WEBVTT - What Happened to Breonna Taylor? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:06.680 Yeah, welcome to Street Politicians, the place with the streets 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.800 in politics meet. I'm gonna host my son and I'm 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Tamika D. Mallory and this is street Politicians. So much 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.880 is happening across this country. Um, we seem like we're 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.560 in a moment where we're either gonna change drastically or 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.120 people are gonna burn this whole country down. So this 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.400 is the place with this is and we hope that 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.560 that doesn't happen. But it's a place where certainly folks 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.520 have just decided that enough is enough. And I think 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.120 it is most incredible to see that people from outside 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.040 of the country have taken up our issue. Uh. In Germany, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.240 people have been marching in Paris, people have been organized 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.640 in and speaking out. And in fact, I saw a 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.040 viral video of a woman who lives in Paris who 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.400 was complaining, like, you know, why, why is all of 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.240 this Black Lives Matter stuff happening? I don't care out 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.040 that it's not my issues, not my family, That's not 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.559 something I believe in. She went viral. She's probably gonna 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.280 lose her job. You're gonna lose your job. I love 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.240 that you're gonna lose your job. She'll probably lose her 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.880 job in the next few hours. UM. And so with 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:23.360 everything that's happening, though, I think what is most painful 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:28.040 is that the death, the murder, the assault upon black 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.360 lives still has not stopped. UM. And I don't think 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.000 any of us have it in our minds that just 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.520 because there's a major movement, that the violence against black 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.360 bodies were just end. But we're still seeing images a 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:50.320 very very gruesome, UM and traumatizing murder of black people. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.240 And so all the movement that's happening in the world, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.720 You've got COVID nineteen, you got so much going on, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.400 and yet still back bodies continue to drop, and America 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.680 has the blood of our people on these streets. UM. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.080 You know, since we last talked when we were fighting 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.720 for George Floyd and um, Brianna Taylor, ahmard are very 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.679 and the list goes on and on of those who 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.440 went before them. UM. Now we have a new case, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:26.920 Raciard Brooks. Right before America's eyes, right on video. We 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.080 saw that this man was killed. And I don't think 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:35.840 that we are so naive or so confused that we 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.280 don't understand the challenges that was happening in that moment. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.960 We know he was drinking. We saw that. We know 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.880 that he fell asleep behind the wheel because he had 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:52.800 too much to drink. We know that once he got 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.960 into a fight or once they were attempting to arrest him, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.680 that he started to fight the cops, and that he 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.760 also the the taser um and ran away with it 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.480 and he pointed the Taser Act. The policies. We know 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.519 all of that. But I think what's at the heart 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.880 of the conversation and what many of us as activists 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.359 and advocates might have been trying to say, is that 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.480 the way in which we are handled from start to 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:26.320 finish is different from how we see other communities being managed. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.560 And so we're gonna talk about that because, yeah, we 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.400 know things he could have done things different is a 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.240 lot of things that could have happened differently. But he 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.200 was being harassed from the very moment that the second 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.160 officer arrived on the scene, and the way in which 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.560 he was being treated wasn't a de escalation attempt, it 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.640 wasn't a community relations attempt. It was an enforcement attempt. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.280 And that's something that um, I think, you know, we 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:59.560 have to discuss five people hanging across the nation, five 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:05.080 print cases of people hanging in which in each situation, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.840 the media keeps trying to say suicide, that these people 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.640 did harm to themselves. Any other community, if you found 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:21.880 five white people, particularly young white men, hanging around this nation, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.159 people like you and me, mice would be in jail. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.320 They would lock us up to see if the movement 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:35.000 has something to do with the retaliation against white people. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.719 Then we see Nikia Crawford, a young woman eighteen years old, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.520 just graduated from high school, driving her grandmother somewhere, doing 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.839 her regular, normal everyday activities, shot to death at a 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.640 light in Akron, Ohio. We don't know for sure, but 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.080 witnesses say that it was a white man in the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.000 vehicle that shot her. Many witnesses have said it. We 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.520 don't know. They can't say she shot herself. And of 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.119 course they would love to say that it was black 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.600 on black crime, but that's not what the witnesses is saying. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.560 And so that's, you know, yet another uh situation that 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.120 we have to monitor. I know, I saw on Shaun 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.560 King's um Instagram page that there's a fifty thousand dollar 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.640 reward available for those who are able to help catch 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.680 the murderer. Of Nikia Crawford, which is a sad situation. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:38.000 Like I said, she just graduated then Trump. I mean, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:44.520 I keep saying this stuff is not isolated. It's very 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:50.200 very much coordinated in terms of how they are choosing 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.400 cities to go to and the dates that they are 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:58.080 choosing to go to these places, both his campaign events 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.919 and now he will accept the nomination um in in 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:08.200 uh in Jacksonville, Florida. Now in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he's 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.919 going to be this weekend. And yes, granted, it was 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.360 supposed to be tomorrow on June team that he would 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:18.880 be having his major event, and they moved it because 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.840 somebody got in touch with him and said, you are 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:28.479 actually going to in that there's bloodshed. You know. Like 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.920 I'm thinking about how we've been traveling for the last 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.800 few weeks and the types of people that I hear 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.839 on your phone are not, like, you know, regular activists 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.320 like these they're not really they don't call themselves activists 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.919 at all. These as people we don't even see outside 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.760 in the daytime, and they're calling you, like, hell, homeboy 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.680 thinks he's going to Tulsa. I'm ready to give it 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.520 all up, Like it can't happen. So you know, he 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.200 moved the date because somebody said this is not gonna 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.719 be good, and thank god they did. But it's still 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.880 the mere fact that he's gone to talk understanding the 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.960 history of Tulsa, knowing that Black Wall Street was there, 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.400 and that town was bombed, and that was where our 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.240 people were thriving, not just surviving. It was a model 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.000 for Black America of how to have a community that 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:26.400 has wealth and is sustainable without having to beg the 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:31.160 state for anything. Um. And it was bombed, literally bombed 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:36.240 by being on June team. No, no, not on June team. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:42.240 That's nine years after the bombing. UM. June two teenth 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.240 is a different day. This is the day when many 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:53.680 a right, when many black black Nufricians, when many Africans um, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.440 we're told that we were free from slavery, from enslavement, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.280 and we know many did not find out, so there 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.720 were many people who remained in slave because they didn't know. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.960 But that is the official day when black people were 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.200 supposed to know that we were freed from slavery. And 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.680 so even though Tulsa, the Tulsa bombings didn't happen on 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.960 that day, the mere fact that you would go to 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.840 Tulsa understanding what you represent as an American president as 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:30.160 a white man who's it can't happen. So that's that 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.000 on that Jacksonville UM is another place that they're going 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:39.280 to August or they're gonna be in Jacksonville and they're 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:44.640 going to Jacksonville for the Republican National Convention where he's 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.800 going to accept the nomination um as their candidate for president. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:56.040 And like yo In in that town the same exact 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.640 time there was the the the anniversary of the ax Handle. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.160 I think it's the act yet as Handle exactly. That 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:09.440 was another time when white people, including law enforcement, murdered 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:15.160 black folks and they are actual uh events that happened 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.480 every August where they are literally commemorating that day and 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.520 remembering the those people who were lost. So this we're 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.560 talking about not isolated incidents. How the hell do they 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.520 choose both of those times in one period. It's not isolated, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.520 it's I think it's very strategic. I think you know, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.280 if you look at just the Tousa situation in itself 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.560 was crazy. Man. Just when we first heard that he 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.920 was going there on June TV, right, I got a 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.679 lot of colds and people like, I'm ready to give 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.400 it up. You I'm going there, but everybody I knew 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.319 called me and you know, and we are already heading 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.920 the d C to do an action, and we was considering, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.560 you know, to even change our route to go out 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.960 there on that day. So it was strategic. I guess 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.480 he figured he wants to speak to his African Americans, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.440 as he said, you know, and and try to pander 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.200 and try to make it seem like he understands our struggle, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.160 you know, and you know it's it's it's Trump is 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:17.079 very very um, very strategic, and he and he plays 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.360 with marketing. That's his whole thing is about how is 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.560 he gonna market him? You know, when you look at 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.800 the next place, when we look at where else where 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.040 is he going again? You said Ville, Jacksonville, Florida, And 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.920 we look about the tracity that happened then in Jacksonville, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.920 and then you look at him wanted to speak. So 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.920 these are these are times where he's trying to utilize 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.360 the heart strings of black people and then he's gonna 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.400 try to speak and pander two black people. In his mind, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.400 you know, he doesn't realize that people are already fed 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.000 up you know, you can't talk to people when they're 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.560 dealing with pain and you're the one who inflicted it. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.760 So he has a strategy. So it's it's a two 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:00.559 promped strategy. He either roused up his space letting them 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.320 know that he's gonna go there and speak on those 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.560 days and they're like and they see it as a 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.199 form of disrespect. Or he either gets some of us, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.200 you know, who are not as conscious understandably like, well, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.120 you know, he wants to celebrate with us, you know, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.800 the president. He's the president. You know, we need to 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.520 you know, acknowledge this. So this is this is what 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.640 he does, and he does it very strategically all times. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.120 Just like you look at this press conference with this 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.480 so called you know, executive order that really did nothing, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.439 you know, just pretty much. In my opinion, a lot 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.880 of people agree. Some people say, you know, it's it's 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.080 a movement in the right direction, but there's no mandate 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.480 in this executive Order's only suggestions that most local leaders 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.480 do not have to follow, and most of them won't 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.280 follow because they didn't even want those in put into 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.800 law in the first place, you know, And most of 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.040 them have had that same they've had the ability to 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.040 do everything that they put into these this executive orders. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.559 So you know, he tries to utilize that time and 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.439 make it seems like, you know, we're dealing with prisonal fall. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.040 Let me do something that speaks to that, because I'm 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.360 trying to get reelected. So we're very aware of what 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.760 this president is doing that like you said, he's our 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.800 co organizing man, Like whenever he does something, it's a 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.800 reason for us to organize again. So you know, it's 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.840 just said, it's actually just really said. Really say, yeah, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.280 it's a sad state of affairs. And I think, like, yes, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.520 I try to come up with what's my thought of 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.000 the day, because I have so many thoughts of the day, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.080 of thoughts of the minute, thoughts of the hour. I 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:41.920 wonder have we really truly entered the race war that 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.920 we've been talking about? And I have to ask that 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.400 as a with the second question, are we ready? Like 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.240 are we really truly ready for what we're being faced with? 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:59.040 Because so many of our own people are just not 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.760 away there, like they're just living their lives. And a 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.040 lot of that is you know, it's the media. It's 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.400 also a survival mechanism where people are like you know, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.840 I don't even want to know. I don't want to know. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:16.640 I don't wanna I don't want to have to face. Yeah, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.720 I don't want to have to face the constant brutality 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.160 and trauma and and and all that goes along with them. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.599 But at the same time, I can't ignore it. We 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:32.360 better be prepared because something really, really, really heavy is happening, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.400 especially when they're starting to find people hanging, people getting shot. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.520 Let me tell you one thing I was thinking to 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.600 myself this is day. I'm like, yo, they know for 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.679 sure that if they come outside to these rallies and 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.840 protests and other things where Pooky and them are like 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.839 on guard, they know they cannot win. They cannot win 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.160 because our people, we've been killed so much, we've been 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.360 brutalized so much. We don't really have anything else to lose. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.160 So if you're time and you decided to show up 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.960 where we are and you want to facesion, not a 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.760 good thing. It's not you know what I want to say, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.439 You know what I want to say to cut you off. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.320 I don't think at this moment, you know, I think 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.679 people are trying to create a race war. But I 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.840 think at this moment most people, just people in general, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:32.760 are realizing the pain, you know, the trauma, the effects 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.840 of white supremacy, even white people. You know. I think 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.640 everywhere you look in this world, people are screaming white 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.240 Black lives matter. They are, they are acknowledging. I think 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.440 we we, we are, We are winning a lot of allies, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.680 you know, and cocon spirits, as you say, I think 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.440 so they're trying to create. I think what Trump is 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.240 trying to do is create, recreate the divide, because that's 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.120 been his whole strategy with his you know, his own 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.360 presidency was us to create this divide and and make 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.680 it seem like it's us against them, you know, just 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.840 throwing out the dog whistles and in saying things too 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.840 to rival up his base. And you hear you know, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.840 a lot of his the white supremacist like what, we're 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.760 just waiting for Trump to give us the word, and 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.320 we all you have to do is give us the world. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.800 So I think that's what he's trying to do. But 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.640 I think this moment, you know, George Floyd's situation, coupled 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.280 with so many of them, are recovered with so many 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.280 different things. Brianna Taylor just looking at where we are 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.480 in this moment. I think it has. It has changed 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.920 the perspective of the world, you understand I'm saying, And 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.840 I don't think they I don't think the world really 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.520 wants to raceful. I think that because everywhere you go, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.240 they're screaming black lives matter, Whites green everywhere. The people 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.800 that never before had any concern people before that, we 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.400 was like, why they don't speak up on our ha 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.120 they't saying that. Everybody is vocal about what's going on. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.480 Everybody is screaming black lives matter. And of course it's 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.320 because of fat also because it's the cool thing to do, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.960 but it's also a lot of people that you know, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.240 are genuine, like damn, I just didn't even know what 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.840 this is going on. Like I never visualized. I never 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.960 actually was able to see this. So I think we're 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.360 at a unique time where, you know, to me, I'm 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.960 not so concerned about the race war, where I'm concerned 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.680 with the good against bad. I think it's it's just 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.120 good people against bad people at this time. You know 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.720 what I'm I'm looking at it. You know, it's I 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.320 don't think. I don't think because I don't think of 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.520 most white people agree with what's going on. I think 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:40.560 that I don't think most white Sorry I cut you off, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.000 but I don't think most white people agree. I mean 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:50.760 most white people supported, but I don't think most white people. Again, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.560 that's important. Words you said most white people, I don't 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.120 think they are willing to fight against it, and therefore, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.280 at some point they have to choose a side. And 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.359 guess what in this particular moment, as you've been saying, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:13.679 those that are responsible for deconstructing the institutional and systemic 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.479 racism that their own ancestors created, our white folks. And 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.520 there's some that are in the movement, but there's also 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:26.000 some that's in the movement that's problematic as fun like period. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.280 They are supposed to be liberal, they're supposed to be progressive, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:37.680 and yet they create more tension and dissension among movements 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.119 because they because they still operate off or operate through 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.280 a white supremacist lens. And what I mean by that 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.639 is when you are in these women's organizations where black 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.240 women and women of color feel oppressed even while we're 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.320 supposed to be working together for liberation, and you are 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.400 here telling everybody, oh, I believe black lives matter I'm 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.280 a white woman that supports the movement, and yet and 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.760 still people who work with are being traumatized by your behavior. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.840 And as we moved to our next topic, when we 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.840 come to you and say, what are you gonna do 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:17.760 about a Ta Tiana Jefferson, Shakeisha Clemens, Brianna Taylor, You're 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:22.680 not really where the where are where are the white 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.760 women's organizations right now? I'm talking about with mass movements. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:33.600 I'm not talking about tweet or you posted something. I'm 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.320 talking about mass movements for Brianna Taylor. Where are they? Well, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.080 that's what I think. Well, I think we're at a 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.200 unique time where we need to sell quote these people. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.600 I think you know, I think you have a presence, 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.040 a voice, you know. I think that you have been 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.080 tasked with the ability, skill level in the reach to 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.439 make sure that people understand that. And I want to 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.360 know that too, Like, where are there? We're all these 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.120 organizations that's supposed to be about women's rights, that why 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.760 aren't there you know, major mass mobilizations and major movements 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.240 behind Briana Taylor with the exception of what it is 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.520 that you know, we as you know, combined with other 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.000 organizations in in her Town. Black Lives Matter, O. The 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.760 organizations are putting together an organizer, but where are they? 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.199 You know, they pertain to be about women's right. So 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:30.280 it's definitely right. I mean, it's an issue. It's an issue, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.159 and you know we have to ask. I mean, people 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.080 raise so much hell about every move we made within 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.880 the Women's March, and they said, you know, we were 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.440 the problem. Whatever we I'm not even gonna waste air 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.239 coming out of my body to repeat the lies and 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.119 the bullshit that they tried to mount against us with 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.640 the Women's March. But now we're not there, right, We're 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:02.680 not there Women's women quite. I mean, obviously they send 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.840 fundraising emails all the time and and I didn't even know. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:12.120 I thought I didn't even know. No, it's still very much. 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.199 There's a board there, people there, We left people in charge. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.199 We we set up the board. We invited many of 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.880 the folks who are there in the organization now. Um, 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:27.080 and I'm sure they probably sent out an email. But 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:32.439 again again, and my my thing is not even at 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.880 which of course I know from when I was one 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:40.840 of the you know, strongest black women voices within the organization. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:45.280 From a national perspective, we forced people to deal with 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:50.440 Shakisha clements, and it still wasn't enough. It still wasn't enough, 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.760 because you know, what you have to ask is like, 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:59.200 where is the Louisville Women's March chapter or one that's 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.720 in Kentucky. Where are all the neighboring cities. Where's the 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:09.520 folks in Indianapolis? Where are the people who um from 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.320 a women's march perspective? Where are they in terms of 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.560 coming together to fight for Brianna Taylor. Now what they 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.600 will say is, oh, well, you know it's COVID nineteen 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.520 and whatever. Okay, fine, people want to use that, and 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.400 and and and and I'm not saying that you shouldn't 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.119 protect yourself. So we can't tell anybody that they're wrong 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.560 for not hitting the streets. But I'm almost certain, I'm 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:37.359 almost certain that if this in this moment, it was 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:44.880 something Trump focused. Boom, That's all you need, because I've 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.000 seen them. I've seen them on the streets. I've seen 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.960 them on the streets since COVID, and and I'm not 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.720 saying they were organized by the National Women's March. I'm 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.439 just saying i've seen people with their pink hats on 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.959 and all of that around other issues, but not for 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.600 specifically a black Harman. And so when we talk about 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.639 we're in a race boar, I think the way we 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.399 end this that I would end it, of course, you 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.600 know you maybe you won't end it there, but is 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.400 that we've been in a race war and that now 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:23.479 what's happening is that the actual uh physical remnants of 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.840 it is beginning to show up on the street. And 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.280 by the way, the murder has been happening, but now 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:36.080 it's not just the murder, it's also the response of 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.480 some people from our communities. Yeah, you know, when we 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:44.280 talk about Briana Taylor, like the I want to first 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:48.200 of all come in with um you guys did with 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:50.960 the campaign? Do you know what happened to Brianna Taylor? 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.240 Like that was a really big campaign. Man. It touched 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.080 me just hearing her mother's story just you know, I 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:58.800 was dead when she said we're just here on on 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.240 that that big you know, and just seeing all of 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:06.000 those um artists and actresses and you know, people of 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:10.080 stature in our communities and our culture just speaking on 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.240 behalf man Like, I just want to say, it was dope, man, 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.800 but we got it. There still has been nothing. You 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.719 haven't got any level of justice. And it's it's crazy 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.400 how disregarded and disrespected the black woman is. This woman 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.359 was shot you know home and nobody's even lost the 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:30.520 job or anything like shot eight times through home like 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:35.359 that has to be some level of you know, mound 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.080 mound practice is so you know, it's negligence that at least, 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:42.159 if nothing else there was negligence, you know, there's at 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:43.840 least it's it's something for you to say, you know, 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.760 you are not capable to continue to do this job 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:50.639 because your actions led to the depth of an innocent person. 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:55.080 Your lack of understanding, your lack of professionalism. There was 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:57.960 a lot of things lacking there, you know. And if 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:01.080 we can't hold the police accountable to make sure that 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.680 innocent people just don't die, you know, we can't charge 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.560 with a pause but you and then you still get 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:10.200 to keep your job, but it has something else. Yeah, No, 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:14.200 Brianna Taylor's situation is pretty rough. And what we did 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:18.479 see happen last week, which we know administrative duty is 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:23.440 no longer enough, like we it was never enough, but 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:26.560 we've just said to hell with that, don't even bring 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:31.120 up administrative leave anymore. Um, And so what we did 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:36.320 see happen is that the the ludge the ludge. So 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:40.320 what we did see happen is that the officer who 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:43.119 wrote the no knock warrant and you know, went to 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:45.920 the judge to get him the judge to sign off 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.879 on a no knock warrant, he lied. He said that 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:57.800 that that the postal service had reported suspicious packages going 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:01.640 to Brianna Taylor's home. And the Postal Service came out 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:04.679 and said they never ever reported that, and in fact, 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:08.280 they never witnessed or even assumed or felt that there 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:12.960 were um suspicious packages going to the home. So this 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:17.159 criminal activity, that's criminal activity. He lied to get the 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:22.480