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Ep. 1813 - Leftists Can't Make Up Their Minds About Body Cams. It's Hilarious.
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I was not in town yesterday. I wish that I had a crystal ball and we could schedule gun violence, but we can't. Yesterday I was in Dallas at the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives conference. It's their 50th anniversary.
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Reporters repeatedly asked his team at the scene for answers. Victims were on the ground covered in white sheets and officers were everywhere. But we were told little about how deadly the scene was, how many people were hurt and what danger remained. Yes, at the time of the shooting, the chief of the Seattle Police Department was in Dallas attending a conference for organization called the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. And the black police chief was attending this DEI event that was organized exclusively for black law enforcement executives, hence the name. Meanwhile, more than you know, for more than five hours, no one in Seattle knew how many shooters were on the loose. No one knew how many people had been killed. No emergency alerts or text messages went out. Instead, reporters were told that they had to wait for the arrival of dignitaries. We'll have more on that later. Now, to be clear here, because the names can get confusing, I have to admit we need to distinguish the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement executives from the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement. So those are two totally separate things. And those two organizations in turn have nothing to do with the national association of Black Law Enforcement or the African American Police League, nor should any of those esteemed organizations be confused with the National Black Police association or a group called Blacks in Law Enforcement of America. And I mean, you definitely shouldn't confuse any of those organizations with the national association of White Law Enforcement because that particular group does not exist and will never exist and can't exist because whites are the only race that are not allowed under any circumstance to advance their own racial interests at secret meetings run by tax exempt organizations where people with other skin colors aren't even allowed in the building. Now, just for fun, I decided to take a look at a recent meeting of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. I wanted to see what goes on there since it's evidently very important. If the police Chief is flying 2100 miles from Seattle to Dallas to attend, surely they must discuss cutting edge strategies for how to keep the public safe, including members of the public who, you know, happen to be white or any other race. Surely this isn't some leftist political operation that's completely corrupt. I mean, that couldn't be the case. If I know anything about black only organizations, it's that they're always competent and above board. I mean, it's not like they're corrupt and useless 100% of the time or anything. Now, alas, upon viewing the footage from a recent gathering of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, which calls itself Noble for short, my assumptions were sadly dashed. It turns out that indeed, these meetings are group therapy sessions for black communists. They discuss, among other topics, how to adjust their law enforcement tactics to appease homeless people and other degenerates. They debate the best ways to ensure that black areas have black healthcare workers, even though the topic has nothing to do with policing. And they give rousing speeches where they do their best MLK impersonations and talk about the three fifths compromise and call for pressuring whites into compliance. All the stuff you would expect. Here's just a quick taste of that. Watch.
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And we have focused on reform, focused on giving everyone a seat at the table. When we talk about public safety, everything is public safety. And since everything is public safety, then everyone needs to be a part of public safety. And so that has not been historically in the way that it was designed. And I believe it's because of the people that are in this room and who have been making noise and Kicking the can and making sure that each and every individual mental health, those individuals who are unhoused, the activists, the, you know, antagonists, that everyone has an opportunity to sit down and tell us how they want to be policed. The things that we can do, though, are to advocate for policies that do increase access to amazing health care that each of us deserves in communities of color. We can also ensure that we educate providers who look like those communities, because there's lots of research that actually shows that those communities do better, that they're healthier when there are people who look like them in that community.
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The institution is not broken. The institution is operating exactly how it was designed to operate. Stokely Carmichael said, constitute, constitute, because I only can say 3/5 of the word, because I am only 3/5 of the representation in the Constitution. We, ladies and gentlemen, have to be the ones to continue to apply the principal pressure so that they can recognize us in our respective spaces, so that they can honor our leadership, so that they can value our women, so that they can educate our children, so that they understand the utility, the power, the grace, the presence, the determination that we bring to the table. But it's only going to come from if each and every one of you, as leaders in your community, stand step up to the plate to ensure that you are showing that it's possible. Because there is a young. Yes, that is something to applaud. So, you know, like we said, cutting age, very topical. Talking about things that are really important to the community right now, things that really matter right now, like the three fifths compromise, you know, so this is. These are current events coming at you from the 1780s. Still worried about the 3/5 compromise. Bit of a black Jeb Bush moment at the end there. Please. The please clap moment from that guy. And these people are worthy of intense mockery, obviously, but they also belong in prison. None of these black only organizations should exist as a general matter for the same reason that whites only organizations are not allowed to exist. But it's especially bad when we're talking about blacks only police organizations. I mean, these are people who are supposed to enforce the law impartially without regard for skin color. It's obviously a problem for these people to get together every few months and talk about how to fight white people. The federal government should be involved in shutting down all of these groups, starting with the National Organization of black Law Enforcement Executives, which is registered as a nonprofit. They're clearly engaged in race based political activity, as you saw in that footage. That is not Legal, and therefore as quickly as possible before they concoct some more anti white policing strategies, they should be raided by the Department of Justice. Now, I do need to emphasize that as unseemly and disgusting as this conference was, this is not simply an optics issue for the Seattle police chief, whose name is Sean Barnes, spelled S, H, O, N. Because this guy can't even spell his own name right. It's not simply a matter of bad timing that he's happened to be in Dallas for this DEI conference while there was a mass shooting in his city. The bigger issue is that like so many other DEI hires, he misses work all the time. In fact, Sean Barnes primary residence is in Chicago, where his wife and family live full time. He commutes to Seattle for work where he lives in an apartment. So I'll say that again. The DEI Police Chief of Seattle maintains his primary residence 2,000 miles away in Chicago. He's drawing a salary of more than $370,000 per year, more than three and a half times the average salary in Seattle, where he doesn't live. And for all intents and purposes, he's a remote worker. The other day, when a reporter named Connor Nash tried to ask Sean Barnes point blank how much time he spends in the city of Seattle where he is the police chief, Barnes got in the reporter's face and had to be separated from him by his chief of staff. Exactly the kind of impulse control we want from a police chief, right? Watch,
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I have been here working as hard as I can for this city from the day I got here. You got that?
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But there are reports that you are not in town.
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Often there are reports are wrong. You understand?
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Let's go, man.
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Let's go. You understand?
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So when I work.
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Let's go. Let's go. Go. Let's go.
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Thank you. Kind of reminds me of the black activists online who will say, well, how dare you say that black people are statistically more likely to commit violent crimes. Try saying that to my face, tough guy. Bet you won't. So you know, they prove the point without realizing it. In this case, the reporter is clearly questioning the competence of the chief of police as well as his interest in doing his job. And in response, the police chief makes it abundantly clear that he's both incompetent and unprofessional. Watching this interaction, no reasonable person is going to think, wow, that's the guy I want running the police force. He was asked how much time he spends in another city, and his response was to get into some reporter's face and intimidate him until he had to be separated. Now, it's now clear to everybody in Seattle, even the wine moms, that Sean Barnes has the temperament and work ethic of the local gas station hobo. He was clearly selected for the job solely because of his skin color. And if he isn't fired tomorrow, he's being protected solely because of his skin color.
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That's why even when he's given 24 hours to cool off and come up with a response to all of his critics, Barnes somehow continued to make the situation even worse. So here was his response during a press conference yesterday when. When he was asked again how much time he spends in Chicago. He's had time to think about it, come up with a better answer, and let's see how he did. Do you want to just squash the
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discourse about, you know, you not being in town enough?
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Yeah, you know, I. Part, part of, part of being a leader is being here, being visible and being present. You know, part of being a leader in a major city is that sometimes I have obligations. And I wanted to be at the conference to support one of our community members who was getting an award and one of our community service officers that was also getting an award from the national organization of black law enforcement Executives. Thank you.
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How often do you travel to Chicago? Your wife and kids still live there. I'd like to know how often on weekends you travel there and who's paying for that.
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Certainly I don't travel as often as I would say like to. I think any reports that I'm gone every weekend are grossly misstated. I don't have that kind of money. I'm here in Seattle. I love the neighborhood that I live in. I have love my community. They love me. They know me. They see me all the time. You know, don't love the rent that I'm paying, but, you know, affordability is something that we're working on. Is that right, Mayor? So I feel good about being here in Seattle. I love this community. Thank you.
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Yeah, he had obligations elsewhere. You know, he had to an obligation in Dallas to watch somebody win an award. You know, it's very important. And he seemed to almost imply that that was part of his leadership. He said, well, you know, sometimes as a leader, you have other obligations. Watching somebody win an award at an a DEI event in Dallas, do they not live stream? Can you watch online if it's that important to you? Well, it's quite a response all around to that particular question because he's asked how often he Leaves town to go to Chicago. And his response is not never, it's not rarely. Instead, he makes it clear that he hates living in Seattle and wishes he could spend all of his time in Chicago. He says, I don't travel as much as I'd like to. I don't have that kind of money. So the money is the limiting factor here. If he had more money, then he could make the trip more often. And then he complains about his rent in Seattle and the affordability crisis, even though again, he's paid more than $370,000 per year. A year's rent on a high end one bedroom apartment in Seattle will run you about $36,000 per year. Top. So where exactly is this money going? If he's not spending a significant amount of his income on plane tickets to see his wife and children, then where's the money going? That's not a rhetorical question. The guy claims to be a public servant. He won't provide a clear answer as to how often he leaves the city of Seattle. So the people of Seattle are entitled to an investigation on this point, one the federal government should be involved in. Because I don't know, this starting to look a lot like fraud to me. Commentators in Seattle have come to the same conclusion. This is G. Scott with KRO Kiro in Seattle. Watch. You know that people are angry that this was five hours that your department waited to tell people that there is a shooter on the loose. Why wait five hours, tell people. And then here we are 17 hours later and you still don't have that person.
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Yeah, again. Again, you're right. We do not have that person in custody. But we wanted to get it right. Again, we were searching the IMAX theater. It was possible that that person could have ran in there. If that person would have been taken into custody, that would have been our second shooter. But we're still looking for it. We understand that people are angry. You should be. Everyone should be angry. Do you have any video of this
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incident from the Seattle Center?
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You reviewed it?
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Yeah, they have cameras there.
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I do. I do not know if we have video of it. I have not had.
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I got to stop right there. We're talking about the Space Needle. We're talking about Seattle Center. We're talking about thousands of people all coming to one area. And you mean to tell me 17 hours later, still the camera footage has not been reviewed? Something's not matching up. Something's not right. When the chief, the Seattle police chief was asked. Now I can understand we media or you, the Constituents and the people out there. I can understand you not seeing the video. I can understand me not seeing the video. You mean to tell me. I mean, this is what I'm saying when I tell you I walked away from that press conference scratching my head. I walked away from that press conference really confused. I walked away from that press conference questioning and asking what's going on. Now, this raises another very important aspect of this story which we should talk about, which is the surveillance question. Now, when we talked about the surveillance issue and flock cameras last week, a lot of people were frustrated with what I had to say, which is fine, that's okay. We're not always going to agree. There's no question that in terms of popular opinions, most people online are vehemently anti flock and anti surveillance in general. The opposition to flock and similar cameras borders on fanatical for some people. And so then when you try to introduce nuance to the conversation, that's for, for those types of people, that's not going to be allowed. You're told that if you support flock cameras, then you're a tyrant. And to be fair, as we discussed, there are some good arguments against flock cameras in particular, mainly arguments that relate to how communists might abuse the cameras if they gain control of the government, which is a very valid point. Though, again, those arguments are weakened by the fact that we're under constant surveillance all the time already from privately owned ring cameras, our own cell phones, smart devices, dash cams, etc, so you got to factor that in. But, you know, that's a perfectly valid and good point. We can't ignore the, the fact that there are real trade offs when you side with leftists and take down surveillance cameras. The predictable result is that even when there's a mass shooting in one of the most visible and high TR locations in the country, the police have no idea who did it. They can't check the cameras. They can't track any suspects or vehicles that might be involved. And exactly what leftists want. Of course, they want criminals to run rampant in our country, particularly foreign criminals. In this particular case, there were some dumb cameras near the space needle itself. But again, the police are clearly, clearly having trouble using these cameras to track any Suspects. More than 48 hours after the shooting, they're still looking for someone who might be involved. And as a result, reporters in Seattle are starting to ask questions about the plan to eliminate cameras in the city, which has been pushed by the city's new socialist mayor, the woman who's never had a real job in her life and in response, she gave a predictably incoherent answer. Listen,
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I've been told that the Seattle center does have cameras and we are in the process of pulling that footage to see if there's anything relevant to
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back up on that too. You know, the CCTV cameras have been a real talker. This could have happened in the stadium district and you decided to turn those off pending an audit. How do you feel now?
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The safety of the residents of Seattle is my highest responsibility, and I take that very seriously. In the course that we've charted on the CCTV cameras, which is a matter of public record, that means balancing various kinds of safety, safety for different communities. And that is the motivation behind the course that we're taking.
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Now, when she says that she wants to protect the safety of different communities, she's talking about foreign invaders who have no right to be in this country. When an illegal alien robs you or shanks you or crashes into you with his car while he's drunk, this socialist mayor wants to prevent law enforcement from tracking him down and arresting him. She could not be any more explicit about that. And there's a good chance that she's lying when she says there are plenty of cameras where the shooting happened. If you take a look at this map right here, the blue areas show where there's camera coverage as part of the SPD Real Time Crime Center's public CCTV network. But the cameras are only active where you see a camera icon. As you can see, there's very little SPD camera coverage in the city. By design, the mayor shut down as many cameras as she could in the stadium district as soon as she took office because she did not want to capture catch criminals. And while the Seattle center where the shooting happened in the top left of this map, does have cameras run by the venue, the city cameras probably won't be much help because the mayor sabotaged them. Now, in that light, the five hour delay so that dignitaries could arrive, meaning the socialist Congresswoman Jayapal and others, makes a lot more sense. Starts to look intentional as to why the police chief was busy in Dallas and why the police were not providing any updates. It's not really incompetence. It's deliberate. These people do not want to solve crimes, including and especially mass shootings. There are far more interested in PR opportunities. Now watch as a local news reporter named Jeremy Harris pleaded with officers for information, only to be told that he had to wait for these dignitaries. Now, we played some of this footage earlier, but the longer tape is pretty extraordinary. Here it is, Brian. What's the deal, man. We got other dignitaries that want to be here. Well, we have, we have the public that wants an answer about what's going on. And I mean, that is not on you. But to tell the public that we are waiting for dignitaries to give us an answer is absolutely outrageous. The information and the stakeholders are right there and we are right here and there are a lot of people who want answers. And you are correct with that. So the dignitaries, excuse me, they can come talk to us after. The thing that I want to do is I want to make sure everybody gets a chance to speak here. And there are dignitaries that want to give information as well. So that's the reason why I want to have everybody speak. That's why I want to have it.
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Yeah.
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We are almost five hours into this and I'm not mad at you. I am mad at the dignitaries that are holding up a press conference for the public to get information about American mass shooting outside of the Space Needle. It is outrageous that we are being told to wait for dignitaries. Okay, okay. So what I'll do is I'll go back here and we'll get everybody down here.
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We'll get somebody to talk to you guys. I mean, I do understand.
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Like I said, I do understand.
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You guys been out for a while.
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I've been out here for a long time too.
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Oh, I.
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And we want to. And we want, and we want to
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get the information to everybody. So. Okay. All right.
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Do we have a timeline on when these supposed dignities are supposed to be here? Listen, just, you know, if. What I'll do is let's just get who's here, let's get them down here and then what we'll do is as those dignitaries come, then we'll have them come down here, speak to you guys. Okay?
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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We're the so called dignitaries.
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Now.
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The socialist mayor has tried to minimize what's happened, what happened here. She's denied that her off office blocked the police from holding a press conference about the shooting. In fact, she's throwing the police under the bus saying she was told it wouldn't be helpful for her to be on scene while they were looking for the suspects. But unsurprisingly enough, the socialist mayor appears to be lying, if you can believe it. This is, this is turning into a massive scandal in Seattle, which is saying something given how leftists took over the city long ago, they've had a lot of scandals. One local news station now says it has evidence from a source that the mayor is lying about all this. Watch.
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We also have new developments in the five hour delay for answers. After Sunday's mass shooting at the Seattle center yesterday, we told you an SPD spokesperson said they were waiting on dignitaries before holding a press conference late Sunday night. Mayor Wilson denied that played any role in the delay. But now A source tells FOX 13 that SPD leadership was ready to go hours earlier until the mayor's office stepped in and stopped them. A source at the Seattle Police Department told FOX 13 officers wanted to hold a media briefing Sunday night to update the public, but Mayor Katie Wilson's office asked them to wait for dignitaries to arrive. Did anyone in your office tell SPD leadership that they could not hold that press conference between 7:45 and 8pm Sunday night? That is not my understanding, though. Do you know if there's anyone else else in your office that are making these calls without your knowledge? That is not my understanding, no. So my understanding which I, which I shared yesterday, is that first of all, we had a lot of communication going back and forth between my office and SPD and our state and federal elected officials as we were trying to work together on the response to this incident.
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So it's pretty clear that the socialist mayor tried to hide information from the public about a mass shooting in order to offer high ranking Democrats a PR opportunity at a press conference. At a minimum, that's what Katie Wilson did. And here's the key point. When there's no footage for the police to look at, politicians have an excuse to stall like this. They can say they don't have any information since there's no footage to review. They can say, as Katie Wilson did, that the police need to spend hours frantically searching for leads in a chaotic situation, in an information vacuum. Communists will lie to you every single time. If they control access to information, then they take every opportunity, including a mass shooting, to conduct a propaganda campaign for their benefit. And yes, criminals are aware of the fact that the city operates like this. They know Seattle doesn't have many cameras anymore. That emboldens them. It makes violent crime more likely. Obviously, there's no reason to pretend otherwise. I mean, it's common sense and we're seeing it play out every day. In St. Louis this past weekend, there were two separate black riots known affectionately by the media as teen takeovers. In reality, they are black riots involving widespread violence and vandalism. Fortunately for the teens, several St. Louis communities have taken down surveillance cameras in recent months. So here's how the local media covered the mob violence. Try to count the number of euphemisms they use to describe the black rioters. Listen. Unsupervised teams running wild in the Del Mar Loop.
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A Sunday night disturbance forced businesses to lock their doors and customers to shelter in place. As 500 Side's Brent Solomon explains, it is the latest incident in a surge of summer youth violence, raising fresh concerns across the region.
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Chaos in the Del Mar Loop Sunday night.
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A lot of people were pretty scared.
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Witnesses describe mobs of teens fighting, disrupting businesses. Take a look at this note placed on the front door of CVS hours ahead of closing. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are closed. Will reopen at 8am it was a pretty large group. It seems like they were, like, messing with a few of the businesses before the fireworks. Fireworks that some customers mistook for gunshots. This man, who asked not to be identified, was dining at Session Taco at the point where the young people were pulling out guns. The staff of the restaurant, they locked the doors. They locked us in, asked us to wait to leave just because they were concerned about the safety of, you know, the patrons at the restaurant. Monday, the restaurant confirmed workers called police after a group was fighting near the patio. They say police cleared the area only for an even larger crowd to soon return, prompting the restaurant to also close early.
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And I looked down the alley, and
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there was actually, like, a mob. They were, like, jumping somebody. Like, somebody got beat up really bad,
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kicking them, stuck, stomping on him.
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It was kind of jarring just seeing, like, the mob of kids running around the loop trying to get away from the cops. St. Louis police tell me they did not make any arrests or issue any citations. Unsupervised teens, summer youth violence, mobs of teens fighting, all the different ways to describe them. You got to pull out the thesaurus. When you've got a story like this, you gotta. You gotta really wear out that thesaurus. Whatever you do, don't call them what they are, which. Which is black rioters. Many of them aren't even teens, by the way. And virtually every single one of them is black. But if there's no footage of this, then who's to say? Without video footage to contradict the narrative, they can sell the lie that teens are just doing teen things. And then when they announced that police didn't make any arrests, you're supposed to just nod along and go about your day, you know, if there's no footage of a mob of black teens ransacking your local target, then who's to say it really happened? Maybe it was those MAGA white supremacists we hear so much about what's important to understand about the leftist opposition to surveillance is that it's not remotely principled to a comedic degree. They will flip flop on this issue from day to day, depending entirely on the ideological needs of the moment. And there is no better illustration of this phenomenon than the situation unfolding right now in Madison, Wisconsin, where, incidentally, Sean Barnes was the police chief until last year when he started renting that apartment in Seattle. So you know, this guy really gets around, needless to say, and does a terrible job everywhere he goes. 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The police tasered him, it didn't work, and so they had to shoot him. Which, as we discussed yesterday, should really be the end of the story. He got shot. Oh, well, let's all move on. So you know his baby mama's not going to collect on the $50,000 he owed in child support. Unfortunately, not that she was holding her breath on that point. The only available footage of the incident, or at least the only footage that's currently available, comes from cell phone recordings taken by people on the sidewalk. And it doesn't show very much beyond the fact that Ruiz was clearly resisting as he was surrounded by officers. You can briefly see a knife in the footage. You could see enough that any rational person can tell that he brought this shooting on himself. But beyond that, it's hard to see exactly what happened in precise detail. Now, you might think that leftists would be ecstatic about this turn of events. After all, there were apparently no surveillance cameras, no body cameras recording this particular street in Madison. That's a major victory for the no surveillance movement, at least on the surface. But these people don't actually care about surveillance or privacy, which is why not too long ago, they were demanding that every police officer must wear body cams at all times. As you might remember, they were convinced that if body cams were mandated, then they'd provide non stop footage of white supremacist police officers mowing down black people for sport. I mean, that's genuinely what these people believe. They were under the impression that cops were killing tens of thousands of black people every year. That's really what they thought. And so they were demanding body cams. This is a big Part of the early days of blm, we all remember this is a big, big tenant. You know, a big, A big pillar in their platform was, we need body cams. Everyone needs to have body cams. Well, then once body cams were mandated, they ended up providing a lot of footage that looks like this. Remember may, remember this lovely woman who charged at a police officer wielding a butcher knife, literally, like a scene out of a horror film. But it's real. And what they revealed is that police officers by and large have an extremely difficult job because criminals, disproportionately black criminals, are quick to resort to violence. What it revealed is that police officers, every day of their lives, every day on the job, they're dealing with violent, animalistic psychopaths who will escalate even the most low stakes encounter into a, you know, into violence for no reason. And they do this all the time. That was a problem for the left, problem for the activists who demanded this. And for that reason, leftists in various jurisdictions, including Madison, Wisconsin, where Corey Ruiz was killed, decided that actually, never mind, we don't want body cams, let's get rid of them on the basis that body cams are actually, it turns out, racist. So we thought it was racist to not have body cams, and then we put on the body cams and oh, no, actually that's racist. That's. Sorry, we got it wrong. Well, they would never admit they got anything wrong. But no, it turns out that that's the racist thing. They were too helpful to the police and prosecutors. They put too many black criminals in prison. And so, yeah, they're racist. But now that Corey Ruiz was killed and they're convinced that he was shot by the police in cold blood, suddenly these people have seen the light. Now all the black activists and leftist white women are determined to bring body cams back. Okay? So if you're following along at home, first the activists demanded body cams. Then after their demands were met, they demanded that we don't have body cams. And now they've determined that actually they do want body cams. Okay? So they went from like, we didn't really have body cams to okay, we need to have body cams, to never mind, we shouldn't have body cams. And now we're back at where are the body cams? Now, this may seem like random, desperate, incoherent flip flopping back and forth. It may seem like left wing activists are the political equivalent of a fish flopping mindlessly around in the sand after getting washed up on the beach by the tide. And from a pure IQ perspective, they are indeed almost exactly like that hypothetical fish. No disrespect meant to the fish, but the flopping is not random. I mean, their position on body cams, like their position on literally everything, depends entirely on whatever is most politically expedient in the present moment. Whatever they said in the previous moment is irrelevant, just as whatever they say in the next moment will make their position in the present moment irrelevant. They live moment to moment, okay? There's no past, there's no future. It's like Guy Pearson in Memento, okay? That's, that's how these people operate. And all of that leads to moments like this. Watch the fatal police shooting in Madison last week sparks new questions. Why does the state's second largest police department not have body cameras? You got to take a look at this map. The 10 largest police departments in Wisconsin, nine of them have body cameras, not Madison. Broaden it out to the top 20. They have body cameras with the exception of Madison. So what's going on with Madison? Well, they've been debating for many years the idea of body cameras, but here's why. The common council president says they've opposed it in the past.
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Why don't we have cameras? Well, before we got this far, the community did not want us to have cameras just yet without some things in place. So the community advocated against implementation of body worn cameras for some years. And then more importantly, more recently, the community took a different turn and supports body worn cameras. Before we implement a full body worn
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Now, let me go back and quote from the transcript because it's very important for us to think deeply about the insightful answer we just heard. So, quote, before we got this far, the community did not want us to have cameras just yet without some things in place. So the community advocated against implementation of body worn cameras for some years. And then more importantly, more recently, the community took a different turn and supports body worn cameras. So she won't tell you what things need to be in place before body cams come back or why it might have taken 10 years to implement these things. Nor will she explain why the community took a different turn on the issue. Notice how she, she frames this very passively. Oh, they, they took a different turn. Turn this way and that. Who knows? Just like going with the, with the bend in a river, you know, or just floating. We're just floating along. Who knows where we'll go? All she knows is that the more recent position taken by the community is, quote, more important, as we've established in the minds of left wing activists, the most important thing, the only important thing, the only thing at all is whatever position they're taking right now, at this precise moment in time, nothing else matters at all. But we all know what's actually going on here in Madison. As recently as 2021, left wing activists were coming up with all kinds of deranged reasons to ban body cams. It was clear that they were primarily concerned with the fact that body cams would be used to imprison black people who commit crimes in front of police officers. And city politicians went along with it. This is an article from the Camp Times from November of 2021. Quote, Madison's Public Safety review committee recommended that the city council not pursue using the technology either in a pilot program nor a full deployment. The co chair of the committee acknowledged the concerns that body cameras can bring, including the high financial burden of the technology and intrusions of privacy. Critics of body worn cameras additionally point to scientific literature that suggests they have little impact on police or civilian behavior and that they expand criminalization of marginalized populations. Now this was the prevailing view in Madison as recently as a couple of months ago. They were hiding behind fake concerns about the cost of body cams. As, as if, as if like these communists care about the cost of anything, right? These are the people that want, you know, student loan forgiveness, free health care, everything free. Suddenly, yeah, give me reap, give me, pay off all my student loans, give me free health care, give me free housing, give me universal income. But body camps, putting a little camera on the police officers, that, that, sorry, we just can't spring for it. That's a little bit too much. That's beyond. Yeah, we've already spent trillions of dollars concocting our utopia, but now, you know, a couple extra bucks for a camera, a little too much. So they talk about that as well as fake scientific literature about how the cameras don't do anything. But really the key point is at the end there, quote, they expand criminalization of marginalized populations. Why would they do that? Why would a camera expand criminalization of anyone? Why would that happen? Well, it's because what they do is they help catch black criminals. And what they do, what they also do is they expo. When a black criminal is caught by the police and then lies and claims that he was abused in some way, it exposes the lie and therefore they are intolerable. You know, it's the same argument they use against Every other type of camera. Now, of course, concerns about protecting illegal aliens also factored into the hesitation, especially as Donald Trump rose to power. This is from the outlet government technology. This is from 2020. Quote, Alderman Shiva Bedar has expressed concerns that body camera video could be used by federal immigration officials to detain undocumented immigran or harm police relations with Latinos. Another alderman, Marsha Rummel, put it this way, quote, the question will remain, if we adopt cameras, how will we make police more accountable? And how policing of community members, historically subject to over policing, not just excessive force, will change. If we go forward with body cameras, I would want to a policy that addresses when they are worn, who is required to wear them, how the video can be used. In other words, leftists and Madison dragged their feet over body cams because they wanted to carve outs for their preferred demographic groups. Okay, they were okay if body cams were used to prosecute white people or like 1-6- defendants or something like that. But they wanted assurances that the police would never use the footage to deport illegal aliens or to arrest black people or to expose when a black criminal is telling a lie. They, you know, want to find a way that the. That the footage to hide the footage from the feds as well. But now that Corey Ruiz is dead and the BLM riot machine is kicking into gear, they're feeling some buyer's remorse about that decision. They're convinced that if they only had the body cams, they'd be able to sell this fraudulent Corey Ruiz narrative nationwide. They'd be able to usher in another summer of rampant looting and murder and property destruction in the name of racial equity. Even though, of course, all the body cam would actually show is Corey Ruiz maniacally flailing around with a knife in his hand. Okay, Body cam footage has never vindicated a BLM narrative on a single case, ever. And I really do mean never. It has never happened. There's never been a single case. I defy you to come up with a single example where the blm, BLM had a narrative and the body cam helped to support that narrative. It's never happened, and that streak will not be broken here. But they don't see it that way. That's why the government of Madison is going all in on these riots. They've now endorsed the autonomous zone slash blockade that's been set up by communists near the site of where Ruiz was shot. In fact, as you can see here, they're placing city trucks alongside the barricade to support it to be clear. Those are city trucks that have been deployed by the local government participating in an illegal blockade of public streets. This is how socialism works. The government terrorizes its own population into submission, and I'm not making this up. This is a From an article that was just published in wmtv, a local news station first flagged by a journalist named Carolyn brosanco. QUOTE District 6 elder Dave Meyer said he has heard from more than 100 constituents in recent days. He said the city has been working on basic services, including a plan to use city salt trucks as street blockades. In place of the seized trash cans, the city has also placed portable restrooms in the area. Meyer said a homeless population has also moved into the zone, adding to disruptions. I don't think the city wants to see a permanent takeover of this intersection, meyer said. But we also don't want to see a violent clearing of it, either. So it's working with all of these parties to find a resolution, which is difficult, which takes time. Meyer said he hopes the city can begin pushing barricades back to reopen parts of the street, but said planning is being done hour by hour. So it won't be a permanent takeover, he assures everyone. But he he doesn't have the right to do any kind of takeover, permanent or otherwise. He's committing a crime by organizing and establishing a blockade of a public street. And by the way, it's not difficult. This is another thing that the Communists always do when you've got a problem that's actually really easy to solve. And they say, well, this is really difficult. This is going to take time. This is going to take days. This might take years to figure out. It might take years to figure. What do you do? You got a bunch of vagrants and hobos taking up a city intersection. It's really difficult. It's very comm. It's a very complex problem, they claim. No, it isn't. You go in there and you drag them out by force and. And then you throw them in jail. Problem solved. You could solve it in 10 minutes. Easy to do. But again, no one in Madison cares about any of this. Just like they don't care about the fact that Corey Ruiz was a lifelong degenerate who clearly deserved his fate. Their only goal is to make these riots go nationwide in time for the midterm elections. That's why these socialists, mostly white people, you'll notice, are busy rehearsing their chants for Corey Ruiz. Watching Foreign now the hysteria. The race mania is in full swing in Madison again. They believe that Body cams would validate their delusions about what happened here. So now they're pro body cam. And make no mistake about it, the moment they realize they're wrong about this and the body cams quash a few of their narratives before they get off the ground, they'll do yet another 180 on body cams. They were pro body cam. Antibody cam. Pro body cam again. That's where they are now. They'll be right back at anti like next week. No question about it. These people have no interest in governing. They have no interest at all, really, beyond their own power. That's why DEI police chiefs are spending their time in Dallas and Chicago instead of the city where they're supp. They're supposed to be working. It's why they're now suddenly in favor of body cams after telling us that they're racist for years. Their flagrant hypocrisy is a function of their depravity. It's all part of the. It's a. It is a feature, not a bug. It's yet another sign that the threat we're facing as a country is actually far more severe than it was in 2020. As bad as 2020 was, communists are mobilizing once again. But this time they have institutional support across the country. That's true in New York, where the city is about to open state run grocery stores that will inevitably lead to food shortages. Is true in Seattle, which doesn't even have a police chief right now. It's true in Madison, where they support surveillance, but only when it benefits them. It's also true in Wisconsin, more generally. They're about to elect Francesca Hong, a socialist who wants to abolish the Senate and the police, as their next governor. This is a woman who was just sued by capital1 for $30,000 in unpaid bills. Once she's in office, you can bet that she'll use the power of the government for the benefit of every other deadbeat just like her in the state. This is a new and much more unified threat than the right is used to. That's not doomerism to say. It's not a black pill. It's just true. And our fate is not inevitable. But the first step to defeating these people is to recognize what they're doing and how committed they are. The next step, the one this administration needs to take immediately, is to deport or imprison as many of these communists as possible. Blocking roadways is not free speech. Let's start there. For once, let's make these people suffer some consequences for their crimes. If we make the mistake of letting them seize any more power than they already have, by that point, it'll be far too late. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Once upon a time, there was a country. Not just a country, but a big one. An empire. In that empire, there was an upper middle class family where two boys were raised by their mother. Loved books, Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Bible. Their father admired the country's leaders. They were patriotic and happy. Both sons went to universities where they were radicalized. One of the brothers read a book and convinced him to try to shoot the country's leader. He was hanged. The other brother read the same books but decided to lead a movement. First they came from universities and no one seemed to care. Then they took over the unions and again no one seemed to care. Then they created their own media organizations and took over the cities and again most people just ignored it. Change, after all, was something they could believe in until it was too late. Sound familiar? This is the real history of communism. The Russian Revolution.