So here's an update that people
were asking about earlier when
the sheriff's spokesperson
Jay Baker said that thing that got
everybody kind of up in arms.
Because one thing is he reported on
the shooter in the Atlanta area
massage business shootings and said
that that guy had had a bad day.
And then also it was reported that
he had posted a Twitter image of
an anti-Chinese coronavirus related
t-shirt that he had bought.
And we, ourselves,
even had a poll and
still do at tyt.com/polls asking
if this guy would lose his job.
And the update is according
to Nicole Carr, a reporter says,
new confirmed with Cherokee Sheriff
that Captain Baker will no longer
be spokesperson on spa
shooting's case.
They're evaluating what his future
at the sheriff's office looks
like and consulting the DAs office
to see if they should hand their
portion of the case to the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation.
And she says see you at six so
there will be updates.
But there you go,
that is the update.
Jay Baker, the spokesperson who
referred to the Atlanta area
massage business shooter as saying
he had had a bad day.
And ordered those shirts and
posted about them has been kind of
suspended from being a spokesperson
just for this case.
Okay, that's not that much.
[LAUGHS] Like it's suspended from
being a spokesperson for this case.
That's a lot of caveats.
So we'll see if anything
else happens.
But mainly, of course,
this was the Young Turks audience
driving change.
In our poll,
85% of you had voted that he would
not lose his job as a spokesperson.
Obviously, they saw that and
they're like, yeah, Young Turks
audience will prove you wrong.
I'm sure that's what drove it.
But look, being serious for
a second.
I know that right wing will think,
that's canceled culture.
Just because, he thought that the
mass murderer was just having a bad
day and he framed his confession is
a basically a courageous act of
taking responsibility and
all the things that he did it to
frame it on the side of the killer.
And it turns out that he
had the anti-Asian shirts, etc.
And for that,
you're going to cancel a guy,
kind of,
temporarily from just one case and
being a spokesperson?
Okay, [LAUGH] well, yeah, but guys,
so are you okay with someone who
has clearly anti-Asian sentiment
going around having a badge and
a gun and having incredible power
over Asians?
Like you think like, yeah,
what's the big deal so what,
the shirt was clearly engaged and
then no question about it,
even had a racist way of saying
China printed on the shirt, right?
So, do you think like yeah but
I'm not Asian so I don't care if he
wrongfully arrests in Asian or
do something else
to someone who's Asian.
I like that he's on my side and
he's for wiping.
I don't know, I don't know what
you guys think.
But like, is that something that
really bothers you?
Like, my God, that anti-Asian guy
can't be a cop doing the things
that we want him to do anymore.
So, I don't understand why you
can't see it.
It isn't like we're worried
about our feelings.
We're worried that that guy has
power over people that are in that
community and we're worried about
how he's going to use his
spokesperson or not.
He's a police officer, and
that's what we're concerned about.
>> Right and specifically,
it seems like in the meantime they
are just taking them off
the high profile cases.
So, one of the things about racism
is there's always people who say
it's not racist if he's not
shouting the N word at the top of
his lungs.
And everyone with a brain points
out, no, it's that stuff that's
everywhere all the time.
And they get so
frustrated about what is
the essential truth about racism.
It's everywhere,
it's woven into everything.
And so,
all I'm doing is pointing it out so
you can see where it manifests and
be aware of where it manifest and
where the effect happens and
whom it affects.
And that's it, and
the Georgia spokespeople,
they got in trouble.
And immediately they should say he
is being suspended from any kind of
spokespersonship until we figure
out what's going on.
And then we need to make sure that
we check to find out what's
going on.
Because right now, they're
just like this is an optics thing,
but is it a policy thing?
How can we make it a policy thing?
That's a we need to be checking in.
>> Yeah, and last thing is, guys,
I don't know if a racist plumber
needs to be fired.
It's an interesting topic, but
does it come up often?
But a racist cop,
that's got all that power and
authority, and by the way,
is almost never held accountable.
No, we can't have racist cops
because then you have unequal
justice.
And, the fact that the right wing
can't agree to that it's just
stunning.
They're saying, no, I don't
mind the guy with the badge and
the gun that has all the power
in the world, being able to
do whatever the hell he wants to
black people, Asian people, etc.
Because I want to us to be in power
and I want to us to have power over
you to maybe do injustice,
that's a stunning admission to me.
And we all walk around like it's
normal, like, yeah,
of course, we're going to second
kind of cancel culture.
No canceling someone for
their opinion and the context of
the newspaper is totally different
than saying, hey, I don't want that
racist guy going and doing God
knows what to people he hates with
the power that we gave them as
a society as a police officer.
>> Yeah, it's super frustrating.
And I get it, and so
we don't have a lot of time but
like they rely, it's funny because
you can compare it to like
reconstruction in the south.
That's what they're taking their
entire cues from.
Which was like, listen,
people who were trying to execute
reconstruction in the south really
had an agenda for
making it a better place and
getting rid of the legacy
of slavery and that lasted for
a bit, not a long bit, why?
Because the people who were there
were like, we're going to make it
exhausting to call us out.
We're going to make you feel evil
and make it too hard to lift for
you to eradicate our power
structure.
And so, in many respects and
in lasting ways, the north said,
all right, that's too much.
We're just going to make certain
things illegal like that.
And, it took 100 years for
a Civil Rights Act after that,
it took 100 years and
that's what they're relying on.
>> Yeah, Brett, I like how our
polls are now like the markets
are reacting in real time.
[LAUGH] >> Will he get fired has
gone from 14% to 16% as we spoke.
And we'll go, yeah, man, maybe,
yeah, I'm going yes.
>> [LAUGH] Yep