WEBVTT - 021823 What’s in the News? (Part 1) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.519 Welcome to another episode of Civicsacker. I'm your host, Rams's Ja. 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:08.200 He is Ramsy's Jah. I am Q ward Man. You 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.960 guys are now tuned in Pacific. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.560 Second hashtag side Flack. Let's get to it. Stick around. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.639 We've got a lot of show in store for you 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.639 this week. We're going to spend the first part of 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:26.599 the show talking about news. You know, for those that 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.400 listen regularly, you might hear a constant complaint that we 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.239 have that we often don't have enough show for the 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.040 news that we have to cover. This is something that 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.240 Q has said consistently on the show since we started 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.600 doing it. And so while we're not going to be 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.879 able to cover all of the goings on, there's certainly 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.959 some notable stories in the news this week, so we're 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:49.760 going to spend a little bit of time about each 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.280 of them. Our final story is going to kind of 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.640 give us a precursor into the second half of the show, 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:02.000 where we're going to be examining a report the University 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.720 of Michigan Law School detailing race and wrongful convictions in 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.120 the United States as of twenty twenty two. This is 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.400 something we've been wanting to get to and so it's 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.480 a perfect opportunity to get into that and peel back 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.080 some layers there, So that'll be the second half of 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.680 the show. On top of that, we are going to 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:25.319 be talking about the Black Codes for our Way Black 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.399 History Fact and some of you may be familiar with 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.120 black codes, but I don't believe that we've covered the 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.720 Black codes in depth on this show just yet, and 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.479 in short, just so you know what's worth sticking around. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:42.120 Black codes are basically bogus laws that were I guess 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.000 they were valid, but they're you know, the mean spirited laws, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:51.240 and they were enacted to they were actual law. Actual 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:52.800 that's the word. I don't know if valid is the 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.800 right word, but they were actual laws. Definitely the right 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.600 intended to imprison black people after slavery to continue to 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.640 get free labor out of them. So stick around for that. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.920 But first and foremost, I think it's time for some 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:11.680 ebony excellence, shall we we shall? I like this one. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.120 This is another story that we wanted to cover. So 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.800 this one comes from Essence magazine and it's sponsored by 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.080 Hip Hop Weekly Media. So I'll read. The Yale School 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.480 of Public Health recently honored a nine year old black 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.959 girl from New Jersey for her efforts to help curb 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.840 the presence of an invasive species known as the spotted 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.320 lantern fly in her hometown of Caldwell. Bobby Wilson was 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.919 awarded the title of Donor Scientist after donating her personal 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.680 lantern fly collection to Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.680 According to the university, the collection is available for public 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.760 viewing in the museum's database. Bobby created a TikTok inspired 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.880 insect repellent out of dishwater soap and apple cider vinegar 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.960 after learning about the bugs that ecologists have urged the 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.680 public to squash on site. The fourth grader, affectionately known 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.400 as Bobby Wonder among her family and friends, was spraying 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.400 the lantern flies that she saw near her home last 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.480 October when she was approached by a police officer and questioned. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.239 The encounter that Bobby had with the police officer was 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.280 due to the fact that her neighbor and former town 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:19.440 council member Gordon Lauche I believe that's how I pronounced 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.280 had it called to make a report about seeing a 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:26.960 suspicious person. There's a little black woman walking spraying stuff 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.240 on sidewalks in trees on Elizabeth and Florence. I don't 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:35.400 know what the she's doing. Scares me, though, Las, she 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:43.120 said to dispatchers. According to footage obtained by CNN, Ijoma 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.600 Opara believe that's how I say that, who is an 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.560 assistant professor of public health at Yale, invited Bobby and 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.640 her family to the school to meet other black female 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.000 scientists and to the university shortly after the incident. Quote, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.280 the whole science community got together and said, she's one 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.160 of us. We're not going to let her lose steam 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.480 for stem. We're going to support the family, and we're 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:08.040 going to support this girl. She said, so again, shout 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.760 out to Yale and shout out to little Bobby for 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.480 being an example of ebony excellence. Now that's not the 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.400 only thing in the news, but that certainly is one 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.840 of the brighter things we'll be talking about. First and foremost, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.920 I do want to take a moment and before we 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.159 get into the stories that we actually have earmark for today, 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:38.240 I do want to mention that at the last minute, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:46.360 some additional information came out about the shooting, the shooting 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:52.440 in Michigan, the college, and it just it just didn't 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.120 time out right for us to include all that and 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.320 do it justice. But you know, we did see the 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.640 three victims. We were toward the show before you hear it. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.599 That's just kind of the way syndication works. So we're 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:11.680 not keeping secrets here. And uh, that was heartbreaking to 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:17.640 see the students that lost their lives and uh there 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.320 that we just need we need to get a little 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.000 bit more before we're able to cover that and do 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.600 it justice. But I don't want you to think that 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.840 that's not something that made its way to us. So 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.640 when the time is right and when we can do 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.800 it justice, if we can do a justice, we certainly 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.920 we'll cover that. That was tough though to see see 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.680 those to me their children, you know, so and then 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:45.280 they're writing the articles. She was this, he was that. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.960 It's like very sad because the photos, you know, they 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:56.520 seem I don't know, weird moment. So let's pivot to 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:05.840 uh separate weird moment. This story comes from binnews dot com. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:12.279 Peyton Gendrin, the shooter who killed ten black people at 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.240 the Top supermarket in Buffalo, New York, last year, has 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.200 been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:29.800 per CBS News so you some of you may remember 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:36.160 us covering this story. This was very heavy for all 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:42.520 of us, but Civic Cipher had existed long before that 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.599 shooting had taken place, and obviously we're still here now, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:53.120 and so this was kind of a thing where all 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.680 eyes were on us at a time when we were 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.159 us saying this, I want to share something me. It's 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.560 very difficult. Oh, I don't want to say I got 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:11.200 to make sure I say this right. I believe that 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.760 we process these stories a bit differently than we used to. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.000 And I'm speaking for you, but just because I've known 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:30.400 you for forever, so follow me here. They're sad, and 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:38.520 then there's sad coupled with a responsibility to not succumb 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:47.040 to your emotions, responsibility to be coherent, and to process 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.880 every single detail. We cannot look away because we now 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.960 have a responsibility to help other people through these things 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.400 in a way that we didn't before. Once upon a time, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.040 when we were doing our regular radio show, we could 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.000 you know, mention things like this and you know, thoughts 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.560 and prayers, that sort of thing, and then get right 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.080 back to the latest CARDI B record or you know, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.400 hit some little baby or whatever we were doing in 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:21.640 the studio and now these stories, we realize this is 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:27.280 kind of everyone's looking at us to give it context 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.560 and to give it perspective, and where we could normally 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.240 have our moments in private, I guess and put on 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:42.040 a brave face and then share thirty seconds with our listeners. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.120 You know, when something like this happened in Upstate New York, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.240 we're like, Okay, we're going to have to talk about 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.160 this for like fifteen minutes. This isn't a thirty second clip. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.439 We're going to have to go through every detail of it. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.800 We're going to have to I remember this one. Remember 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.520 we had to read the things that that guy wrote 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:05.400 on that gun, and we had to kind of articulate 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.920 for folks who like reporters almost you know, we have 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.600 to articulate the hatred, perhaps the source of the hatred, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.320 and even deeper sources than that. You know, we're we're 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.160 now we're looking at online chat rooms and doing research 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.480 and there's communities of people who wake up early to 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.280 just share hatred about us, you know, and it's just 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.440 a different it's a different thing now doing this show 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.680 than it was ever in my life. And I'm speaking 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.600 for you because I know that we take turns watching 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.120 the videos. Lately, we haven't been taking turns because we 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.720 had to watch the Tyree Nichols video together at the 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.880 same time and go ahead. It seems like. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:10:06.480 It's different, and it's different in multiple ways. It's there 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.560 used to be a shock to seeing things like this, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.679 and I'm very uncomfortable with the idea that it's become 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.800 something that we're unfortunately getting used to. It never stops 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.920 making me upset, It never stops making me angry, It 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.640 never stops breaking my heart. But before I press play now, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.600 my heart and my mind kind of braced for what 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.480 they know is coming, rather than being jarred and caught 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:44.120 off guard. The responsibility to our listeners and to our 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.599 culture for doing this show weighs heavy. I think in 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.840 the wake of Tyran Nicholas, you and I were talking 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.520 about how difficult that was for me, more so than 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.240 really all of the other videos that we've seen, because 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.200 the nature of the stop being fraudulent, the fact that 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.000 the kid actually didn't do anything, and not that he 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.040 didn't do anything worth dying for, but he didn't do 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.960 anything at all, Like even the stop itself had no basis. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.000 He didn't run a red light. He didn't get over 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.480 without signaling. He didn't you know, he wasn't reckless driving, 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.679 he wasn't drunk, he wasn't under the influence he how 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.120 they would usually find all of the things this person 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.760 has done wrong to put in front of you and 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.560 make them less human and less worthy of your empathy, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.000 and less worthy of your sorrow, and really less worthy 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.720 of your outrage. In this case, that couldn't even do that, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.720 even in the wake of his family putting out videos 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.040 of him skateboarding and you know, photos of him helping people, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.000 and there's a picture of him handing something to a 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.760 little girl who I'm not even sure he knew. He 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:55.080 was just being kind. Usually to combat that, someone would 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.600 try to give you the other side of it. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:57.559 Right. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.560 In the past, we've seen Cannice owned go out of 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:04.199 her way to dehumanize someone's humanize, you know what I mean, 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.200 so that you won't feel sorry for them. Even people 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.000 like her couldn't find things to make up about this kid. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.480 And that was the thing that I think troubled me 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.680 the most. When I was driving home and a cop 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.840 got behind me, and I got tense and started sweating, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.040 and my heart started beating, and I started feeling anxious 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.440 and had to take the next day off of work 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:31.960 because I was so upset and so uncomfortable. So there's, yes, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.280 it's way different watching these videos now than it was before, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.880 but it's that's not singular. It's different in a spider 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.479 web of different ways. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.200 Well, yeah, it's been tough, Yeah, And I think that's 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.480 that's kind of what I'm trying to say. You obviously 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.839 are more articulate than I am, so I appreciate that. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:59.800 But you know where we end up is, you know, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:07.080 seeing this thing unfold, we know that the best case 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.520 scenario is that because remember, he was taken in a 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.160 live I think we did a whole show dedicated to 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.160 that one singular element of this, that that shooter was 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.920 taken in alive. Right, the best case scenario, the best 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.240 possible outcome, is that everybody gets a nice funeral and 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:31.680 this guy is you know, goes to prison forever. Right, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:39.360 And it feels hollow, but it's it doesn't even feel 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.160 like enough to say it's not nothing, it's what happened. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.480 So I'll finish reading this news story because we have 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.319 a duty to inform you, and these stories don't often 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.800 we haven't been able to cover things like this just 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.880 because there's been so many, so much death and strange behavior. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.000 But I'll continue reading. Here's a quote from the judge. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.600 She says, there can be no mercy for you, no understanding, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:09.160 no second chances. Her name is Judge Susan Egan, and 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.160 she said this as she delivered the sentence during a 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.520 court hearing on February fifteenth. She goes on to say, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.080 the damage you have caused is too great, and the 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.960 people you have hurt are too valuable to this community. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:27.440 I appreciated her saying that that is akin to say 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.200 black lives matter. You know, the people are too valuable 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.680 to this community. So you know. She goes on to say, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.520 you will never see the light of day as a 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:47.960 free man ever again. And so you got to be 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.640 careful with stuff like this because I don't want to 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.360 say that that's good, and of course I don't want 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.640 to say that it's bad. It's just what happened. And 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.680 so this is the outcome that this. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.160 Is the best case scenario, I guess, And I think 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.480 what you're trying not to do is make it feel 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.080 like a celebratory moment. There's something that's this, you know, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.400 kind of vile. But it's not a celebration of this 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:21.880 man's life being turned into perpetual captivity as much as 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.520 it is the idea of there being a such thing 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.600 as justice. And at the very least, if there's no justice, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.640 there's accountability here when we've seen so many cases where 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:33.000 there's not. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.520 Well, let me let me tell you what would feel 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.960 better than this. I know this is wishful thinking, I 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.160 know this is bying the sky. But what would feel 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:52.840 better than this is if the powers that be are 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:58.880 elected officials, the billionaires that you know have these little 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.960 pockets of the Internet that they own, in control or whatever. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:07.360 If those people shut down these cess pools where these 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:14.200 types of individuals can you know, network and share ideas, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:22.320 These real extreme, hateful white supremacists where they're compelled by 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.480 each other to get out there and get the high score, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.920 meaning get out there and shoot the most number of people. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.800 And these guys are often as a term's called in 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:40.320 cells and voluntarily celibate. And I mean we know that. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.840 I think it's like forty percent of men never father children, right. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:53.760 These guys are often those types, but they don't have 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.960 access to women really nothing. Nothing about their lives they 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:01.280 feel is they don't feel like any part of their 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.760 lives makes them happy. So they are, in my belief, 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.880 often suicidal, you know, and in that last minute, when 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.280 that adrenal is pumping, some will surrender, some will take 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.080 their own lives. We saw that in Michigan this past week. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.400 And you know, some of them will you know, surrender 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.919 and go to prison and just be there and be 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:28.520 celebrated in prison as whatever of neo Nazi or you know, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:33.600 Aryan whatever. They'll have their status in the prison with 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.320 the Aryan Brotherhood or whatever it's called in prison. So 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.440 not having access to women is not like a deal 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.880 breaker for these guys. So these communities on the internet 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.880 continue to breed these hateful people and point their hatred 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.200 in the direction of black people, brown people. We saw 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.119 that in El Paso at the Walmart and then the 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.719 country as a whole, you know, is really upset with 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:02.840 Mexico for no reason. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:08.360 But it's not for no reason, right, Yeah, they had 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.280 reasons created and taught to them. So sure they think 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.520 that they're fully justified in their fears and their fake 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.840 concerns for this monster that's coming to get us. That 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:17.880 doesn't exist. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.480 So what I would have liked to see is a 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.720 crackdown on that type of terrorism. Let's be honest, That's 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.560 what it is, and not just this one individual being sentenced. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.399 But this is news. In our job is to you know, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.119 cover stories like this so that you know, we're not 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.399 leaving everything on the you know, the cutting room floor 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:46.680 every single week. So that happened. Moving on, this also 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.120 comes from the Black Information Network. Six North Carolina officers 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.560 have been put on leave after video showed the deadly 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.119 tasing of a black man who complained of heart problems. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.320 Thirty two year old Darryl Tyree Williams died in a 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.679 Rally hospital on January seventeenth after police taste him multiple 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.000 times during its attempted arrest for alleged drug possession. For 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.440 The New York Post. In the newly released footage, Williams 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.080 can be heard questioning why he is being arrested. Officers 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:16.960 told Williams that if he didn't put his hands behind 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.920 his back, they would use a taser. Police ultimately taste 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.359 Williams three times despite his pleas for them to stop 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:32.040 due to his heart problems. And that one is another 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:38.040 one that is really sad because I think that I'm 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:44.280 starting to appreciate the fact that tasers aren't strictly speaking, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:53.159 non lethal. You know, people get shot and survive, you know, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:54.560 I mean shot. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.320 There are a lot of things that have no lead 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.439 the intentions that can kill you. You can drink too 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:00.240 much water and die, you know what I mean. Like 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.520 the point, it's it's that these things are being used 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:08.920 in excess. Yeah, and scapegoaded and the together are they're 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.880 yelling taser, They're yelling stop resisting. They yell all these 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.680 things out loud to teach you how to feel well. 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.119 See he yelled taser. He you know, he wasn't trying 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.840 to well if he tased them one hundred times, you know, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.040 or for ten twenty minutes or whatever. You know, there 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.119 is a limit to which you can do anything, and 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:33.199 it can be harmful. So all these billions of dollars 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:38.399 that are being spent on training, I'm sure someone knows that. Yeah, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.320 and they you know, they crossed that line anyway in 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.320 most cases with impunity. And you know, thus the cycle 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.879 that has us, you know, all these years later, still 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.800 covering the same stories. The names are just different, you know. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:59.960 Over the last weekend. We so where we live in Arizon, 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.919 So we had the Super Bowl here in Phoenix, and 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:08.560 there's a lot of moving around. And you may not know, 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.680 but I have a couple of nightclubs here in downtown Phoenix, 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:14.840 and there were some people. I'm not sure if they 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.680 were from my club or just in the entertainment district there. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:23.000 But I was walking in an alley behind my business 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:29.040 and I was headed inside and I heard the sound 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.760 of a taser from like a security guard. There was 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.840 like some commotion. I couldn't see it, but I heard 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:35.159 the sound of a taser, and then I heard a 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:41.719 woman screaming, like a blood curdling scream. And then I 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:43.520 believe it was her that was getting tasted. She got 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:49.800 tased two more times and the scream again. I didn't 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.119 see who was tasing. I didn't see who was being tased. 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:54.640 I didn't see that just because there was a wall there, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:55.879 but I could just hear it over the top of 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:00.840 the wall. But that let me know that those things 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.800 are intense. I never heard somebody scream like that, like 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:10.000 screaming in pain. So yeah, I've never come face to 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:14.400 face with the taser, fortunately, But you know the fact 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:19.199 that people are dying consistently, People are dying asking what 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.800 they did wrong, and people are dying because of the 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:28.760 overuse of you know, taser, indeed, any police tactic. You know, 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.919 you can overuse the you know, the chokehold, you can 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:35.159 over use the punch, you can overuse the gun, you 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.600 can over use any of this stuff. The point is 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:42.120 that this police violence leads to death often enough. It's 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.600 black and brown people. And again, now we have to 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.160 talk to you about the now deceased thirty two year 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.960 old Darryl Tyree Williams. So that happened as well. Forgive 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.040 us for not going into more detail, but you have 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.240 to Below this is going to be a precursor to 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.159 the next part of the show. So we're just going 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.440 to kind of read this you with it. This also 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:05.640 comes from the Black Information Network. A Missouri man who 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.879 spent the last twenty seven years in prison for murder 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.639 walked free on February fourteenth after a judge declared his 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:18.119 innocence and vacated his convictions. Per CNN, Lamar Johnson was 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.640 sentenced in nineteen ninety five. Sure, hey, that was when 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:25.479 California Love came out to life in prison without parole 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.160 in connection to the death of Marcus Boyd. Police said 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:34.080 Johnson and another man, Philip Campbell, fatally shot Boyd. Last year, 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:38.040 Saint Louis Circuit attorney Kimberly Gardner filed a motion for 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.080 a new hearing, arguing that Johnson's murder conviction was based 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:46.400 on false eyewitness testimony and misconduct sounds familiar by investigators 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:50.800 and prosecutors. Johnson was granted the hearing, and on Tuesday, 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:57.560 Missouri Circuit Court Judge David Mason said his initial trial 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:03.240 included constitutional error, as he vacated the murder conviction quote 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:07.480 there is clear and convincing evidence of Lamar Johnson's actual innocence. 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:13.240 Mason ruled Gardner's request to vacate Johnson's convicting Johnson's conviction 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.560 came after James Elkin, the sole eye witness of the 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.960 initial trial, recanted. Another man, James Howard, also testified in 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.200 December that he and Campbell, who has since died, shot 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:28.280 Boyd over a drug dispute. According to Mason's ruling, Johnson 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:30.439 had an alibi on the night of Boyd's murder and 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:35.560 no physical evidence linked him to the killing, and so 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.879 I know that you probably get your news from whatever 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:42.879 news sources you get it from, and we appreciate you 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:45.000 taking a little bit extra time to get your news 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.040 from us as well. But it suffice it to say 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:53.160 that this is a pretty big deal in black news circles, 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.480 and so we thought that we would mention it, and 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:58.600 that would give us an excellent opportunity to discuss what 0:24:58.680 --> 0:24:59.960 we're going to discuss next.