You know, you know, in the American news cycle,
after the conventions have taken place,
usually there's a lull in election news.
This year, however, things are different,
obviously because of Donald Trump.
You know, it's like there's a tiger on the loose
but more orange.
Uh, for instance, for instance, yesterday,
really, the bigger news was the fact that Turkey and Russia
were forming an alliance, but instead most people
were focused on a guy climbing a building
because the building was named after Trump, right?
And it was a strange thing to see in New York City--
it was a skyscraper where a man was climbing up the outside
and the ape was on the inside.
Um, so...
so, clearly what we've learned is...
what we've learned is
if you want the news to focus on something,
you have to make sure that it has something to do
with Donald Trump, you know?
Next time Erdogan and Putin have a meeting,
have them meet at Trump Tower, yeah?
Glaciers are melting, global warming,
have them do it at Trump Tower.
Unarmed black people getting shot by the police,
have it in Trump Tower, because that way
we know the cameras will catch everything. Yes.
-Because, because, you see... -(cheering and applause)
that's-that's another story that's been blown away
so quickly by the Trump-nado, you know?
That-that story out of Chicago.
Actually, let-let's take a look at the story.
This-this is what happened, for those who don't know
and should know. An unarmed black man in Chicago,
Paul O'Neal, stole a car, right? He stole a car.
And the police chased him. In the ensuing chase,
he crashed the stolen car into the police.
He jumped out and he ran away. Now he's dead.
Now, the whole thing was captured on police body cameras,
uh, but then it turns out not the whole thing.
REPORTER:
and after caught on video.
But not the shooting itself.
A police source says the officer who fired
that fatal shot turned on his camera after he fired.
Police say what happened to that camera
is being investigated.
The cameras got the whole thing
except the actual shooting?
It's a little suspicious, right?
Makes-makes you ask the question,
why are the police only sloppy with evidence against
you know? If I run a red light,
they've got three camera angles
and another with J.J. Abrams' commentary track. Like...
why does this keep happening with body cam videos?
These stories are always so tragic,
but every time a new story comes out,
I feel like it sheds a little light and a new...
a new light on a dif-different aspect of police violence.
For instance, this story, for me, showed us
that some of the people who may be in danger
of being shot by the police are the police themselves.
REPORTER:
the video, several officers appeared to fire
in the direction of each other
and a police SUV while shooting at O'Neal.
Goddamn.
Are you being s... Like, what is... what is this?
What is this? What is this?
That doesn't look like a professional police video.
It looks like your... like your dad trying to play
What is this?
And what actually may have happened here is...
This is... this is what some people are suggesting.
They're saying some of the officers thought
that shots were being fired at
They thought the shots were coming from Paul O'Neal,
when, in fact, Paul O'Neal was unarmed
and the only people who were shooting were actually police.
And-and this is a problem that we discovered
when watching this video. If you're a police officer
and you hear shots going off all around you,
how are you supposed to know who's shooting?
It's impossible. Right?
So you shoot back. And then people are like, "Shooting?
Why are you shooting?" "'Cause they were shooting."
"But you were shooting." "Oh, yeah. But I heard shots.
That's why I'm shooting." It's impossible.
But I was thinking, maybe in addition to finding
betty bo... better body cameras,
maybe what we need to do is we need to give police guns
that make a special sound
that only police guns make, you know?
Yeah, think about it. Sort of like we did with their cars.
If you're driving in a car and you hear someone behind you.
(honking) And you're like, "Oh, there's a civilian honking."
So you know what you need to do. You need to tell them
to (bleep) off 'cause I'm driving over here!
I'm driving over here!
What's wrong with you?!
(cheering and applause)
New York has taught me well.
But, you know, if you're driving and then you hear...
(imitating siren): Whoo! Whoop! Whoop! Whoo!
Then you go, "Oh, that's the police,"
and you pull over, and then you throw the weed out the window.
-Right? That's what you do. -(laughter)
By the way, these are white people instructions.
-These are white people instructions. -(laughter)
So, so, surely, if we can do that with sirens,
if we can change the sounds,
it must be possible with technology
for police guns to make a special sound.
For instance, instead of, "bang, bang, bang, bang,"
maybe they could make them sound like ducks.
-That's it. Put down the gun. -Stop! Police!
(shouting)
(quacking)
-(quacking) -(tires squealing)
-(laughter) -You see? You see?
-It's perfect! It's perfect! -(cheers and applause)
Then you know.
Then the other police know,
"Oh, no, no. That's just us shooting.
That's the other duck sounds." It's a perfectly...
Okay, I will admit, obviously, there could be a problem
if there happens to be, like,
real ducks near a police shootout,
because if they hear, like, "Quack, quack, quack, quack,"
and then, the next thing you know,
the ducks are trying to mate with the cops, and then...
Like, that is the problem with police violence.
It's so hard to solve. This is... this is...
So, if they made that work,
like, that would solve the problem
of police confusing their gunfire for bad-guy gunfire.
That's the one suggestion I can make.
But let's go back to the issue of body cams
that mysteriously seem to stop recording.
WOMAN:
about why an officer's camera went out,
his body cam stopped recording
during the moments when O'Neal was shot.
The investigation is going to reveal
whether that had something to do with an air bag deploying.
Yeah, that's the story.
Investigators think it's at least possible
that when O'Neal crashed into the police car,
the police air bag went off
and hit the driver in exactly the right spot
to turn off his body camera,
while doing no other apparent damage.
Not damaging the camera, just turning it off.
Yeah, yeah, that's what they're going with.
We decided to investigate this claim,
and so we asked our very own Ronny Chieng
to test this theory.
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(pop, hissing)
-(pop, hissing) -Ugh!
(sighs)
(pop, hissing)
Look at that. Camera is still rolling.
Thank you very much, Ronny Chieng.