- So this is unfortunately, one of those heavy shows
where I have to do this sort of intro.
The majority and/or all of today's show
is incredibly heavy for a number of reasons
which means that it is at a higher likelihood
that YouTube is going to crack down on it
possibly suppress this video.
And do we end up not getting really important stories
out to as many people as possible.
This is gonna be one of those few times a year
where I asked you right at the top of the show,
please share this video.
It's really one of the only ways that we can combat how
YouTube tends to crack down on these sorts of videos.
But yeah, with that said no quirky or fun intro
let's actually just jump into it.
And the first thing that we're gonna talk about today
was one of the most requested stories from over the weekend.
And that is the troubling and disturbing reason
that Jake Paul is in the news.
Because while, yes, you may have seen Jake in the news
because in the next few days
he's going to be fighting retired, MMA fighter, Ben Askren.
As well as a lot of headlines popping up that trailer
which is a company that Jake Paul has invested in,
is trying to sell a 30 second NFT
of Paul knocking out Nate Robinson for $10 million.
What is interestingly been overshadowed
over the last week
is that Jake Paul actually just got accused
of sexually assaulting a woman back in the summer of 2019.
And the woman who goes by the name Justine Paradise
on her social media channels posted a 20 minute video
detailing her story on Friday.
And so she goes through this story
about how they initially met through a mutual friend.
They start texting, they flirt, on one occasion they kiss.
But then, saying on another occasion, it went way, way, way
over the line.
As far as the details of this alleged incident
she said it kind of started out cute.
He had grabbed her by the hand
he was walking with her.
Jake Paul allegedly taking her to his room,
which he said she didn't view as something
that inherently meant that they were going to have sex.
- People have brought me to their room before
and I'm their friend.
And they're literally just trying to show me their room
or they're just wanting to talk to me away
from the crowd of people.
Or sometimes they are like trying to do something sexual.
But if I say no, they respect it
- With the Justine claiming that once they got there
they were talking, then dancing, then kissing,
you then took it to the bed though.
she really wanted to leave it just a kissing.
- Normally, everybody respects me
when I don't want to do sexual things.
So I thought that it was fine if I went in his room,
and I thought it would be fine to kiss him
because I thought he would stop
if I didn't want
to do anything else
- But here Justine claims a Jake Paul then tried to
touch her place to try to put her hands on other parts
of him where they're claiming she kept moving his hands off
so they could just keep it to kissing.
But at one point she said, he responded to this by saying...
- "If nothing is going to happen, then what's the point."
What's the point?
I don't know, maybe I could be one of your friends.
Maybe I can just be someone that you kiss.
- Justine describing the situation in this moment as...
- This is the point where if what he wanted is sex.
He sees he's not gonna get it.
This is the point where we would just go elsewhere.
You know, go back downstairs where everyone is.
- But then Justine says that is not what happened.
That is not where the situation ends because she says
that Jake Paul then got up, undid his pants
and forced himself into our mouth to perform oral sex.
Then going on to describe what feels like panic or shock.
- What am I supposed to do?
He was literally...
I was still laying down.
He was on top of me and like holding my head like into him.
Like I couldn't even tell him not to.
He didn't ask for consent or anything.
Like he knew I didn't want to do anything with him
because he said, "if nothing's gonna happen,
what's the point?"
And then he just shoves himself in me.
- After this allegedly happened
she says that she was confused,
didn't know what to do.
He was being kind of aggressive with her
telling her they needed to go back down
to the studio with everyone else.
She then goes on to say that she told her friend Michael
what happened right away.
With him saying that it was horrible,
and that he would say something to Jake.
Later then going on to say that she ended up spending
the rest of the night there with her friends
and showed a Snapchat she took while at the team 10 houses
In it you can see the Calabasas location tag
or face also appears to be puffy from crying.
Also saying that after this, Jake never contacted her again
even though she also tried to reach out to him
to talk about what happened.
Also saying she wondered if he had no idea
that what he did was wrong.
Which also appear to be kind of connected
to her general description of Jake Paul,
is that he doesn't know how to operate around people.
But You kind of paint this picture
of him being this really awkward socially
unaware person that is ultimately kind of a slightly deeper
than surface level description of the allegation.
I link to the video down below,
which as of right now only has about 300,000 views on it.
So she goes into more detail.
Now the story is also kind of getting minimal coverage
of seeing the excerpt.
Also independent released something about a day ago.
You did also have creators like Ethan Klein,
and Trisha Paytas putting a spotlight on the story.
Paytas specifically here, tweeting,
"I'm glad victims are comfortable speaking
up more and more.
This disgusting behaviors should be put on blast.
Predators, rapists need appropriate punishments
and not just being canceled temporarily and back
on a pedestal the next month."
And as far as Jake Paul's side of this,
we're really not hearing anything.
He hasn't responded to the accusations himself.
Our team put out a request for comment.
We have not heard back yet.
If and when he or his team does
obviously we'll provide an update to the story
because that's what we're trying to do here.
Cover a story.
Then as far as the public reaction to this
we've seen people somewhat divided depending
on where you're looking at.
If you look at her video
you have a lot of people thanking her
for being brave, coming forward, sharing her story.
On the other side of this, if you go to Twitter
you can find people saying, they think that she's lying,
she's clout chasing, that she Photoshopped the text.
This is her way of getting back at Jake Paul
because they did hook up
but then he stopped responding to her.
But you know, ultimately that is where this story is.
You have someone coming out, making accusations
that the public responding to the accused
not responding to thus far, and for now
we'll have to wait and see what happens next.
Though I do want to pass the question.
What are your thoughts with this situation
in particular?
Then in very interesting business news
getting back to normal society news slash I just
needed one story today that wasn't a horror show news.
Today, you had Uber saying that its ride requests
for the month of March where the highest
it has ever recorded in its 12 year history.
In fact, according to a filing with the SEC last month,
the company crossed a 30 billion annualized
gross bookings run rate
with average daily gross bookings up 9% month-over-month.
And notably there's also market the company's best month
since March of last year
when the pandemic closures began here in the United States.
And on top of that side of the business,
its delivery business crossed a $52 billion
annualized gross bookings run rate in March.
Growing more than 150% year over year.
In fact, the demand over the past month has been so high
that Uber doesn't have enough drivers to meet it
with Uber saying his vaccination rates increase
in the United States.
We are observing the consumer demand
for mobility is recovering faster
than driver availability and consumer demand
for delivery continues to exceed courier availability.
And this news really seems to make sense
of last week's news, that Uber is opening
up a $250 million drivers stimulus
to boost earnings for drivers.
With Uber saying
"we want drivers to take advantage of higher earnings now
because this is likely a temporary situation."
As the recovery continues,
we expect more drivers will be hitting the road, which means
that over time earnings will come back to pre COVID levels."
But also I will say Uber's business is in an odd place.
Right in February, Uber reported $6.8 billion in losses
for 2020 and for years.
Many have actually questioned
if its model is even profitable at all.
However, in this latest filing,
Uber says, that it believes that it will become profitable
by the end of 2021.
Though, a lot of the the future of their business
will depend on legislation.
I mean, last month, for example
the UK Supreme court handed drivers a major win
by ruling that they need to be reclassified as workers.
Guaranteeing them minimum wage, holiday pay and pension,
which was massive news.
Especially following Uber's win
in California back in November with Prop 22.
But also, to be clear here that the UK's classification
of workers and employees is different.
So the drivers aren't granted full benefits.
So it is expected to be a setback for the company
with Bank of America estimating that it could cost Uber
more than $500 million.
So we started seeing other countries doing similar things.
I mean, that could spell big trouble for Uber.
Which is likely part of the reason they fought so much
and threw so much money at Prop 22 in California.
But yeah, the question I want to connect
to this story is, have you been using Uber's?
When did you go back?
Did you ever stop?
Those who used to ride share, but stopped?
When do you think
that you would go back and feel comfortable?
And we get a lot of different people
from a lot of different walks of life.
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Then, we should definitely talk about what in Minnesota.
It's a protest and violence broke out last night
in Brooklyn Center, which is a suburb of Minneapolis
after police shot and killed a black man at a traffic stop.
Just miles away from the courtroom where
Derek Shovan is facing murder charges
for the death of George Floyd.
Local officials confirming this morning
that the man was 20 year old Daunte Wright
who had previously been identified by his family.
Now, as far as what we know in a press release yesterday
the Brooklyn Center Police Department said
that officers had pulled his car over
for a traffic violation around 2:00 PM,
and discovered that he had a warrant out for his arrest.
With them claiming that Wright tried to reenter his car
while they were trying to take him into custody.
With one of the officers discharging their gun
hitting Daunte with a release saying
that the car then traveled several blocks
before striking another vehicle.
According to Police Officers and medical personnel,
attempted life-saving measures
but he was ultimately declared dead at the scene.
Also, a female passenger who Daunte's family identified as
his girlfriend also sustained non life-threatening injuries
and was transported to the hospital.
The police also saying that they believe
that both body cameras and dash cameras were on during
the incident and added that an investigation was underway.
And on that note, just today we saw
the police releasing some of the body cam footage
during a press conference.
And very notably during that conference,
Police Chief Tim Gannon claimed
that the officer who fatally shot Wright,
it actually meant to taser hit.
With the playing body cam footage,
it showed two officers approaching the vehicle
from each side, a third officer then approaches later
as the two try to handcuff Wright.
Who can be seen struggling.
Third officer then repeats
"Taser! Taser! Taser!" before firing her weapon
which is not a taser.
Immediately after doing so
she can be heard saying, "Holyshit, I shot him."
- [Woman] Holyshit, I shot him.
- Yes
- With Gannon, also saying that the unidentified police
officer had been placed on administrative leave.
Though, other top officials,
including Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott
say they support removing the officer from her duties.
Also during that press conference Gannon claim
the police had initially stopped Wright
because his registration had expired.
But that account also appears to contradict the account
from Wright's family.
Yesterday, Daunte's mother Katie Wright
told reporters that our son was driving a car
his family had given him two weeks ago,
and he called her when he was pulled over.
Saying, "He said they pulled him over
because he had air fresheners hanging
from his rear view mirror."
With there also going on to say that she actually
asked Daunte to give his phone to the police officers
so she could give them the insurance information.
But adding then "I heard the police officer come
to the window and say 'put the phone down
and get out of the car'."
After that, she said she heard scuffling and
an officer telling Daunte not to run,
saying someone then hung up the phone.
And when she called back her son's girlfriend answered.
And she said that he had been shot.
Now, after all this, according to local reports
hundreds of protesters gathered at the scene
and initially peaceful demonstration.
Officers in riot gear responded to secure the area.
People reportedly jumped on police cars,
some throwing concrete blocks.
The police were really firing non-lethal rounds
and to try to disperse the crowd.
Daunte's mother calling for protestors
to calm down over a loudspeaker.
Protesters then regrouping later that night
with hundreds reportedly marching
to the Brooklyn Center Police Department headquarters.
And again, the protests were initially peaceful,
but according to reports around 9:30 PM
police declared an unlawful assembly
and gave people 10 minutes to disperse.
And about 25 minutes later
they started firing less lethal rounds
and flash bang grenades into the crowds that remained.
With standoff continuing to escalate through the night
with police reportedly firing rubber bullets,
and chemical agents of protesters.
Some of whom threw rocks, bags of garbage,
and water bottles back at them.
There's also a national guard troops arriving
just before midnight.
Also, looters began targeting nearby stores
including a Walmart.
According to reports, several businesses were completely
destroyed and around 20 total were targeted.
Mayor Elliott also ordered a curfew until 6:00 AM
this morning.
I mean, also he saw the local school superintendent say
that the district would hold classes remotely out
of an abundance of caution.
And finally here today, you had the commissioner
of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety saying that
more national guard troops will be deployed
to this area this week.
Where some were actually already stationed as part
of a public safety plan put in place
during the shove and trial.
But that is where we are with this right now.
Obviously the situation is still developing
and we're going to be keeping an eye on it.
And then for our final story today, it actually centers
around other police body cam footage from an incident
that actually happened back in early December,
but went viral over the weekend.
Right? So with that footage, we see officers, Joe Gutierrez
and Daniel Crocker pulling over Caron Nazario.
Who is a second Lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps who
pulls into a nearby gas station.
Immediately, the two officers approached
Nazario's car, gun's drawn, yelling.
- How many occupants are in your vehicle.
(inaudible)
Open the door slowly, step out.
Open the door.
(inaudible)
Get out the car.
- Lieutenant Nazario stays in his car.
He can be heard repeatedly asking why he's been stopped
or the officers continue to yell
at him to get out of the car.
- Yo, well, guess what I'm a veteran too I'm going to obey.
Get out of the car.
- What's going on?
- Get out of the car, now.
- What's going on?
- What's going on is you're fixing to ride
the lighting, son.
- Then see both officers getting closer to the vehicle
where Nazario is sitting with his hands up.
Continuing to yell at him to get out of the car.
- You receive our order, obey it.
- I'm honestly afraid to get out.
- Yeah, you should be.
Get out, get out.
- What's going on? - Get out.
- Get out the car.
- Get out, now.
- I have not committed any crime.
- You're being stopped by tribal violation
and you're not cooperating
at this point right now, you're under arrest.
You're being detained.
You're being detained for obstruction of justice.
- For traffic violation, I do not have to get out.
If you have...
- Really.
- Stop.
- Really.
- Get your hands...
- Get out of the car now. Get out of the car.
- The two officers then try to get Nazario out of his car,
he keeps asking what's going on.
Commonly asking them to not touch him, to please relax.
Repeating that he did not do anything.
And then we see this.
- This is not how you treat a vet,
I'm actively serving this country
and here's how you're gonna treat me.
I didn't do anything.
- Back up.
- Whoa, hold on. What's going, hold on.
(pepper spraying)
- Get out of the car.
Get out of the car, now.
- The officers keep yelling at Nazario
to get out of the car.
He says he's just trying to breathe.
Gutierrez repeatedly saying he'll spray him again
if he doesn't get out of the car.
He then forced him to the ground, they cuff him
while he continues to ask why he's being treated like this.
What's going on.
- Can you please talk to me about what's going on.
- Why am I being treated like this? Why?
- Cause your not cooperating get on the ground.
- This is really, this is (beep) up.
This is(beep) up.
- And very notably here, after all of that
the police didn't arrest Nazario, nor did they file charges.
Right, and, so in the police report from that night
the officer said that they had pulled him
over because his car did not have license plates.
But there, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month
by Nazario, he had recently bought the car
and was waiting for his plates,
but he reportedly had the temporary ones taped
in his rear window and they were visible.
The lawsuit also saying
that when police first pulled him over
there was nowhere for him to pull off safely.
So we went to the gas station about a mile down the road.
That was well lit.
And as far as Officer Gutierrez, it turns out
he was actually fired after an internal investigation
concluded, he had violated department policy.
Though it didn't say if he had been fired before,
or after the incident gained widespread attention
over the weekend, though, we do know that talent manager
William Saunders told the Virginia pilot
on Wednesday of both Gutierrez and his colleague
officer Daniel Crocker remained employed
with the department at that time.
But ultimately that is where we are with this story.
We're going to have to wait and see what happens next.
And honestly, that could be said
about pretty much everything we talked about.
Which is why I'll say whether be this story
or anything that stood out to you today.
I'd love to know your thoughts in those comments down below
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