which is kind of like saying
some of my best friends are Black.
You know.
Well, I do. I got two cops my family.
Chicago suburb and a Mississippi State Trooper.
We get to talking about everything that's going on, man.
And I was trying to explain to them,
it's base-level shit the police could be doing.
We ain't talking legislation and policy,
just base-level shit you could do
to help build a bridge to make things a little better.
First thing the police need to do --
This is one thing I think the police should start doing.
Stop talking in code on the radio.
Use regular words.
Why y'all talking all these abbreviations and shit?
Why are you keeping secrets?
Secrets is what got you in trouble all this time.
Stop keeping secrets.
You ain't in Iraq.
You ain't giving away your position to the enemy.
Use regular words.
You're in front of the Walgreens.
I can see you. Everybody can see you.
But that ain't what the police do.
You heard the police talk to each other on the radio?
The shit is gibberish.
And it's how the police talk to each other.
It's just gibberish.
"Three Victor, two David, two David, two Victor."
[ Gibbers indistinctly ]
When we be watching the police in the grocery store,
they see us looking at the radio,
the police love to play it off,
act like they understood what dispatch was talking about.
"Three Adam, David, three Adam, David.
We have a respond code." [ Gibbers indistinctly ]
"Three Victor, 10-4."
Like, you don't know what she just said.
Stop fucking around.
You don't know what she just said to you.
And you wonder why the police show up
and shoot the wrong person.
'Cause you ain't getting the right information
through the radio.
Slow it down. Slow it down.
Use regular words.
There's a lot of shit the cops could be doing, man.
The other thing -- The other thing the police could do --
This would really build a bridge.
Every cop in this country, once a month,
let a nigga go.
I'm serious.
Not every day, not every shift, not every week,
but just once a month,
let a nigga go.
And not for every crime. I'm not saying for all crime.
There's certain crimes that have to be --
like, murder, the ATF, SVU.
Like, you keep the hits.
You know, the major crime, you still gotta go to jail for that.
But a lot of crime that's out there
that cops take us to jail for,
you ain't got to take me to jail for this, man.
Come on, dawg.
Just 'cause it's a crime
don't mean that you've got to enforce it.
Really? Really, dawg, crack?
You're gonna take me to jail for some crack?
Like crack -- That's what we arresting people for still?
Crack -- And not a shipment of crack.
I'm talking about my own personal allotment for me.
My own -- My rock.
A crack. One single rock. A crack.
You gonna take me to jail for a crack, sir?
That's what you're gonna do?
It's drugs, dawg. It's an addiction.
It's not criminal.
Drop me off at the don't-do-crack-no-more building
and go fight the real crime.
'Cause that's how you build the bridge.
'Cause the rift between good cop and bad cop and the argument,
it just boils down to who had a good interaction
with the police.
That's all it boils down to.
And if once a month, you letting a nigga go,
you are creating allies out the ass.
'Cause that's who's gonna defend you at the next protest.
Who you think gonna defend you at the next protest?
You wouldn't even need all that Blue Lives Matter flag
if you just start letting niggas go free once a month.
"We got to defund the police, abolish these police!"
"Hang on. Hang on, now, baby. Hang on.
I had some crack on me last Thursday,
and that brother just let me go.
Look, this is a nuanced conversation
with a lot of layers to it,
and we just need to think about
what our forefathers would have wanted.
That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.
I'mma go smoke some crack. I'll be right back.
[ Inhales deeply ] Ow!"
[ Sniffs ]
The last Black person to have a positive interaction
with the police and speak about it on the record is Ice Cube.
"Just yesterday, them fools tried to blast me.
Saw the police and they..."
Audience: "Rolled right past me."
That was 30 years ago, y'all.
And we never forgot that one cop.
And he didn't even do shit to Ice Cube.
He ain't pull him over and give him ice cream.
He just let him go.
Ice Cube was sitting at a red light,
that cop saw Ice Cube and drove off,
and Ice Cube was like,
"Oh, shit, I gotta go to the studio right now.
Call D.J. Pooh.
We got to fucking make a track about this shit.
What's the score of the Lakers Supersonic game?"
[ Audience laughs ]