MORE AND MORE AMERICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE GETTING
POLITICALLY ACTIVE AND IN PARTICULAR, THEY ARE GETTING
INVOLVED.
SHOWING UP UP AT TOWN HALLS, TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS AND THINGS
LIKE THAT THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO SHOW FOR THE REPRESENTATIVES
ARE BUT NOT JUST REGULAR AMERICANS LIKE YOU ARE ME.
JAMES DAVE CHAPELLE RECENTLY SHOWED UP UNANNOUNCED OF
THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING IN OHIO WHERE HE OF COURSE LIVES
AND HE BEGAN TO SPEAK ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP OFTEN STRAINED
BETWEEN POLICE AND THE RESIDENTS OF THAT AREA.
WE WANT TO ROLL A SMALL SECTION OF HIS COMMENTS.
WE ALL KNEW OFFICER GERD ON BECAUSE HIS SISTER WAS MY
MUSIC TEACHER.
WE ALL KNOW OFFICER BAIN AS CHILDREN, WE ALSO KNOW
OFFICERS MAKES CHILDREN AND WE ARE BEING POLICED BY WHAT
FEELS LIKE AN ALIEN FORCE.
HUGE GAP ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.
I SAW IT ALL OVER.
I WAS THERE WITH MY CHILDREN AND I WAS THERE WITH MY FRIENDS
AND NEIGHBORS.
IN ALL FAIRNESS, THE CROWD WAS ROUGH.
BECAUSE IT WAS NEW YEAR'S EVE.
AND, I LEFT EARLY BECAUSE NOBODY FELT COMPLETELY RIGHT SO I AM
TRYING TO BE BALANCED AND FAIR BUT WHAT I DO WANT TO KNOW IS
WHAT IS THIS LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT YOU CAN PULL ACHIEVE
ESPECIALLY TO POLICE THIS TOWN WHICH IS WILDLY WEEK.
I WOULD BESEECH THE COUNCIL TO LOOK DEEPLY INTO LOOK HARD
BECAUSE, I'M IN, LITERALLY IN THE STRONG BEER, THERE'S AN
OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW EVERYBODY THAT LOCAL POLITICS RAISE IT.
THE INCIDENT HE REFERRED TO AS ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, THERE
WAS A TASER USE BY A POLICE OFFICER WHICH CAUSED A LOT
OF PROTESTS IN THE AREA.
THAT IS NOT HIS WHOLE COMMENTS THAT YOU CAN WATCH THEM ONLINE
BUT HE DID TALK ABOUT IN HIS OWN PAST HE HAS HAD HIS
PERSONAL SAFETY PROTECTED BY POLICE OFFICERS.
HE IS NOT ANTI-POLICE.
HE LIKES THE WAY IT USED TO BE WHEN IT FELT LIKE IT WAS
LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THE COMMUNITY AND CERTAINLY FOR
THAT SOUND, BUT WE KNOW THAT IT IS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, IT'S
NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE.
I LOVE A COUPLE OF THINGS HE'S DOING HERE.
NUMBER ONE, HE IS DOING ACTIVISM.
THIS IS GETTING INVOLVED AND LOOK, I LOVE PROTESTS AND
THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN GET INVOLVED.
I THINK VOTING MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE, ENCOURAGING
OTHER PEOPLE ABOUT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE BUT ALSO SHOWING
UP AND HAVING YOUR VOICE HEARD BY A LOCAL CITY COUNCIL.
THAT IS PERFECT.
THE RIGHT-WING HATES IT WHEN LEFT-WING CELEBRITIES USE THEIR
POWER TO TRY TO GET POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE WORLD THERE
LIKE NEW POSITIVE CHANGE.
THEY LOVE RIGHT-WING CELEBRITIES WHO WERE LIKE I WANT LOWER
TAXES AND I AGREE WITH GUNS.
THEY ARE LIKE YES.
TED NUGENT, RONALD REAGAN, SHE'S GOT BAYEUX, WHOEVER YOU ARE.
NOW I LIKE IT WHEN CELEBRITIES USE THEIR CONSIDERABLE POWER
BECAUSE WHEN DAVE CHAPELLE SHOWS THAT PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION,
REQUEST OR EVEN THE FOLKS THERE WERE LIKE ONE OF THE GUYS IN THE
BACK WAS LIKE THAT IS DAVE CHAPELLE THAT ANYWAY SO HE
SAYS LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT POLICING IN THIS COMMUNITY
THAT IN THIS COMMUNITY LET'S EXIT TOGETHER.
WE HAVE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY.
THE SECOND REASON I LIKED IT IS THE CONTRAST THAT HE
DROPPED THERE ABOUT THE OLD TIMES IN THE NEW TIMES.
WE TALK ABOUT THIS A LOT IN REGARDS TO POLICING.
FUNNY ENOUGH IT'S A BLACK-AND-WHITE ISSUE.
IN THE OLD TIMES, THERE WERE NO VIDEO CAMERAS AND THERE WAS
A LOT OF MEETINGS.
I AM NOT ROMANTICIZING THE PAST AND YOU CAN ARGUE THAT RACISM
WAS WORSE IN THE OLD TIMES, REQUEST A BUT THERE WERE SOME
THINGS THAT WERE BETTER IN THE OLD TIMES SO AS CHAPELLE
TURNS OUT YOU USED TO KNOW YOUR LOCAL COPS, THEY WERE FROM
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
NOW THEY SOMETIMES BRING A COMES NOT FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
AND IT IS LIKE AN OCCUPYING ARMY.
THE GUYS WHO DID THIS ORIGINALLY WHERE THE LA COPS.
WELL, THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES THAT DID
IT BUT LA WAS EARLY ON THAT THEY BROUGHT IN COPS FROM THE SOUTH.
A LOT OF THEM FROM ALABAMA AND OTHER PLACES AND THEY DIDN'T
LIVE IN LA, THEY DIDN'T LIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES, THEY LIVED IN
ORANGE COUNTY AND THEY DRIVE IN AND THAT IS AMONG THE REASON WHY
LA COPS HAD A BRUTAL REPUTATION MARIAH?
FOR DECADES AND DECADES.
WE ALSO KNOW IN SOME PARTS OF THE SOUTH, WE HAVE TRACKED
POLICE OF THEIRS WHO GET INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING,
GENERALLY SOMEONE WHO IS ON ARMED AND WE FIND OUT WHAT
IS THE RECENT PAST?
OH, THEY'D BEEN SHUTTLED FROM DEPARTMENT TO DEPARTMENT
BECAUSE THEY KEEP HAVING INCIDENTS.
WHEN YOUR MUSIC TEACHERS BROTHER IS THE COP YOU CAN
TALK IT THROUGH IF THERE'S AN ISSUE, YOU TALK TO MUSIC
TEACHER, SHE TALKS TO HER BROTHER AND HE KNOWS YOU
AND HE IS LESS LIKELY TO BEAT YOU UP BECAUSE HE DOESN'T VIEW
YOU AS SOMEBODY HE IS OCCUPYING, HE VIEWS YOU AS, YOU KNOW
IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE STUDENTS THERE, THE KITTY HAS TO PROTECT.
IT JUST LIKE THE GIANT DIFFERENT STYLES OF THINK IN THE OLD
DAYS, THEY ACTUALLY USED TO SAY FREEZE, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.
THIS IS TAKING A COUPLE SECONDS HERE BEFORE THEY SHOT SOMEBODY.
SHOOTING SOMEONE BACK IN THE DAY WAS A BIG DEAL.
NOW IT'S LIKE, EVERYTHING'S PANIC TIME AND IF ANYBODY
LOOKS AT YOU WRONG AND IT'S A SLIGHT 1% OF 1%
THAT THEY COULD CAUSE YOU HARM, JUST SHOOT THEM, KILL THEM.
SHOOT TO KILL.
WE ARE MUCH MORE FLIPPANT.
THINGS GOT BETTER
AND SOME THINGS ARE MUCH WORSE IN POLICING.
ONE OF THE THINGS I'M MOST WORRIED ABOUT IS FEAR.
NOT THE FEAR THAT PEOPLE HAVE OF THE COPS AND IN A LOT OF
AREAS THEY SHOULD NOT FEAR THE COPS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO
HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, THE FEAR THIS IS DEADLY IS THE
ONE THAT
THE COPS FEEL BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY'RE GOING INTO A WAR
ZONE EVERY DAY AND THAT MAKES THEM TWITCHY, THAT MAKES
THEM SEE WEAPONS THAT TURN OUT NOT TO BE WEAPONS ON PEOPLE.
THAT MAKES THEM FIRE AT PEOPLE BEFORE IT IS NECESSARY AND
OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE MORE SCARED OF AN AREA
WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW THE AREA, YOU DON'T KNOW ANY OF THE PEOPLE
THAN YOU WOULD IF IT WERE YOUR OWN HOMETOWN.
SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISED THAT IT TURNS OUT THAT THE COPS NOW
ARE CONSTANTLY FEARING FOR THEIR LIVES WHEN THEY ARE BEING
SHIPPED AROUND THE COUNTRY TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAT THEY
DON'T UNDERSTAND?
AND FINALLY, AGAIN TO BE FAIR TO THE COPS, THEY'RE NOT
THAT WRONG BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY GUNS IN THE COUNTRY.
THERE ARE ABOUT 250 MILLION GUNS IN THE COUNTRY.
WHEN YOU TEACH THEM ANYBODY CAN HAVE A GUN, IN AMERICA IT
IS QUITE LITERAL.
THAT IS ONE OF THE DOWN SIGNS OF HAVING EVERYBODY HAVE A GUN
IS THAT THE COPS THINK IT COULD BE A GUN, I HAVE TO SHOOT.
I HAVE TO SAVE MYSELF FIRST.
WE NEED BETTER TRAINING, WE
NEED TO RE-ADJUST HOW PEOPLE ARE THINKING.
I THINK WE NEED GUN-CONTROL.
AGAIN, TO BE FAIR TO COPS, PEOPLE ARGUE AGAINST DOING GUN
CONTROL ON COP KILLING BULLETS, THE ONES THAT CAN PIERCE ARMOR.
THEY'RE LIKE NO, I NEED THE ARMOR PIECING BULLETS.
WHEN YOU NEED IT FOR?
THE MAIN THING YOU NEED IT FOR IS TO KILL COPS.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED.
IT'S NOT A BLACK-AND-WHITE ISSUE BUT IF PEOPLE LIKE DAVE
CHAPELLE SHOW UP IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, EVEN IF YOU ARE
NOT A CELEBRITY.
YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
MAKE SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD.
THE ENTIRE VIDEO OF CHAPELLE WE WILL PUT IN THE DESCRIPTION
BOX BELOW.
YOU CAN WATCH IT THROUGH THE LINK.
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