>> My God!
My God! >> So we just saw is a mash up of some of the
police brutality that happened. During protests against police brutality back in 2020. During the
protests after the killing of George Floyd across cities, across America for months and months and
months. People trying to desperately finally get some change to have the approach of the police.
In terms of their willingness to use violence, including deadly violence, to finally change.
That mash up was put together by Jordan who's on the show? So Jordan you would put together several
of those. There is way, way, way more where that came from. That is just a tiny little bit.
And it's, rough to think back on how much happened, how many people
were injured, permanently disfigured as a result of that? And to know as we're gonna get into that,
so little has changed in nearly two years now. After the greatest
social movement of our lifetimes, they've been so successful in stymieing the change.
>> Yeah, this was, they had a ton of momentum polling in that moment. Showed that a
vast majority of this country supported police reform. And that was a and objectively
brutal and unjustified act of police violence and murder. There was, that I've never,
I don't remember a single police killing.
That saw as much bipartisan condemnation as George Floyd's killing. You were in a moment
where you could have done something. Pew did a poll and found that around 90% of Americans
supported police reform in that moment. And what did democrats
do? What did what did congress do? Congress did nothing.
Democrats kneeled in a Kente cloth, Nancy Pelosi thanked George Floyd. And then when
they took power, they couldn't pass through the Senate, a moderate police reform bill.
And now they've just since abandoned it. And in the state of the Union, you have Biden screaming,
fund the police. And that gets a standing ovation from Republicans.
So they've just done a total 180 because
they just don't really care that much. >> Exactly, yeah, a standing ovation
that then went back to nonstop criticism. It's not like he's winning them over. It's not like they're
gonna support the reconciliation bill or give an honest shake to his Supreme Court nominees.
But anyway, it's just it's a rough look back and there's a lot of footage like that. But as you've
been seeing in our lower third, two years later, the cops are still at killing on average about
three people per day. So far this year, we're only as of 24 March, they've killed 249 people.
It's about three deaths per day. And it mirrors effectively the same patterns
before all of those protests happen. If we jump ahead, you can see, we got 249 so far.
There have been over 1100 2021, 1100 2020 almost the exact number. Nearly 1100 2019,
1145 2018, isn't it amazing that it's so consistent.
That nothing seems to change crime patterns don't change it. Presence of a pandemic or not,
doesn't change it? A focus nationally and socially on police brutality,
doesn't change it? Super high profile killings by police, don't change it?
The rare court case that actually results in some sorta consequences.
Which is very low as we'll get into, doesn't change it? Isn't it shocking
how consistent it is? Almost as if it has nothing to do with all of that.
It's only, it feels like a quota is being met. Obviously it's not that, but Jordan,
it feels like they know that they can get about three per day and nothing will happen.
That's what it feels like. >> That's the thing, John, nothing will happen.
So why would they ever stop? And if you have both parties in congress clamoring for more, funding,
more equipment, more resources. It only validates them and everything they're doing.
There's no disincentive to rein back what they're doing or rein in the violence.
To scale back how aggressive they are to change the training. That encourages a
shoot first ask questions later mentality. To treat everyone they encounter as a potentially
violent adversary. This is a system designed to perpetuate this problem.
So until we completely change how we do policing in this country and defund.
And by that, I mean, reallocate resources into other community investments.
So that every situation in a city isn't responded to first by a guy with a gun.
It's just, it's a more holistic approach to the complexities of human behavior.
They are typically aggressors in situations they aggravate already delicate circumstances.
And when there's no consequence for brutality or killing,
why would they stop? Yep, the only consequence, honestly, am I being
unfair to say that the only consequence nearly two years after all these protests. In terms of
society looking back and having an issue is how dare they have used the term to fund the police?
That's the takeaway, they were wrong because they used the wording that some people don't like.
They were the bad guys, not the murderers, not the those doing the brutality, but them.
And look, I'm sorta quickly remind you of some of the stats.
Black individuals three times more likely to be killed by police than white people.
People of all sorts killed in America by police, but far more likely, for black people. Also,
1.3 times more likely to be unarmed than white people when they are killed by the police. Again,
police kill unarmed people of all races, but more likely for black people. And the
most important stat, 98.3% of killings by police over almost a decade long period.
Did not result in the officers even being charged with a crime. You see that little one in the
corner, the blue. That's the conviction. The one conviction out of 100 killings
that we actually get. We can't even change that number after all of this,
anyway, absolutely absurd. And the democrats aren't gonna do anything.
Maybe we can get them to pose
in some more costumes. But that's probably about it. Maybe they can name a street or
something. That's about it, actually. >> That's another thing though. You get
all these cities, their mayors paint Black Lives Matter on the street. There was total performative
ally ship and then turned around and increased police budgets.
No punishments, no reforms, no institutional reforms, no
realignment. And how we address police unions, which that structure alone is a big problem to
obtaining justice. Now we painted Black Lives Matter on the street. We're good
here. Just totally performative. >> That's all it is.