>> TUCKER: GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT AND THINGS TO KEEP IN
MIND IS THINGS ARE IN FACT
CHANGING AND NOT ALWAYS THIS
WAY.
MEMORY, HISTORY IS YOUR BEST
DEFENSE AGAINST MANIPULATION.
WHEN YOU REMEMBER THE WAY THINGS
WERE, YOU CAN FIGHT TO PRESERVE
THEM.
WHEN YOU NO LONGER REMEMBER IT
WAS ALL THIS WAY, YOU’RE AT
THEIR MERCY.
WITH THAT IN MIND, IT’S WORTH
REMEMBERING THAT 100 YEARS AGO
MEMORABILIA FEW WAS ONE OF THE
RICHEST BEST ORGANIZED CITIES IN
THE COUNTRY.
HAD A BOOMING ECONOMY.
IT HAD BEAUTIFUL MUNICIPAL PARKS
AND A LOT MORE THAN 100.
HAD ONE OF THE MOST MODERN
SANITATIONS SYSTEMS IN THE
WORLD, SOMETHING WE TAKE FOR
GRANTED NOW.
WHEN YELLOW FEVER WAS REAL, NO
ONE TOOK IT FOR GRANTED.
MEMPHIS WAS SUCH A BIG DEAL IT
WAS THE INFORMAL CAPITOL OF THE
ENTIRE REGION, THE MISSISSIPPI
DELTA.
NOT ANYMORE.
IN FACT BY LAST YEAR, IF YOU
WANT TO MEMPHIS, HARD TO BELIEVE
ANY WAS TRUE AT ANY POINT
BECAUSE AT THAT POINT AND NOW,
MEMPHIS HAD BECOME A HUSK AND A
HIGHLY THREATENING ONE.
IN 2021, ACCORDING TO FEDERAL
STATISTICS, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE,
WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS CITY IN
THE UNITED STATES.
LAST YEAR IT RECORD ADD TOTAL OF
342 MURDERS.
HOW MUCH IS THAT?
BY COMPARISON, SAN ANTONIO,
TEXAS, HAS MORE THAN TWICE THE
POPULATION RECORDED FEWER THAN
HALF AS MANY MURDERS.
SO BY ANY MEASURE AT ALL,
MEMPHIS WAS ABSOLUTELY FALLING
APART.
BUT ELIZA FLETCHER DECIDED TO
MAKE A LIFE THERE ANYWAY.
SHE MOVED BACK TO MEMPHIS AFTER
COLLEGE AND BOTH SIDES OF HER
FAMILY LIVED THERE FOR MORE THAN
100 YEARS AND MARRIED A MAN SHE
MET IN CHURCH AND HAD TWO LITTLE
BOYS.
SHE STARTED TEACHING
PREKINDERGARTEN AT A LITTLE
GIRLS SCHOOL.
A VIDEO SHE MADE FOR HER
STUDENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
COVID LOCKDOWNS.
IT’S ONLY 15 SECONDS LONG BUT
YOU CAN TELL IMMEDIATELY WHAT
SORT OF PERSON ELIZA FLETCHER
WAS.
>> HEY, GIRLS GIRLS.
IT’S MISS FLETCHER.
I’M AT HOME WITH MY KIDS MISSING
YOU GUYS WISHING WE WERE AT
ST. MARIES BUT I WANTED TO SAY
HI.
>> HEY, GIRLS, IT’S
MRS. FLETCHER.
EVERY YEAR ON THEIR WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY HER HUSBAND WHERE HE
HER A LOVE NOTE ON INSTAGRAM AND
IF MAKES YOU CRY.
HER LOVE AND DECENT SEIZURE
DISORDERSY SHRINESHINES THROUGH.
A MAN GREW UP IN THE CITY OF
MEMPHIS BUT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
A MORE DIFFERENT SORT OF PERSON.
HE DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO PREYING
ON PEOPLE WEAKER THAN HE WAS.
HE WAS A PREDATOR, HE WAS AN
EVIL MAN.
AT A YOUNG AGE, HE WAS ARRESTED
FOR STEALING, AGGRAVATED
ASSAULT, WEAPONS CHARGES,
CARJACKING AND RAPE.
IN 2000 CONVICTED OF KIDNAPPING
A MAN IN LOCAL DOWNTOWN AND
THROWING HIM IN THE TRUNK OF HIS
CAR.
THE CITY REPORTED MORE THAN 100
KIDNAPPINGS.
HE WAS NEVER FULLY PUNISHED FOR
WHAT HE D. NOR IS HE IN HI WAY
REFORMED BY HIS EXPERIENCE
BEHIND BARS.
ABSTON WAS WELL KNOWN IN HIS
APARTMENT COMPLEX FOR TERRIFYING
HIS NEIGHBORS AND NOBODY IN THE
JUSTICE SYSTEM SEEMED TO HAVE
INTERVENED.
EARLY LAST FRIDAY MORNING, ELIZA
FLETCHER AND CLEOTHA ABSTON MET
FOR THE FIRST AND LAST TIME AS
HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN SLEPT
AT HOME.
ABSTON FOLLOWED HER ON HER RUN
IN A BLACK SUV.
FLETCHER JOGGED BY, ABSTON LEAPT
OUT, BEAT HER BLOODY, SMASHED
HER CELL PHONE AND DRAGGED HERE
INTO HIS VEHICLE.
WITHIN AN HOUR, SHE WAS DEAD.
SHE’D BEEN SEXUAL ASSAULTED AND
MURDERED.
POLICE ARRESTED ABSTON SOON
AFTER BASED ON SURVEILLANCE
VIDEO AND HE REFUSED TO SAY WHAT
HAPPENED TO ELIZA FLETCHER SO
HER FAMILY WAITED IN AGONY BUT
HE DIDN’T CARE.
HE NEVER SPOKE.
YESTERDAY AUTHORITIES FINALLY
FOUND ELIZA FLETCHER’S BODY AND
THROWN LIKE GARAGE BEHIND AN
ABANDONED BUILDING.
WHAT MAY BE THE SCARIEST PART,
SOME PEOPLE DIDN’T SEEM
PARTICULAR SHOCKED OR HORRIFIED
BY IT.
IN THE HOURS AFTER ELIZA
FLETCHER’S DISAPPEARANCE, BIDEN
VOTERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SEEMED
TO DISMISS ON RACIAL GROUNDS.
WHY ARE WE PAYING ATTENTION TO
THE KIDNAPPING OF AN ATTRACTIVE
WHITE WOMAN.
THAT’S RACISM.
WHY WHY SHE WAS JOGGING AT THAT
HOUR IN MEMPHIS?
COME ON.
THE POINT THEY’RE MAKING IS
CLEAR, EVERYONE KNOWS THE RULES.
ELIZA FLETCHER VIOLATED THE
RULES.
YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE IN CERTAIN
HOURS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF
AMERICA AND IF YOU DO VIOLATE
THE RULES, YOU RUN THE RISK OF
BEING RAPED AND MURDERED.
THAT’S HOW IT WORKS.
ADAPT, ACCEPT, AND MOVE ON.
ALL OF US FEEL THAT WAY.
WHETHER WE ARTICULATED IT OR
NOT, WE KNOW THE RULES.
WE KNOW WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT
DO IN MODERN AMERICA.
NOTHING IS SPELLED OUT, NOTHING
CAN BE SPELLED OUT AT RISK OF
PUNISHMENT.
BUT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE
PARAMETERS ARE.
CITIES LIKE MEMPHIS OR BALTIMORE
OR DETROIT OR MONTGOMERY OR
GARY, INDIANA; OR WILMINGTON,
INDIANA, AND MORE LITTLE CITIES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE
DESTROYED FOREVER BY THE RIOTING
THAT ACCOMPANIED OUR LAST SOCIAL
PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION MORE THAN
50 YEARS AGO AND POLITICIZED
CRIMINALS STARTED BREAKING
THINGS, TORCHING BUILDINGS AND
STEALING.
AND ANYONE WITH A DECENT JOB
LEFT.
THEY PULLED THEIR KIDS OUT OF
SCHOOL, SOLD THE HOUSE OR NOT,
DIDN’T MATTER, AND SPLIT FOR
SOMEWHERE ELSE AND MOSTLY HAVE
NEVER COME BACK.
THAT IS TRUE NOT SIMPLY IN
MEMPHIS BUT PLACES ALL OTHER THE
COUNTRY.
SO IT SEEPS A LITTLE WEIRD TO A
LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN SOMEONE LIKE
ELIZA FLETCHER THAT COULD LIVE
ANYWHERE MOVES BACK TO MEMPHIS
VOLUNTARILY.
NOT TO A SUBURB BUT THE CITY OF
MEMPHIS.
THAT SEEMS WEIRD TO PEOPLE.
BUT IT’S NOT WEIRD.
IT’S NOT ODD AT ALL WHEN YOU
THINK ABOUT IT.
ELIZA FLETCHER WAS FROM MEMPHIS
AND GREW UP THERE AND HAD A
RIGHT TO COME BACK.
THIS WAS HER COUNTRY TO AS ITS
YOUR COUNTRY TOO.
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN SHOULD BE
ABLE TO LIVE OR WALK ANYWHERE IN
AMERICA WITHOUT BEING RAPED OR
MURDERED FOR IT.
PERIOD.
THAT IS THE BASELINE REQUIREMENT
FOR CIVILIZATION.
IT’S CALLED ORDER.
THAT’S NOT WHAT WE HAVE.
WE HAVE A COUNTRY THAT YOU CAN’T
GO SOME PLACES AND NOT WANT
THERE HAD AND IT’S TOO DANGEROUS
FOR YOU TO GO.
MOST PEOPLE ACCEPT THIS BY
DEFAULT BUT WE SHOULD NEVER
ACCEPT THIS UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES.
TO ACCEPT SOMETHING IS TO
CONCEDE IT IS MORE OR LESS
NORMAL.
ONCE WE ACKNOWLEDGE SOMETHING AS
NORMAL, ONCE IT’S CHILDREN BEING
CASTRATED IN THE NAME OF
TRANS- RIGHTS OR RAPIST THAT
WEREN’T IN PRISON BECAUSE OF
EQUITY.
ONCE WE ACCEPT THAT AS NORMAL,
WE’RE STUCK WITH IT FOREVER.
IT’S THE NEW STATUS QUO AND WILL
NEVER CHANGE EXCEPT TO GET
WORSE.
THE GOOD PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN
MEMPHIS A CENTURY AGO WOULD
NEVER BELIEVE WHAT’S HAPPENED TO
THE CITY THEY’VE BUILT.
THEY WOULD WEEP IF THEY SAW IT.
THAT WOULD BE THE EXPERIENCE OF
EVERY AMERICAN BEFORE LONG.
OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY WILL BE
MEMPHIS IF WE DON’T PUT A STOP TO THIS INSANITY RIGHT NOW WITH