this is not right. it was just so hard to comprehend. so emotional. and we re gonna stay in the streets for as long as it takes for tyre to see justice, for his family to see justice. and for all the victims of this racist police brutality. the washington post columnist, quote, too many officers of all races and ethnicities are imbued with the culture of black man who has a broken taillight or makes an illegal u-turn as a citizen who made a mistake. they see him as a threat to police dominance and control, and therefore as someone who must be subdued, humiliated, cowed, put in his place. joining me now, activist and nbc host of the undoes tract and podcast and civil rights attorney and an innocent pc legal analyst, charles coleman junior. brittani, i want to start with a big question. how do we need to rethink policing in this country?
deeply dangerous. what we saw happen to tyre nichols is happening across the country. maybe not in ways we all see and result in the horrific end that tyre met, but we know he s not the first to be killed at the hands of law enforcement from these specialized units or from officers engaging in a routine traffic stop that escalates by their own effort that winds up to be a lethal situation. eugene, i want to read an excerpt from your column in reaction. you write that the perpetrators sometimes matters, but the race of the victims always matters. too many with the culture of us versus them do not see a black man with a broken taillight or makes an illegal u turn as a citizen who makes a
eagle stops. so, it does happen. and it continues to happen. i mean, i don t want to conflate what we are talking about here. i just want to address why you should have armed officers no, no. what i m saying is i will ask you a similar question, frank. because we live in an era where we have drones. i have gotten traffic tickets when i got home because a robot in the sky saw that i had a traffic ticket. if someone is speeding, why does somebody need to call into a dispatcher to say, hey, i am chasing this person who was driving too fast down the speed limit, or driving a radically, when literally, if it is a matter of a ticket that they are going to receive at the end of the day, you could literally send them the ticket in the mail? so, why are we stopping cars because there is something wrong with a taillight, when you can photograph that and send them a ticket will joy why are they pulling people over at all?
blowing a stop sign. what people say they want from police is that when a mass shooter comes in a fourth grade classroom, they run in there with their assault weapons and stop the mass shooter. that does not happen. what ends up happening is, somebody with a taillight out ends up dead in the middle of the street because they happen to be a black guy with a taillight out out. and no matter how police look, i have friends who are police. my father was a retired police officer. police are being told that what we want is for them to stop that person who is five miles over the speed limit by any means necessary, and if they get out of the car and chase them down and do whatever you want that is what they are doing. at they are doing. frank? tim has been eloquent and right on the money with much of his comments. i m going to take it even a step further, backwards, because he s emphasizing training, which is absolutely correct. and he has also previously
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