>> Neighbors in a Tennessee community banded together to essentially create a human shield
to protect a father and son who ICE agents were targeting.
Now ICE agents showed up, the father and son were in a car.
And so they had to remain in that car to basically prevent the ICE agents from arresting them.
Now obviously, they're undocumented.
Neighbors saw what was happening.
And before they created a human shield around them, what they did was offer them food, gasoline,
anything that they needed so they could remain in the car and prevent getting arrested.
And then they realized, wait a minute, what if we create this human chain around them
and escort them into their home.
Now remember, ICE agents don't have the right warrant in order to enter someone's vehicle
or enter someone's car to make an arrest.
So as long as they protected these two individuals and got them into the home safely, then they
can avoid arrest.
So that's exactly what happened.
We have video to prove it, let's take a quick look.
>> Come on we need to make a.
>> Okay, so that's in national Tennessee, okay?
So you saw a woman obviously is speaking in Spanish, the neighbors are mostly white and
black.
And so if you have committed a crime, they can have a warrant to go inside your house
or your vehicle, etc.
But these folks didn't commit a crime.
It was a dad and his 12-year-old son.
So they only had an administrative warrant, which does not allow you to go inside even
a vehicle.
And that's why, since they saw the ICE agents coming, they stayed in the car.
Now I was like, gas, well, it's the middle of summer in Nashville.
So the ICE agents wouldn't leave for four hours.
So they had to put more gas in the car.
So they could keep the car running and having the air conditioning on, otherwise, you're
gonna have a serious problem.
And then they realize what do we do?
Let's just bring them inside of the house.
And they can't go in there either.
And remember, Trump says no, no, no, we're targeting the dangerous people, the criminals,
etc.
Well, in this case, they clearly are not criminals.
And the neighbors had wonderful things to say about this family and that's why they
went and protected them.
>> Exactly, let me just read a quick quote from one of the neighbors, Stacey Farley is
her name.
I could see if these people were bad criminals, but they're not, they're just trying to provide
for their kids.
The family don't bother nobody, they work every day they come home, the kids jump on
their trampoline, it's just a community.
And I love that they were protecting members of their community because it's so rare to
hear stories like that these days.
>> I think what you have here, man, is like there are multiple America's that exist.
There was the America that I grew up in that looks much like that video, and looks like
AOC, looks like Ilhan Omar, looks like Rashida Tlaib, looks like this table.
And then there's America that many other people grew up in that are in the center of the nation,
and it's a whole different world.
And they don't appreciate, believe the same things we believe.
But that doesn't remove our right to be American, to protect each other, and I love to see that.
We don't see enough of that but it's going down.
That's what's happening in Chicago right now.
I heard maybe one or two people have been grabbed in Chicago in the raids.
But Chicago is one of those multicultural cities that we take care of each other, and
it's beautiful to see.
>> Well, so two things about that, you mentioned Chicago and taking care of one another.
It did remind me of a certain presidential candidate back when he was a student in Chicago,
chained himself to an African American woman.
And he said if you're gonna take her, you're gonna take me, and that was Bernie Sanders.
Vic, you support Bernie, right?
>> That's why I support Bernie.
I mean, because Bernie's receipts and his intent is all there.
All I need is that photograph of him being attacked by police with black people on the
South Side of Chicago, far before it could have been politically advantageous to him.
You look and you see so many other people that have joined the military in 2012, or
in the 80s were pretending to be Native American and spinning a life, spinning a story to be
presidential and be a candidate.
Bernie, his heart has been in the right place.
>> So by the way, I wanna point out one other person from Chicago helping folks everyday,
that's you, Vic.
So you're teaching young people to be street medics in Chicago?
Tell us about that just a little bit.
>> Yeah, so I have a nonprofit in Chicago, it's called Save Money, Save Life.
And one of our main initiatives is called street medics, where we train first responders
in Chicago's most violent neighborhoods.
So we teach kids at schools, at Park District programs, how to stop the flow of blood from
a gunshot wound or how to treat blunt force trauma.
Because we're seeing way longer ambulance times in our communities.
We don't have the trauma units and so we have to take our actual lives into our own hands
and so something that.
It's so gratifying for me because you get one phone call from a mother being like, you
trained my son, he saved his brother's life when he got.
I'm like, okay, that was the right thing to do, I'm in the right place.
>> Yeah, now look guys, this is what we gotta do, Vic's absolutely right.
In dark times that Trump has brought us into, it's easy to focus on the terrible side of
things.
And yes, America also has a bad side, okay?
And we're seeing it in full force, we saw it in Charlottesville.
We're seeing it in shooting after shooting.
We're seeing in the demagoguery that's happening.
But America has a wonderful side, a hopeful side that are better angels.
And whether it's programs like Vic's doing, or just simply neighbors going no, no, no,
no, no, not on our watch.
I mean, and remember that look, there was also good side to Germany where they protected
Anne Frank.
And she had to run away of course to different place as well.
But there were people who hid folks and make sure the government didn't get them when things
turned bad.
And it sucks that we're in those times now.
And we haven't gotten all the way to the end of that, obviously.
But as Sandra Day O'Connor said about a different issue, we wanna avoid those beginnings so
that we avoid those ends.
And so here are those neighbors going, no, you're not gonna go there, and you're not
gonna do it to our neighbor.
We're gonna stick up for them.
That's the America I love.