TDS Time Machine | Civil Unrest

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Speaker 3 We begin right here in New York City. There was a march on Wall Street today sponsored by the group Occupy Wall Street and, oddly enough, Sunny D

Speaker 3 for extreme protest thirst.

Speaker 3 The Occupy Wall Street movement has basically been a four-week downtown Manhattan live-in, which has spread to cities all around the country, causing the media to move its coverage dial from blackout to circus.

Speaker 3 It's too bad. Those are the only two settings it has.

Speaker 3 Intrepid reporters from all the major networks and CNN went down to talk with the protesters. Of course, the reporters changed in their undercover 21 Jump Street outfits.

Speaker 3 What's up, protesters?

Speaker 3 Mind if we chillax with you in HD?

Speaker 3 Because the aspect ratio on the shot's gonna be badass!

Speaker 3 Why are the protesters there?

Speaker 3 Well, the answers ranged from extremely earnest college roommatey to powerful and cogent.

Speaker 4 What do you guys want?

Speaker 5 Bring attention to the pervasive influence that corporations have in the political process.

Speaker 7 What did we as Americans agree on? What can we do about it?

Speaker 3 We the people are here to take the power back.

Speaker 3 Now, after 30 years of having our living standards decrease while the wealthiest 1% have had it better than ever, I think it's time for maybe, I don't know, some participation in our democracy.

Speaker 3 Damn!

Speaker 3 That motherfucker brought game.

Speaker 3 You know what he's saying? What's up, Tea Party? I see your track corner hat and I raise you a Union soldier kepe.

Speaker 3 So those are the protesters or to put their words another way I think if you put every single left-wing cause into a blender and hit power This is the sludge you'd get I saw one guy with a guitar and they asked him you know very hippie like Woodstock meets Burning Man meets people with absolutely no purpose.

Speaker 15 They are some of the most uninformed people if you listen to them.

Speaker 13 They're all over the map.

Speaker 17 Demolition of capitalism. If we learn to share, we can all live in prosperity.

Speaker 18 All of those quotes could have been said in 1789 France before the French Revolution or the Russian Revolution

Speaker 18 or with only slight modification when the Nazis were coming to power. This is always the beginning of totalitarianism.

Speaker 3 This group is a laughable gang of disorganized, confused Nazis.

Speaker 3 This is an ill-disciplined, highly trained, weed-smoking fascist organization.

Speaker 3 But the protesters do have some surprising defenders.

Speaker 19 You know, the average American taxpayer knows that at the end of the day, they're going to be on the hook for the trillions and trillions of dollars that we're using to bail out these companies, some of whom have been irresponsible, and they are expressing their frustration, which I think is quintessentially American.

Speaker 3 Bravo, bravo, Sean Hannity,

Speaker 3 breaking ranks with your conservative friends.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's a clip from 2009 about the Tea Party.

Speaker 3 What does Sean Hannity think about these protesters' frustration?

Speaker 20 They hate corporations, they hate capitalism, and in the end, ultimately, they want statism over free markets, so they really don't like freedom.

Speaker 3 All right. So, rage against duly elected government is patriotic, quintessentially American, whereas rage against multinational shareholder accountable corporations is anti-American.
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 Okay, that's good. I don't get it.

Speaker 3 Here's a group of Americans disenchanted, railing against big government bailouts, angry because they played by the rules, worked hard, now they're in debt from student loans, and they're unemployed.

Speaker 3 I mean, look, if this thing turns into throwing trash cans into Starbucks windows, nobody's going to be down with that.

Speaker 3 We all love Starbucks.

Speaker 3 But these protesters, how are they not like the Tea Party? All right, some of them, you know, smoke and have pants made out of pot.

Speaker 3 So call them the THC Party. Aren't these folks real citizens with real problems? Aren't they also speaking for America?

Speaker 24 These folks aren't speaking for America.

Speaker 26 Just your basic green, anti-capitalist, anti-bank, anti-Wall Street, anti-America demonstration.

Speaker 25 That's not Tea Party behavior. That's not America-loving behavior.

Speaker 3 They probably don't even masturbate to the Constitution.

Speaker 3 That's what I found.

Speaker 3 All right, I'll bite.

Speaker 3 Why are the Occupy Wall Street folks unworthy of Tea Party respect and ideals?

Speaker 25 They're not law-abiding citizens. They're camping in a park where camping isn't allowed.
They're breaking the laws on the Brooklyn Bridge. That's not Tea Party behavior.

Speaker 3 Everything you described there, I believe, is a misdemeanor.

Speaker 3 The actual Tea Party was a felony.

Speaker 3 Do you know how much trouble?

Speaker 3 Do you know what the Tea Party actually was?

Speaker 3 You know how much trouble you'd get in if you broke into a ship, stole the cargo from the ship's owners, and just threw it overboard?

Speaker 3 Not to mention the EPA fines and the damage it would do to your Indian costume?

Speaker 3 The Tea Party namesake, you're named after the most celebrated act of theft and vandalism of private property in our nation's history, and you can't stomach a little park camping?

Speaker 3 But if there is one criticism that nearly everyone, even their supporters, seem to share, it was this.

Speaker 7 When you look at the message, though, what is it these protesters are trying to get across here? Because it doesn't necessarily seem a very cohesive one.

Speaker 7 Seems like they're really going to have to crystallize their message.

Speaker 17 The message is muggled.

Speaker 3 What? What? Did you just call the protesters muggles?

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 I watch a lot of movies.

Speaker 17 But

Speaker 3 this guy brings up a good point. We cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park dwellers to come up with a coherent solution to our nation's economic woes.

Speaker 3 We have a political ruling class to do that.

Speaker 6 Congress demanding answers on what caused the economic meltdown.

Speaker 27 A bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Six is working on a proposal to cut the deficit.

Speaker 23 The Congressional Super Committee created to cut the deficit.

Speaker 15 The Simpson Bowles plan.

Speaker 17 Senator Coburn's plan.

Speaker 6 Doesn't this sound like a great idea? Simpson Bowles sound like a great idea.

Speaker 17 The Bowles Simpson dead on arrival.

Speaker 9 The ten of you spent months working on this, though, and now you have this significant dissent.

Speaker 3 I think what we should do is break these banks up. To break up every institution right now could have been destabilizing.

Speaker 6 You haven't put your own budget to get it.

Speaker 17 If this is a sideline,

Speaker 17 Obama would be fired. The truth is

Speaker 17 that the private corporation is a fighter. The reason Obama fired is a gentleman.

Speaker 3 Just get, I think I got it. I think I got it.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 I think I got it.

Speaker 3 For God's sakes, people.

Speaker 3 Now I see why you're mad at them for being muddled and incoherent. That's your fing job.

Speaker 3 Although, wait, we did pass Dodd-Frank, the greatest Wall Street reform since the Great Depression.

Speaker 28 In just over two weeks, the Dodd-Frank law will be a year old, and we're not really any closer to fully implementing it.

Speaker 29 The stuff that would have addressed the fraud,

Speaker 29 too big to fail, derivatives,

Speaker 29 almost all those measures were either rejected outright or watered down to almost near meaningless.

Speaker 31 Out of an estimated 400 regulations to be written, just 38 are complete.

Speaker 3 And those 38 were the easy ones.

Speaker 3 No spitting.

Speaker 3 Don't take your d ⁇ out before five on the wall.

Speaker 3 You know what? If the people who were supposed to fix our financial system had actually done it, the people who have no idea how to solve these problems wouldn't be getting for not offering solutions.

Speaker 3 And while we all fight, the real victims, as always, continue to suffer.

Speaker 23 I was up in Boston this weekend and they had Occupy Boston. There were a thousand people at Duce.

Speaker 17 I was just driving by. I was trying to get to supper, and a thousand people were between me and a steak dinner.

Speaker 3 Steve Ducey reacting to the revolution.

Speaker 3 Let me eat steak.

Speaker 3 But first, obviously, the big news of the past few weeks, the town of Ferguson, Missouri, where the shooting by police of teenager Michael Brown has sparked a series of protests, which in turn sparked a,

Speaker 3 let's say, stern response by police who appear to be auditioning for RoboCop.

Speaker 3 It's a story that has a lot of people outraged and upset.

Speaker 16 I came back from vacation because I am furious.

Speaker 3 Of course you are!

Speaker 3 An unarmed black teenager gunned down in the street by police under suspicious circumstances who wouldn't cut their vacation short to register their fury.

Speaker 3 You'd have to be a monster or in my case enjoying a particularly nice vacation.

Speaker 3 But good on you, Mr. O'Reilly, for coming back.
Unless, of course, you're furious about something else.

Speaker 16 Furious about how the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is being reported and how various people are reacting to it.

Speaker 3 Yes!

Speaker 3 That is the outrage.

Speaker 3 The shooting of Michael Brown and any lack of transparency from the police department responsible for said incident is outrageous

Speaker 3 in how it has been reported.

Speaker 3 And I guess that's not the only reason to be angry.

Speaker 13 Is he going to get a fair shake, this officer?

Speaker 23 There has been a rush to judgment.

Speaker 4 Eric Holder flies into Ferguson

Speaker 4 with his superhero cape.

Speaker 32 This mantra of the unarmed black teenager shot by a white cop.

Speaker 32 That description, in and of itself, actually colors the way in which we look at this story.

Speaker 3 Yes,

Speaker 3 describing the actual facts of the case

Speaker 3 really does color the way we look at it.

Speaker 3 White cop shoots unarmed black teen

Speaker 3 does sound terrible.

Speaker 3 Whereas say

Speaker 3 hero cop kills alien hunting humans for sport

Speaker 3 would put a completely different spin on things.

Speaker 3 Which, though a very accurate description of the plot of Predator 2 is in this case

Speaker 3 not what happened.

Speaker 3 And you know what? There's so many other stories out there.

Speaker 30 Why aren't we covering New York? Why aren't we covering black-on-black crime?

Speaker 17 Yes!

Speaker 3 Why all the interest in holding police officers to a higher standard than gangs?

Speaker 3 They both flash colors and

Speaker 3 Yes, one of them has been sworn to protect and defend, but

Speaker 3 still.

Speaker 21 Well, this weekend, 42 people are shot in Chicago. You know, I don't see the protests, I don't see the anger.

Speaker 34 If I were African-American, I would be outraged that more journalists aren't covering what's happening in Chicago, and more outrage that people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don't head to those areas.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 What could explain the lack of outrage about Al Sharpton and his ilk not doing anything about black-on-black violence in Chicago?

Speaker 35 With Chicago's violence making national headlines, a group led by the Reverend Al Sharpton plans to convene an anti-violence summit of national civil rights leaders here.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's right, because African-American leaders did hold a summit about that in November and have met at least three times in the city just in the last 13 months, which is not to say it's been effective, but taken along with the President's My Brother's Keeper initiative, which attempts to address this violence and the countless vigils and marches within these violence-torn communities, means they are trying actually to do something.

Speaker 3 You see, you being ignorant of those attempts doesn't mean the issue itself is being ignored in the same way that when it snows where you live doesn't mean the world isn't getting hotter.

Speaker 31 Oh, you know what?

Speaker 3 There's something else bothering you, isn't there?

Speaker 36 When a cop pulls me over, I say, I put my hands outside of the car.

Speaker 36 If I'm carrying a weapon, which I'm licensed to carry in New York, the first thing I tell the police officer is, officer, I want you to know I have a legal firearm in the car.

Speaker 3 And then I brace myself for the taser.

Speaker 3 Well, without getting into the fact that you get pulled over so much by the cops that

Speaker 3 sometimes you're carrying a weapon, sometimes you're not. I don't know.
It just

Speaker 3 depends on how I'm feeling that day. But

Speaker 3 continue.

Speaker 36 I often would even take my step out of the car, lift my shirt up so we could see where the gun is.

Speaker 3 You really do have no f ⁇ ing idea, do you? You really do.

Speaker 3 Basically, you're saying...

Speaker 3 If only Michael Brown, instead of holding his hands over his head, had reached down to his waist

Speaker 3 and lifted up his shirt

Speaker 3 to show the gun he did not actually have.

Speaker 3 This whole tragedy could have been avoided. Do you not understand that life in this country is inherently different for white people and black people?

Speaker 34 A lot of people are trying to make this, Dana, about black and white and trying to make this about race.

Speaker 37 This is part of this effort to make it everything about race.

Speaker 16 Is this a story about race? Do we know that?

Speaker 32 I think it is playing the race card and I think it's disgraceful.

Speaker 38 The only racial divide that is created here is being created by the race faders.

Speaker 30 You know who talks about race? Racists.

Speaker 3 Did you just

Speaker 3 he who smelt it dealt it racism?

Speaker 3 Did you really

Speaker 3 smell the dealt racism? Hi.

Speaker 3 Highlight.

Speaker 3 Forget that in Ferguson, 94% of the police are white and 63% of the people are black. Forget that 92% of police searches and 86% of car stops are for black people.

Speaker 3 Forget that the white municipal government finances nearly a quarter of its annual budget through the fines and penalties disproportionately leveled against the black portion of the population.

Speaker 3 Forget that the history of this town includes this tasty nugget.

Speaker 39 A 52-year-old man named Henry Davis said that four Ferguson police officers beat him, then charged him with damaging government property because his blood had gotten on the officers' uniforms.

Speaker 3 So let me get this straight. You guys got tanks, but you can't keep a couple of tide sticks around.

Speaker 3 Because here's Here's the problem with everything that's going on in this conversation.

Speaker 3 This isn't all about just one man killed in one town. It's about how people of color, no matter their socioeconomic standing, face obstacles in this country with surprising grace.

Speaker 3 Look at how upset you all get about certain things.

Speaker 30 Tonight, Christmas under attack. Why are we allowing anti-Christmas madness?

Speaker 42 Why do I have to drive around with my kids to look for nativity scenes and be like, oh yeah, kids, look, there's baby Jesus behind the Festivus pole made out of beer cans.

Speaker 7 It's nuts.

Speaker 3 Remember?

Speaker 43 You were furious

Speaker 3 that America's 11-month-long celebration of Christmas

Speaker 3 wasn't enough. But now,

Speaker 3 if you can, just imagine that instead of having to suffer the indignity

Speaker 3 of a festivist pole blocking something

Speaker 3 you could have just set up in your own yard anyway

Speaker 3 imagine that instead of that on a pretty consistent basis you can't get a

Speaker 3 cab even though you're a neurosurgeon because you're black I guarantee you I guarantee you

Speaker 3 that every

Speaker 3 I guarantee you that

Speaker 3 That every person of color in this country has faced an indignity from the ridiculous to the grotesque to the sometimes fatal at some point in their, I'm going to say last couple of hours

Speaker 3 because of their skin color. Quick story.
So we live in New York City, a liberal bastion. Recently,

Speaker 3 let me finish.

Speaker 3 Recently, we sent a correspondent and a producer to a building in this liberal bastion where we were going to tape an interview. The producer, white,

Speaker 3 dressed in what could only be described as

Speaker 3 homeless elf attire

Speaker 3 and a pretty strong five o'clock from the previous week shadow, strode confidently into the building, preceding our humble correspondent, a gentleman of color, dressed resplendently in a tailored suit.

Speaker 3 Who do you think was stopped? Let me give you a hint, the black guy.

Speaker 45 And that

Speaker 3 happens happens all the time, all of it. Race is there and it is a constant.
You're tired of hearing about it?

Speaker 3 Imagine how

Speaker 3 exhausting it is living it.

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Speaker 3 The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri was deciding that Ferguson police officer, now former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, did nothing indictable when he shot unarmed but large Michael Brown.

Speaker 3 The angry reaction to this decision was swift and sustained, with protests breaking out throughout the country. But if those who took to the streets thought

Speaker 3 that they were speaking out against systemic injustice, well, it could not have been more wrong.

Speaker 39 This is not a civil rights issue.

Speaker 15 It's not a black-white situation.

Speaker 23 It's a thug, a police officer situation.

Speaker 30 People forget he had committed a robbery.

Speaker 47 Michael Brown was the bad guy in this case. And please, America, let's not turn this kid into some kind of civil rights martyr because that he is not.
Ferguson, Missouri is not Selma, Alabama. Right!

Speaker 3 Almost by definition.

Speaker 3 Ferguson, Missouri is not Selma, Alabama.

Speaker 3 Of course, if Fox had been around for Selma, Alabama, the headline would probably have been, relax, Selma isn't slavery.

Speaker 3 So this isn't a civil rights thing.

Speaker 3 Although I don't know, the protests I saw seemed pretty civil rightsy. From those in Los Angeles to the NFL to the streets right here in New York.

Speaker 30 And they picked people along the way.

Speaker 30 You can hear they actually love

Speaker 44 these people

Speaker 44 to protest.

Speaker 3 I feel you.

Speaker 3 But I get what you're saying there.

Speaker 3 This is an isolated incident, like the police shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, or Dante Parker in San Bernardino County, or Kendrick McDade in Pasadena, or Armand Bennett in New Orleans, or John Crawford.

Speaker 3 What time does Colbert start? What time does his show start?

Speaker 3 It's in like a half hour, right? All right, we'll just

Speaker 3 move on.

Speaker 3 The point is, these shootings are clearly not a manifestation of systemic inequality and mistrust between the African American community and the somehow always justified police American community.

Speaker 3 But these are merely an unending, bizarrely similar series of isolated incidents.

Speaker 3 But if there's nothing to justify the anger and protest in these communities,

Speaker 3 why would would so many individuals around the country spend their precious hard-earned

Speaker 3 pre-Christmas sale stampeding time

Speaker 3 protesting a non-existent problem?

Speaker 38 You look at Ferguson, they had a community that really worked, or it seemed to have worked, and now all this hatred's coming out.

Speaker 38 You have so many other people inciting and trying to get their own two cents in, and they're trying to incite problems.

Speaker 4 Pitting whites against blacks.

Speaker 15 I think the racial arsonists in this country have worked these people up so much with propaganda that facts don't matter.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's why they take to the streets. They were incited by racial arsonists.

Speaker 3 You know, I have a dream.

Speaker 3 That one day we can evolve as a people to a time when arsonists no longer see race,

Speaker 3 but see

Speaker 3 really only the beautiful consuming fire they are criminally compelled to light.

Speaker 3 When an arsonist can say, the only color I see

Speaker 3 is orange.

Speaker 3 But I get it. There obviously wouldn't be a problem if a racial arsonist

Speaker 3 if a racial arsonist hadn't

Speaker 3 If a racial arsonist hadn't lit the fire under Ferguson with his

Speaker 3 telling of what happened match.

Speaker 3 And by the way, racial arsonists were not the only inciters.

Speaker 17 These racial racketeers, race hustlers, race grievance industry leaders,

Speaker 3 your race grifters, your race counterfeiters, your race litterers, your race financial advisors, your race,

Speaker 3 your race sommeliers.

Speaker 3 What's wrong with a nice white?

Speaker 3 But,

Speaker 3 but,

Speaker 3 the point is, these protests may look like a spontaneous groundswell of frustration, grief, and anger amongst a community that feels disenfranchised.

Speaker 3 But they're actually just the prescribed bidding of America's race grievance puppeteers.

Speaker 3 And who might they be, you ask?

Speaker 3 Professor, the floor is yours.

Speaker 21 The President and Eric Colder and Al Sharpton, I think they've been terribly irresponsible.

Speaker 16 Ferguson Burns, because of, in part, a mindset was created by Al Sharpton, by Eric Colder, and the president.

Speaker 3 Be honest, my friend.

Speaker 3 Are those the three people responsible, or did you just name the only three black guys you could think of?

Speaker 3 What? Which one? Ferguson Burns!

Speaker 3 Ferguson Burns, my friend, in part because of

Speaker 3 Jay-Z,

Speaker 3 the guy who plays Urkel, and let's say Hank Aaron. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Now here's where it gets interesting.

Speaker 3 What is the mindset that has been instilled that creates the conditions for this upset within the African-American community?

Speaker 48 The head of this network, Roger Ailes, has brilliantly said that if you see yourself as a victim, then you'll become a victim. But if you see yourself as a winner, then you'll eventually win.

Speaker 3 Keep a dream journal, folks.

Speaker 3 A victim mentality is what's causing this. A victim mentality.
A gentleman on Fox.

Speaker 3 A gentleman on Fox News said that black people have been convinced by a network of shrewd propagandists that they are somehow victims.

Speaker 3 And that is wrong to agitate a population, to scare them, utilizing all the tools of modern communication, graphics, music, et cetera,

Speaker 3 to stoke these people into a resentful frenzy.

Speaker 3 Fox News feels that's just damaging to this great nation and tears at our very fabric.

Speaker 3 I can't imagine anyone would do such a thing

Speaker 3 at just roll the tape.

Speaker 30 The president is selling class warfare. Is there a growing anti-white people movement in America? The feds and many state governments are working hard to take away your guns.

Speaker 30 Meanwhile, they'll take your money.

Speaker 22 The invasion of illegal immigrants.

Speaker 7 We have terrorists crossing the Mexican border.

Speaker 30 Singled out for its Christian message.

Speaker 49 We can pick on white guys, we can pick on Christians in this country.

Speaker 15 Food stamp abusers, feeding on taxpayers.

Speaker 6 The United States of entitlement.

Speaker 48 They're stealing our money and the taxpayers should rise up.

Speaker 18 We are under a tyranny now.

Speaker 37 All hail King Obama, an imperial president.

Speaker 6 America's freedom is slipping away.

Speaker 37 America's best aids are behind her.

Speaker 3 America, you have a choice to make.

Speaker 7 It is time that we take our country back.

Speaker 23 You need to get angry.

Speaker 6 Our worst fears might very well be here.

Speaker 6 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't know if I'm supposed to overthrow the government or get one of them panic rooms. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 3 But either way,

Speaker 3 I'm just happy to not be incited.

Speaker 3 It almost makes you think that the crime that they're really upset about over there isn't race pimping or race arson. It's race plagiarism.

Speaker 10 So I thought, you know what? I'm going to go back to America and just chill.

Speaker 3 Turns out, I left the third World world and landed in the Third Reich.

Speaker 40 White nationalists descending on Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate leader Robert E.

Speaker 50 Lee.

Speaker 51 In Charlottesville, Virginia, where protests are turning violence.

Speaker 9 At least one person is dead after a car wowed into a group of counter-protesters.

Speaker 24 President Trump turns an infrastructure event into a rambling rant, blaming both sides for the violence.

Speaker 30 And you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were

Speaker 52 very fine people on both sides. I think there's blame on both sides.

Speaker 52 You look at both sides. I think there's blame on both sides.
And I have no doubt about it. And you don't have any doubt about it either.

Speaker 10 Like, I know he was trying to convince us, but Trump just looks like an untrained Jedi failing hard. You know, he's just like, you don't have any data, but you don't.

Speaker 3 Nazis and the people protesting are equivalent.

Speaker 10 And also, KFC is a vegetable. You know.

Speaker 3 You know.

Speaker 10 And you know what? Like, I know that this happened a week ago, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm still processing everything.

Speaker 10 You know, first of all, a racist neo-Nazi killed a peacefully protesting woman with his car.

Speaker 10 Then the president of the United States defended the neo-Nazis who that dude was marching with. And this is the thing, it's not once, but twice.
Like, Donald Trump said it.

Speaker 10 Then three days later, he came back and said, hey, hey, you know how I said that Nazi defending thing? Well, I just realized that

Speaker 10 I messed up. I didn't defend them enough.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 My support was here, and I was trying to get it here.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 10 And I'm not going to lie, I don't know about you, but it seemed for a moment that, okay, this was it. This was clearly not what presidents do.

Speaker 10 You know, after tragic national events, a leader, even a mediocre leader, says the things to unite the country, to calm the tensions, not inflame them, and especially not express sympathy for Nazi sympathizers.

Speaker 10 Even in South Africa, this is how crazy this is.

Speaker 10 In South Africa, during apartheid, right, we had a Nazi organization known as the AWB, and they wanted an all-white country, they had their own hip new swastika, right?

Speaker 10 It was full-on-Nazi, full-on-Nazi organization. And back then, South Africa was under apartheid.
But the government, right, the apartheid government, they'd restricted where black people could live.

Speaker 10 It didn't allow them to study. Most importantly, it stripped away their right to vote.

Speaker 10 And even then, in the midst of apartheid, when the AWB would hold its rallies, the apartheid government would be like, no, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Nazis, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 10 I mean, come on.

Speaker 3 I like racism just as much as the next guy, but come on, Nazis, Nazis, come on, people.

Speaker 3 I think we can all agree as humans or as black people that Nazis is a step too far, people.

Speaker 3 It's a step too far. Even in apartheid South Africa.

Speaker 10 But today, in America,

Speaker 10 we're not even at that point.

Speaker 10 Seven months into his term, 41 months to go by the way, and the president of the United States has officially legitimized white supremacists, basically saying we need to see things from the Nazis' point of view.

Speaker 10 You know, march a mile in their boots. And you would think, you would think that surely this would be the straw that broke the camel's back.

Speaker 10 Well, it turns out that the president's party has a lot of camels.

Speaker 51 A new CBS news poll out this week showed that 67% of Republicans approve of the way President Trump handled the response to the Charlottesville attack. But how?

Speaker 51 But how? Like

Speaker 10 two-thirds of Republicans thought that Trump handled Charlottesville well. Like,

Speaker 10 I know it sounds crazy to say this, but that's the shocking part for me. You know, Donald Trump did his thing, but 67% are like, yeah, yeah.
You know, he did his thing. Like, let me put it this way.

Speaker 10 Anyone can fart, right?

Speaker 10 Person can fart. They do their thing.
They fart. But it takes a special group of people, two-thirds of them, to be like,

Speaker 10 nicely done. Yeah.

Speaker 10 I like the way you handled that. That was nice.

Speaker 3 That was really nice.

Speaker 10 I like that.

Speaker 10 Who are you?

Speaker 3 And here's the thing.

Speaker 10 If so many of Trump's supporters are willing to give Nazis the benefit of the doubt, then clearly anything goes. There's no line that they won't cross, and clearly, no cross that they won't burn.

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Speaker 45 You know, with all these protests sweeping across America, people have been comparing this moment to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Speaker 45 And much like the 1960s, law enforcement officers have met these calls to end police brutality with even more police brutality.

Speaker 41 Across the country, peaceful protests have too often devolved into standoffs with heavily armed police using military-style tactics.

Speaker 41 Flashbangs, tear gas, rubber bullets, helicopters, armored vehicles.

Speaker 8 Law enforcement in riot gear approach a barrier. Protesters on the other side, hands up in the air, chanting, don't shoot.

Speaker 7 But that's exactly what they did, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets.

Speaker 41 The threat of terrorism after 9-11 convinced many departments to stock up. Now those departments are facing off against their own citizens.

Speaker 45 Just take a moment to think about that.

Speaker 45 The police department got this heavy-duty equipment to fight terrorists. That's why they got the equipment post-9-11.

Speaker 45 And now they're using it against Americans who are exercising their right to protest.

Speaker 45 And I'm sorry, what about these people screams terrorists to you? Like maybe I've forgotten my history, but I don't remember the part where al-Qaeda attacked America with cardboard signs.

Speaker 45 And an argument I've heard some people make make is that the only reason the police are doing this is because the protesters are looting or being violent. That's what they say.

Speaker 45 No, they're doing this because the people are violent. But as happens so often, the police's story never matches the actual footage.

Speaker 45 Because for the past week, the internet has been full of videos of police officers attacking protesters with no provocation whatsoever.

Speaker 31 Caught on camera from coast to coast, alleged excessive force by police officers. Attacks against protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality.

Speaker 8 In New York, police drove a vehicle into a crowd of people protesting there.

Speaker 53 In Los Angeles, police swing batons at people who witnesses say were simply standing with their hands up.

Speaker 6 A New York police officer caught on camera pushing a woman who was demonstrating.

Speaker 54 An officer pulling a man's face mask off and spraying him with pepper spray.

Speaker 35 This unsettling image of an officer kicking a woman who was maced.

Speaker 15 Caught on camera a protester run over by an HPD mounted patrol unit at the height of the protests.

Speaker 52 We as black people deal with this every day. Black and brown people are treated brutally every day.

Speaker 45 I don't care who you are, those images have to be upsetting to watch. Because these images are the antitheses of what America is supposed to stand for.

Speaker 45 This is supposed to be the country where you have the freedom to say whatever you want. A democracy.

Speaker 45 You can say whatever you want, whether it's Black Lives Matter or let's all drink bleach. The government is not supposed to physically punish you for that.

Speaker 45 And that hasn't always been the case in America, but that is the ideal.

Speaker 45 When people were protesting in Michigan, saying that they want to go out, they want to go back to work, they want to get haircuts, they don't care about the coronavirus, they weren't getting beaten up.

Speaker 45 And that's what America is, the freedom to protest. And the freedom to protest isn't the only American ideal that the police have been trying to suppress lately.

Speaker 45 It seems like they've been really making a concerted effort to go after the free press.

Speaker 23 More than 300 journalists have faced press freedom violations.

Speaker 55 Across the United States, the camera is rolling when law enforcement seemed to be targeting journalists.

Speaker 3 I am press.

Speaker 44 Please.

Speaker 9 We identified ourselves as press and they fired tear gas canisters on us with mic range.

Speaker 56 This Australian cameraman and reporter were shoved and hit while live on air.

Speaker 18 Police now advancing.

Speaker 44 Oh my gosh, hold on.

Speaker 44 I'm getting shot.

Speaker 3 I'm getting in Louisville.

Speaker 31 Pepper balls fired at a crew on live TV.

Speaker 34 Who are they aiming that at?

Speaker 17 At us, like directly at us.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 45 Those videos are what's happening in America right now. Cops are just openly firing tear gas and pepper bullets and everything on journalists.

Speaker 45 I mean, I can't blame blame them. If I was doing the shit that the police have been doing, I wouldn't want anyone recording it either.

Speaker 45 So the police are attacking unarmed protesters, defenseless reporters.

Speaker 45 I mean, at this point, you might be wondering, is there anyone, is there anyone non-threatening enough that the police would not get violent with them?

Speaker 45 And what we're learning is that the answer is no.

Speaker 57 A Salt Lake City police officer in full riot gear using his shield to push an elderly man with a cane. The man falls face first onto the ground.

Speaker 12 Two officers in Buffalo, New York, pushing a 75-year-old man who falls to the ground, hits his head, and starts bleeding. None of the officers in the video appear to help him.

Speaker 45 I don't care how many times I see that video. I will never get used to it.

Speaker 45 Because it's bad enough that these cops push an old man who's walking over to them. But the fact that they walk over him, they walk past him.
while he's bleeding out on the sidewalk

Speaker 45 like who are you protecting and serving, if not that old man? And think about it, these were just two that were caught on video.

Speaker 45 Now, as usual, when videos like this come out, the excuse is always the same. People always want to defend those police by saying, those are just a couple of bad apples.

Speaker 45 That is not... That is not a signifier, that is not representative of the entire police department.

Speaker 45 The only issue is that argument falls apart when you see what happened after they pushed this old man to the ground.

Speaker 12 A police statement released before the footage was posted online said only that a man tripped and fell.

Speaker 23 But after the video surfaced, the police commissioner ordered an internal affairs investigation and the immediate suspension of the officers without pay.

Speaker 58 As the officers leave the courthouse, cheers from a crowd of fellow officers and law enforcement.

Speaker 58 In another show of support, all 57 members of the Buffalo Emergency Response Team resigned, but they remain on the police force.

Speaker 45 Think about this for a second.

Speaker 45 Not only did the police department try to cover up what happened,

Speaker 45 not only did they try and lie about something that we all saw on camera, but once the truth got out and those cops were punished, the entire team resigned to protest those police being held accountable.

Speaker 45 In fact, they even showed up at the courthouse to cheer them on as they came came out.

Speaker 45 What are you cheering? That Buffalo is finally safe from old men walking around in public? What are you cheering?

Speaker 45 What are you cheering? The fact that you've come out? The fact that you stayed, like, it's a scary thing to think about. What are they cheering for?

Speaker 45 And something I think people need to understand about the police is that, in a way, they have the same code that a gang does. In that, above all, you are loyal to your crew.

Speaker 45 That is a culture that is within every police department.

Speaker 45 And that's the heart of this issue.

Speaker 45 If good police are willing to look the other way or even join in when the bad police abuse their powers, you can make new rules and regulations all you want, but it won't matter.

Speaker 45 America is not going to be able to fix this problem until we have police whose first priority is protecting and serving the people instead of protecting and serving themselves.

Speaker 59 I'm here in DC. It's an exciting day.
Almost half the adults in our country are asking for a do-over.

Speaker 59 I suppose if you bought all of these flags and all of these garments, you gotta do something like this.

Speaker 59 I mean, they've been prepping for this at least sartorially for years.

Speaker 59 Tell me about your, what's on your back?

Speaker 18 Q flag.

Speaker 33 Q flag.

Speaker 42 Q and I. You're one of those crazy people.

Speaker 17 You're one of those crazy people.

Speaker 42 QQ is somebody who just helped wake us up.

Speaker 17 Makes you ask questions.

Speaker 48 It makes you ask questions.

Speaker 59 It makes all of us ask questions. It's like, why would people believe in this conspiracy that a 12-year-old in the basement put on the internet and now it's affecting our country?

Speaker 5 I mean, people can think whatever.

Speaker 8 Joseph Biden and Kami Law, your buddy Kami Law Harris, are not legitimate.

Speaker 42 You know what I think this is?

Speaker 8 This is a gang rape of our nation. We are watching our country be gang raped.

Speaker 33 Like look into your heart, okay? It's not a joke.

Speaker 17 Look, you make a good point, but you are wearing a onesie. I'm

Speaker 33 a onesie that is a flag. So it doesn't.

Speaker 5 Because I like it, because I'm about what I represent here.

Speaker 59 Yeah, how'd you get your bike in?

Speaker 17 Right over here.

Speaker 59 What kind of bike best works for a futile attempt to thwart democracy?

Speaker 59 Like a cross-trek situation?

Speaker 23 That's just a weird question.

Speaker 59 The revolution will not be televised. They will also not be providing chairs, so bring your own.

Speaker 33 Hey, there's chairs up there for everybody. Great, thanks.

Speaker 17 Pilots of chairs.

Speaker 33 Planning ahead.

Speaker 23 People are mad about it, and they came here to make a statement.

Speaker 44 I want to redo.

Speaker 17 You want to redo? I want to redo.

Speaker 59 The good news is the Constitution has set aside a way to do a redo, and that's we'll just come back and do it again in four years.

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