Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer - Journalist Physically Assaulted by Anti-Trump Protestors (Full Episode) | SLIGHTLY OFFENS*VE
Aired: 2018-06-18
Duration: 16:27


=== Protesters Harassed (13:43) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, say, hey, go, Carol!
[00:00:02]  Hey!
[00:00:02]  Go down here!
[00:00:03]  Stop!
[00:00:04]  F  ⁇  you!
[00:00:05]  Fuera!
[00:00:06]  Fuera!
[00:00:07]  Hey guys, this is harassment!
[00:00:10]  Alright, thank you.
[00:00:11]  Thank you.
[00:00:12]  Racists go!
[00:00:20]  We are fighting for the justice of something.
[00:00:23]  I'm not sure what that is, but all that matters to join this protest is that you don't like Donald Trump and you think his administration are animals.
[00:00:31]  Come out, come all, bring your drum, bring your sign, and let's march against this administration.
[00:00:38]  What's up?
[00:00:38]  I'm here.
[00:00:38]  What's your name?
[00:00:40]  Marn Karmine.
[00:00:41]  All right, I'm out here with Freddie.
[00:00:44]  What's your name?
[00:00:44]  Carrie.
[00:00:46]  Cherry?
[00:00:46]  Carrie.
[00:00:47]  Carrie.
[00:00:47]  Okay.
[00:00:48]  Carrie with a K. What's up, guys?
[00:00:50]  So what are we marching for today?
[00:00:53]  To defend the rights of people receiving TPS in DACA.
[00:00:56]  Okay, and how are we accomplishing that in this march?
[00:00:59]  Yelling really loudly.
[00:01:00]  So I'm representing like Mexicans specifically and like just foreign people in general, I feel like.
[00:01:08]  Refugees type stuff.
[00:01:09]  What do you think about Donald Trump and his policies here with separating the families?
[00:01:13]  Like what do you think about his administration?
[00:01:16]  What would you think I would think?
[00:01:17]  I mean, it's like, to be very honest with you, it's exactly like the Nazis.
[00:01:26]  Right, and what are we yelling specifically?
[00:01:29]  TPS.
[00:01:32]  Defend trans lives, indigenous lives, immigrant lives, black lives.
[00:01:38]  We're just fighting for all of them.
[00:01:40]  And so that's the point of it here, right?
[00:01:42]  We got to fight for everyone.
[00:01:43]  Yes, that is correct.
[00:01:44]  Would you say this current crisis at the southern border is as a result of the industrial military complex of the United States?
[00:01:49]  Absolutely.
[00:01:50]  It's not only that, but it has to do with decades of policymaking since World War II, you know?
[00:01:56]  Say it loud, say it clear.
[00:01:58]  Immigrants are welcomed here.
[00:02:03]  immigrants are welcome here to be honest i just kept having to run by but i was at the downtown la once i was considered i didn't know about this I was considering joining it just now, actually.
[00:02:12]  Are we fighting against anyone?
[00:02:13]  Yes, Donald Trump and... Ice and Trump.
[00:02:16]  All right, cool.
[00:02:17]  And so how do we effectively get Donald Trump and ICE to be abolished?
[00:02:22]  That's a tricky question.
[00:02:23]  Overthrow him.
[00:02:29]  What does your sign say?
[00:02:30]  Man says, deport hate!
[00:02:32]  How do we abort hate?
[00:02:33]  We deport this Trump administration!
[00:02:36]  And how do we deport the Trump administration?
[00:02:39]  We need to fight back with their laws that they're trying to force upon us.
[00:02:42]  I don't know what we're marching for, but I know we're dancing.
[00:02:45]  Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:02:49]  I'm a namana manama.
[00:02:51]  I'm out here marching against Donald Trump, and I don't like administration because this really sucks.
[00:02:57]  Gotta go out, march in the streets.
[00:02:59]  Gotta do my best, big boy drum beat.
[00:03:02]  What's up out here in L.A. playing my drum?
[00:03:05]  Got it.
[00:03:06]  Woo. Woo.
[00:03:07]  Hi, yeah, we're here supporting all the TPS families that are trying to be separated by the recent announcement.
[00:03:14]  Okay, awesome.
[00:03:14]  And so how are we accomplishing that here through this march?
[00:03:18]  Well, right here, we're voicing, you know, that it's not okay for the government to continue separating families.
[00:03:24]  And this is Ibel.
[00:03:26]  This is Ibo.
[00:03:27]  Whoever is doing this, this is Ibo.
[00:03:29]  Who's doing it?
[00:03:30]  Who's doing it?
[00:03:30]  What happened?
[00:03:31]  You said whoever is doing this is evil, so who is that person?
[00:03:34]  This is from the Trump administration.
[00:03:37]  All these corrupt politicians are taking these people and putting them in jail, put them in cages, these little poor kids.
[00:03:44]  It's not fair.
[00:03:50]  So what are we out here protesting for?
[00:03:54]  I'm not gonna interview you right now.
[00:03:55]  Okay, thank you.
[00:03:56]  What is the problem with us just filming and reporting here?
[00:03:58]  I'm just trying to see what you're about.
[00:04:00]  Yeah, we're just here.
[00:04:04]  We report.
[00:04:04]  We're independent journalists.
[00:04:06]  They don't have a website.
[00:04:08]  We're not a TV station.
[00:04:11]  No, we submitted.
[00:04:13]  We don't have a website.
[00:04:14]  We're not that.
[00:04:16]  So we're just out here currently being harassed by people who don't want us to record here because, yeah, this is a public space.
[00:04:25]  This is a public space.
[00:04:27]  Hey, this is public space.
[00:04:29]  Hey, what's it?
[00:04:30]  It's fine.
[00:04:30]  All right, cool.
[00:04:32]  That's fine.
[00:04:33]  That's good.
[00:04:33]  Okay, so we have people that are coming against us filming out here, but we're just trying to record.
[00:04:38]  Hey, just don't worry.
[00:04:39]  All right, thank you.
[00:04:40]  So someone tipped off the people where we're from, and that's what's happening.
[00:04:45]  Cool.
[00:04:46]  Because we were defending Tommy Robinson, people were saying that we are Nazis, but we currently have a Hispanic person filming.
[00:04:54]  We're here with a Russian immigrant who moved here from she's Jewish, Russian immigrant, but we're Nazis.
[00:05:00]  Yeah.
[00:05:01]  All right, what's up?
[00:05:03]  Yes!
[00:05:04]  Yes!
[00:05:05]  I don't know what this is.
[00:05:06]  They're blocking us now.
[00:05:07]  Okay, thank you.
[00:05:08]  Thank you.
[00:05:08]  We're just trying to record people, sir.
[00:05:10]  We're literally media.
[00:05:12]  Can we not record here?
[00:05:14]  All right, sweet.
[00:05:15]  What's going on here?
[00:05:17]  I'm sorry.
[00:05:18]  We're just recording people?
[00:05:20]  Yes.
[00:05:20]  All right, yes, yes, thank you.
[00:05:28]  Go dance, come on, find me.
[00:05:31]  All right, this is happening right now.
[00:05:34]  All right, all right, all right, all right, harassment.
[00:05:39]  All right, thank you.
[00:05:42]  We officially, thank you.
[00:05:50]  All right, thank you.
[00:05:51]  Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[00:06:06]  Thank you very much.
[00:06:07]  All right, so.
[00:06:10]  Awesome.
[00:06:11]  This is the tolerant left.
[00:06:14]  This is a tolerant left.
[00:06:15]  Whoa, guys.
[00:06:16]  Hey, hey, hey.
[00:06:17]  Please don't touch me.
[00:06:19]  Thank you.
[00:06:20]  Thank you.
[00:06:22]  Hey, could you not?
[00:06:22]  Hit me thank you.
[00:06:24]  Hey, hey, hey, hey, don't touch me, man.
[00:06:27]  Don't freaking touch me.
[00:06:29]  Okay Yeah, okay, cool.
[00:06:41]  What are you guys?
[00:06:42]  Can you guys stop?
[00:06:43]  All right, so we're out here.
[00:06:45]  We're being blocked currently.
[00:06:46]  Go ahead and film.
[00:06:47]  Go ahead and film.
[00:06:49]  All right, we're currently being blocked by people because they disagree with us.
[00:06:54]  Someone apparently tipped them off that they think that we're this.
[00:06:57]  So they're gonna waste everything on us just because we're filming.
[00:07:01]  What?
[00:07:01]  We're not what?
[00:07:03]  What?
[00:07:03]  What'd you say?
[00:07:04]  I'm asking who you are.
[00:07:06]  Oh, we're independent journalists.
[00:07:08]  Yes.
[00:07:10]  Because they're harassing me.
[00:07:11]  Those people are harassing me.
[00:07:13]  Yeah, they are.
[00:07:14]  They were.
[00:07:15]  Look at this.
[00:07:16]  Look at this.
[00:07:16]  They're harassing me.
[00:07:19]  No.
[00:07:20]  We're literally free.
[00:07:23]  What is going on?
[00:07:26]  Hey, please stop.
[00:07:28]  We're not harassing anyone.
[00:07:30]  We're just interviewing people.
[00:07:34]  Hey, hey.
[00:07:35]  Hey.
[00:07:36]  Hey, what's up?
[00:07:37]  Hey, come on.
[00:07:37]  All right.
[00:07:38]  Hey, hey, what?
[00:07:39]  What is going on here?
[00:07:41]  We're just, please.
[00:07:43]  Thank you.
[00:07:43]  Gosh.
[00:07:45]  Holy crap.
[00:07:47]  We're just freaking interviewing people, and now we're freaking.
[00:07:50]  Okay, stop, Please don't do that to us.
[00:07:53]  Stop.
[00:07:54]  No, you.
[00:07:55]  This is public property, dude.
[00:07:56]  We're marching.
[00:07:57]  Why are you guys what are you guys doing?
[00:07:59]  We can.
[00:08:00]  We're allowed to.
[00:08:01]  What are you doing?
[00:08:02]  Tommy Robinson?
[00:08:10]  That guy with the he hit me.
[00:08:13]  I'm going to keep marching.
[00:08:14]  I'm a woman and I was fing hit and I'm an immigrant.
[00:08:17]  I'm going to keep marching.
[00:08:19]  Yeah.
[00:08:19]  Hold up.
[00:08:20]  Racist, go.
[00:08:22]  Racist, go.
[00:08:24]  Racists, go.
[00:08:25]  Racists, go.
[00:08:27]  All right.
[00:08:27]  I don't know why we're not racists.
[00:08:30]  We're here...
[00:08:31]  What?
[00:08:33]  Dude, f hit.
[00:08:34]  Hey, guys, please don't touch us.
[00:08:36]  You.
[00:08:37]  F you.
[00:08:38]  Fuera.
[00:08:39]  Fued up.
[00:08:40]  Fuer.
[00:08:40]  Thank you.
[00:08:41]  Why are you guys doing?
[00:08:41]  Can you guys leave us alone, please?
[00:08:43]  You guys, this is not very tolerant.
[00:08:46]  So I don't know what's going on, but this is a tolerance.
[00:08:49]  Looks like.
[00:08:49]  This is what tolerance looks like.
[00:08:51]  Yeah, come here.
[00:08:51]  What does this look like?
[00:08:52]  Okay.
[00:08:53]  Hey, guys, it's Cracker Jack Joe from the Cracker Jack TV show.
[00:08:56]  I'm out here trying to abolish ice cubes in fast food restaurants, and I got it all on film, okay?
[00:09:03]  They ripped my sign.
[00:09:04]  I got ran over by a two-wheeled bicycle, okay?
[00:09:08]  Apparently, I'm a neo-Nazi.
[00:09:10]  Some lady grabbed my butt.
[00:09:13]  This isn't friendly, and cool.
[00:09:17]  I'm gonna ask you, like, I'm gonna ask you.
[00:09:20]  I wanna ask you.
[00:09:21]  We weren't doing anything, man.
[00:09:22]  We're asking.
[00:09:23]  People start harassing us.
[00:09:24]  You're right.
[00:09:26]  Why are they doing that?
[00:09:26]  I'm asking you, respectfully, just stay away from the group and just follow and document whatever you want.
[00:09:30]  But just stay away from the group.
[00:09:32]  We were.
[00:09:32]  They came to us.
[00:09:33]  They came to us on the outside.
[00:09:36]  They keep coming up to us.
[00:09:37]  So stay away from them.
[00:09:38]  They're coming to us.
[00:09:40]  Stay away from them.
[00:09:41]  But we are staying away.
[00:09:43]  This is public property.
[00:09:44]  Gosh.
[00:09:49]  What in the world is this?
[00:09:53]  This is public property, man.
[00:09:55]  What happened to journalism?
[00:09:57]  What happened to free journalism?
[00:09:59]  I mean, honestly, what happened to free journalism?
[00:10:02]  What the tail you, bro?
[00:10:03]  Hey, Saint.
[00:10:04]  Hey, don't.
[00:10:06]  Stop.
[00:10:10]  Stop.
[00:10:15]  Dude, please stop.
[00:10:16]  Hey, hey.
[00:10:18]  Hey, stop.
[00:10:19]  Stop.
[00:10:20]  Stop.
[00:10:21]  Don't touch the bicycle.
[00:10:23]  Holy shit.
[00:10:25]  Oh, my gosh.
[00:10:26]  Okay, so.
[00:10:27]  So, right here.
[00:10:29]  Hey, hey, hey, sick.
[00:10:30]  Get yourself.
[00:10:30]  Thank you.
[00:10:32]  Okay, stop.
[00:10:33]  All right.
[00:10:35]  Please, stop.
[00:10:36]  Just record.
[00:10:38]  All right.
[00:10:39]  So basically, what we're doing out here is we're recording, trying to understand what's happening.
[00:10:43]  Go ahead and just come film right here.
[00:10:47]  Hey, go.
[00:10:48]  Okay, thank you.
[00:10:48]  All right, again, sorry, guys.
[00:10:50]  We have not touched anyone.
[00:10:52]  We have not.
[00:10:52]  All we have done is ask questions, and that has been enough to incite spinning on me and hitting on me.
[00:10:59]  And I, and you got hit in the head with the drumstick.
[00:11:01]  Yeah, a guy swatted me in the head of the drumstick, but that's just what happened.
[00:11:05]  Let's see what happens here as we're fighting for what's right in this country and trying to fight for immigration and for services.
[00:11:11]  So we got our friends all around us.
[00:11:14]  Thank you who are coming.
[00:11:15]  Woo!
[00:11:16]  Awesome.
[00:11:17]  Whoa, whoa, hey, guys, guys, guys, hey, what are you doing?
[00:11:21]  Come on.
[00:11:22]  Hey, hey.
[00:11:23]  Please, thank you.
[00:11:24]  So we're trying to report here.
[00:11:26]  Hey, stop, stop.
[00:11:27]  Seriously.
[00:11:28]  We're out here protesting something that I'm not entirely sure.
[00:11:32]  People are in love with us.
[00:11:33]  They really like us.
[00:11:34]  They're going to find out.
[00:11:36]  So awesome.
[00:11:38]  God, awesome.
[00:11:39]  Thank you.
[00:11:39]  Awesome.
[00:11:40]  Cool.
[00:11:40]  Cool.
[00:11:41]  Thank you.
[00:11:41]  Guys, great.
[00:11:42]  All right.
[00:11:42]  So they're really loving us.
[00:11:44]  We have a lot of fans out here.
[00:11:45]  Yep.
[00:11:46]  All right.
[00:11:46]  That's not harassment.
[00:11:47]  Hey, don't touch her.
[00:11:49]  Hey.
[00:11:50]  Listen.
[00:11:51]  What we're trying to find out here is why if we're protesting against Donald Trump, are we so violent and so hey, don't touch us?
[00:12:00]  We're trying to find out what's going on here.
[00:12:02]  Oh, here we go.
[00:12:04]  Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[00:12:05]  Hey, hey, We're just recording.
[00:12:11]  Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey.
[00:12:13]  Keep that under your arm.
[00:12:14]  Keep that under your arm.
[00:12:18]  Why are you taking pictures of us?
[00:12:21]  Why are you taking pictures?
[00:12:22]  I mean, look at that.
[00:12:22]  Do you see that?
[00:12:23]  Do you freaking see that?
[00:12:24]  This is crazy.
[00:12:26]  We're out here.
[00:12:50]  Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:12:54]  Yeah.
[00:12:56]  Okay.
[00:12:57]  Hey, guys, it's an harassment.
[00:13:00]  All right.
[00:13:01]  Woo!
[00:13:04]  Hey, what is going on?
[00:13:06]  What is going on?
[00:13:08]  I know.
[00:13:10]  Gosh, guys.
[00:13:12]  Gosh, dang.
[00:13:15]  We're not even raised.
[00:13:16]  He's Mexican.
[00:13:18]  Bro.
[00:13:19]  Let's get the cost of fucking hold.
[00:13:21]  No!
[00:13:26]  So these people don't want us to interview anyone...

=== Rising Nationalism and Protests (02:24) ===

[00:13:30]  I do, man.
[00:13:32]  I've seen your show.
[00:13:34]  Really?
[00:13:35]  Yeah, dang it.
[00:13:36]  And okay, so they're calling us neo-Nazis out here, telling us these guys, and they're literally calling us fascists.
[00:13:41]  Have you seen our show?
[00:13:42]  It's nice and peaceful so far.
[00:13:43]  I like it.
[00:13:44]  I know, but they literally won't see this guy.
[00:13:46]  He's like trying to block it, and they keep telling people we're neo-Nazis and stuff.
[00:13:49]  You've seen the show.
[00:13:50]  That's not what it is.
[00:13:51]  Nowhere near.
[00:13:51]  Nowhere near.
[00:13:59]  So I'm a Christian.
[00:14:01]  I'm from Ohio.
[00:14:03]  Yeah, that's why I was at the march today.
[00:14:06]  I believe that it's really terrible and really anti-Christian what's happening to refugees and immigrants on the border, separating kids from their parents.
[00:14:15]  I think as I read the gospels, nothing could be more antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.
[00:14:19]  So that's why I was there.
[00:14:20]  And I was really encouraged to see just a really good diversity of people.
[00:14:25]  Parents, kids, people from different walks of life, Buddhists, Christians.
[00:14:30]  I saw a bunch of clergy out today.
[00:14:32]  Unfortunately, there were also some people who were a little bit aggressive.
[00:14:41]  But I don't think that's indicative of the whole at all.
[00:14:44]  I think they were reacting to something that is a real problem.
[00:14:50]  And I hope and I pray that our country can get to a place where we can have honest dialogues with each other without attacking.
[00:14:58]  But I'm also really fearful because I feel like the country's going in a really terrible direction.
[00:15:03]  And I feel like racists are on the rise.
[00:15:06]  And I feel like nationalism is on the rise.
[00:15:09]  And I really do want America to be great.
[00:15:13]  I won't say again because I don't think that it ever was.
[00:15:16]  I think that some of these issues are really deep-seated.
[00:15:20]  And unfortunately, your crew had a bad experience today.
[00:15:23]  I feel bad about that.
[00:15:24]  I didn't get to see all that that entailed.
[00:15:27]  But I hope that you also saw that there were some good, very conscientious people speaking their truth and organizing peacefully.
[00:15:37]  Hey guys, so parking enforcement told us we could park here for the protest.

=== Keep Exposing With Support (00:49) ===

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[00:15:57]  We just need your help to keep going and exposing this stuff.
[00:16:00]  We're pretty shaken up.
[00:16:01]  We've all been punched.
[00:16:02]  We've all been hit, spit on, and now we get come back to this.
[00:16:06]  But we have high spirits because worked in it too deep to stop now.
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[00:16:20]  Man, we need your help and support.
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