free Tiana, ooyay, okay, okay, there's 663 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,239 Speaker 1: all Right before I start my speech, I want to 664 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,840 Speaker 1: say something to you that I say to my kids 665 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,279 Speaker 1: all the time. If you're making change, you're going to 666 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:06,600 Speaker 1: have opposition. I want to thank those protesters over there 667 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:22,320 Speaker 1: on the corner for showing that we're making change. My 668 00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,800 Speaker 1: name is Jen Ford. I am a co founder of 669 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:32,200 Speaker 1: Women's March San Luis Obispo, and I'm a mother of 670 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,560 Speaker 1: two young women who have been raised in San Luis 671 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:41,400 Speaker 1: Obispo County. My daughter, Alexa, who's here, is an activist. 672 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,440 Speaker 1: She has led protesters on her school campus and in 673 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:49,919 Speaker 1: our community. As a mother, I have my fears about 674 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,520 Speaker 1: her safety and her well being, both in her activism 675 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,719 Speaker 1: work and in her daily life. Yet I know that 676 00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:01,040 Speaker 1: unlike Tiana and her mother, there is a long list 677 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:05,799 Speaker 1: of worries we never have to think about. We live 678 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:12,720 Speaker 1: in the same community, yet we live completely in different worlds. 679 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:51,480 Speaker 1: Yeahful Part two of the press conference for Established California. Right, 680 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:57,240 Speaker 1: I'm absolutely calling on those things. And I'm also summoning 681 00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:01,400 Speaker 1: the names of those like George Floyd and Brehanna Taylor 682 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:06,080 Speaker 1: and Anthony McLane and Keisha Michael and Hykisha Wilson and 683 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:12,680 Speaker 1: all these names that line these steps. When our ancestors 684 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,680 Speaker 1: struggle for freedom, we have to remember that this is 685 00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:21,360 Speaker 1: a state that is built upon the stolen land of 686 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,000 Speaker 1: indigenous people and the stolen lives of black people. And 687 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:29,520 Speaker 1: when we rise up, when we rise up and demand freedom, 688 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,440 Speaker 1: as Tiana has done, the full power of the states 689 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:41,040 Speaker 1: will descend upon you. We have to be reminded that 690 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:46,239 Speaker 1: Mark Wilson King went to jail forty times, that as 691 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,200 Speaker 1: we think about this political season, Fanny Louhamer was beaten 692 00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:57,200 Speaker 1: in a jail for demanding black inclusion in the Democratic Convention, 693 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,560 Speaker 1: we have to think about even with both of us 694 00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,759 Speaker 1: among us, I think about my own life and my 695 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:10,120 Speaker 1: own cases. I've been arrested six times. Only last year, 696 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,560 Speaker 1: I was facing charges that what brought me could have 697 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,440 Speaker 1: brought me three and a half years in prison. But 698 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:22,919 Speaker 1: I'm here and I'm free. You know why, you know why? 699 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,520 Speaker 1: You know what? The power of the states, the power 700 00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:33,320 Speaker 1: of the people, the power of the people, the power 701 00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:38,560 Speaker 1: the people win every time. But we won't allow the 702 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,440 Speaker 1: states to steal the life and the freedom of Kiana 703 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:50,319 Speaker 1: because we're gonna stand with her. We're gonna stand with her. 704 00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:55,320 Speaker 1: We continue to demand her freedom and we continue to 705 00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:01,040 Speaker 1: stay free Kia. We could get it thatvery day, y 706 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:05,400 Speaker 1: free ourselves from Tianna. We usher in freedom and the 707 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,320 Speaker 1: names of all of those who walked before us, and 708 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:15,319 Speaker 1: free Tiana. We make black lives matter, and we will win. 709 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:29,640 Speaker 1: We will win, great great gray gray braid, brain, fraid brain. 710 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:37,640 Speaker 1: Black lives we matter here. Black lives we matter here. 711 00:54:40,239 --> 00:55:03,680 Speaker 1: Black lives we matter here. A shame? All right? What 712 00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:10,360 Speaker 1: of y'all? My name is Kendrick Sampson. I'm an actor. 713 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm an activist, co founder or Build Power. I've been 714 00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,040 Speaker 1: rolling with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles for about five 715 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:24,520 Speaker 1: years now. I'm all good, I'm all man, thank you. 716 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:32,840 Speaker 1: I want to be clear here that the system is 717 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:39,120 Speaker 1: corrupt and our goal is to abolish this system of 718 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:46,360 Speaker 1: slave catching. That is policing. Policing is the legacy of 719 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,640 Speaker 1: slave catching. If you didn't know, now you know we're 720 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:56,359 Speaker 1: getting abolished the legacy of slave catching. But while it's 721 00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:01,960 Speaker 1: still here, we demand you take your oppressive hands off 722 00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:09,719 Speaker 1: our sister. Right now, White supremacy over the air and 723 00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:14,600 Speaker 1: all over is holding on by tooth and nail. We 724 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:19,520 Speaker 1: see you trying to protect and hoard and hold on 725 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,600 Speaker 1: to the resources that you looted and stole from our 726 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:31,360 Speaker 1: people and Indigenous people. You see us demanding justice. You 727 00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:35,520 Speaker 1: see us continue to win, and you are doing everything 728 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,120 Speaker 1: you can to prevent us from achieving our goal of 729 00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:45,919 Speaker 1: true liberation. So we have to protect each other now 730 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:50,960 Speaker 1: more than ever, and we will. We stand in radical 731 00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:56,839 Speaker 1: loving community and sacrifice time, resources, and energy. We take 732 00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:02,440 Speaker 1: extreme measures to stand with, encourage, heal, and protect one another. 733 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,640 Speaker 1: And that's why I'm here and slow right now on 734 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:12,879 Speaker 1: Indigenous to Mans and solid in Land today to use 735 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:19,200 Speaker 1: my privilege and our platform to keep winning, to keep protecting, 736 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:24,760 Speaker 1: to keep healing. Dan Dow, You've let this go on 737 00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:32,080 Speaker 1: for too long. Protect these charges, slow, police, police chief, 738 00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,280 Speaker 1: and those in this town that support these charges. You 739 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:41,040 Speaker 1: should be ashamed of yourself. You are on the wrong 740 00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:46,040 Speaker 1: side of history. You are on the side of the 741 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:54,680 Speaker 1: slave catcher. You are on the side that will lose Tiana. 742 00:57:56,400 --> 00:58:00,320 Speaker 1: These excessive charges are nothing new. This is an old 743 00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:05,320 Speaker 1: tactic that they've used on many liberators before you, including 744 00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,600 Speaker 1: doctor Malina Abdullah. Same here some here with us today. 745 00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:17,000 Speaker 1: The oppressor criminalizes get this, you know, because it's a 746 00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:23,200 Speaker 1: little word. The oppressor criminalizes the liberator, so that the 747 00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:27,720 Speaker 1: oppressor can look like the liberator when they lock us 748 00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:36,480 Speaker 1: up a wolf and seeks clothing. Jews stand in the 749 00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:40,800 Speaker 1: vein of many liberators, and these ancestors are here with 750 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,320 Speaker 1: you today, and they are walking with you every day, 751 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:49,439 Speaker 1: and they are proud of you. Sometimes it's not enough 752 00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:53,360 Speaker 1: to say we're with you. Sometimes we gotta pull up 753 00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,840 Speaker 1: and show others we mean business. And that's why we 754 00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:03,080 Speaker 1: hear today. Thank you, Tiana. Thank you for your love 755 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:08,320 Speaker 1: for us, for taking a strong stance against the legacy 756 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:13,080 Speaker 1: of slave catching and oppressing. Thank you for your sacrifice 757 00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,760 Speaker 1: for us. We will continue to fight with you. We 758 00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:20,080 Speaker 1: will continue to win. As we say when we fight, 759 00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:28,600 Speaker 1: when we fight, when we fight, when we fight, man 760 00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:43,840 Speaker 1: for the police, say dee for the police, Say dee 761 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:51,160 Speaker 1: for the police, Say deep for the police. I say 762 00:59:51,320 --> 01:00:10,400 Speaker 1: thank you, Tiana. What a doda? Sat Louis Obispo in 763 01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:17,880 Speaker 1: the house now, y'all. I'm not convinced we got damn 764 01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,680 Speaker 1: Downi's to hear us, even though I hear he's out 765 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:28,800 Speaker 1: of town. How we doing, San Louis Obispo. How we doing? Team? 766 01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:34,360 Speaker 1: My name is Patrice Culors, and I'm one of the 767 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:39,640 Speaker 1: co founders of Black Lives Matter. I'm also one of 768 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:49,880 Speaker 1: the members of the Freeziana Coalition. Across the street, we 769 01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:57,080 Speaker 1: have counter protesters full of hate and division and a 770 01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:03,240 Speaker 1: deep desire to silence. Is joyful and healing and beautiful 771 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:09,520 Speaker 1: about Black Lives Matter. Across the street, there are counter 772 01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:14,200 Speaker 1: trusters who are willing to use racism as a tool 773 01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:20,000 Speaker 1: for their hate. Across the street, there are protesters who 774 01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:24,680 Speaker 1: have shown up only to sow the sickness called racism. 775 01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:33,760 Speaker 1: And right here in this crowd, behind me and in 776 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:38,960 Speaker 1: front of me, we are the people who believe in 777 01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:44,480 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter. We are the people who believe in 778 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:51,240 Speaker 1: the healing of black communities. We are the people who 779 01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:57,800 Speaker 1: believe black people deserve not just to survive, but thrive. 780 01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:08,880 Speaker 1: Throughout history, black communities have fought for our rights, for 781 01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:14,800 Speaker 1: our freedom and our self determination. People like doctor King 782 01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:19,360 Speaker 1: and Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker and John Lewis 783 01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:23,720 Speaker 1: and Diane Nash all risk their lives for black people, 784 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:28,880 Speaker 1: all risk their lives for this country, all risk their 785 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 1: lives for so called American democracy. Tiana Ratta, she is 786 01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:43,360 Speaker 1: a part of that legacy, a legacy of young Black 787 01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,520 Speaker 1: people who have taken to the streets to make sure 788 01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:51,360 Speaker 1: that this place, this place that we call the United 789 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:59,000 Speaker 1: States of America, sees us, believes us, and ensures our freedom. 790 01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:07,240 Speaker 1: Tiana took to the streets to create peace and justice, 791 01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:13,720 Speaker 1: and she has been met with criminal criminalization this town, 792 01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:20,800 Speaker 1: Dan Dowe, we are calling on you to reject these charges. 793 01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:26,160 Speaker 1: We are calling on you to show up for black lives. 794 01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:32,000 Speaker 1: We are calling on you to leave those counter protesters 795 01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:44,000 Speaker 1: in the dust. Oh, Tiana Rata deserves our praise. Tiana 796 01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:54,760 Speaker 1: Rata deserves our praise. Tiana Rata deserves our praise. Not 797 01:03:55,520 --> 01:04:00,280 Speaker 1: a great to be in prison, not a cret to 798 01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:05,080 Speaker 1: be in a jail cell, not handcuffs, not badges. She 799 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:16,840 Speaker 1: deserves our praise. Who sat Louis Obispo. Do not let 800 01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:21,320 Speaker 1: her down, Do not let black people down in this 801 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:25,160 Speaker 1: city and in this county. Make sure she is free. 802 01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:32,720 Speaker 1: Who make sure that these chargers are rejected as if 803 01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:38,360 Speaker 1: they dare to take mister trial, puts your bodies on 804 01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:44,040 Speaker 1: the line, because that is what Tianna has done for us, 805 01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:54,040 Speaker 1: that is what she has done for us. I'm gonna 806 01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:58,600 Speaker 1: shout this chance and prayer that we end all of 807 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,919 Speaker 1: our protests off. We're gonna chant this so the counter 808 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,360 Speaker 1: protesters can hear us. We're gonna chant this so Dan 809 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:09,800 Speaker 1: Down who's out of town, can hear us. So Deanna 810 01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:13,320 Speaker 1: can Troell can hear us, so your sheriff can hear us. 811 01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,080 Speaker 1: And it is our duty to fight for our freedom, 812 01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:23,120 Speaker 1: and it's our duty to win. It's our duty to win. 813 01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,560 Speaker 1: We must love each other and comport each other. We 814 01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:29,280 Speaker 1: must light to other and support each other. We have 815 01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:35,000 Speaker 1: nothing to lose but our change, and in our duty 816 01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:37,640 Speaker 1: to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to 817 01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,439 Speaker 1: fight for our freedom, and its our duty to win. 818 01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,840 Speaker 1: It's our duty to win. We must love each other 819 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,600 Speaker 1: and comport each other. We must like each other and 820 01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:49,760 Speaker 1: support each other. We have nothing to lose but our change. 821 01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:51,680 Speaker 1: One more time, y'all, and and our doing you to 822 01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:57,920 Speaker 1: fight for free up. Our duty to win. It's our 823 01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:01,320 Speaker 1: duty to win. We must fight it support each other. 824 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:28,480 Speaker 1: We must support each other. We are rapping up at 825 01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,240 Speaker 1: this time on behalf of everybody. Thank you very much 826 01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:40,720 Speaker 1: for turning out. Yeah, yes, we are winning this fight, 827 01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:46,080 Speaker 1: but this is just the beginning. If Dan Dah files 828 01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:50,800 Speaker 1: any charges whatsoever against Kanna, we need to amplify this 829 01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:53,760 Speaker 1: by ten. We need to build momentum. We may be 830 01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:58,000 Speaker 1: in trial within three months during times of COVID when 831 01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:01,920 Speaker 1: we won't get a broad who will show up for 832 01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:06,280 Speaker 1: jury duty during COVID people across the street. So we 833 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,040 Speaker 1: need you. We need you to show up for jury duty. 834 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,320 Speaker 1: We need you to register to vote, We need you 835 01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:19,800 Speaker 1: to talk about this with your neighbors. This is Justine. 836 01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:52,000 Speaker 1: Thank yourself. Leo Henderson from Leia and how we're here 837 01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:55,680 Speaker 1: at Free Tiana press conference and Raleigh click hear of 838 01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:59,360 Speaker 1: joy and I have a flyour and I'm here and 839 01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,480 Speaker 1: with a doctor, Malina Abdullah. She is a proponent of 840 01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:06,120 Speaker 1: Black Midntions, one of the co founders, and I wanted 841 01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,600 Speaker 1: to get her perspective on the events that I've transpired 842 01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:12,400 Speaker 1: and what her insight is on this situation. So thank 843 01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,520 Speaker 1: you very much for your time. She's a very busy lady. 844 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:20,000 Speaker 1: I've been following your career explicitly and particularly demanding efquitively 845 01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:24,200 Speaker 1: to be as the partifessor as a school that's overlooking 846 01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:28,240 Speaker 1: your talents and your skills and live the siens. So doctor, after, 847 01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:32,040 Speaker 1: what's your insights on the matter? Sure, So what our sister, 848 01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:37,000 Speaker 1: Tiana is basic is what happens anytime black people stand 849 01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:41,120 Speaker 1: up for freedom, stand up for ourselves, right that it's 850 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,919 Speaker 1: a struggle. Right. We don't just call it a struggle 851 01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,479 Speaker 1: in theory, it is a struggle in practice. Right. So 852 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:49,640 Speaker 1: when we're saying we need to chant down, they need 853 01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:53,320 Speaker 1: to topple these systems of injustice, that system tries to 854 01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,320 Speaker 1: dig its he over. And so what they've done is 855 01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:59,679 Speaker 1: Tiana or Rda has fought for freedom for black people 856 01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,960 Speaker 1: and demanded that black lives matter all over the country, 857 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,240 Speaker 1: but also here in San Luis Obispo is she is 858 01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:09,080 Speaker 1: facing the charges that come from the state that she 859 01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:13,519 Speaker 1: is challenging. We're saying she's not gonna face those charges 860 01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:17,360 Speaker 1: at and for me, it's especially important. Last year, people 861 01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:21,080 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles will remember that I faced eight felony 862 01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,680 Speaker 1: eight misdemeanor counts that could have cost me three and 863 01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:29,160 Speaker 1: a half years in jail. What one for me is 864 01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:33,640 Speaker 1: that hundreds of people continue to show up and the 865 01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:36,960 Speaker 1: district attorney, the city attorney was forced to drop those 866 01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:41,040 Speaker 1: charges in Los Angeles. The district attorney here in San 867 01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:44,479 Speaker 1: Louis Obisco, we're demanding that he also dropped the charges 868 01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:48,120 Speaker 1: against Tiana Roda, and we're saying we're gonna continue to 869 01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,400 Speaker 1: stand with her, We're going to continue to show up. 870 01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:54,360 Speaker 1: I noticed what again? Is I know this like the 871 01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,760 Speaker 1: maga that make America great? Are the Trump supporters over there? 872 01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:02,240 Speaker 1: They were trying to or drown out. Fortunately, you guys 873 01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,760 Speaker 1: are overwhelming me with support, trying to drown out their 874 01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,280 Speaker 1: perspective black? What is the divide? Because I've interviewed them, 875 01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:13,800 Speaker 1: they honestly don't believe that they have any problems here, right, 876 01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:16,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if they honestly believe that there's no 877 01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,720 Speaker 1: racial problems here. They are the racial problem, right. So 878 01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,200 Speaker 1: it's really important that we call them for what they are. 879 01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,840 Speaker 1: They are white supremacists. There are people who believe in 880 01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:31,000 Speaker 1: anti blackness and ascribe to anti blackness. Any time someone 881 01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:34,920 Speaker 1: is saying a twenty year old young woman deserves to 882 01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:39,120 Speaker 1: be imprisoned for raising her voice, they are heful. They 883 01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:42,639 Speaker 1: are white supremacists, and so it's important to call them 884 01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,639 Speaker 1: for what they are. And they're all so pitiful. There's 885 01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,479 Speaker 1: like this is their town and they couldn't muster more 886 01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,960 Speaker 1: than a dozen or so folks. You know, we got 887 01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,320 Speaker 1: more than that on the bus from LA. So we're 888 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,040 Speaker 1: not worried about them. We will drown them out and 889 01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,080 Speaker 1: we'll beat them. We'll make sure Tiana's free. What is 890 01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:02,080 Speaker 1: also one of the things I noticed too is I 891 01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:04,519 Speaker 1: have a theory and I don't know if this is true, 892 01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:06,880 Speaker 1: but I also think that was an idea for them 893 01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:10,519 Speaker 1: to threaten the newer protests, that if we attacked Tiana, 894 01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,120 Speaker 1: the other people won't protest. But that doesn't seem like 895 01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:16,600 Speaker 1: that's with successful. Do you think that was a possibility. Absolutely. 896 01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:18,719 Speaker 1: I had a part of my speech that I didn't 897 01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:22,920 Speaker 1: say because I recognized Louis and San Louis obispo that 898 01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:27,280 Speaker 1: if you think about the net Turner rebellions, Oh yeah, right, 899 01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:32,200 Speaker 1: August twenty first, eighteen thirty one. Yeah, the most successful 900 01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:37,719 Speaker 1: rebellion of enslaved people in this country. When they finally 901 01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,320 Speaker 1: caught Matt Turner, they put his head on a state 902 01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:45,759 Speaker 1: and that was meant to be a deterrence against all 903 01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,639 Speaker 1: other folks who had been enslaved, to deter them from 904 01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:54,840 Speaker 1: rising up. What they're doing is figuratively putting Tiana's head 905 01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:58,640 Speaker 1: on a stake. They're saying, if you dare stand up, 906 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:03,160 Speaker 1: we will prosecute. Yeah, here's the thing. We're not gonna 907 01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:06,880 Speaker 1: be deterred. We are the descendants of Harriet Tubman who said, 908 01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:10,599 Speaker 1: you know, whatever it takes, we're gonna win. Whatever it takes. 909 01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:14,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna list, and we're gonna also make sure that 910 01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:18,439 Speaker 1: Tiana's head is not staked. We're gonna plank her, we're 911 01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:21,479 Speaker 1: gonna surround her, and we're gonna demand her freedom. I 912 01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:23,800 Speaker 1: also wanted one last question, and I wanted to ask 913 01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:26,280 Speaker 1: us because here's the things that we deal with with 914 01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:31,519 Speaker 1: the unfortunate communities, and that's just the respectability politics. And 915 01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:35,680 Speaker 1: that's that's saying, is that we should protest according to 916 01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:39,040 Speaker 1: the oppressor's ideas a protest. What are your thoughts on that? 917 01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:44,559 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I mean you're from Lau. The masters tools 918 01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:48,280 Speaker 1: will never dismantle the Master's house, right, and so it's 919 01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:53,240 Speaker 1: really important that we use every single tool in our toolbox. Right. So, yeah, 920 01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:56,320 Speaker 1: we have to vote Jackie Lacy out in November. Oh yeah, right, 921 01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:59,519 Speaker 1: we have to vote. We have to pass bills. We 922 01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:02,559 Speaker 1: have to pass AB seven point thirty one, the police 923 01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,800 Speaker 1: Decertification Bill that was written in the name and in 924 01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:10,680 Speaker 1: honoring Kenneth Ross Junior. However, that's not all we can do, right. 925 01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,000 Speaker 1: We have to be in these streets, we have to 926 01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:16,240 Speaker 1: shut it down. We have to remember what Tiana said 927 01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:19,080 Speaker 1: is she don't get no justice. They don't get no past, right, 928 01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:22,160 Speaker 1: and so we're going to continue to use every single 929 01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:26,080 Speaker 1: tool in our toolbox to get justice in the name 930 01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,560 Speaker 1: of Tiana, but also in all of our names, and 931 01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:31,880 Speaker 1: the most importantly Jacob Blake too, who was just checking 932 01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,559 Speaker 1: on his kids and he's paralyzed for the waist down. 933 01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,800 Speaker 1: That's one of the and this is currently what is 934 01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:39,519 Speaker 1: going on. This is one of the reasons why we 935 01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:44,040 Speaker 1: need to be plastically having artiguanly our foot on their 936 01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,160 Speaker 1: backs to make sure that they understand that we're not 937 01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:48,960 Speaker 1: going anywhere right in the name of Jacob Blake. And 938 01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:54,240 Speaker 1: also in Los Angeles there's another father of three, Anthony McLain, 939 01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:57,120 Speaker 1: whose life was stolen about a week ago. Yeah, right, 940 01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:01,679 Speaker 1: So oftentimes in Los Angelis we're standing up for folks 941 01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:06,400 Speaker 1: around the country. But Los Angeles kills more people. Los Angeles, 942 01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:11,120 Speaker 1: Johnny law enforcement kills more people than any other set 943 01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:14,160 Speaker 1: of law enforcement units in the country. And so we 944 01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:17,040 Speaker 1: can't afford to just say Jacob Blake. We have to 945 01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:20,280 Speaker 1: also say Anthony McLean. We also have to say Kenneth 946 01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:23,200 Speaker 1: Ross Junior. We have to say Keisha Michael, whose twin 947 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,960 Speaker 1: sister was on the bus with us to come up 948 01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,280 Speaker 1: here to right. So it's really important that we think 949 01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:33,479 Speaker 1: about what's happening around the world, but also what's happening local. Well, 950 01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,479 Speaker 1: very well said, Thank you very much. Deal. This is 951 01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,000 Speaker 1: the Henderson from Media and High I thank you all 952 01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:41,240 Speaker 1: for listening and maybe again meet in the light of 953 01:14:41,360 --> 01:16:14,040 Speaker 1: understanding bum bum bub