>> The police officer who put Eric Garner in a choke hold effectively leading to his
death has finally been fired by the NYPD.
Now let me just remind you that this took place back in 2014.
So it took five years for this cop to be fired, his name is Daniel Pantaleo.
And the police commissioner announced his firing earlier today in a press conference.
I also wanna note that Pantaleo will not have any access to his police retirement account
pension, that has been completely taken away as a result of his firing.
>> Yeah, this is a great day in America.
And of course, a lot of members of the NYPD are crying about it.
They weren't crying when Eric Garner was killed, and I remember in that scenario, Eric Garner
actually wasn't even doing anything wrong.
Later they said, well, I mean, that guy sometimes sells loose cigarettes.
One cigarette at a time to avoid taxes.
Well, first of all, I thought avoiding taxes was Republican 101.
Seeing them on that day he was actually being a good samaritan but they saw a large African
American man and they decided.
Well, he must be doing something wrong and then they decided to tackle him.
Then they decided to choke him and then he died, and the NYPD didn't shed a tear at all.
But now that the guy who killed him has been fired after going through an exhaustive process.
They're like, my god now we can't just kill innocent black men in the streets, how we're
going to do our job?
Well, if you thought that was your job, I'm super happy.
You can't do that anymore.
Now they think go to an extra level and they start pouting like little children.
Like, my god, maybe we won't do anything at all anymore if it's getting dangerous.
Well then shut up and go do another job.
I want names, I want cops who are refusing to do their jobs to actually.
By the way, in case you're unclear because apparently you are allowed to crying NYPD
officers and their leaders.
Your job is to actually protect the citizens, not to kill them.
I know that comes as a big shock to you, but wait a minute.
What if it endangers my hangnail or my life in any way, shape or form?
Well, God damn it, that's why we give you a gun and a badge, and it's a hard job.
But if you don't want to do that job, go sell milkshakes, go mow lawns, go do something
else.
But I don't wanna do my job, if I can't just murder random innocent people in the streets,
well then don't do it.
Hand in your badge, hand in your gun and go take another goddamn job.
>> I questioned whether or not I wanted to show the Eric Garner video again, we've shown
it so many times on the show.
But just to kind of reinforce what Jake is saying here and emphasize the severity of
what happened to Eric Garner, I think it is important to watch it.
This is a graphic video, if you haven't seen it before, I just want to give you that warning.
With that said, take a look >> I'm minding my business, please just leave
me alone, I told you the last time, please leave me alone.
Please, don't touch me.
>> Hold on, hold on
>> Do not touch me Damn, man.
>> Get down.
>> All right, like that.
>> Damn, buddy.
>> Get your hands behind your back.
>> I can't breathe.
>> Get your hands behind your back.
>> I can't breathe, I can't breathe.
>> Hands behind your back.
>> I can't breathe, I can't breathe.
I can't breathe, I can't breathe.
>> Hang on, hang on- >> Picking up a fight-
>> No, look- >> Can I make a few notes because it's important
for context.
First of all the NYPD, the police department itself had a policy against placing suspects
or anyone in a chokehold
>> And let me just explain what goddamn liars they are.
So this Patrick Lynch, President of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, keep saying that it
was a seat belt move.
A seat belt move has to do with the shoulders.
You just saw the video, if you want go rewind, it had nothing to do with the shoulders, he
put his arm right in front of his throat and choke them to death.
And I'm not the one who came up with that opinion.
New York's Chief medical examiner, so the chokehold led to his death and the chokehold
is violation of policy.
So now look at these bitches complaining, well, I can't, I can't choke people in the
middle of the street.
Yes, it's a violation of your goddamn policy, who got who else gets to have a job where
they're like, well, I don't wanna do what I'm supposed to do.
And by the way, when I don't do what I'm supposed to do, people die no I can't murder people
on the streets.
Goddamn right, you can murder people on the streets.
And if you can't do that job, shut up and get another one.
Patrick Lynch is an embarrassment.
He should be immediately fired.
How dare you say you can't murder people on the streets when it is a violation of your
job and then you say, I don't wanna do my job.
I just wanna be a baby that kills innocent people on the streets.
And if you're gonna make me do my job, well then I don't wanna do it.
Great, you're fired, say it already.
And any other cop in New York City that says, well if I can't murder innocent people in
the streets, i don't want to do my job.
Thank you for saying it.
They should all be fired.
Anyone who says that should be immediately fired.
Who else you want to murder in the streets?
Look, this issue is not at all complicated.
He did a choke hold, you saw with your own two eyes.
The medical examiner says, it was a chokehold that killed Eric Garner.
And the chokehold is violation of cop policies, not violation of liberal policy, it's violation
of cop policy.
So you don't kill people like he just did and they're still crying about it.
God how weak and soft are you?
And these cops are so strong, so strong.
We murder innocent black people on the streets.
Well we get away with it.
What part of that is strong?
Can you imagine the military being like somebody might shoot at me?
I have to murder everybody in the village in case somebody shoots at me, I don't wanna
have any, no it's a tough job.
If you can just murder anyone that you think is annoying you then it's not a tough job.
It's a perfect job for cowards but that's not the job.
And if you are a coward and you don't want to do that job, go get another job.
And for God's sake, look, I don't care.
Look, I know the mayor's job is hard.
And he's and he rightfully says, and he explained to me.
If I stepped into this process, it would have added three years of court proceedings, that
is true in New York.
And so now we wouldn't add justice today without a justice hopefully three years from now,
and I understand that.
But, if I'm running a city and these cops keep mouthing off about how they wanna murder
my citizens in the street.
And if they don't get to murder citizens, then they won't do their job, that's easy.
You just fire them for cause.
You just told me you don't wanna do the job.
You're fired, who's next, who's next?
You said, you can't do your job without murdering innocent black people?
You're fired, it's not that hard.
There'll be consequences who gives a damn.
Are you gonna actually protect the citizens or aren't you?
God damn it, I'm so mad with these cops who are constantly crying and crying about my
god, how will I ever do my job if I can't shoot people to death?
When you say was a seat belt move, you're goddamn liar, you know it wasn't a seat belt
move.
It's right on tape, you can all see it with your eyes.
So you really, the reason I'm so upset, it's because these cops are literally saying, if
I can't choke someone to death, I don't want this job.
That is literally what they were saying.
Well okay, then you're dangerous.
You're not here to protect us, you're here to kill us.
And we gave you the power of a badge, and we gave you the power of a gun that you could
legally use.
Hell no, that's the most dangerous thing on earth.
Get them all out, fire them all.
I don't mean fire all the cops.
And by the way, you see me and I'm pissed today right?
Because, look, Pantaleo being fired is awesome.
The fact that all these cops, even here, I'll read you a quote from Lynch.
He says, the NYPD will remain rudderless and frozen, and commissioner O'Neill, we'll never
be able to bring it back.
And even O'Neill was firing him now seems like all bad.
If I was a cop I'd be pissed too and I hated doing this.
I mean she shakes it.
Now we're getting even murder people.
What are we going to do?
But I guess because of political pressure etc.
You know what political pressure is?
It's called democracy, because we have decided we don't want to be murdered by you.
Wow, what an outrage, but we are actually fair.
On this show we've said a thousand times including earlier today in the show, about hey, wouldn't
law enforcement does a great job.
Like they caught a couple of wanna be terrorists that had a cache of weapons, one in Connecticut
and the other one, I think, in Ohio, wherever he was.
We give them credit, I love it when the law enforcement does their job.
It's not too much in a democracy for the citizens to ask the people that we've given ultimate
life and death power to, to do their job and to do it without killing the citizens.
It is not at all too much to ask, there's another guy who wrote an editorial crying
about like, my god this is a life and death situation what do you want the cops to do?
Yes, but it's also life and death situation for the other person involved.
>> No, but hold on.
To respond to that, it did not have be life or death situation.
In fact, multiple reports that I read today including putting one from NBC News argued
that policed approached him because he was selling untaxed cigarettes.
>> That's not what happened.
>> That is not what happened.
In fact, Eric Garner was there because there was a physical altercation that he was trying
to break up.
He had previously sold untaxed cigarrettes, which is why cops decided, we're gonna go
ahead and harass him.
Even though in this case, he's being a good samaritan by trying to break up a fight on
the street.
So it only became a life or death situation for Eric Garner, because the cops decided
to make it so.
>> Does anybody think that Eric Garner, unarmed there, would have killed all the cops?
You're an idiot, if you think that.
No, they had no threat their lives at all, at all, and they killed him.
And now, we're not, I mean, didn't suffer any criminal consequences.
The prosecutor in Staten Island threw the case and then the Trump administration came
in and were like, killing other black guys.
That's not the bug, that's a feature.
They let them off.
So all of this crying is over he got fired.
Now it's not a regular part of our jobs to kill people anymore.
God our lives might be in danger.
Look, guys, last couple of things about this, your job by definition, when that's why we
gave you the gun is to be in dangerous situations.
It's like the fireman's coming and going, you want me to go into a fire?
That puts my life in danger?
Yeah, that's because you're a fireman and firemen don't say that because they know it's
part of the job.
Whereas when you say to cops, hey like in California, they shot the kid in the his grandmother's
backyard.
And an editorial out today talking about well he was in a shooting stance and had a phone
and it was dark at night.
We weren't sure if the cops weren't sure so of course they killed him, right?
That's not it, of course, if I saw someone in my backyard, let alone their own backyard,
holding a phone.
I wouldn't think I should murder them right away just in case.
And they say cops should be able to do that.
No, they shouldn't, no they shouldn't.
And am I asking you to take a certain tiny percentage chance that something might happen,
yes!
That's why you're a cop, that's why they gave you a badge and gun.
If you wanna take that chance, and you wanna murder everyone you see in the streets that
you think might cause you any degree of harm at all, then you shouldn't be a cop.
Then it's not a dangerous job, it's only dangerous for the citizens.
And if you have that mindset all across the country and by the way a lot of cops don't
and a lot of cops stopped me in the street.
And watch The Young Turks and our fans on Turks because we give them credit where credit
is due.
But if you want to be a cop that likes to kill people and not be held accountable, you
should be fired all across the country.