 Hey everyone, Nathan Robljanser from Nintendo Prime, no special giveaway at this time, I'm still... I just don't feel it's really pertinent to give away a game right now. Yes, the Xenobite Chronicles Definitive Edition giveaway is over, but that's... We have to talk about a story that has really been going around the country, but now we have a reason as a primarily Nintendo-focused YouTube channel to talk about it. For those who aren't aware, a man named George Floyd was... I don't even know how to say it, like police officers ended his life, and they ended it over what appears to be a counterfeit $20 bill. He was unarmed, he was already detained and handcuffed at the time, and officers still put pressure on his neck and his ankles, even though it didn't look like in any of the video that he was actually resisting arrest. And it's weird hearing stories like this because you'll end up seeing other videos out there with people of a different skin color, say my skin color, waving machetes at police, that the police don't even overreact to and are able to peacefully detain. So clearly, this is about a racial divide in the country, specifically among those that are enforcing the law. Now, the reason that we're talking about this is because Nintendo New York has been looted. Now, when I really looted it, I guess I had the window smashed, and there's been protests going on all over the country. And it's a difficult thing because on one hand, I am someone that understands numbers, I understand statistics, and the statistics show why there is a racial bias among police officers. Now, personally, I don't care what the numbers say, people are people, and they all should be treated equally. We all live under the same laws and the same rules. It doesn't matter if you're Hispanic, black, white, it don't matter what you are. It just doesn't. Black, purple, it's whatever. If you are a police officer, the law should apply equally, no matter what the race is. But the reason that police officers are more aggressive specifically towards black males is because of the numbers. The numbers that say black on white crime is the highest crime rate among races in the country. Like it's massively bigger than any other race on race crime and white on black crime is way lower. Again, though, how are things being reported, whatever, but that's just the case in terms of the numbers that exist out there. Numbers also show that something like 50% of all crimes in the United States are committed by black men. Black men only make up a small portion of the actual population. That's a huge amount of black men that are responsible for a large number of crimes in the US. This is why, especially in cities, because it seems to be more prevalent in cities, inner cities specifically, that there is a bias. This is why the bias exists. This is why police officers tend to be more aggressive towards a black male, just because there tend to be more violent crimes of black males and all that and whatever. But the point I'm trying to make is the numbers say one thing and that's why the divide exists with police officers. But we're all people and if you are unarmed, like no weapons on you whatsoever, there is zero excuse for you to lose your life and an arrest. I don't care if you robbed a store, I don't care if you were using counterfeit money in this case, I don't care if you punched someone in the face. If you do not have a weapon on you, if you don't have a knife, you don't have a gun, you don't have some lethal object on you to kill someone with, there is no reason that you should ever be in threat with officers to lose your life. I don't care what your skin color is. But that has been a problem in this country for quite some time. Let's get to the Nintendo New York story and we'll talk about what people have been doing in response to this in terms of the riots because there's been legit riots going on in terms of the protests etc and it's happening all over the country. So here you see the story on nintendolife.com says Nintendo New York stores smashed during riots in Manhattan, fifth day of unrest in New York City, which is the Rockefeller Center. It's a grim scene as police stand guard outside of shattered windows of Nintendo New York surrounded by the backdrop of protests and unrest, a stark contrast to the colorful contents of the flagship store inside. On Monday evening, rioters have broken the windows of the Nintendo store, along with other shops in the area, where police presence has been occupying the glass strewn sidewalks. Fortunately, Nintendo New York has yet to be looted or further vandalized. Additional details regarding the incident are currently unavailable at this time. This is someone who put up that picture, another picture of police officers in front of Nintendo New York. Extreme unrest has been occurring across the streets of America for nearly a week now, perpetuated by the murder of Black Lewisville resident and EMT, Breonna Taylor in her own home and unarmed Black Minneapolis resident George Floyd on a public street in broad daylight. Since then, fuel has unfortunately only been added to the fire. With the most recent incident involving the murder of Black Lewisville business owner and peaceful protester David McCatty, who had been known to feed local police at his barbecue restaurant for free. The majority of protesters have made a significant effort to remain peaceful and observe local laws, even working to fight against the rioting and looting happening in the cities across the country. There's actually a video out there because Target was one of the first stores hit with looting and then other stores that were shut down. There was peaceful protesters trying to push back those that are trying to looten all that because obviously committing a crime does not in that of itself do you any justice to try to get something changed. I'm of belief that while unfortunately for Martin Luther King he ended up getting killed anyways that the way that he led the march for Black rights had a lot greater impact and a lot bigger force for change and it was 100% peaceful and I think that that is how it should be going about if you're out there protesting or whatever do it peacefully don't antagonize the officers don't throw rocks at them start cars on fire loot buildings none of that's going to make the laws change in your favor it's actually going to make things more difficult to change and make more of a police state happen as the country and the states feel like they don't have a choice so yeah I don't know what else to say unless you're just trying to start a revolution I guess and take down the government but that doesn't seem to be what people are protesting they're not trying to take down the government they're trying to get rid of corrupt police officers and have stricter policies when this happens that through those officers like going to jail not just losing their job because the officers like four officers involved in the George Floyd case are having let go and no longer are police officers but they're not in jail um they murdered someone and if the only punishment is losing your job that's that's not okay so um let's let's get into more of this uh many others have unfortunately taken advantage of the unrest uh spending recent days looting and vandalizing businesses in these areas which now includes Nintendo New York although Nintendo has yet to make a public statement regarding these situations individuals at the company as well as others in the industry have made statements online in recent days here's Bill Trennan you guys should all know Bill Trennan from Nintendo uh you you know does a lot of stuff used to just be a Nintendo Treehouse translator but he does a lot more now these killings form a national thread of death and despair woven into a tapestry as old and as wide as our fever stricken union the fever is rising our nation is sick sick with fear sick with false and fatal innocence now he's just quoting um somebody else but uh yeah i mean clearly he's having he has just sickened by this uh former nintendo of america president reggie film's aim has commented on the situation stating that he supports freedom of the press and the right to protest but does not condone the destruction that has come out of the riots and i don't think anyone in the right mind condones it um our thoughts are with those affected during this difficult time and same is true for me my thoughts are with everyone affected uh because this is a problem and this has been a problem in the united states pretty much since the dawn of the country back when slavery was okay um the black community has been fighting for fair and equal treatment uh in this country for a long time and while legally they have all of the same rights as i do it doesn't mean that the law is being applied to them in the same way it doesn't mean the police force is forcing it in the same way now of course in any situation like this it's always important to point out that not every single police officer has this racial bias okay there's obviously good police officers out there and the unfortunate thing uh in a situation like this is it paints the entire police force across the country as being these bigot racial people uh and that's not necessarily the case and it's obviously more than just a few bad apples too because they always say you know a few few bad apples can ruin it for the whole it's probably a lot more than a few bad apples especially in the inner cities um i guarantee you that because of the statistics because of the crimes they see because of certain neighborhoods that happen to be black that police officers won't even go to because the crime rates are so high there's just a natural bias that exists because of what they see uh when they're out there and the things they deal with and the violent crimes that are committed by black people um that end up uh you know painting a picture and when you see this looting when you see uh businesses burning all it's doing to you two people out there that have participated in this or participated at throwing rocks at officers even or whatever you've done if you've done anything violent anything other than peacefully protesting if you have done anything else all you have done is perpetuate the police officer's bias that's what happens when you end up looting when you end up when you end up breaking glass at nintendo new york when you end up doing uh any of these things that are a violent act that are a criminal act against another person or a business or whatever you're just perpetuating the already biased opinion of the police officers that black people are a problem and i don't think you guys are a problem i don't think you guys should even be called you guys we're all people we're humans we all should be treated equally but you don't do yourself any favors if the response to brutality is you know let's let's just burn the country to the ground you're just making yourselves and your race and your ethnicity almost justified and what the police officers are doing i hate saying that but that's what it feels like when you are on the other side of the fence um and you're trying to keep the peace and you just see that there's just more and more unrest it's like yeah maybe we caused that unrest by you know the wrongful deaths of some people but at the same point look at what you're doing i mean there's rioters hurting peaceful protesters as an example like there's actually been a lot of protesters getting injured by rioters obviously protesters are getting injured as well by the police because the police are using tear gas or finding rubber bullets in someplace i think in ohio i think they're using wood bullets because they didn't have enough rubber bullets um and obviously people are getting seriously hurt losing eyes all this stuff um you know and there's a there's a lot of protesters as well you know to point out the positivity in this not only have some protesters been fighting back against the rioters and being like you need to stop doing this because clearly there's not enough police or national guard or anything to really stop you know everyone in this country but um they the the protesters themselves are doing things like going out and cleaning up the streets and cleaning up some of the businesses that have been looted and trying to offer help because believe it or not uh as the article pointed out in the tunnel life a majority of the people out there are peacefully protesting unfortunately there's a subset that's either taking advantage of the situation or is just part of it and and just so angry that they they feel justified um that they're going after uh businesses uh and and police officers and just doing things that aren't going to get them the laws changed or you know punishments changed or or whatever as much as they would I saw one suggestion out there uh that I I think would actually be a pretty interesting um you know change in in in how police officers are paid that could change uh because if you didn't know a lot of places police officers are given bonuses or have like uh you know monthly uh quotas to hit and if they hit that they get a nice bonus which is weird that you would offer bonuses for busting criminals uh that's your job you shouldn't just bust more of them because you might just be making up crimes at that point but um one thing that I saw suggested changing is you know um for for all the reprimands that happened for inappropriate police behavior uh towards anyone it doesn't have to be a black person but obviously that's the focus here um would uh be taken out of their pensions and take it out of other things uh and all of a sudden you might see police officers start to be a heck of a lot more friendly to everyone instead of just automatically assuming every single in this case every single male black person is a threat um so I I really hope that uh something's done about this so that some changes come this isn't the first time and the last time uh that the people were dying by police officers and we started protesting and riots across the country nothing changed literally nothing changed I mean the officers involved got in trouble but nothing actually changed uh and I think people are doing it even harder this time around because they're hoping that something's going to change this time uh and I I hope something does change I just don't think that when you're looting uh that when you're vandalizing that when you're physically throwing things at officers uh that you are actually going to get changed to occur now if they if this had just been a 100 peaceful protest all around like the Martin Luther King days um I think something would happen even if we don't have the right president you know necessarily in charge to enact some federal policies I think a lot of state governments would enact policies if everything was just peaceful if they just marched on the capital which is where they should be marching by the way because the capitals in each uh in each state um control you know all the laws that govern that state and control the police force everyone should just be marching on to the capital and getting in front of it you know in the thousands or millions or whatever and just protest you don't have to break anything you don't have to vandalize anything go straight to the source of what controls the police officers and protest that is what should be happening but that's not what's happening so at this point I don't know what to tell you guys other than this is just a really sad situation and uh I honestly think nothing's gonna get resolved um I hope this doesn't just continue to be going on all year but again I don't know you know more more people seem to be dying now and I just I don't know I don't know what to do I'm at a loss for words um thankfully where I live I guess thankfully uh there are some people in my area protesting but it's all peaceful um so we haven't had to worry about about looting and rides and all that but it's man 2020 has just been what hell of a year hasn't it especially here in the United States now that we're dealing with this um yeah I'm I'm the thinner of a chance from Nintendo Prime um thank you guys so much for tuning in uh maybe um I was I was debating on maybe uh at some point this week I'm doing a charity stream uh raising some money either for uh there's a memorial fund for George Floyd which I'm sure already has plenty of donations at this point but maybe uh you know finding I don't even know some sort of charity that like I it's hard for me to think of what charities to do it for because um what charities actually going to get the police officers to be better I mean charities can't control people so I don't know I don't know what to do maybe maybe we could find a way to maybe some charities that help inner city schools or something get better um so that like you know the people in those um downtrodden communities have a better chance to rise out of it maybe that's the kind of charities I should be looking for so if you think there's a good charity uh to maybe do a stream for and I'm a small channel so I don't expect to raise much for you know if we raise a hundred bucks forward or whatever that'd be great to me um but yeah I think we should uh maybe do a charity stream for it and um just let me know in the comments below if you think what what charities you think are good and I'll try to go through and vet them because you gotta be careful with charities because some are kind of scams but I'm gonna do my best to pick at least one that I think is worth a stoning to and then we'll I don't know we'll try to play some games and come together as a community um and uh try to improve parts of the country that need to be improved because I don't think there's any charity we can give to that's gonna actually change laws and change police behavior so all right folks um till I got for you catch you in the next video