There was a shooting at a mall in Alabama
where two people were shot.
Right, I think one died and one was severely injured.
And the police came in, and then they, um...
they said that they shot the gunman
before anyone else could get hurt, all right?
At least, that was... that was the first report that came out.
And then this-this is what came out afterwards.
Police in Alabama admit they made a mistake
after officers shot and killed a man they thought opened fire
at a mall on Black Friday.
Police killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford
after they say he was seen fleeing the scene
and brandishing a weapon, but now police in Hoover
say they may have killed the wrong person
and the shooter may still be at large.
His father, Emantic Bradford Sr.,
is a police officer, himself.
BRADFORD: I know my son always respected the police,
and if you gave a command when you came around that corner,
said, "Freeze, drop your weapon,"
he'd have complied with your order.
So, the question I ask myself
is, like, how does this shit keep happening, all right?
Cops are called into a situation,
they see a black person, and then immediately they shoot.
Right? That's what they did here.
They just... they ran in, they shot the guy,
and then they were like, "We got him."
And what's wild about the story for me
is even if we work within a world
where the police truly believe he was the shooter,
how many times have we seen
a shooter who is white and a man
get talked down?
You know what I mean?
Like, the shooting that happened in Aurora.
The Batman movie. Guy went in with an arsenal.
I mean, he didn't just have one gun.
The police talked him down. They didn't kill him.
Right? The shooting in Charleston.
Kid who went into the church,
shot the congregation of black people.
The police talked him down.
They didn't-- they didn't kill him.
In fact, a lot of the killers who did die killed themselves,
when you look at American mass shootings, right?
You look at, um, Vegas--
person shot themselves.
You look at, um, Thousand Oaks--
the person killed themselves.
But in ev-- Like, there's so many instances
when we've seen the police talk a person up.
But then, when it's a black guy, they go, like,
"Black guy. Mass shooter.
Shoot immediately. Ask questions later."
And-and there were so many things that bugged me
about this story, because it, like-- by the looks of it,
it sounds like this guy was a good guy with a gun.
That's what, like, they always say, right?
The good guy with a gun stops the crime.
But then if the good guy with a gun
happens to be a black good guy with a gun,
they don't get any of the benefits.
And what blows my mind is that there's no profiling.
Police profile all the time.
Driving through New York, they'll be like,
"You, black guy. Search. You.
You look like you're selling drugs. You."
But then, in a mall, why don't they go--
why don't they do mass-- why don't they do profiling there?
Black guy, probably not you.
Skinny white guy with a trench coat, get against the wall.
-(laughter) -And what was crazy about the story
is that you read it and you find out
that multiple people had guns out,
because it's Alabama.
A lot of people heard gunshots.
They pulled out their guns.
But then the only person who's shot by the police
is a black guy?
And then afterwards they're like,
"Yeah, we-we made a mistake."
And what was funny was the initial statement was,
"We got the guy. We're proud.
We got him. The police got him."
And then afterwards, when the story came out,
you're like, "You guys said you got him, right?"
They're like, "No, well, w-we didn't-- we didn't get him.
"What happened was he was involved in a--
in a police, um, shooting that may have involved him."
It's like, "Wait, you said you got-- you said you shot."
They're like, "No, well, we didn't shoot.
"There was a shooting,
and it happened to involve us as police."
At this point, you come to-- you--
like, you start to realize that, really,
the Second Amendment is not intended for black people.
It's an uncomfortable thing to say, but it's the truth.
Like, people will be like, "The-the right to bear arms."
Yes, the right to bear arms if you are not a black man.
If you're a black man, you have no business bearing arms at all.
This is not the first time this happened.
There was that uniformed, uh, security guard
about a month and a half ago. Same thing happened.
He was stopping a criminal.
The police showed up and shot him. He's in uniform.
What-what else do you want the black person--
'Cause here you can be like, "Oh, maybe they--"
But this guy was in uniform.
So-so they've shown,
you know what I mean?
Like, it's gonna get to the point
where black cops should warn their partners
before they go into a crime scene.
They should be like, "Hey, Dave, it's me.
"When we get in there, it's me, all right?
"I want-- Look at me. I'm the guy with the gun, all right?
I'm your partner." He's like, "Cool. I got it, I got it."
"All right, let's get in there." "Gun!"
"No, no, no, no, no! It's me."
Thank God they didn't have a black mall Santa.
'Cause I always say that. I go, like, "They should have
more black mall--" They would've shot that guy
if there was a black Santa in that mall.
They would've been like, "And that guy's kidnapping
white babies."
Shit has gotten so crazy in Amer-- I bet, like,
even superheroes-- Like, Black Panther, the next one,
he's not gonna do anything in America.
The next Black Panther, they're gonna be like,
"T'Challa, are you helping America?" He'll be like,
"I have seen what happens on CNN.
"I think, uh-- Where's Ant-Man?
Maybe he can help them."
If you're black and you're a man in America,
gun rights are not for you.
If you're a black person in America,
gun rights are not for you.
It's as simple as that.
In fact, the safest way to sell a black person a gun
in America, they should say, is when you buy a gun,
you should buy a white person with it
and they hold the gun for you.
Yeah. You'd be like, "What would you like?"
"I'd like a Glock and a Craig.
That's what I would like, please." And you're like,
"All right, Craig, you roll with the Glock."
And then, whenever you want to shoot--
if you do get in trouble-- you'd be like, "What did you say?
"I'm-a shoot you. Craig, do the thing.
"Do the thing, Craig.
"I'm not touching that gun,
'cause I know how it's gonna end."
It's some bullshit, but it's the truth.
Second Amendment was not made for black folks.