yesterday the story even couch made headlines because he
killed four people when he got into a vehicle and drove drunk with three times
the
blood-alcohol level that's legal the sixteen years alteration been drinking
and driving anyway
well it turns out that he only got ten years of probation instead of a 20-year
prison sentence that prosecutors were looking for
and part in the defense was that he had something known as
after when's a he was so wealthy and he never had to face any consequences as a
result about
so he was unable to connect his actions to consequences
so we should let him off easy people were enraged about this understandably
so
and there was a psychologist who went up to the standard testified
in favor of couch and he was the one who use the word after went up
so Anderson Cooper invited him on his program to kinda explain himself
and let's watch the first video where Anderson Cooper kinda came down harsh on
him
take a look this same judge sentences fourteen-year-old
a not affluent african-american
child young man who killed one person after punching that person and they fell
down and hit their head
this judge sent that fourteen-year-old to
the Texas Juvenile Justice Department for ten years
and that kid is going to be in there to their nineteen years old
and if they violate their rehab program wall in there in there
they may go to the adult justice sister so why
is that okay for a 14-year-old poor kid
but for a 16-year-old well %ah kid they get to go have at one
there that seem fair up
there actually are I'll up black people who have money
and I don't know why you think maybe the racial being there will be cut I'm done
I'm not saying the line we'll have money I'm free all races
tell the tale and sell it was possible answer he did give
yet while there is no good answer so I mean what you gonna say
like I it would like it had to come in or whatever the poor kid those
you know look is it race a factor from time to time in america
when her you know we make it our justice system
yeah I mean look look I know people wanted night they want to deny
ray but we've shown a million-and-a-half cases on the show alone
right and then they get mad at us for showing them the facts right I think it
has to do with race and to a much larger extent it has to do with socioeconomic
status
if someone has the wealth and the power to appeal
or two cause some trouble when it comes to the sentencing
well the judge might think twice about coming down with the really harsh
sentences that someone with a lower
or you know nothin not a great socioeconomic status the judge
probably thinks maybe even subconsciously
part the law should come down to participate as a lawyer you can afford
yeah hewlett Packard absolutely i mean the the to tears at the justice system
there are two justice systems in america one for the rich and one for the 99
percent much for the rest of the way so let's talk about that for a second
though
because regardless of who the lawyer is the judge should have laughed
at that defense as a judge as soon as a psychologist says oh he suffers from
affluent a guilty guilty would know that you're not on the jury would giggle
at least I hope it could incredible but if someone can
successfully use that as a defense so my overall points idle
ok I don't know anything about that judge I'd be rude I would be surprised
even ever after this fact pattern
if she turned out to be some service just racist in like hates black people
are in
loves white people once again I do really really surprise raid named for
more likely is
she sees that kitten think there but for the grace a guy goes my kid
right so I I know a lot you know I know kids like that she said the black kid
and she doesn't think that
it's not miss a leak coming from a malicious place very intentional yeah I
don't think she even recognize that spreadsheet it would along because a lot
of things we have a society
about magic black is more importantly poor kids like they're dangerous you you
know how they are right
and so and in and so they
she the rich kids are dangerous course they're not dangers that was a mistake
there was an aberration was poor kids are dangerous ready come from
bad areas where there's a lotta crime so it's an
expected that kid would point some what of course well you can appoint someone
you might
but wait a minute I would for more expected if I was driving drunk at three
times the
alcohol level that's allowed but I would kill someone that if I just punched him
as a 14-year-old
so you can't there's no explanation that justifies the other kid containers if
not necessarily malicious BC this
this racism in our justice system again and again you know i i happen to have
the numbers on on drugs here you know we drive
the black community is 30 min to the population there also 30 was a drug user
and I get arrested thirty eight percent the time and safety was at a time
convicted
more than a then why people and it's because there's sixty-percent
ok convictions which is because the black i mean it's it's a racist system
and you see with the death penalty the number 12 terminate in our weather
murder and get the death penalty is race in the victim
because somewhere deep down and killing a black person not that big a deal you
kill a white person now you've I'm society
anytime you see HLN or some other news network talking about some terrible
story about and missing you
you hear stories about black kids that are mature you never do because that
doesn't do so well with ratings does the
there's a cute little white kid missing everyone goes crazy over it clearly it's
black it's just way smarter
until someone pulls up in a van with a lollipop the light hello
yeahh and look I still think the most important thing by far is that they
can't afford the cycle psychologist and lawyers
yeah and this team that comes in there makes a big stink about it
whereas that one poor people come in they got no help
and their assumed unfortunately consciously or subconsciously soon
guilty
the midday step in so that creates is to tears that's driving the country crazy
I really think this case a bit of a tipping point I think people are really
really livid over this
racer nor a straight I don't think anything in this country is a tipping
point where nothing and nothing ever changes regardless of how extreme the
story is not how it changed not playing
this story will change nothing people will forget about it by next no
the reality of it i really sense and it's not just poor people not
just black folks minorities whatever I says the middle class
i've seen and it a you know I could be wrong but my Sosa
what I saw online today was there was this
palpable anger from the middle class like
why did they get away with everything and in we
bear the brunt of everything for medicine and it is at least a chance for
the middle class is angry
not really yeah I think it's incredibly slow but I think there are
there are subtle change I don't know this is a tipping point but I think
there are subtle changes
really like another brick in the yeah I like a serial the first time you've ever
seen our war machine in our media war machine
rev up and than it was stopped by
by the people and and I've never seen that I mean that I can think up
a and you know Hank Paulson having to step down as possible venture and
it because it anger from people I think people are becoming more important it's
very slow I'm not acting like it overnight
but I think it is it is the subtle changes cooler summer I'm not so it's
nice summer summer that's okay
biggest break it to me I would have the cameras but just the whole
the as well go back to the connection between society and and the
economic factors in race it's all connected this reason why there's a
certain
everything as I said how the judge relates to the kid how
I how the the economic at EDC is a factor you come from relates well not
there's more black people getting access
towards occasion therefore better job therefore better lives and therefore
being see more and therefore having a certain amount of above
visual that a judge may see a black person as a person and not just some kid
who thought I was born
and like to cause trouble all those things happen because you keep certain
people sec to the people
in their box the more than ever out therefore they never get the jobs
they're gonna make more money therefore black and Latinos are in general because
%uh the system
kept in a lower socioeconomic earth that s
Flickr stock disconnected that you know there's some black people that are rich
out there
and then this right there with a north of and then after it all happens
you can put people in jail an end jokes aside it won't give a shit because
that's the one
are all connected like it either you know I saw on on done video of the day
these black at the pot to people don't knock again both the savages
in a gift that keeps feeding the same system therefore when they do it
no one gives a shit which is why did you set up the middle class starts caring
somebody's gonna give a shit because black box bank and its whole time since
way back in the day
but no one cares then you there because they're just black people they disliked
complaint that they'll pull themselves up
all all these things that come into the narrative above what black people are
are told by people that are black and then it's written up the rest the few
because the rest the people have more power
with someone has any cup are they can tell you who you are and what you
what you can do and keep you there people are afraid to leave the circles
because when you leave 'em
firm talk to minorities you get beat the fuck back down into a
again I'm talkin in general terms of course there's some rich black both
courses latinos
but they try to keep that where where it stands threat continue to do stuff like
this its its the most frustrating thing you can
that we experience in this country we have one other video that what he said
were in
yeah I wanna go to it before earlier one quickly in a wheelchair so there's a
ultimate irony here think it's a black kid
gets 10 years away kid gets nothing right and then when you say well that's
doesn't seem right that's out there they go again blacks complaining
but we I wouldn't have to compete if they're what's in it Japan injustice
and what you want me to do yes sir like 20 that's
you know and so it's the use the fact that they
committed the injustice against you by saying well then you're complaining
about
from so anyway sorry sec alright so let's hear from like all just take
Miller
again %uh this is for the end of the interview and again he doesn't have very
good answers for Anderson Cooper
you don't believe that there's a separate says that this is a a prime
example if there's a separate system adjusted
you have money
I i don't agree with you on that of course I do believe that just like you
and i talked yesterday
if you have a lot of money you get people with more skills you get a better
singer
we have you tonight and sure that you know you make more than the local guy
here
that's just the way the world works and I and and there's some good things about
that from not too bad thing
accept that that's not what the constitution says equal justice equal
protection before the law
I saw justice was suppose to be blind but apparently she's putting a peak you
like we can
is the only thing you got your guilty it was good or wouldn't let him use this
defense
as a country because we're a richer country with more rich people so can we
be like you know
bombing Iraq WMD after the weather yeah I don't even attempt to have defended it
aired but there's actually some what ru
right because they like because we don't know the consequences of our actions
because there never is any consequences
great and then one time empty when there was a consequence and if you say it's a
consequence people lose their mind
was 9/11 rate and then and then what do we do
blind rage like how dare you
how dare you and I don't buy guy was in race two but it was such a blind rage
that
we want to bring the wrong guys politicos who have affluent
so were the drunk driver and well-run well-run people are alike how dare you
can bring the truck
yeah well I needed for my truck at Busch being the
you know the drunk driver three years is a very good an ouch