IT’S JUST SO IRRESPONSIBLE AND
SO RECKLESS. BUT, REVEREND AL, GENE ROBINSON
BUT, REVEREND AL, GENE ROBINSON
BRINGS UP A GREAT POINT.
BY ALL INDICATION, THERE IS
PROBABLE CAUSE TO CHARGE THESE
FOUR OFFICERS.
IF THIS COUNTY PROSECUTOR HAS
ANY MITIGATING EVIDENCE AT ALL,
HE MUST -- IT IS CRITICAL HE
GETS IT OUT THIS MORNING.
BUT, OF COURSE, GENE, THAT IS A
STRETCH, TO SAY THE LEAST.
WE’VE SEEN THE VIDEO.
WE’VE SEEN IT FROM TWO DIFFERENT
ANGLES.
I DO NOT -- I FIND IT HARD TO
BELIEVE THERE IS ANY MITIGATING
EVIDENCE HERE.
GENE, YOU’RE A PULITZER-PRIZE
WINNER.
YOU WRITE FOR ONE OF THE MOST
ESTEEMED NEWSPAPERS IN THE
WORLD.
YOU HAVE WORKED ALL OVER THE
WORLD, KLEININCLUDING RUNNING TH
LONDON BUREAU. YOU ARE -- WE’LL JUST SAY, YOU
YOU ARE -- WE’LL JUST SAY, YOU
ARE A -- TOP TIER OF POLITE
SOCIETY IN AMERICAN CULTURE IN
2020.
AND, YET, I STILL REMEMBER A
CONVERSATION YOU AND I HAD WHEN
THIS HAPPENED BEFORE.
MAYBE IT WAS TRAYVON.
MAYBE IT WAS ERIC GARNER.
I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN.
BUT YOU TOLD ME ABOUT THE PAIN
THAT YOU FELT, THAT EVEN YOU, IN
YOUR EXALTED STATE, BECAUSE YOU
ARE A BLACK MAN, HAD TO SIT DOWN
AND HAVE THE TALK WITH YOUR
BLACK SONS.
YOU HAD TO SIT THERE AND SAY,
"SONS, LISTEN, WHEN YOU GET
PULLED OVER BY A POLICE OFFICER,
I KNOW IT’S NOT FAIR, BUT THIS
IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO."
I CAN’T IMAGINE HOW
HEARTBREAKING THAT WAS FOR YOU
TO HAVE TO HAVE THAT
CONVERSATION, BUT THAT IS THE
REALITY WE ARE STILL IN IN 2020.
YOU AND I BOTH KNOW, IF THIS
PROSECUTOR IN MINNESOTA HAD A
VIDEO OF A BLACK MAN WITH HIS
KNEE ON THE THROAT OF A WHITE
MAN FOR NINE MINUTES, KILLING
HIM, WHILE THREE OTHER BLACK MEN
LOOKED ON, THEY’D ALL BE IN JAIL
THIS MORNING.
>> THEY’D BE UNDER THE JAIL,
JOE.
>> THEY WOULD BE UNDER THE JAIL.
>> ON THEIR WAY TO A VERY SPEEDY
TRIAL AND CONVICTION.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE HAD THIS
CONVERSATION TOO MANY TIMES, YOU
AND I.
AND IT’S -- I GET SICK OF IT.
I’M SO ANGRY, SO ANGRY THIS
WEEK.
AT WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE
FLOYD, WHAT HAPPENED TO AHMAUD
ARBERY, WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING IN
THE SOCIETY.
YOU KNOW, BLACK MEN WALK AROUND
WITH A BULL’S EYE ON THEIR CHEST
AND BACK.
THAT’S JUST THE REALITY.
YOU KNOW, WHAT MAKES IT SO
WORSE, FRANKLY, BECAUSE IT’S
NOT, LIKE, THIS JUST STARTED
HAPPENING, BUT NOW, THERE’S
ALWAYS VIDEO.
WE HAVE VIDEO FROM SEVERAL
ANGLES OF THIS MURDER, AND I’LL
CALL IT A MURDER.
CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW --
>> IT’S A MURDER.
>> -- TECHNICAL A HOMICIDE, BUT
I WILL CALL IT A MURDER.
WE SEE IT TAKING PLACE.
WHEN YOU SEE THAT HAPPENING, AND
THEN YOU DON’T SEE THE KIND OF
ACTION, SWIFT AND JUST ACTION
FROM A PROSECUTOR, THAT
OBVIOUSLY MUST TAKE PLACE, YOU
DON’T HAVE PROBABLE CAUSE THERE?
YOU DON’T HAVE REASON TO -- I
MEAN, IT’S JUST OBSCENE.
YOU KNOW, I WILL JOIN REVEREND
SHARPTON AND EVERYONE ELSE, OF
COURSE, WE CONDEMN RIOTING AND
LOOTING AND WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, WHEREVER IT CAME FROM.
WHEREVER IT CAME FROM.
THERE ARE ALWAYS -- THESE DAYS,
THERE ARE ALWAYS PROVOCATEURS.
REMEMBER, IT STARTED WITH
PEACEFUL PROTESTS.
ALSO REMEMBER, DR. KING DID SAY,
RIOTING IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE
UNHEARD, THE VOICELESS.
AND I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU CAN