Hodgetwins - This needs to be said..
Aired: 2023-02-12
Duration: 12:09


=== Defending the Blue at All Costs (02:12) ===

[00:00:00]  Yeah, got a new show for y'all.
[00:00:02]  Got a damn good show.
[00:00:04]  I support the blue.
[00:00:05]  Defend the blue at all cost.
[00:00:07]  Well, sometimes there's some very good cops out there, man, but they don't get enough credit, man.
[00:00:13]  But only time you hear about it is when they do something bad.
[00:00:16]  And unfortunately, in this video, we're pointing out something that the cops did bad.
[00:00:20]  Well, we talk about the good and the bad.
[00:00:22]  Yeah.
[00:00:23]  You know, some people, they just talk about the good.
[00:00:25]  They don't show the bad.
[00:00:27]  Yeah, they can definitely point out that the cops make a mistake, too.
[00:00:30]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:30]  But people have this perception that when cops do things wrong, it's because of racism.
[00:00:40]  It's no, no, I wasn't going to say that.
[00:00:41]  What was he going to say then?
[00:00:42]  Well, let me say it.
[00:00:43]  Well, say it.
[00:00:45]  People have this impression that when they see something like happen in Memphis here over the last couple of weeks, they think that's a rare thing.
[00:00:54]  But this stuff happens a lot more times than you realize.
[00:00:56]  And I'm going to show it to you.
[00:00:58]  Yeah, it happens.
[00:00:59]  It happens.
[00:01:00]  Let me say something.
[00:01:00]  Let me do some talking.
[00:01:01]  You're hogging the damn air.
[00:01:03]  Look, it happens, but statistically, it's very minimal compared to the grand scheme of things.
[00:01:09]  Cops come in people hundreds of thousands of times, you know?
[00:01:13]  Yeah, but I guess.
[00:01:13]  It's a law of large numbers.
[00:01:15]  Yeah, but I just let me finish talking.
[00:01:18]  Like, you could go out, it could be 10,000 incidences, right?
[00:01:23]  And all of them are good.
[00:01:24]  Right.
[00:01:25]  Be that one incidence that gets all the airtime.
[00:01:28]  Well, we shouldn't even do this video then.
[00:01:30]  No, but some people got to see this.
[00:01:31]  They think cops are perfect.
[00:01:34]  Got to point out, hey, man, there is some incompetent cops out there.
[00:01:37]  Okay, so let me put this out there.
[00:01:38]  This is what happened.
[00:01:39]  This is up in New Jersey.
[00:01:41]  It's late at night.
[00:01:41]  I think it's two or three in the morning.
[00:01:43]  And cops showed up to this residence to break up a party.
[00:01:47]  It's three o'clock in the morning.
[00:01:48]  It's like a house party.
[00:01:49]  You watered it down, man.
[00:01:50]  It's a bunch of Negroes three o'clock in the morning having a house party.
[00:01:56]  I wasn't trying to downplay what were they in the hood.
[00:01:58]  This is an urban area.
[00:02:00]  It's a bunch of black people walking around causing the scene.
[00:02:04]  Got their radios turned up.
[00:02:06]  Three o'clock in the morning having a house party like they ain't got no neighbors.
[00:02:09]  But well, that's what's going on.
[00:02:11]  They're being inconsiderate.

=== Late Night Party Shootout in NJ (07:12) ===

[00:02:12]  But what does black have to do with it?
[00:02:14]  That's everything to do to it.
[00:02:15]  It's the facts.
[00:02:20]  I'm just, it don't have nothing to do with it.
[00:02:22]  But it was robbing me.
[00:02:24]  I would say there was white.
[00:02:25]  I'm just identifying the perpetrators.
[00:02:26]  That's all I'm doing.
[00:02:27]  I'm just laying down some facts.
[00:02:30]  Okay, so the cops come to break up the party.
[00:02:33]  Yeah, it's a disturbance, right?
[00:02:34]  Now, this is where the video, yeah.
[00:02:36]  Yeah, out in the streets, two o'clock in the morning, people, the neighbors.
[00:02:38]  They're being inconsiderate.
[00:02:39]  How you gonna be walking them down the street?
[00:02:41]  That's why I can't be no cop, man.
[00:02:43]  Three o'clock in the morning in a bad neighborhood?
[00:02:44]  Bunch of Negroes outside?
[00:02:51]  I mean, who goes out, walks up down the street three o'clock in the morning.
[00:02:57]  Only people out at that time is pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and people that's trying to rob you, man.
[00:03:03]  And inconsiderate people.
[00:03:05]  Yep.
[00:03:06]  But it ain't got nothing to do with your race, your color, your ethnicity.
[00:03:09]  It has nothing to do with your religion.
[00:03:11]  It doesn't matter.
[00:03:11]  Yeah, clean it up.
[00:03:12]  Clean it up.
[00:03:13]  All right, let's go to the video.
[00:03:16]  Where are you?
[00:03:16]  Where's the gun?
[00:03:19]  All right, Scott.
[00:03:20]  I'm with a weapon right now.
[00:03:21]  In front of the colour, where are you, bro?
[00:03:24]  Amiciano got him in custody.
[00:03:26]  No, but where is he?
[00:03:28]  Everything's good?
[00:03:29]  Yeah, I got the weapon right here.
[00:03:32]  Yo, shots fired.
[00:03:34]  Shots fired.
[00:03:37]  Guys, shots fired.
[00:03:38]  Shots fired.
[00:03:39]  On the Marion.
[00:03:58]  Stop the cop!
[00:04:04]  Get down!
[00:04:07]  I don't got no gun!
[00:04:08]  Put your hand!
[00:04:09]  I don't got no gun!
[00:04:13]  Damn, I'm hit!
[00:04:15]  Why did you run from me?
[00:04:17]  I was scared.
[00:04:18]  I don't got no gun down.
[00:04:20]  So turns out this guy didn't have a gun.
[00:04:22]  He heard the gunshots, he takes off running.
[00:04:25]  Run by the cops, the cops like, Are you running?
[00:04:29]  This has got to be the guy that's shooting.
[00:04:31]  Yeah.
[00:04:32]  So the cops shoot him in the back.
[00:04:33]  The cop thinks he has a gun.
[00:04:35]  He doesn't have no gun.
[00:04:36]  Yeah.
[00:04:36]  Shoots him in the back.
[00:04:37]  The guy's paralyzed.
[00:04:39]  Yeah.
[00:04:41]  So apparently, if like you heard these gunshots and 10 Negroes came running down the street, I guarantee this dude would light them all up.
[00:04:50]  Didn't dawn on him that they're running from gunshots.
[00:04:55]  This is crazy as hell.
[00:04:56]  They're running.
[00:04:57]  I mean, what are you going to do?
[00:04:58]  You're...
[00:05:05]  I'm fucking rolling down that street.
[00:05:11]  But the cop don't see it that way.
[00:05:12]  He doesn't see a man running for his life.
[00:05:15]  He sees another Negro shooting guns.
[00:05:17]  He imagined that this man had a gun, shot him twice, the dude's paralyzed.
[00:05:22]  So he probably has a bias towards black people.
[00:05:25]  No, he just, I don't think he's biased.
[00:05:27]  He's just incompetent.
[00:05:28]  Yeah, incompetent.
[00:05:30]  I mean, that's the two possibilities.
[00:05:32]  I mean, it's easy for us to be play money morning quarterback, but you know, that's just common sense.
[00:05:37]  You hear gunshots, you go running, you see people running.
[00:05:40]  Hmm, they're running towards the cops.
[00:05:43]  They're hoping that you're going to save them.
[00:05:45]  No, this cop chases him, shoots him in the back 12 times.
[00:05:48]  And you made a very valid point.
[00:05:51]  When he heard those gunshots, if he'd have saw 10 black men running, he'd have shot every last one of them.
[00:05:55]  If he'd have saw 10 white people running with white person, he'd have let that.
[00:05:59]  I would think.
[00:06:00]  I can't be in the cop's mind, but yeah.
[00:06:04]  He said he said, drop the gun, drop the gun.
[00:06:06]  All he's running with is his black hands.
[00:06:08]  I guess black hands like a gun, huh?
[00:06:11]  He didn't have no gun.
[00:06:12]  Yeah.
[00:06:12]  Yeah.
[00:06:13]  And now this guy's paralyzed.
[00:06:14]  So this happened like back in June of last year.
[00:06:17]  So it took the eight months to file charges against a man who's running from gunshots and shoots him in the back twice.
[00:06:24]  It took him eight months to figure out they was going to charge him.
[00:06:27]  I mean, it's all on body cam.
[00:06:28]  It took y'all that long to figure this shit out?
[00:06:30]  Yeah.
[00:06:30]  It took us what?
[00:06:31]  How long?
[00:06:32]  Man, I saw the 15 minutes.
[00:06:35]  Took them eight months to bring charges.
[00:06:38]  Because when I first saw a video, I see the guy running.
[00:06:41]  I mean, I'm a cop.
[00:06:42]  He can see you.
[00:06:43]  If I really, if I'm shooting a gun, I'm not going to run towards the cops.
[00:06:48]  Maybe I will run towards the cops because I think my life is in danger and I'm running from gunshots.
[00:06:53]  So this is what happened.
[00:06:53]  Somebody was pissed off.
[00:06:54]  The cops came up, came down that and broke up the party.
[00:06:58]  I didn't show all the video.
[00:06:59]  He walked by a lot of people just out in the street.
[00:07:01]  Yeah.
[00:07:02]  Right?
[00:07:02]  So that's the direction he came from where the gunshots came from.
[00:07:05]  So somebody had a gun that was at the party.
[00:07:07]  You heard him on the body cam.
[00:07:08]  He found another gun there.
[00:07:10]  So there's a bunch of hooligans out here.
[00:07:11]  So another hooligan was up the street.
[00:07:13]  Yeah.
[00:07:14]  Wanted to scare the cops or get the cops to check it.
[00:07:16]  So he fired his gun up in the air probably two times.
[00:07:19]  The other guy saw that and got scared and took off running.
[00:07:21]  Yeah, and he ended up getting one of his own people shot in the back.
[00:07:24]  The guy whoever shot the gun in the arrow.
[00:07:26]  Yeah, just trying to be an idiot.
[00:07:28]  Yeah.
[00:07:28]  But the cop, they wasn't charged with attempted murder because I guess he thought he had a gun.
[00:07:34]  He was charged with aggravated assault and something else like that.
[00:07:43]  No attempted murder because I guess he thought he had a gun.
[00:07:45]  Well, if you shoot somebody, you're trying to kill them, right?
[00:07:48]  Yeah, if I'm shooting your ass, I'm trying to kill your ass.
[00:07:50]  Yeah.
[00:07:50]  If I'm tasing you, I'm not trying to kill you.
[00:07:52]  Even though it's a deadly weapon, you could die from it.
[00:07:55]  But if I shoot two rounds in your back and they're nine millimeter slugs and they're, no, I'm trying, I'm trying to kill you.
[00:08:03]  That's not, that is attempted murder.
[00:08:06]  Yeah, but it was reckless for him to shoot a guy.
[00:08:08]  I mean, I've never seen a scenario where it's okay to shoot somebody running from you unless there's a possible hostage negotiation.
[00:08:16]  He's got a knife, he's got a gun, and you look like he's going to take a look at him.
[00:08:19]  If he's running to a damn preschool or a high school and he just shot somebody now, he's running inside school.
[00:08:24]  Oh, cops can shoot him.
[00:08:25]  Oh, yeah.
[00:08:25]  I remember years ago when we lived in Santa Ana, California, this guy had a gun in Santa Ana, California, and he was running from the cops.
[00:08:32]  And he ran into, he was running into a McDonald's, right?
[00:08:35]  So the cops shot him in the back because he was going to turn that whole McDonald's into a hostage situation.
[00:08:40]  His kids, there's women.
[00:08:41]  So in situations, they can't shoot you in the back.
[00:08:43]  Yeah, there's a few exceptions, but it's got to be a hostage situation, possible hostage situation.
[00:08:50]  Yeah, the dude was 28 years old, Khalif Cooper.
[00:08:52]  Yeah, and he's going to get paid.
[00:08:55]  I would think so.
[00:08:57]  This happened June 11th.
[00:08:59]  He was paralyzed.
[00:09:02]  He was actually paralyzed in the video.
[00:09:03]  He couldn't even move his head.
[00:09:04]  You know what was very disturbing when I saw this video?
[00:09:08]  What?
[00:09:09]  He asked the guy, why would you running from me?
[00:09:12]  That was the most eye-opening thing about this video.
[00:09:16]  It's like, how, in a rational mind, if you're thinking clearly, how could you think that man was running from you?

=== Why Cops Shot Him in the Back (02:44) ===

[00:09:24]  Yeah.
[00:09:25]  You know?
[00:09:26]  Because here are the gunshots.
[00:09:27]  That cop ran maybe, what, 20 yards?
[00:09:30]  Yeah.
[00:09:31]  Maybe, yeah.
[00:09:32]  But why would he think, I don't understand the cop's perspective.
[00:09:36]  How would you think that that man is running from you?
[00:09:38]  He's running towards you.
[00:09:40]  There's gunshots.
[00:09:42]  And automatically, when he runs by you, you think he's running from you?
[00:09:45]  If he's running from you, shouldn't he be running the other direction?
[00:09:49]  Yeah.
[00:09:49]  He's running away from it.
[00:09:51]  It's like, man, I don't think it's racism.
[00:09:53]  I don't think it's...
[00:09:54]  He might have a racial bias, but it's definitely he's incompetent.
[00:09:58]  Most of these cops that, I mean, a lot of, we have a lot of cops on the street that doesn't belong on the street.
[00:10:03]  Yeah.
[00:10:04]  The qualifications you must be able to show must be lifted.
[00:10:10]  Not just any Joe and I just looking for a pension and good benefits to be able to come in and become a cop.
[00:10:15]  This job for B should be for a select few.
[00:10:18]  Yeah.
[00:10:18]  And this dude sells like Rocky Bob Ball.
[00:10:21]  Charge fired, charge fire.
[00:10:25]  Yeah.
[00:10:26]  He should sell like Rocky Bob Ball before he fired.
[00:10:29]  Before he became a champion.
[00:10:31]  When he was getting all the bloody noses, his damn nose was on the side of his face.
[00:10:36]  It's like, we should, you know, do we need to reform police officers?
[00:10:41]  I think we do.
[00:10:42]  We need to pay them more and we need to select a slick few.
[00:10:44]  We should look at police officers like, damn, Spartans.
[00:10:47]  That's the quality.
[00:10:48]  And I don't think, shut up.
[00:10:50]  That's the exceptionalism you should strive for.
[00:10:53]  Just to fill a job opening or a job position.
[00:10:56]  No, you should be looking for Spartans.
[00:10:58]  Yeah, they should be trained better.
[00:11:00]  Oh, they trained DND and damn police account.
[00:11:02]  Follow them.
[00:11:03]  I don't think it's that long.
[00:11:05]  They should be training like all these scenarios.
[00:11:07]  Yeah, a bunch of different scenarios, like scenarios like this.
[00:11:11]  Yeah.
[00:11:11]  I seen a cop.
[00:11:12]  I didn't even talk about it.
[00:11:13]  This cop went to, somebody called a cop, said, somebody's in this dude's house, or the doors are open.
[00:11:19]  So the cops get there.
[00:11:21]  They don't go knock on the door and ask what's going on inside the house.
[00:11:23]  They sneak around the house, go up to somebody's window, see somebody in there, and pull a gun, and then shoot and kill them.
[00:11:30]  Turns out it was the person who lives there.
[00:11:33]  Yeah.
[00:11:34]  Turned out to be a black woman.
[00:11:36]  I think a lot of their training is not like an actual, they don't paint scenarios out.
[00:11:40]  They don't put them in, you know, hostresses.
[00:11:42]  They need to put them in.
[00:11:43]  To try to replicate what would happen out in the real world.
[00:11:45]  They're just reading the book.
[00:11:46]  They're looking at videos.
[00:11:47]  And That's not cutting it because if a man, if you see a man running from gunshots and you assume that he's running from you when he's running towards you, then how the hell did you get through the police academy?
[00:11:59]  It must not be a very difficult or it's not difficult at all.
[00:12:03]  There's no training.
[00:12:04]  These cops need to be trained better.
[00:12:08]  Damn, good shot.