doubt about that. allowing that doubt, that doubt that he might not run for reelection is the same thing as just announcing that you re not going to run. and so it was very easy for me to say back in december, with certainty, that paul ryan was not going to run. and today, when he finally said it, he actually had the audacity to compare himself to one of the most successful and beloved speakers in history. look, i know most speakers don t go out on their own terms, tip o neill was probably the last one to do that. no. tip o neill served 10 years and was 70 years old.
gestures that we know are going to be offensive. mark, why are you shaking your head? that s just not helpful. well, because i live what he s saying. i try to. but we have to deal with some harsh realities that we have become a more polarized country in the past year than i ve ever seen before or than i ve ever read about. we now have a situation where the bigots, the racists are so emboldened that we have things like charlottesville and we have situations where outward racist and bigoted attacks he seem to be happening on a daily basis. so cedric, i agree with what you re saying, and we can t let this get us down too far. bealso have to deal with the harsh realities that what we ve tried over the past decade or two or three if it s led us to today and to the past year this formula s not working right and we ve got to do something new, something different, something better. neill, i ll give the quick
where the healing can even begin and the wounds are just going to get deeper. neill, he has been accuse of a pattern of racist comments and behavior including slamming an african-american tooem teening head into a metal doorjamb, saying that black people are like isis and he d like to be on the firing squad. why would a police chief feel emboldened enough to behave like that? because he s never been held accountable. not only has he not obviously been held accountable but we don t see a lot of accountability across this country when it comes to our police officers and the things that they do that are inappropriate and sometimes even against the law. we ve got to start holding people accountable. and there have been two other recent inappropriate incidents. university of nevada, reno police officer wore a halloween costume mocking colin kaepernick. many thought the costume was racist. anti-indian, snand chinese campaign mailers were sent anonymously to homes in edison, new jersey
i mean we all understand if the state wants to they can retry him. if he is convicted and sitting in jail it is of no significance if he is victimed on his first or second trial. but it is clearly a victory for the defense and a problem and as neill was referring to, this is an officer who made a statement. he s the only one that made a meaningful statement and they need his testimony to get to goodson. the state made it clear they wanted him as a potential witness. this hung jury messes the state s plans up and i wouldn t be surprised if the state doesn t ask to postpone some of the other cases. there will be a retrial, do you think and do you think there will be a change in venue? i don t think this has any impact on a change in venue. i don t think it has any relationship to it.
the last year with policing. you re saying that a lot of people are going to have to leave their jobs as police officers in order for there to be a revolution. yeah i think so. i think that some have already decided to leave, because they feel that they re not getting the support that they deserve. i personally think that they are. i think that they needed to be committed to the job that they have signed on to do. they ve taken an oath to serve the public. and on the other side of that coin we the people who are going to have to work at purging our police departments of those officers who are abusive, those officers who we know that have lied on the stand and perjured themselves on the stand, and we need to take a proactive measure in ensuring that that happens. and city governments should be leading that. and that is the solution that we promise. thank you very much neill frank franklin franklin. coming up a white officer found not guilty in the shooting deaths of two unarmed blac