Let us call the cops.
>> No problem at all.
>> Now you're recording me?
>> No problem, I have a right to.
>> I didn't come at you,
I said, excuse me,
do you have my son's phone?
I didn't say, you
have my son's phone.
>> No, you did.
>> I did not come at you like that.
>> You did.
>> No, I did not. >> You dis.
>> Sir [INAUDIBLE] >> I mean,
you're running after me and
following me, believe me, I've
been racially profiled for so long.
>> Hello?
>> So, she says,
I'm looking at the location,
I want to clarify what that means.
So, I suspect that she was using
the Find My Phone feature to
find her son's phone.
But guys, I mean, I'm sure most of
you know this already.
But in case you don't,
that feature does not pinpoint
the exact location of your phone,
or your laptop, or your iPad, or
whatever device you're looking for.
It gives you the general vicinity,
right?
So, that's an important fact to
know, especially, if you're
going to approach a stranger and
accuse them of stealing your son's
cell phone.
Let's watch the next clip.
>> What will happen when
you're wrong?
What happens?
What do I get, just an apology?
>> Sure.
>> That's not good enough for me.
>> No, we're staying here until you
give me my phone because
[INAUDIBLE] you're here.
>> I don't have the phone.
>> No.
>> Ma'am, you're really crazy.
You're following me now.
>> Now I am because that phone has
cost me money, yes.
>> A sorry, personally,
isn't good enough for me.
>> You said you were staying here
because you have nothing
to hide, right?
>> You're accusing me, thank you.
>> So, let's get to the next clip,
I have no other comment.
So, let's take a look at
the next one.
>> When we were in the parking lot
it was marking him like right
there, but I can't- >> What's
that now, still marking me?
These your followers, right?
If I had the phone, right?
So, your phone's in the store.
[INAUDIBLE] >> She accused me,
this looks like an audience,
black face that's involved.
[INAUDIBLE] >> No, I can't for
my sake today by involving you.
[INAUDIBLE] I understand when she
racially profiled me,
her son found the phone.
Her son found it,
it was in the car.
Her son found it in the car.
>> Excuse me, do you have
my son's phone?
>> So now I'm going to
press charges,
ma'am, may I have your name please?
May I have your name please, ma'am?
>> No.
>> No, okay, that's okay,
I'll get your license plate.
>> So, she didn't apologize,
and told him to go F
himself after it was clear that her
son just happened to forget
his phone in the vehicle.
And this man,
this complete stranger,
who did nothing wrong, obviously,
didn't steal the phone.
I can't imagine going up to
a stranger and accusing them of
committing a crime,
unless I have real evidence, right?
There's video
footage of them stealing the phone,
or there's a full proof piece of
evidence showing that this
individual did the thing that
I'm accusing them of.
But this is now the second story
we've done of black people
being accused of stealing phones
that they did not steal.
The first story we did was on so
called Soho Karen, who accused
black man's son in a hotel lobby of
stealing her phone.
And then it turns out that she
actually left it in an Uber.
She was actually later arrested and
charged for that incident.
There she is, because she assaulted
them physically.
>> So, listen, you're not allowed
to go up to random people and
tell them, I think you stole my
stuff and I'm not going to let you
go into the store.
I'm not going to let you leave,
you can't get into your car.
You can't leave this hotel.
You're not a cop, you have no right
to hold them anywhere.
And by the way, that was part of
what Karen Soho was eventually
arrested for, because she
was unlawfully detaining that
14-year-old kid, right?
And just can you use any kind of
common sense or decency?
Let's put aside race for
a second, right?
Just walk, hey, the phone is
somewhere in the parking lot.
First, knucklehead, how about
your car in the parking lot?
It's in the parking lot.
Why don't go check your own car
first?
God, that's unbelievable that you
wouldn't check your own car
first, right?
And then, second of all, it could
be anybody in the parking lot.
So, but you're going to go up to
a random person in a parking lot,
that you, obviously,
didn't see do anything wrong and
say to them, you're a thief.
You're a thief, and I'm not
going to let you go anywhere,
you stole my kid's phone.
Now, we all know, both,
with the earlier story, and
this story, definitively,
that she obviously didn't see it.
She, obviously, had no evidence,
because it turns out, the kid had
left it in the car, right?
So, but she just picked a random
person and go, you, that's it.
I mean that is super serious,
do not do that.
That's insane.
But people do it all the time.
>> Yeah. >> Okay, now on to race,
do you think it's random that it
was a black guy?
Every time, right?
>> And that he has tattoos and
all that.
>> Yeah, and look, I get it and
that's definitely relevant, and
there are other factors
involved too, right?
But how about the Central Park
birdwatcher dude, who's
dressed perfectly appropriately?
It doesn't matter how you dress,
there is no appropriate or
inappropriate, right?
But he was dressed in more
professional attire and
he's a birdwatcher.
And she knew he was a birdwatcher,
etc.
It never matters.
Hey, black guy, you took my phone.
Are you insane, right?
And so,
this is the pervasive racism that
is overwhelming in this country.
>> Listen, I'm sorry,
I interrupted you.
Go ahead, finish your point.
>> No, go ahead. >> Yeah, no,
I just wanted to say,
if you lose your phone, right?
So, usually,
my phone is on my person, right?
I have my phone with me.
I have it in my purse, and
if I lose my phone, that's on me.
The first thought that comes into
my mind isn't,
someone stole my phone.
No, the first thought that comes to
my mind is,
it slipped out of my bag.
I misplaced it.
I screwed up,
I screwed up, sad day.
It sucks,
phones are really expensive and
now I have to deal with it.
But I think that in these cases,
yes, there's the racial
component to it,
which is important to discuss.
But the other component is we've
infantilized everyone.
Everyone has this sense of
entitlement.
Everyone thinks that they can do
no wrong.
Everyone thinks that everything
they do and say is perfect and
they never need to apologize.
That's the culture that I'm seeing
everywhere.
It's not just with these stories,
I'm seeing it everywhere.
There's this inability to just stop
for a second, and
do a little bit of self-reflection.
Is there a possibility that you
misplaced your phone?
Why is the first thought,
someone stole my phone,
someone stole my phone?
Okay, where's the last place
you put your phone?
How did that man steal the phone?
And also, just think about it for
a second, how exactly did this
random stranger manage to
steal your son's phone?
Did he pickpocket the phone?
>> Yeah- >> It makes no sense.
>> And guys, so,
now we're seeing all these stories
because of the videos, right?
But, remember, this probably
happened millions of times.
You don't want to say millions you
want to say thousands of times.
Pick a number.
It happened all the time to
black people and other minorities.
And you just never saw it.
You're just seeing it for
the first time.
They had to go through their whole
lives like this.
Look, I've seen it because I have
black friends.
So I told you a story before,
a guy walks into a room,
there's 12 of us, points at the one
black guy in the room and says,
I think you stole my watch.
I want to rifle through your bags.
Why do you think the other 11 guys
didn't steal it?
We all look exactly the same,
in that we're in the same
socioeconomic class.
We're in the same room.
We're all friends.
Hey, you black guy,
you stole my phone.
It's ridiculous.
And, by the way, in that case,
of course, that person had lost
their phone earlier.
And they've gone through this
a billion times.
And it doesn't help when
other people in this country go,
we don't believe you.
If you don't have video evidence of
it, and sometimes even when you do
have video evidence of it,
we don't believe you.
And by the way,
in a part of the video, the longer
video we didn't show you, when he
first goes back into the store, and
he's signed to the lady at
the store, she immediately thinks,
I don't know, this guy's being
accused of being a thief, right?
And to be fair to her,
how does she know?
So, instantly, he's heard,
now everybody around thinks it is
a 50/50 chance that this guy's
a criminal.
>> Totally, and
imagine if they called the cops.
>> And imagine if the cops said,
hey, let me see your hands and
he was busy getting his cell phone
to show him the video coverage.
>> It's just- >> Yeah,
I mean, look, and
once you get accused like that,
well, all right now you're screwed.
Now you're a potential criminal.
And it's happened to black people
in this country over, and over, and
over, again.
You're just seeing it for
the first times because of these
cell phone videos.
And, by the way, there should be
criminal consequences there, too.
And if you say, well, that's too
harsh she was just wrongly
accusing someone of being a thief.
One, you're absolutely wrong and
she is breaking the law by
preventing him from leaving, okay?
And number two, the next time you
want to randomly accuse
a black person, or any person,
of a crime they didn't commit,
you should think twice.