The former Minnesota police officer
who fatally shot Daunte Wright
during a traffic stop has been
criminally charged with
second degree manslaughter.
That's something that Geraldo
Rivera from Fox News agrees with.
Now, this is the cop who allegedly
mistakenly fired her gun when she
thought she had her taser in her
hand, at least that's what
the former police chief of
the department argued.
But an interesting interaction
happened on Fox where Geraldo
seemed to be on the right side,
Dan Bongino, not so much.
Let's take a look.
>> Geraldo knows everything,
apparently, despite that he
knows nothing.
[CROSSTALK] >> Dan stop arguing
over time.
Now it's your turn.
You have the mic.
>> Yeah, they did an actual
study on police contacts and
found no systemic race.
It was the Department of Justice,
their Bureau of Justice Statistics,
but he doesn't know any of that.
But secondly, this is again
why being a reporter about
police- >> I know more than you,
what do you know about policing?
What, you have a ten minute career
as a cop.
You've been running for office for
the last 20 years. [CROSSTALK]
>> Geraldo, if you can't control
yourself, take a valium.
Take a valium.
>> Geraldo, you gotta stop.
>> You've been talking forever.
People like Geraldo continue to
pump out a race narrative with
no data to back it up at all.
There are hundreds of thousands of
police officers. >> I just gave you
the facts. >> And millions
of police contacts- >> You only
accept facts that you agree with.
>> Are with Black Americans
in the course of each day.
If there was a plague of police
officers hunting black men down at
night, then I don't understand,
if that's happening, where is this
massive body count we would see.
>> This man, Shawn, this man is
why they have that rage.
>> He's just making this up. He has
no data to back it up. This man
with this baloney, this is baloney!
>> He doesn't know what to do about
that woman anything, anything.
>> He's injecting race into
the argument because he has nothing
else. [CROSSTALK] >> Mr Rhetoric.
>> That's why.
>> [CROSSTALK] You tell that to
the black families
that see- >> There we go.
A race, that's all you got.
>> Their sons being killed
twice the rate of whites.
[CROSSTALK] >> You got nothing
else, buddy. You got nothing else.
>> That's a fact. That is the fact
>> You've got nothing and all you
want to do is see the country burn.
>> Yeah, you just want to see
the country burn, that's it,
every time.
>> I want to see the country burn,
you son of a bitch?
>> Race, you're making a race
war out of it.
>> I want to see the country
burn, you punk?
>> Cenk.
>> [LAUGH] All right, well,
that was fun.
So look, I'll give her all
the credit.
And so we've been super frustrated
with Geraldo in the past on
some issues, but he's a really rare
Fox News contributor that isn't
actually racist.
He fights back when they do racism
against Latinos, but he also fights
back when they do racism against
African Americans, which is
almost unheard of on Fox News.
And so he's stating a fact,
which is true,
[LAUGH] that black men are shot
at a disproportionate rate,
two to one, over white men by cops.
And so then Dan Bongino says,
you're injecting race into
the issue, but the issue is race,
[LAUGH] right?
He's telling you a fact about cops
are shooting black people too often
disproportionately.
And so that's that's why
African Americans are concerned.
That's why they protest.
That's what all this is about.
And then Bongino is like, well,
don't inject race into it.
Wait, how can we talk about
race without talking about race?
It doesn't make any sense.
But for the Fox News audience,
it doesn't matter.
They're like, yeah,
black people suck, man.
Bongino got him, he got a him, man!
You shouldn't talk about race when
you're talking about race.
Yeah, gotcha, Geraldo.
And Geraldo stated that fact
about ten times in the interview,
I watched the whole thing.
And Bongino never counters it.
He just calls- >> Of course not.
>> Geraldo names.
And Geraldo, honestly, was mad from
second one because of what Bongino
had said on another day but he was
having none of what he was saying.
And he kept coming back at him with
facts, and
Bongino doesn't care about that.
He said in 2018 that now his whole
life was about owning the libs.
So, basically,
he found a nice grift, right?
Geraldo said, you were a cop for
about ten minutes or so, right?
So, he was a cop briefly and
then he was in the Secret Service
briefly and then he wrote a big
book about it trying to get famous.
He said a bunch of things that
the Secret Service said, yeah,
none of that is true, okay?
And so he's been trying to get rich
ever since.
And the grift that he found is,
look vaguely black,
go on Fox News and
hate on black people.
And then own the libs.
It's like, man,
how did I get this lucky?
I can milk this thing for decades.
White viewers of Fox News love
hating black people,
I just have to give it to them.
And they love hating liberals.
So, it doesn't matter if I'm right,
it doesn't matter
if I have any facts.
I'll just be like, cops good,
man, yeah!
[LAUGH] Geraldo, you're not a cop,
man, I was a cop for 12 minutes,
so, I'm right.
Black people suck.
I got it, dude. By the way,
you want to know something
interesting about Dan Bongino?
I looked it up today.
He never talks about his race.
And he only says he's half Italian.
Now, so that is incredibly bizarre.
I don't know if he's embarrassed.
I don't know if he's black or not,
but if he's black, I don't know if
he's embarrassed about being black
and doesn't want to say it.
Or he's not black, and
he knows that people think he might
be black, so he's like,
I'm not going to tell you what
the other half is, okay?
Because I got a good grift
going here.
I think Fox News hired me because I
look black, so
I'm going to keep that going.
I'm half Italian.
What's the other half, brother?
I don't know, really.
Okay, I'm making money.
Okay, the other half is
apparently green.
>> Look,
today we did the story about 13
year old Adam Toledo getting shot
and killed by a cop in Chicago.
He had his arms up and
did not have a gun in his hands
when he got shot.
But the point I want to make about
that is compare what happened to
him, and yes, Toledo is not black,
he's Latino, but compare what
happened to him to the treatment
that Kyle Rittenhouse,
who had an illegal weapon with him,
how he was treated by authorities
in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
And how he was treated by
conservative media and
people like Dan Bongino.
I mean, it's everything you
need to know.
There's clearly an issue with race.
There's an issue with policing and
the prevalence of black unarmed
people getting targeted.
It's just, yes, he's there for
a very simple purpose, and
the purpose is to tell the viewers
don't believe what the statistics
are, don't believe what you see
with your own two eyes.
Even though, in this case with this
Minnesota cop, it was,
I mean, the police chief said that
she mistook her gun for her taser.
So, there's already admission from
the department that it
was their wrongdoing.
And still Fox feels like they need
to debate it.
There is no debate.
>> Yeah, look on the issue.
This has been tried before, and
it's as clear as it could be.
It's secondary manslaughter,
if you believe her.
If you don't believe her,
it could be a higher charge.
But it can't be a lower charge.
So, second degree manslaughter does
not require intent.
And Geraldo explained that
in the shot for us to,
Bongino, of course, didn't have
any answer for it, doesn't care.
And so secondary manslaughter is,
you should have been more careful
and you were so
negligent another person died.
And did that happen in this case?
Of course! Of course it happened.
Even if you believe her,
she says, well,
I wasn't paying enough attention.
I pulled out my gun instead of
a taser, they don't look anything
alike, they're on different sides
of the body, etc.
And oops, I shot him and
murdered him, I mean,
killed him, okay?
And to be fair, if you believe her,
it's not murder, it's killing him,
but it's secondary manslaughter.
And in a recent case,
somebody served only two years for
that, but it's clearly a crime.
There's no question about it.
And if it happened to your son,
you would definitely want them
brought up on secondary
manslaughter at a minimum.
And a lot of people don't
believe her.
I'll leave that to the jury, right?
So, but
Bongino's answer boils down to,
yeah, but it was a cop who did it.
And so cops are always right.
Who cares if the guy is dead?
Well, a lot of people care.
I know you have no empathy.
And I know you don't care about
people overall.
But, yeah, others of us are decent
human beings and we're Americans
and we kind of like each other and
we don't
want each other to be murdered.
And Bongino just couldn't care less
about that because that's not who's
paying him.
The vicious folks are paying him.
And that's just a reality.
Look, I'll give you one more stat.
Geraldo nailed it on the two to
one, especially on this topic, but
the reason we do this explain
the stat is because it's so clear
that they're targeting African
Americans systemically as police.
Across the country, black men and
white men smoke pot at
the same rate.
Black people get arrested at nearly
four times the rate.
Is that a coincidence?
Of course it's not a coincidence.
They're targeting black people to
arrest, harass, etc.
Why did this guy get pulled over?
For expired tags.
That's the oldest excuse in
the book for
pulling over a black person.
Ask any black man and
they'll tell you, yeah,
I've been pulled over for
expired tags or
your taillight's not working,
all the nonsense excuses.
Did the rich white guy in the
Mercedes get pulled over for that?
Hell no.
And since you never got pulled over
for it and you never got shot in
that altercation, you think, well,
it must not happen.
It does happen, it happens to other
people, unfortunately,
far too often they are black.
And they do it on purpose.
I don't mean they kill people on
purpose but
they're careless with their lives.
And do they target
African-Americans on purpose more
than white people?
The numbers are indisputable.
They absolutely do.