Difficult footage, consider yourself warned.
And when we're ready we can launch into this.
>> Jeff, wait, man, don't grab him.
Man, don't do that.
Hey, I got him on live.
I got them all live.
I got him, I got him all live.
Take off the handcuffs, man.
You said you ain't had no business jumping on him.
You ain't had no business jumping on.
Look at this.
Got on handcuffs.
>> He got on handcuffs.
>> We're recording you.
>> Sir, you going to jail.
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>> Put your hand on your head.
>> So that video has been going viral since this weekend.
And there's a lot that we still don't know about what's in the video.
We do know that the footage was taken on a highway in Mississippi.
We know that the patrolman you see there was man handling somebody who's been
identified as Eugene Lewis.
And there were multiple bystanders who, thankfully, were there to film it.
And while the Mayor is putting out statements about there
being an investigation.
And we'll see if that goes anywhere.
I find this to be fascinating because you have to immediately wonder what would
have happened if those, apparently a group of three brothers, hadn't been filming.
>> Yeah. >> If they hadn't been there.
You already saw the patrolman taking a man who's handcuffed and
throwing him down onto the highway.
Seeming to sort of roll him into the grass beside the highway.
He pulls out a weapon that I believe was a taser because he also pulls out
the taser on the people doing the filming later.
And points it at people who are just holding a cellphone.
They're quite a distance away, they're just filming and
saying, we see what you're doing, there's no reason for you to be doing this.
Eugene Lewis is in handcuffs, he cannot resist, why are you doing this?
And, thankfully, they did they did film it despite the weapon being trained on them.
Even when they just tried to get back in their car,
you saw him advancing on them with his weapon out.
They were not armed, as far as we can see.
And so I'm just glad that there are people that are willing to risk potentially being
tased or shot by a guy who wants to cover up what he was doing, Francesca.
>> Yeah, we usually see these videos and their body cam videos,
their body cam footage.
You see cops talking among themselves.
They treat someone like an animal.
JR and I did an episode recently and
we looked at a story of a young woman who was having a mental breakdown.
And they treated her like she was not human.
And she fell out of a car and later died.
So when you have someone filming like Darnell a Frazier filming George Floyd,
that is the difference.
We can't rely on the cops.
We can't rely on their body footage, we rely on one another.
We rely on people taking out their phones and filming them.
And thank God they were there.
And as a voice of a moral reason because the cops are completely bankrupt of it.
>> Yeah, 100%.
So we'll see what happens with the investigation.
It'll be interesting to see if the body cam footage does eventually come out.
We might see a little bit earlier on in that incident.
What exactly led to it?
If there was any violence beforehand.
But you see so much about the current battle over accountability for
cops live in that video.
You have someone who sees what's happening.
As soon as you see that incident start,
you know how it all too often goes in America.
And then you see the cop reacting, almost instantly,
with threats, with intimidation and potentially with violence.
Because you dare to film them.
There really has to be, you are allowed to do it, it is legal.
There needs to be some sort of consequence for
cops who try to shut down people from doing their constitutional right.
And, in some ways, I think case can be made duty of filming these sorts of things
to try to stop some of the violence from happening.
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