lynchings. a 9/11 every six months of blacks killing blacks and they are going to tell me our problem is a picture hanging. tucker: so is it possible that let s say you are in charge of a society or a big city and your policies weren t helping at all, people were still dying young, shooting each other, for example. maybe you would encourage people to be mad about irrelevant things like coal dust pictures so they wouldn t be mad at you for mismanaging their lives. that s true. because many of those killings that are occurring in cities run by black democrats over the past 40 years. so if politics and race where the issue, the question is why are not blacks succeeding? if we look in other words, at a time when whites were at their worst and blacks were at their best between 1920 and 1940 during segregation, the education gap in the south was three years, five years for blacks, eight years for whites. within 20 years we closed that gap within six months because we
use of deadly force, including shootings and head strikes with impact weapons, the unnecessary excessive or retaliatory use of less lethal force including tasers, chemicals or fists, excessive force against persons mentally ill or in crisis included cases where officers were called exclusively called for a welfare check. that doesn t sound like police officers responding to some sort of outburst of black-on-black crime. sounds like a systematic problem with the cleveland police force. it s clearly a systematic problem within the police force. one of the cases they looked at that they identify was a person getting shot and he had his underwear on. how can you shoot a guy that has his underwear on? clearly, it s not isolated incidents. it is a pattern of problems within the cleveland police department that we re going to have to clean up. but after we clean up those problems, we also, joy, have to look at, that we ve got a problem of blacks killing blacks
i mean, it s just unacceptable. congresswoman, a study of race in stand your ground cases showed there is a clear division between white and black victims. the tampa bay times found that in 200 cases, people who killed a black person walked 73% of the time. those who killed a white person went free only 59% of the time. and this is whether it s blacks killing blacks. you know how hard we fight that as well in our own community. but this data is startling and is grounds for review just on the application based on race of stand your ground. absolutely. that s true. but it embolds people to do things they ordinarily would not do. for example, texting. so you are texting now. and so i feel like, well, i feel
cocaine to get the same system. look at the high unemployment numbers in this country, with specific regard to african-american men. finally, consider this, bill, the only reason why this case even was brought in the first place. the only reason why it came to trial is because there was a national human cry. if there was a value for black male life in america that there is for white male life in america, it wouldn t have required all that it took just to get this even the charges even filed, the case even brought, bill. bill: look, i m glad the case came to trial. i think the trial was fair. all the points you raised are so societal problems where there is anoth there is genocide going on in chicago and it s blacks killing blacks. okay? whites have nothing to do with it i don t believe that america has contempt for black men. i believe a lot of the problem is generated by blacks themselves that won t solve the problems of their neighborhoods. bill, i just offered five reasons, five
cocaine to get the same system. look at the high unemployment numbers in this country, with specific regard to african-american men. finally, consider this, bill, the only reason why this case even was brought in the first place. the only reason why it came to trial is because there was a national human cry. if there was a value for black male life in america that there is for white male life in america, it wouldn t have required all that it took just to get this even the charges even filed, the case even brought, bill. bill: look, i m glad the case came to trial. i think the trial was fair. all the points you raised are so societal problems where there is another side. there is genocide going on in chicago and it s blacks killing blacks. okay? whites have nothing to do with it i don t believe that america has contempt for black men. i believe a lot of the problem is generated by blacks themselves that won t solve the problems of their neighborhoods. bill, i just offered five reaso