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And the first thing we're gonna talk about today,
easily one of the most requested stories,
is this story involving the police and Shake Shack.
So late last night, New York City's
Detective's Endowment Association publishes
this safety message noting that three officers were quote
intentionally poisoned by one or more workers
at a Shake Shack in Manhattan.
With a statement from the association's president
Paul DiGiacomo continuing, "After tasting the milkshakes
"they purchased, they became ill
"making it necessary for them to go to an area hospital.
"Fortunately, our fellow officers were not seriously harmed"
With a statement going on to say
the police across the country are
"Under attack by vicious criminals who dislike us
"simply because of the uniform we wear"
adding "Emboldened by pandering elected officials,
"these cowards will go to great lengths
"to harm any member of law enforcement."
And so to deal with all of this,
he goes on to warrant officers to be vigilant
and not buy food from places
that they are not familiar with.
And around the same time we saw Patrick Lynch,
the city's Police Benevolent Association president
issuing a similar statement
warning officers to use caution saying,
"When New York City police officers cannot even take a meal
"without coming under attack,
"it is clear that environment in which we work
"has deteriorated at a critical level.
"We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment.
With Lynch in that statement specifically claiming
that the three officers who went to Shake Shack
discovered that a quote, toxic substance
believed to be bleach, had been placed in their beverages.
And so with these claims out there,
this story just blows up.
We see the likes of Fox News'
Sean Hannity blasting this out.
Tomi Lahren chiming in, "Despicable, but not surprising.
"The war on cops has been reignited
"and the Left is complicit."
and later adding, "A lot of cancel culture
"going on lately but let me guess,
"not gonna happen to Shake Shack after
"one of their employees poisoned NYPD officers, right."
Also according to The Guardian,
Donald Trump Jr said on an now deleted tweet,
"Where are the Democrats who are denouncing
"NYPD officers getting poisoned on the job.
"Their silence on the issue is deafening."
You had former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee tweeting,
"Will DeBallabio demand that those responsible
"be charged with attempted murder of police officer?
"If not, he should be charged with aiding and abetting."
And these are just some of the many, many examples
there were of people just saying, you know,
Shake Shack straight up poison cops.
But of course, one of the big things to keep in mind is that
there were these claims, it was being investigated
and then we saw reports at the NYPD was investigating,
Shake Shack saying that they were horrified
by these reports saying they were working
with the police in the investigation.
And what ended up happening is we saw a few hours later,
NYPD chief of detectives, Rodney Harrison
tweeted out, "After a thorough investigation by the NYPD's
Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined
that there was no criminality by Shake Shack's employees.
With Shake Shack, sharing that tweet
also adding that it was still working
to get a full picture of what happened.
We've also since seen reports saying that
investigators believe the substance in their drinks
was a cleaning solution that had not
been fully cleared out of the milkshake machine.
Then later Tuesday morning, we saw
the Detectives Endowment Association who of course,
put out that first claim reiterating the chief statement.
Tweeting, "Although the investigation is still ongoing
"at this point NYPD investigators have found quote,
"no criminality in how these officers got sick.
"Initially it was reported that whatever toxic substance
"made the officers ill was intentionally
"placed in their drinks."
"Evidently however, the toxic substance,
"a cleaning solution accidentally made its way
"into the officer's shakes.
"If so, we are all relieved to hear
"that this was not an intentional attempt
"to harm our officers and are pleased to report
"they will make a full recovery."
With the Police Benevolent Association also publishing
a similar update under their initial statement,
a few hours later.
And so this major update was then quickly met
with a slew of different reactions.
Some absolutely furious because it appears that they falsely
accused Shake Shack employees of a crime.
Others calling for an apology
and for the original statements to be removed.
Especially since there are still some
out there spreading the original story.
Also you had a number of people angry or mocking
those who spread the original story.
Some also not believing the new reports
from authorities saying that there was no criminality
by Shake Shack employees, saying it doesn't add up.
But I will say personally,
I find that take a little bit confusing.
Then I've seen a number of people imagining a situation
where they went in to investigate and they're like,
"Did you do it on purpose?
"Did you poison them?"
The workers respond, "No!"
and the authorities were like,
"Well, I guess that's case closed."
Also a thing I wanna hit on
with this situation is the timing.
Like Chief Rodney Harrison's tweets saying that, you know,
"There was a thorough investigation by the authorities.
"They found no criminality."
That tweet went out two hours before
Tomi Lahren continued to push this story
saying that a Shake Shack employee poisoned an officer.
Which also means it went out about five hours before
Huckabee and Hannity continued to push the narratives.
Just something to keep in mind.
Anyway, what we're actually seeing now,
are just a whole bunch of statements being deleted.
The Detectives' Endowment Association has taken down
their initial urgent message that laid out the accusations
as well as their update tweet about the toxic chemical
being a cleaning solution that accidentally made its way
into the drink.
Meanwhile, the Police Benevolent Association
removed both their initial statement
and their update about investigators finding no criminality.
And so it's genuinely confusing
where things stand at this point
and if authorities are planning
to release another statement soon.
But hey, all ultimately that's where we are
with this story right now.
It is significant because this whole situation
seems to have heightened this kind of distrust
people have in New York police officers.
And one of the main reactions I've seen online.
Is people saying, it looks like another situation
where officers are lying to try
to make themselves look like the victims.
With all that said, I do wanna pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this?
Is this a misunderstanding and outright lie?
What does this do to your trust?
Whether it be with the authorities
or the people sharing stories,
any and all thoughts you have on this.
I'd love to see in those comments down below.
Then let's talk about some quickie entertainment news,
because we have Quibi back in the news.
Welcome to the Philip DeFranco show.
The reason a third of the people
who are aware of Quibi know about it.
According to reports before the app launch,
they believe that one year after they launched,
they would have 7 million paying subscribers.
But according to a report from The Wall Street Journal,
it appears that they are currently on track
to have under 2 million paying subscribers by that time.
Despite the fact that the company spokesperson said
the app has been downloaded 5 million times.
And the thing is, I've said it before.
Initially kind of as a joke,you know, in the past.
I was like, "Quibi give me money for my show"
But to expand on that joke even though
I would definitely still take your money.
I don't feel like they've made the right partnerships yet.
In general, they're taking so many
of these mainstream people and being like,
"Hey, make short form content six to seven minutes."
And meanwhile, obviously I'm biased here.
You look to YouTube and you see so many fantastic creators
that crush it at the six to seven minute mark
with huge fan bases, built-in audience
and you could potentially throw some money at them
and go like, "Hey, what could you do with a budget?"
And it appears that Quibi may actively be against this idea.
And the reason I say that is someone
from The New Yorker tweeted out, "How would you fix Quibi?"
Blake Robin's response, "Put David Dobrik's vlogs
"exclusively on Quibi with an actual release schedule.
"Also give Mr. Beast a massive budget
"and watch him create magic."
And one of the responses to that came from Reed Duchsher.
Who's the president of a management company
called Night Media that also reps Mr. Beast.
And he said, "We tried, they said, no."
Which in my opinion is absolutely insane.
Especially for a company that is as well connected as it is
and raised close to $2 billion
though in the very near future
they may be in a not so great money situation.
According to reports, the company itself
estimates that by the third quarter of this year,
it'll have spent $1 billion of the $1.75 billion
it has raised, also it's being reported
that their advertisers, not too happy.
Major marketers like PepsiCo, Taco Bell,
Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Walmart
reportedly made multimillion dollar ad commitments prelaunch
are now trying to renegotiate those commitments
because of low viewership and the economic toll
of the Coronavirus.
So I say to you Quibi, "What do you have to lose
"that you're not already on track to lose?"
Embrace some YouTubers that wanna
do some cool stuff with a budget.
And I also mean that in a non self-serving sort of way,
I see that you have news on the app.
Given what it looks like,
I imagine it under performs for you.
There's a lot of talented people out there
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And then, you know, we have more police news though.
This specifically about police reform.
You know, we have things like last week,
we talked about Minneapolis' City Council
voting to dismantle the city's police department
and make a new system for public safety.
On kind of a smaller scale but still very important.
Yesterday, we talked about how Louisville City Council
unanimously voted to ban no-knock warrants.
And also requiring their police officers to wear body
cameras when serving warrants.
But it's not just Minneapolis and Louisville
making these types of moves.
We're seeing it everywhere.
For example, last night we saw the Baltimore City Council
voting to slash next year's police budget by $22 million.
That is now headed to the mayor's desk.
Yesterday we saw in New York city Police Commissioner,
Dermot Shea announcing that he would be disbanding
the NYPD's these anti-crime units.
And those units are made up of plain clothes teams
that target violet crimes.
Also notably they've been involved in
some of the city's most notorious police shootings
and because of that, Shea said that these
plain clothes units were part of an outdated policing model.
Calling this a remnant of
the city's stop and frisk policies,
which disproportionately affected people of color.
Also saying they too often pitted officers
against their communities with Shea going on to say that
"because the NYPD now depends more
"on intelligence gathering and technology to fight crime,
"it can move away from brute force."
Now regarding the roughly 600 officers
who serve in those units.
Shea said they will be reassigned immediately
to other duties such as the Detective Bureau
and the department's Neighborhood Policing Initiative.
But also just to be clear here,
plain clothes units that work in the city's transit system,
as well as other divisions of the NYPD will remain.
But still following this announcement, we saw, of course,
some people happy, others cautiously optimistic,
others not convinced or upset for different reasons.
For example, you had Darius Charney, a staff lawyer
for the Center for Constitutional Rights saying,
"For this change to have any meaningful impact
"on how communities experience policing in New York city.
"These former anti-crime officers will need to change
"the way they police communities of color and nothing
"the commissioner said gives me any confidence that the
"NYPD has a plan to make sure that happens."
But of course, we've all seen people like
Patrick Lynch, who we mentioned earlier,
he criticized the move in general saying,
"Anti-crime's mission was to protect New Yorkers
"by proactively preventing crime, especially gun violence."
"Shooting and murders are both climbing steadily upward,
"but our city leaders have clearly decided that
"proactive policing isn't a priority anymore."
And all of this is happening around the same time
the New York City Council has also unveiled
a list of proposals that would slash $1 billion
from the NYPD's $6 billion budget.
And among those proposals that includes,
eliminating overtime, removing the school safety division
from the NYPD's purview and reducing uniform headcount.
And in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday,
you had Mayor Tim Keller saying that he plans to create
a new city department to focus on community safety.
And notably, that department will be designed
as an alternative option to dispatching police
or firefighters and paramedics whenever someone calls 911.
Very notably there, that department
would be made up of social workers
and other civilian professionals
who would focus on things like violence prevention,
mental health, and homelessness.
So the general idea here is you would dispatch
the right resources depending on the nature of the call.
So you'd still have police officers
for a reported violent crime
but you'd have this new department
for nonviolent crimes and handling social needs.
And you know, this idea of having
mental health professionals respond to calls like this
has actually been one of
the big rallying points for protestors.
And with many arguing that police
shouldn't be responding to these types of calls.
And that's why you have people like Keller
telling me Associated Press,
"It is fascinating that given all the challenges
"in America over the last 100 years on a number of fronts,
"when it comes to public safety, we still just think
"there's two departments, police, and fire in every city.
"I think fundamentally this could be a new model
"for how we look at public safety response
"in cities across the country."
However, of course, at the same time,
we've seen some pushback here.
With one of the unknowns being,
where exactly is the money that's going to fund
this new department gonna come from?
Also how much will it be?
Can this make economic sense?
So according to the Washington Post,
city staff will be reviewing budgets
for multiple departments, including the police
to find tens of millions of dollars to fund the new agency.
And in fact, the city already identified
10% of the city's public safety budget,
two thirds of which goes to the police department.
However, Keller has also promised
that he won't take money away from core police work
or court mandated reforms already underway
with Keller also going on and say that, "This new department
"won't change any of our approach
"with respect to addressing crime from all sides,
and that also includes hiring more officers.
"We have to do that"
But of course there, we also have to address
two of the major demands that we've seen from protestors
over the last couple of weeks,
you have defund the police and or abolish the police.
And because of that, we've seen people like Barron Jones,
a senior political strategist with the ACLU of New Mexico,
expressing some concerns saying that
this isn't really a plan to defund the police force
and adding, "While we appreciate the efforts
"of the mayor to set up a system
"where it decreases the likelihood of
"armed police officials responding to calls,
"how is it going to be funded
"and will it have a strong mechanism of accountability?"
So we have that, we then jumped to California
where we've seen police unions for the cities of
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Jose
unveiling plans for a reform agenda.
Notably that agenda includes
finding racist police officers to root those individuals
out of the law enforcement profession.
Also calling for the creation of a national database of
former police officers who were fired for gross misconduct
to keep other agencies from hiring them.
And among other things, these unions are calling for
ongoing and frequent training of police officers,
as well as the creation of a national use-of-force standard.
Also within the cities themselves,
we've seen San Francisco mayor London Breed,
proposing major changes to SFPD's responsibilities,
and she wants them to stop responding to issues
like disputes between neighbors,
reports about homeless people
and school discipline intervention.
With Reed also directing the police department
to write a policy banning the use of
military grade weapons against unarmed civilians.
For example, things like tear gas, bayonets, tanks.
The city has also previously banned choke holds
and requires officers to intervene if they see
other officers engaging in excessive force.
And in LA specifically, the City Council
is actually expected to meet today to discuss a proposal
that would slash 100 to $150 million
from the LAPD budget for the next fiscal year.
And then finally on this topic,
it brings us to President Trump today
who signed an executive order in response
to these calls to defund the police.
Now this order is largely shaped by a few things.
First it's set financial incentives for police departments
to meet certain standards on the use of force.
If they meet those standards, there'll be given access
to federal grant money.
Secondly, it will create a national registry
for tracking officers with credible abuses
so that those officers do not simply go
from one department to the next.
Third it encourages mental health professionals
to be utilized by departments
and sent on nonviolent calls.
Much of that would reportedly be geared towards
calls relating to mental health,
homelessness and addiction though here,
this isn't exactly what Albuquerque is doing.
These social workers would actually be sent along
with uniformed police officers.
Also, during this announcement, we saw Trump say
that his order would specifically ban
police choke holds unless an officer's life was in danger.
Though there we've already started to see
some criticism with people like Reverend Al Sharpton saying,
"Trump's executive order is toothless and meaningless.
"We don't need studies,wWe need police
"that commit crimes to be punished."
"All police that use choke holds
"claimed their lives were threatened, what's new."
One of the really notable things and criticisms
we saw coming from people is that this order
doesn't address larger concerns about systemic racism
and racial profiling within law enforcement.
Although notably, we saw the president
urging Congress to pass police reform
actually regarding potential legislation right now,
we're seeing House Democrats proposing a sweeping package.
One that would ban police choke holds,
make it easier for victims of police violence,
to sue officers and departments
and create a national database
of police misconduct among other measures.
Hey, ultimately, that's where we are
with this story right now.
And of course with it, I do wanna
pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts about the changes that we're seeing?
The proposed legislation?
Any and all thoughts you have on this.
I'd love to see in those comments down below.
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