Trevor lets begin with the police. If youre black, you know them as the guys pulling you over. If youre white, you know them as the guys that give lap dances at bachelorette parties. For three weeks since the killing of george floyd, millions of people around the country have been calling for police to be reined in. And after weeks of local leaders responding to the protests, today, the president carefull carefully shuffled down the ramp into the fray. Called for some modest changes, like a database to track police misconduct. There was a new thing that would challenger Police Departments not to use choke holds, saying the choke holds should not be used unless an officer felt like his life was in danger, which means the thing can be used, but it cant be used. But it can be used. When trump came out to make these remarks, it just felt like his heart wasnt in it. Americans believe we must summit the brave men and women in blue who police our streets and keep them safe. Americans know the
Honest. I think this is a move in the right direction because people take for granted how our perceptioning of the police are shaped by the shows we watch on tv. When we hear about Police Brutality, a lot of people are like, that cant be right. I grew up watching shows like miami vice, starsky hutch, and hawaii 50. All the cops, they never did anything wrong. If you think about it, even when we did watch cop shows about police violating somebodys rights or beating them up to get a confession, what did we think as kids . We thought, this job was trying to do his job but the constitution is holding him back. So no more cops. That isnt the only problematic content being removed from american tv. This morning, an American Cinema classic gone with the wind has been temporarily pulled by the streaming platform hbo max. For years, the movie has been considered controversial for its depiction of black people and glorification of slavery. In a statement, hbo max writing in part, these racist de
For about 30 minutes. Asking him, is he drunk, why is he driving, what is going on. It seems pretty standard. And the whole time throughout this video you have human beings being human beings. You have rayshard who is clearly inebriated and he is talking to the cops and you have cops asking the questions, what was interesting to me about this video is in the beginning it seems like everything is goes to be fine. The cops are talking to him like a person. Theyre not being theyre not being disrespectful, they are not being mean or anything. Hes being respectful. He is calling them sir. He is not kussing them out. Hes offering to walk, everything is going well. Everything is going well. And then in one moment in just a few seconds, every part of that normal story turns into the abnormal ending that weve come to know as interactions with police and black people. Because the police try and arrest him. He resists and he wrestles with the police. In the scuffle they try and tase him, while is
The very beginning. So if youre confused, or if you dont agree, or if you just want to try and find out what the hell is going on, well, tonights episode is specific for you you. Yeah, you bryan. I see you. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. Announcer from trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show, with trevor noah. Trevor all right, before we get into the conversation thats happening among activists and everyone in america, lets catch up with the ongoing conversation in washington. Because while the movement in the street has been building up steam, democrats in washington have been scrambling to respond. But yesterday, i think they figured it out. With some were not a fan of the colorfucolorful kente scarf turt into a political prop. Trevor okay i understand the symbol symbolic gesture of kneeling to remember george floyd. What i dont understand is why they had to dress like extras from coming to america 2.
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