The verdict in the Derek Chauvin
trial was read today, he's
found guilty on all three charges,
which is a pretty big deal
considering all the injustice we've
been dealing with in this country
regarding policing.
That includes the guilty charge for
second degree unintentional murder,
guilty on third degree murder and
also guilty for
second degree manslaughter.
So of course we're going to get
lots of different reactions to
these convictions, especially from
right wingers and Greg Gutfeld, Fox
News host couldn't help himself.
He jumped in right away with this
statement, take a look.
>> And now I'm going to just
get really selfish.
I'm glad that he was found guilty
on all charges.
>> Yeah.
>> Even if he might not be guilty
of all charges.
I am glad that he's guilty of all
charges because I want
a verdict that keeps this
country from going up in flames.
>> My God.
>> No.
>> What do you mean?
>> Look, Greg, listen. >> What do
you mean no,
I'm at least being honest.
My neighborhood was looted.
I don't ever wana go through that
again. >> Greg, Greg, we do not
sacrifice individuals for the sake.
>> [CROSSTALK] I'm saying he's
guilty, I'm saying I'm glad about
the verdict.
>> I'm glad about the verdict even
if he wasn't guilty of the things
he was convicted of, that's what
Greg Gutfeld said there.
So he's actually not happy with
the verdict.
He finds the verdict incorrect or
I mean, it's amazing.
Did he sit on the on the jury?
Did he listen to all
the compelling evidence?
Did he listen to the police chief
for the department testifying under
oath that what Derek Chauvin did in
kneeling on the neck of
George Floyd and essentially
murdering him was not actually part
of the department's policy,
was not part of their training.
He was not supposed to do that.
The police chief, and we know that
in policing, there's this culture
of everyone looking out for
one another no matter what, and in
this case you have the police chief
testifying against Derek Chauvin.
But none of that matters to
Greg Gutfeld, Francesca,
none of that matters, yeah.
>> No and it's funny because I
think Jeanine Pirro tries to
jump in and initially you're like,
you hear that, no.
Like that's terrible.
And I'm like, is that one Williams
who's saying that,
is it like one of the less crazy
Fox correspondence, and it's
Jeanine Pirro who's basically like,
no, we shouldn't sacrifice and
I think she means Derek Chauvin.
Just to prevent our cities
from being looted supposedly, so
she's like defending Derek Chauvin.
And of course she is because she's
the worst.
But like Gutfeld is doing what
the right is going to continue
to do around Chauvin and
they have been, right?
Whether it's Shapiro,
whether it's Gutfeld, whether it's
going to be Tucker Carlson and I
know we're going to talk about him,
but if you at all, if you kill
Black Lives Matter protesters or
you kill a black person, you will
immediately become a murder.
Doesn't matter if you're
a murderer by law,
you're going to be a martyr.
And so honestly, looking at
40 years that Chauvin may get,
I don't know, I would say that's
going to be more like 12,
it might even be more like 8.
It might even be more like 4, and
you can bet that he's going to come
out and be a murder for the right
and will completely lean into it.
Maybe he'll run for office.
I'm so sorry to paint this picture.
But I think people who've been in
this struggle for a long time,
well know that sadly that is what
happens.
And so yeah, Gutfled's claiming
that he cares about cities.
I think they're cool,
with the massive amount of like
Fallujah tanks that are rolling
through Minneapolis right now.
I think everyone's safe,
not safe from police, but
definitely safe from demonstrators.
>> The New York Times actually had
a great piece recently that looked
into the militarized response to
Black Lives Matter protests last
summer, and
how that was ineffective policing
that only escalated violence
during these demonstrations.
We keep hearing about the looting,
we keep hearing about businesses
getting broken into.
Well, rather than spending
all of that manpower with the cops,
essentially brutalizing protesters
who have a legitimate reason
to protest, they could have
protected those businesses.
They could have focused on that,
but they didn't, and no one ever
talks about that, right?
There's a reason why the only thing
you see in the media and
Brett Erlich made this point,
he's absolutely right.
The media is not just going to
cover peaceful protests.
They're going to cover the violent
angle to it, because that's
the sensationalized angle
that's going to get the eyeballs
watching the program, right?
But is that indicative of what
the movement is?
Is this something that Black Lives
Matter is encouraging people to do,
to engage in violence and
looting, of course not.
But it's the narrative that the
right wing likes to run away with,
because they want to distract and
deflect from the very real problem
that we're seeing in this country
when it comes to policing.
My guess is they do it because of
the racial angle that they
want to just minimize and
pretend like it doesn't exist, but
policing is brutal overall.
It disproportionately impacts
communities of color.
But it doesn't matter if you're
an elderly woman with dementia.
It doesn't matter if you're
an elderly man protesting in
Buffalo, New York.
They will brutalize you if you dare
to challenge their authority, and
that is a problem.
It should certainly be a problem
for right wingers who claim that
they have a problem with big
government, right?
When the government's cracking your
skull, they're okay with it though.
>> Absolutely, I just want to
mention though that, one the other
pieces of this testimony,
I know we're not going to go
through the whole trial, but
the other thing that stuck out to
me that I think is really
important, is the ways that a lot
of right wingers will say.
Well, you just don't like
the police because you don't live
in a high crime neighborhood or the
police are here to protect, etc.
And the testimony of
the store clerk,
who called the police because he
thought that George Floyd had used
a counterfeit $20 bill.
And he testified that he wishes he
didn't call the police because they
didn't help.
They actually just murdered a man
outside of the store where he
worked, right?
And this is a perfect example of,
here is a minor,
minor infraction or whatever it is,
counterfeit $20 bill.
By the way, a lot of homeless and
poor folks do that,
it happens a lot.
When you murder someone over that,
you're murdering someone over
the crime of being poor, all right?
But it's a perfect example of that,
here you have this gentleman
who was like, I wish I hadn't
called because we probably could
have solved it ourselves.
And I think that's where the BLM
movement, movement for
black lives and other folks have
really sort of set this bar, is
like how can we reimagine safety?
Yeah, there was a problem.
Yeah, okay, the clerk was scared.
He didn't want to be on the hook
for 20 bucks if he accepted it, but
is there someone else to call who's
not armed, who's not rife with
institutional racism?
Who can actually deescalate,
who can talk to George Floyd as
a human being, right?
And you have this whole thing
avoided.
>> And also yes, policing
absolutely needs to be reformed,
but it's not good enough to just
reform policing, right?
If we're concerned about crime,
what are the underlying causes,
right?
There's a reason why crime did
increase during the pandemic.
And many of those crimes were
crimes of desperation.
We're talking about burglaries,
robberies, those types of things.
I'm not justifying it, but you do
have to take a step back and ask,
okay, well what are the underlying
problems, societal issues here that
we need to actually pay some
attention to, rather than just
simply focusing on band aids to fix
what we're seeing in various cities
across the country.
And one other thing I want to
point out,
it's all about perspective, right?
So if you live in a more affluent
part of town, if you happen to be
part of a specific demographic,
then policing has probably been
pretty great for you, right?
You call the cops if you feel
threatened, they're going to show
up, you're not worried about them
brutalizing you in any way.
Understand that your perspective
and your first hand experience with
policing might be very different
from what other communities and
other people, other demographics
are experiencing.
So that's the other part of
this, right?
I would argue that everyone wants
to feel safe,
everyone wants protection.
It's just that not everyone in this
country has gotten it from how
policing is done in this
country so far.
And then one final thing that I
have to say about Greg Gutfeld, and
other conservatives like him.
Look, if they're worried about
looting, if they're worried about
activists engaging in violence,
I would like to hear them respond
to the double standard that
they engage in on a regular basis
where they minimize the criminality
of the Capitol Hill rioters.
They pretend like it was no big
deal, and then at the same time
when it comes to demonstrations
about something very legitimate,
they'll go ahead and demonize them
and defame them is nothing more
than looters and rioters.
Which by the way in Florida right
now, thanks to a law that was just
signed by Governor Ron de Santis,
if you're a motorist, you decide to
run over protesters on the road,
you have immunity at this point.
It's insane- >> Yeah, if there were
sneakers inside of Capitol Hill,
I feel like Greg Gutfeld would
get upset about the looting there.
If people were running out with
anything other than like
Nancy Pelosi swag,
it'd be like, my God, is looting.
[LAUGH] No, it's just trumpers
stealing the constitution, what?
That's fine.