>> Cops from the Aurora Police Department detained an entire family including multiple
children, one as young as six years old after their vehicle was wrongfully identified as
stolen. So there were 4 children who were detained in this process, wrongfully detained,
handcuffed, placed on the hot asphalt, and the children were between the ages of 6 and
17.
The cops said that they were notified of a stolen vehicle in the area, and they claimed
that the license plate on the car matched the description that was given to them in
the report. Now, we'll investigate whether that is at all a legitimate argument to make,
especially after we watch this video.
>> I want my mom. >> My gosh.
>> Imagine being six years old and placed on the hot asphalt like that. How traumatizing
that is for a six year old. So the police department said that a motorcycle, Ida, with
the same license plate number from a different state was actually the vehicle reported stolen.
That's amazing. How do you mistake a motorcycle for a vehicle and how do you miss the fact
that it was a different license from a different state? It's because they don't care. Why investigate
it? Why ask any questions when you can just automatically force people out of their vehicle,
put them in handcuffs, and then place them on the hot asphalt like that including a six
year old.
First of all, no one should be treated that way but a six year old, really, you're terrified
of a six year old? You think a six year old poses a threat?
>> No, that's not law enforcement, that's white supremacy. That's what that is, that's
what it's been. And we keep saying showing these videos, there were a lot of people who
got their pineapple looking faces in front of cameras during the protests.
And we're arguing why people were rioting and setting things on fire and why can't you
just protest peacefully? Well, why are we continuing to see this? Because the dehumanization
of black and brown bodies in this country is part of the fiber that this country is
made up of.
And the fact is that they did not see a family, they just saw a bunch of people that they
see as subhuman. Which is why you can handcuff a six year old child and put them on the asphalt
during a pandemic where you're endangering them in more ways than one.
But the the reason why we're pissed when we kneel, you're disrespecting the flag. When
we burn stuff up, then we're destructive. At what point do we have a right to demand
our humanity? Do you want to pack us? We can't just jump on boats and go back to our respective
homelands.
That's not a possibility. We built this economy. If you guys wanna give black people the money
that they're owed for all the free labor they did here for centuries, then maybe they can
go back to their home country and rebuild. But that's not a possibility. So what do we
do?
We have to fight for our rights. And being passive is not acceptable, being volatile
is not acceptable. Nobody wants to correct this issue because everybody is scared of
the problem that the police has become in this country. Everybody is afraid, and until
the gun is turned on them there will be no empathy.
That's not acceptable. That's triggering. You know what I mean? Those children are now
gonna be scared of the police forever. So they will run from the cops when they see
the cops and get shot in the back like Laquan McDonald. Because they're afraid of the cops,
because this is what police officers do to people of color, or poor people when they
think nobody's watching.
And now they've gotten used to the cameras. So now it's not even when you can do that
to people knowing that the cameras are watching, that lets you know how much they don't care.
So how are we gonna fix this problem? This is where your dollars you have to start, and
your votes.
Stop voting for people who support your oppression. Stop investing in your own oppression. Start
looking up these people who support these sheriffs, these police chiefs and get them
out, because this right here is not gonna stop until we get rid of this infection.
>> Yeah, absolutely. >> Pisses me off.
>> And one of the children, was interviewed by a local NBC affiliate. And she's 14 years
old and she said something that's heartbreaking, but I'm sure relatable to a lot of people,
which is after an experience like this, how do I trust the police? Who am I gonna call
when my life is in danger?
So think about, of course there's the dehumanizing treatment that they experienced. But there's
also that fear of not having anyone to turn to when you need help, when you feel that
your life is in danger or someone is posing a risk to you or your family. And so we pay
for that, that's what our taxes go toward.
And the whole notion of defunding the police is about revisioning how our resources are
being used. So we actually have a system in place that doesn't dehumanize people. And
diverts the resources to government agencies that actually provide help when people need
it, right? And so for all the people who try to minimize the statement defund the police
to what are you gonna do?
Call a social worker during a mass shooting? No, and they're purposely mischaracterizing
what this movement is all about. Police are not trained to deal with people who have mental
health issues. Police are obviously not being screened appropriately if we have countless
stories of them dehumanizing people, including six year old children who pose absolutely
no risk or threat to them.
And I wanna also just note that the Aurora Police Department has for once taken responsibility
and admitted that they were wrong. They're saying that they're going to pay for therapy
for the children. They specified reasonable therapy. I don't know what that means, but
it's not very assuring, but I wanna go to David Lane's statement, he's the family's
attorney.
And he said the following, he said when police handcuff people without reasonable suspicion
to believe they've committed a crime, it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth
Amendment says the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
And no Warrants shall it shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by Oath or affirmation
and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
The Constitution's incredibly specific. And when you sit down and you really take note
and inventory of what our rights are supposed to be, and how much those rights have been
violated not just by the Trump administration, by previous administrations as well.
>> That's right. >> It makes you realize how much that apathy
negatively hurts the entire country, hurts the whole notion of our democratic process.
And that's why people like Trump can come into power and further violate people's constitutional
rights the way he has, without any worry or fear of retaliation or consequences.
And by the way, the cops are trained to do that.
>> Yeah. >> So when they are responding to a possible
stolen vehicle I forgot to mention this. They are trained, this is according to the police
department, to consider that a high risk situation or a high risk arrest.
So if they're trained to think of this as high risk and have the zero tolerance policy
toward it, where they can't differentiate between a six year old and someone who's actually
a real threat to them. Well then yeah, you got a problem. The system is broken and I
don't believe that it's just the training, the training is one part of it.
We need a holistic approach when it comes to this.
>> Well, when we start talking about Germany's law enforcement being infiltrated by white
supremacists as if that is just a Germany problem when we know that's a global issue.
When the FBI has reported that law enforcement in America has been infiltrated by by these
groups.
You can't help but to think sometimes that these things are for sport, because you see
them exercise. They did not, that many police officers did not feel endangered by that family
that was unarmed on the floor. So that's for sport and for show and that's their retaliation
at whats happening right now, because they're pissed off about the police being under people's
watch.
But the fact that that community would allow that to happen is also what makes me wonder
if I was a part of that community, I would be speaking out against that at that moment.
Because at any given day, when they decide your number is up, who's to say that they
won't do that to you.
I'm in just in disbelief that you can hear a baby cry like that for their mother and
you could just leave them. That looks like what happened during slavery.