Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffys Corner: Tired of Saying "I'm Not A Racist"

Episode Date: July 9, 2016

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Get moving at real estate agents. I trust.com. You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. It was summertime heat in Texas. Thursday evening, July 7th, 2016, downtown Dallas. He was killing white people. He expressed killing white officers. He expressed anger for Black Lives Matter.

That was Dallas Police Chief David Brown. Now, what do we really know? We know that it was the deadliest day for U.S. police since 9-11. Think of that. We know that a black U.S. Army reservist who served in Afghan war said he wanted to kill white people. He did. We know the police killed the gunman, identified by a U.S. government source, as Mika Xavier Johnson, using a bomb-carrying robot. after a standoff.

We know, as we just heard from Chief Brown, he said he was upset about the recent police shootings, said he was upset at white people, said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. 12 officers shot, five officers killed, seven officers injured, two citizens injured.

He did what he came to do. He may have not done as much as he wanted to do. but he did what he came to do. And now we have the aftermath. The aftermath of some wanting to use this to bring us together, some wanting us to use this to tear us farther apart. And some saying, you know, I know it was a bad thing, but that evening after it was a little calmer,

KDFW TV reporter here in Dallas asked, Chanda Higgins, an organizer with the Dallas Action Coalition, how his heart fell after the shootings. It's tragic, you know, when you talk about the loss of life, but, I mean, it's kind of got an ironic twist to me here in Dallas, particularly because the city of Dallas and the Dallas Police Department has been really successful about not talking about and not exposing their issues, like the ones we're seeing bubbling up across the country.

And so for this to happen and for officers to be killed during this, it's like a wake-up call that something different needs to happen. And people want to see justice. People want to see reform. People want to see police be held accountable when they feel like it's murder. And you know, he's not alone saying that he wants to have police held accountable. Because he believes they're not held accountable. And then we had Mark Hughes, a man whose face was plastered all over social media and television because he was carrying his rifle at the protest.

Now, I heard them call him a person of interest. They show a picture of Twitter, which I saw that said, this is one of our suspects. Please help us find him. And then it came to light that he did. have anything to do with this. And they talked to him after he had talked to police. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. The crazy thing about it is that I was down here. I couldn't get to my vehicle because of the roadblock.

And hindsight, 2020, I could have easily been shot. Where were you when your picture was being plastered all over the country? You didn't even know. I didn't know. We received the phone call. that my face was on there as a suspect. And immediately I flagged down a police officer. So while the country was looking for you,

you were talking to police. I was talking to police laughing and joking with police officers. Mark, have you talked to police since your picture was plastered? Have you spoken to them since then? Yeah, I just got an interrogation room for about 30 minutes. What police officers lying, saying they have video of me, shooting, which is a lie, saying that they have witnesses saying that I shot a gun, which is a lie. So, I mean, at the end of the day, the system was trying to give me.

The system was trying to give me. Did you get an apology? No. That's something we did. We asked them and we said, you know what, now y'all have my face on the national news, or y'all going to come out and say that this young man had nothing to do with it. What's your concern now going forward? I mean, like my brother's saying, he'd me getting death threats.

I haven't even got on my social media. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. All I know at the end of the day is, is that I was in just, it was like in just going on. It was, it was persecution on me, unrightly,

and I feel that they need to do something about that. Apology, I'm not satisfied with it. Apology I'm not satisfied with in the end. Okay. I'm not satisfied with an apology. you. What would satisfy you, Mark? What would satisfy you? I'm guessing cash. But does that make it better? I saw, then they were saying they wouldn't take it down. The police, Dallas police wouldn't take it down from their Twitter account. But I looked in it certainly is down now. And I really don't remember them saying he was a suspect. I remember them saying he was a person of interest. I know it's a fine line. I got it. Because everyone assumes, And then, you know, not necessarily correctly, that when police say that you are a person of interest or someone is a person of interest, they're saying that to be, you know, to be nice, but really you're a suspect.

In this case, it was true. He was a person of interest. I did not see the suspect part, but if it happened, horrible. And again, I got it. A person of interest means suspect. Now, not everyone reacted with such hate. Nekisha Shannon, a photographer in South Carolina, said she was horrified and wanted to support her local police.

It's just a smile story because her oldest son wants to be a police officer. So she baked them cookies and took them down there. They were a little shocked in South Carolina. They weren't quite sure how to take it. But she said, look, my five-year-old, asking him what he wants to be, he says he wants to be a police officer. I'm an African-American female,

and the only thing I'm worried about is my son's safety. I want to teach my kids to be respectful and honorable in all they do. I don't want my son thinking if he sees a police officer, they're going to shoot him. She told her son, when asked what it means to protect and serve, I told him to think of others before themselves. Stop bullying, and they make sure people follow the rules. When my son does become a police officer, he'll be one of the good ones.

So there is some good that came of it. We heard some fascinating stories of some of the protesters. We saw protesters still protesting the police when the shooting was still going on and live in Dallas. And the police were trying to protect them. And yet they still protested the police. The police are marked now, it appears. Shootings all over the country. This started because of a police shooting.

One of the things that happened out of Dallas that was a first, the police used a robot. We talk about robots all the time on this show and how close we are. And there's some more stories we try to get to today of a little bit closer we are to having them in our everyday life. Dallas police said we saw no other option. Dallas mayor said our option was to use the bomb to replace a device, to detonate where the suspect was. Other options would have exposed our officers in grave danger. The mayor also said the suspect was killed by the device

and disputed earlier reports that he may have shot himself. Now, they used this. They've done this before in the Iraq War. It's something that hasn't been done here in the U.S. in domestic policing. I'm very surprised. that these protests don't have drones flying over with cameras and maybe even some sort of weapons. Oh, sorry, shouldn't be there. I'm really surprised that has not happened yet.

Because we have fake facts, mayors, governors, senators, spewing out things that aren't true. The mayor of Atlanta. I'm a black man. I know what it is to be a black man, but that doesn't mean you take your frustrations out on harming other people. Sounds good, right? Right.

He's taking lessons from our illustrious leader, Barack Obama. Throw the bone. Then, light the fire. It does mean it's fine to make a demand for fairness and equal treatment of black citizens who are being disproportionately impacted in a particular manner that relates to the, the likelihood of a black person dying in an interaction with law enforcement.

It's just not true. It's just not true, Mayor. And you know it. And you know it. When you look at the numbers of violent crimes, if you're a white person and you are a victim of 82, more than over 82 percent, chance of that crime being done by a white person. If you are a black person, you have almost a 41% chance

that the violent crime on you is being done by a black man. Or a black person. I don't want to leave the females out. If you are Hispanic, you have a 50% chance almost a 51% chance. No, I'm sorry, a 41% chance that you are going to be

a victim of a violent crime from a Hispanic. Those are the numbers. Those are the facts. Nobody wants to hear that. It's all feelings. It's all, I feel this. We're being ruled by feelings.

I can't. We're supposed to understand their side. We've got to see their side. We've got to see how those people feel. The gays, the trans genders, the blacks, the Hispanics. It's how they feel. We have to understand their side. I'm tired.

Tired I'm having to say I'm not a racist. I'm not a bigot. Tired of it. It's been real. But I feel. I feel. My side. How about feeling my side?

I'm tired of having to say I'm not a racist. You know better. But by saying that, apparently I am. So when you hear blue lives matter, black lives matter, all lives matter, do they? Do they? In the next 19 seconds, you could sell your home. Okay, I mean, it's not going to sell your home, I mean this, but it's, it's not going to sell your home. I mean this, but you're going to take a big step toward getting it sold.

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