There's been a disturbing video
circulating on social media that
shows a white couple harassing
a black man for
walking around in the neighborhood.
Now, I want to start off with
the update to the story, which
is a good update, the person seen
harassing the black man in this
video has luckily been arrested.
But when we come back from
the video, I'll tell you who he is
and why this is a problem not just
in this story, but when it comes to
the US military and
policing in America.
Take a look.
>> Go away right now.
>> Hey, they've already been called
30.
>> Maybe you
should hang on a little longer.
Coz [NOISE] >> Then we want to get
the report by ourselves >> What
you're doing here.
>> Well, you've been here like 30
minutes now >> let's go walk away.
>> Keep walking >> People can
walk away.
>> Walk away right now.
Do you need help?
[INAUDIBLE] >> You know there's
a difference between pushing
someone came running or
>> Walked away from you talking
to my wife right now.
Yes, >> That's your wife?
>> Walk away,
>> I did'nt do it >> Walk away.
>> Your wife [INAUDIBLE]
Check it out.
>> Either walk away or I'm going to
carry your ass out of here, dude.
>> What do you want to do?
>> What are you going to do?
>> You love?
>> Let's go walk away.
>> I've been doing it.
>> I'm about to do something new
you You better start walking.
>> You better start walking right
now.
>> I ain't coming after you,
you're in the wrong neighborhood.
>> Is he in the wrong neighborhood?
Why would he think he's
in the wrong neighborhood,
that seems strange, John,
we haven't just sorry.
>> I think he just wanted to add
that onto the end so
that you understood the entire
context of who he is and
what this little thing is about.
I think it's pretty clear with
that last comment.
>> So for those of you wondering,
the person in the video doing
the harassing is Jonathan Pentland.
He is a US Army Sergeant first
Class, Pentland,
has been at Fort Jackson
in Colombia since at least 2019.
And has worked as
a drill sergeant at the garrison,
according to a document from
the secretary of the army,
Pentland was promoted to sergeant
first class in April of 2020.
We're not done, showing you what
that interaction look like,
we have one more video,
let's take a look at that, get out.
>> I live this side.
>> Where?
Where's your house?
What's your address?
>> Maybe we should walk you home.
>> Walk me home?
>> You want to bet what I can do.
>> I live here.
>> Okay right now you are harrasing
my neighborhood.
>> I'm not harassing anyone walking
through the neighborhood.
I live here sir.
>> What, check it out,
we are a tiny community, we take
care of each other because I have
never seen you before in my life.
>> That's none of your business.
>> Either living doesn't matter,
get the hell out of my face in my
face.
>> You love them to me.
>> Check it out. [BLEEP] I am
playing with you.
You get your moving where I'm going
to move you through.
You want to bet I'm about to
show you what I can do you
better walk away.
>> I'm walking you
keep following me.
>> There only one way out,
I'm here.
>> It's right over there.
>> So shortly before we went live
today, what broke in response to
this story is the fact that
Richland County Sheriff, Leon Lott,
has addressed this incident
by arresting the real harasser,
which was the US Army Sergeant that
you saw in the video.
The sheriff confirmed that
Jonathan Pentland,
has been arrested and charged with
third degree assault and battery.
The charge carries a maximum
penalty of $500 or 30 days in jail.
And if you're wondering what
the military had to say about this,
at first,
there was a response about how.
This isn't something that
we condone,
Let me get you the exact statement.
This is by no means condoned by any
service member, we will get to the
bottom of this as soon as possible.
And then later the sheriff's
department was like, there's a lot
of misinformation out there.
We don't know what's going on but
now we know that Pentland has been
arrested for what he did.
And there's apparently stuff
that happened off camera,
stuff that we did not see that led
to this conflict.
But he's a young man who lives in
the neighborhood and
since this Army Sergeant has never
seen him before, he's a threat,
he doesn't belong there, he needs
to leave, and just think about how.
If you don't look a certain way,
you're not going to be
questioned like that,that's
just the point I want to make.
>> 100%, yeah, and he's not even,
he's doing all of this on film.
Like the fact that everybody has
a video camera one would have
thought it would have moderated
our behavior a little bit to be
a little bit more social.
But no people are still justice,
terrible, he's proud of every bit
of that, he's talking about it
exactly like any just give a real
anti racist would.
You're in the wrong neighborhood,
we're a tight knit community,
we watch out for each other,
all that stuff.
Less than a century ago there were
sundown communities.
Now you have the racist drill
sergeant who is was talking about
how he's harassing the neighborhood
to just walking like,
imagine a neighborhood where you
can't walk around without some
apparently drunk smelling skinhead,
walking up to you that does seem
like kind of a bad neighborhood.
He sort of has a point he's
demonstrating it right there, yeah,
I'm glad that he was arrested,
I don't know what's wrong with our
country, I don't know why people
are so terrible to each other.
But the fact that we all have video
cameras makes us constantly aware
of that, at the very least.
>> And the sheriff who again
initially refused to release any
type of strong statement about what
happened and
then later announced that,
an arrest was made, is now saying
that the young man was a victim and
he will not face any charges.
Okay, great, the sheriff Sheriff
lot also confirmed the victim is
not a juvenile.
So he obviously looks very young,
but he's not a juvenile and
clearly he was doing absolutely
nothing wrong.
We know that based on what
the police have found through their
short investigation.
I'm got to be honest,
I'm actually pretty surprised at
how swift the action was,
I really didn't think, that there
would be consequences for him.
So, now the real question is, what
will the military do, are there
consequences in that regard, and.
Look, the problem with
the military and policing,
is we know there's evidence showing
that white supremacists have
intentionally infiltrated,
local police departments and
the military, with the intention of
carrying out their, race war.
And even though we've had
that information for how long now,
nothing's done about it.
There isn't a robust investigation
into white supremacy within
the militaries ranks, none none.
We don't hear anything about it.
[CROSSTALK] So,
people like Biden are scary.
>> Because we know what happens
whenever anything like that
is talked about,
let alone announced the right wing
would absolutely lose their mind.
The Tucker Carlson, has done
multiple shows this year about how
it is completely legitimate.
For any branch of the US
government to be concerned at all
about domestic terrorist white
supremacists any of that.