FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE FACT
THAT PEOPLE ARE HOLDING POLICE OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE FOR
THEIR POLICE BRUTALITY AND AS A RESULT IT IS LEADING TO
MORE CRIME IN AMERICA.
HE TALKED ABOUT HOW POLICE OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY ARE REFUSING TO DO POLICING AS AGGRESSIVELY AS
BEFORE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY ARE WORRIED PEOPLE WILL
FILM THEM
AND PUT IT UP ON YOUTUBE AND FACE CRITICISM.
HERE IS THE STATEMENT FROM HIM, HE SAYS, "IN TODAY'S YOUTUBE,
THERE ARE OFFICERS THAT ARE ELECTING NOT TO GET OUT OF THEIR
CARS
AND DO THE WORK THAT CONTROLS VIOLENT CRIME.
OFFICERS ARE ANSWERING 911
CALLS BUT AVOIDING THE INFORMAL CONTACT THAT KEEPS BAD GUYS
FROM STANDING AROUND, ESPECIALLY WITH GUNS."
HE MADE THE
STATEMENTS IN CHICAGO.
THERE HAS BEEN A HUGE INCREASE IN CRIME IN CHICAGO.
HE IS BLAMING IT ON THE FERGUSON OR THE YOUTUBE AFFECT.
THESE COPS ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT BEING FILMED, THEY ARE NOW
NOT AS AGGRESSIVE.
>> APPARENTLY WE GOT THEIR ATTENTION.
PEOPLE SHOWING THAT ON YOUTUBE, WE ARE AMONG THEM, AND
THERE ARE LOTS OF VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE, AND THEY ARE
APPARENTLY SCARED OF US.
WHY?
BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THEM TO BEAT UP PEOPLE THEY ARE NOT
SUPPOSED TO.
WE DON'T WANT THEM TO SHOOT UNARMED PEOPLE.
WE DON'T WANT THEM TO DO IT AND GET AWAY WITH IT.
IF THAT BOTHERS THEM, CRY ME A RIVER.
WE CAUGHT YOUR POLICE BRUTALITY, GET USED TO IT.
TIME AND TIME AGAIN WHAT DO THEY SAY?
THEY SAY THEY WILL NOT DO THEIR JOBS.
CAN YOU IMAGINE IF
ACCOUNTANTS SAID SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
THAT WOULD BE OUTRAGEOUS.
WHY DO COPS GET TO SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE HE GAVE, HE SAID CONFRONTING GANGS IN
STREET CORNERS AT ONE IN THE MORNING.
WHERE HAVE YOU SEEN
A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF COPS CATCHING GANGS AT ONE IN THE MORNING?
>> THE BIGGEST ISSUE HE HAS IS THE
WAY HE ILLUSTRATES THESE VIDEOS.
THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE.
THAT IS NOT A VIDEO OF POLICE OFFICIALS APPROACHING A
SHADY LOOKING GUY AT ONE IN THE MORNING.
IT'S A VIDEO, OR SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, OF A COP SHOWING UP
TO THE SCENE AND SHOOTING A KID WITHIN TWO SECONDS BECAUSE
HE THINKS THE KID MIGHT BE ARMED.
THOSE ARE CLEAR CASES WHERE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE GETTING
PAID OUR TAXPAYER MONEY SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR
THEIR ACTIONS.
CENK, I THINK WHAT THEY ARE DOING HERE IS A STRATEGY TO
GET EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT.
HERE IS WHAT COPS WANT, THEY WANT US TO STOP FILMING THEM.
THEY HAVE BEEN WANTING THIS FOR YEARS NOW.
WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO IS THEY ARE GOING TO POINT TO
ALL OF THIS INCREASED VIOLENCE AND THEY ARE GOING TO SAY
SEE, YOU GUYS ARE DETERRING US FROM DOING OUR JOBS.
SO IF YOU WANT US TO DO OUR JOBS, GET OFF OUR ASSES AND
STOP FILMING US.
I GUARANTEE YOU THERE WILL BE SOME POLITICIANS WHO LISTEN TO
THEM.
THERE WILL BE SOME CITIZENS WHO WILL SUPPORT EXACTLY WHAT
THE COPS WANT HERE.
THEY ARE PAID WITH OUR MONEY, THEY ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS.
THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE EXCESSIVE FORCE ON US
AS THOUGH WE LIVE IN A MILITARY STATE.
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO THEIR JOBS, AND IF THEY REFUSE, THEY
SHOULD BE REPRIMANDED FOR THAT.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.
JAMES COMEY IS BACKING THEM AND IT IS DRIVING ME INSANE.
>>JAMES COMEY IS A CLASSIC OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OPPONENT.
HE TOOK SOME PRINCIPLE STANDS DURING THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION, AND I GIVE HIM CREDIT.
BUT WHAT DID OBAMA DO?
HE FOUND THE MOST RIGHT-WING GUY AND MADE HIM THE HEAD OF
THE FBI.
SO, WHAT DOES HE DO?
HE SAYS BOW YOUR HEAD, THE COPS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT, HOW DARE
YOU.
HERE ARE MORE JAMES, QUOTES, "THEY WILL APPEAR ON YOUTUBE TO
BE POLICE OFFICERS ARRESTING PEOPLE ON THE STREET AND IT'S
ACTUALLY A GENUINE CRIME DETERRENCE."
>> ANOTHER ONE IS THE
ERIC GARNER CASE.
THAT VIDEO IS NOT JUST POLICE OFFICIALS HARASSING SOMEONE.
IT WAS A VIDEO OF POLICE OFFICIALS REACTING TO
THE POINT WHERE HE WAS PLACED IN A CHOKE HOLD AND KILLED
OVER UNTAXED CIGARETTES.
HE IS COMPLETELY BELITTLING OR MINIMIZING WHAT THOSE
VIDEOS SHOWED WHICH IS A DISSERVICE TO ALL THE
STUDENTS HE WAS SPEAKING TO, AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
SHALLOW ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT THIS WHAT THIS GUY IS SAYING.
WHAT HE'S DOING IS COVERING UP FOR POLICE BRUTALITY THAT IS
GETTING ATTENTION IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
I REALLY HOPE THIS STRATEGY DOES NOT WORK.
>> JAMES, GOES ON TO SAY," THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ARE
MAKING THE COPS FEEL UNSAFE."
NO, THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ARE COMPLAINING THAT THE
COPS HAVE THEM UNDER SIEGE.
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERVING THE COMMUNITY.
I KNOW COPS LAUGH AT THAT IDEA.
WELL, IT TURNS OUT THE COMMUNITY DOESN'T LIKE THAT AND THE
COMMUNITY PAYS YOUR TAXES.
WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY, RIGHT?
IT'S POLITICAL BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT
ELECT OFFICIALS SAY, HEY, I DON'T WANT TO GET MY ASS
KICKED AND I DON'T WANT MY SON SHOT WITHIN TWO SECONDS.
YES, WE WANT YOU TO STOP BEATING AND KILLING US.
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?
STOP CRYING OVER IT.
>>IT'S
INTERESTING THAT THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY THAT GET AWAY
WITH NOT DOING THEIR JOBS ARE USUALLY THE ONES THAT GET
PAID WITH OUR TAXPAYER MONEY.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, POLICE OFFICIALS, THEY CONTINUOUSLY
GET DEFENDED FOR NOT DOING THEIR JOBS.
IT'S MADDENING.
>> HERE IS ANOTHER THING HE SAID, "WE NEED TO BE
CAREFUL IT DOESN'T DRIFT AWAY FROM US IN THE AGE OF VIRAL
VIDEOS, OR THERE WILL BE PROFOUND CONSEQUENCES."
>>THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THESE CRIME STATISTICS AND SAY
OH, MY GOD, WE HAVE TO GIVE IN BECAUSE IF NOT WE
WILL BE UNSAFE.
NO, YOU ARE ALREADY UNSAFE.
IF YOU MAKE THE MISTAKE OF MOVING IN THE WRONG
DIRECTION DURING A TRAFFIC STOP, YOU COULD GET SHOT, OKAY.
WE'RE ALREADY LIVING IN A SCARY SITUATION.
>> THERE HAVE BEEN 891 POLICE KILLINGS.
NOT COPS GETTING KILLED, POLICE DOING THE KILLING.
WE'RE NOT EVEN DONE WITH THE YEAR,
891 TIMES COPS HAVE SHOT AND KILLED PEOPLE.
OF THOSE TIMES THERE ARE NO OUTRAGE ABOUT ANYONE WHO
ACTUALLY TOOK THE COPS LIFE
AT RISK.
SO, SPARE ME WITH YOUR LYING ABOUT DOING THEIR JOB.