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Police Brutality....When Will It End · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what's up? What's up? What's up? Y'all? Happy Tuesday,
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  and welcome back to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted.
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  Y'all already know who it is. It's your girl, Ash,
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  bring you another beautiful episode on this beautiful Tuesday. I
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  hope everyone is having an amazing day so far. I
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  hope everyone has had a beautiful start of the week.
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  Can y'all believe we are like halfway through all it?
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  Like we almost don't August, Like, what the hell? Like?
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  Where does the time go? But anyone that is new
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  to Black Girl interrupt the podcast before I get started.
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  I always, always, always, always, always, it is imperative that
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  I do my mental health check ins. I do these
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  simply because I want to know how you're feeling. I
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  want to know how you're doing. As a person that
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  has struggled with depression and anxiety for many, many, many years,
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  it is my due diligence to make sure that you
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  guys are doing wonderful as well. I always want to
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  check in because I want you all to know that
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  you're not alone. I want you to know that you
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  are loved. I want you to know that we you
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  know that we see you, and we want you to
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  stay here. We want you to be here with us.
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  We want you to come out of the dark. We
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  want you to be in alike with us. We want
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  you to come and hang out with us. We want
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  to celebrate you. We want to love on you, we
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  want to pour into you. And most importantly, I want
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  you to learn to love you. I want you to
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  know that today may be a bad day, tomorrow may
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  be a better day. So again, in you, that's new too,
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  black all interrupted. I always start off with something motivational,
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  something inspirational. Oh there's my sister. Hey, beautiful girl, girl,
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  I had the rug. Let me tell you so. I
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  was supposed to start writing eight o'clock girl, while I
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  had to run the wall Mark. Girl, I had to
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  get another cable. Girl's cable didn't short it out on me. Girl,
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  I couldn't hear nothing. Girl, I'm ready. So I had
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  to run the wallmart really quickly and grab a cable.
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  So the devil tried to stop me tonight. But guess
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  what God said, I God say, hold on, wait a minute,
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  this one is mine, this one belongs to me. So
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  but thank you for tuning in. Since I love you. You
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  know I love you, girl. You know what we get.
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  You know what we going girl, were getting close up
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  today European tour girl. Don't you word? I told you? Okay,
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  that's a conversation me and my sulster have outside. But
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  I just always have to love and brag on my
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  sister because I don't know where I would be without
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  that woman. I don't even think y'all understand. But anyway,
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  but again, y'all, welcome back to Leglin, to the podcast again,
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  anyone that is new to my show. I always love
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  to start the show with something inspirational, something motivational, something
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  to keep someone encouraged. Again, you never know what a
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  person is going through, and it takes zero time away
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  from you. It takes zero time from you know, zero
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  dollars from your income just to check in on someone,
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  just to check in and let them know, Hey, I'm
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  thinking about you. You cross my mind to day and
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  I just want to tell you how much I love you.
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  I'm thinking about you, I'm praying for you, and that
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  I hope whatever storm it is that you're going through,
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  that you will make it through. So before we get
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  started with tonight's conversation, here is something just a little motivational,
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  something just to let you know that I appreciate you
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  and that I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Haters motivate me because when they're talking about me, that
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  means I'm doing something.
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  Speaker 3: See while you're.
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  Speaker 4: Over there watching me and talking about me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working. I'm working hard.
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  Speaker 4: I'm taking things to the next level.
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  Speaker 3: You keep gossiping and I'll keep working.
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  Speaker 4: You keep talking smack and I'll keep working. You keep
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  focusing on everything and everyone else, and I'll keep working.
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  And when you finally look around at where you are
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  and where I'm at, you realize that you have nothing
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  left to talk smack about.
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  Speaker 3: That you will lose and I will win.
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  Speaker 5: That person who is hater they thought they defeated you,
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  that person who told you you'll never mount to anything.
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  Speaker 3: They thought they defeated you.
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  Speaker 6: Use it for fuel, Use them for energy.
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  Speaker 3: Put them on the mental roll indecks.
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  Speaker 7: In your mind, and when you don't want to do roll.
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  Speaker 6: Through your brain full off that motherfucker that you need.
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  Speaker 3: That person who said you could to do something, Use
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  it for.
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  Speaker 5: Innershon instead of killing him with kindness towards you with
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  his success.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're being unrealistic, you're dreaming. Yes, I am dreaming.
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  It's a lot of people to stop dreaming, don't you stop.
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  Speaker 5: You gonna get up, You're gonna get dressed, You're gonna
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  get out, and you're gonna do what you're being called
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  to do.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna be what you called You're gonna have and.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna prove that everybody that tried to break you,
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  You're gonna prove and won. Everybody and trying to stop you.
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  Everybody and tried to you know your dream. You're gonna prove.
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  Speaker 3: All of them wrong.
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  Speaker 2: When you're uncommon, get ready for the criticism when you're uncommon.
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  Speaker 8: Get ready for the opposition when you're.
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  Speaker 1: Uncommon, Getting ready for the common people not to understand you.
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  Speaker 3: When you're uncommon, have uncommon ways. Get ready for people
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  to try and block you and conspire against you.
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  Speaker 9: Never allow anybody to make you feel bad about being
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  so blessed when you've worked your ass off.
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  Speaker 3: To get it.
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  Speaker 9: You decided all the club partying, hanging out, and all
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  that shit that ain't from me, I'm gonna be out
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  here running in the hot sun, practicing, playing basketball, shooting
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  on weekends while everybody else is clubbing and hanging out.
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  Speaker 3: You got your focus right, you see me in my Rose.
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  Speaker 9: Royce, private planes, rooftop hotel five, six star lifestyle.
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  Speaker 3: I've worked my ass off to have it.
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  Speaker 9: And you can keep all your little slick ass comments
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  to yourself because guess what, I don't remember the last time.
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  Speaker 3: I lost sleep over a hat churn a noise out.
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  Speaker 4: Embrace the fact that if people don't like you mean you somewhat.
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  Speaker 10: Develop the interior core where it doesn't matter if people
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  call you crazy one of the things limiting you from
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  your income, your impact on world class life. You care
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  too much about what people think about you. Everyone has
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  an opinion.
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  Speaker 11: Why let the opinions of other people deny you from
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  a life that will make history.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, alright, let me tell y'all. One thing I'm gonna
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  do is I'm gonna encourage somebody. Another thing i'm gonna do,
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  I'm gonna pour into somebody. I'm gonna encourage somebody because
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  someone encouraged me. Someone has poured into me, Someone has
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  made me feel special, someone has made me believe that
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  I could do anything that I put my mind to.
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  So shout out again to all my lover no not lovers,
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  my supporters, all my loved ones, all my haters. I
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  appreciate y'all. You know, one thing you can't take away
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  from is the gift that God gave to me. And
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  as you know, again, one of the most beautiful things
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  I love about having this platform is I'm able to
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  get it and I'm able to share. I'm able to
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  love on your I'm able to pour into you, and
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  I received the love and that in return. So everything
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  that I do is never going to be in vain.
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  So I will save, I guess all my announcement for
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  the for the end, or maybe I'll just wait and
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  just let y'all see what is cooking in the background
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  for a black girl interrupt the podcast. All right, all right,
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  So I do want to know how's everyone feeling. You know.
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  I hope you. I hope that video encourage somebody. I
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  hope that gave you the courage to get up and
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  stop worrying about what people have to say about you,
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  because Jesus has made a way for so many people,
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  and people still talk about Jesus. But I guess we'll
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  have another conversation about that tomorrow for our wellness Wednesday.
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  But tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight. My sister says, I
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  rebuke him. In the name of Jesus. I'm telling you,
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  because baby girl, that would really try to play in
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  my face because I got over here and I'm getting
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  I'm you know, getting everything, checking the sound, and I'm
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  like hello, Like I couldn't hear anything, so I'd run
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  a walk, want and grab another auxiliary cable. But good,
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  we good, we ready, y'all can hear me? We live?
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  We about to do it tonight. So tonight's conversation is
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  a conversation that I have spoken on in the past
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  and I will never stop speaking about it. We see
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  so many cases, and we see so many we see
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  so much of this happening, and it seems to be
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  happening more. And that's police brutality, and I want to
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  know when will it end. So tonight's conversation, again, I
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  will be speaking on different cases, and we'll be giving
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  my opinions on these cases, because it really ties back
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  to the conversation we had last week about white privilege
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  and how white privilege is really a true thing. Some
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  may say, oh, no, it's not, Yes it is, because
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  and when I say we, I mean all of us
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  have seen how certain circum how you know what, let
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  me back up. A lot of us, not just me,
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  but you and everybody in the world have seen the
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  different encounters with police with blacks versus whites. So one
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  thing I want to say is, please don't set up
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  her neck like that is not a thing, because white
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  privilege is truly a thing. Again, I went into detail
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  last week and explained to y'all, I've had white co
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  workers explain to me the things that they've done to
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  get out of tickets, to get promotions at their jobs.
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  I've heard the stories and I've seen it myself. I've
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  seen very educated people, black people specifically, that have the
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  credentials to do a job, that they're passed over for
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  their white counterparts. But tonight, I'm not talking about that.
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  I want to speak directly to police brutality. Why does
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  this keep happening? And when will it end? When I
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  tell you, I am so fatigued, I'm you know what,
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  I'm so tired. I'm fed up with the rhetoric of oh,
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  just comply, just comply, just comply, and oh and just
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  go go deal with it in court. Filando Castillo complied
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  and still lost his life. So stop telling us to comply.
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  Because they only give us one or two choices. They
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  do it, kill us, or they take us to jail.
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  We never have the same encounters that white people have
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  with police. I have seen videos where white people have
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  come out swinging bats knives at police officers and their taste.
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  When we know the law and we're telling it and
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  we're conveying that to the police, where our windows are broken,
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  we're snatched out of the car, we're slammed on the ground,
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  we're punched in the face, we are brutalized, but you
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  keep saying, oh, you must comply, you need to comply.
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  When we do comply, they still figure out a way
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  to brutalize us. So we're tired. We are fed the
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  hell up with trying to do us right with the law,
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  and we still get the rough end of the shorter
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  end of the stick. There's one case in particular that
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  has come Hey, beautiful, hey sus it's so wonderful to
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  see you. I love you and I miss you tremendously. Tersia,
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  I hope you're having an amazing Tuesday. But there's one
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  case in particular. There's been multiple cases. We can even
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  go back as far as nine ninety two when Rodney
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  King was brutalized and those police officers got off. But
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  there's one case that has really flapped my flabber, has
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  really been gasted, and that is the interaction with an
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  eighteen year old black female with an Arkansas state trooper
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  who apparently had his pride tested or ego got in
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  the way. Whatever the situation was, did not warrant the
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  type of brutality that this young lady endured. I'm gonna
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  play the video. Let me just say this, trigger warning,
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  trigger warning. Let me go ahead and post that up there,
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  because I don't want anyone to be triggered. Let me
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  put this up here so that way you'll know this
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  is definitely a trigger warning for those that have not
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  seen the video, let me take this off, give me
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  just a moment, all right, here we go, So trigger
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  warning for those that have not seen the video. I'm
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  only gonna play it one time, in one time only
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  because it's very triggering for me to hear this young lady.
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  I don't care what this young lady did, it did
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  not warrant this young lady to be brutalized the way
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  that she was by a man that was almost twice
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  her size. I have seen people in the comments saying, oh, well,
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  she should have just complied. Stop telling us that, because
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  we've seen those situations where we have complied in what
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  has happened. Okay, so brace yourself for this video, and
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  then we're gonna jump back into tonight's comment station.
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  Speaker 6: Arkansas State Police say they're not talking about the specific
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  allegations in the federal lawsuit. They tell me that every
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  use of force incident is reviewed by the agency, and
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  they say, as of right now, the trooper involved has
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  not been placed on leave.
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  Speaker 12: Recoot, no no going.
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  Speaker 6: The use of force during this traffic stop is what
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  prompted a federal lawsuit against Arkansas State Police trooper moyses Ariano,
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  who's been with ASP for about eleven months. It was
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  filed on behalf of the driver, eighteen year old Alyssa Hackett,
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  late August first. The police dashcam video shows the troopers
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  stopping a car with its emergency flashers on in Mississippi
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  County near Manila, Arkansas.
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  Speaker 12: What's the emergency, widows broke, that's not an emergency.
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  Speaker 3: She don't speed.
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  Speaker 12: At least have your seat bet on, Why do you
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  have a Tato's a bottle?
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  Speaker 7: You're not even twenty one.
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  Speaker 12: Have you been drinking? No?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 12: Why? Why is it cold?
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  Speaker 3: Are you twenty one?
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  Speaker 12: Why do you have a bottle of bottle?
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  Speaker 6: Several minutes later, Trooper Arianno tels Hacket she's being signed
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  for speeding and for being a minor with alcohol. Things
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  escalate not long after Hackett is asked to sign a
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  timporary license.
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  Speaker 12: That being said, I have to confiscate your license. It's
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  time to slow down. Okay, you're trying to go to jail.
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  Speaker 6: Lanta after talking to another officer who said he also
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  sided Hackett for speeding, and after telling the officer that
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  Hackett through the clipboard at the trooper, he returns to
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  tell Hackett she's being arrested.
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  Speaker 12: Let me get your left laner. Recoot your left hand, recootle. No, no.
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  Speaker 10: Going, how I got.
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  Speaker 4: Turn around around?
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  Speaker 12: Turn around a bunch of a den don't turn around.
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  Speaker 6: After being checked out by paramedics, Hackett was taken to jail.
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  According to the federal lawsuit filed in the Eastern District
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  of Arkansas, the trooper is accused of multiple complaints, including
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  using excessive force and violating Hackett's constitutional rights. Now, the
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  president of the NA a c P Arkansas conference. It's
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  calling for an independent investigation into what happened.
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  Speaker 13: We saw the way he was talked Tobou, We saw
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  what he threw it on the ground. We saw all
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  those things, and those are very concerning to us. And
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  if we have someone independent besides the Arkansas State Police
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  day investigat this too, so people can understand that they
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  do trust their law enforcement or their state government to
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  make sure we do things the proper way, in the
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  right way.
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  Speaker 6: We've not yet heard back from Hackett or her attorney.
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  The lawsuit, if successful, does not let us a specific
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  amount of money they're seeking in damages, and members of
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  the Arkansas State Black Caucus are set to meet with
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  the Arkansas State Police Commander at the end of the
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  month to discuss policies and training for state troopers and Fortsmouth.
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  Brett Rains forty twenty nine News.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all, when I first saw this video,
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  I just was taken aback because I have three black children,
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  and I worry for them if they were to ever.
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  My son has had an encounter with the police and
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  it traumatized him for many years. But then I worry
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  about my daughter's, especially my baby and my oldest daughter,
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  who drives as well, that they would face encounters like this.
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  You were upset because she quote unquote threw a clipboard
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  at you because she didn't hand it to you, so
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  that warranted her going to jail. You initially cited her
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  for having an unopened let me let me clarify that
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  an unopened bottle of liquor in the front seat. Maybe
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  she didn't know what was in there. Maybe she didn't know.
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  We don't know, but regardless of whatever it was, it
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  didn't warrant you slammed this girl to the brown, You
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  were on top of her, You punched her in the face.
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  You told her if she did you would punch her again.
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  This is an eighteen year old child, a female at
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  that and from the looks of the video, she looked
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  like she might have been no taller than maybe five two,
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  maybe five three. But for you to slam this girl
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  on the ground the way that you did, and you
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  punched her in the face. I didn't even show y'all
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  the other portions of the video where she said this
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  is illegal, and he says, who said this is illegal?
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  I didn't show y'all the clip where he was speaking
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  to his sergeant, who said, well, she's got an attitude.
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  Arrest her ass Why does this keep happening. My opinion is,
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  when these lawsuits are I feel like police officers should
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  not be should not have immunity. I feel like they
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  should be treated like a regular citizen, whether they have
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  a badge or not. I feel like when these lawsuits
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  are filed and the victims win, I feel that should
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  come from the police officer's pension. I bet you, if
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  you start taking out of their pockets, maybe this will stop.
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  You know what, Maybe it may not completely stop, but
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  maybe we'll see a decrease in police brutality against black
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  men and black women, and black boys and black girls
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  because we see this. I feel like officers that have
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  had multiple complaints filed against them should not be allowed
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  to transfer to different departments. I feel like they should
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  not be able to be in law enforcement at all,
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  and they shouldn't even be able to be a security
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  guard because some of these officers, you take it to
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  far with people because you have an ego problem, because
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  maybe you were bullied as a child and now you've
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  got this badge, and now you want to take your
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  anger and your frustration out on people, and then I
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  hear people say, oh, it's not a black or white thing.
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  It happens to white people, not as much as it
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  happens to black people. Again, I've seen videos from the
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  very beginning all the way to the end of encounters
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  with white people versus black people. When it comes to
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  law enforcement, I've seen it. I've seen white men running
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  after police officers with knives. They're not shot, they're taste.
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  And then you hear the police officer speaking, so ever
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  calmly to them, We're only here trying to We're only
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  here to try to help you, sir. Why are we
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  not extended that same grace, y'all? Let me know when
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  you get the answer to that. Why are we not
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  afforded that same amount of grace that you extend to
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  the white community. That's unfair. That is absolutely unfair. Then
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  I've heard people say, well, if you just do what
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  they tell you to do, stop telling us that, Stop
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  telling us that. It's like when we are pulled over
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  and people say, well, why do you panic because we're traumatized.
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  Have you seen the countless amount of videos. Have you
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  heard the countless amount of cases of black men and
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  black women and black boys and black girls being brutalized
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  by law enforcement. It triggers us. We go on to
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  fight a flight mode PTSD and then you wonder why
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  a lot of us say we don't respect law enforcement
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  because law enforcement doesn't respect us and don't ever get him. Misquartered,
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  let me say this. This is not to all police officers,
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  because they are good and bad police officers. We saw
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  five police officers beat Tyree Nichols to death and they
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  were black. The bad police officers are the ones that
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  stand by and watch him say nothing, the ones that
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  stand by and do nothing, that go along with whatever
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  they see their partner doing, and then there's no repercussions.
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  This man is not even on the administrative lead. You're still
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  allowing him to patrol the Arkansas streets. Yes, I understand
• 24:58
  investigations have to be done. I thoroughly understand how how
• 25:01
  how the law works. Okay, so let me say that first.
• 25:06
  But at the end of the day, when you see
• 25:07
  the footage, they need to be immediately pulled and put
• 25:11
  on administrative leave. And I feel like that it should
• 25:13
  be done with no pain. Again, if we start hitting
• 25:18
  their pockets, if we start hitting their pensions, we may
• 25:22
  see a decline in this, we may see a decline.
• 25:28
  And what frustrates me is it's always the same and
• 25:32
  mold or I was in fear of my life, but
• 25:34
  you're the one with the gun. So how were you
• 25:38
  in fear of your life and you're the one with
• 25:40
  the gun. I've seen how jailers do people that have
• 25:47
  been how these officers in the in the county jails
• 25:50
  do people that are that come in that have been arrested.
• 25:55
  What warrants you to do? What you do? We are tired,
• 26:00
  We are fed up. We are so tired of trying
• 26:04
  to do what's right on the side of the law,
• 26:07
  but we're still violated on the other end. And then
• 26:10
  you get upset. The more we learn about the law,
• 26:12
  the more we learn about our constitutional rights and about
• 26:15
  how you can't violate this and how you can't violate that.
• 26:20
  I just saw a video to day where a Caucasian
• 26:24
  man was pulled over. He immediately pulled out his camera
• 26:29
  and he gave back talk to the police officer. I
• 26:32
  don't have to show you. I clocked you doing eighty
• 26:36
  miser This is what the man that was pulled off
• 26:38
  was saying to a police officer do you know what
• 26:42
  would have happened to us if we would have said
• 26:44
  that to a police officer, we would have been punched
• 26:47
  in the face. We would have been snatched out the car.
• 26:50
  We would have been brutalized and then put in handcuffs.
• 26:54
  We may even have gotten a knee on the neck.
• 27:01
  But we see this all the time, and I see
• 27:05
  some of the most hateful comments under these posts. Absolutely,
• 27:13
  my sister says, because the racist ones do not see
• 27:15
  us as humans. Absolutely, they call us animals, They call
• 27:18
  us monkeys, they call us dogs. They say, oh, we
• 27:23
  belong in the jungle, we belong in cages. We hear
• 27:28
  this all the time, And then you guys try to
• 27:31
  figure out why are we so why are we so frustrated?
• 27:34
  Why are we so irritating? Because we're tired of seeing
• 27:36
  situations like this happen. We are tired of seeing black
• 27:40
  people treated unfairly. We are so tired of us not
• 27:43
  being extended and afforded the same grace as a white
• 27:47
  man or a white woman. I've seen, uh oh. I
• 27:52
  saw a video in and a lady was in a
• 27:55
  grocery She was at the grocery store and she cussed
• 28:00
  police out Oh, come on, man, it's okay. Just turn around. No,
• 28:04
  you can't have your purse. Very nice to the woman.
• 28:11
  But if we ask why are we being arrested? What
• 28:14
  did we do? It's you just turn around and shut up,
• 28:19
  and then it might be a smack in the face,
• 28:21
  it might be a slam to the ground. We don't
• 28:25
  have the right to ask that eighteen year old young lady.
• 28:31
  She asked, what does she do? Why am I going
• 28:33
  to jail? You've already you already gave me my citation,
• 28:37
  So now you're upset. So now your ego, your pride
• 28:41
  because I didn't hand you the clipboard. Now I'm going
• 28:45
  to jail. And then she asked, well, what did I do?
• 28:54
  And I'm trying to figure out where does she resist?
• 28:57
  All she did was she simply turned around if she
• 28:59
  was trying to turn a run. And then what did
• 29:00
  I do? Why am I going to jail? Why am
• 29:02
  I being arrested? If you give it you, if you
• 29:06
  gave me the ticket or the citation, whatever it is,
• 29:09
  I should be free to go, right, So tell me
• 29:12
  what happened between then that warranted her to go to jail,
• 29:18
  what warranted her to be slammed? On the ground. What
• 29:22
  warranted her to be pinned on the ground and punched
• 29:25
  in the face, only to be told I will punch
• 29:27
  you again. And this is a grown man that's almost
• 29:33
  twice this baby size. No, I'm not taking up for her,
• 29:38
  but I'm all gonna I'm gonna always be on the
• 29:40
  side of right, and what this man did in this
• 29:43
  in this video was not the side of right. And
• 29:49
  then what upsets to me even more is when we
• 29:51
  say we want you to call the white shirt, which
• 29:55
  is a supervisor. For those that don't know, the white
• 29:57
  shirt is a supervisor, call you a supervisor. It's disgusting
• 30:05
  to me. And what's even worse is that these police
• 30:09
  officers get no repercussions. You know what happens. They're just
• 30:13
  shifted over to another department to work and brutalize somebody else.
• 30:19
  I feel like Internal Affairs needs to get involved, and
• 30:22
  y'all need to prohibit these monsters. These these these police
• 30:26
  officers that have all these infractions on their records be
• 30:30
  allowed to transfer and go work for another department. I
• 30:33
  feel like they should be stripped of all of that
• 30:35
  and never ever be allowed to work in law enforcement.
• 30:38
  Go get your job. At the grocery store, go work
• 30:40
  at a little service station or something. But I don't
• 30:42
  feel like they should be in law enforcement. And again
• 30:45
  this is just my opinion. I'm telling you how I
• 30:50
  feel about how law enforcement treats black people, whether you're
• 30:55
  a male or a female. We see it in them.
• 30:59
  We see how they brutalize men, and we see how
• 31:02
  they brutalize the women we just saw right now. Then
• 31:06
  we've also seen the videos where they brutalize kids, harassing
• 31:11
  Black children for what. Tamy or right, twelve years old,
• 31:17
  shot for playing with a toy gun, doing what children do.
• 31:22
  But you allowed these school shooters to run rampant, I
• 31:27
  said it. You allow these school shooters to run rampant,
• 31:32
  and then you blame it and say, oh, it's mental illness.
• 31:34
  No it's not. They're dominic. They're just pure evil. And
• 31:42
  we see what they did with Dylan Ruth. Denni Ruth
• 31:47
  shot nine people, he said, in church and praised and
• 31:50
  worship with these parishioners for what two hours I want
• 31:53
  to say, and then killed nine of them. And he
• 31:58
  was handled with care. He was taken to go get
• 32:01
  something to eat before he was taking a jail But
• 32:06
  then you go back and you look at the Rodney
• 32:07
  King video. Well he was brutalized by what five six
• 32:12
  police officers and they all got off and we saw
• 32:15
  it on camera, but they still got off. So what
• 32:20
  does that tell you. You can't tell me white privilege
• 32:22
  is not a real thing. We see it every time,
• 32:27
  all the time, all day, every day, and all we
• 32:30
  are told is you should have just complied. You comply,
• 32:36
  you die. You don't comply, you die. There's no heads
• 32:41
  or tails with that. It's one way or the other,
• 32:47
  there's no in between. And it's just sad. This is
• 32:51
  disgusting to me. And again I feel like, again these
• 32:55
  are my opinions, but again I feel like we need
• 33:00
  to start hittingm in they pockets, the police officers. Why
• 33:05
  should they get immunity when they violate and commit crimes
• 33:10
  like everybody else. There's a police officer here in Houston
• 33:15
  violated women. He was given a bond. Are you serious?
• 33:27
  This right here just proves to me law enforcement don't
• 33:30
  care about us. Again, I'm not saying all, but a
• 33:35
  majority of them they don't care. It's a small percentage
• 33:38
  that does care. But we don't see those y'all keep saying, oh, oh,
• 33:46
  just police officers of this, the ones that I've seen
• 33:49
  don't care about us. Again, I feel like the police
• 33:56
  officers that do this, you're just a big bully with
• 33:58
  a badge. Maybe you were brutalized as a child, I
• 34:01
  don't know, and maybe you're trying to get paid back.
• 34:03
  Maybe a black boy or maybe a black girl dished
• 34:08
  you in school. Maybe you're trying to talk to and
• 34:09
  maybe she told her she was interested, so now you
• 34:12
  want to make black people pay for it. I don't know. Again,
• 34:15
  these are just my opinions, but I'm ready to see
• 34:21
  the good cops speak up against the bad cops. I've
• 34:25
  only seen maybe a handful of cases like that. I
• 34:31
  look at Sonya Massey and a police officer that shot her.
• 34:36
  Kudos to his partner for testifying against him. That's one
• 34:42
  out of a million that didn't stand beside the actions
• 34:50
  that his partner committed. So I salute him. Let me
• 34:54
  give him a round of applause. I give them a
• 35:01
  round up applause for that. But we need to see
• 35:04
  more of that. We need to see more of these
• 35:07
  good cops stand up against these bad cops. When you
• 35:13
  see your partner doing something out of that that's not
• 35:16
  in character. Call call for backup and say, hey, my
• 35:18
  partner out here, blah blah blah whatever. Stop trying to
• 35:22
  stand behind that badge and do what's right for the community.
• 35:25
  Because before you became a police officer, you were just
• 35:27
  a regular, everyday class citizen, middle class, upper class, lower
• 35:31
  class citizen. You were just a regular, every day simigular
• 35:34
  that's it. But we see this and it's happening far
• 35:41
  too often, every case, every not every case. Every day.
• 35:47
  I'm seeing cases police brutality, teenagers being beat up, cases
• 35:54
  of mistaken identity, and all they issue to the victimist,
• 35:58
  we're sorry. Do you know what that does to their
• 36:05
  mental when they're brutalized. It messes them up, and all
• 36:12
  they get is I'm sorry to me, baby, I'm sorry.
• 36:16
  It's not good enough for me. That's not gonna work
• 36:18
  for me. And then you wonder why Rodney Hinton Senior
• 36:24
  did what he did. For some that don't remember who
• 36:29
  Rodney Hinton Senior was, he was the man that ran
• 36:33
  over the police officer the day after the police officer
• 36:37
  shot his son. I'm not seeing what he did was right,
• 36:44
  but I understand as a parent, you're called in to
• 36:52
  the police, you're called down to the police station to
• 36:54
  view the body cam footage. You're already grieving the loss
• 37:00
  of your child already, but to see your child's last
• 37:04
  moments and for a lie to be told that is
• 37:09
  enough to tear any parents mental to shreds. That's enough.
• 37:21
  I'm not saying go do a riding Hinton Senior did.
• 37:27
  But again, as a parent, I understand because I don't
• 37:31
  know how I would react if something like that would
• 37:35
  have happened to one of my children. I can't say
• 37:38
  that I would be in a good state of mind.
• 37:41
  I can't say that he had to watch this. This
• 37:51
  man was hurt. This, you know what hurt is the understatement.
• 38:02
  We saw the case of Daunte Wright, Alton Sterling, Eric Garner.
• 38:14
  So you can't tell a u a parent how they're
• 38:19
  supposed to feel or or or how their emotions are
• 38:21
  supposed to be after watching footage of their child being brutalized.
• 38:29
  I've seen the videos of people that are in a
• 38:32
  mental health crisis and they send these police officers out there,
• 38:36
  and within five minutes of them being out there, the
• 38:38
  person is dead. And I'm spoken about this. Patrick Warren Senior,
• 38:50
  prime example, was in a mental health crisis and ended
• 38:55
  up with three four bullets to the chest. If you,
• 39:00
  as a police officer, are not trained to handle a
• 39:03
  mental health crisis, don't go out there. I feel like
• 39:08
  every state, every state should have a non emergency response
• 39:16
  team that is trained and when I say trained, I
• 39:19
  mean specialized training to handle these mental health crisis. I
• 39:28
  feel like that's what needs to happen. We saw this
• 39:31
  in San Antonio. I spoke about this. A Hispanic lady
• 39:34
  was having a mail down and these police officers jumped
• 39:38
  over her patty and shot her in her apartment. She
• 39:40
  was in her apartment. We see this. Some police officers
• 39:50
  come to de escalate, some come and already ready to
• 39:54
  heighten the situation. I'm not saying that being a police
• 40:02
  officer is not a tough job, because I understand it
• 40:04
  is because your life is on the line every day.
• 40:06
  You get out there every day and you risk your
• 40:08
  life and your wife, your family. You know, your wife,
• 40:12
  your husband, They pray that you come home every night,
• 40:15
  the same way we pray for our black boys and
• 40:16
  black girls and black men and black women to come
• 40:19
  home every night. It's so sad. That I have to
• 40:25
  sit down and have a discussion with my children before
• 40:29
  they leave out of the home on how to conduct
• 40:31
  themselves that they are ever pulled over by the police.
• 40:36
  I remember being pulled over by the I remember back
• 40:39
  in the day when you used to get pulled over,
• 40:40
  you got your little ticket and you went on home.
• 40:43
  You didn't have to worry about being brutalized. But then again,
• 40:49
  social media wasn't around them. But now these flock cameras.
• 40:56
  It's amazing how y'all have these flock cameras and y'all
• 41:02
  can't catch this stuff. You have them deleting bodycam footage
• 41:09
  because you have departments that are covering up for these
• 41:11
  police officers. And then when internal affairs gets involved and
• 41:16
  their whole operation is blown wide open, you see twenty
• 41:19
  of the police officers that have fifty infractions on their
• 41:23
  record and are still patrolling the streets. I feel like
• 41:31
  you gotta cut the snake off at the head. I
• 41:34
  feel like you need to take it from the top
• 41:35
  and run it all the way through the bottom. You
• 41:37
  need to do a thorough cleansing. What happened to the
• 41:43
  police officers that really are out there to protect and serve.
• 41:47
  Where are they? But I'm glad to see these police
• 41:55
  officers being exposed. I'm great. I love this. What I
• 42:00
  would love even more is that they be held accountable
• 42:02
  for the things that they are doing to these people,
• 42:05
  for the victim, for the brutalization that they are doing
• 42:08
  to people. I saw another video of a police officer
• 42:21
  brutalizing a teenager, a woman beating up I believe the
• 42:29
  baby was fourteen fifteen. Maybe let's look at that.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: Again.
• 42:37
  Speaker 14: With the new scrutiny on a violent police confrontation at
• 42:40
  Fairfield High School, so it happened during a campus fight
• 42:44
  last week, and now new video has emerged of an
• 42:47
  arrest involving the same officer. Drew Andre spoke with community
• 42:52
  members who gathered this afternoon calling for accountability.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: People in the community showed up outside city Hall ahead
• 43:00
  of the council meeting tonight to make their voices heard
• 43:02
  and call for the firing of that officer in the video.
• 43:06
  Fairfield Police Department says that there is an outside organization
• 43:10
  that will independently investigate this incident. Video shows an officer
• 43:19
  on top of a student repeatedly throwing punches while holding
• 43:23
  down his head with her other hand.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: Students shared videos from multiple angles.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: And it was the worst feeling a mother could have
• 43:33
  seen herself done like that.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: It all happened at Fairfield High School last Wednesday. Officers
• 43:37
  responded to a fight on campus. It escalated when police
• 43:41
  said a student continued to resist arrest. Police called this
• 43:45
  a quote distraction strike to the student's hands. The student's
• 43:49
  stunned mom says it was unnecessary and excessive force.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: She needs to get off the force. She has a pattern.
• 43:57
  It's not okay. If they don't see, they will.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: The video, shared by thousands online prompted Maya Hamilton to
• 44:05
  come forward to show her own experience with the same officer.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: This happened July fourteenth, twenty twenty five. This happened just
• 44:14
  last year. So she does do this. This is what
• 44:17
  she does, and what was layered was her inability to
• 44:23
  de escalate situations.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: Hamilton, just eighteen at the time, was pulled over when
• 44:28
  all of this unfolded.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: She loves or grabs some hair.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: Court documents from the twenty twenty five incident show the
• 44:34
  teen driver's attorney has filed a motion calling the officer's
• 44:38
  actions unlawful and excessive use of force. They're asking a
• 44:43
  judge to include a record of complaints against the officer
• 44:46
  in the case. Fairfield Police said they are aware of
• 44:49
  additional video circulating online involving their officers, but wouldn't comment.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: If you're that bold to do this with as many
• 44:56
  cameras that was there at a school campus, to do that, someone,
• 45:02
  someone in your department is okaying your behavior.
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: Last week's incident on campus is under investigation. Police Chief
• 45:11
  Dan Marshall told us in a statement. We will carefully
• 45:14
  evaluate the totality of the investigation's findings for discipline, additional training, opportunities,
• 45:20
  for improvements or policy changes within the department. Rally organizers
• 45:25
  say this is bigger than one incident. This is about
• 45:28
  how black youth are treated in schools across the country.
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: The officer has been reassigned within the department during this investigation.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: And that's what I'm talking about. That right there is
• 45:46
  this woman has a history, but she was not removed
• 45:51
  from the force. Again, why are they allowed to continue
• 45:59
  to be on the force if they have a history
• 46:02
  of this. I mean, I get it, there's a shortage
• 46:08
  in law enforcement. I get it. I totally get it.
• 46:11
  I live here in Houston, and they're always hiring at
• 46:14
  the Houston Police Department for police officers, for people to
• 46:17
  work in a jails. I get this, but what she
• 46:23
  did was unnecessary. What are you upset about? Baby? Were
• 46:29
  you know was at that time of the month. I
• 46:31
  don't know, But how dare you brutalize this child? I
• 46:41
  remember when my son got pulled over and they said, oh,
• 46:46
  they were looking for someone that was fighting at the
• 46:48
  movie theater. Never said who they were looking for, never
• 46:51
  gave a description or anything. That traumatized my son. We
• 47:00
  see this far too often, way too often, and nothing
• 47:08
  is being done about it. This is why I made
• 47:10
  the post I made on Facebook. If y'all could come
• 47:14
  in solidarity to support someone that was banned from Walmart
• 47:18
  who I'll get into that on another day. Let's stand
• 47:23
  in solidarity against police brutality because this could be your child,
• 47:27
  This could be your loved one that this happens too.
• 47:30
  I could be sitting up telling the story of your
• 47:33
  loved one being brutalized by law enforcement. We see this
• 47:40
  and it keeps happening over and over and over and
• 47:43
  over and over again, and get and like the man
• 47:47
  said in the video, some of these departments are okay
• 47:50
  with this. They will cover up for their officers. I
• 47:54
  understand you back in the blue, you gotta protect your own,
• 47:58
  but when you are in a position like that, to me,
• 48:00
  you need to be on the side of right, whether
• 48:03
  that goes against your brother in blue or your sister
• 48:06
  in blue, whatever the lingo is that they see. But
• 48:10
  we see this far too often and nothing's ever done.
• 48:18
  Nothing's ever done, y'all drop in a commons, lemon. Know
• 48:21
  how y'all are How do y'all feel about this? How
• 48:23
  do you feel when you see these videos? And it's
• 48:26
  not just maybe one video, these are various videos. These
• 48:30
  are multiple videos that we see police officers brutalizing black
• 48:34
  men and black women. I were black boys and black girls,
• 48:37
  and nothing's being done. How do you feel about it?
• 48:40
  Dropping a commons, lemon, know how you feeling? Because the
• 48:43
  way I feel, I'm sick every time I see this.
• 48:48
  Every time I get on social media and I see
• 48:51
  a video. Me, what I do is before I jump
• 48:55
  to conclusions and say oh ye, I go and I
• 48:58
  run down the rabbit hole. I go and I find
• 49:01
  the entire case, I watch the entire video, or they
• 49:04
  hold the entire encounter from start to finish, and then
• 49:09
  I decide, oh, well, you know hey. But then a
• 49:15
  lot of times I'm like, what did he even do?
• 49:20
  Their loss to protect us? But I guess they don't
• 49:22
  apply to people of color because all I hear is
• 49:29
  or what they do is to white people too. They
• 49:31
  may do it to y'all, but not as much as
• 49:33
  they do it to us. I I I have the
• 49:38
  stats pulled up, but I wanna say, it's like forty
• 49:44
  eight percent of black m black people will be brutalized
• 49:49
  by police officers. Let me let me just verify that.
• 49:53
  Let me verify that, and I'm gonna tell you by race,
• 50:04
  and I want to do twenty twenty six. Okay, So
• 50:12
  I gave incorrect stats. So Mapping Police Violence, which is
• 50:19
  the website, and you can go look at this yourself.
• 50:22
  Let me go back, all right. So, according to Mapping
• 50:28
  Police Violence, which is a website that you can click
• 50:31
  and check on black Americans, we make up roughly twelve
• 50:35
  to fourteen percent of the US population, but we account
• 50:39
  for approximately twenty four to twenty five percent of individuals
• 50:43
  killed by law enforcement. Going to their website, let me
• 50:51
  see if I'm able to share because I want y'all
• 50:53
  to see this with me as well, because again, y'all
• 50:57
  know me, baby, y'all can argue with me all day,
• 51:00
  but one thing you can't argue with is stats. That's
• 51:02
  one thing you just cannot do. You cannot argue with
• 51:04
  me when it comes to stats. Okay, so let me
• 51:08
  share the screen. Okay, let me know if y'all can see.
• 51:13
  I hope y'all can see, but if not, it says
• 51:18
  black people are two point eight times more likely to
• 51:24
  be killed by police by police than white people in
• 51:28
  the US. And these are police killings per one million
• 51:31
  people in the US. And this is between twenty thirteen
• 51:35
  and twenty twenty six. Okay, do you hear me? So
• 51:45
  far in twenty twenty six, seven hundred and ninety people
• 51:50
  in the US have been killed by police. Let me
• 51:57
  see if I could change, police have killed and I
• 52:03
  and I filtered it by race. Police have killed a
• 52:09
  hundred and eighty two black people in the US so
• 52:11
  far in twenty twenty six. So let me. Let's do
• 52:16
  the math. So if we do, let me do the
• 52:18
  math real quick for y'all, cause see me, I'm a
• 52:21
  numbers person. So if we make up. So let's see,
• 52:27
  we're in August, right, so we're in the eighth month.
• 52:30
  So if we divide and there's thirty days thirty roughly
• 52:35
  thirty to thirty one days in the month. So if
• 52:37
  we divide one eighty two, divide a by thirty. You
• 52:41
  know what, let's just do thirty one. Well, you know what,
• 52:44
  let's do thirty because it's more months with thirty days
• 52:46
  instead of thirty one. That is approximately six people a month,
• 52:51
  six black people a month that are murdered by police officers.
• 52:58
  Six black people a month, So that's roughly one to
• 53:04
  two people a week, one to two black people a week.
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  And it says there have been one hundred and fourteen
• 53:15
  days so far in twenty twenty six when police killed
• 53:18
  black people in the US and these are killings by
• 53:21
  police in twenty twenty six. Per their website, it says
• 53:30
  police have killed seven fewer black people in the US
• 53:34
  through July in twenty twenty six compared to the same
• 53:38
  period in the previous year. Again, i'm with giving you
• 53:50
  facts with stats. That's what I'm withgiving police have killed
• 53:58
  black people in thirty states and the District of Columbia
• 54:03
  in twenty twenty six so far, sad, sad one hundred
• 54:16
  killings black people. Again, I'm all about bringing y'all numbers,
• 54:29
  because again, you could argue, you could argue with me
• 54:33
  all day, but I'm gonna forever give your stats. I'm
• 54:36
  gonna bring you some numbers and then you decipher so
• 54:41
  that way no one can say, oh, you're making this
• 54:43
  about race, this is racist. No it's not. I'm giving
• 54:47
  you numbers. I'm giving you facts. I'm giving you the
• 54:49
  statistics on the number of black people that have been
• 54:53
  killed in the United States. And that's through up until July.
• 55:00
  Let's revisit this next month and see what it is
• 55:05
  for August. But we see this, and you mean to
• 55:11
  tell me you're not upset, you're not fatigued by this,
• 55:17
  you do your feel like these police officers shouldn't be reprimanded.
• 55:26
  We see this, we see this, but I see more
• 55:32
  people that, oh, you want to make it about race.
• 55:35
  I'm about facts. I'm telling you the facts. So stop saying, oh, well,
• 55:40
  white people get killed too, but not at the not
• 55:43
  at the alarming rates that black people are when it
• 55:48
  comes to police brutality. We see it. It's been happening
• 55:59
  since the sixth. That was only thirty years ago, for
• 56:05
  you know what, thirty No, the sixties. Let me do
• 56:07
  what the math, y'all, y'all know, my math is off.
• 56:12
  Let me give y'all the math. Let me see. So
• 56:15
  we're in twenty twenty six. That was only my bad, y'all.
• 56:22
  Sixty six years ago. Sixty six years ago. Yeah, sixty
• 56:32
  six years ago from now unto the sixties, I mean,
• 56:37
  from nineteen sixty to twenty twenty six. Sixty six years
• 56:44
  and it's still happening. And all they're getting is a
• 56:49
  slap on the wrist and just shuffled along to a
• 56:53
  different city, a different county. They have their records sealed
• 57:01
  clothes that can't nobody find. But then you have some
• 57:04
  people that do they due diligence and pull the paperwork
• 57:08
  on them and say, hey, this person has twelve infractions
• 57:12
  from this county. This person has fifteen infractions from this county.
• 57:17
  So all you do you just shuffle them on like paper.
• 57:20
  You just say, oh, okay, yeah, well you know, well,
• 57:23
  just don't do it over here. We're gonna send you
• 57:25
  over there. Instead of holding their feet to the fire.
• 57:35
  Make this make sense, Make this make sense? Because again,
• 57:41
  I when I see these videos, when I hear these stories,
• 57:46
  when I go read these stories, when I go and
• 57:48
  I do again my due diligence, I'm disgusted. I'm absolutely
• 57:56
  disgusted to see this happening. And then what's even more
• 58:05
  hurtful and almost like a gut punched to the faces.
• 58:10
  There's no accountability. They're giving a slap on the wrist,
• 58:17
  no jail time, nothing charges dismissed because the department finds
• 58:21
  that they were well within their excessive force policy. So
• 58:29
  you mean to tell me that it's okay for a
• 58:34
  man that's three or four times a young lady's size,
• 58:40
  it's okay for her to be slammed to the ground
• 58:43
  and punched in the face. It's okay all because your
• 58:46
  ego was hurt, all because she didn't hand you your
• 58:50
  clipboard like a good old girl. Sick sick, And we're seeing,
• 59:00
  in the sad part of all of this, we're seeing
• 59:04
  more women brutalizing people. You saw the video what that
• 59:15
  female police officer was on top of that boy, beating
• 59:18
  him in the face, pulling his hair. And to know
• 59:23
  that she has a history of this and nothing has
• 59:26
  been done other than she's been moved to a different
• 59:28
  department within the force. No, she needs to.
• 59:33
  Speaker 12: Me.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like they should not be moved to another department.
• 59:35
  They need to be on leave without pay, administrative leave
• 59:39
  without pain. But again they shuffle them along like paper
• 59:48
  with no accountability, and we're left to deal with the
• 59:52
  remnants are being brutalized. That's what we're left to deal with.
• 1:00:00
  This is part of the reason why we fear law enforcement.
• 1:00:02
  This is part of the reason why when they pull
• 1:00:04
  up and they say, oh, why are you so nervous,
• 1:00:07
  Because we've seen what you've done to us, we see
• 1:00:10
  what you continue to do to us. So we're supposed
• 1:00:12
  to be okay, So when you pull us over, we're
• 1:00:15
  not supposed to get nervous. We're not supposed to get
• 1:00:16
  anxious because see, when you pull us over and you
• 1:00:21
  roll a one of that, what are you so nervous about?
• 1:00:24
  You have drugs in the car? What? Because we're traumatized
• 1:00:33
  because we are suffering from PTSD, from the things that
• 1:00:37
  police have done to us. And then we're even more
• 1:00:42
  traumatized because nothing is being done about it. We are
• 1:00:45
  more traumatized because they're not held accountable for their actions.
• 1:00:48
  We're even more traumatized because guess what, leave You're taken
• 1:00:51
  from this department and then you move into another one
• 1:00:53
  to go and do it to somebody else. That's what
• 1:00:56
  we're traumatized about. That's why when we get pulled over,
• 1:01:00
  we're shaken, we're nervous, we're sweating because we don't know
• 1:01:04
  if we're going home or if we're going to the cemetery.
• 1:01:07
  We don't know. And then they say, oh, you always
• 1:01:13
  give a police attitude. I know during Well, y'all cannot
• 1:01:17
  talk about somebody give an attitude to the police. And
• 1:01:19
  the many times that I have seen white people go
• 1:01:22
  off on a police officer, you're to custom out, you
• 1:01:24
  to talk about they mom and they daddy, they children.
• 1:01:29
  But we're not afforded the same grace. When we're asking questions,
• 1:01:34
  we're told just do what I tell you to do, boy,
• 1:01:37
  or do what I tell you to do girl. We're
• 1:01:39
  not even treated humanly. We are treated like animals. We
• 1:01:41
  are treated like dogs, and y'all expect us to be
• 1:01:44
  okay with that. No, we're not okay, period. And I'll
• 1:01:50
  never be okay with that. I will never be okay
• 1:01:53
  with watching my brothers and my sisters be brutally victimized
• 1:01:57
  by law enforcement. I will never be okay by the
• 1:02:02
  good cops that don't speak out against these rogue police officers.
• 1:02:05
  I will never be okay with that. And I'm gonna
• 1:02:09
  be the first to tell y'all I have no trust
• 1:02:12
  in law enforcement. I have no trust. I've been harassed
• 1:02:19
  by the Louisiana State Police. I remember I was coming
• 1:02:22
  from Atlanta driving to Houston with a trunk full of
• 1:02:26
  dirty clothes. At the time, I had two parakeets, and
• 1:02:29
  then of course my clothes.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: That I was gonna be wearing while I was in Houston.
• 1:02:35
  I remember being pulled over for speeding. I remember being
• 1:02:39
  held on the side of the road for forty five
• 1:02:41
  minutes because you wanted to search my vehicle because you
• 1:02:44
  thought I was trafficking. But you smelled no merit, nothing.
• 1:02:50
  By the time I made it to bad and Rouge,
• 1:02:52
  I appeared on myself because I was just that traumatized
• 1:02:56
  that you had me standing on the side of the
• 1:02:57
  Inner State for forty five minutes for what And I
• 1:03:03
  was afraid because I thought about what happened to Sandra Bland.
• 1:03:09
  So I did exactly what the police officer taught me
• 1:03:11
  to do. Everybody was like, well, I asked you, why
• 1:03:12
  did you do it? He could have planned something on
• 1:03:14
  you because I was trying to make it to my
• 1:03:16
  children okay. And then I was giving a ticket. Yes,
• 1:03:24
  was I speeding. I owned that. But everything else after
• 1:03:28
  that was not even warranted. You helped me on the
• 1:03:31
  side of the road for forty five minutes on I
• 1:03:33
  ten as I was getting ready to go across lay Ponte. Treated.
• 1:03:47
  But I'm supposed to be okay with that. I'm supposed
• 1:03:51
  to be cool with that. So now you can understand
• 1:03:58
  why don't trust law enforce. The same thing happened to
• 1:04:01
  my son. My son was traumatized by the police because
• 1:04:04
  they pulled them over while him and my sister were
• 1:04:07
  coming from the movies because they say they were looking
• 1:04:10
  for somebody that was involved in a fight at the
• 1:04:12
  movie theater. Never gave a description of who they were
• 1:04:14
  looking for. It took my son two years, almost three
• 1:04:21
  before he got behind the wheel of another car and drove.
• 1:04:25
  I tell my son every night when he goes out,
• 1:04:27
  even when he goes to work, when he comes home,
• 1:04:29
  when he goes to hang out with his friends, I
• 1:04:30
  tell my son all the time. Please be careful. I
• 1:04:34
  pray over my son every time he walks out that door.
• 1:04:37
  I pray and I ask God, bring my son home
• 1:04:40
  to me, bring my daughter's home to me. When they
• 1:04:42
  leave and they go out with their friends, I have
• 1:04:46
  to have a conversation with them. You don't think as
• 1:04:50
  a parent that that is not disheartening, because see, you
• 1:04:53
  white people, y'all don't have to do all of that
• 1:04:56
  because y'all had the privilege. You understand, y'all could cut
• 1:04:58
  the police officer out. You can talk about his mommy,
• 1:05:01
  his dad, baby. Y'all talks about him all the way
• 1:05:03
  down to the dog and all their toils. Just making
• 1:05:07
  home safe, sir, Just make it home safe, ma'am. They're
• 1:05:10
  giving a ticket and go. But us our windows are broken,
• 1:05:15
  tail light's broken, windows smashed, snatched out of the car,
• 1:05:21
  treated like we're animals. But y'all want us to be
• 1:05:24
  okay with that. Y'all want us to be cool with that. Hey, cousin.
• 1:05:34
  My cousin, Kim says, of course it's not okay. The
• 1:05:36
  world has become so disgusting and the police officers need
• 1:05:39
  mental health examinations and services. Absolutely, She says none at all,
• 1:05:47
  no accountability at all. I am so traumatized by being
• 1:05:49
  pulled over that I'm driving to a wellded area before
• 1:05:52
  I stop. And you know what, even that's scary, because
• 1:05:57
  you know, the first thing that they're gonna say is,
• 1:05:59
  once you get somewhere and you stop and you pull over,
• 1:06:02
  why didn't you pull Why didn't you stop back there?
• 1:06:04
  I've been following you for five minutes. They come to
• 1:06:07
  the car with an attitude if you see that I
• 1:06:10
  am a woman in a car by myself, you expect
• 1:06:15
  me to stop down a dark road? Are you serious?
• 1:06:21
  I'm gonna keep driving until I find somewhere that's well lived,
• 1:06:23
  somewhere that I feel safe, because what you're not gonna do.
• 1:06:29
  You're not gonna get the opportunity to snatch me out
• 1:06:31
  of the car and take me on somewhere and potentially
• 1:06:36
  violate me or maybe even kill me. You're not gonna
• 1:06:41
  get that opportunity. And that's the sad part about all
• 1:06:46
  of that is I've seen cases where people have said, oh,
• 1:06:50
  why didn't you pull over? Then more charges up because
• 1:06:52
  they consider that evading. I've seen that. But then they say, oh, well,
• 1:06:58
  if you're pulled over down a dark just keep driving
• 1:07:01
  and then call nine one one and let them know.
• 1:07:06
  I've even seen cases where they're not some of them
• 1:07:08
  are not even real police pulling people over. But again,
• 1:07:16
  looking at the going back to nineteen ninety two, when
• 1:07:18
  Rodney King was violently brutalized by what five six police officers,
• 1:07:23
  and it was called on camera, and to see them
• 1:07:25
  all get off, we are all traumatized. And then we
• 1:07:31
  see what has happened in current times Tyree Nichols, and
• 1:07:41
  he was done like this by five black men. We
• 1:07:46
  saw this with Timy Rights. We saw this with Oscar Grant,
• 1:07:50
  Alton Sterling. Heck, we saw it with Trayvon Moore, and
• 1:07:55
  and George Zimmermann wasn't even a he wanted to be
• 1:07:58
  a police officer. We see this, But I want to
• 1:08:07
  show y'all something else. And this time it was a
• 1:08:11
  woman that was violated by another woman, and this young
• 1:08:18
  lady was pregnant. Here well go as we get ready
• 1:08:21
  around and bring a should to an end tonight.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 15: She says she was nine months pregnant when a Buckeye
• 1:08:31
  police officer allegedly assaulted her while she was in handcuffs.
• 1:08:35
  I'm ABC fifteen investigator Nicole Gregg. We were the first
• 1:08:39
  to show you that video that has led to that
• 1:08:41
  officer resigning and now headed to trial. And now we
• 1:08:46
  have more video of what led up to all of this.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Order.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: That's Bunk Eye Police officer Carrie Carrico as she was
• 1:08:55
  processing this woman inside the Buck Eye Police department.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Understand me, you are here because you're a knocking off.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 15: We're editing together these two videos to sync the surveillance
• 1:09:08
  video to the audio of this officer's body camera video.
• 1:09:12
  This video, provided by Buckeye PDE, shows the officer's arm
• 1:09:19
  swinging towards the woman's head. She was later taken to
• 1:09:23
  the hospital for a contusion impossible concussion. The officer's boss
• 1:09:28
  calling the encounters very aggressive and described them as definitely
• 1:09:33
  over the top and unnecessary. But new video now shows
• 1:09:38
  how all of this started. As a woman was pulled
• 1:09:41
  over for reckless driving.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 10: There any reason why you're going nearly seventy miles an hour,
• 1:09:45
  don't you look?
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: I no no reason at all. Okay, do you have
• 1:09:50
  your registration and insurance?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: Sir?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 12: Here?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Reason why? Off the seatbelts on? My Actually you don't.
• 1:09:56
  Actually you see how this is here, so it's not
• 1:10:01
  worn properly.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: So no, it wasn't on.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 15: Now watch the next twenty two seconds.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Well this isn't my car.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 8: Okay, you're driving it.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: So a reason for the attitude, Yeah, because you have one. Okay,
• 1:10:16
  go ahead and step on out.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 12: O.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: Nope, you can stay there.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Face the car right over here. Put you manas find right.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 15: Then listen as Officer Kariko goes to detain her.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: You can give less and no, I'm not going to
• 1:10:35
  leave your sleep like that.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: When you become a coffee you can tell me how
• 1:10:38
  to do my job.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 8: Until then, you can be quiet.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: Let's go sit in the car.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 15: An internal review of this encounter says when Officer Kariko
• 1:10:45
  did a pat down search, she ran her hand along
• 1:10:48
  the woman's front waistline.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: Excuse me, I'm opening a door.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: How do you expect to get in a car with
• 1:10:54
  door closed?
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: Genius?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 7: You're right, you're gross.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Got to step on end.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: Ah, yes you are, you and your attitude stink.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 15: In The CoP's own word says, the woman's attitude was
• 1:11:11
  what would take her to jail.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: So he got jail taking her to the station.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: If she changes her attitude when gets the station, then
• 1:11:19
  she won't go to jail, and she asks the way
• 1:11:21
  she's been acting.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: She will get a joe.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 15: And back to that exchange about a seatbelt, that pregnant
• 1:11:26
  woman telling the officer she was wearing one, but her
• 1:11:29
  pregnant belly was too big, so she put the strap
• 1:11:32
  behind her instead of across her chest. Then, as Officer
• 1:11:37
  Karako goes to take her to jail, the pregnant woman
• 1:11:40
  asks about where her seat belt is a.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Seatbelt right?
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 15: The officer drives off and then you don't see it
• 1:11:51
  on video, but the internal report reveals that during transport,
• 1:11:55
  the vehicle appears to turn left strength a kerber object
• 1:11:59
  and that Officer Karicho didn't stop to secure a seatbelt
• 1:12:02
  on her. Karaco pleaded not guilty to aggravate the assault
• 1:12:06
  in this case and another. Her trial is scheduled for November.
• 1:12:10
  She is no longer with the police department, but her
• 1:12:14
  attorney tells us this week that they have no comment
• 1:12:17
  at this time. I'm investigator Nicole Gregg ABC fifteen, Arizona.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Let that sink in for just a moment, but shout
• 1:12:28
  out to Arizona Police Department for taking swift action against
• 1:12:32
  this woman and standing on the side of right. Let's
• 1:12:35
  give them a round of applause. Oh, there we go.
• 1:12:43
  Let's give them a round of applause for taking swift justice.
• 1:12:47
  Because again this is not the first case with this
• 1:12:50
  police officer. But again we're seeing this more and more
• 1:12:54
  and more and more and more and more and more,
• 1:12:57
  but less action being, less action being taken, less accountability
• 1:13:03
  placed on the shoulders of these police officers. Because what
• 1:13:08
  you did to this woman was in what was just
• 1:13:13
  it was pure disgusting. You physically saw that this woman
• 1:13:19
  was pregnant. Do y'all know how Let me tell you,
• 1:13:23
  I've been pregnant four times. Do y'all understand how difficult
• 1:13:26
  it is when you are eight nine months pregnant to
• 1:13:29
  put that seatbelts across your waist. That's hard. Then you
• 1:13:37
  said you don't like our attitude. So again here comes
• 1:13:41
  this ego with these officers because the people are not
• 1:13:45
  oh yes, ma'am, no man, because they're not bowing down
• 1:13:47
  to you. It's an attitude people say, oh, well, we
• 1:13:51
  need to quit matching energy with the police. Then they
• 1:13:54
  need to stop coming to us heightened. They already come
• 1:13:58
  ready to escalate a situation, aren't y'all? Taught when y'all
• 1:14:01
  go to training, Aren't y'all taught how to de escalate situations?
• 1:14:05
  Aren't y'all taught to try to calm a situation down?
• 1:14:08
  But a lot of y'all come in and y'all crank
• 1:14:10
  it up. And I don't think we intentionally have attitude.
• 1:14:16
  I think what it is we're frustrating. We're over it.
• 1:14:19
  We're frustrated, I believe, and again these are only my opinions,
• 1:14:26
  but I feel like that's what it is. I feel
• 1:14:28
  like we are so over it, we are so fatigued.
• 1:14:30
  We are just exhausted of the mistreatment that we receive
• 1:14:36
  at the hands of law enforcement. We're tired, we are
• 1:14:39
  over it, we are done. I believe we have just
• 1:14:43
  mentally checked out on anything pertaining to law enforcement. I
• 1:14:48
  think at this point we're just like, you know, whatever,
• 1:14:50
  write the ticket, whatever. We're just trying to go home.
• 1:14:52
  We're just trying to make it to wherever it is
• 1:14:54
  we're trying to go. I believe that a lot of
• 1:14:57
  that comes from frustration. Again, I believe a lot of
• 1:14:59
  that comes from because exhaustion, because we are tired, we
• 1:15:04
  are fed up that these police officers are not reprimanded
• 1:15:08
  in the most positive way that they should be. Again,
• 1:15:13
  these are my opinions, but I do feel like when
• 1:15:18
  law enforcement is is sued, when they file these civil
• 1:15:21
  suits against these police officers, I believe when the victims win,
• 1:15:25
  that the earnings or the whatever the payout is should
• 1:15:29
  come from the police officer's pension. I don't care if
• 1:15:31
  you've been on the force for one year, I don't
• 1:15:33
  care if you've been on the force for twenty years.
• 1:15:34
  I feel like it should come from your pension. And
• 1:15:36
  then again, maybe this will stop, maybe not completely stopped,
• 1:15:44
  but I believe we will see a decline in these cases.
• 1:15:47
  I feel like these departments you need to hold your
• 1:15:50
  officers accountable. I feel like you, law enforcement, you need
• 1:15:55
  to stand on the side of right, because again, you
• 1:15:57
  were once a civilian before you got that badge, and
• 1:16:02
  that badge is not a pass for you to brutalize
• 1:16:06
  black and brown people. M mm hm hm. When I
• 1:16:15
  tell y'all, I'm so proud of myself. I got through
• 1:16:18
  another episode with no tears. But let me give you
• 1:16:21
  my final thoughts as we round out the end of
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  this show. Police brutality is a real thing. We have
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  seen it happen since way back when. The only reason
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  we're seeing it more is because social media is not prevalent.
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  Everyone has a cell phone, everyone is recording, everyone is
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  uploading it to their pages. And the sad part about
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  all of this is, even with footage, police officers are
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  still getting off. Police officers still being told they were
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  well within the excessive force policy that's implemented. But what
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  about the victims who are left traumatized, who are left
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  with the scars of the brutalization. What about the families
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  who've lost loved ones to the hands of law enforcement.
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  They're left to deal with the pain, They're left to
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  pick up the pieces and carry on as if this
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  never happened. We have Assandra Massi's ar Sonya Massi's Arsandra Blands,
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  Tatiana Jefferson's Our Philando Castile's are timire Risis are Eric
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  Garner's are out In Sterling's You tell me what can
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  we do? So I ask every last one of y'all
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  if you could stand in solidarity for these social media
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  the influencers that get banned from Walmart or whatever the
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  situation is. I believe we need to stand in solidarity
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  against police brutality. I don't think y'all understand how strong
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  we are in numbers. Let's start standing for things that
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  make sense. Okay, And I'm gonna leave it at that. Oh,
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  we had another good show tonight, another amazing show. But
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  as we bring this episode to a close, I just
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  wanted to share some of my accomplishments I posted last week.
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  This is the second year that I have that I
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  entered into the women Who Podcast contest for having the
• 1:18:50
  best podcast depending on the category, and I'm so grateful
• 1:18:54
  to announce here is my second award. That's the second
• 1:18:58
  for you know again to you in a row. Here
• 1:19:00
  is my first one. So yes, your girl is doing beautiful,
• 1:19:05
  amazing things with Black Girl Interrupted. But I want to
• 1:19:09
  say that I could not do this without y'all. I
• 1:19:11
  know I say this on every episode, but I want
• 1:19:13
  y'all to know that I'm so humbled and that I'm
• 1:19:15
  so grateful for the love and support that you guys
• 1:19:19
  continue to show me each and every episode. I love
• 1:19:24
  that I am now taking the time to give you
• 1:19:26
  quality content and not just worry about the quantity. So
• 1:19:32
  many beautiful things and amazing things are now moving in
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  my favor and I am forever grateful, and I want
• 1:19:39
  y'all to know that I am humbled that the love
• 1:19:45
  that y'all pour into me. I'm grateful that y'all continue
• 1:19:49
  to stand and walk with me on this journey because
• 1:19:54
  it has not always been easy. I've had moments where
• 1:20:01
  I wanted throwing a tie. There were moments where I
• 1:20:02
  walked away. There were moments where I dealt with things mentally.
• 1:20:06
  There were things that I dealt with emotionally, things that
• 1:20:08
  I'm dealing with physically. But I told you, I'm committed
• 1:20:13
  to showing up, not just for me, but for y'all.
• 1:20:16
  So again, I want to say thank y'all for the
• 1:20:19
  continuous love and the support that y'all give to Black
• 1:20:22
  Girl interrupt the podcast. My goal is to continue bringing
• 1:20:28
  you beautiful, yet meaning and thought provoking conversations. Ah, I'm
• 1:20:35
  not gonna get emotional because I just you know, I'm grateful.
• 1:20:40
  I love where I am, I love where God is
• 1:20:42
  taking me, and I just cannot wait to see where
• 1:20:46
  we go from here. My sister says, let's get it, Sis,
• 1:20:50
  you better know what I told you. I told you earlier.
• 1:20:54
  We're getting closer to that destination. But I do. Want
• 1:20:57
  to share one more thing with you that I got
• 1:21:00
  from the creator of the Women Who podcast. Oh, let
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  me pull this out. It says congrats, and they go
• 1:21:13
  on to tell me congratulations and receiving a Women Who
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  Podcast award in the Repping the Southwest category. So I
• 1:21:20
  won for Repping the Southwest. Hey, let's go Thank you
• 1:21:26
  for being you and always getting behind the microphone. You
• 1:21:29
  are truly making a difference. Take care. It's things like
• 1:21:34
  that that want that forced me to keep going. It's
• 1:21:39
  things like that that make me proud to do exactly
• 1:21:42
  what it is that I do. And with y'all standing
• 1:21:46
  behind me, you know what. Nope, with y'all standing beside me,
• 1:21:49
  with y'all loving on me, with y'all pouring into me,
• 1:21:53
  makes me strive even harder, to go harder, not just
• 1:21:56
  for me, but for y'all, but for us, for us,
• 1:22:00
  and for the people that look like us. So tomorrow night,
• 1:22:06
  when I be a long episode, y'all know, it is
• 1:22:07
  wellness Wednesday. Y'all know I do my wellness Wednesdays once
• 1:22:10
  a month. So tomorrow night we're doing our wellness Wednesday,
• 1:22:14
  eight o'clock. We will start for those that do not
• 1:22:18
  know what I do on Wellness Wednesday. Wellness Wednesday is
• 1:22:21
  I just want to try to bring bring your things
• 1:22:23
  to the table and let's unpack them, let's talk about them.
• 1:22:25
  Let's make sure that you guys are in a beautiful
• 1:22:28
  mental space as we walk into the remainder of the week.
• 1:22:33
  Wellness weisnate. Wellness Wednesday is a time where we just
• 1:22:36
  love on each other, where we just pour into each other,
• 1:22:39
  where we take the time to just encourage someone you know.
• 1:22:42
  So if you are struggling, or if you know anyone
• 1:22:44
  that's struggling, tell them to come on like, share comments,
• 1:22:47
  subscribe to Black Girl Interrupted Podcast. I am available. I
• 1:22:51
  stream on all streaming platforms. I stream live every Tuesday
• 1:22:55
  every Wednesday to Facebook as well as YouTube. Anyone that
• 1:23:00
  is looking so let me say this, anyone that is
• 1:23:02
  looking to be a guest on Black Girl Interrupt the podcast,
• 1:23:05
  please please please send me an email to the email
• 1:23:09
  at the bottom of your screen Black Girl Interrupted Podcast
• 1:23:12
  at gmail dot com. Because for the entire month of September,
• 1:23:16
  I'm spotlighting all entrepreneurs, small business owners. This is your
• 1:23:22
  time to shine, baby, This is your time to get
• 1:23:24
  your business in front of people that don't know anything
• 1:23:26
  about you, whether you're near, whether you're far. I want
• 1:23:29
  the people to know who you are. I may not
• 1:23:31
  have a big following, but hey, someone may come across
• 1:23:34
  my video and be like, oh okay, I want to
• 1:23:36
  check in with her. I want to check in with him.
• 1:23:39
  So again, if you're looking to be a guest again,
• 1:23:40
  this is for the month, the entire month of September,
• 1:23:43
  please send me email to Black Girl Interrupted Podcast at
• 1:23:48
  gmail dot com. Come on, let's put your business in
• 1:23:51
  front of the people. Let's let the people know who
• 1:23:53
  you are. Come on now, y'all. You know it is
• 1:23:56
  your time to shine. So on that note, I want
• 1:24:01
  to say I love y'all again. Thank y'all for tuning
• 1:24:04
  in to another beautiful episode of Black Girl Interrupted Podcast.
• 1:24:08
  Again tomorrow night. We will do our wellness Wednesdays. So
• 1:24:12
  pull up, hang out with your girl for a little while,
• 1:24:14
  and let's let's love. Let's celebrate. You know, I want
• 1:24:17
  to know what your accomplished accomplishments have been thus far
• 1:24:20
  for the month. Again, salute to all the children that
• 1:24:23
  have gone back to school. I'm wishing your children a
• 1:24:27
  successful school year. But on my end, unfortunately, uh, my
• 1:24:31
  daughter tested positive for COVID on Saturday, and school has
• 1:24:34
  only been back in a week today, so go figure.
• 1:24:39
  But on that note, I love y'all, God bless you.
• 1:24:41
  I will see y'all tomorrow night for our wellness Wednesday.
• 1:24:44
  I like y'all. Good night.
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  Speaker 10: Thest to to think
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