 As the trial of Derek Chauvin takes place, I just want to remind everyone that there has been zero attempt to meaningfully fix the system at the federal level. In fact, you could argue that even though we have a new president who purports the support, the Black Lives Matter movement, more military gear is being given to police departments under Joe Biden than Donald Trump. So even though this trial is important because we want to make sure that we get justice for George Floyd, the ultimate goal, obviously, is to stop this from happening ever again. And when you have Black Lives Matter protesters taking to the streets across the country, having a message that's so powerful that even people in other countries march in solidarity with Black Americans here, we still don't really have any policy changes being implemented. And so long as this isn't fixed with the political legislative solution, nothing is going to change. And we will still continue to see things like this happen. That was Army Lieutenant Karen Nazario who was racially profiled by police officers in Windsor, Virginia. They pulled him over for seemingly no reason. Pepper sprayed him and also assaulted him. And this actually happened back in December, but we're only now seeing police body cam footage. And we're learning about the details of this case because of a lawsuit filed by Nazario against the Windsor Police Department. But for more details on this, we go to Vice News who explains the incident ostensibly began after an officer believed Nazario was driving on US Route 460 without a rear license plate according to the lawsuit. While the SUV was nude in Nazario, meaning he hadn't gotten permanent plates yet, he still had a temporary plate taped to the inside of his rear window. The lawsuit notes the temporary tags are visible in the body camera footage. Nazario slowed down his vehicle within seconds of the police pursuing him and activated his turn signal. Because it was dark, Nazario also drove for less than a mile below the posted speed limit until he reached a well lit BP gas station where he pulled over. In all, it took about 1 minute 40 seconds for Nazario to pull over after Crocker initiated the stop according to the lawsuit. Still, the cops claimed in a report Nazario was alluding police, had a dark window tint and lacked plates, so officers treated the incident as a felony traffic stop or a traffic stop they believed to be risky. One of the officers admitted later that they knew why Nazario had pulled into the BP. It happened all the time and was a maneuver often used by people of color according to the lawsuit. And the reason why people of color pull into the well lit area where there's other people is because they're hoping that in the event they're killed by police officers, there will be witnesses there. It's an entirely gross and fucked up system, but things like this will continue to happen unless the system itself changes. And the most ridiculous part about this story is that that story actually ended in a happy ending because Nazario left with his life, but not everyone is that lucky. Now we talked about the trial of Derek Chauvin and George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, not too far where that trial is taking place. Another unarmed black man was murdered by police and I'm of course referring to Dante Wright, who's a 20 year old that was pulled over on Sunday. And the police say that they pulled him over for having expired registration, but he actually called his mom while he was being pulled over. And he told her that they said they pulled him over because he had an air freshener dangling from his rear window, which I guess is against the law. In that state, I had no idea that that was a thing. But what ultimately happened is after they found some excuse to pull him over, he was shot by a police officer. And this is the footage I'm just going to forewarn you. It is definitely graphic. He then drove for several blocks until he crashed into another vehicle and died. Now the police chief explained that he believes the officer who shot him didn't actually mean to shoot him. It was an accidental discharge as he puts it. As you can hear, the officer while struggling with Mr. Wright shows Taser Taser several times. That is part of the officer's training prior to deploying a Taser, which is a less lethal device. That is done to make her partners aware as well as a subject that a Taser deployment will be imminent. During this encounter, however, the officer drew their handgun instead of their Taser. For informational purposes, we train with our handguns on our dominant side and our Taser on our weak side. So if you're right handed, you carry your firearm on your right side and you carry your Taser on the left. This is done purposefully and is trained. As I watch the video and listen to the officer's commands, it is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their Taser, but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet. This appears to me from what I viewed in the officer's reaction and distress immediately after that this was an accidental discharge that resulted in a tragic death of Mr. Wright. So for those of you unaware, this is what a Taser looks like. Apparently, the officer in question who is trained to use both a firearm and a Taser couldn't discern the differences between a firearm and a Taser. I mean, in theory, a police officer, you think or hope would know the difference, but that apparently isn't the case. Now, if you're in the heat of the moment and you're flustered and you can't really think straight, I mean, of course, this could happen theoretically, then that also begs the question. We saw that he was resisting arrest, but there was no evidence that he posed a danger to the police officers. There was no visual evidence based on the body cam footage that he had a weapon of any sorts. So why would you even pull out your gun in the first place? If you intended on tasing him, then why would you pull out the weapon that is used explicitly to kill people to take life? Why was that necessary in this instance? In the worst case scenario, if he got away, nobody would die. You could put out a warrant for his arrest, apprehend him later. But why was your gun drawn to begin with? This is a question that they have to answer. And furthermore, does resisting arrest and trying to drive away when they're trying to arrest you, does that warrant a death sentence? Should someone die because they were resisting arrest? I don't think that's a proportional punishment for what we saw. So why was your gun drawn to begin with? If you hadn't drawn your gun unnecessarily, so you wouldn't have mistaken the gun for the taser and anyone who does that obviously isn't fit to serve. So this officer has been placed on administrative leave. The mayor has called for her to be fired. And the question is what's going to happen? Is she actually going to be fired? Well, the police chief says at this point in time, we're going to allow for her to have due process. Do you believe the officer who fired this fatal shot? And I understand there's due process. We get that. But ultimately, she shot and killed a 20 year old man. The mayor has indicated she should be terminated. What's your position on that? My position is that officer afforded due process just like anybody else does. She has the right to be heard. She has the right to give her statement. She has the right to tell what she felt, what she thought, not what I thought, not what I saw, but what she thought and what she, and that may have an impact. She's on administrative time. She will not be returning to duty until this investigation is run. And for all intents and purposes, I think we can look at the video and ascertain whether or not she'll be returning. So we're not going to fire her just yet because we believe in due process. We have to do a full investigation. Now, in theory, I don't think anyone would disagree with the idea of due process. But when we see a video that clearly shows her killing someone, I mean, that's pretty clear cut. Is it not? And furthermore, it's interesting that he brings up due process when Dante Wright didn't get due process. This officer is being afforded due process for her job, but she didn't afford Dante Wright due process for his life. Does he get due process? Do black Americans get due process? When will that right be extended to black and brown people? That's the question here. That's why what he said there is ridiculous because we have to be extra, extra cautious here. We don't want to act too soon. We don't want to fire her arbitrarily. We want to make sure that we look at all the details and conduct a thorough investigation. However, when it comes to a black American resisting arrest, automatically we have to prepare ourselves to possibly shoot and kill him because, you know, could be dangerous, could pose a threat to us. It's just you can just sense that they value the life of the police officer more than Dante's life. And, you know, when Joe Biden was asked about this, he also stated that he values something else more than the life of Dante Wright. I haven't called Dante Wright's family, but prayers with their family is a really tragic thing that happened. But I think we got to wait and see what the investigation shows and the entire investigation. You all watched, I assume as I did, the film, which is fairly the body cam, which is fairly, fairly graphic. Question is, was it an accident? Was it intentional? That remains to be determined by a full blown investigation. But in the meantime, I want to make it clear again, there is absolutely no justification, none for looting, no justification for violence, peaceful protest, understandable. So I mean, it's totally sad that Dante Wright, at 20 years old, lost his life and will never get it back. But I mean, we can't rush the judgment. We have to wait to see if the officer was justified in using deadly force. We just need to wait until the investigation gives us some more details. However, when it comes to looting and rioting, there's no justification there. No justification whatsoever. There may be a justification for a police officer to take the life of a 20 year old, but there's never a justification for you to loot a Walmart that is never acceptable under any circumstances. We don't need an investigation there. We don't need to even look into whether or not the police department was antagonizing protesters and led to the crowd getting out of control because it did start out peaceful, by the way. Do you understand? Like this is why the slogan is Black Lives Matter, because it very clearly seems as if Black Lives don't matter in America. We value the lives of police officers and even private property more than we value Black Lives. This is why people are protesting. And as Joe Biden says this, has he ever considered the fact that maybe people wouldn't riot or protest even at all if somebody in a position of power actually fixed the fucking issue once and for all? Because guess what happened? The protests broke out. Police predictably responded with more brutality, rubber bullets when they demanded that the crowd disperse. They used chemical weapons. Notice how these protests, they never pop up spontaneously, right? They're always a response to something else. They're not appearing out of thin air. There's always a catalyst. What is that catalyst, Joe Biden? The catalyst is the criminal justice system in America where Black Americans are treated like second-class citizens and oftentimes profiled and murdered by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them. And if Joe Biden really wanted all of this to stop, he would take action. He's the president. But it's not just that he isn't doing enough. He's actively pouring gasoline on the fire by funneling more military gear to police departments. Because when you militarize police departments, they act increasingly like occupying forces rather than community servants. So the situation is incredibly depressing. It's frustrating, but it's not surprising. As the trial of Derek Chauvin takes place because he murdered George Floyd, we all saw it on tape. We don't even know if there will be justice for George Floyd. But as that trial happens, can't even finish this trial and not too far away from where the trial is taking place, another unarmed Black man murdered by the cops. I'd ask when will it end, but we know that answer. It's when lawmakers take action and create policies that change this system of racist policing in America. In a functioning democracy, when millions of people take to the streets in a country, that democracy will make changes to the system. But there's been nothing. Nothing has happened. The only thing that happens when people call for justice is we crack down on those protesters. We take an otherwise peaceful protest and antagonize the protesters, demand that the crowd disperse and police officers end up brutalizing peaceful protesters, it then gets ugly, it turns to rioting and looting, and then they blame the rioting and the looting rather than actually looking at the root cause to begin with. It's just, I mean, this is why Black Americans are fed up and it shouldn't just be Black Americans who are fed up. Everyone should be fed up at this. Who can look to the system and justify what's happening? It's an outrage. I don't know what else to say. It's tiring, but it's going to keep happening. It's going to keep happening unless the system changes.