- I think part of the reason I like masks,
in addition to the whole common decency thing
and caring about other humans,
is my face seems a lot more appealing
when you see less of it.
What's up you Beautiful Bastards,
hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday,
welcome back to the Phillip De Franco Show,
buckle up, hit that like button,
otherwise it will punch you in the throat,
and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing that we're gonna talk about today,
you know, I know tonight is the first presidential debate.
There are just 34 days until election day,
but I do really want to hit on the fact that
the election has actually already started.
According to a report from NPR yesterday,
almost a million ballots have already been cast.
And I'll start updating this list as more states are added.
Right now, if you live in Wyoming, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Michigan, parts of Pennsylvania,
Virginia, New Jersey, Vermont, or Illinois,
you can actually go vote in person today
in what many of these states call in-person absentee voting.
But if you're someone that's concerned
that your vote might accidentally get invalidated
because of the mail, or you're concerned
about all the doubt that's been cast from,
let's say President Trump or whoever,
you vote in person today, obviously be as safe as possible.
Know that that is available to you right now.
Then as far as mail in voting,
if you live in North Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas,
West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia,
and you were approved for a mail in or absentee ballot,
they have been mailed out to you.
And if you do want one, you can request a ballot
and hope to get approved,
but know that all of these states have rules
about who qualifies and doesn't.
Also, if you live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota,
Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Pennsylvania,
Wyoming, Missouri, North Dakota, or Nebraska,
those states have also sent mail in ballots
to those who requested them.
However, in these states,
you can still request to get them
and anyone who wants one is eligible,
you don't need an excuse.
And finally, all voters in Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Illinois, and Maryland,
should receive mail in ballots automatically,
so keep an eye out for that.
Also, if you didn't see your state listed, do not worry.
The upcoming days and weeks will see
more states joining these.
Obviously all of that,
very pertinent information for the registered voter.
Which on that note,
if you are a professional procrastinator
like myself in many avenues,
but for you if you are of voting age
and you are not registered, it is still not too late.
But the deadlines for your state are just around the corner.
So if you want to be that change that you see in the world,
you want to be a part of this process,
go to vote.org, it has fantastic resources,
and it can also help you get registered there.
I mean this most urgently starting with South Carolina.
You can either go in person to register,
or you can mail in a registration.
That needs to be sent and dated before Friday.
You can also register online
and that deadline is actually coming up this Sunday.
But to that, I say, "Why then if you can do it now?"
Also speaking of this Sunday,
that is the last day that you can register
if you live in Alaska, Louisiana,
Mississippi, or Rhode Island.
And in all those places, except Mississippi,
you can register online.
And actually, if you're in Louisiana,
you have until October 21st to register online.
And of course, with this story,
and anytime we talk about voting,
I'm gonna link to a ton of resources down below
if you need any help whatsoever.
You know, obviously because of this year,
but not just because of this year, it's a big deal to me.
The reason I created this show,
I started talking about the news
in my early twenties as a young person,
I didn't have a lot of people to talk about the news with,
not a ton of people were engaged.
And so I kind of sought out looking for my people.
You know, one of the reasons I hit so hard
on go register to vote, go vote,
is because you could be a part of a huge change.
You know, there's always conversations
about how few people vote in America compared
to the whole adult population.
But in addition to that, the United States has one
of the lowest rates of youth voter turnout in the world.
You know, there I'm talking about 18 to 29.
I'm gonna expand that to 18 to 35,
to fit more of my, almost my entire audience.
And I'm not gonna shit on you
if prior to this moment you were like,
"I'm never gonna vote."
It's very easy to look around in this country
and be disillusioned and feel hopeless.
My bestselling clothing literally has
the words "emotionally exhausted" on it, I get it.
But that doesn't mean give up.
But also I will say, this year,
it will be interesting to see if we do see an uptick.
The stakes are the highest they've been
at least in my lifetime.
It feels less impossible
for more people to avoid what's happening.
I think it's why you're seeing people like,
even he would call himself one
of the last people you would imagine would say this,
you have people like Tyler the Creator,
trying to get the youth vote out.
- Please, please, if you are young
and you're back don't hurt,
go to them polls and cast a vote.
And I didn't give a about none of that,
just like a lot of y'all.
This is actually gonna be my first time voting,
but I see the light and a lot of y'all gonna be like,
"My vote doesn't matter
"and they're gonna pick who they want."
Yeah, you weird, keep that up.
Y'all was posting black squares
and protesting from y'all phone
and rights this and canceling everybody, pull up.
Y'all want a new DA?
Pull up.
Y'all want all these rights, pull up.
- Yeah, I guess the final thing I would say here is
never doubt the power of your vote.
There is so much money
and so much effort put into this campaign,
not only to get you to vote for the other person,
but also to get you or groups of certain people not to vote.
And they do that, not because it's funsies,
but because you do have power.
Yeah, that's where I leave that.
Then let's talk about a story that is
the source of my favorite headline of the day.
"YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week
"by killing crowdsourced captions."
Yeah, so if you're unaware,
YouTube has had a feature called Community Contributions.
Once enabled on a channel,
viewers could provide captions for the video to,
you know, help other people.
It was something that was helpful for the deaf community,
as well as translations
or even just captions in other languages.
Something that was especially helpful,
considering the alternative was YouTube's
automatic captions, which are often wrong.
So much so that for a little while we saw
a trend of people recreating videos they uploaded
but only using the captions that were auto-generated.
Now, as far as why YouTube made this decision,
they provided an answer
but then also seemingly contradicted it.
Writing in their announcement,
"While we hoped Community Contributions would be
"a wide scale community-driven source
"of quality translations for creators, it's rarely used
"and people continue to report spam and abuse."
But then they also say,
"We know many of you rely on community captions,
"and thanks to the feedback we receive,
"YouTube will be covering the cost
"of a six month subscription of amara.org
"for all creators who have used
"the community contribution feature
"for at least three videos in the last 60 days."
All right, I see people pointing to those
two statements going, "Isn't that a conflicting argument?"
But a number of those people very likely having
already signed a massive change.org petition.
As of recording this video over 512,000 people have signed
a petition calling for YouTube
to not remove community captions.
Though, petition aside, it does not appear
that YouTube will be reversing course here.
A decision that has inspired comments like, quote,
"We at YouTube understand what it's like to be deaf
"because no matter how much you protest, we can't hear you."
And I will say, personally, I am torn on this issue.
As YouTube has pointed out, the feature is rarely used
with less than 0.001% of channels having published
community captions, showing on less than 0.2%
of watch time in the last month.
All right, so that is heavily underused.
But with a site as big as YouTube,
0.2% is still a massive number of people,
which I think is why we saw
so many people sign the petition.
So with that, I'm inclined to think that YouTube
actually found a decent middle ground
in offering channels and communities
that have been using this feature,
a free subscription to a service
that will allow them to continue it.
Though YouTube's decision to kind off load this
on a third party, it doesn't feel great.
I guess kind of where I'll leave this story is
if you are a content creator, I highly recommend you use
a third party transcription caption service.
You may not be aware, if you get to my videos super fast,
but we've actually provided captions for a very long time.
We use a service called Rev.
It takes a little time
because the transcription starts after we upload to YouTube.
Like yesterday's video, for example, it's 15 minutes,
it has captions for English and Spanish,
it costs $45, which for a channel of my size,
is not prohibitive.
But you know, if you're a much smaller channel, it would be.
Yeah, I think if you are a large creator,
there's no excuse for your videos not to be captioned.
Yeah, with this whole story in general,
I would love to know your thoughts,
Is YouTube completely in the wrong here?
Does it make sense for them as a business?
Any and all thoughts and opinions I'd love to know.
Then let's talk about sports and COVID.
We've seen sports coming back.
The NBA with the bubble in Florida.
Baseball came back, we saw that outbreak with the Marlins.
And of course we have the NFL,
which just finished its third week
of the season, and boom!
The headline, "Titans have NFL's first COVID-19 outbreak
"with eight positives."
According to the NFL,
this involves three Titans players, five personnel.
The NFL also saying in the statement that
the Tennessee Titans and Minnesota Vikings,
which was the last team that they played, they have
"suspended in-person activities following these results."
The NFL adding "Both clubs are working closely
"with the NFL and the NFLPA,
"including our infectious disease experts,
"to evaluate close contacts,
"perform additional testing and monitor developments."
Though the potential silver lining here is
that this might not be widespread,
with the Vikings releasing a statement saying they had
not received any positive results
from their testing after Sunday's game.
This is gonna be an interesting one to watch
because this is really the NFL's first big test.
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And then let's talk about these massive updates
to the Breonna Taylor story, and specifically
the updates around the Grand Jury ruling from last week.
So Breonna Taylor was, of course,
that 26 year old EMT who was shot
and killed in her own apartment
in what's been largely described as a botched drug raid.
Louisville police were serving a warrant
because they believed an ex-boyfriend
of Breonna's was using her apartment to receive packages.
Notably, both Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker,
didn't have any prior drug arrests or convictions,
and no drugs were found in the apartment.
While serving the warrant, Police say they knocked,
they identified themselves before entering,
but Walker as well as Breonna's family
and multiple neighbors have claimed they did not.
So because of that, Walker said that he thought
that they were an ex or an intruder.
So when police entered by force, he fired a weapon,
hitting one of the officers in the leg.
The officers respond by unloading into the apartment,
hitting Briana, killing her.
One of the officers, detective Brett Hankison,
blindly fires into the apartment,
which also traveled into neighboring apartments.
Where we last left this story last week was
with Kentucky Attorney General, Daniel Cameron,
announcing that none of the three officers involved
in Breonna's death were charged for her actual killing.
With him saying that the Grand Jury overseeing
the case decided not to charge two of the officers at all,
that being Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove.
With Cameron also adding that the FBI found that
the bullet that actually killed Breonna Taylor came
from Cosgrove, and noting that the only person
that actually got charged in this was Hankison,
who was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment.
Though, notably here, those charges are not connected
to the death of Breonna Taylor,
but rather because he shot so recklessly,
resulting in shots going into a neighboring apartment.
In response to this announcement,
we saw Breonna's family, their lawyers,
and many other strongly condemn Cameron,
saying they didn't believe that he advocated
on behalf of Breonna at all, and calling
for more transparency and information
as to how Cameron presented the case to the jury.
There we saw Cameron refuse to release
any Grand Jury transcripts or recordings,
arguing that it could interfere
with other ongoing investigations.
And that right there is very significant
because of two major updates.
The first is that an anonymous juror
on the Breonna Taylor case filed a complaint
in court requesting that all recordings
and transcripts from the jury deliberations be released,
and to make it so the jurors
on the case can be permitted to speak about it publicly.
This is because the juror claims that Cameron
actually misrepresented the jury's discussion,
saying that Cameron never actually offered them
the option to bring homicide charges
against the officers who killed her.
Now very notably here,
that complaint flagged several remarks
that Cameron made during his announcement.
In his remarks, Cameron noted
that many people would be unhappy with the decision,
but emphasized that his role was to pursue the truth,
present all the facts to the Grand Jury
and let them decide, adding...
- While there are six possible homicide charges
under Kentucky law, these charges are not applicable
to the facts before us because our investigation showed
and the Grand Jury agreed,
that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified
in the return of deadly fire after having been fired upon.
- In regarding the investigations findings,
Cameron also said that the officers claim
that they knocked and announced themselves,
was backed up by an independent witness.
And there, when a reporter asked why
the testimony from just one witness was so credible,
especially because,
out of a dozen witnesses they had spoken to,
only one said that they heard the police knock.
Cameron responded...
- I think the more pertinent question is,
what was the evidence provided to the Grand Jury?
What was sufficient for their purposes?
They got to hear and listen to all the testimony
and made a determination that Detective Hankison was
the one that needed to be indicted.
- And really notably here,
when asked if he ever presented manslaughter
or homicide charges to be considered
by the jury, Cameron said...
- I won't get into the specifics again,
the proceedings themselves are secret.
But what I will say is that our team walked them
through every homicide offense
and also presented all of the information
that was available to the Grand Jury,
and then the Grand Jury was ultimately
the one that made the decision
about indicting Detective Hankison for wanton endangerment.
- But in the complainant,
we see the juror accuse Cameron of using the jury
as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility.
And adding that in Cameron's public remarks
about the decisions the jury made,
"He further he laid those decisions
"at the feet of the Grand Jury,
"while failing to answer specific questions regarding
"the charges presented."
And continuing that "Cameron attempted to make it
"very clear that the Grand Jury alone made
"the decision on who and what to charge,"
and thus were the ones who decided
not to bring homicide charges when in reality,
he was the one who never gave them
that option in the first place.
With the complaint going on to say,
"The only exception to the responsibility he foisted
"upon the grand jurors was
"in his statement that they 'agreed'
"with his team's investigation that Mattingly
"and Cosgrove were justified in their actions."
The juror then goes on to argue that it is in the public
interest to release the record specifically because so many
citizens have shown a lack of faith in the legal proceedings
and the justice system itself.
Saying, "The public interest spreads
"across the entire Commonwealth when
"the highest law enforcement official
"fails to answer questions
"and instead refers to the Grand Jury making the decisions."
With them later adding, "It is patently unjust
"for the jurors to be to the level of accountability
"the Attorney General campaigned for simply
"because they received a summons to serve their community."
And with all of that said, like I mentioned at the top,
this is not the only news that we got yesterday regarding
the release of records.
During an arraignment hearing for Brett Hankison,
where he pled not guilty to all charges,
we saw the the judge overseeing the case ordering
a recording of the Grand Jury proceedings to be added
to the court file by noon tomorrow.
Last night, we saw Cameron announcing
that he would follow the judge's orders,
release the recordings with him reiterating
the statement that he believed
the Grand Jury was meant to be secretive
and that releasing the records would compromise
the ongoing federal investigation,
and it could have unintended consequences,
such as poisoning the jury pool.
But adding, "Despite those concerns,
"that they would comply with the judge's orders."
Also noting the release would address
the legal complaint filed by that anonymous juror.
Also saying he didn't have concerns
about jurors speaking to the public and adding,
"Once the public listens to the recording,
"they will see that over the course of two and a half days,
"our team presented a thorough
"and complete case to the Grand Jury."
Though, very notably in that statement,
he also confirmed for the first time that he never asked
the jury to consider homicide or manslaughter charges.
So now with this story,
that we continue to see developments, we wait.
You know, along with some of this,
it will reveal information
about what was presented to the jurors.
You still have a lot of questions
about what happened that night
and how the investigation was handled from the get go.
Especially because over the weekend,
Vice News reported that it obtained previously unseen video
from body camera footage of officers
and SWAT team members who showed up after the shooting.
With Vice reporting that that footage taken
by 45 different cameras and included
in the investigative file shared with the AG's office,
shows officers appearing to break
multiple department policies
and corroborates parts of Taylor's boyfriend's testimony.
Adding that "It also raises questions
"about the integrity of not only the crime scene,
"but also the ensuing investigation
"into what happened that night."
The report goes on to give examples of policy violations,
like the fact that none of the officers who were present
for the raid were separated and paired with an escort.
It also says that the footage shows Hankison returning to
the active crime scene
and even stepping inside the apartment.
After he's asked to leave by the SWAT team,
he's allegedly seen walking up
to a SWAT team member on the sidewalk
and asking if his body camera's on
before the video cuts out.
The report also said one of the other officers present
during the raid violated protocols
by interviewing witnesses.
And in regards to the parts of Walker's testimony
the video backs up,
Vice reports that the footage shows officers threatening
to send a narcotics dog to attack him.
And when he asked what he did, Hankison told him,
"You're going to prison, that's what's going on,
"for the rest of your life."
With Walker's lawyer addressing the new footage
and a statement to Vice saying,
"It's all just further evidence
"of a coverup to violate their own policies
"and allow suspects involved in the shooting to have access
"to the crime scene and interview witnesses.
"There were some professional officers
"who attempted to secure the scene
"and protect the integrity of the investigation,
"but unfortunately they arrived too late."
Yeah, that is essentially where we are now.
And of course with this story,
I would love to know your thoughts.
And that is where I'm going to end today's show.
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