Dozens of leaked text messages revealed ongoing racist, xenophobic,
sexist and homophobic messages.
Traded by current and former police officers in Torrance California.
In fact, the messages are so awful.
That there is now a full blown investigation into
the police department by California's Attorney General.
We'll give you details on that in just a second.
But you must be wondering, well, how bad were they?
What was included in these text messages?
Was it innuendo?
No, it was pretty brazen.
The caption read.
Okay, so in one picture that was exchanged in these messages,
there were several black men who were depicted as being lynched.
Okay, so we're already talking about some pretty hideous behavior.
And the caption read hanging with the homies.
Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having
an affair with a black man.
The answer, according to the caption was to break a tail light on his car so
the police will stop him and shoot him.
They're not holding back at all.
>> Cops seem to understand cops at least.
>> They're sharing these text messages with one another.
Like it is being documented.
Okay, so there's evidence of this.
It just keeps getting worse.
Officers called black men, savages and several variations of the N Word.
The officers also shared instructions on how to tie a noose and a picture of
a stuffed animal being lynched inside Torrance's police headquarters.
According to the documents.
The word savages reminded me of a pretty
epic rant that junk went on fairly recently on the show.
And I want to re share that rant with you because it's important to
remind people who the real savages are.
>> When they attack black people, after they've been murdered,
when they did absolutely nothing wrong.
You're pushing us to the limit.
And what do I mean by that?
You're asking us to talk about history, the history of the south.
This is in Georgia.
What happened in Georgia?
There were savages in Georgia.
It was the ancestors of the white right wingers.
They were absolute savages.
They murdered people, they lynched people, they raped people, they enslaved people.
They took babies from their mothers and sold them as property.
You want to talk about savages.
Your ancestors were the biggest savages the world has ever seen.
So don't you dare call a black man a savage after you murdered him.
Don't you dare do that.
I'm so sick of African Americans being called violent.
When the world's worst violence was done to them, not by them to them, not by them.
For God's sake, you wanted to racist stereotypes if it fit anyway,
and it doesn't.
But if it fit anywhere, it would certainly fit white right wingers in the south.
Who has hundreds of years of history of being savages.
>> So John- >> Actually, I think I'll talk right now.
>> actually, you should- >> No,
everything he was saying was really good.
But I did notice that.
[CROSSTALK] there's great points indisputable points.
>> Who's salty today, is it me or is it you?
>> I'm trying to take a little bit of salt, no indisputable points totally true.
I mean, the only thing I guess to add is that in this case it's California.
It's not just Georgia.
It's not just the south.
That may be where some of the worst of the violence happened.
But California, Southern California hardly strangers to police violence.
So it would be one thing if there's no demonstrated like police brutality issues.
Or race based police brutality issues in southern California.
And you saw this stuff and you thought, well, my God, wait,
maybe behind the scenes, that might be having some effect in terms of bias.
But when it's accompanied by constant actual brutality and murders.
Well then we don't have to do engage in hypotheticals.
They'll say it's just jokes.
It's not just jokes.
It's never just been jokes.
[CROSSTALK] people act on it?
>> How do you joke about lynching?
How do you joke about that?
I mean, that's savage behavior.
>> How does this exist since at most, you only ever have a bad apple in one of
these places he sends out the first meme, nobody responds with.
That should be the end of the thing.
Except it's not because it's not just a bad apple.
It is a culture of dehumanizing hateful behavior and beliefs.
>> Now if you believe that this is only reserved toward African Americans,
black members of the community you would be wrong.
This group of cops very clearly has hatred for various groups of people.
And I wanna give you some examples of that.
They joked about gassing Jewish people,
assaulting members of the LGBTQ community using violence against suspects.
And lying during an investigation into a police shooting,
according to the District Attorney's office.
Now, the attorney general in California Rob Bonta is launching
an investigation into this.
He announced that just today in a press conference.
And the state's Department of Justice.
The Civil Rights enforcement Division.
And the Division of Law enforcement will examine evidence and
talk to community members about this whole situation.
And I mean, think about it, these are individuals.
These are supposed to be public servants who are paid with
the community's tax resources to protect and serve.
And how can you rely on or trust these individuals to protect and
serve members of the community?
Huge group of people?
I mean, it's everyone basically that isn't white.
How are you gonna expect them to protect these communities when they have so
much hatred for them?
By the way, some of them had previously been caught engaging in hate crimes.
Wow, what a shocker.
So for instance, former officers, Cody, Weldin and
Christopher Tomsic were charged in August with conspiracy and vandalism.
For allegedly spray painting a swastika inside a vehicle.
And look, there is a real cost to this.
It's injustice all around.
Because since these cops were involved in the prosecution of various
members of the community, now those cases need to be questioned.
They need to be retried.
So for instance, currently no officers face criminal charges in direct
relation to the text messages.
But at least 85 criminal cases involving the officers have been dismissed.
They've been dismissed, okay.
Including 35 county felony cases as of mid-November and
an additional 50 city cases.
Alarmingly, the officers were listed
as potential witnesses in nearly 1400 cases in the last decade.
According to the District Attorney's records,
the Los Angeles Times obtained through a public records request.
>> Yeah, well, thankfully it's just jokes.
It would never influence what they do in a case.
Even when the joke is about them literally lying to cover up crimes.
It wouldn't possibly have an effect on anyone.
And anyway, you were implying that they were doing hate crimes.
I just heard on Tucker Carlson last week, the hate crimes don't exist.
It's a stupid concept.
Nobody knows what it means.
And so presumably spray painting swastikas,
not especially concerning over and above any other spray painting.
According to Tucker Carlson, there's hate crimes.
It's just spray painting.
It's the same as any other spray painting.
Anti Semitic crimes don't matter according to Tucker Carlson.
And by the way- >> According to Tucker Carlson and
most right wingers in this country- >> Yeah,
they don't believe that this exists.
>> It goes further than that.
It is offensive.
It is offensive to even cover this story.
Because it hurts the precious feelings of white Americans.
>> Yeah, can you- >> Did it hurt their feelings?
To draw attention to the fact that people who are supposed to protect and
serve are clowning around about lynchings and gassing Jewish people.
Does that hurt your feelings?
>> Can you imagine, like you take all of this, they don't care,
they'll never cover it.
Tucker Carlson doesn't have one atom of a scrotum to actually address these
sorts of issues.
The obvious systemic racism in this.
Can you imagine if one black DA texted another black
DA about wanting to slap a cracker or something?
That would be it on Fox news for a solid week, maybe a month.
They'd be talking about it for literally years.
And they would believe that not only cancels out all of this,
all of these cops across all of the years years and all that.
But they would still maintain that this doesn't matter.
But if anything anti like they invent supposed anti white animus amongst people.
But they would take that incredibly serious and
there are definitely hate crimes targeting white people.
But having literally the people who are the last line of will there be justice for
people living in one of the most densely populated parts of America.
No it doesn't matter if they believe all these things. If they say anti Semitic
stuff, they joke about wanting to lynch people.
It doesn't matter you should be concerned about it. And they can do their little
investigation. What are they
gonna do? Let's say they get rid of every cop
that sent one of these text messages. Which they won't.
They won't do anything like
that. Good.
Then we'll just have the rest of them and
I'm sure they're cool. Like who hears this story and
thinks that we will get within 10 miles of justice in this?
That in a year we won't have just as
systemically racist police departments in California as we did before this story
was broken. It is systemic.
It is baked into the DNA.
And even if someone does decide to become
a cop and is a good person, give it a couple of years being surrounded by this
culture. And see what comes out the other side.
>> Yep and this is happening with
the backdrop of violent crime increasing. I'm not talking about smash and
grabs. I'm not about violent crime,
homicides are up all across the country. Including in Southern California.
These are the people who were supposed to
protect and serve? This is what they're up to.
They're supposed to be fighting crime.
This is what they're up to.
>> Yep