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April 16, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Obama Could Have Saved George Floyd’s Life? | Larry Elder
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I have a question.
You ever think that if former President Barack Obama had not so consistently played the race card that George Floyd might still be alive?
I mean, Dr.
Fauci thinks Donald Trump has the power to simply tell his supporters to take the vaccine and they'll promptly take it, right?
If he came out and said go and get vaccinated, it's really important for your health, the health of your family, and the health of the country, it seems absolutely inevitable that the vast majority of people who are his close followers would listen to him.
Let's follow that logic.
I mean, how popular is Barack Obama?
Now, I've told you I've told you many times, Obama knows it's a damn lie that the police Obama knows it's a damn lie that the police engage in He knows it's a damn lie that America is systemically racist.
How do we know this?
When Obama was first interviewed by Steve Croft on 60 Minutes, he was running as a rival to Hillary.
He hadn't caught her yet.
And Croft said to him the following, You think the country's ready for a black president?
Now I'm at home, I'm kicking back, and I said, I don't vote for left-wing tax spin, regulate Democrats, no matter who they are.
But let's see how this Democrat responds.
Is he going to respond like a victim, like Jesse Jackson, like Al Sharpton, or is he going to tell the truth about America?
And here's what Senator Obama said.
Yes.
You don't think it's going to hold you back?
No.
You know, I think if I don't win this race, it will be because of other factors.
It's going to be because I have not shown to the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.
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I mean, Obama is a world beater.
He's always known he's a world beater.
I understand that when he was in the fifth grade, he said he wanted to be president.
The man goes to Occidental, then Columbia, then Harvard, not just Harvard Law, but becomes the president of the Harvard Law Review, for crying out loud.
Does a memoir when he's in his 20s.
Obama thinks of himself as a world beater.
This is how Obama thinks of himself You're my father I'm your son.
I love you.
I always have and I always will.
But you think of yourself as a colored man.
I think of myself as a man.
This is how Obama thinks of himself.
A man of destiny.
A destiny that can only be achieved here in America.
When Obama first became president, he had a prime time opportunity to stick a fork in this notion of systemic racism.
A narrative that is making race relations between blacks and the police far worse than they otherwise would be.
He's causing young black men to be wary of interaction with the police because young black men are being taught by people like Obama that the cops engage in systemic racism.
Now Obama had an opportunity to stop this BS when his good friend Henry Louis Gates briefly got arrested by the Cambridge police.
Remember?
Henry Louis Gates has been spending his entire career talking about studying and teaching about race relations in this country.
Right now he is smack in the middle of a debate about race and justice in a very personal way.
Nearly a week after he was arrested at his own home, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
is speaking out in this interview with the Boston Globe.
I'm outraged.
I shouldn't have been treated this way, but it makes me so keenly aware of how many people every day experience abuses in the criminal justice system.
Gates, one of the leading scholars on African-American history, was arrested for disorderly conduct on his front porch last Thursday.
He says he had just returned from a documentary shoot in China and that his door wasn't opening, so he and his driver forced it open.
A neighbor called police.
According to the police report, when Sergeant James Crowley arrived on the scene, Gates was out of control, calling Sergeant Crowley a racist and saying, this is what happens to black men in America.
The police report is full of this man's broad imagination.
The only reason I was upset is that he defied the law by not giving me his name and badge number, and every citizen has a right to that.
I think both parties were wrong.
I think that's fair to say.
It was not Professor Gates' best moment, and it certainly wasn't the Cambridge Police Department's best moment.
I don't walk around calling white people racist.
Hell, first of all, I'm half white myself.
56% white in my DNA. My father's 75% white.
My wife of 25 years was white and my children are half white.
Give me a break.
On Tuesday, Cambridge police dropped the charges.
But Professor Gates does not appear to be ready to get past it.
What he wants now is an apology.
He should look into his heart and know that he's not telling the truth, and he should beg my forgiveness.
And if I decided he was sincere, I would forgive him.
So, Gates goes on vacation.
He comes back.
He forgets his door key.
He and the driver apparently push the door open to get into the house.
A neighbor sees this, doesn't recognize Gates, calls 911.
Don't you want your neighbors to do that?
The police arrive, very politely ask him to come out, ID himself, and instead of doing that, he plays the race card and says something about your mama, briefly gets arrested.
And what does Obama say about this incident?
I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry.
Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.
What should President Obama have said?
He should have said something like this.
You know, last night I picked up the horn.
I called my friend Skip Gates.
I said, Skip, Skip, you're a Harvard Law professor.
You're tenured.
People respect you.
One of the big problems between blacks and the police is a lot of young black men fail to comply, escalating a simple encounter into DEFCON 1.
You have just added fuel to that ridiculous notion that somehow, someway, whenever a cop asks you to do something, the cop is being systemically racist.
Knock it off!
Comply!
You won't die!
And Obama could have gone on television and he could have said something like, you know, I want to say something to all young blacks in this country, particularly young black men, who are often raised without a father and have somehow, for some reason, been taught not to respect authority figures or have confusion around authority figures.
I know, says Obama, because I grew up without my own father.
But let me tell you something.
When you get pulled over by the police, make sure your left hand is at 10 o'clock, your right hand is at 2 o'clock.
Say yes sir, say no sir.
Make sure your paperwork is in order.
And if you feel you're mistreated, get a badge number and a name and deal with it while you are alive.
If Obama had said that, maybe, just maybe, we don't have a Jacob Blake.
Blake is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back seven times Sunday by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Tonight we're learning more about that incident and a deadly shooting at a protest two days later.
Here's CBS's Mola Lenghi.
Tonight, 29-year-old Jacob Blake is without handcuffs, and deputies no longer stand guard at his hospital room.
We now know the names of all three officers involved in Blake's shooting.
Along with Rustin Shesky, who fired the seven shots, officers Vincent Arenas and Brittany Moronic are also on administrative leave.
We've also learned officers deployed two tasers to subdue Blake, who at the time of the Sunday incident was wanted for a sexual assault charge.
It's not clear if that was the reason Blake was being arrested, but the altercation did escalate.
There was some resisting in the basis of that contact and the arrest, so that's what changed the dynamic.
Maybe we don't have an Eric Garner.
The partner of the NYPD officer accused of using a choke hold on Eric Garner took to the witness stand today and said he thought Garner was faking when he yelled, I can't breathe.
Justin D'Amico testified for the defense at Daniel Pantaleo's departmental trial, saying he and Pantaleo showed restraint when they approached Garner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.
But he said that Garner was irate and repeatedly resisted arrest.
Maybe, just maybe, we don't have a Freddie Gray.
All six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray have been cleared.
Prosecutors today dropped the charges facing the three remaining officers.
25-year-old Gray died last year after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody.
Maybe we don't have a Sandra Bland who got arrested for failing to follow orders.
Later on, while in jail, apparently killed herself.
I haven't seen any trailer, any vehicle.
- Will somebody park to the east side of the road? - Hello, ma'am.
When it takes high patrol, the reason for your stop is you failed to signal your lane change.
You got your driver's license insurance with you?
Give me a few minutes, all right?
You okay?
I'm waiting on you.
This is your job.
I'm waiting on you.
What do you want me to do?
Oh, you seem very irritated.
I am.
I really am, because I feel like this tap is what I'm giving a ticket for.
I was getting out of your way.
You were speeding up, tailing me.
So I move over, and you stopped me.
So, yeah, I am a little irritated, but that doesn't stop you from giving me a ticket.
So, let's continue.
Are you done?
You asked me what was wrong and I told you.
Okay.
So now I'm done yet.
Okay.
Do you mind putting out your cigarette, please?
If you don't mind.
I'm in my car, but I have to put out my cigarette.
Well, you can step on out now.
I don't have to step out of my car.
Step out of the car.
Step out of the car.
No, you don't have the right.
Step out of the car.
You do not have the right to do that.
I do have the right.
Now step out or I will remove you.
I refuse to talk to you other than to identify myself.
Step out or I will remove you.
I am getting removed for a failure.
Step out or I will remove you.
I'm giving you a lawful order.
Get out of the car now, or I'm going to remove you.
I'm going to yank you out of here.
Okay, you're going to yank me out of my car?
Get out.
All right.
Let's do this.
Yeah, we're going to.
Don't touch me.
Get out of the car!
Don't touch me.
I'm not under arrest.
You don't have the right to take me out of my car.
You are under arrest.
I'm under arrest for what?
For what?
For 290.
Send me another unit.
Get out of the car!
Get out of the car, now!
Why am I being apprehended?
You're trying to give me a ticket for your failure?
I said get out of the car.
Why am I being apprehended?
I'm giving you an off-order.
I'm going to drag you out of here.
So you're going to drag me out of my own car?
Get out of the car!
I will light you up.
Get out!
Now!
Get out of the car!
Get over there!
Obama even irresponsibly made a racial thing out of the death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, the so-called neighborhood watchman.
Now to the Trayvon Martin case.
The newly released video and eyewitness reports about the struggle in the moments before that gunshot rang out.
ABC's Matt Guttman has been analyzing this new evidence all day.
A first look at how that fateful night began for Trayvon Martin, buying Skittles and iced tea at the 7-Eleven, and tonight, police recordings where, for the first time, we hear eyewitnesses describe Zimmerman's behavior in the seconds after the shooting.
The guy had his hands in the air saying, the gun's on the ground, I shot this guy in self-defense.
To another witness, Zimmerman seemed dazed.
Looked like he just got his butt whipped.
Not shocked, but like just getting up, just basically getting up from a fight.
Zimmerman then spoke to that witness who characterized him as ugly matter-of-fact.
Not like he was in shock or anything.
Not like, I can't believe I just shot someone.
It was more like, just tell my wife I shot somebody.
Like, like it was nothing.
The prosecution has hours of recordings like these, hundreds of pages of documents, but lost to history the 80 seconds after Zimmerman told the 911 operator he was following Martin.
Are you following him?
Yeah.
Okay, we don't need you to do that.
And the first calls from neighbors reporting a fight.
A guy yelling help.
Oh, my God.
Hurry up there, right?
Help find my house.
And what did President Obama say?
You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
Well, Mr.
Zimmerman was tried for murder, and the jury found him not guilty, and they said that race had nothing whatever to do with it.
ABC's Matt Gubman, who's covered this trial all the way, starts us off from the courthouse in Sanford, Florida.
Good morning, Matt.
Take us inside that courtroom last night.
Good morning, George.
That courtroom was intense.
So many eyeballs on it.
But it wasn't always this way.
This wasn't always headline news.
This began as a routine homicide in a small Florida town that ignited this national debate about race.
Now, last night in that courtroom, as those six female jurors filed, and you could see the tension on the prosecutor's face.
On the defense's face, everybody looked tired.
Now, those jurors ultimately made a decision not based on race, but about the law.
They decided that the state did not have enough evidence to convince them that George Zimmerman should be convicted on second-degree murder or manslaughter.
Just after that was read, you saw George Zimmerman with a very muted response.
Now, I've talked to you before about this police critic activist in Phoenix who was challenged by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department to take the shoot-no-shoot drill.
And you know what he found out?
How important compliance is.
So I'm going to have you put the holster on right inside your belt loop there.
Jarrett Maupin gets his weapon.
You might recognize him as a high-profile organizer in the minority community.
Just last month, he led marches on Phoenix Police Headquarters after an officer shot an unarmed man.
We want his badge!
We want his gun!
We want his job!
Today, he accepted an invitation to look at things from the other side, agreeing to go through a force-on-force training session with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
Three scenarios where you have to decide to shoot or not shoot.
Scenario one is a call about a man casing cars in a parking lot.
Maupin approaches the man and starts asking questions.
You're looking for your vehicle.
What kind of car do you drive?
What kind of car do you drive?
It's my car, man.
Maupin, the officer, is shot.
It happens that fast.
At what time did you think that it was time for you to address the use of force that was given?
When he came to the back of the vehicle and was hiding.
You know, I could sense something was wrong.
Scenario two, a call of two men fighting.
What's going on today, gentlemen?
What's going on today, gentlemen?
What do you want?
What's happening here?
What's wrong with you?
What are you doing, man?
Hey!
Hey, he shouldn't approach me.
He shouldn't approach me.
We were just arguing about what happened in there.
Yeah.
What are you doing?
You just shot him?
Hey, he rushed me.
Tell me why you shot.
Well, I've shot because he was within that zone.
You know, I felt there was an imminent threat.
I didn't necessarily see him armed, but he came clearly to do some harm to the officer, to my person.
It's hard to make that call.
It shakes you up.
Again, an unarmed man was shot.
Scenario three, a call about a possible burglar walking down the street.
Maupin gets him on the ground.
He's not complying.
I need you to keep your hands up, sir.
For what?
Because I need to check that waistband.
Well, why?
What are you doing?
Because I don't know what you have under there.
Everybody, look at this guy!
What are you doing?
No shots fired, but the suspect did have a hidden knife in his waistband.
I went through the scenarios too, without seeing what Maupin did.
Do you have keys or do you have anything to show me that?
No, I need to talk to you.
Come on, come on out over here.
Well, I'm dead.
Maricopa County sheriffs, get on the ground!
Get on the ground!
Both of you, get on the ground!
Get on the ground!
Get back, get back!
Same results for both of us.
Things happen very fast out here.
I asked Maupin what his biggest takeaway from this exercise will be.
I didn't understand how important compliance was.
But after going through this, yeah, my attitude has changed.
This is all unfolding in 10 to 15 seconds.
People need to comply with the orders of law enforcement officers for their own sake.
Imagine how many lives might have been saved if Mr.
Activist had told some of his followers, comply, you won't die, anything that goes down we can sort it out later, get a badge number, get a name.
And if Mr.
Obama had not played the race card consistently throughout eight years, Imagine what might have happened if Obama had said, the real problem here is a lot of black people are simply not complying with the cops, turning an ordinary interaction into something far more deadly.
Now, Obama has read the same studies I've read.
He knows the studies show that the police are more reluctant, more hesitant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than on a white suspect.
As President Obama, he could have said the truth.
As former President Obama, he still can.
Mr.
Obama, I urge you to do just that.
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