hey welcome back is in today's video we could be talking about the amber liu
situation where she reacted to a man being detained by police for eating a
sandwich she said some very offensive things
we're gonna look into that today on exploring the internet if you're
unfamiliar amber Josephine liu known professionally as amber or Amber Liu is
an American singer rapper songwriter she debuted as a member of the South Korean
girl group FX in September of 2009 amber was a guest on a YouTube channel just
kidding news where they react on viral videos she was reacting to a clip of a
man being detained by the police on a train platform let's look into that
nothing wrong so apparently it's against the law to eat on this train platform
but I want it I want to show you guys something as you can see right behind
him in the video here right behind him there's this dude walking down the
stairs with what looks like a coffee which is illegal in the train platform
too and then you're gonna see people walking by with bags of food as well
right here now I don't know the full context of this video but from where it
picks up from it looks like this cop just walk straight up to him starts
question him about eating the sandwich tries to arrest him well it is illegal
on this train platform to eat food at all look up the BART rolls here Bart
does stand for a Bay Area Rapid Transit and it says smoking eating drinking or
using music video players without headphones is not permitted in stations
or on trains violation of Mart rules may lead to a citation and a fine the man in
the video eating his sandwich is Stephen Foster and he's already taken steps to
file a civil rights lawsuit saying that he felt singled out by the white BART
police officer for doing something that everyone else was doing a violation that
seems to be rarely enforced this actually sparked a lot of controversy to
the point where Bart riders held an Eaton to protest the incident
got my my lunch here obviously very threatening
as you can see law or not Kelly Groff was passing up breakfast sandwiches
today for what she called brunch on BART people should be able to eat on the
popcorn they're not getting harassed so I wanted to make sure that I showed up
and stood in solidarity and ate on this Plaza which I've done hundreds of time
and I've watched hundreds of people do all the time and show that what they did
was beyond embarrassing
after facing backlash the BART general manager issued an apology that says BART
general manager Bob powers issued the following statement moving four hundred
and fifteen thousand riders each day comes with complexities and there are
lost in place to keep our system safe welcoming and clean I've seen the video
of the incident involving a man eating on our platform and our police response
evening in the paid area is banned and there are multiple signs inside and
every station saying as much as a transportation system are concerned with
eating is related to the cleanliness of her stations and system this was not the
case in the incident at Pleasant Hill station on Monday the officer asked the
rider not to eat while he was on the platform responding to another call it
should have ended there but it didn't mr. foster did not stop eating and the
officer moved forward with the process of issuing him a citation the individual
refused to write identification cursed at and made homophobic slurs at
the officer who remained calm through the entire engagement the officer was
doing his job in context is key enforcement of the infractions such as
eating and drinking inside our paid areas should not be used to prevent us
from delivering on our mission to provide safe reliable and clean
transportation we have to read each situation and allow people to get where
they're going on Tom and safely I'm disappointed how the situation unfolded
I apologized to mr. foster our routers employees and the public who have had an
emotional reaction to the video I've spoken to our interim police chief
about my feelings related to the incident and our Independent Police
auditor is conducting an independent investigation he report his findings to
our citizens review board so there's a little bit more context there I think
there's a few disconnects here as to why embrasure statements on the matter it
caused outrage and point to a bigger issue but before we get into that let's
look at the nouns video from just kidding news where amber
said this being super disrespectful it's like you don't have to act like that
toward a police officer like please always a police officer you just still
show some type of respect know your rights but show some type of respect
yeah but that's going to a touchy area because I think culturally we don't
understand what the black community goes through so they respond way different to
officers than we do this is very contradictory of an apology she issued
on Twitter saying I'm so sorry I saw the video clip made an ignorant snap
judgment and I'm majorly messed up it was my fault for not being more aware of
how the systemic racism in the United States has continued and gotten worse
while I spent the last 10 years overseas I wonder percent do not stand for racism
or discrimination he anchors me that he was singled out because of the color of
his skin it is completely unjust and I am so
sorry for not seeing the whole situation and jumping to a conclusion I'm sorry
for hurting you guys I've always stood for equality I've always stood for love
I believe in black lives matter and I'm so sorry for negatively affecting so
many people because of my ignorance and I will continue to educate myself on
this matter she says she has no prior knowledge of how systemic racism has
developed in the United States because she's been overseas the last 10 years
yet in video she shows knowledge of this on a July 14th video this year she says
I think like with especially well the media already like titled the article it
makes it a race game and it's just like well Wesley Wright the black guy Wesley
was like it's because of my race I'm judged like this and then the
super disrespectful which guy think that the sandwich man like yeah I get like
that's not serious but it's like you're being like you couldn't get worse
officer like what did i do like cuz there's that he was like provoking this
brutality thing that are going on it's like you you pull over a guy because of
their skin color but then they're slightly legit like I want to know why
I'm pull over please let me know sir and then like the cop would go crazy but
this cop was just like bro like you're not supposed to be eating to me this
does demonstrate at least some understanding of the current condition
and makes me feel like she was a little bit dishonest in her apology and I
believe making things worse for Amber is just kidding news co-hosts Joe just just
do khalwa I'm sorry if I've mispronounced that where he tweets in
anger you guys need to lay off amber the beauty about JK news is the discussion
when you s jwf faces expect everyone to already know and circle J discussions
there's no chance to actually teach anything
amber lived half of her life overseas how the heck is she going to know these
niche American cultural walls you are a bunch of mmm and expecting a whole GD
world to understand our manners my explanation is good example on how to
have a discussion when someone might not know something unlike you blank and
immediately cancel and burn you need to change the way you approach someone who
had an honest opinion about a situation not everyone is supposed to know
everything before they speak stop thanking me for schooling amber that's
what the effing discussion is you morons I don't think that this was a good
approach at all I can completely understand him wanting to stand up for
his friend but the way he's approaching users on Twitter is not very appropriate
for the situation there's a couple responses here I call people I love R
word shut up you sensitive B are you even
okay
it's just not a good look on one hand he's getting upset with people for not
taking the common patients to understand while on the other he's not taking the
time and patience to understand in my opinion I don't believe that Amber meant
to come off as racist and it was just more of not really understanding the
full situation and I think it would benefit this YouTube channel just
kidding news to maybe go over the context of the situations before they
have their guests react to them I think this would help a lot I also believe
that Amber was dishonest in her apology I think she knows more about racial
tensions in the United States and she's letting on I'm gonna put all the links
in the description so you guys can fully form your own opinions don't be pushed
in any direction that about anything that I've said here because as
interesting as this is there's always sometimes more interest to me that's
right you guessed it our energy thanks so much guys leave your creative and
rate written responses in the comment box below thumbs up those likes it's
always brothers and sisters I will see you in the next video this is the new
ghost chili sure I wore it man I mean let me tell you it gave me the
confidence that I needed to get through this video it feels real good if you
guys want this shirt and you want to support artists and stuff like that I'll
put the link in the description below because it's another way to show that
you're repping if you're entrepreneur guy again hi do the augurs subscribe
notification I'll be in the comment section or every single video because
I'm going to be there Greg the cat's gonna be there and the rest of rest I'll
keep me as well and I expect to see their tips this channel loves you