RECENTLY A WOMAN BY THE NAME OF SHERITA DIXON COLE WHO IS
37 YEARS OLD GOT ARRESTED FOR DRINKING AND DRIVING IN THE
STATE OF TEXAS.
AFTER SHE GOT ARRESTED SHE HIRED AN ATTORNEY AND ALLEGED
THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO ARRESTED HER, WHO WORKS WITH THE
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY ASSAULTED HER,
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER DURING THE ARREST.
NOW WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED.
LIKELY THERE WAS BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE THE SHOW THE
ENTIRETY OF THE ARREST AND THE COPS DECIDED TO RELEASE TWO
HOURS OF FOOTAGE ON EDITED TO SHOW US WHAT REALLY
HAPPENED AND IT TURNS OUT THAT SHE LIED.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO SAY THAT TO OUR FOOTAGE BUT WE ARE
GOING TO SHOW YOU A SNIPPET OF IT.
TAKE A LOOK.
HOW MUCH ALCOHOL THAT YOU CONSUME THIS EVENING?
ONE DRINK.
JUST ONE.
WHAT WAS IT?
VODKA.
THANK YOU.
I ALSO SEE THERE ARE BOTTLES IN THE BACKSEAT.
I AM BRINGING THAT FROM MY HOUSE TO HIS HOUSE.
MA'AM, YOU ARE BEING PLACED UNDER ARREST FOR DRIVING
WHILE INTOXICATED, FACED TOWARD MY CAR.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND SET APPEAR.
I'M IN A REACH AROUND AND BUCKLE YOU IN.
JAYAR POINTED THIS OUT TO ME AND I WANTED TO ALSO POINTED OUT
TO YOU.
IN THE END OF THE VIDEO YOU CAN SEE HOW THE COP PULLS THE
SEED FELL AND HE IS SO CAREFUL TO NOT TOUCH HER AND ANYWAY.
THE WAY HE HANDLED THE SITUATION WAS PERFECT.
HE WAS RESPECTFUL, HE DIDN'T TOUCH HER IN A TYPO WAY
THAT COULD BE QUESTIONABLE.
HE HANDLED THAT PERFECTLY ANSWER KNOW THAT HE WAS
VICTIMIZED, POTENTIALLY VICTIMIZED WITH SERIOUS
CHARGES IF HE WASN'T WEARING THAT CAMERA.
THAT CAMERA PROVIDED EVIDENCE THAT HE DID NOTHING WRONG.
THE BODY CAMERA IS NOT TO PUNISH COPS.
IT IS TO FIND OUT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
IN THIS CASE, IT HELPS THE COPS BECAUSE IT WAS FALSE
CHARGES AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING
WRONG, WHICH IS THE THING THE COPS SAY ALL THE TIME, YOU
SHOULD LOVE THE BODY CAMERA ON YOU.
THESE ARE TWO STORIES IN A ROW, THE LEGISLATOR IN NEW MEXICO WHO
COULD'VE PULLED A POWER PLAY ON THE COPS BUT THERE WAS A CAMERA
THAT SHOWED THAT SHE IN FACT WAS TRYING TO PERSUADE THEM TO LET
HER OFF BECAUSE SHE WAS A LEGISLATOR AND IN THIS CASE THIS
WOMAN TOTALLY LIED ABOUT THE COP WHO WAS INCREDIBLY RESPECTFUL
AND THE BODY CAMERA SHOWS THAT.
ANOTHER REASON TO HAVE CAMERAS.
WE'RE NOT ANTI-COP, WE ARE PRO-JUSTICE DONE THIS CASE
THE COP IS THE VICTIM BECAUSE HE IS A FALSE CHARGES AGAINST
HIM AND THE BODY CAMERA, THE EVIDENCE, THE FACTS SHOWED
HE WAS RIGHT AND WE GOT JUSTICE.
EXACTLY.
WHEN THE STORY FIRST CAME OUT BEFORE WE HAD ANY ACCESS TO THAT
BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT
IN SUPPORT OF THE WOMAN WHO GOT ARRESTED, AND SO ONE OF THOSE
PEOPLE WAS HER ATTORNEY, LEE MERRITT AND HE HAS NOW
APOLOGIZED
FOR ANYTHING HE HAS SAID PRIOR TO THE VIDEO COMING OUT.
I WANT TO READ YOU HIS APOLOGY.
HE SAYS:
HE SPECIFICALLY TALKED ABOUT HOW HE SHOULD'VE MADE THE SUCH
A PUBLIC CASE BEFORE SEEING ALL THE EVIDENCE AND I THINK
THAT IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE TO ADMIT THAT.
SHAUN KING, WHO USED TO WORK AT THE YOUNG TURKS AND NOW AT THE
INTERCEPT AND HAS HIS OWN PAC TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE, ALSO
PUBLICIZED THE CASE BUT TO BE FAIR FOR THE ATTORNEY, HE
REPRESENTS HER, TO BE FAIR TO SHAWN KING, 99 OUT OF 100 TIMES
THESE CASES ARE REAL AND THE COPS WON'T TURN OVER THE BODY
CAN EVIDENCE FOR MONTHS SO ARE YOU JUST ABOUT TO SIT BACK AND
GO THAT IS OKAY I JUST TRUST THE COPS, I'M SURE EVERYTHING WILL
BE FINE?
IN THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE CASE IS NOT THE CASE
AND NOT BELIEVING THE VICTIM OUT OF HAND IS NOT THE RIGHT POLICY.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN EVIDENCE COMES IN?
AND IN
THIS CASE, THE LAWYER WALKS IT BACK AND SAYS MY BAD.
SHAUN KING CAME IN AND WALKED IT ALL THE WAY BACK.
SO YOU HAVE SOME QUOTES THERE?
I DO.
LET'S GO TO GRAPHIC 68.
HE TWEETED ABOUT IT AND THEN HE ALSO WROTE A LENGTHY BLOG
ABOUT THIS.
I THINK IT IS
IMPORTANT TO DIFFERENTIATE BECAUSE WHAT
SHE DID WAS NOT DAMAGING POTENTIALLY SEVERELY
DAMAGING TO THAT, BUT IT IS SO DAMAGING TO WOMEN WHO DO
GET SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND DO WANT TO SPEAK OUT.
AND THE MINORITIES WHO SUFFER OFTENTIMES AT THE HANDS OF
POLICE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY BUT NOW THEIR CLAIMS WILL
BE TAKEN A LITTLE LESS SERIOUSLY BECAUSE OF HER ACTIONS.
THAT IS WHAT THESE FALSE ACCUSATIONS ARE SO HURTFUL
BUT TO ME WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW
RIGHT-WING AND LEFT-WING WILL REACT.
RIGHT-WING SEES EVIDENCE AND GOES FAKE NEWS, FAKE NEWS
AND WE DENY IT, WE STRONGLY DENY IT NO MATTER HOW
OVERWHELMING THE EVIDENCES.
HERE, BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT JUSTICE WHETHER IT WAS US,
WE DIDN'T REPORT ON THE STORY BUT SHAUN KING WHO HAS A WHOLE
PAC DEDICATED TO JUSTICE, I AM GOING TO SUPPORT THE COP
BECAUSE HE IS TRUE.
THAT SHOULD BE APPLAUDED.
OKAY, HE ACTUALLY DOES CARE TO SERVE THE TRUTH AND JUSTICE
AND SO THAT IS A GUY I CAN TRUST MORE, NOT LESS.
IT SHOULD WORK OUT THAT WAY BUT I FEEL LIKE RIGHT NOW
ANY ADMISSION OF, ANY MISTAKE AT ANY POINT.
YOURÖ BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU ADMIT YOU ARE WRONG YOU GET
PUNISHED, AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE.
IF YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU REMAIN DEFIANT AND FEELS LIKE
PEOPLE RECORD YOU FOR THAT WHEN IT SHOULD BE THE OPPOSITE.
THEY CALL IT 50-50 AND THE MEDIA GOES I AM GOING TO DO
BALANCE HERE BUT YOU KNOW THAT DOES?
IT GIVES THE GIANT ADVANTAGE TO LIES BECAUSE OF THE TRUTH IS NOT
ON AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD AND THE LIES ARE GIVEN JUST AS MUCH
CREDIT AS THE TRUTH THEN YOU ARE NOT DOING JOURNALISM AND IT
GIVES AN INCENTIVE TO LIVE BECAUSE THEY KNOW PEOPLE LIKE
SHAWN KING, THEY ADMIT IT WHEN THEY ARE WRONG.
THAT IS A MISTAKE.
WE NEVER ADMIT IT WHEN WE ARE WRONG BUT FOR ALL OF YOU OUT
THERE WHO ARE NOT PARTISAN SEE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT REPUBLICAN
OR DEMOCRATIC PARTY, SEE HOW PEOPLE REACT TO THEIR MISTAKES
AND WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT FACTS, REASON, LOGIC,
REALITY AND THEN MAKE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT THEM.