WE'VE GOT NEW DETAILS ON A MASS ARREST THAT ENDED A NEW
YEAR'S EVE PARTY AFTER POLICE FOUND A TINY LITTLE BIT OF
DRUGS, AND WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THESE DETAILS --
>>THEY WERE PROBABLY FLEEING THE PREMISES BECAUSE IT WAS
BEING RAIDED BY THE POLICE --
>>-- WHICH CONTEXTUALLY IS
EITHER A RIGHT THAT ALL
AMERICANS HAVE, OR IS A REASON TO ARREST DOZENS AND DOZENS OF
PEOPLE.
SO --
>>SO THEY HAD TO ARREST 63 PEOPLE.
DAMN, THAT'S A BIG
PARTY.
I'VE NEVER HAD A PARTY THAT BIG --
>>ALTHOUGH TO BE FAIR IT WAS 1 OUNCE, SO I'M SURE SOME OF THOSE
63 PEOPLE WERE OUT OF ARM'S REACH OF IT --
>>IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE
FOR THEM ALL TO HAVE POSSESSED
IT, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ONE GRAIN AT THAT POINT --
>>YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WAS IN GEORGIA, IT WAS IN
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NOW --
>>>> YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WAS IN GEORGIA AND IT WAS
IN CARTERSVILLE.
I WONDER PERHAPS THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO
WITH CARTERSVILLE.
>> IN THE BEGINNING THEY DON'T
TALK ABOUT WHAT THE RACE IS.
THEN I READ THEY WERE THREATENED
WITH TEASERS.
OUR PARTYGOERS MORE LIKELY TO BE
BLACK?
THEN THEY WERE LOCKED UP
IN CAGES.
THERE IS NO WAY THEY
ARE WHITE.
AND THEN I SAW THIS QUOTE, THEY TOLD ME IT WAS AN UNFIT PERSON
TO HAVE A BABY.
I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GOING
TO BE IN THE STORY.
OF COURSE THEY ARE BLACK.
YOU THINK THEY ARE GOING TO A WHITE PARTY AND WRIST 63
PEOPLE AND PUT THEM INTO CAGES OVER AN
OUNCE OF MARIJUANA.
THE NATIONAL AVERAGE IS A LITTLE LOWER TO BE FAIR.
ARE THEY TARGETING BLACK PEOPLE IN MASS?
THE COPS THERE DON'T
HAVE TO GO WITH THE MINDSET OF I HATE ALL BLACK PEOPLE IF THEY
ARE BLACK.
THAT'S NOT WHAT WE ARE SAYING BUT THERE ARE ASSUMPTIONS THEY
MAKE.
WHICH LEADS TO BLACK PEOPLE BEING ARRESTED FOUR TIMES THE
RATE OF WHITE PEOPLE FOR THE
SAME HARMLESS OFFENSES OF SMOKING MARIJUANA OR IN THIS
CASE NOT SMOKING IT.
>>I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CUPS THEY HAD THERE BUT WHY DIDN'T
ONE LOOK AROUND AS THEY WERE
CARTING OFF DOZENS.
I LIKE TO BE VERY UPFRONT ABOUT THE THINGS I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
EXPERIENCE TO TALK ABOUT.
I WILL SAY I HAVE DECADES OF EXPERIENCE OF BEING WHITE.
>> LAST THING, THERE ARE THREE LAYERS TO
THE STORY, THE
OUTRAGEOUS WAR ON DRUGS THAT IS SO MONUMENTALLY STUPID.
THERE IS THE RACIAL ANGLE.
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ANGLE IS THE CLASS ANGLE.
IT'S CONCEIVABLE, IT IS 63
WHITE GUYS IN THE MIDDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA.
THERE ARE NOT ARRESTING PEOPLE IN BEVERLY HILLS FOR AN OUNCE
OF MARIJUANA, OR AT PRINCETON, OR WALL STREET.
THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN OVER
AN OUNCE OF MARIJUANA.
BUT IF YOU ARE POOR YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU, THEY JUST LOOK
AT YOU AS SOMETHING THEY HAVE TO PROCESS.
>>I THINK THEY WOULD NOT ARREST A PARTY OF 63 PEOPLE IN BEVERLY
HILLS IF THEY HAD AN OUNCE OF WEAPONS GRADE PLUTONIUM.