This is the result of defunding the police.
This is the result of the attack on the police.
I'm sorry, this is reality.
This was not a case of white supremacy.
This was five black cops beating a black man to death.
They caused the problem then they complain we were right the whole time.
No dude, we hired these cops because you called this out.
Now look where we are.
>> That's Tim Pool's commentary on the brutal beating of
Tyre Nichols who died in a hospital three days after Memphis police
officers beat him to the point where he was in critical condition.
Now what's interesting is he is referencing a post-millennial article
while making his commentary and it's abundantly clear that he didn't even
really bother to carefully and critically read the article that he's citing there.
I'm gonna go to one more clip and I'll tell you exactly what I'm referring to.
>> I do believe and maybe people don't wanna hear it, Tyre Nichols would be
alive if he simply got out of the car said, okay, I'm sorry, okay, yes, yes sir.
Got on his stomach, put his hands behind his back.
He didn't, he resisted, he fought, he fled,
they chased him, they pinned him down and they went nuts.
I'm not saying these cops are good guys, I'm not saying they're justified.
I'm saying when you're dealing with a bear, a grizzly bear,
do you scream at and throw rocks at it or do you slowly back away while talking?
I bet he had drugs on him.
I bet he had some kind of drugs on him.
Dude.
I'm not trying to impugn his honor or integrity, but if you wanna come out and
you wanna be, he was a skateboarder, I'm gonna be, I'm a skateboard,
I've been skateboarding my whole life.
I can tell you this, skateboarders do drugs.
>> So I just wanna be very clear that Tim Pool is 100%
speculating on Tyre Nichols having drugs on him.
But even if in the future we learn more details and
it turns out that he had something on him, does that give the cops
the right to beat you to death because you are in possession of narcotics?
I mean, really ask yourselves, okay?
Both right-wing, left-wing, everybody.
I don't care what your political affiliation is.
Do you want to live in a country and a society that tells
you there is state-sanctioned murder by cops,
if they catch you with narcotics?
>> Which they didn't.
Again for the billionth time.
Yes.
>> So Anna predicted before we started that I would get angry at this story.
And it turns out she was right.
So, I had seen the video of Pool talking about how they asked for this and-.
>> That black lives matter asked for this.
>> Yeah, and and then we gave it to them.
What did they ask for?
Well, they certainly didn't ask for
a black guy who was completely innocent to be beaten to death by police.
So presumably he is saying, and by the way,
the concerns already dumb enough without pretending you're even dumber,
I don't know what he's talking about, what did they want?
He's clearly implying they wanted black cops to be hired.
And because black cops were hired, look at the lowered standards,
got us lower results.
And by the way, every right winger now I see on social media,
they've already picked up this talking point,
is talking about the real problem was lowered standards.
So it's really black people's fault.
And of course we lower this.
Even know when those cops were hired.
>> I do.
>> Thank you.
>> I know when the cops were hired and
that's why I say he didn't even bother to read the post,
the post-millennial, I think it's a conservative publication, right?
But even so if you carefully read it, and critically read it,
you'll see that the latest policies of the Memphis Police Department implemented,
which did lower the standards happened after these cops were hired.
So let's read a few excerpts from the article that was cited by Tim Pool.
Memphis Police Department recruits no longer needed an associate's degree or
54 college credit hours and could just get by with only five years of work experience
in 2021 and 2022, please remember these years they're important, recruitment was
struggling so badly that the department offered $15,000 signing bonuses.
Last year, the department also reportedly lowered the fitness
requirements doing away with the timed physical ability test.
The department even offered waivers for felons to join the force,
according to the New York Post.
Fascinating, that's great.
Well, these changes wouldn't have had any impact on the cops who beat
Tyre Nichols to death because they were hired before the standards were lowered.
So let's actually go to another excerpt from the post-millennial.
According to an NBC News report to Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley,
Emmett Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr and Justin Smith, these are the cops who
beat him, all had been Memphis Police Department officers for just a few years
when the fatal beating of the 29-year-old father occurred on January 7.
Okay, so that makes it seem,
maybe they were hired after the standards were lowered except they
specifically referenced the cops that were hired the most recently, right?
So Bean and Haley in particular have only been on the force since August of 2020.
>> So that means by definition every single one of them was hired before
the so-called lowering of the stand.
>> Let's get even more specific folks.
Let's give you the receipts, let's give you each individual cop and
their actual hire date, okay?
Maybe Tim Pool will learn something here.
Tadarrius Bean, age 24 was hired in August of 2020.
Demetrius Haley, age 30, a former corrections officer,
was hired in August of 2020.
Emmitt Martin III, age 30, was hired in March of 2018.
Desmond Mills Jr 32, former jailer in Mississippi and Tennessee,
was hired in 2017.
And Justin Smith age 28 was hired in March of 2018.
It's almost as if this notion, this narrative that the lowered
standards with in the police department leading to this brutal beating and
murder really isn't an accurate analysis of what happened here.
>> And he was talking about defunding the police in other parts of the video.
Wait, what part of a $15,000 signing bonus is defunding the police?
>> Yeah, 100%.
>> So, let me get this right.
They poured more money into policing and try to get people to join it and
then they got folks that weren't involved in this situation at all.
And we have no idea if they're good or bad, but
we do know they have more money, not less money.
So to defund the police win?
No, not remotely.
Did it win there?
No.
Did it win nationwide?
No.
Did we pass a single reform bill, let alone defund the police?
Did we even pass the reform bill saying, hey, please do not choke people to death?
We actually tried to pass that and the House did pass it and the Republicans in
the Senate along with the disgusting conservative Democrats like mentioned.
So no, no way, no way.
Cops should be allowed to choke black people to death.
Well, you tell me that's not what they voted because they did vote that.
They did vote that because Republicans are despicable monsters, okay?
So, now, they turn around and go, you see that we defunded them
by giving them $15,000 extra and that's why we had these.
Guys the whole thing is so explicitly racist.
In the beginning, I was amused by it.
Because it's so over the top.
This is what you wanted and look at these black officers and what they did.
What I mean, I'm not racist.
To this day, some of the dumbest people on the internet said, no, it's okay.
I listen to liberals like Tim Pool.
>> I know it's not essay.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Okay, just pause for second-.
>> One of the most racist guys in the country and they're,
no, it's okay, this liberals like Tim Pool.
>> But what's interesting is how Tim Pool,
he has this analysis that on one hand,
seems to go after the cops.
I mean it is interesting that this, they got hired because of lower standards.
Don't think that I'm not aware that their race has something to do with part of
the reason why he's even saying that to begin with,
even though the facts don't bear it out, facts.
Don't bear it out. So
in this one case where you have black cops beat a black man to death.
Well, Tim wants it both ways where he goes after both parties, goes after Nichols,
by the way, just completely smearing him and alleging that he might
have had drugs on him, even though there's no evidence to prove that point.
And also going after the cops about their
qualifications of being hired in the first place.
>> Yeah, so look, that's actually the part that made me angry when he started
going after Tyre Nichols personally.
No, I'm not impugning his integrity.
>> That's exactly what you are doing.
>> But I'm gonna makeup that he's a druggie, because look at him, he's black.
[LAUGH].
No, you look like a stupid drug.
You can't get laid and brags about it on the internet, okay?
He had no drugs on him.
There's literally evidence that he did not have drugs.
Those thugs, the cops that when murdered him, checked everywhere for drugs,
including their buddies who were all sitting there laughing and
totally indifferent to his death.
They checked and checked and checked to justify their murderous friends and
they found no evidence of drugs.
But it doesn't matter.
Tim Pool goes, it doesn't matter.
So what?
He's dead.
They murdered him.
He's the victim.
On the other hand, he's black.
Must have been a druggie, okay?
>> One final thing that I'll mention about this because it's important and
it shows you what the desire the quest for money and funds does to a person.
Tim Pool made a name for
himself initially as someone who went to cover occupy Wall Street.
I remember that.
And I remember this video exists.
I remember talking about it when I hosted a show with Michael Brooks on Jacobin.
We showed the video.
He was hassled by cops as he was covering occupy Wall Street.
And he was furious.
The cops, the police state this that crying and crying.
What a victim, right?
Because when there is unjust police behavior that
targets people like him unacceptable.
But when you have a very clear case, it's so clear.
I mean, you couldn't get clear of police brutality, police murder and
it affects a black person in Tennessee, no, it's totally fine.
I mean, we got to find excuses to both in a weird way provide cover for the cops.
But then also question whether the cops were qualified probably because of their
skin color.
>> Not probably, definitely.
>> Yeah.
>> Look, if you guys don't know how Temple got tiny bit famous that we bother to talk
about them.
He used to come on this show and other shows,
left-wing shows as Anna pointed out when he would go to Ferguson etc.
And back then he was, I'm with the people and-.
>> I don't know about Ferguson.
He went to occupy.
>> Okay, so I think he did.
But you guys can confirm that etc, right?
So he goes and pretends to be a left winger and
pretends to be concerned about the plight of black people etc.
So then as a left winger starts doing a show,
it's totally not popular because he's not an interesting person.
He's not an intelligent person.
And then he stumbles upon a winning solution for
him financially, which is racism.
And so he became known as the guy on the left who blames black people for
everything.
So you would watch the show and just randal out of nowhere,
everything would come back to its black people's fault.
And then the right-wingers love that they were like and it's the old Dave,
Rubin Jimmy door model, right?
I am on the left.
But trust me, it's the left's fault for everything.
And especially black people, okay?
That's Tim's specialty.
To be fair to Ruben and Door, they don't do that particular specialty as much.
Okay, so this guy is a professional whore.
The minute he got money out of that, he was like, never mind being on the left.
I mean I'll still pretend, right?
But remember guys, black guy's fault for dying and the black guy's fault for
killing him, but it's not the cops fault who are mainly white cops are awesome.
White people are awesome.
It's always the left and black people that are at fault.
And by the way, he said he resisted.
You can watch the video.
The New York Times that account, but you can do your own count.
71 times they gave him contradictory or
confusing commands which were literally impossible to comply with.
>> Let me give you an example.
Show us your hands as they have his hands in their hands as
they have him under their control subdued completely.
I mean it was so clear even with what the cops were saying,
the body camera, the footage, it's all there.
You can hear it for yourselves.
They are bragging about beating him, looking forward to beating him,
bragging about beating him after they beat him, right?
Their comments made it so clear that they had this lust for
going after people as viciously and violently as they did.
But you know, Tim Pool, this is a this is what he does, right?
This is what he does.
Could you imagine how temples audience would react if
he had factual reasonable analysis of that case?
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't like it.
It would really put his whole operation in jeopardy, wouldn't it?
>> Yeah, look, it's more of an indictment of the country than it is of him because-.
>> 100%. >> Once he went with the spiel of,
I'm on left or I'm moderate, but I'm racist.
The viewers poured in and that is super sad as a statement for
the country and what works.
So, look, we built this gigantic network on the idea
that people are decent to one another and it worked.
Unfortunately, the quicker and easier route is just say things that are terrible
and there's a significant chunk of the country that will love you for it.
So now he has an audience that everyday tunes in for
that racism under the cover of, we're just being moderate or something.
I mean, if you just looked at things factually,
you wouldn't know that everything is black people's fault, okay?
That's the essence of his show.
It's disgusting and the people who like it are even more questionable.