- [Man] People of color, especially in the black community
are being treated unfairly because of how they look.
- It's a children's show.
Got that Bobby?
America is a very bad place and it's your fault.
So no matter what happens, no matter what they do to you
when you grow up, you have no right to complain.
That's the message and it starts very young.
- What are you even talking about? (laughing)
How are you gonna take the informing, the educating,
the arming of the youth of America with the knowledge
that they, or as people they may come across in their life
are gonna be treated unfairly due to the color of their skin
which is backed up by pretty much all of our history.
Much of which is also not properly talked about
in our school system.
I had to learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre
and Black wall street by watching "Watchmen".
Do you know how ridiculous it is that I had
to learn about that from a T.V. spin-off
of a movie adaptation of a graphic novel?
But how do you take that attempt at raising awareness,
that hope that we can instill empathy, and you turn it
and you twist it into this fear mongering statement,
trying to play victim?
How?
The message is literally "Racism is bad, don't be racist."
That is, I can't with this guy.
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Yes, welcome back to the show.
Hope you're having a good,
or at the very least not a horrible Thursday
and in the first story that we're gonna
jump into today actually involves Tucker Carlson.
Because that Elmo clip aside, over the last week
there's actually been a lot of outrage about some
of the remarks that he's made during his Fox News show.
You know, a few weeks ago, as protests were starting up,
people were responding to the death of George Floyd,
he discussed the remarks
former UN ambassador Nikki Haley made.
In a tweet she said, "It's important
"to understand that the death of George Floyd
"was personal and painful for many.
"In order to heal it needs to be
"personal and painful for everyone."
Right, seeming to promote empathy, the understanding
of another's pain and we saw Carlson respond.
- But wait a second, you may be wondering,
how am I quote, "personally responsible"
for the behavior of a Minneapolis police officer?
I've never even been to Minneapolis,
you may think to yourself, and why is some politician
telling me I'm required to be upset about it?
- But really the clip that sort of sparked
the most outrage happened on Monday when we saw
Carlson claim that none of what is going on
has to do with protecting black people.
Saying that if Democrats really cared about that
they would've instead invest more
in predominately black neighborhoods,
and schools and take abortion clinics
out of black neighborhoods as well.
Then referring to the protests as theft,
and mayhem, and continuing.
- This may be a lot of things,
this moment we're living through,
but it is definitely not about black lives.
And remember that when they come for you.
And at this rate, they will.
- All right and so that clip, especially,
is the one that really blew up.
People saying things like, "Tucker Carlson said
"black people are coming for you.
"That just happened."
Another saying, "A nationally aired
"white supremacist told his racist viewers
"to protect themselves against black people.
"That's how I see it."
With many calling him a race-baiting,
fear mongerer, others just going straight to racist.
Fox News, for their part, they said
that when Tucker said "they" he was referring to
Democrats and not Black Lives Matter activists,
but still the damage was kind of already done.
And so that's why we're already seeing a ton of brands
pulling their advertisements from his show.
This including T-Mobile, who said,
"We haven't run ads on Tucker Carlson Tonight
"since early May and have canceled all future placements.
"We will continue to support those
"who stand against racial injustice."
With their CEO Mike Sievert also saying
that Carlson's messages were not the kind
T-Mobile wanted to send adding,
"Bye-bye Tucker Carlson! #BlackLivesMatter."
Papa Johns and SmileDirectClub
also pulled out from his show.
But perhaps the biggest company to withdraw
their advertising here was Disney.
Though, their situation
is actually a little bit complicated.
According to Deadline, Disney had run ads
29 times on Fox News this year, at least some
of those ads being for shows on ABC which Disney owns.
But reportedly they were not intentional
on the company's part, with ABC telling them
in a statement, "The ABC advertisements
"were placed on the show without our knowledge
"by third party media buyers who were unaware
"that we do not advertise on the show,
"and they have now been notified
"not to place any further ads."
Now as far as what happens next from here,
I mean we're just gonna have to kind of wait and see.
Notably this isn't the first time
that Carlson has lost advertisers
due to things that he has said on his show.
I also do not think it will be the last time.
Right, last year he got a ton of backlash
after calling white supremacy a hoax.
- (growling) White Supremacy that's the problem.
This is a hoax.
- Right and back in 2018 he lost over two dozen advertisers
after saying immigration makes the country dirtier.
- Instead, our leaders demand that you shut up
and accept this, we have a moral obligation to admit
the world's poor, they tell us, even if it makes
our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.
- Ultimately that is where we are with this story right now,
and I guess I just wanna pass the question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this?
And then let's talk about the I Take Responsibility
campaign and the reaction to it.
So today you may have seen this video floating around
on social media featuring stars like Kristen Bell,
Keisha, Aaron Paul, Stanley Tucci and others
saying, I take responsibility for--
- every unchecked moment.
- For every time it was easier to ignore
than to call it out for what it was.
- Every not so funny joke,
every unfair stereo-type.
- Every blatant injustice no matter how big or small.
- And in that video they pledge to stand up
for the black community condemning hate
and the rate at which black people are killed
while doing everyday things.
- Black people are being slaughtered in the streets.
Killed in their own homes.
These are our brothers and sisters.
- Our friends, our family.
We are done watching them die.
We are no longer bystanders.
We will not be idle.
Enough is enough.
- They also call for accountability in cases
of police violence with Aaron Paul saying--
- And killer cops must be prosecuted, they are murderers.
We can turn the tide.
It is time to take responsibility.
Call out hate, step up and take action.
- [Philip] And that video then directs you
to the campaign's website which includes a bunch
of resources for what people can do
to get involved in making change.
And that video was reportedly created
by the entertainment production company
Confluential Content in partnership with the NAACP.
Right, and it basically calls on white people to stand up
for the black community through education and action.
Right, so this video goes out and it gets a ton
of mixed reactions online, with some saying things like,
"What are they auditioning for Ending Racism: The Musical?"
and another reading, "Well at least this video succeeds
"in being the exact opposite of understanding
"what structural racism is."
In particular we really saw people mocking Aaron Paul
for his dramatic delivery at the end of the video.
And in fact, so much so that his name eventually
began trending on Twitter with people saying things like,
"I lost it when Aaron Paul went
"full Jessie Pinkman at the end."
"In case you missed your daily dose
"of white liberal patronizing, with
"a peak performance by Aaron Paul."
Some also comparing it to the now infamous
Gal Gadot Imagine cover video.
In this situation we also had others pointing to people
like John Cena, saying that rather than participating
in something like this, he put his money where his mouth is
and actually just helped the BTS army, he matched
a donation that the band made to Black Lives Matter.
And also, to be fair, you also did have people
defending these stars with one writing,
"They are all in a no-win situation.
"They get asked to take part
"to help promote an important message.
"If they agree and do their bit they are self-righteous,
"if they say no they will be outed
"as not wanting to speak out about the subject.
"What is it people want them to do?"
Right and also a number of people happy
that you have these stars and their positions
of power using that platform.
As far as my personal reaction,
I end up being somewhat torn.
I'm an inherently cynical person,
it is something that I have to fight against every day,
so when I see someone that seems overly happy
or seems to be trying too much to be a good person,
I'm like that LA Noir Doubt meme.
I'm like, really though?
Especially in this situation where you throw in the fact
that you have actors seemingly all reading
from the same script, doing, really a format
that gets bashed a lot, right, the
"We're all completing the same sentence" sort of thing.
That's why you're gonna see a video like this getting bashed
whereas you're not gonna really see those same things
being said about The Rock, for example.
He put out that eight minute video, it's just him.
He has emotions that are showcased in the video,
it feels like the words are actually coming from him.
All right then also with this video,
you know, I kind of think of the words.
They're saying 'em, yes most likely it is a script.
And so to combat my general cynical nature,
I try to just appreciate maybe what is at the core
of those words, which is none of us are perfect.
We've all done or said things we wouldn't do today
or did not act when others did,
or said something that was incredibly wrong.
So I'm gonna try to now be part of the solution.
And so if I take this video and I boil out,
put it on the stove, we turn up the heat,
we boil out what can feel like acting
and it can feel like pandering, and it's us acknowledging
that today is a new day.
We can be a part of a solution, great.
But, yeah, it needs to be done in a way
that doesn't elicit a cringe
from even the people who agree with your point.
It kinda goes back to something we've said
over the past 10 years, sometimes it doesn't matter
what you say if you say it like an asshole.
Not calling them assholes here,
but it's not just what you say, it's how you say it.
Like for instance, this week
Nancy Pelosi in kente cloth kneeling.
Sure speak your words, sure kneel,
but the kente cloth is obvious pandering.
So much so you even had Jordan Peele
pointing to a "Get Out" meme.
Right, so I think it kinda boils down to how you do it
sometimes matters more than the message itself.
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Then, let's talk about a story that a lot of you requested.
Yesterday I touched on it so incredibly briefly
and actually it makes sense to talk about
because there are now updates.
What I'm talking about is Live PD
and the death of Javier Ambler.
You had Paramount canceling Cops,
you have HBO temporarily removing Gone with the Wind,
and of course you had A&E pulling
new Live PD episodes that had been set to air.
Right, but after we posted yesterday's show,
we ended up seeing the breaking news
that A&E was actually officially canceling Live PD.
However it appears that unlike these other cancellations
or removals, A&E didn't just cancel Live PD
because of the protests and the conversations
that we're seeing around the death of George Floyd.
Right because it appears that a lot of this
revolved around the reports that the show confirmed
on Tuesday, that it had filmed and then deleted
footage from an in-custody death of a black man.
That man being Javier Ambler, who died on March 28th, 2019,
after a car chase with deputies in Austin, Texas.
Now as far as how that situation began,
according to deputies, Ambler failed
to dim the headlights of his SUV to oncoming traffic,
an officer behind him then flips on his flashing lights,
Ambler then reportedly sped across highways
and onto neighborhood streets for 22 minutes.
He also reportedly smashed into four stationary objects
before crashing a final time.
And while dash-cam footage of that chase
has not been released, local news outlets
were able to obtain body-cam footage.
Now, because that footage is so graphic,
we're not gonna be able to show it here.
In it we see an officer run up to Ambler,
who is already surrounded by deputies.
You hear another officer telling Ambler
to put his hands behind his back or he would tase him again.
Right, so implying that he already had at least once.
From there we see Ambler on the ground,
police over him and all the while he's telling them
that he has congestive heart failure.
And in this situation, we hear him say words
that we've heard in other instances, he tells the police,
"I can't breathe."
Ambler then repeating that phrase
as police grab his arms and they try to handcuff him.
You then hear the deputies tell him to stop resisting.
He says he's not resisting,
he's very much sounds like he is in distress.
He cries out, "Save me!" before being tased again.
The officers keep trying to force his hands behind his back,
at one point we even hear an officer say
that he thinks that he just broke Ambler's finger.
From there, they eventually handcuff him, however,
at that time Ambler becomes unresponsive.
Deputies then search for a pulse, they do not find one,
and then they reportedly performed CPR for four minutes.
But ultimately, Ambler dies after being turned over
to medics with an autopsy later determining
that Ambler had died, in fact,
due to congestive heart failure as well as
hypertensive cardiovascular disease
in combination with forcible restraint.
It's also learned that deputies had tased him four times,
of course including after he told them
he had congestive heart failure, you know,
keep in mind in this whole time,
you also have a camera crew standing by
and filming all of this.
Now that said, moving forward in a report filed
with the attorney general's office,
Ambler's manner of death was listed as homicide
with it also noting that the homicide
could have been justifiable.
However, notably, that report also says
that Ambler did not attempt to, nor did he assault deputies.
It also says that he did not verbally threaten others
or attempt to get control of any officers' weapons.
And also, alongside this report,
you had the Williamson County Sheriff's Department
conducting an internal affairs investigation.
However, that later concludes the deputies
did nothing wrong and that they did not violate
the agency's pursuit or use-of-force policies.
And so because of that,
they have not faced any repercussions.
Right, but with all of that, they also give you a sense
of how little was publicly known about Ambler's death
before this body-cam footage surfaced.
His own parents said last week
that they didn't know anything more
than he had died in police custody.
Right, and so it was actually reporters who told them
that he died after a chase, following something
that would have been a minor traffic violation.
Right, but that said, after we start getting
more information, after we start seeing
this new body-cam footage, we saw three of the four
Williamson County commissioners calling
for Sheriff Robert Chody to resign.
Though also to be clear, Travis County district attorney
Margaret Moore has also been investigating Ambler's death.
And in a statement to the American Statesman,
she said that her civil rights division plans
to present the case to a grand jury.
Adding, "It is of very serious concern
"to any of us who are in law enforcement
"that the decision to engage in that chase
"was driven by more of a need to provide entertainment
"than to keep Williamson County citizens safe."
And notably she has also accused both Chody and Live PD
of stonewalling and refusing to provide evidence,
but Chody has dismissed these accusations as misleading,
also denouncing the calls for his resignation
as politically motivated.
Chody also saying that his department
is ready and willing to help Moore's office.
Now currently it is unclear how aggressively
or how quickly investigators acted
with the information they did have.
This including what steps they took
to obtain video from Live PD.
However, in a statement on Twitter,
Moore has said that her office has been fighting
with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office
to have Live PD video footage
related to Ambler's death released.
We've also seem Williamson County's DA Shawn Dick
kind of back up that claim saying,
"The sheriff's department has let Live PD
"into his crime scene for the last two years,
"and all I've ever requested were the witnesses
"that were in the crime scene and the evidence
"they gathered while they were in the crime scene.
"And to date, we've never gotten that kind of information."
Right and so with these investigations
we ended up seeing kind of two big questions.
One, did Live PD's footage play a role
in those investigations, and two,
why did they delete the footage?
Right and so as far as the first question,
according to reports, no.
With reports saying that Live PD
never turned the footage they had over to investigators,
with A&E saying that the network nor the show's producers
quote, "were asked for the footage
"or an interview by investigators
"from law enforcement or the District Attorney's office."
With A&E also saying that the incident didn't happen
while it was filming live and the footage
was not aired later either.
With A&E also saying that the show
didn't keep the footage after the initial
internal affairs investigation closed.
And that, according to reports,
is because of a contract between Williamson County
and Live PD that was in place the time of Ambler's death,
with the show being allowed to destroy unaired footage
within 30 days unless a court order or another state
or a federal law required it to be retained.
Now following the news of the show being canceled,
we saw the host, Dan Abrams, saying on Twitter,
"Shocked and beyond disappointed about this.
"The loyal Live PD Nation please know I, we,
"did everything we could to fight for you
"and for our continuing effort at transparency in policing.
"I was convinced the show would go on, more to come."
And since that post we've also seen Abrams
answering more questions on his website.
Right as far as why didn't Live PD air this,
he says it's "because it involved a fatality
"and A&E standards and practices
"didn't permit us to show a fatality on the show."
As far as why A&E no longer has the footage he says,
"Live PD had a long standing policy
"to only keep footage for a few weeks
"absent a specific legal request to retain it
"and all of the departments we followed
"were aware of that policy."
And adding, "The reason for this policy
"was so that we did not become an arm of law enforcement
"attempting to use Live PD videos
"to prosecute citizens seen on the footage.
"Live PD was there to chronicle law enforcement,
"not to assist the police as a video repository
"for prosecuting alleged criminals."
And adding, "In this particular case,
"the Williamson County Sheriff apparently requested
"that Live PD retain the video pending an investigation.
"Live PD did just for that three months until June 2019
"when the Williamson County Sheriff informed
"Live PD attorneys that their investigation was complete
"using the body-cam footage that they had."
Also in response to the question,
but Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore
has said she is, quote, "troubled that the show
"so far has produced no video."
So why didn't Live PD turn over
the video in the first place?
To which Abram's responds, "The Live PD attorneys
"informed me that's because she never asked.
"Nor did anyone else in law enforcement
"or any other attorney make a request to them
"for the footage before this week, over one year later."
But also noting, "Given what happened,
"I wish the tape had been preserved and the policy
"should have had an exception for this sort of situation.
"Many of us were advocating for a change
"in the policy before the show was canceled."
And also going on to say that Live PD should have shown
this video in the show but specifically,
"everything up to Javier Ambler's final moments.
"It would have been very difficult to watch
"but in an ongoing effort to show all sides of policing,
"I wish this had been aired just as we had shown
"many other controversial moments that led
"to criticism of, and appreciation for, police."
And the final question answered on this site,
I think it kind of touches on something that Abram's
and fans of the show think and that is specifically
the difference between a show like Live PD and Cops.
With Abram's writing, "I am frustrated and sad
"because I truly believed in the mission of the show
"to provide transparency in policing.
"I completely agree with advocates calling
"for more body-cams on officers
"and more uniform rules for their use.
"It seems to me that the antidote to bad policing
"and officers is transparency and that means more body-cams
"and more shows like Live PD.
"It's important to distinguish Live PD
"from a show like Cops that just presented
"a highlight reel of crazy moments."
But, with all of that said,
that is ultimately where we are with this story.
More may come out, I know Abrams is trying
to do the rounds right now on T.V.
Of course one of the questions to you
with this story is, you know, what are your thoughts
about Live PD being canceled.
What do you think about the arguments being made?
I'm personally still trying to digest this.
My greatest concern with this though is that this is a giant
he said, she said about the evidence.
Chody and Live PD saying that Moore's office
just never asked for that Live PD footage,
we have Moore saying that her office has been fighting
to get that footage from them,
and all of that complicating yet another death
of someone in police custody.
In a situation that unfortunately it appears
to have been buried for 15 months.
But for now, we need to wait and see what else comes out,
if there's a response to Abrams, and until then,
of course, I wanna keep that conversation going
with you in those comments down below.
And that is where I'm going to end today's show.
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