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Mark Zuckerberg has just invented legs.
Vladimir Putin is getting desperate.
And in New Zealand, cows are going to become taxpayers.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
All right, before we get into the big stories,
let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world,
starting with some big tech news.
Mark Zuckerberg has just revealed that from now on,
people will have legs in the Metaverse.
Yeah, and I for one, am truly excited for what this means.
Because first you get legs, then you will get feet.
Pretty soon you'll be able to walk out of the Metaverse
and go literally anywhere else.
In climate news, New Zealand has just
announced a plan to fight methane emissions by taxing
cows for their burps.
And this is how much billionaires
are winning in the world.
Even cows are getting taxed before them.
And by the way, even if you support this general idea
to try and slow climate change, you have to admit,
if you were a cow, you'd be pretty pissed about this.
Oh, oh, hold on, hold on.
You steal my milk.
Make me spend my whole life on death row,
and now you two-nipple bitches are
going to tax me for burping!
Are you all driving electric cars?
No!
Are you all using solar panels now?
No!
You're still flying private jets, but I get taxed.
OK, well how about this?
[burping]
You bitches.
Take that, you bitches.
Those New Zealand cows are angry.
All right, in sports news, after it came out
that NBA star Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors
punched his teammate in the face during practice,
Green has announced that he will be taking some time off,
which is a great reminder for everyone.
Do not punch your coworkers unless you
want some extra vacation time.
All right, let's move on to some of the biggest
stories of the day, which for some reason,
all involve racism.
Yeah, I don't know if you guys have ever heard of racism,
but it's a pretty hot thing these days.
And by these days, I mean the last like 1,000 years.
Now for some reason, for some reason,
it seemed like everyone was extra racist this weekend.
I don't know, maybe because it was like a three-day weekend,
you know, people had a little more time to kick
back and work on their racism.
Whatever it was, it almost seemed
like people were competing to see
who could be the most racist.
So let's dive in to all the competition for a segment
we call "The Amazing Racism."
Our first story involving racism
hails from the great state of Alabama.
I know, I'm shocked, too.
But what makes this racism special
is that it's from a Senator, one of the 100
best people in America.
And he said it out loud on TV.
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
is facing a significant backlash
from major civil rights groups for comments
he made at a Trump rally over the weekend.
Senator Tuberville called out Democrats as being pro crime.
He also suggested that people who
want reparations for ancestral slavery
are to blame for the crime.
The Democratic party, they have a majority,
they could stop this crime today.
They want crime.
They want crime because they want
to take over what you got.
They want to control what you have.
They want reparation because they think the people that
do the crime are owed that.
Bullshit!
They are not owed that.
Whoo, yeah, you tell them, Tommy.
That thing you just made up right now about reparations.
It's bullshit!
We can't have that fake thing happening!
Whoo!
I've got to say, people, I've heard racists
say all kinds of things.
I've heard them say that Black people are criminals,
and I've heard them say that reparations
are reverse racism.
But it takes a true racism innovator to combine
both ideas at the same time.
Yeah, this is like the stuffed crust pizza of racism.
Because I knew you could have crust and I knew
that could have cheese, but I didn't know that you could put
the cheese inside the crust that's holding
the rest of the cheese.
Because now the crust is holding
the cheese at the same time.
That's genius!
Now, now, if you are confused, if you're
confused by what this man is saying, congratulations.
It means you're sane.
But his point is that Democrats want Black people to do crime
because that's basically reparations,
which the Democrats believe they deserve.
And there are just two things I can
think of off the top of my head, off the top of my head.
One, how does this argument explain
Black people who steal things from other Black people?
Because then, who's reparating who?
And secondly, how is this man going to stand on stage
and imply that all criminals are Black?
Huh?
That is disgusting.
Has the Senator never watched Netflix, huh?
I'm not going to stand here and let
Tommy Tuberville erase all these white
people's contributions!
This is the real racism, my friend.
Trying to make it seem like white people can't
beat crime, how dare you!
White people do crime just like anybody.
These guys going to make it seem like,
all my white friends in here, you can do the crime,
you hear me.
You don't listen to these people
saying you can't, you can't.
You do the crime.
Look, you know, while this is upsetting, you have to,
it's not exactly surprising.
I mean, he's an Alabama conservative
named Tommy Tuberville.
This is not, what would be surprising,
is if he got up on stage and he was like,
I'd like to open today with my favorite passage
from James Baldwin, y'all.
So that's our first story.
And I hope you're warmed up, because this next one
is a little more unexpected.
And it takes place in liberal LA.
In Los Angeles, the big political issue right now
is a blockbuster tape recording that could force three
city councilors to resign.
Nouri Martinez, a rising star in LA politics,
potentially faces a career in ruins.
The first Latina chosen to lead the Los Angeles City Council
caught on tape making racist and offensive comments
during a redistricting meeting with three Latino Democrats.
At one point, Martinez talks about the Black child
of Mike Bonin, a white council member,
in Spanish, calling the boy a little monkey.
And there's this white guy with the little Black kid
who's misbehaved.
The kid's bouncing off the effing walls on the float
practically tipping it over.
There's nothing you can do to control him.
Parece changuito.
They're raisin' him like he's a little white kid.
Which I was like, this kid needs a beatdown.
Like, you need, let me take him around the corner
and then I'll bring him back.
Whoa, boy!
Yeah!
A Latina Democrat called the Black son
of a white colleague a little monkey, who was
bouncing all around the walls.
I'm sorry, bouncing all around the effing walls.
Yeah, thank you for censoring yourself.
I appreciate it.
That was weird.
I mean, I'm not sure she censored
herself in the right place.
That was weird of her.
She be like, bouncing off the effing
walls like a little monkey.
You know, I think you would have censored the racism
and just say [bleep].
I think that would be better.
But to each their own.
I guess.
I'm just effing crazy that way, you know.
Also, like do you know how racist you have
to be to see a kid misbehaving and your first instinct
is to use a racial slur against him?
It's a little kid.
Right?
We all see kids of every race throw a tantrum or misbehave.
And I'm not trying to brag, but personally, I
hate all kids equally.
All right?
Yeah.
It's not, it's not the color of their skin
that makes them annoying, it's the content
of their shitty character.
What's especially wild about the story
as well, is that in the same conversation,
she basically implies that because the kid
is Black, not white, he should be beaten so that he behaves.
And I'm sorry, people, if you believe that Black kids
deserve to be beaten, you have no place
being on the LA City Council.
You clearly belong in the LAPD.
But before we run out of time, there is one story that
has the whole world talking.
I'm referring, of course, to Kanye West.
Rapper, entrepreneur, and the guy
who proved that not even Black people can make the MAGA
hat cool.
Kanye has been drifting more and more to the right
lately, from wearing a White Lives
Matter shirt to sitting down for an interview
with Tucker Carlson.
But over the weekend Kanye drifted
right off the deep end.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West,
is now blocked from using Instagram
and Twitter because of racist and anti-Semitic
messages that he posted.
On Friday, Instagram was the first site
to lock his account after Kanye posted
text messages between himself and the rapper Sean
Diddy Combs.
In those messages, he accused Diddy of being controlled
by Jewish people after Diddy criticized
a shirt Kanye was photographed wearing that read,
White Lives Matter.
Then on Sunday, Kanye posted a series of tweets,
once again targeting Jewish people,
using the phrase Death con 3.
The rap star lashing out tweeting, "I'm a bit sleepy
tonight, but when I wake up, I am going
Death con 3 on Jewish people.
The funny thing is, I actually can't
be anti-Semitic because Black people are actually Jew.
Also, you guys have toyed with me
and tried to blackball anyone who ever opposes your agenda.
Oh, no, Kanye, you're going to do it again,
you're going to do it again.
I don't even know where to begin with this shit.
I mean, promoting anti anti-Semitism
to your 50 million followers.
I'm not even joking about it.
Threatening to go Death con 3 on Jewish people, which
by the way, I know this is not the point,
but that's not how you say it.
I know it's not the main issue here, I know that.
But it's Defcon 3, all right, not Death con 3.
Death con sounds like a trade show
where they unveil all the latest coffins or something.
This is like, our newest model comes with Bluetooth.
Now you can check on to make sure Nana's still dead.
Just use the app.
Defcon.
Not to mention the Defcon scale goes from 1 to 5.
So Defcon 3 is like in the middle?
If you're trying to tell people how hard you're going to go,
that's just a weird way to do it, you know.
I'm about to open up a can of whip ass,
but I'm going to put half of it in some Tupperware for later.
You been warned.
I don't want to use all my whip ass at the same time.
Also, it's funny that he starts his threat with,
I'm a bit sleepy tonight.
What is that?
Does anti-Semitism make you tired?
Is that why MAGA people love the MyPillow guy?
Is that what this is?
But I will say, man, I feel bad for American right-wingers,
because they're getting Kanye now.
I think if they missed College Dropout, My Beautiful Dark
Twisted Fantasy, Graduation.
They missed all of that.
They're getting this Kanye.
It's like getting to date the high school prom king,
but decades after high school.
Yeah, it's just like, you remember
Chad from high school?
Well, he's got uncontrollable flatulence now, yeah!
They might even tax him in New Zealand.
So those are the contenders in this week's "Amazing Racism."
You've got a Black guy hating on Jews,
a white guy hating on Black people,
and a Hispanic woman hating on a white guy for how
he raises his Black kid.
You've got like every combination of racism
in there.
And you could find that depressing, you could,
and I would understand why.
But I myself, choose to see this,
I choose to see all these things as the glass half full.
If everyone is being racist against everyone else, then
that means that no matter what color we are,
racism is at least one thing that we all have in common.
And what a beautiful thought that is.
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to a break, it's
time to check in on all the latest social media trends
with our very own Ronnie Chang, everybody.
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[cheering]
Ronnie Chang!
Good to see you again, my friend.
Hey, hey.
What is happening online?
Hey, Trevor, thanks a lot.
Before we begin, I just want to check.
Do you have any major announcements
you want to make first?
Any emotional or life-changing decisions
about your professional life that you might want to talk
about before I get started?
Actually, yes, there is one thing
that I've had on my mind.
Shut the [bleep] up, all right!
No announcements!
Let me get through this one segment
without becoming a surprise face
meme again with a stupid Curb Your Enthusiasm music.
Yeah, very original.
Idiots memes are the comedy of lesser minds.
Let's get to the social media trends or whatever.
This long weekend, it's fun times on the internet,
as usual.
Kanye West going off the rails, again.
His beard is clearly not helping.
He looks like Kimbo half a slice.
Just sending out this tweet.
As you've already examined, yes, a lot to unpack here.
First of all, any time you are writing something in lowercase
and then you put the race of a people
in all caps, that's not a good place to be.
Because even if you're saying something nice,
it's not going to read well.
You could be saying like, I want to wish a Happy Hanukkah
to the Jewish people.
It doesn't work.
And what's going on with this line?
Also Jew, actually Jew also.
I mean, it sounds like he let the iPhone predictive text
write a manifesto for him.
I do like this though, I do like the spaces in between.
I think every racist rant needs a few blank spaces
where we can project our own prejudices into.
And, and if.
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And if this wasn't chaotic enough, luckily for everyone,
the world's second weirdest person, Elon Musk,
came in to calm everyone down.
Replying with this tweet, "Talked to Ye today
and expressed my concerns about his recent tweet, which
I think he took to heart."
You know it's bad when Elon Musk thinks you're
being unreasonable on Twitter.
And I mean, is this how Elon is going to do content moderation
when he owns Twitter?
He's just going to have a heart to heart
with every single person who tweets something racist.
Because I don't know if you checked Twitter lately,
because I don't think you're going to have a lot of time
to go to Mars if you do that, OK?
You're going to be a little busy.
And what else is going on?
Oh, yeah, Zuckerberg, another billionaire maniac.
Yo, Mark, why are you obsessed with the Metaverse?
The Metaverse sucks!
You made billions of dollars in real life.
Now you're losing billions to create a fake life?
So what now?
There's legs in the Metaverse.
Oh, wow, we got legs in the Metaverse now, yeah!
You know what else?
There's legs right here.
We got legs here already, OK?
The guy who created an infinite universe
that could be anything, and you made legs, OK.
Not Jetpack legs, not teleporting legs, just legs.
Just legs.
What else are you going to invent in your magic world?
College debt?
Yo, even Kanye is looking at this, going like,
yo, what are you doing, man?
You're making our people look bad.
And who here wants to be in a Metaverse made by Facebook?
I've never been on Facebook and said, you know what?
I wish this was in three dimensions.
How can I physically interact with this post
from a 60-year-old woman who was annoyed that no one spoke
English at the drugstore?
What kind of dork with nothing but time on his hands
would even be excited about the Metaverse?
All right?
I mean, look at what people are tweeting about it.
Look at this.
Random idiots.
"Wow.
I just used VR for the first time.
Mind-blowing!
I can't imagine what it'll be like when it's basically real.
You can't imagine what it'll be like if it's real?
Why don't you take off the [bleep] headset.
Just look around.
It's happening right now.
Reality is right here.
Who is this dumb effing idiot?
Anyway, back to you, Trevor.
I think that tweet made some good points.
Ronny Chang, everybody.
I like that idea.
All right, when we come back, we're
going to find out why Vladimir Putin is acting out,
so don't go away.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
It has been seven months since Vladimir Putin
went DEFCON 3 on Ukraine.
And in the last month, Ukraine has been kicking Russia's
ass all up and down the map.
They have defeated Russian soldiers
across the front lines.
They blew up a key supply bridge
deep in Russian territory.
And they even gave Putin's personal email to Bed
Bath & Beyond's mailing list.
Anyway, another week of the war means another week of updates.
So let's catch up on how it's all going in another edition
of "Vlad Gone Mad."
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After series of defeats, Vladimir Putin
has been so humiliated that it was just a matter of time
before he lashed out.
And yesterday, he did just that,
launching missile strikes against civilian targets
all across Ukraine for the first time since the beginning
of the war.
Now, unfortunately for him, the missile strikes only
seem to have emboldened the Ukrainian people, who
went right back outside off to the strikes
to live their lives and get coffee.
And if you ask me, that is a testament
to how resilient the Ukrainian people are,
and to how addicted people are to coffee.
These people were just at Starbucks
like, I know missiles are coming,
but pumpkin spice season is very limited.
But it turns out--
It turns out a lot of people don't
know this part of the story.
Vladimir Putin and his people weren't
just lashing out at Ukraine.
No.
They decided to take a piece of the war to America.
(ON TV): The TSA is investigating
a coordinated cyber attack on the websites
of more than a dozen us airports, including LaGuardia.
And Russian speaking hackers are claiming responsibility.
LaGuardia was the first to be impacted around 3:00
yesterday morning.
And as of last night, Denver International Airport's
website was still being attacked.
The websites were temporarily knocked offline.
There were no immediate signs of impact
to actual air travel.
That's right, people.
The Russians took out websites for some American airports.
And please, everyone calm down.
Calm down.
I know we all log onto laguardia.com see the latest
news about which terminal will be under construction
for the next 17 years.
But today, we will all have to discover
which area is under construction for ourselves.
Stay calm.
Just stay calm.
This is a major story, people.
And for more on this, we go live to our own Desi Lydic,
who is at LaGuardia right now.
Desi Lydic, everybody.
Desi, what is the situation over there right now?
Well, Trevor, as someone who's
been a huge fan of LaGuardia's website
ever since I found out it existed at 10:45 this morning,
let me tell you, it is chaos.
Trash bins are overflowing.
People are sleeping half naked on the carpet.
Oh no, Desi.
That's because of the website being down?
No, no, this is always LaGuardia, Trevor.
But somehow it seems worse right now.
You're TSA pre-check.
You don't know what it's like.
Let me tell you how bad this is.
All the ladies rooms were closed
for cleaning, all of them.
I was forced to pee in one of those breastfeeding pods.
Wow, I didn't the breastfeeding pods
have toilets?
No, no they don't, Trevor.
And the babies were super judgy about it.
So, Desi, do you think this is all going down because
of the website being attacked?
Well, clearly, something's going on here.
There are three Sunglass Huts next to each other.
And I just walked past a bathing suit store.
What kind of psychopath buys a bathing suit at the airport?
Did you not know where you were going?
Anyway, the good news is, I found the Cinnabon.
Wait, that's-- Oh, that's.
OK, well, Desi, did you learn anything valuable that you can
report to our viewers at home?
Oh, my god.
Yeah.
(MUFFLED) Do not come to LaGuardia
unless you absolutely need to.
I'm sorry.
Desi, there was Cinnabon in your mouth.
What did you say? - Yeah, yeah.
Hold on. I'm sorry.
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah, we can't hear what you're saying, Desi.
Hold on.
I'm going to get something to drink.
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah.
Just a second. Hang on.
TREVOR NOAH: That's a--
gah!
Mm, surprisingly good.
Anyway, please do not come to LaGuardia
unless you absolutely need to.
Yeah well, why would anyone go to LaGuardia
if they don't need to?
I don't know.
For a Cinnabon?
Powerful reporting.
Desi Lydic, everybody.
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Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is a former DC Metropolitan police officer
who nearly lost his life defending
the US Capitol during the insurrection on January 6.
He writes about that and policing in America
in his new book, Hold the Line, the Insurrection and One Cop's
Battle for America's Soul.
Please welcome Michael Fanone.
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Welcome to the show.
Thank you very much.
[music playing]
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Michael Fanone, welcome to The Daily Show.
Yeah, thanks for having me, man.
I appreciate it.
You have written a book that would
have been remarkable even before January 6 happened.
You know, you've lived a life in law enforcement.
You have a really interesting story
in and around law enforcement.
But there is no denying that January 6 is a day, you know,
that America will probably never forget,
and a day that will be etched into your memory forever.
Some people have seen the footage.
And those who have have all said the same thing--
it is harrowing.
But you actually experienced that.
If you wouldn't mind, take me through not what happened,
but how you feel about people commenting on that day
as if it wasn't a big deal.
You know, many people say wasn't that bad,
it wasn't an insurrection, it wasn't-- this was just--
you know, it was calm.
People need to relax.
You were actually there.
You were actually one of the people
trying to stop those who were trying
to come into the Capitol.
What was your experience?
And how different is it from what people try and claim?
I mean, I remember the brutality of that day
like it was yesterday.
And hearing people, you know, especially
lawmakers, elected so-called leaders of this country,
downplay or deny the reality of that day, I mean,
to say it's infuriating is an understatement.
I mean, it pisses me the [bleep] off.
Yeah.
I don't know what it felt like for you.
I mean, you suffered extreme injuries.
How are you doing now, by the way?
I mean, I'm good, like, physically.
Mentally, I feel like I've had a lot
of time to come to terms with what I experienced that day.
But, I mean, a big part of writing this book
was not just to memorialize what
I did, but also what so many other officers did that day.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
And, you know, there's a lot of them that
are out there that are suffering in silence, that
didn't get the acknowledgment that I've gotten,
and that have kind of been--
or at least feel that they've been forgotten.
Because you were one of I think
it was 850 officers who rushed to protect the Capitol
during that moment.
You were one of the many officers
who were attacked by this mob who was rushing in.
One of the darkest ironies in some of that footage
is you being beaten by a mob where they're holding
a Blue Lives Matter flag.
And, you know, I've often said, one thing
that perturbs me in America is how
people will use the idea of either the military or law
enforcement to further their narrative,
but it seems like they don't actually
have that same reverence for actual law
enforcement or military.
You know, you see people, veterans being homeless,
or you see law enforcement treated like yourself.
Do those people even acknowledge
what was happening?
Did they see you?
Did they acknowledge you as a human?
Could you communicate with them?
Or did it feel like they were going
through you at all costs?
I mean, there was a point where, you know,
I remember yelling out to the crowd that I had kids.
And this is while I was being beaten
and struck with a taser.
And I did, I think, get through to maybe a handful
of the individuals there.
And they did try to, you know, offer some level of assistance
to me.
I mean, I remember, at one point,
they were actually fighting with other rioters
to try to prevent them from continuing
their assault on me.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
But, you know, for the most part, I think they just
felt like I was an obstacle.
And they were going to get through me and any
of the other officers that were there trying to protect
the building and protect ourselves
to accomplish their goal, which was overturning
a free and fair election.
When you look at how lawmakers have responded--
you know, in the book, you talk about this.
And it's been really scary and disappointing
to see how lawmakers have spoken
either to you in private or to any of the officers
who were there.
And it seems like the way they responded
on that day and the things that they said behind
closed doors are very different to what they
now say when they're on TV downplaying
everything that happens.
For instance, you're really critical of Lindsey Graham,
for instance.
And I'd love to know, has it been strange
for you to see him then publicly downplay the event
after saying to you, you should have killed these people,
and then publicly say it wasn't as bad as everyone says?
Nothing shocks me anymore after all the time
that I spent not only as a police officer for 20 years,
but the time I spent on Capitol Hill.
I mean, it's unfortunate.
I think not just Republican lawmakers--
although they do deserve quite a bit of the scrutiny
that they're getting right now.
But lawmakers in general and how
they are indifferent to the people
that they are elected to represent and serve.
I mean, that was the main takeaway that I got was people
like Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham,
a lot of these lawmakers, they saw me as an inconvenience.
And they were indifferent to what my experience was
and what the experience of many of the other officers that
day were.
TREVOR NOAH: Right.
And they were indifferent to the experience that, you know,
what America is experiencing right
now under their half-assed representation.
In the book, you speak to so many of these ideas.
And you have a really interesting journey.
You know, like, I didn't know about your history
in law enforcement until I read this book.
And, you know, just talking about your tattoos,
and the work that you did working undercover narcotics,
and how you had the nickname--
I think it was the Spider-Man, right?
Yes.
And you were notorious for, like--
I think you were a rock climber.
Do you still climb?
I do.
You still have the skills?
Yeah.
I mean, I wouldn't say I have the skills,
but I give it a shot.
OK, OK.
But, no, it was really interesting because, like, you
were connected.
It was almost-- you know, it was a double entendre
because you were connected and, you know, the people
in the community knew you.
But you also would climb up to perch yourself
for sting operations and to be in the right place
for what you were doing.
What's interesting is how you talk about law
enforcement in the book.
It's a longer conversation than just January 6.
And you share some really interesting insights
about how you see the failings of American law enforcement
and how it is incongruous with what
it's actually trying to do.
For instance, talking about how to bring down drug rates,
drug crimes, drug usage, et cetera.
You don't seem to be pro-locking everybody up
with every minor infraction.
I'd love to know why.
I mean, I learned pretty early on in my career--
I mean, for me, I aspired only to be a vice officer,
to work in narcotics.
I mean, that was, like, the pinnacle.
I never sought promotion, was not interested
in supervising other officers.
I can barely supervise myself.
So, I mean, for me, the pinnacle of my career
was when I went to vice.
And, like I said, I saw--
you know, the idea of going out and going
into an area in which violent crime was prevalent, where
open-air drug markets existed, and locking up
hundreds and hundreds of people, that
was not solving the problems.
It was not addressing violent crime.
It was not addressing the open-air drug markets.
What I saw was a need for much more surgical precision
strikes, if you will, against very specific individuals
who are committing these violent crimes
in those neighborhoods.
Quality over quantity.
Right.
Unfortunately, whether it was through laziness or--
and, again, it is complicated.
Law enforcement had opted for--
we looked at success as the quantity of arrests.
How many arrests were made in a specific area,
that's how we determined that we were
being successful in that area.
But it wasn't-- as a lot of people might think,
it was not fueled by law enforcement officials.
That actually came from our city council
and from the mayor's office.
I mean, these concepts--
I guess, to streamline the explanation,
you would have-- citizens would complain
about an area in which there was a large amount
of violent crime or drugs.
TREVOR NOAH: Yeah.
And then you would have--
politicians would, you know, receive those complaints,
and they would forward them on to the police department.
And they would want to know, what is the police department
doing to address this issue?
They want results now.
They want officers out there.
They want them out there making arrests.
And they want to be able to go back to these citizens
and say, well, we made these arrests, and that's success.
So, again, it's not-- you know, law enforcement
has a role to play.
Politicians have their role to play.
And citizens have their role to play.
The issue is not as comp-- or it's not as simple as I think
a lot of people would think.
And, again, another big point that I tried
to make in my book is that I feel like the politicians are
failing us in that their role to play
is to facilitate positive, constructive conversations
between law enforcement and the people that
were charged with serving.
And, right now, I don't feel like that's what's happening.
It's a really complicated journey.
And I think it's revealing, it is honest,
and it's a painful account of what
you went through on that day.
And, as you said, with the 800 plus officers
who also stepped up.
Thank you so much for taking the time.
I appreciate you for being on the show.
Thanks for having me. Thank you.
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