mike i want to know
i want to know what the precedent is
in rochester new york i want
answers tell me
the situation where a nine-year-old
poses such a threat to your police
department
an unarmed nine-year-old poses such a
threat to your police department that
you feel
justified in the moment and
after the moment that
you think you need to pepper spray and
handcuff
i don't want to defund the police i want
you to have better police officers
your police officers are incompetent if
that's what you need to do to a
nine-year-old
unarmed child tell me the example
in rochester history where hey remember
that happened 10 years ago 15 years ago
we have to do this right now you can't
and i don't know if you heard one of the
quotes one of the quotes from the little
girl who made the most sense
out of anybody there yeah when the
police officer says
you're acting like a child yeah
she says i am a child
yeah i'm not a monster i'm not an adult
i'm not somebody that you can't handle
and if i am somebody that you can't
handle maybe you need to do another job
see
we just we dance around this thing too
much with police officers
because a lot of them are so insecure
and so and so sensitive
that we can't we correctly
when we correctly criticize
the bad ones they say well are you well
blue lives matter or why are you going
at all of us no
the job ain't for everybody michael
it's not a privilege it's not for
everybody
and so if you can't handle this aspect
if you can't handle this
do something else
who's passionate about public service do
it but it's not for you
i told you the trigger word was never
defund the trigger word is police
so amen if you wonder all the details of
the story
look it up rochester new york
nine-year-old girl
uh her guardian or parent whatever
called because she was in emotional
mental distress apparently she had
suggested that she want to hurt herself
or her mother but
she was not a threat i didn't see any
weapon she was not a threat to herself
or anybody else so much so that because
she wouldn't put her feet in the car
you pepper sprayed her and then closed
the car doors yeah
but then again she's not a threat she's
not a threat like as if that's gonna
make it better she's not a threat to us
but black people black children who are
never viewed as children
black women who are never viewed as
delicate or victims or innocent
she's a threat uh and she needed to be
controlled because more often than not
they look at us as animals
and how cavalier they were with
oh just spray her already just just use
the peppercorn pepper spray is going in
your eyeballs like she's a child
yeah right first of all the number is
nine
michael she's not not just because she's
nine years old there were nine officers
showed up to the scene what you need
nine officers for us to do it
no like the and this is the same
community that that just experienced the
daniel prude
tragedy or daniel the daniel prude
killing which
got them to form the person in crisis
team
who's supposed to be called to the scene
but wasn't in situations like this
because this isn't just a black or white
thing
this is not just a policing thing this
is a mental health story
and we as a society do not know how to
handle people in distress
their priority was compliance when it
should have been compassion
in that moment and and and it never
ceases to amaze me and it and it makes
me uncomfortable thinking about calling
9-1-1 like we got we got to protect
ourselves
in being very selective when we dial
9-1-1
right gotta i mean like this to protect
and serve and and there are people out
here putting their lives on the line
to keep us safe but more often than not
it seems like when you call them and
it's it's not as
i mean or it's not it's not really a
life-or-death situation
they don't de-escalate it so much as
they escalated and make matters worse
by showing up to try to uh to try to
help somebody in emotional or mental
distress
juxtapose that with good old chad
wheeler good old chad wheeler
uh who pleaded not guilty to domestic
violence aka attempted murder of his
girlfriend
oh he just was subdued and and resisted
the rest but lived to tell about it
so there's that and you know what i
like you know what i can't deal with
michael smith
i can't deal with
excuses i can't deal with the excuses oh
yeah because
the union guy definitely came out with
that i can't
deal with
those who need an explanation because if
you need an explanation on
on why this why this is wrong or
if you're going to give an explanation
defending it
then you've already revealed some of the
problems that you have
you've already revealed the problems
within your outlook i've told this story
before
i don't live here anymore but you you
know
you know massachusetts you know where i
used to live you know that community
um it is 90 i'm gonna make it racial it
is about race
it is uh that community is about ninety
percent
ninety five percent even white
and i'm just telling you ain't no way no
how no
no way no how nowhere is a nine-year-old
white kid gonna be treated like that no
in that community nope oh let me tell
you not happening
we got resignations we got firings
yes there will be some
funding yeah of your bank there would be
something there's something
instead of three of them are suspended
with payouts being fired
and honestly no shifting the
conversation to well this is why police
are
trained it ain't gonna do with their
training what it's got to do with
is that we need human beings responding
and looking at the people who they're
coming to protect and serve
as just that human beings could somebody
else could the persons in crisis team
have been a better fit yes but they have
to take it there
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