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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program, the Jimmy Dore show.
Numbers interest me this weekend.
A new study finds that more than half of all members of Congress are worth at least a million dollars.
Better than one in two are millionaires.
Five of nine members of the Supreme Court are also millionaires.
So, of course, is the president.
The Clintons have made more than $100 million since leaving the White House.
Former White House Majority Leader Eric Canter, who has no Wall Street experience, is getting $3.5 million a year from a boutique Wall Street investment bank.
But fear not, because the people covering them are just as wealthy.
Chelsea Clinton, of course, just left her $600,000 a year reporting job at NBC, and never has anyone used bigger air quotes when saying the word reporting than I just did.
And Luke Russard denies it, but page six is reporting he's getting half a million dollars a year to appear on Meet the Press.
And today's show host, Matt Lauer, has been rewarded for losing today's stranglehold on first place in the ratings.
He got a two-year extension for $20 million a year.
Plus, three days a week, NBC has to send a chopper to get him at his horse farm in the Hamptons and fly him to 30 Rock.
But before you scoff, bear in mind that means he has to drive two days a week.
And by drive, of course, I mean sit in the back seat while a 67-year-old chauffeur who can't retire drives.
Failure.
But of course, these journalists, they are doing a bang-up job.
Americans know what's what, at least.
I mean, 70% of Americans think ISIS has the ability to attack America with what?
A sword?
They don't have an Air Force.
But the march to war continues on the airwaves, airwaves that are getting increasingly older.
The median age for not network news shows, but all network television shows is 53.9 years old for all four networks.
The median age of the O'Reilly factor is 72.
Oh my God.
Wow.
which explains why Bill is always shouting.
Thank you.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for the lefties.
The kind of people that are.
Phil Minch may be on tearing down our nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you, T. And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Okay, so we have a little bit of a special show today.
I was reading a chilling article in the Washington Post.
It seems to be that there's a rise in homicides across the country.
So the Attorney General Loretta Lynch called a summit of the top police chiefs in the nation, over 100 of the top law enforcement chiefs, and they concluded that the rise in homicides is because too many people are videotaping police and police are now afraid to do their jobs.
And that's why.
So get this.
They had a news conference after this big symposium meeting they got together.
And at the news conference, Loretta Lynch promised a robust response to the reversal of decades of falling violent crime.
So they're going to have a robust police response to rising homicide rates.
Yeah, that's what we need in America.
A more robust policing culture.
So that's pretty scary.
They're all getting together based on nothing, by the way.
This is based on no information, no study, no research.
This is just a bunch of cops getting together saying what's wrong is our cops are too timid.
Cops are too timid all across the country.
According to the Washington Post, they say there is no evidence of a broad retraction of police engagement with the public in major cities, and no participant in Wednesday's summit presented a single example of lackluster policing that somehow contributed to a violent crime rise.
That's from the Washington Post.
But the cops are sure it's because they're not being tough enough.
Oh my God.
So with that in mind, there's another article I read same day from the Nation magazine.
There's an NBA player named, I can't pronounce his name.
It's pronounced Thabo.
It's spelled Thabo.
His last name is Cephalosha.
Well, anyway, the police, for no reason, this is backed up by several eyewitnesses, beat the crap out of him because he was handing money to a homeless person and they broke his leg on purpose or NBA players.
So and then they wanted him to cop to a lesser plea and we won't charge you with anything.
I mean, they were still going to charge him with resisting arrest, but they weren't going to put him in jail or anything.
And he said, no way, I want to go to trial.
So they went to trial and he got to testify and tell his story in front of a jury about those cops beating the crack out of crap out of him because he's a black guy in a hoodie, even though he's a millionaire NBA player.
It's just like when they beat up that black tennis star.
Like, oh, it's a black guy must not be.
So anyway, this is how the prosecution closed their case with this argument.
Quote, imagine a world where we are allowed to say no to a police officer.
That's chaos.
So that's how they wrapped up their case.
So anyway, so with all this in mind, the attorney general and 100 top police chiefs from the 100 biggest cities across the country vowing a robust response, police response.
Wow.
I didn't think it could get worse before it got better, but this sounds like a bad thing.
Sounds like the police culture is kind of ticked off that they're being scrutinized and they don't like it one bit.
So with that in mind, we are producing our show for Politicon this Saturday.
So I'm working on that all week.
And I asked the young and talented Michael Schertzer to go ahead and pull out some clips from past episodes that speak to the police brutality that we've been talking about to kind of highlight how ridiculous what's happening with the new Attorney General and the police and anything.
So here we go.
Special thanks to our good friend Michael Schertzer for putting together today's episode.
enjoy And now another reading from Morning Remembrance.
Funny obituaries of real dead people read by Jim Earle.
S. Truitt Kathy, the southern entrepreneur who in one lifetime transformed a small hometown business into a global symbol of homophobia and cancerous lab rats is now undergoing death conversion therapy.
Chick-fil-A announced Kathy's demise, but refused to disclose the exact cause because, quote, it would take too long to list all the ingredients.
Truitt Kathy is credited with inventing the first fast food chicken sandwich.
It may not sound like much, but it sure beats taking the wrap for a series of mysterious smothering deaths in the early 50s.
In 1964, Kathy presented First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, with a Chick-fil-A sandwich during her visit to Georgia.
One year later, 2,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam.
The devout Southern Baptist became famous for closing his stores on Sundays so employees could spend more time at home with their families and, in the process, learn to really hate life.
The company's official statement of corporate purpose says that the business exists, quote, to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to make him fat.
Interesting fun toy.
The change advertising slogan, Eat More Chicken, contains the deliberately misspelled words more and chicken, so they can legally get around actually offering customers more chicken.
You know, Jimmy, in an effort to promote healthier eating habits, the company's website now features an online meal calculator.
Really, you don't say I just ate lunch at Chick-fil-A.
Can you use that online calculator thing to determine the fat, sodium, and caloric intake of my last meal?
Of course, Jimmy.
I have the online meal calculator open now.
What do you have?
Well, let's see, let's see.
I got the deluxe chicken sandwich.
Okay, deluxe.
Yeah, chicken sandwich.
That's their signature product next.
Waffle potato fries.
Oh, yeah, those are good.
Love the waffle potato fries.
And for a beverage, I ordered the medium Coca-Cola.
Oh, refreshing Coke, uh-huh.
Any condiments?
Just a smidgen of buttermilk ranch sauce.
Got it, buttermilk, rant sauce.
Okay, now I hit the results button.
How'd I do?
According to this, tomorrow morning, you're going to have a stroke.
So I should lay off the ranch sauce, right?
I don't know, Jimmy.
I'm not your goddamn witness.
Anyway, Kathy requested his body be breaded and deboned and his soft white buns delicately buttered and garnished with nothing more than a couple of okay.
So I got Bill O'Reilly on the line.
Joining us, it's Fox News hosts, our favorite Fox News personality.
It's the one and only it's Bill O'Reilly.
Bill, are you there?
That's an insult, Jimmy.
A goddamn insult.
What is an insult, Bill?
What are you talking about?
You're describing me as a quote Fox News personality.
I am so much more than that.
I'm a commentator, a prognosticator, an unequivocator, and when I'm chatting about falafels, a chronic masturbator.
Bill, you are willing to describe yourself as a masturbator?
Really?
The best there is, god damn it.
The best there ever was.
Although, to be clear, all the charges against me were dropped after I paid my accuser millions of dollars, so I was completely exonerated.
Bill, I'm surprised that you are the one dredging up this old news right now.
That's kind of weird.
Well, Jimmy, it's Fox News's 18th anniversary.
Oh.
And I'm in a nostalgic milestones and inspired me.
Really?
To take a moment to quietly reflect and look back at the many times I've fitted it into a sock while talking to a female underling on the phone.
Okay, Bill.
So this is an older, wiser, and more mature Bill O'Reilly that I'm talking to right now.
Don't make me out to be some over-the-hill old-timer Dor.
Very much of the moment with new and exciting ideas.
Like, for instance, my idea that America should hire an army of mercenary soldiers of fortune.
What?
To fight ISIS in the Middle East?
Yes, Bill.
You've already floated that plan, and it's been routinely debunked already, okay?
Shut up, Dor.
Just shut up.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you.
I just told you to shut up.
Shut up.
Yeah, well, Bill, I'm not shutting up.
Why aren't you responding to my call for you to shut up?
Bill, when you see I said, shut up.
Bill, I'm telling you.
Shut up.
But stop telling me.
Okay, now I'm going to give you the last word.
Okay.
All right.
I appreciate you giving me the last word.
What I want to say.
Shut up.
Now, Bill, stop it.
Shut up.
Bill, you're losing.
Shut the f- Bill.
Bill, you're losing your cool air, buddy.
All right.
Not possible, Dor.
Never going to happen.
What?
Anyway, as I was about to say before you rudely interrupted me.
What do you think?
I've moved on from my call to send a mercenary army to stop ISIS.
I've come up with a much more practical plan.
Yeah, what's that?
What's your practical plan?
Hire a mercenary army to stop Beyoncé.
What are you talking about, Bill?
What are you talking about?
She's a threat to our national security, Jimmy.
How?
Only a trained force of highly skilled and well-paid soldiers of fortune can stop her from spreading her left-wing agenda of funky propaganda.
Funky propaganda.
Bill, Bill, listen to me, buddy.
I really, really, I don't think.
That's right, Jimmy.
I used the term funky.
Yes, you did.
I know all the hit phrases the colored kids use.
I don't think so.
I ain't no jive turkey.
Oh, God.
Bill, right now you're being offensive on so many different levels.
Do you have any idea about that?
Yes, I know how to talk to the blacks.
No, you don't, Bill.
For instance, here's a cool, up-to-date urban thing I'd like to say to a homeboy.
Okay, go.
What is that?
Hey, Hoggy Bear.
What's the word on the street?
No.
Ah!
Bill, I have to know exactly what do you mean?
What do you mean by funky propaganda?
Jimmy, let me break the word propaganda down for you.
Okay.
Prop is the thing Keratov uses to get more laughs in one minute than you've gotten in your entire miserable career.
And Uganda, I believe, is the African country Obama and Beyonce were born in.
That's propaganda.
Bill, I'm going to have to end this.
Thanks for joining us.
Congratulations on 14 years at the Fox News Channel.
Congratulations on that.
That's right.
14 years.
I'm very proud.
It's the longest run of any TV channel in the history of broadcasting.
You know, actually, Bill, I'm checking my notes.
CNN has been around a decade and a half longer than that.
NBC CBS has been on TV since at least, I don't know, at least I'm going to go back to 1948.
Or let me explain something to you.
Okay.
Fox News has been on the air since 1996.
1996 is a much bigger number than 1948.
So therefore, Fox News has been on the air longer.
It's simple math.
Bill, you're just plain wrong about this, buddy.
Shut up, Pinette.
Just shut up.
I'm just telling you, Bill.
Bill, I'm doing.
Bill, you're wrong about this.
Shut the f off.
Bill O'Reilly, lays it down.
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Thank you.
Okay, and today we're going to take an extended look at what I see a big problem in America as the policing culture, the out-of-control policing culture.
We haven't talked about it much on the show yet.
I mean, not as much as we should, or not as much as that is warranted, but it seems to really have gotten out of control since 9-11.
And I have my multi-ethnic panel here to help me discuss the situation.
We have a Japanese man.
We have a resident Latina.
We have an African-American.
And then we got two Irish guys.
Okay.
All right.
So that's pretty good.
Okay.
So now we're going to play a few videos.
I don't know if you saw this video.
So the cops are out of control in America.
We've talked about this from coast to coast.
There's a policing culture that sees the citizens as the enemy, and the cops are the occupying force.
You know, here in Los Angeles, cops don't live in Los Angeles who work at Los Angeles.
They all live out in the suburbs somewhere else and they come into the city to police it.
Like those people are there.
They need policing.
So in Chicago, they can't do that, by the way, where I'm from, Chicago.
You have to live in the city where you police.
At least that's a little bit better, right?
The way LA like tries to incentivize their cops living here.
Like they give them incredibly low mortgages if they live within the city limits.
What they should do is pass a law that makes and make it a law that they have to live inside the city.
That's like what they did in Chicago.
Well, they should be on call.
They should be on call like doctors.
Doctors have to live within 20 minutes of their hospital.
Oh, they should be on call within their precincts.
I think you should have to live in the neighborhood you police.
I have no problem.
I think that just crazy that we have people because then you can't come in and beat people up and then drive home 40 miles away and you never see those people.
The people you're beating up, you're supposed to bump into them at the Starbucks and at the Ralphs and at the grocery store and at wherever you go at the Little League game, you're supposed to bump into the people you're policing.
You're supposed to be part of the community.
That's what I would like to see, right, Ted?
I think that would make a difference.
It'd make you a lot more reluctant to put your boot in my ass if you know I'm going to be walking my dog past your house later.
That's correct.
Exactly right.
Especially if your dog is maybe a Rottweiler or Pitbull or something like that.
So I'm watching this video.
So this is Officer Sean Grobert.
He was a Lance Corporal with the South Carolina Highway Patrol and he pulled over LeVar Jones, LeVar Jones, who is black and very young.
And you're going to hear him on the video.
He gets pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt.
White cop pulls him over for not wearing a seatbelt.
And they're in a gas station in this.
So he pulls into a gas station.
This kid pulls into a gas station and the cop, I'm going to show you the video.
This is what happened.
Have the air license, please.
Get a guard!
Get out of the batter!
Oh my god!
Get on the ground!
Okay, so now you just saw what happened, but you guys didn't see what happened.
What happened was the cop pulls him over.
The guy gets out of the car.
He goes like this.
He goes, show me your license.
So the kid goes, okay, turns around to get his license out of the car.
Cop immediately starts shooting.
Oh, my God.
Start shooting.
You want to come over and see this video?
It's unbelievable.
Come on.
I'll show you this video.
It's unbelievable.
Okay.
Yeah, I've seen it.
I've seen it.
You saw the video, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's an example of just a cop who's just can't even find coward is not even the you know Barney Fife.
You know what I mean?
Exactly.
It's absolutely cowardice.
So you remember when I was a kid, we used to watch reruns of Andy Griffith.
And he had a deputy named Barney Fife, played by Don Knotts.
Brilliant.
Yeah.
And he gave him one bullet in his pocket.
And why do you think he gave Barney one bullet?
Because Barney was a little jumpy.
And a little bit of a sweetheart, but a bit of a coward.
Bit of a coward, a little jumpy.
So you shouldn't have a gun.
This guy is Barney Fife.
Here, I'm going to show it to Robert again.
Here you go.
Watch.
Watch this.
So he pulls in.
See, the guy gets out of the car.
Have the air license, please.
Let me see your license, please.
He goes to get it.
Cops start shooting him.
He starts shooting him.
People see a gun.
It gets worse.
It gets worse.
So you hear the kid going, I went to get my license.
You told me to get my license.
He's on the ground.
He is shocked.
He is shocked.
Shot him in the hip.
By the way, the cop shot like six times from two feet away, missed him five times.
Hit him in twice.
So there's all those other people.
It's broad daylight at a gas station.
There's all these other people in the gas station.
This cop just starts shooting at a guy for no reason.
And all the kid did is turn around and reach into his car.
To get his license.
He didn't go, hey, step back.
So here, listen, watch it, get to work.
Put your hands behind your back.
Put your hands behind your back.
So then he tells you.
Put your hands behind your back.
And the kids go, I got my license right here.
What do you do?
He goes, put your hands behind your back.
That cop still would not stop being a horrible, horrible, horrible subhuman being.
Okay, that's it.
Unbelievable.
Didn't we?
You're forgetting one very important point.
The kid was not wearing a seatbelt.
He was not.
And then the kid asks him.
This doesn't change that.
Later in the video, the kid asked him, why'd you pull?
What's going on?
Why'd you even stop me?
He goes, because you didn't have your seatbelt on.
And the kid goes, I took my seatbelt on because I was pulling in the gas station.
Yeah.
And he goes, why'd you shoot me?
He says you lunged into your car.
He does make a comment saying he said that the kid not lunged in the right word, but some word like lunged.
Let me play it.
Here, let me play it.
James, behind it.
What did I do, son?
He's still calling him, sir.
I think so.
I can't do my lunch.
I don't know what happened.
I just got my lunch.
I'm going to go to the bathroom A669 at 1052.
Why did you, why did you shoot me?
Well, you dove headfirst.
No, you dove.
Headfirst into your car.
You dove headfirst.
How do you, first of all, he turned around to get his license.
How do you go any other way but headfirst?
You dove headfirst.
Was he going to dive hip first?
Is he going to die knee first?
He didn't dive, by the way.
He turned around and reached into his car.
And if you're that jumpy, you should go get a job at a swimming pool.
You shouldn't be.
And if you don't have the to if you don't have the b ⁇ to even wait to see what, you know, he doesn't even have the courage to wait and see what is he reaching for.
You don't have, if you don't have the b to even let someone follow your command, then you don't deserve to be, you don't deserve to work at a dairy queen.
You don't deserve to work as a janitor.
It's a basic, basic courage to just wait.
So when this guy signed up, they were like, are you jumpy?
When you see a black guy reaching for something, do you like to pull the trigger?
Right.
What form of training did this guy pass?
That's what I want to know.
What psychological exam did this guy pass?
By the way, they don't pass any.
Why do you want to be a cop?
Why do you want to carry a gun?
Why do you want to put yourself in dangerous situations?
And if you're so afraid of black people, then why are you stopping them over nothing?
Over a no seatbelt.
He stops you.
You're not afraid.
You're that afraid.
Then why are you being such a little douchebag?
If you don't stop them, they're harder to shoot.
I don't know why this is hard for you guys to understand.
Yeah, you dove into your car.
Really, sir?
I dove into my car.
Can I just point out that this kid was black, right?
Yes.
They were at a gas station.
And gas stations usually have lots of Skittles and iced tea.
Oh, it was a preemptive.
It was a preemptive shooting.
Yeah.
I didn't think of that.
Minutes away from buying candy and a beverage.
So the kid is so articulate and so polite, even after he's been shot.
I can't even believe it.
So here is, yes, he's still too painful to hear him say.
And that just emphasizes who the savage is in this scenario.
Yes.
So here, there's an here's what I'm gonna.
And by the way, they shot him in the back.
That kid?
Yes.
He got hit in the head.
Like you're seeing him turn and they shoot him.
Like, yeah, and like the hip in the back air.
And he's the cop is pivoting around so he's staying at his back while he's shooting.
Yes.
So I couldn't believe the cop lied, by the way.
The cop said that the kid came at him and after he started shooting, the kid kept coming at him.
Well, you look at the video, the kids, Zach, he's got his hands up the whole time and he's backing up.
And the cop just kept shooting him.
And then even after he shoots him, he comes over and handcuffs him, even though he knows he doesn't have a gun.
He pulled him over for a seatbelt violation and he doesn't care.
Because again, this kid's the enemy.
He's not a citizen.
I didn't, he didn't go.
Wow, I just screwed up.
What the hell's the matter with me?
Still, this kid is an enemy.
No matter if he didn't do anything, he's still the enemy.
The cop realizes that the kid didn't do anything.
He knows this now.
The kid's on the ground, so he doesn't freak out and go, oh my God, I'm sorry.
What he does is say, put your hands behind your back.
He doesn't try to help them.
He doesn't do anything.
It's the same mentality that a race is in this case.
It's the same mentality that a rapist would have to its victim.
I'm not going to see you as a human.
I'm not going to acknowledge that what I'm doing is even remotely inappropriate.
Right.
You follow my commands or this is going to get worse.
No, we can delay these videos.
Go ahead, Steph.
I just want to point out that this guy passed some sort of test.
This is what I'm talking about.
To be able to be a part of law enforcement.
And he has no problem going into a public place of business and start shooting.
And there are people at the pumps.
At the pumps.
That's what I said.
They're pumping gas.
This happens.
Who's going to intervene on behalf of this young man?
No one.
No one.
Okay, we got a lot more coming up on the second half about the out-of-control police culture.
But before we get to that, let's take a call from Ted Cruz.
Who was one of the few Republicans to come out fervently and loudly against the Supreme Court's decision to allow gay marriage in 30 different states?
Ted Cruz, what's your favorite Jesus?
Senator Cruz, Jr.
Oh, hi, Jimmy.
How are you?
I'm fine, Senator.
Did you just ask what's your favorite Jesus?
Sure.
Do you like the classic Jesus with the flowing brown hair and the knowing eyes?
Or do you like the baby Jesus?
Maybe.
Personally, I like the Jesus with a swimmer's body wearing below in cloth.
Hey, so I understand you're upset about the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any gay marriage cases this year.
I am very angry, Jimmy.
I am so angry.
I almost took the Lord's name in vain and ate a cheesecake.
I'm sorry, Senator, but I just not seeing what's making you so upset here.
Jimmy, they're gay.
Gay, Jimmy.
Like bullies doing the sodomy with each other and the girls doing the dirty scissors.
That's not the issue.
And even if it was, the law can't regulate what consenting adults do in private.
It makes Jesus cry, Jimmy.
It makes him cry.
Can't you hear him, Jimmy?
He's like, hey, you muscular fireman, get away from that other fireman.
Don't take off one another's fire trousers.
Stand before each other in sin.
Go find some nice fire girls and have the intercourse with them instead.
Wow.
Senator, I don't think that's what.
Wait, what?
Hey, you guy in sailors outfit.
Get away from the other guy in a sailor's outfit.
Sure, he's all sweaty.
You can smell his musk.
Jesus says, resist.
What are you talking about, Senator?
What are you talking about?
The law.
I mean, you know, marriages in the eyes of the law is not sacred.
It's just a contract.
And it's not like any of these court rulings are compelling churches to hold gay weddings.
You could not be more wrong, Jimmy.
When two people get a marriage license, Jesus comes to that county clerk's office and says, I will cause a hurricane if two dudes get a marriage license.
It doesn't happen, Senator.
I'm pretty sure it does, Jimmy.
No, it doesn't, Senator.
What about my marriage, huh, Jimmy?
I mean, if gay people can get married, it totally ruins my marriage to, you know, the woman I married.
How does gay marriage invalidate your marriage?
Let me put this in words you can understand, okay, Jimmy.
Please.
I used to love a good cognac, like Kravasi, ABSO, or better.
Okay?
Well, marriage, Jimmy, is like a fine brandy.
You follow me?
Sure.
Then all of a sudden, black people start drinking it.
And it just doesn't seem all that special anymore.
It was like, well, now I don't want to drink a black people's drink.
My point is, what if black people were allowed to get married?
Senator, what are you talking?
Black people can get married.
Me and Michael Lady are going to introduce a constitutional amendment that says states can define marriage how they want.
Yeah, I read about that too.
Well, there you go.
Senator, come on.
What?
Come on, Senator.
What?
Come on.
What?
You and I both know that'll never happen.
Maybe I don't.
Just to propose an amendment, you need two-thirds of both houses, and passing it is even harder.
Maybe it isn't.
Senator, pretty much everyone will see this for the political theater that it is.
I totally believe that Jesus will come down and pass this amendment or something.
Senator, you're just trying to keep the wedge issue alive with the Christian right for when you try to get the Republican nomination for president.
What are he talking about?
I don't, I mean, this is so sudden.
I should run for president.
I never thought of that.
Well, if you think it's a good idea, Senator.
What?
I'm going to go.
What?
Why?
We were just talking about maybe me being president.
I really got to go.
Well, that's fine.
I have lots of phone calls coming in from senators who want to be my friends and allies.
No, you don't.
Shut up, Jimmy Door.
I hate you.
All right.
All right.
That was Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz got by Robert.
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Okay, we're taking an extended look today at some of the recent videotapes that have surfaced around police brutality in America.
Seems like a hundred of these things surface every day now.
Seems like there's a problem with the culture.
And we're going to talk about a little bit more of it.
I'm joined by my African-American friend, Ted Lyde, because it's important to have a nice multicultural panel when we talk about police brutality.
And then we have Robert Yasimura.
He's Japanese.
His dad was in an internment camp.
And then our resident Latina, Steph Samorano.
So we have the Hispanioles.
We have the Japanese.
And we also have the Black Annuals.
All right.
So we've got them all.
And we got two Irish guys.
So we got everybody got everything covered and a couple of drunks.
All right.
So we're going to continue our conversation talking about the recent videotapes that have surfaced about police brutality.
Let's get back to the studio.
By the way, Mike from St. Louis.
Epic call coming up later on in the show.
So here's the next story because we can play these videos all day long.
This is just from the last week and a half, right?
These videos.
These are just from the last week and a half.
So here's another video.
This happened in Hammond, Indiana.
Lisa Mahoney was, or I don't know how he's Mahone, said she was pulled over by Hammond police for a seatbelt violation as she drove her boy with her boyfriend and their two children to a Chicago hospital where doctors had said her mother was near death.
She got pulled over.
She hands the driver's license and proof of insurance to the cops.
And then the cops asked her boyfriend for his ID.
Why do you got to have a passenger's ID?
I'm sure they have a reasonable so her boyfriend, this guy named Jones, he said he didn't have his ID because he just had gotten a ticket.
So he reached in the back seat because he wanted to show him the ticket he had in a bag in the back seat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then the officers, when he did that, when he reached to get the ticket to show them, the cops pulled their gun on him, right?
They pulled their gun on him, right?
And their 14-year-old son and their seven-year-old daughter.
And then his teen began recording the encounter on the cell phone, right?
So his 14-year-old son started recording it.
And, well, here's what happened.
I'll play this for you.
So here we go.
Yes, my mom.
No, I'm not making it worse now.
I'm scared for my life.
Because he just pulled a gun on nothing.
We don't have a gun.
So now the cops pull the gun on these people in the car.
And the guy won't get out of here.
He goes, No, he wants him to get out of the car.
He goes, I'm not getting out of the car, right?
And they want him to get out of the car.
And he's like, I'm not getting why you want.
So they wanted to take him out.
They just pulled their guns on his girlfriend and their kids.
And now they want him to get out of the car.
He's like, I'm not getting out of the car.
You haven't done anything.
So you can do what?
You just pull this over.
Now you're pulling your guns on us.
Here it goes.
Here it goes.
It's going to get way worse.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
I suggest you come on out.
So the cops say to him, I just want to let you know, you're on our dash cam.
I'm wearing body mics.
I suggest you get out of the car.
They say that to him.
They say that to him.
Yeah.
To the guy that they just pulled guns on during a traffic stop.
He's the passenger in the car.
You a white shirt?
What's that?
A white shirt.
I'm asking for a white shirt.
I don't know what's going on.
So he asked for a supervisor.
He goes, can you get a white shirt?
Meaning a supervisor.
I don't know what's going on here.
Give him my information.
I don't know what's going on.
Right, right.
That's what I'm saying.
Listen, listen.
That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Okay.
I don't know what's going on.
I never got out of the building.
So he's telling, he's talking.
He has the window open this month.
He's talking through the window to the cops.
He goes, I never had to get out of a vehicle as a passenger in a traffic stop.
Get a supervisor here.
I gave it to him.
Okay.
Now he asked the man.
Y'all got white shirts?
He's sitting beside me.
He asked me.
Y'all got somebody inside, yo.
He didn't have any idea.
Well, I just gave him my information.
So he says, that's his lieutenant right there, the lieutenant.
He points to the other cop.
He goes, he's a lieutenant.
He goes, well, I just gave him my information.
Why you want me to get out of the car?
They ask him, you know, and I said, I just gave both of them my information.
Y'all got my information.
I don't have my life.
I mean, if you're going to give me a ticket, for no seatbelt.
If you're going to give me a ticket for no seatbelt, right here.
They just give me a ticket so I can go to the hospital because the doctor called me to tell me to come in because my mom is about to pass away.
I cannot believe this.
All right.
So I guess he's in the hand.
He hands him the ticket.
He hands him the ticket.
He digs in his book bag.
They pull the gun out.
What was the purpose of a gun?
And now they're asking us.
Now they're asking me to open my door so I can get out.
I'm scared.
If you can pull out a gun in front of two, it's two kids in the back seat.
Do you understand?
Yes.
All right.
No, don't mess my.
Now they're about to mess my no.
I'm not the operator.
You do that.
All right.
I'm not the, I'm not, I'm not the operation in this deal.
Are you going to open the door?
Why do you say somebody's not going to hurt you?
People are getting shot by the police.
Oh, shit.
Damn.
Ah.
Oh, shit.
Oh.
Got to go out.
Oh.
That was crazy.
Horrible.
This is a hundred miles.
Okay, so those are the kids crying in the back seat because they just broke the guy's windshield or his window, passenger window, and then the cop tased him.
Oh my God.
And they cop tased him and he fell out of the car.
And now they're going to handcuff him.
His kids are crying in the backseat.
And they're doing this for what?
No reason.
No reason.
Because they're cops.
They're bullies.
They're subhumans.
That's why they became cops.
And the reason that they're doing it.
This is why, and they're doing it because he's black and they're white, and they can.
And the reason that they're doing it is that they want compliance.
They don't want reason.
They don't want you to acknowledge that you're a human or that you have constitutional rights.
They want you to be a good little nigger and obey.
They want you to pretend it's, you know, slavery times and we asked you, you know, for your papers, and you show, and now you do what we say.
And that's what it boils down to: if you don't obey us, now it's about a it's about a question of us having to go back to our station and be the cops who got punked by some nigger on video.
And that's that's what it boils down to.
It's like it's literally like a gang mentality.
So they're going to have that footage.
Yeah, hey, it's Jones and Finn over here.
Hey, they couldn't get the nigga out of the car.
The nigga talked him down.
They couldn't get him out of the car.
That's the mentality.
That is the mentality.
Go ahead, Frank.
Well, I don't, this, I don't think, is only a recent phenomenon.
What's the recent phenomenon is just that it's on video now.
Yes.
So this is right.
In other words, I'm sure this has been going on for years and years.
Yeah, the black people that they stop and they shoot, they never get to tell their side of the story, or nobody believes their side of the story.
So these incidents are only now coming to the fore because we have videos of them now.
And I've heard cops go on TV and defend this guy.
I've heard cops go on TV and say, yeah, he was in his rights as a cop.
They blah, blah, blah.
He wasn't complying.
When you come to the traffic stop and he asks you to get out and you don't, you go, yeah, and it's just like, this is the country you want to live in.
When I was a kid, this is what I thought Russia was like.
When I was a kid, this is what I thought that China and North Korea was like.
That's not what I thought the United States was like.
I thought that we had constitutional rights.
We're the most free country in the world.
But there's a police culture in this country.
It got way worse because of the drug war in the 80s, which was nothing more than racism.
And then, and after 9-11, it got put on steroids.
Now everybody's the enemy.
You know, can we stop talking that they're police?
They're no longer, you know, peace officers.
They're not peace officers.
They're community of criminals who have no.
And if you want to kind of figure out why they're criminals, they have no problem brutalizing citizens, anybody.
And I don't say any of this lightly, by the way.
You know, I'm just telling you, again, I know cops.
I know them.
Some of them are nice.
Some of them I hang out with.
They're nice people.
They're not nice when they're cops, right?
They become cops to be brutal.
That's why they're cops.
You can't say anybody.
I mean, I'm sure that they, you know, white guys get beat up too.
Yes, I've been beaten up by cops.
If Reese Witherspoon gets pulled over with Jerry Seinfeld in the car and Jerry doesn't want to get out of the car because he doesn't feel like he has done anything wrong as a passenger.
You don't think they're going to tase him?
I don't think they're going to knock his window in and tase him.
With his kids in the back seat.
I don't think that that's a risk that that particular citizen would have to do.
By the way, these cops, they know they're being videotaped, not only by the person in the back seat, but they just told the guy, we have a dashboard.
That was amazing.
So this is what they think is A-O-K, super-duper-okay.
That's right.
Even more so, he says that's a lieutenant there.
This is the loot.
And the lieutenant did it.
That's a commanding officer.
So these people have no recourse.
This is what is so absolutely overwhelming.
Like, we were sitting here in this room, so we're not seeing the video.
We're hearing in the audio.
It was shocking.
It was horrifying.
Yes.
And it's just like there's no recourse.
And so they're victimized.
And they're never ever going to have any kind of turn of event where they're going to feel like, okay, this was handled properly.
I predict that they predict they'll get a lawyer and I predict they'll get a settlement.
I really do believe they will.
No, they're suing.
They'll get a settlement.
They will get a settlement, but it's just amazing.
But the scars that the children will carry for the rest of their lives, whenever they see a cop, the humiliation that the man will have to stomach every time he sees a cop.
Yes.
I mean, first off, they didn't even, they weren't even able to go to the hospital.
Right, to see the mother who's dying.
Well, that's a lie anyway.
I mean, that's how the cop sees it.
You know, anything that you say is a lie.
Yeah, it's a lie.
You're lying, and he's, and these guys got warrants.
So that's the thing.
It's like, if you've got my information, then I don't have to get out of the car.
You run my warrant.
You think I have a warrant?
Because that's what they do half the time.
They're fishing for warrants.
Yes.
They assume that, you know, 20% of the black guys out there have warrants.
So let's just go fishing.
And if we catch a guy with the warrant, we score.
They didn't get to see the mom because she'd actually just been arrested before they got there.
So, oh, Kamamu was dying?
Yeah.
She got pulled over and she got cuffed to her hospital.
Hey, by the way.
Really?
Okay.
By the way, I heard that kid who was shot in that gas station was cuffed to the gurney.
For over, what, 11 hours or something?
And it wasn't until the cop went home that night.
He realized he didn't have his handcuffs on him.
He went back to the hospital and they uncuffed him.
And then he was able to leave the hospital.
And he was able to leave the hospital.
No.
Yeah.
So this is not like this.
Go ahead.
What happened to these cops?
Did they get any kind of so that cop, so the cop that was shot that kid for the seatbelt violations, he's being they're pressing charges against him.
So he, they, they didn't charge him with attempted murder.
They charged him.
No, he wasn't charged with murder.
He was charged with aggravated assault and battery and faces 20 years.
Okay, well, we'll see what he gets.
I'm guessing three with good behavior.
He's out in 18 months.
The fact that he was, you know.
By the way, so these hammers.
He fired is huge.
So yes, that never happens.
No, it never happens.
Even Michael Brown's Michael Brown's not fired.
No.
I mean, that's like Mike, but Daryl, the guy who killed him.
Right.
He's a hero.
He's a hero.
Those other cops are wearing wristbands.
I support him.
Yeah.
So these guys from Hammond, these two cops, the one cop, his name is Vickery.
He has been named in at least three previous lawsuits involving the use of excessive force against citizens, as well as arrest without probable cause.
So that's three different things.
Still on the job, still cracking people's heads.
He's doing it in the name of law and order, and he's doing it in the name of your state.
Go ahead.
I just would have assumed this was an isolated incident.
Do you think it would be?
Just a bad apple moment.
No.
Yes.
So here's a kid.
So I'm going to show this video.
You guys won't be able to see it, but the people on YouTube will see it.
There was a young man.
The cops thought he was selling marijuana in Brooklyn.
So I'm watching Joy Reed.
I'm watching Joy Reed on MSNBC, and she's going to describe it for us, what you see in this videotape.
It shows the two officers as they catch up with a 16-year-old suspect who's suspected of selling marijuana in Brooklyn back in August.
Now you can see That after the suspect slows down and stops, an officer throws a punch at him.
Then, after the team briefly raises his hands in the air, the other officer hits him in the head with his gun.
Representative for the NYPD said.
Yes.
Yes.
So the kid, this is what I see.
Again, this is a security camera from a building that caught this, right?
Or else we'd never know about it.
So there's a 16, 16-year-old kid.
And this is what I see.
He's standing there like this.
Cop walks up to him, punches him right in the face.
The kid goes falling down.
Cop comes over him, hits him again.
The other cop comes over.
The other cop hits him.
Kid, 16-year-old kid on the ground, didn't do anything.
They thought he was selling marijuana.
So they thought they'd beat the sh ⁇ out of a 16-year-old kid.
And again, it's another isolated incident.
I'm sure it's an isolated incident.
And they probably never even drink or get drunk themselves.
I'm sure those cops never drink or get drunk, even though they are the biggest, fattest slobs I've ever seen.
When you see the video, you'll go, wow, those are pretty floppy coughs.
Some of this is Obama's fault.
A lot of it is.
Only in the sense that there's such a tremendous Negro president remorse that white cats in authority just can't stomach.
I did not think that's where you were going with this.
That's one of my gifts.
That's one of my talents.
That was a zag.
So I'm watching these guys.
There's a New York cop, a New York cop came on the Joy.
What's her name?
Joy Reed.
Joy Reed Show.
And he makes a really good point about how blacks feel in general about cops.
I think the black community particularly, you hear people who have never broken a law in their lives saying that to you all the time.
And that's a profound issue.
And we have to stop pretending police work is done equally in our country.
Police work.
Talk about policing.
We're talking about race relations in the country.
That's what we're doing.
Same question.
Well, one way to address that is right now police are really.
So now here's a guy from the ACLU.
Much more like occupying forces in many poor communities of color.
They really need to be extensions of the community.
So they have to be sharing accountability and really actually sharing with the community in decisions about how does the community want to be policed and have a much more democratic process.
You need transparency, you need accountability, you need more officers who are from the community.
Right now, we really have an us versus them mentality, and that's just going to lead to more tragic situations like okay.
So he's just saying what I've already said because I heard him say it once and then I said it.
Here's another, here's a great point they make about low-level crime enforcement.
We talked about enforcement of low-level offenses.
We have to look in this country at the way that police are over-enforcing minor infractions in communities of color selectively all around the country.
We put out a report last year on marijuana arrests that showed massive disparities in marijuana possession enforcement despite equal rates of use among blacks and whites.
This is going on in communities all across America.
And not only should that be examined, but then how does a seatbelt stop or a stop for selling untaxed cigarettes end up in somebody being tased, kids getting hurt, or somebody dying?
Yeah.
Okay, so that's a great point.
Somebody's selling illegal cigarettes, he ends up getting killed by cops.
Somebody's getting pulled over for no seatbelt.
They end up breaking his window, tasing him, traumatizing his seven-year-old daughter.
Yeah.
But again, the guy that got choked out in New York, his problem is the same thing is that it was just that he was not complying.
He wouldn't comply.
The fact that you can lose your life for not complying for not complying is just insane.
Like, you guys really can't figure out a way to get a handcuff on this guy.
And by the way, and you don't tase him.
That's when you tase a guy.
Nope, we're not going to tase him when it would work.
We're going to choke him.
Yeah.
Well, you say, here's what you say.
In a civilized world, what you do is you say, you're not going to do it.
No, I'm not.
I'm not going to.
Okay, well, you're not going to leave this spot.
And we're going to go get Dave.
And Dave is, Dave is the guy that will talk to you all day.
Right.
And we'll do, you know, so one way or another, you're going downtown.
So you can stand here and refuse, but you're not going to leave.
And Dave is going to stand here and guard you with a hall monitor until you get in the car.
But this is the rest of your life.
But we're not going to shoot you.
We're not going to beat you.
We're not going to, you know.
And eventually Dave was going to go, hey, come on, man.
Let's just go.
Let's just go.
And eventually you're going to go.
Ted, when I was a kid, I say this over and over on the show.
I always thought that cops were, they were trained to de-escalate things.
Now that it seems like they're trained to escalate things.
If you don't respond, exactly what you said, if you don't follow their authority, they can then take it to the next level violent-wise, which it should be the other way.
We should have the opposite of SWAT for non-SWAT situations.
The opposite.
So Dave comes in and he's the opposite of SWAT.
He'll bring a box of donuts and he's going to sit here and talk to you until you decide that this is four in the morning, dude.
Let's just go.
We should replace the SWAT team with the chill team.
Yes.
Yes.
So St. Louis, they were doing these protests, right, for Michael Brown.
They stopped at the opera.
They went down to the symphony and they started singing a song, Whose Side Are You On?
Whose Side Are You On?
And it was pretty awesome to see.
I won't show you the video because I'm getting to this other video that is even more awesome.
So these protesters also went outside the St. Louis Cardinals playoff game, and they started to, let's hear, you know, justice for Michael Brown, justice for Michael Brown.
Well, a bunch of Cardinals fans started to chant back, and here's what they were chanting back.
So the protesters, to raise awareness about this, are protesting justice for Michael Brown.
Cardinals fans start chanting back, let's go Cardinals.
Okay, that's kind of okay.
That's kind of okay.
I understand that you're not into their protest.
You want them to go away.
I get that.
You're a Cardinals fan.
You're here for the Cardinals game.
You want them to go away.
Yeah, you have no time for a social issue.
You got to get to the game.
You're not sensitive to the plight of the African Americans in your community.
So I get it.
That's kind of okay.
But then it switches and then they start chanting this.
Justice for Mike Brown!
Let's go, Jerry!
Justice for Mike Brown!
Let's go, Jerry!
So they start chanting, let's go Darren.
Let's go Darren, which is the cop that killed Michael Brown, shot him six times when he was unarmed and had his hands up.
Dick York or Dick Star kids.
So here, I'll play a little bit more.
And, you know, first of all, it's a video that gives startling revelation that St. Louis, Missouri is racist.
You could have seen the same thing at any Midtown bar at about midnight on a Tuesday in St. Louis, if you ask me.
But it's nice because you watch this.
It's nice to watch the video of the new Ferguson police recruits getting ready to go to work because that's who these people are.
And they fulfilled all the needed requirements to be on the St. Louis police report.
Of course, they're ignorant.
They're racist.
They have a lot of hatred in them.
You know, I expected better from a state that has a bronze bust of Rush Limbaugh in the state capitol.
What?
They do.
Holy smokes.
Let me just say this about St. Louis, Ferguson.
If the cops want to arrest violent thugs, they need to look no further than the other squad car.
We'll be right back.
Okay, now it's the perfect time to check in and take the pulse of St. Louis with our favorite phone caller, Mike from St. Louis.
So now I started out by asking Mike in St. Louis if you watched the video of those St. Louis guys chanting for no, come on.
You didn't watch that?
What's that?
I knew a few of those guys, though.
That was red.
To me, a white guy who grew up in the southwest side of Chicago, which is very, which was a racist neighborhood.
It makes me feel horrible to see that.
There's a group of white people cheering on the execution of a black guy, an unarmed black teenager.
To what could that possibly, what's wrong with you that you do that?
That's just racism, right?
Sorry, I stopped paying attention about halfway through that.
Go Cards!
Go Cards!
They're just trying to interrupt things that they got no business.
You know, why are they there at the game?
They yell at people, and then these other people yelled back.
And then he went down to Powell Hall and ruined down air.
Yeah, but why?
There's no cops going to the symphony.
What are you doing?
No, what they're doing, Mike, is they're trying to raise awareness.
That's all.
They're just raising awareness, which by battery people?
That's how you raise awareness?
You annoy.
Is that how things get done?
I don't think so.
Well, I think that is how things get done.
You know, it's called civil, it's called civil disobedience.
It's a good thing that people are involved, right?
That raise awareness.
Don't you think?
And that sounds like some Gandhi stuff, though.
It sounds like Khandi stuff?
What does that mean?
Gandhi.
Oh, Gandhi.
Remember that movie?
Yes, I do.
I remember that movie.
So you weren't embarrassed to see white people chanting at people, a group of black people who were.
Like I said, the blacks yelled first, and then the whites yelled back.
They were, you know, they were self-defending themselves with yells.
Last time I checked, that's in the Constitution.
Last time I checked, this isn't Russia or a different foreign country that sucks.
Why wouldn't you be on their side?
The people who are chanting for justice for Michael Brown.
Well, they, you know, they don't know what happened.
I mean, some of them were there.
They just like, some people just need to be angry all the time.
That's something I've learned.
Okay.
People just need to be pissed off.
It makes them feel good or something.
I don't know.
Well, the whole country was kind of embarrassed.
When they would watch the video, they'd show the video.
I saw it being shown on December.
Let me explain something to you.
We're in the playoffs.
All right.
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