#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Dismissals & firings over Daunte Wright shooting, Probe into Nazario traffic stop; US: Pause J&J vax

Episode Date: April 14, 2021

4.13.21 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Dismissals & firings over Daunte Wright police shooting, Investigation into Caron Nazario traffic stop; CDC and FDA recommended J&J vax Pause; WTH?!? An Illinois high school football player was forced to sit in a locker filled with hanging banana peels; President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus today to discuss critical issues; Will Smith pulled production of his new movie, Emancipation out of Georgia because of their voter suppression laws; Jamie Foxx dishes on new Netflix show, 'Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me'. Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered or via PayPal ☛https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered#RolandMartinUnfiltered is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The black mayor is now in charge of the police department. We'll tell you all the details, including the removal of a certain flag atop the police department, replaced with an American flag. In Virginia, the state's attorney general wants personnel records of the two officers accused of pepper spraying and pointing their guns at a black U.S. Army lieutenant. Karan Nazario, of course, took place in a traffic stop. Karan Nazario filed a federal lawsuit against them.

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Center Police Department effectively immediately. I've loved every minute of being a police officer and serving this community to the best of my ability, but I believe it is in the best interest of the community, the department, and my fellow officers if I resign immediately. Sincerely, Officer Kim Potter. At a news conference today, the mayor announced that the chief has also resigned. We're going to show you some of what took place at the news conference watch this let me be very clear um i my position is that uh we cannot afford to make mistakes that lead to uh the loss of life uh of of other people in in our profession and so i do fully support uh releasing the officer of her duties. All right, folks, that was the wrong video there. We're going to queue up for you. The video from today's news conference. It was a lot of moving developments today

that took place today in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. The protests have continued there in Brooklyn Center. It took place all day there. And it has been an extremely, extremely busy day. Folks continue to demand significant changes take place in Brooklyn City. Not just with, of course, the case of the officer and the chief, but also how they conduct themselves at the news conference today. One of the things the chief made clear at the city council passed a resolution that stated that the police department cannot use tear gas or rubber bullets in dealing with protesters there in Brooklyn Center. That was important because protesters said that they were condemning, frankly, they were condemning the actions of the police department when it came to when it came to dealing with

the protesters. And so that was one of the moves. And this followed the city council firing, if you will, firing the city manager and then giving the mayor the power to take charge of the police department. A lot of different things going. He made it perfectly clear that they want to have the trust of the community as much as they could. And so, again, that's what took place today. Here's the tweet that went out yesterday. Effectively, immediately, our city manager has been relieved of his duties.

The deputy city manager will be assuming his duties moving forward. I will continue to work my hardest to ensure good leadership at all levels of our city government. That is Mayor Mike Elliott. As I said, he was, you know, he was very calm, very cool, collected today at his news conference. But he is facing a lot of pressure to really make some serious changes there in Brooklyn City as speaking out about what took place and what needs to happen. And they're saying that they simply cannot accept this excuse that what took place was a mistake. As they said, their son will not come back to life as a result. This is why, here's the mayor right here speaking about why she resigned and why Kim Potter wasn't fired. In order for us to make that decision, we were going through our own

processes to make sure that internally we had all of the documentation in order in order to be able to do that. But, you know, the officer resigned. And so we have that resignation at this moment. In order for us to. So that was again, that was Mike Gillian speaking today at at the news conference. As I said, protests have continued all throughout Brooklyn City. It took place last night as well. And so this here was video from last night's protest. As you see, officers there in the gear lined up. And so folks have been demanding, again, there to be significant changes that take place. I'm going to pull up some other additional video from the news conference. I want to bring in my panel right now to talk about this here, talk about several other different things that took place in the news conference.

Joining us right now is Mustafa Santiago Ali, of course, a Ph.D., a former senior advisor with the EPA, Environmental Justice. Benjamin Dixon, host of the Benjamin Dixon Show podcast, Kelly Bethea, communications strategist. One of the things that happened today, Benjamin, is that the mayor also made it clear that he would like for the attorney general to take over, the attorney general, Keith Ellison, to assume command of this particular case, saying it would be only fair and just. Of course, Attorney General Keith Ellison took charge of the case of the officers who killed

George Floyd. So just your thoughts on just the rapidly changing developments in Brooklyn City, Minnesota. Yeah, the mayor has a balancing act that he has to take right now. And I think he's doing the best that he can do considering the demand for justice from all across the country. And so to leave things static would be a problem because of the implications of everything that's happening around the country. I think it was a smart move to call on Keith Ellison to step in because we can't leave the city police to investigate themselves because we've seen so many times that that leads to no justice whatsoever. And if we're lucky, we may get some justice now that it's in the hands of the attorney general.

First of all, Kelly, to have them again, chief resigns, the officer who shot and killed Wright resigns, firing the city manager. This mayor is not playing around when it comes to making immediate changes. Normally, we see a lot slower response from elected leadership, especially in a very small town. Well, they can't afford to have small and slow changes, especially in this jurisdiction and in this state in particular, because to my understanding, this is about the third one in less than five years. You have this one, you have George Floyd, of course, from last year, and then you have Philando Castile from a couple of years prior. And all three of these are incidents where Black men were shot down, unnecessarily so, at the hands of brazen, overzealous, over-policing police. So the mayor and the powers that be

in this particular jurisdiction in Minnesota, they understand that. And they also understand the crap, not the crowd, but the response from the court of public opinion regarding these matters. And what they don't want is basically another uprising, another, you know, streak of protests and and damage to properties and things like that. I'm not saying that is worse than the shooting, but from a government administrative perspective, I can see how that is one of their priorities in making sure the entire community is safe.

So kudos to the mayor of this town for just basically expediting the process and draining the swamp of these people who are low-key responsible for police officers like this being on the street. Mustafa, one of the things we also heard in the news conference, people were talking about the need for Brooklyn City cops to live in the city. And so the mayor was talking about, again, a number of things they're looking at changing in the city. Yeah, folks are looking for systemic change. And that means from the top all the way down, you know, whether you're talking about training, when you're talking about the movement of resources to other forms that help to build trust with the community and help to make sure there's better policing that's actually

happening, that actually has the community as a driver and a framer in that. And when you don't do that, you know, we continue to see these types of not just egregious behaviors, but the sacrificing of black men that continues to happen, you know, not just there in that state, but across our country. So folks want systemic change. And when you clean house, as he did, you know, it shows that that's the first step in that process. The harder set of work is actually how you begin to root out the systemic racism and biases that are inside of your police department and the new sets of actions that have the voices of communities as a part, as a driver in that. Here is something else that came up in that news conference, Benjamin. This video here, it shows this blue line flag that was flying outside of the police department. That angered a lot of people, and they said that flag must come down.

And today, the mayor announced that flag has indeed come down, and it is only the United States flag that is flying in front of that police department. Speak to that and what that means for the mayor to say that that flag has to come down in order to engender trust in this community. Well, first and foremost, the mayor is taking on the entire police department by giving them the instructions to take it down, which is the right thing to do, because that flag is kind of just kind of in place of what they really want to fly with a Donald Trump flag or or even a Confederate flag, because that's what it symbolizes. And it symbolizes the brutality and the oppression that comes from the police department as it pertains to black people specifically and black men even more particularly. And so for them to fly it, it was a sign to the entire country that they really did not give a damn about what was going on or the life that they took. And it's only fitting that the mayor told them to take it down. But it never needs to go back up across any police station across this country ever again. Of course, there was a news conference that also took place outside today. There he is,

Attorney Ben Crump, who's been hired by the Wright family to represent them. You have this 26 year veteran on the police force who was training them, Brandon Trey. She was the trainer of the officers. And so for 26 years, you know how you're trained that your duty weapon is on your dominant side and your taser is on your non-dominant side. And why is that? Because it's foreseeable that in an estrogen situation, if the taser is beside the gun, you might pull the wrong thing. But after 26 years, you would think that you know what side your gun is on and what side your taser is on. You know the weight of your gun and you know the weight of the taser. You know the gun is black. You know the taser is going to have some reflective color on it. And so it is unacceptable. It was intentional they stopped him.

It was intentional they used the most force. They could have gave him a ticket. That's what they do in traffic citations. It reminds you of George Floyd. That was a misdemeanor. They could have gave him a ticket for that. But when it's black people in America, they engage in the most use of force and it ends up with deadly consequences. Now, right was initially stopped again, folks, for having an air freshener hanging in his car.

Minnesota is one of several states that prohibits hanging anything from a vehicle's rearview mirror that might obstruct a driver's vision. Now, one of the things that's interesting here, Kelly, is that stories have been done where police have actually said that one of the things that they've done is they've used these type of laws to make arrests when it comes to drugs and things along those lines. Despite all these right wing people out here who are trying to pose to say, oh, he was pulled over because he had a warrant. No, that wasn't the case. He was pulled over because of the air freshener. Once they stopped him, then they then ran his name and realized there was a warrant. Now we are seeing information that the warrant was problematic because they sent the notice for his hearing to the wrong address. So there shouldn't have even been a warrant for his arrest because the court screwed up. So this is a perfect example of how screwed up this system is. The fact that even with technology being as quick as it is, such that

you can figure out when a warrant is issued or the like by way of computer in your police car, it is still an issue in which correcting that warrant doesn't get to you in time and just in terms of warrantless searches and the like again to the system being frankly just screwed up um but more pointedly let's just say there was no warrant involved and he was just pulled over for the air freshener in his car which is from what you just said the initial reason he was stopped. To get from that point to the death of a young man shouldn't be that close. Those two points should be so far on opposite sides of the spectrum, it's ridiculous. But unfortunately, because he's a Black man, it's as close as A and B. So we have a problem in this country. But right now we have just an

immediate problem with police over policing black bodies. And in Minnesota, again, like I said previously, this is the third one in less than five years. So they have a huge, huge problem. And of course, Mustafa, this police department, this city is going to be facing a huge, huge problem. And of course, Mustafa, this police department, this city is going to be facing a huge, huge lawsuit, especially when you factor in not just the shooting, but also if Ben Krupp and his legal team are able to show that that warrant was sent to the wrong address and that supposedly precipitated all of this, yeah, this city is going to be paying a substantial amount of money to the Wright family. When Ben Crump comes for you, what you going to do? You know what you're going to do. You're

going to end up having to pay a whole lot of money for these injustices that continue to happen. You know, it's amazing that when it comes to our black lives, when they have value is when folks can make money off of us. And what I mean by that is when you have these jurisdictions across the country who set up these spaces where they have these traffic stops, as we talked about, where they increase the amount of tickets that go out because it helps to fund many of their sets of activities that they then flip back into our communities. But our lives have very little meaning and very little value when it comes to, you know, many of these police departments across the country when it comes

to actually making sure that justice is happening and that we're not being used in so many forms and fashions. And again, and for the folks who don't quite understand, I keep seeing these comments on social media, especially on our chat boards. Folks, let's be real clear here. Ben Crump and the civil rights lawyers, they can't prosecute cops. Only DAs can. They are hired by the family to actually negotiate settlements now if it means taking it to trial they'll do so 99% of the time they're not going to trial so I wish all of these people stop saying this stupid stuff Oh Ben Crump keeps losing cases. Y'all, they can't prosecute cops. They can't. They aren't prosecutors. Okay. So understand what the law is, what the roles of

lawyers are. They are hired by the family to represent them in civil suits against cities, police departments and individuals. So I just need people to stop sitting here and posting that nonsense because clearly a bunch of y'all don't understand what the jobs are of individuals. And so please, so please stop with stop with the nonsense. OK, let's just stop it. Folks, big news out of the FDA today. They announced that they're putting a stop, a halt right now to the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine because six cases of blood clots forming. Now, some people are saying, okay, what's the big deal? Six cases. You've had seven million doses that actually have been administered. Well, here's a statement from Jonathan Johnson. The safety and well-being of the people who use our products is our number one priority.

We are aware of an extremely rare disorder involving people with blood clots in combination with low platelets and a small number of individuals who have received our COVID-19 vaccine. The United States Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration are reviewing data involving six reported US cases out of more than 6.8 million doses administered. Out of an abundance of caution, the CDC and FDA have recommended a pause in the use of our vaccine. Dr. Tate's course, in addition,

we've been reviewing these cases with European health authorities. We have made the decision to proactively delay the rollout of our vaccine in Dr. Tate's course, in addition, we've been reviewing these cases with European health authorities. We have made the decision to proactively delay the rollout of our vaccine in Europe. We have been working closely with medical experts and health authorities, and we strongly support the open communication of this information to health care professionals and the public. OK, the CDC and FDA have made information available about proper recognition and management due to the unique treatment required with this type of blood clot. The health authorities advise that people who have received our COVID-19 vaccine and develop severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath within three weeks after vaccination should contact their health care provider. We're joined now by Dr. Taysen Bell. He's a critical care and infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Bell, you, you, Dr. Ebony Hilton and others participate. You took the one of the covid vaccines early. If I'm correct, you get the Pfizer shot, right? That's right. OK, so you get the Pfizer shot. I completed my second Moderna shot on Friday. So explain to the people, all these, these armchair, you know, doctors out here. Uh, I saw this ridiculous tweet from, uh, from, uh, Nate, uh, silver, uh, of course, who's supposed to be a poster expert complaining that this makes no sense to not administer this. And this is going to cause people not to trust the vaccine when only six people have developed blood clots out of 6.8 million doses being administered. Was this a smart decision by the FDA, the CDC and Johnson and Johnson? And explain what this means.

Well, I will say that my initial reaction to the news was similar to yours, that this is a rare circumstance. The vaccine clearly has a benefit when it comes to protecting from death from COVID-19. But as I understood the decision-making process behind it, I came around and I actually agree and think it's the right decision for three main reasons. So first, you did mention the incidence of these blood clots are very rare, about one in a million. But it is important for clinicians to know how to treat them because they're normal heparin products we would use for blood clots are very rare, about one in a million. But it is important for clinicians to know how to treat them because the normal heparin products we would use for blood clots, they could potentially make this worse. So it's important to get that information out.

Second, the pause allows for us to really take a look at a focused way to get more information. There might be more cases. We don't know at this point. I hope there aren't a lot more. But it allows a chance to really take a look at the data and see if there are more cases or if there are different kinds of people. The cases that were described were all in women between the ages of 18 and 48 years old, but we may be able to learn some more information. And then the third, we've talked so much about how speed and equity are really priorities for the vaccine rollout, but really at the end of the day,

we need to make sure that this is a safe and effective product. And the vaccine monitoring system that the CDC put in place, it worked exactly the way it's supposed to. And when we see these signals, even if they're rare, if they're potentially fatal, it's something that we should look into. And ultimately, that's how we ensure that there's vaccine confidence in the public. Okay. And so in reading that, when I hear reading that, when, when, when I hear that, I mean, what they're saying is like, Hey folks, how we normally treat blood clots, not working. So we got to take, we got to walk ourself away through this. Uh, and again, for the people who say, Oh, you know, you know, this, this, this, this is a shame. It's going to

cause people not to trust vaccines. First of all, we have three. That's Moderna. There's Johnson & Johnson. There's, of course, Pfizer. And then in Europe is AstraZeneca, correct? That's right. Okay. And so this to me are folks saying, hey, no, we're going to be extra cautious. Let's study the data. That's right. I don't believe that pausing the rollout for Johnson & Johnson is an indictment of the vaccine. It's really an effort to make sure that we're being very careful in investigating the data to make sure that we understand fully what this rare complication is.

And then ultimately, I don't anticipate that it'll be pulled completely, but I do think that there may be an adjustment into which patient populations it'll be recommended for who may be at higher risk of this rare complication. All right, then. Dr. Tyson-Bell, we certainly appreciate it. Thank you so very much for letting us know about this. And again, look, I've encouraged folks to take the vaccine. There are a lot of people out there who say, hey, you know, I don't want to. But the bottom line is this year, we see what this what this has done to a lot of people. I was reading a tweet the other day from Dr. Walter Kimbrough, who was the president of Dillard University. He announced on March 28th that his brother, who was 51 years old, had gotten COVID.

Yesterday, he tweeted his brother had passed away as a result. And because he said he had a pre-existing condition, he was obese, he developed blood clots as a result of COVID and passed away just a few days later. Exactly. The risk of COVID-19 far outweighs the potential risk of the vaccines at this point. Your risk of getting a blood clot from having COVID is around one in five or 20 percent. So, you know, these are sorts of things we need to keep in mind. But at the end of the day, we want to make sure that every product that's out there is safe. All right, then, Dr. Bell, thanks a lot. Thank you. All right, folks, got to go to a break. We come back. We're going to talk about today's developments in the Derek Chauvin trial. The man, of course, who killed George Floyd. That is next on Roland Martin Unfiltered.

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Well, former House Speaker John Boehner called Senator Ted Cruz Lucifer in an interview yesterday on The View. He talked about him being a complete ass and just being, frankly, an evil person no one likes. Well, this is Senator Ted Cruz's response to that Michael Vick commercial we just showed you, dealing with Georgia voter suppression put out by the folks with more than a vote. Cruz tweeted, if you like killing puppies, this might be persuasive. That's what that fool said. The same man who abandoned Texas, of course, in the middle of a winter storm where Texans died.

You know, bottom line here, Mustafa, Ted Cruz, grossly unlikable. Very few people will actually say positive stuff about him. Now, he's all happy because he announced today he raised something like $5 million in his war chest. He's frankly an embarrassment to me, being a native Texan. You will never hear me call him my senator at all. He's a complete suck up to Donald Trump. The man talked, called your wife ugly, accused your dad of killing Lee Harvey Oswald. He still kissed his chapped ass. So. And so now he wants to sit here and complain about Michael Vick. Oh, really?

Ted Cruz, whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to have any moniker of respect for somebody who doesn't stand up for their wife, doesn't stand up for communities. You know, he he's actually played a role. You know, you make a choice which side of the equation you want to be on. You know, he was one of those folks was out there when covid-19 was at the height of the pandemic. And of course, we still have serious impacts going on, who was pretty much, you know, saying it was a hoax and not putting action behind it. We got to remember, this is a senator. He has some power. So he could have very easily, you know, got together with others and began to have the right conversations and say, hey, we need to make sure that these dollars are inside of these relief bills to actually make sure that, you know, black and brown and indigenous folks actually have what

they need to be protected. But he never did that. And you can go down a laundry list of things from voting to jobs to a number of other issues where he's always been on the wrong side of history. So you don't really get a chance to have a real conversation because you've ignored them and you've tried to shy away from some of the most important issues of our time. This right here, Kelly, is a tweet LeBron James issued four hours ago in response to Ted Cruz. It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have, quoting James Baldwin. This is Ted Cruz we're talking about. I have absolutely no respect

for this man, if you want to call him that at all. This is the same man who literally ditched his state in a time of crisis a couple months ago to go to Mexico because his wife and kids were cold and then decided to come back from that trip early, making it look like, oh, I was just dropping off my kid and wife in Mexico, but I'm going to brave the cold. Like he, he is a coward to the nth degree. He is, you know, he's a cretin in every sense of the word. So the fact that he is once again opening his mouth just to spew bile is not surprising because that is his M.O. That is all he does, all he can do and all he's really good for. That is all he's good for. And again, the man is is just beyond shameful, despicable.

No one can trust him at all. And I must say that exchange, Benjamin, on The View, I thought was perfect. This is Speaker former Speaker John Boehner talking about Senator Ted Cruz. Your animosity for Senator Ted Cruz. But you take it to the. Level in the book writing, quote, there's nothing more dangerous than a reckless. Beep, who thinks he's smarter than everyone else, unquote. Now, you say even Mitch McConnell hated him with a passion. Not sure I have some issues here, but let me see if I can get this queued up right.

Let's see if this works. Trying to play this because the sound bite is actually just perfect in talking about Ted Cruz uh so hopefully I can get this uh get this straight here uh but uh I mean my goodness the guy is just insufferable uh I think we got it now go but you take it to the next level in the book writing quote there's nothing more dangerous than a reckless beep who thinks he is smarter than everyone else, unquote. Now you say even Mitch McConnell hated him with a passion I didn't know Mitch had in him. And we hear you ad lib some rather colorful commentary we can't repeat here when you recorded the audio book portion about him. What is it about Cruz that gets you so fired

up because Cruz says you're obsessed with him? Well, this guy was not even a member of the U.S. House. He's a member of the Senate. And he's coming over to the House side of the Capitol, storing up some of my knuckleheads and pushing them to do things about the dumbest things I've ever seen in my life. And he's not even a member of our caucus. And so it's just a bit bizarre that I've never quite seen anything happen before or since, like the activities of Ted Cruz. And, you know, I don't really beat up too many people in this book, except one. Ted Cruz, Lucifer in the flesh.

Oh, yes, we will be back. We will be back with former Speaker John Boehner when we come, when we return. He does not hold back. Hey, Lucifer in the flesh. Love it, man. Yeah, no, that's a great soundbite. I wish John Boehner would have done something about it while he was Speaker of the House. I wish that John Boehner would have spoken about that while he had power to influence the outcome of some of these elections, because if he's really a patriot, then he would have stepped up and helped rid ourselves of

Lucifer in the flesh. Now, that said, he's describing Ted Cruz to the T. And this is a scenario where you see two people like John Boehner saying all the things that we want to hear, but I let them fight because they continue to allow these type of Republicans. Tom Cotton is not just Ted Cruz, it's Tom Cotton. It's all across the board where Republicans are destroying our democracy in real time. And we have to wait till John Boehner's book come out before he says something that actually could impact that last election. And so if y'all want to laugh, y'all, OK, so let's talk about the the election here. Now, first off, let's talk about Georgia, where Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua have announced that they are removing, removing the shooting production of their film Emancipation in Georgia. Here's what their statement they released. At this moment in time, the nation is coming to terms with this history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice. We cannot in good conscience provide

economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access. The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state. Well, that didn't sit so well with Alan West, a native of Georgia, who now is the chair of the Texas Republican Party. So he decides to put this video out and it says, go ahead, go to the video, please. Alan West responds to, go to the video, thank you. Alan West responds to Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua, and Roland S. Martin.

Really? Hey, greetings, everyone. Lieutenant Colonel Alan West. You know, I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and I just heard some news. And it has to do with the Hollywood movie industry. And as you may not know, Georgia has become one of the largest movie production facilities and studios in the United States of America. I think it's second or third after Hollywood. Well, I just found out that Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua, I believe, they have decided that they are going to move their movie Emancipation,

it's supposed to be a drama about slavery, out of Georgia in protest of the Georgia voting law. I find it very interesting that Will Smith and Mr. Fuqua wanted to do this because, well, the Republicans were the ones that stood up and fought against slavery. As a matter of fact, if you go back and look at the history of the Democrat Party, all this talk about Jim Crow, those were the Democrats that implemented the policy of Jim Crow, segregation, slavery, whatever you want to call it. And they continue today with the soft bigotry of low expectations. But when you think about this move, emancipation, well, that word has a lot of meaning because

of the Emancipation Proclamation that was signed because of a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. And they're in the state of Georgia. Mr. Smith, I want you to remember that the very first member of the United States House of Representatives that was black, well, he was a Republican from Georgia, Mr. Jefferson Long. So I think maybe you should look at your history and make sure that you get it right. And oh, by the way, hey, Will, show me where you can go without an ID. I don't even think you can get on an airplane without an identification. I know that I can.

Now, does that mean that these airlines are racist? And when you look at the Georgia election law, there are many other states controlled by Democrats. They have election laws that are far more restrictive and stringent. So again, all of this background noise that we hear from these Hollywood elites, these corporate fascist oligarchs, it doesn't have a hill of beans of a meaning to any of us. And oh, by the way, Roland Martin, I think you call me gutless for not standing up and speaking out against voter laws.

Well, guess what? I fought in countries where we want to make sure that they had honest, free and fair elections. And I will continue to fight for the exact same here in these United States of America. God bless y'all. Bye bye. Hmm. Really, Allen West. Now, let me show y'all this here. I issued a response to Allen West, and I put this on Twitter.

And then Allen decided to, let me just show you what he posted in response. Let me see if I can find it here. He, let's see here, right here. So a couple of hours ago, Allen called my response nuts. Go ahead and show it, please. Thank you. Nuts. All right. So here's what happened. My booker, my booker, Jackie Clark, Jackie called Allen West. I have his number. Called Allen West. You know what? Why don't I just call Allen right now? Allen West speaking. Allen, Roland Martin, I'm on the air. Let's talk about voter suppression in Georgia and Texas.

There ain't no voter suppression, brother. There's no voter suppression? Allen, let me ask you a question. No. If the Republicans had won, Allen just hung up, y'all. Allen just won. See, here's what I was going to ask Allen West. had won, if the Republicans had won, would any of these bills be passed?

It's a very simple question. It's a very simple question. Would any of these bills have been passed in Georgia? The answer is no. None of them would be passed. Not a single one. See, and let me show y'all how they're trying to play the game here. You saw in the video where Allen

West says in the video where Allen West says in a video, Allen West says, oh, voter ID. See, they want everybody to think the bill is only about voter ID. It's not. What Allen West, native of Georgia, will not tell you, why are they placing the mail drop boxes inside of the voting location? Which means that when the voting location is closed, you can't drop your ballot off. What they will not tell you is why are they making it illegal for, let's say I was registered in Georgia and my mama and daddy were registered in Georgia and my mama and daddy filled their form out and said, son take this with you and drop it off. The law says

I cannot drop off my mama and daddy's absentee ballot why what's the problem they have restricted the number of drop boxes Allen West then says in his video, oh, there are many more states in America led by Democrats with far more restrictive voting requirements in Georgia. Name them. I've heard y'all say New York State and guess what? Progressives and liberals have been fighting for years to change the voting laws in New York state for that very reason.

And they were successful in the last session. But I find it interesting, Alan West. Y'all keep talking about Colorado having fewer voting, fewer early voting days than Georgia. But y'all don't want to admit it's also because 90% of the people, 70 to 90% of the people in Colorado vote by mail, which y'all want to restrict. Allen West stopped lying. Allen West stopped lying. Allen West stopped lying. So now let me deal with how folk like you want to cloak yourselves in the Republican

Party of the past. Oh, it is factually correct, Allen West, that the Radical Republicans were the ones who were fighting slavery. It is correct that the radical Republicans were the ones who led the 13th and 14th and 15th Amendment. Oh, it's absolutely correct. And it was indeed the Southern Dixiecrats who were racist and wanting to keep slavery.

Hmm. But Alan, after 1964, I'm sorry, Alan, was it a Southern Democrat or was it a Western Republican who supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act? I'll wait. Fact, Alan. It was Southern Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson who shepherded the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And then it was Barry Goldwater who then wrote a book that flipped the Republican Party. And then the Republican Party then begin to oppose civil

rights in a significant way. Correct me if I'm wrong, Allen West, but was it not a Republican candidate named Ronald Reagan who stood for states' rights and was very much anti-civil rights? Was it not a Republican President Allen West and Ronald Reagan who opened his campaign in the same location, Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were found. If I am correct, it was the same Republican, Ronald Reagan, who gave that particular speech on the issue of states' rights. Correct me if I am wrong, Allen West. Was it not Republican Ronald Reagan who then viciously attacked civil rights organizations? Then he used that BS nonsense of a welfare queen to attack black people. Was it not Republican president Ronald Reagan, Allen West, who would not condemn the racist apartheid regime in South Africa? Was it not Republican

president Ronald Reagan who vetoed the bill to place sanctions against South Africa and that veto was overwritten by Congress. Was that not a Republican, Allen West, who did that in Ronald Reagan? Would you like for me to continue, Alan West? Would you like for me to pull the audio tapes of Republican strategist Lee Atwater, who ran the presidential campaign of Vice President George H.W. Bush? The same Lee Atwater who was named chair of the Republican National Committee. Do you really want to have this conversation with me about race and the modern day Republican Party, Alan West? Since you want to cloak yourself in what Republicans did during slavery and doing the civil rights movement by all means. Let me show this here.

The Lee at water tapes. Let me Google that. Do you really want to go there? Alan West. I don't think you do. I don't think you do. I don't think you do. Because, see, here's a headline right here. Lee Atwater, the dark and they did not have to use racist language.

They substituted certain words that serve the same purpose. Alan, you open this can of whip ass. I didn't. Do you disavow what Lee Atwater did? Do you disavow the Willie Horton ad? Do you disavow the racism of Strom Thurmond, Democrat who led the Southern Manifesto in 1948 where they unfurled the Confederate flag? What did he later become? The Republican senator from South Carolina? Republican Allen West. Do I need to go through Allen West, the number of Republicans in my state of Texas and where you now are the head of the Texas Republican Party? Matter of fact, let me just go ahead and do this here.

Let's see. Go to. No, come on. Go to my computer, please. Here we go. Let's see. Texas GOP chairs and racism. Hmm. Allen West, since you won't open this can of whoop ass. Here we go. This is the headline from the Texas Tribune from June 6, 2020. Conspiracy theories and racist memes. How a dozen Texas GOP county chairs caused turmoil within the party. On Friday morning, five GOP county chairs were facing backlash for sharing racist social media posts. The Texas Tribune identified seven other GOP county chairs across the state who shared similar posts.

This is why I called you gutless, Alan West. I called you gutless because you won't say jack about voter suppression. I called you gutless, Alan West, because you want us to accept that, oh, it's the Democrats and oh, what they did. Oh, and by the way. You commented about the first member of the House being elected to Congress there from Georgia. But I noticed something, Allen West. You failed to say what the black Republicans said. When they were run out of Congress.

You failed to mention. When the Republican Party agreed to the 1877 compromise and the black Republicans said they were abandoned by their own party for political interest. See, Alan, I'm a real Texan. You ain't from Texas. You were born in Georgia, represented Congress in Florida. You went to Tennessee and you just moved to Texas a few years ago. I'm born and bred.

Mama and daddy born and bred. Maternal grandparents moved there in the 1930s. Daddy's folk from Texas. I'm fourth generation Texan. See, Alan, we got a slogan in Texas that I think applies to you. All hat and no cattle. All hat and no cattle. See, you don't really want to debate me on this, do you?

See, Alan, the previous times you came on my show, you were thoughtful, reasonable, but then I would see you on Fox News, and then you'd be talking crazy. Because, see, you knew that bullshit couldn't fly with me. Because you knew I would have smoked it out

in a heartbeat. So Alan, you can talk big on YouTube. You can bump your gums with all your Republicans. But you know why you're not going to come here Alan. You are not going to come on this show., you know, I do not allow lies to stand. You know, I will walk down every single Republican lie when it comes to voter suppression. I'm going to end it on this one here, Alan West. There are a lot of black Republicans who I know.

And there are a lot of black Republicans who I know and respect. And there are black Republicans, Alan, afraid of kissing Donald Trump's ass. They don't need to do that. I'm going to show you one of them, Allen West. And in fact, you, Allen West, said you serve this country. So did this brother. Last I checked, you don't have one star.

He's got four. Allen West, this right here is a black Republican who was willing to tell his party the truth and not be afraid. This right here is a black Republican who stood up at a CEO forum form in North Carolina in 2013 with the Republican governor in attendance and blasted the governor for signing a voter suppression deal. And he was sitting in the audience. Go back to my computer. Alan West. This is what this black Republican, this black Republican veteran, this black Republican four star general had to say. It immediately turns off a voting block the Republican Party needs. These kinds of actions do not build on the base. It is just turns people away.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult the vote. Political wrote, go back. Politico wrote, the bill requires voters to show government issued ID, shortens early voting and ends pre-registration for teens, among other changes. Thursday, Powell said the bill sends a bad message to minorities. What it really says to the minority voters is we really are sort of punishing you. Powell also took aim at defenders of the law, folk like you, Allen West, including McCrory, who say such restrictions are necessary to stop voter fraud,

which is hard to detect. Quote, you can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud, Colin Powell said. How can it be widespread and undetected? So you see, Allen West. I don't dislike all black Republicans. I only call out those who are gutless. I only call out those who are gutless. I only call out those like you.

Who don't stand up for black people. Who are willing to be apologists for white conservative Republicans. Who fear the power of a changing America. Alan, maybe you need this job. It's a shame that you do. Because what it really says, Alan, is that you really don't care about the people. You say,

and you did, you did indeed join. You did indeed join the military and you said to fight for the right to vote. But it's clear. It's real clear, Alan, that you only fought for it for some people, not all. And Alan, I want you to know something. If you continue to stay the course, I want you to understand that history will remember you well. And Alan, here's my advice.

Don't go down in history like this brother right here. Do you really want, Alan, when breath has left Vernon Jones, Alveda King, Marge Ture, Candace Owens, Folk like Deontay Johnson. Do y'all want to be known as 21st century Isaiah T. Montgomery's? Who is Isaiah T. Montgomery? who was a delegate to the Mississippi 1890 Constitutional Convention, where they were so sick and tired of black people being elected to office that they changed the law and Isaiah T. Montgomery actually voted with those white races to disenfranchise black voters and ever since 1890 not a single African American has been elected statewide in Mississippi. Allen only you can decide if you want history to say you have the courage to be

a truth teller to your party like four-star general Colin Powell or they will simply say Allen West was nothing more than a 21st century Isaiah T. Montgomery. What are you prepared to do? I'll be back in a moment. Who needs a little love today? Who needs some love sent their way? Who needs love?

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Hi, I'm Chaley Rose, and you're watching Roland Martin Unfiltered. I'm not at all interested, Ben Dixon, in playing games with these folk. Ben, did you hear me? I'm sorry. Say that again, Roland. I said I'm not at all interested in playing games with these folk. No, not at all. Not at all.

I was tweeting while you were doing your monologue because I couldn't believe Allen And he was a really good step and fetch it type of Republican for the black face of white supremacy. And that's what he did. And I've been waiting for somebody to take him to task. But for you to call him in real time, I got to salute you, Roland. That was that was some G stuff right there. Well, I just I'm just not playing these games with him, Kelly, because, again, I ain't got no problem debating any of them. Matter of fact, and I keep telling these folk, I ain't scared to go to Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, none of them. Because, see, they cannot defend lies. They can try.

But when you're armed with truth, they can't handle that. That's why they always go back to ID, ID. We ain't talking about ID. We're talking about all the other stuff that's in the bill. They don't want to discuss all that. It is really interesting to me how Republicans' main talking point, especially when it comes to Black Republicans and white Republicans who are trying to appease two Black people, the first thing is Lincoln freed the slaves. Republicans did this. Republicans did this for Black people. Republicans did that for Black people. Why aren't you on our side? And they conveniently forget that join this party that is historically, from 1960s on, completely adverse to Black issues and racist and not in alignment with what we need and what we want from this country. When it comes to this bill, I mean, it doesn't make sense to me because, well, for me, I use logic. So Republicans don't necessarily use logic in this regard.

But it does not make sense to me how they are still adamant about defending it such that they are making it almost insulting on their end that anybody's opposed to it. And it is peak gaslighting from this party to the American people for them to purport, especially Georgia, for Georgia's legislature to purport that this bill is fair and that Republicans down there are really about free and fair elections. It is absolutely ridiculous. And you pretty much said anything and everything that I was going to say in your Roland rant, as I like to call them, because it is it is ridiculous. is they are used to folk cowering from them. They're used to people, oh, no, no, not want to engage. I'm real simple. Bring your ass.

Bring your ass. I take you on anywhere. I take on... Mustafa, when I was at CNN, I remember one day they were going to have me and James Carville, I think it was with Wolf and Bill Bennett, and Bill,

punk-ass Bill Bennett. No, that's three against one. That's unfair. I was like, man, I'll take on five of y'all. I said, take on five of y'all. I said, that's unfair for y'all. See, when you got, when you know what's right, it don't matter how many y'all, it don't matter to me. See, first of all, what he understand is James Carver, a hardcore Democrat. I'm not. So depending on what came up, I disagree with James.

James Carville was full of shit the other day for his nonsense about identity politics and defunding police. I swing on James Carville. I ain't got no problem. I was on Martha's Vineyard. Alan Dershowitz said some crazy stuff. I whooped his ass right there on the panel. I whooped David Gardner right there on the panel. I whooped David Gurdon's ass on the panel. White liberal, white Republican, black Republican, black liberal, don't matter. If I disagree with you, I disagree with you. But see, they scared. They're scared. And see, that's why they're passing the laws in Texas.

The reason they are passing the laws because they are mad that Democrats, the 18 black women got elected, got elected judges. I was down there helping on one of them. She passed away. OK, pancreatic cancer. That's one. They're mad because Democrats came within five seats of taking over the Texas House. They mad that Beto only lost by two and a half points to Ted Cruz. They're mad. That's what they try. How are you going to sit here and outlaw mobile voting? How are you going to outlaw drive-thru voting? Explain to me the difference between sitting in my car and pulling up ID, fine. They check it.

A voter registration card. They check it. You approve. Here's your ballot. Vote. Hand it back. Go on about your way. No, no, no, no.

They whole deal is, no, you got to walk inside. Oh, then we're going to have one drop box for the whole damn county. Harris County, Texas is bigger than damn near half the East Coast. One for the whole county. That's the silliness these guys play. And again, they mad. Remember the video with Ludov before he got canned? Yelling at Stephen Miller why can't y'all go hire Mark Elias and pay him a bunch of money

because he's kicking y'all butt in court. Because he's right. And the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, they are right. The Transformative Justice Coalition. They are right. ACLU. They are right to fight these sick and demented Republicans. And all Allen West is doing is defending them and embarrassing the elders and the ancestors. I'm with you on that. You know, we are free black people.

And with that freedom comes our own ingenuity and innovation and the ways that we know that fairness is supposed to play out. And if you're not willing to do that and you want to go against that, then you're going to get to smoke. And I was sitting here enjoying your conversation with just calling out all the foolishness that Brother West was throwing up for folks. You can't come into this space and not be prepared to have a real conversation on the real facts, both on the historical side and what's happening in this moment. And the other thing that I would say to that is that we got far too many folks who are willing to sell their souls for a few pieces of silver, if you

will. And you see this dynamic playing out with individuals like him, where they are willing to sacrifice, literally willing to sacrifice their own people to get the admiration of folks who don't care about you. You're a puppet. They use you. And when they're done with you, they will throw you away. We saw Herman Cain, God rest his soul, when he was no longer of use. And when he got that COVID-19 virus, you didn't see anybody running over and giving him the same sets of treatments that President Trump got. So I say all that to say that the Republican Party has found itself out of step with America when it comes to issues around the environment, when it comes to issues around public health and making sure that everybody has access to health care. When you look at voting and a number of other issues, they're out of step.

So therefore, they've got to try and rig the game. And for them to rig the game, they've got to fool. So therefore, they got to try and rig the game. And for them to rig the game, they got to fool a part of the population into believing that they actually care and that they just have an alternative way of being able to get at things. But when you peel back the onion, all you see is antiquated ways of trying to suppress folks, whether it is their vote. And they know that their vote is tied to resources and their vote is also tied to power. And they don't want to give that up because they know America is changing. The culture of America is changing and the demographics of America is changing. And if they don't want to get in step, they will find out that their party is no longer needed

in the political conversations and the political sets of actions that our country will move on in the coming sets of decades. See y'all, now y'all understand. Alan's scared. I need an apology. He told my booker I need an apology for Roland Martin calling me gutless before I come on. Al, let me real clear. Hell can freeze over twice. And your ass will never get an apology for me calling you gutless. Now, maybe when you finally wake up and look in that mirror and discover who the Republican Party

is trying to keep from voting, and then you speak out on voter suppression, then I'm going to say, welcome back to the black community. Because see, right now, you ain't standing up for black folks. You standing up for white conservatives who are scared of losing. See, Alan, let me help you out here. I don't use, and I don't allow it. See, Alan, let me help you out here. I don't use, and I don't allow it. I don't call people sellouts. I don't call them Uncle Tom's. I don't call them Oreos. I don't call them

Coons. I don't use any of those derogatory names. And I don't allow them to be used on my show. But I will say you're gutless. I will say you're a coward. I will say you're weak. I will say you're impotent. All specifically related to your unwillingness, unwillingness to look your own party in the eye and say, if y'all want to win, win on ideas, win on policy.

Don't win by cheating. Don't win by rigging elections. So now y'all know why Allen West won't come on this show. Now all y'all know why Brandon Tatum threw out the challenge. He'd debate anybody

on George Floyd. I immediately raised my hand and his ass been running ever since. Now y'all know why Candace Owens been wanting to debate everybody. But she been running from me. Why Charlie Kirk won't come over here. Now y'all know why Malik Abdul stopped showing up.

Way too much heat. Now y'all know why a whole bunch of other Deontay Johnson, well he just so stupid I want to invite his dumb ass back. But now y'all know why folk like Vernon Jones and Bruce LaValle and Paris Denard and why these ridiculous black Republicans won't come actually talk to black people. Fools like Raynard Jackson.

Because we see through the grift game. We know the grift game. Game recognized game. They can't handle this black heat. They can't handle this black heat. They can't handle it. Because y'all do know. If you really want iron to be strong. You turn the heat up.

They ain't iron y'all. They more like rubber. And when heat hits rubber, it melts. They can't handle this heat. So y'all keep going to them other little shows where they allow your lies to stand. But if you decide to venture into this domain, I advise you to bone up and pack a lunch. You might have to pack dinner. So I'm going to stay on your ass.

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five days a week, Monday through Friday, six to eight p.m. Eastern. So please join our Bring the Funk fan club. Let's talk about the Derek Chauvin trial. Today was, of course, the day where the defense took their turn trying to defend him. And my God, was it unbelievable to listen to them try to have experts to say that George Floyd essentially killed himself?

Here's a roundup of today's testimony. Wrap up. Could you summarize the final opinions that you have made in this case? I felt that Officer Chauvin's interactions with Mr. Floyd were following his training, following current practices in policing, and were objectively reasonable. Thank you. I have no further questions. Are you aware of how the Minneapolis Police Department defines force? Not specifically, no. I would have a general understanding of it. Generally, would you agree, or based on your review, would you accept that the Minneapolis Police Department generally defines force to include restraint? It can.

A reasonable police officer would adhere to the policies of their own department. True? Yes. Can you undo your seatbelt, sir? Sir, passenger, can you undo your seatbelt? Go ahead and undo your seatbelt. I don't plan on shooting you. I'm just saying, just take your time

Okay, relax Just undo your seatbelt Let her take care of her guy Just keep your hands out where I can see them Hey Let me Keep your hands where I can fucking see them Okay, put them up on the dash.

Put them on the dash. I'm not going to shoot you. Put your hands on the dash. Put your hands on the dash. Last time I'm going to tell you that. It's simple. He keeps moving his hands around. He won't listen to what I have to say.

Okay? Put them on your head hands on top of your head. Put them on the top of your head. Open your mouth. Spit out what you got. Spit out what you got. I'm going to tase you. Spit it out. Don't you jerk away from me. Put your hands behind you. Okay, now slowly come on out. Okay, now slowly come on out. Put your hand under your hat. Okay, relax.

You're not going to get beat up or nothing. You just follow what we're asking you to do. I apologize, man. I apologize, man. I apologize. Your attention was focused on Mr. Floyd, correct? Yes, it was. And Mr. Floyd didn't drop dead while you were interacting with him, correct?

No. Thank you. Nothing further. Anything further? No, your honor. Well, you woke him up when the police officers walked up, correct? Yes. And so then he was awake.

Yes. You just want me to say yes or no? Explain what you want me to do. Well, explain. I want to explain everything. So when I tried to wake him up, he woke up the second time. I said, Floyd, the police is here. It's about the $20 bill. It wasn't real.

I kept saying, baby, get up. The police was out. So he looked, and we looked to the right and he had the police. He tapped on the window with a flashlight. And I'm like, Floyd. And so he turned back around again. He's like, what, what? And I was like, baby, that's the police. Open the door, roll down the window, whatever he told you to do. So he looked back and he instantly, when he seen the man, the man had the gun at the window when we looked back to him.

So he instantly grabbed the wheel and he was like, please, please don't kill me. Please, please don't shoot me. Don't shoot me. What did I do to you? Please don't kill me. Please don't shoot me. And I'm like, baby, it's not. You said explain what state he was in, sir.

I did. Explain what state he was in, sir. I did. Here's a book, man. Yeah, are you guys good with these two? I'm gonna double check. Here's a book. Here's a notebook, man. You wanna get his phone? Yeah. In the car?

Yeah, his right down. His phone. Yes, sir. He's already gone. He doesn't need his phone. Is that his phone? Put his phone. His phone, he's already gone, he doesn't need his phone. Is that his phone? Put his phone back. Yeah, put his phone back.

He's gone already, he went to a hospital. Are you sure? Yeah, put his phone back, that's it. You know I'm rough? Yeah. Okay, you might have called his family or something. I watch the whole thing. Yeah, I didn't.

What happened? I didn't talk to them yet, you're pardoned me. Okay, did you random though? Nope. No, random though. Nope. No, that man took our name. So I called it. Supposedly you're gonna have to talk to him. All right.

That's a partner of your partner. Is it? Yeah, he said they kept it. Yeah, I don't know. I tried, I told to get in the car. I tried, I told him he can't win. Go on, get in the car, I kept telling him. Okay.

Bro, you can't win, bro, get in the car. No problem. Cuz I know you can't win. I don't need anything from them. They're good? Yeah. Okay. All right, you guys are good.

Well, he said these two are good, but I'm not too sure about this. Can I check Sylvia's car? What? That's Sylvia's truck. That's our friend Sylvia. Okay. Ex-co-worker. But let me try, if I get her phone, I can call her and tell her, sir. The car is gonna stay put right here until we figure it out. Well, you better lock it cuz it's long sitting right there. No, no, it stay put. My partner's going to come back.

I don't know. I don't know what their plan is with the car. Hey, do you mind if I please just get his phone? Okay. I don't want you guys touching the car. He said we can go, man. Once you walked over to the far side of the road, over by the Dragon Walk, you could no longer see what was going on with Mr. Floyd. Yeah, yes. You indicated that the crowd was getting louder and more aggressive, correct? Yes.

But you knew that there were now four officers over at that scene, correct? Correct, yes. And so your main focus was on watching those passengers? Yes, in the car. And you assumed when you were doing that that those four officers were okay over there because there were four of them, correct? Yes. And if they had radioed for help, you would have heard it over your radio. Yes.

And they never radioed for help, did they? No. Benjamin, I don't know what in hell the defense is trying to lay out. First of all, you put an expert on the stand who hasn't familiarized themselves with the department's use of force. You might want to say, bro, read before you get on the stand. Yeah, that was pretty incoherent. Like if they were trying to paint a cohesive narrative, I think they failed spectacularly. The one thing that I feel like they were trying to do

is to show that this is I guess they were trying to show that this is kind of the state of mind that George Floyd was in in a previous encounter. But at the end of the day, their job is going to be to vilify George Floyd and to put him on trial. And I think they're easing their way into it. And the longer we go into this process, we're going to see them attack George Floyd's character more and more and more. And that's definitely something that I'm not looking forward to having to experience. And I'm sure nobody who saw that video is going to want to see this defense attorney attack George Floyd to where they're gearing up to. And again, they're going to have to figure out, Kelly, how to penetrate what the prosecution laid out of the previous two weeks, especially with their experts that made it

perfectly clear it was not drugs that killed George Floyd. So I was only able to see bits and pieces of the trial today. But one thing that I noticed was they had somebody on the stand testifying how it's possible that he suffered from something called excited delirium. And that was the cause of his death, as opposed to the fact that there was a knee on his neck and he died. And part of that theory is that, quote, suspects may have incoherent, maybe incoherent exhibit, extraordinary strength, et cetera, et cetera. And for me, it felt incredibly racist to imply that an apprehended, incapacitated Black man is still too strong for a trained police officer to control, especially when he was handcuffed on his stomach and in no way, in no position to be anything but under the control of Officer Chauvin. So the fact that they're even they're they are trying to use any theory, chip at anything that

the prosecution threw out to basically dissuade the jury from thinking that he actually died from a knee on his neck. When the video shows it, the experts told you, the witnesses saw it, and anything that the defense has coming down the pike to combat that is really just theory. It is complete conjecture. So as far as I'm concerned, they don't necessarily have a case, but because Chauvin is entitled to a defense, they got to make do with what they have, which is nothing. So hopefully, considering the fact that they do have nothing, he will be convicted the way he should be, the way that I expect him to be. And we can actually get on with possibly moving forward in a positive direction regarding criminal justice and repercussions for bad

policing. Mustafa. Yeah, I mean, they continue. What they're trying to do is to get one juror to have that reasonable doubt, and that's their whole game plan. But every one of the jurors have seen the video, and they've seen that George Floyd had his hands behind his back, handcuffed. He's on the ground and he died from asphyxiation. And the asphyxiation came from Derek Chauvin

placing his knee for a considerable amount of time. He didn't have a gun. He didn't have any weapons. He wasn't even resisting arrest. So their case is flimsy, but we also know how the court system works, and they're trying to get that one person. We just hope that every one of those jurors actually uses their minds, uses their hearts, and embraces the humanity that is supposed to be a part of the process. All right, folks, let's go to Illinois, where video of a black high school football player being forced to sit in a locker filled with hanging banana peels has emerged. His teammates threatened to break his knees if he did not do what they said. Watch this.

I break both the knees. Chair. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I break both your knees! Police are now investigating the incident, which took place at Moline High School after the video went viral on social media over the weekend.

Moline Police Chief Darren Galt confirmed the teammates said it was a joke among friends. Moline-Cole Valley School District is conducting its own investigation to determine if there were violations of school code or district policies. Also, folks, today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with key members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss critical issues like voting rights, racial equity, and how the infrastructure investments in the American Jobs Plan will advance racial equity and address historic inequities. Here's some of what President Joe Biden had to say. It's an honor to be with all of you today. And I know it's been a pretty painful week,

you know, with the loss we've had, you know, a good friend, S.J. Hastings, which I knew a long, long time. And to lose him is losing a piece of the, I don't know what, just losing a piece of something. And also, you know, Dante Wright in Minnesota that got off a shooting and resulted in his death. And in the midst of an ongoing trial over the killing of George Floyd, and Lord only knows what's happened based on what the verdict will or will not be there. And but we're in the business, all of us meeting today to deliver some real change. When we took office, I had a talk with Jim at length about this, every single aspect of, I signed the executive order, every single aspect of our government,

including every agency, has as a primary focus dealing with equity. Not a joke, from the beginning, we talked at length about it, too. And not only, but we also have an awful lot of things we have to deal with, not when it only comes to police, when it comes to advancing equality, economic opportunity. Cedric always says the thing that he would drive him crazy is that everybody would want to talk about equity in the black community, talk about prisons. Well, that's part of it, man, but that's not, it's about income.

It's about being able to earn a living. It's about being able to be in a position where you have economic opportunity. And so I look forward to discussing all these priorities, the CBC priorities and the goals you have for the community, but quite frankly, for the goals you have in the community are good for every community. Among those there, Chairman Joyce Beatty of Ohio, Stephen Horsford of Nevada, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Reverend Raphael Warnock, U.S. Senator from Georgia. All right, folks, got to go to break. We come back. We'll talk about the cannabis industry. What are black people? That's next on Roland Martin Unfiltered. I believe that it's movement time again.

In America today, the economy is not working for working people. The poor and the needy are being abused. You are the victims of power, and this is the abuse of economic power. I'm 23 years old. I work three jobs. Work seven days a week, no days off. They're paying people pennies on the dollar compared to what they profit. And it is time for this to end. Essential workers have been showing up to work, feeding us, caring for us, delivering goods to us throughout this entire pandemic. And they've been doing it on a measly $7.25 minimum wage. The highest check I ever got was literally $291. I can't take it no more. You know, the fight for 15 is a lot more than about $15 an hour.

This is about a fight for your dignity. We have got to recognize that working people deserve livable wages. And it's long past time for this nation to go to 15 so that moms and dads don't have to choose between asthma inhalers and rent. I'm halfway homeless. The main reason that people end up in their cars is because income does not match housing cost. If I could just only work one job, I could have more time with them. It is time for the owners of Walmart, McDonald's, Dollar General, and other large corporations to get off welfare and pay their workers a living wage. And if you really want to tackle racial equity, you have to raise the minimum wage.

We're not just fighting for our families, we're fighting for yours too. We need this. I'm gonna fight for it till we get it. I'm not gonna give up. We just need all of us to stand up as one nation and just fight together. Families are relying on these salaries and they must be paid at a minimum $15 an hour. $15 a minimum and then we should be making this a bit of a stay out of poverty. I can't take it no more. I'm doing this for not only me, but for everybody. We need 15 right now.

Black TV does matter, dang it. Hey, what's up, y'all? It's your boy, Jacob Lattimore, and you're now watching Roland Martin right now. Texan Jamie Foxx is back to his comedic roots with his new show,

Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me. Of course, it's partly based upon his life with his daughter, Corinne. I had a chance to sit down with Jamie and his co-star. Here's a trailer. Then here's our interview. Hallelujah. The question is, why can't I? Hallelujah.

Sasha, Malia? Yes? We can. Okay. When the Obama starts, I gotta go. Oh! Come on, come on! Come on, Dad. Why can't y'all try yoga?

I mean, didn't you say you wanted us to bond more? I don't know how I let this girl talk me into coming into this whack-ass yoga. Because you're weak, boy. And why are you here? I'll give you two reasons. Hello, ladies. Good. I think she's having a hard time with her mom being gone.

I don't know how to connect with her. Why are you in your pajamas when we're getting ready to go to church? I think I'm going to pass on church this week. I'm going to tell you right now, everybody under this roof goes to church. I'm happy you came. I'd be even happier if you told me you got a pastry in that knapsack. Won't he do it? Yes, he will.

And I want to let you know something, brother. I am free from my diabetes. Save me half of that. Say what? Say what? Good job. Dad, what are you wearing? I'm wearing the latest skinny jeans.

Those jeans aren't skinny. They're sturdy. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Everybody, everybody, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. I hear my music. They're starving. Oh. I hear my music. That's my song right there.

Woo! Get this on your TikTok. I don't want to lose any followers. Pops, what are you doing? It smells like a Snoop concert down here. Why can't you be like every other father, just get drunk and pass out? It's 2019, for God's sake.

It's 2021, for God's sake. Damn, this some good shit. You know, I'm a teenage girl. I'm gonna talk to boys. And I am a grown black man, and I'm gonna hook them boys' asses. Dad, relax. It's not even what you think. The answer is still no.

I don't want you driving around with some strange boy. You know these young boys, all they out here ghost riding the whip and whatnot. Cool. Roland Martin. Roland Martin unfiltered. Roland, you got an hour. That's what I'm saying. You got an hour. That's what I'm saying. You got an hour. Go ahead. That's the way it's supposed to be.

That's what I'm saying. I got to double back and do your show. Hey, Doc, look, you know we can do it anytime you want to do it. I ain't got to ask nobody. I own it, so we good. I know. Well, I appreciate you. Yes, indeed. Kyla it, so be good. I know. Well, I appreciate you. Yes.

Yes, indeed. Kyla Drew, how you doing? I'm doing good. How are you? I'm doing great. Glad to see both of you. Let's get right into it because they got the brother on the clock. Jamie, in this show, you're dealing with raising a 14-year-old.

Any flashbacks you lean in on, real-life experience, when you had to deal with a teenage daughter? Listen, man, most definitely. My daughter never got in trouble, Roland. That's what's crazy. So we had to manufacture that part. Never? Listen, I never had to say, I know you ain't coming in here late.

I know there ain't alcohol on your breath. What is this boy? I never had any of that. So we had to write that. But as far as I'm concerned, basically, my daughter was actually the parent at craft, you know, craft a character. And having my daughter as executive producer on the show really meant a lot because, like, I'd be out there thinking I'm doing something funny and then get a call on stage and she's like,

yo, that ain't funny, you better find something else because that ain't funny. So it was just a great vibe, man, and I cannot express how much fun it was. Kyle, I've had to raise six nieces at one time together. I'm dealing now with my wife and I, my twin 17-year-olds. So trust me, I'm sure I'll be watching going, yep, I've seen that before. Yep, the eye roll, the sucking the teeth. Oh, all of it. All of it.

Why you got to be so aggressive? Because you... See, I'm going to cuss. Go on ahead. I'm sorry. Go on ahead. Yes, I feel... I mean...

Yeah, we basically see Sasha as a teenager and... She'd be doing her own thing. Attitude and all. She's off the chain sometimes. But I think it's a good balance in the show. And a lot of times, Brian, Jamie's character,

brings her down all the way down to reality and snatches that attitude right out of it. Right out of her. Jamie, my daddy told me this, and I have conveyed this to my nieces. I ain't your friend. I'm your uncle. I'm raising you. I ain't your friend. And so do you also have to make that clear?

I ain't your friend. Listen, you got to make it clear. And, like, look, some of the old disciplines just don't work. So you have to align yourself as friendly, but always understand that at a certain point you have to parent. And when you have to parent, sometimes that can be a lonely place because you don't want to disappoint your daughters. You don't want to disappoint your kids. But sometimes you got to actually like be killjoy. That was what my grandmother used to just killjoy for no reason. Granny, I want to go across the street.

Go over there and see how I cut you clean in two. But why you got to do that? I just, how would I live with half a body? You know, so, but those are the things that you have to sort of set up in order to make them understand that the world is going to be a lot more hard on you than I am. So it's sometimes it's toughening them up, you know, not having them live in a space of of social media and things like that, because when you get into the real world, Instagram posts may not save you. Absolutely. And Kyla, I think what's important, and again, what this brings is critically important for people to see the relationship of a daughter and her daddy. I cannot tell you, as somebody, my parents will be married 54 years in June. As somebody who

understands the importance of daddy. I think this is also wonderful that this is being exhibited and people are seeing that relationship between the two of you. Yes, 100 percent. I I'm honestly so honored. And I love the fact that this show highlights both Jamie and Corrine's relationship with one with one another. And I think it's so beautiful that Sasha decides to live with her dad and then watching their relationship blossom throughout all the episodes. It really takes you on a journey.

And by the end, they they tie. They're good. They understand one another. Speak of that, Jamie, because, again, typically we watch television. It's always, you know, the dumb daddy. He can't fix anything. He knows nothing. He's not smart or he's not even there. It's always the mama. What do you want to convey? Well, you know, first of all, we do a lot of behind the scenes with dads who are trying to connect with their kids.

Maybe there was a divorce or whatever like that. And sometimes we will take, not the easy way out, but we will take the comfortable way out. Like that's the mom's job. No, it's not. Your daughter needs you more than ever nowadays. When they come into these different sections of their life from 16 to 19, whatever it is, they need to be able to lean on you. So I'm always been like, listen, no matter what the circumstance, that's going to be your daughter forever. So you got to get in there. You got to fight for that.

You got to go through that uncomfortable sucking of the teeth and that uncomfortable rolling of the eyes and that uncomfortable. She may get you with some venomous. You know, I use my father for an example. My father lost a connection with my sister. So I moved my father into the house with me. This is part of the show. The reason that I moved my father into the house with me. So they would run into each other so they can this is part of the show. The reason that I moved my father into the house with me, so they would run into each other. So they can get some of that time back. So there's nothing more important than a father and that daughter relationship because I want my daughters

to be able to lean on me at any time and say, hey, dad, this is what I'm going through and I'll be able to have that door open. And that's the whole thing as a dad, is just constantly making sure that door is open because sometimes your daughter feel like, well, I can only tell mom these things. I said, no, I want you to be able to tell me

everything as well because there's a lot of knowledge that I have and I want to be there to support. Absolutely. Well, Carla, Drew and Jamie, we look forward to it and look forward to seeing the love,

the laughter and also the life lessons. Thank you. All right, folks, Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me debuts on Netflix

tomorrow. So you can begin to check it out. all right folks every tuesday we have our segment called the marketplace where we are focused on black owned businesses and this week we're talking about the cannabis space. Now we're talking about a multi billion dollar industry. There's a whole bunch of folks getting paid and they don't look like us. Now we paid the price already by going to jail due to cannabis. What's happening with these people who are becoming millionaires and billionaires as a result of the cannabis industry.

So we want to talk about that. Curaleaf is going to mitigate the impact of drugs in these communities and continue to fight for criminal justice reform. Raheem, is it UGDA, Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives of Curaleaf. Is that correct? Yeah, OCTA. OCTA. Sorry about that, OCTA.

So let's talk about. So what exactly is Curaleaf doing to deal with this whole issue of racial equity? Because, like I've been saying for a long time, look, we paid the price on the front end. We should be getting paid on the back end and we should be first in line getting paid. Now that Canada is becoming legal? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I think Cureleaf, as a multi-state operator, has tried to figure out how best to use our footprint, our tools, our materials to make a difference in a lot of the communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs.

I think 420, I think, is a time to celebrate the industry. My team at Cureleaf was recently talking about the narrative around cannabis used to be about freeing the plant. And it is shifted towards, I think, freeing those who were harmed by the war on drugs as well. Because I think you can't just legalize the medicine without understanding the historical wrongs that a lot of these communities have faced. So I'm grateful to be in the position that I am in, where I get to go out and find organizations to partner with to make a difference in these communities. We just recently put forward a proposal in Illinois, five partnerships around the city of Chicago with nonprofit organizations doing job development, with educational programs that are training folks looking to get into the cannabis industry. But as part of that, it was a $950,000 investment.

But as part of that, I think we really have to understand the historical disadvantages that people of color face when entering this industry. So you said these partnerships. So are you doing it with nonprofits? Are you doing with actual companies? And what do these partnerships look like? Yeah. So it's with nonprofit partners and community colleges. So with our nonprofit partners, as part of our agreements, we're looking to put forth policy proposals.

Right. That are now I'm I'm in the city of Chicago. I'm in Hyde Park. In Illinois, we have adult use cannabis. But on the surface, it's all equal. But as you start to get into who can still get drug tested, who can lose access to housing for using what is now a legal substance, I think as you start to pick at all of those areas, you find that it falls disproportionately on black and brown folks who don't own their own property, so may not be able to smoke legally in their own residence, could work an hourly job in manufacturing that leads them open to drug testing and the possibility of losing their home. So we're partnering with a lot of nonprofits to try to put forth policy proposals

for industries moving forward that are equitable. Because I believe while a number of folks from these communities may want to enter cannabis, I think we need to understand that not everybody wants to be in the cannabis industry and in a plant touching roles. So we really just need to create equity around the plant and around consumption. A question that's good on our panel. First off, Mustafa.

Yeah, you had mentioned community colleges. What does the work look like in that space? Yeah, so we have a partnership with Olive Harvey College. It's multifaceted. We're supporting their program as they roll out a cannabis logistics program. We're also working now on creating a pipeline and infrastructure for folks to come into our stores or into our corporate environment in an internship capacity, and hopefully we can hire those folks on after a period of time. So really, it's trying to create all of these different channels that I think eventually lead to a more equitable and open industry. Kelly.

I apologize if this was discussed, but I didn't hear it. Do you know what the stats are specifically for how many Black people are in the cannabis industry and are successful? And what can we do either by voting or legislation or any other avenue that you can think of? What can we do to raise that number, raise that stat? So I will say I don't know the stat off the top of my head. The number of licensed cultivators or retailers is low. And I think that's because of the barrier to entry, I think, really into opening a cannabis dispensary or a grow. It could cost a few hundred thousand dollars in cash just to open one of these stores.

And then once you do, you don't have access to the same tax abilities that other businesses do. You can't write off expenses. It makes it very cash intensive to even open a license. It could be a few $60,000, $20,000 just in licensing, then you've got to hold property. Um, and all of that is just very cash intense. And I think, you know, for a lot of the folks in these, in these communities that have been disproportionately hard harmed, it's, it's difficult. So I think as we write policy, we need to think about what is equitable, what does access look like? like, and how do we provide

more opportunity? I think Illinois has a good idea in mind with a social equity fund where these businesses could then pull low-interest loans. But I think we've got to address the issue of just trying to open the business, And then we can have some diverse ownership. Ben. Yeah, you speak of the barriers to entry. How much of the barriers to entry, the exorbitant cost, is actually impacted by my actual capital cost of doing business versus just fees and taxes or whatever else. What's the breakdown there? And secondly, how much of that is to the benefit of big corporations like Big Tobacco who are likely trying to corner the market? So I don't want to speculate too much on how those regs are written.

What I will say is it could be $10,000 or $20,000 just in licensing fees. And then, like I said, as you're going through that licensing process and approval from the state, you've got to be holding real estate that entire time so that you're open, so that you're ready to open should the state approve you. And that could be six, nine that you're ready to open should the state approve you. And that could be six, nine, 12 months here in Illinois. We've been waiting on Craft Grow, I think one of the first opportunities for black ownership and for equity in the market, for over a year now. And for the folks who've been waiting for licensing, they've had to have property that entire time. And if they haven't, you know, they're likely knocked out of the running for being able to receive a license. And that's,

I think that's a real injustice. And they will not get that cash back, right? These are private relationships that they have with a landowner or a realtor. And they're, you know, they're not going to be able to receive that cash if they don't get a license. So again, changing those policies are critically important. Last question for me, what are the two or three states that y'all are really focused on right now to expand the opportunities for Black folks to get into the cannabis space? Yeah, I think Illinois, again, has a fantastic opportunity for us to increase education, access, ownership. I think all eyes are going to be shifting to New York as they just passed

their adult use regulation. I'm really excited to see what that state's able to put together and how we can, through our programs like 420 by 25, which is our supplier diversity work, really help to boost equitable ownership in the space for all folks, right? So I think we're looking at New York, we're looking at Illinois, I think in states like Arizona or Nevada, we're trying to really use our footprint and our tools to make the most

difference for a lot of these smaller operators that just may not have the means that we do, which is why we're trying to provide access and offer mentorship and really blow the doors open to the cannabis industry for folks who are ready to start. All right then, where can people get more information about Cure Relief if they want to, you know, dig deeper? Yeah, so curerelief.com slash social responsibility. You can learn all about our Rooted in Good initiative there and how we're trying to change the cannabis industry for the better. All right then. Well, we certainly appreciate it. Thank you so very much for being with us. This is, again, an important issue that we got to keep pursuing and really getting opportunities because we cannot be frozen out. Raheem, we appreciate it, man. Thanks a lot. Thank you. All right, then. Ben, Kelly, Mustafa,

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