>> We've got another instance of horrific police brutality, totally unnecessary treatment.
We're gonna show you just a little bit of it right now, but this is your warning that
it's pretty dark stuff.
>> Put your hands up.
>> I have my kids.
>> Hands up.
>> I can't put my hands up, I have a baby in my hands.
I can't, I'm pregnant.
>> There you see, get your hands up, cop has his gun pulled on a family in the car there.
We have, what?
Something that's so common.
A family goes to a dollar store, and then the four year old girl apparently took a barbie,
or something.
Family didn't know, they drive off.
The next thing they know, they're being threatened with death by cops who are totally out of
control.
And so, we're gonna show you the full video in just a second, but understand as we get
into that, the context.
Dravon Ames and his fiance Iesha Harper say, Phoenix police pointed guns at their heads
while their one and four year old daughters watched.
The whole thing started again, as I said, after a trip to the Family Dollar Store at
a barbie in a backpack.
And so with that, here is the first part of the video.
>> Get your hands up.
Get your hands up.
I'm gonna put a cap right in your fucking head.
Get them up.
>> Police.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> It doesn't open.
It doesn't open, I promise.
I promise it doesn't open.
>> You're gonna get shot.
Get your hands up.
>> I can't open.
My hands are holding my babies.
>> Get out of the car.
>> You're gonna get shot.
Get out the car, right now.
>> Can I open this?
>> Yes, get out now.
Get out of the car.
>> All right, my hands are up.
>> You deaf?
Get out of the car.
>> Open, I'm not playing with you.
>> You recording it?
>> Yeah, I'm recording it.
>> All right.
>> Put your hands up.
>> You have to open it.
>> I don't give a shit, put your hands up.
>> Don't point it at kids.
>> Hands up.
>> I can't put my hands up, I have a baby in my hands.
I can't, I'm pregnant.
Officer, he's over doing shit.
>> So, of course, there we've cleaned up the language with some bleeping, but I think you
get the general idea.
This had been two cops yelling at a person who apparently could not get out of the car
because they had a child on their lap, the door wouldn't open, something like that, that
they were going to put a cap in her head.
They were gonna murder someone because they have a report that a barbie was stolen.
>> One of the quotes is you're going to effing get shot.
Now, of all the different police brutality and inappropriate actions that we have covered,
this is among the most insane, and we've shown you unarmed people getting shot for almost
no reason at all.
So, why does this rank up near the top?
Do any of you have kids?
Do you know what the four year olds do?
They grab stuff because they don't know, because they're four, they're like, that's a cool
car, that's a cool barbie.
I like barbies, I like cars.
And so they grab it, and sometimes they don't know they're not supposed to take it.
And so, you got a call, because sometimes cops show up and they hear shots fired, right.
They don't hear it, but that's what the report was, like the story we did yesterday.
Now, in that story, the shots weren't fired and they went ballistic anyway.
But in this case, the report is, a four year old took a barbie, and you come in with guns
raised, talking about how you're gonna shoot people, her parents in the head.
I can't comprehend that unless they're all on steroids or some sort of drugs or the training
in Phoenix is, if you see anything, you see a jay walker, immediately threaten to murder
them.
What on God's green earth would justify threatening to kill the parents of a four year old who
took a barbie.
Even if it was what, malicious?
What, the four year old did it maliciously, that's why you threatened to murder her parents?
Look, if you can't understand, there's something deeply wrong with policing in this country,
you're trying super hard not to see it.
Because I guess you think, well they wouldn't do that to me.
I don't know why you think that, there's probably a good reason why you think that they wouldn't
do it to you.
And you really, really don't mind and sometimes enjoy that they do it to other people.
>> I'm just gonna call a thing a thing.
It's definitely racism.
And when I saw that video, it reawakened this PTSD from watching Philando Castile get gunned
down in front of his family.
And I really kills me all the more when I hear Progressives say, my God, I can't believe
this is happening, what is happening to this country?
This was going on long before Trump went into office.
This, the body cams, the apps that allow us to witness and observe these atrocities may
be new, but the racism most certainly is not new.
And America has a long standing history of antiblackness and racism.
In fact, when we look at the origins of law enforcement, they were originally slave catchers.
Their job, they were essentially an assets protection company because slaves were the
assets.
And so, throughout the years, as we continue to develop government and as we continue to
establish even local governing, no one has ever addressed the elephant in the room that
law enforcement was never on the side of black people.
So, when I watch a video and I see several black people, including children almost murdered
over a $.99 barbie doll, they basically put a price and value to the lives of black people.
And so, what I would ask people, more importantly, what are you willing to do to get involved,
because I guarantee you that if they come for us in the morning, they'll come for you
in the evening.
>> Yeah.
>> And how many more times do we have to see black brains splattered all across our social
media feed before our elected officials speak up?
We're talking about so many issues on the presidential stage this election.
I wanna know what they plan to do about police corruption and police brutality.
Because this is not just an isolated incident.
This is an instance of systemic violence and it's gonna continue to thrive until we intervene.
>> As you sort of alluded to, we show videos like this all the time.
I mean, a tiny, tiny fraction of the videos we could.
And that's only a tiny, tiny fraction of the instances that aren't taped.
But I just get so depressed seeing them sometimes.
Because no matter how horrible they are, a significant chunk of the country, 20% or 30%
or 40% or 50% don't think that there's any problem with the cops.
Don't think that there's any racism.
>> Or they ask the question.
>> Exactly.
>> They ask the question, what did they do?
They must have done something.
>> Actually can I?
>> So, basically it goes back to this idea that whenever we see violence taking place
against African Americans we ask ourselves, what have they done?
Because there's always this sense of suspicion that follows us.
>> Yeah.
>> Simply for existing.
You see some of the memes about backyard Becky or barbeque Becky, and these white women who
will call law enforcement on children who are just selling lemonade on a hot day.
This is, it really speaks to the history of America and how we see communities of color.
>> And it's, as you said, it's 100% race.
If I had gone into that dollar store and kidnapped the manager, they wouldn't have even yelled
at me that way.
>> You can pull out the cops gun out of his holster and they wouldn't have reacted that
way.
>> They got Dylan Ruth Burger King after he slaughtered people, but that cop was yelling
at them.
I've never been as angry as that cop was in my entire life.
I've been in actual fights, I've been jumped, I've seen family members die.
I've never been as mad as that cop was about that barbie.
And I tweeted out that video and someone responded, they weren't threatening to shoot the people
because of the barbie, they were threatening to shoot because they wouldn't get out.
Stop lying.
>> They couldn't open the door >> Exactly
>> The door was stuck.
And I just thought, you can't have a police state, you can't have a dictatorship without
a significant jump of the country thinking the way that person responded to me on Twitter.
And it's so sad to know that there's nothing that's gonna break through their minds on
this.
>> It's cognitive dissonance.
>> Do you really think that the four year old concocted a scheme where she would take
the $0.99 barbie and then when the cops came, her parents would ambush the cops, pretending
that the door doesn't open and then pull out AR15s and kill the cops?
Does anyone in their right mind believe that that is a plausible scenario?
Their lives were not 1% of 1% danger.
And if you think it was, there's something wrong with you, that you live in this weird,
racist, fearful state where you're like, my god black people, I'm so scared, there's something
wrong with you.
>> And that's usually their argument when they murder us, that they're afraid.
They didn't look afraid to me.
And there's this expectation that we're supposed to meet an ambush with calmness, patience,
we're supposed to have a lowered voice.
There was even, when the gentleman was up against the car, the cop kicked his legs as
to provoke him.
And so, I think this goes back to this idea that if you aren't gonna respond to any of
the violence you're seeing, all of this trauma porn that we're broadcasting 24/7.
We're gonna continue to press buttons and see what we can get away with until the black
community responds.
>> So, last thing I want to say, I just want to back up what Ashley said.
So, just last night, I had Tom Hartman on the third hour of the Young Turks, it's called
The Conversation.
Go to TYT.com and you can see the interview under The Conversation, and he wrote a whole
book about the second amendment.
In the North, the militia was basically police enforcement and could be called up for wars.
In the South, they were just the slave patrols, that's what the militia was.
And then they became the cops, the slave patrol became the cops.
And so, that is the origins of that, at least in that region of the country.
And if you're wondering why, for example, LAPD, even the so called liberal cities like
Los Angeles, why do they have some of the worst police?
They actually brought in cops from Alabama to be the police force in LA.
And then if you read any of the history of that, they became basically the largest gang
in LA and used their badges and guns to rob people, steal and run their criminal activities.
So now, that doesn't mean every cop did it, but can we all agree at least on the tape
that we just watched, that those guys should be fired?
Imagine if your four year old daughter had accidentally put something, or even intentionally,
she's four, put something in her backpack and they treated you that way, your family
that way, and they almost killed you.
Wouldn't you want them fired for having the worst decision making that we could ever imagine.
And they have a gun and a badge.
And if they shoot and kill someone, they will almost certainly get away with it.
Jesus, if your doctor had that kind of bad decision making, you'd sue them.
So, the cops are supposed to represent us, they're supposed to work for us.
Those guys should definitely be fired.
And their manager, very likely who trained them and told them to do that should also
be fired.