#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Mich. Cop faces 2nd Degree Murder in Patrick Lyoya's Death, DOJ La. State Trooper Probe, Jan. 6th

Episode Date: June 10, 2022

6.9.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: A Michigan prosecutor charges a Grand Rapids police officer with 2nd-degree murder for killing Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head during a routine traffic stop. Houston, Texas police chief says Ben Crump lied about the gunshot wound Jalen Randle suffered from a cop. The U.S. Justice Department launches an investigation into Louisiana's State Police as more evidence shows the agency turned a blind eye to troopers beating Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. I'll talk to his mother, Mona Hardin. We'll preview tonight's primetime January 6th hearing. The house passes a resolution condemning the great replacement theory. And a California businessman is suing the U.S. Postal Service after it seized shipments of face masks bearing Black Lives Matter slogans. We'll talk to him and his attorney. Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ [e-mail] Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox 👉🏾 http://www.blackstarnetwork.com #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the #BlackStarNetwork are news reporting platforms 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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streaming live on the Black Star Network. Breaking news out of Maryland. Another mass shooting at a business. Three people are dead. So is the gunman. We'll give the details on that particular story. Out of Michigan, prosecutors are charging a Grand Rapids police officer are dead, so is the gunman. We'll give the details on that particular story. Out of Michigan, prosecutors are charging a Grand Rapids police

officer with second-degree murder for shooting Congolese immigrant Patrick Laiola in the back of the head during a routine traffic stop. In Houston, police say attorney Ben Crump lied about the gunshot wound of Jaylen Randall, the one that he suffered from a cop. Crump actually represents his family as well as the Laiola family. The U.S. Justice Department,

they're launching an investigation to Louisiana's state police as more evidence shows the agency turned a blind eye to troopers beating black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. We'll preview tonight's primetime January 6th hearing that Democrats say will be explosive and show America exactly what happened

when domestic terrorists tore apart the U.S. Capitol trying to overturn the 2020 election. In the House, they passed a resolution condemning the Great Replacement Theory. 205 Republicans vote against it. And a California businessman is suing the US Postal Service after it seized shipments of face masks bearing Black Lives Matter slogans. We'll talk to him and his attorney.

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It's Roland Martin Yeah, yeah Rolling with Roland now Yeah, yeah He's broke, he's fresh, he's real the best. You know he's rolling, Martin. Now. Martin. Să ne vedem la următoarea mea rețetă! All right, folks, breaking news out of Maryland where three people are dead,

one person injured when a shooting took place at the Smithsburg Manufacturing Facility. First of all, law enforcement officials are still putting together details of exactly what took place. Again, this is a factory in Maryland where, again, three people were actually wounded. The suspect was shot at the scene of this particular crime. And so it has been quite a busy day. We've had numerous mass shootings in this country for the last few weeks. Of course, there was Buffalo, there was Uvalde, Texas, and there were shootings that took place in other parts of the country as well. All of this is happening while Congress is doing what they're doing when it comes to, or actually not doing anything when it comes to gun control.

The House, they've actually done their part. Unfortunately, we are not seeing the Senate actually move on that as well. And so, again, what actually took place there, again, three people have been killed, four others wounded in this particular shooting in Maryland. So we'll give you more details as they become available. As I said, police say suspect was shot at the scene. This is a photo from the New York Post here. It shows you the facility there where the shooting actually took place.

Again, three people are dead. Four people are wounded. Also dead is the shooter as well. Folks, we continue to see lack of leadership in Congress when it comes to gun control, when it comes to legislation. What we're seeing is that we're seeing a failure of Republicans to stand up and do anything about guns in this country. Now, supposedly, they are negotiating with Senator John Cornyn and others, but the reality is, don't expect the Senate to take up the bill that was actually passed in the House. The House passed a bill that would raise the age to 21 to be able to purchase a gun. Now, Mitt Romney, a senator from Utah, he has actually come out and said that he is in favor of doing that.

But remember, you still need those 60 votes, those 60 votes in the Senate to get anything done because you have two Democrats who will not end the filibuster. And so this is a story that is in Politico. Conservatives lay off Senate gun negotiations. They're sort of laying low, not blasting anything until they see what actually happens. Again, the House has already passed their particular bill, but the Senate is not expected to pass that particular bill. I want to bring up my panel right now to talk about this because, again, what we continue to see in this country, we're seeing a failure of leadership. Here's Dr. Larry Walker, assistant professor, University of Central Florida, Recy Colbert, founder of Black Women Views, and Dr. Greg Carr, Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. President Joe Biden was on Jimmy Kimmel's show where they talked for about 20-plus minutes, and this is what Biden had to say about whether he would use executive orders to deal with guns.

There have been, what, 27 shootings at schools? I guess, I mean, just to get into it, why haven't we done anything about this? Well, I think a lot of it's intimidation by the NRA. And look, this is not your father's Republican Party. This is a MAGA party. It's a very different, a very different Republican Party. And and so you find people who are worried, I believe, that if they vote for rational gun policy, they're going to be primaried. And they're going to lose in a hard right Republican primary. You issue an executive order. Trump passed those out like Halloween candy. Yes, sir.

Isn't that something that could happen? Well, I have issued executive orders within the power of the presidency to be able to deal with These everything having to do with guns gun ownership whether or not you have to have a waiting But all the things are within my power, but what I don't want to do and I'm not being facetious. I don't want to emulate Trump's abuse of the Constitution and constitutional clarity Look the Republicans don't play it square. Why do you play it square? constitutional authority. And so... And I mean that sincerely, because I often get asked, look, the Republicans don't play it square. Why do you play it square? Well, guess what? If we do the same thing they do, our democracy will literally be in jeopardy.

I mean, I'm not a joke. That sounds fine, Recy, but in reality, what we are seeing are Republicans in Congress who backed up what Trump did when he was in the White House, and so they wield power. They wield it. The problem is their leading is obstructing any kind of progress and actually radicalizing this country by rolling back rights, rolling back protections in every single state that they control. This is not a hypothetical situation. They are racking up wins after wins. So Republicans totally excel at leadership. The problem is they are just at odds with what everybody, with what a majority of this

country leads. And so that's what the Democrats have to realize. This is not inaction. This is obstruction that we're dealing with. And I don't believe that they're scared of the NRA. This is their failsafe. Republicans have been for decades leading up to this moment. They are preparing for a time where their 99 percent white voting electorate is going to be the minority in this country. And so they're doing everything in their power to disenfranchise, to gerrymander, to take away as many rights as possible, to pack the courts. They did that with Trump and McConnell. And all we're doing right now is playing defense, playing catch-up, and trying to stop the bleeding. And unfortunately, we just aren't being as forceful enough as we should be.

I understand the limits of presidential power, but it rings a little hollow when you talk about our democracy dying. If you do what Trump did, our democracy is already dying. It's dead for many people in many states. In Louisiana, they have to redraw the map. But guess what? In Florida, their map stands. That has taken away two Black districts. And so I definitely challenge the notion that there is some nobility in trying to keep up the norms. When the Republicans have said to hell with it, we are going balls to the walls, we're going to pull out every stop until we're back in power completely. And when we are back in power, you can kiss this whole thing called democracy goodbye, what we have called democracy, because that's really what it is. It's just a label at this

point instead of a real institution. And so wake up. Wake up to the situation. If you have an executive order and it gets batted down, so be it. Deal with it when it comes. But this lack of ability to push the envelope is going to just continue to rack up more losses and further disillusion people who are looking to the Democrats to do something. And you can explain the nitty-gritty about civics and this power and this branch and that branch, but that message is not resonating

with the large swath of this country that you need to turn out in the polls in November. Larry, I recently mentioned Florida and that particular point there, where Governor Ron DeSantis said the hell with what the legislature was doing. He would draw his own maps. Republicans control the Supreme

Court there, and so you're Republicans that control the legislature, and so when you control all the levels of power, you can do what you want, and we see the Florida Supreme Court said, yes, his districts will stand. His maps will stand. Yeah, Rowland, and the interesting thing about that ruling is it's inconsistent with the state constitution.

But, you know, Recy talked about, you know, in terms of power play, and you referenced it before, it really doesn't matter what laws have been passed previously. It's just strictly a power play. So you talked about what's happening, you know, obviously happening in Florida and the current MAC and essentially negating a Black congressional district. And then obviously we continue to extend and talk about the lack of effort, particularly

obviously in the Senate, in terms of, you know, try to identify, try to hopefully identify some kind of comprehensive bill that addresses the issues of mass, of these mass shootings in the United States. But I'm not hopeful anything is going to happen. I also want to connect it to what President Biden talked about in that TV interview. And I've said before about that he's often too nostalgic, and he needs to really put some, you know, put his own, put on some boots and really get to work enforcing folks to do the work that needs to be done. He talked about not trampling on the Constitution. And no one's asking him to do that. But what they want to do is see is, you know, since the beginning of his presidency, is more of a sense of urgency. And obviously, he gave a, you know, he gave a speech last week, which is important.

But we really need to see the whole Congress members, not members of Congress, members of the Senate, hold their feet to the fire in terms of passing comprehensive gun reform. Because what we'll do, Roland, every week when we come together, we'll be having these conversations about these mass shootings, obviously the one you described in Maryland just happened within the last hour and a half or so. But this is tiring, and we need the work to get done. Also, let's remember that we have an election in November, and President Biden's poll numbers are in the tank. And we are likely to see a switch in the House and changes in the Senate.

So we really need to get something done, like I said a few minutes ago. He really needs to hold not only Republicans, but also Democrats, the two Democrats you described, to change the filibuster so we can get some work done, not only in terms of gun reform, but obviously in terms of passing the John Lewis Act. Here's the thing here, Greg, to

Larry's point. Biden keeps talking about, oh, this is not your dad's Republican Party, your grandfather's Republican Party. Guess what? You better be living in 2022. So, again, there's this hearkening back to what it used to be. That is gone.

It is gone. I mean, it's sort of like when somebody's wife or husband leaves them and you're like, yo, they ain't coming back. And you can sit here and flip through albums and look at pictures and old videos, but that life you had, that's gone. And so it seems that, you know, Biden is still sort of hoping that something magical and mystical happens to where it returns. And even before Trump got there, the Freedom Caucus was there. Before that, the Tea Party

was there. It ain't been that Republican Party when he was the Vice President for Obama. So, bro, that was 2009. It's been 13 years. You might want to wake the hell up. That's right. Yeah, and before all of them, the Spanish

came. Before that, the English came. Before that, it was George Washington. In other words, there was never a time we shouldn't be looking backward at all. This is a violent enterprise. While these folk were being shot, and several of them killed in Maryland, about

75 miles north of Baltimore near the Pennsylvania border, we were taping and several of them killed in Maryland, about 75 miles north of Baltimore, near the Pennsylvania border. We were taping a Juneteenth edition of The Black Table with Gerald Horne. You know, our brother Gerald Horne, who is just, I don't know how he does it, just produced a 600-page book

called The Counter-Revolution of 1836, where he's talking about Texas. He opens the book with a long discussion of violence with the attempt to exterminate all the indigenous people of the place and to enslave Africans way past June 19, 1865. Now, what does it have to do with what we're talking about right now? It has everything to do with what we're talking about right now, because what the white nationalist party doesn't grasp, because they don't really look at history, is that they can pass all these laws.

And I think Recy just gave us a very succinct and brilliant layout of what's going on. But there are unintended consequences. What the hell do you think is going to happen when you rip up any notion of legal protections? The Supreme Court is getting ready to overturn a New York state law that's over a century old that's going to make it very easy to walk around in New York City with guns. And when that happens, California is going to be faced with an issue. There are about seven states, Maryland is one of them, that have strict gun control laws that are going to be attacked after the Supreme Court does its work, that PAC Supreme Court

that Recy just talked about. Now, California is one of those states. There are about 120,000 Californians with concealed carry permits. But you know where most of those people are, San Bernardino, Shasta, Fresno, Orange, Sacramento, and Kern counties, and you got law enforcement officials there, because it's up to the discretion of law enforcement officials to give out those permits, who are handing out applications to people to apply. L.A. and L.A. County, which is about a quarter of the population of California, they have less than half of one percent of all the concealed carry permits. And there are two, two, according to a recent New York Times article in the whole city of San Francisco.

Now, what does that do at all? What we're talking about? There's a culture of violence here. The culture of violence says exterminate anyone who doesn't look like you to protect whiteness. That is the history of Texas, and in many ways, the history of the whole criminal enterprise called United States of America. When they consolidate power, and the White Nationalist Party has done that. I mean, we see that feckless ghoul out of Kentucky saying that you must protect Brett Kavanaugh at all costs. Damn those children in Uvalde. And, you know, hey, I'm very happy about that because, you see, what is happening at this point is they think somehow that the rest of us respect the law more than they do. That is a tragic mistake.

If no one else understands power in this country, it's Black Americans. So the minute you take away all of the barriers to prevent people from getting guns, guess who will then say, well, let me go get my gun. It ain't gonna be them white people that already got them in them five counties in California I already talked about. It's

gonna be them cats that say, I don't know about politics, but all I know is I gotta protect myself. I should say one other thing. I spent the morning with some students from Minneapolis and St. Paul, some high school students who are in town. And I had my mask on. And I asked them, is Minnesota safe? Because you were talking about, you know, Mayor Locke and George Floyd.

And one of the young guys said, is middle school safe? Then they all started laughing because they couldn't hear me through the mask. But that opened up a conversation. You know how terrified young people are in this country right now of loud sounds, of arguments they hear going on. And they talked about how they don't feel safe in this country. Well, guess what? How long before the parents of those young people say, we don't feel safe, so maybe we should start shooting first since the police shoot first. Unintended consequences. You're not going to win what you think you win by ignoring the rest of us. Indeed.

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Black TV does matter, dang it. Hey, what's up, y'all? It's your boy, Jacob Lattimore. You're now watching Roland Martin right now. Yee! right now. Thank you. Folks, the district attorney in Michigan today announced charges for a cop who killed Congolese immigrant Patrick Laiola. Kent County, Michigan prosecutor Chris Becker is charging the white officer

with second degree murder. Now folks, remember, Laiola was shot in the head during routine traffic stop. We showed you the video. We had his family members on. And again, that was a scuffle there when Laiola tried to step away.

This took place in April. The prosecutor announced the charges today against Grand Rapids officer Christopher Scher. Weeks after this took place. Detective Sergeant Aaron Tubergen really did an excellent job. He's done everything I requested of him, even though some of the follow-up. And so it's made a difficult situation, obviously a little bit easier to have a partner that you can work with.

Based on his investigation, based on everything he has provided to me, I've made the decision to charge Christopher Schur with one count of second-degree murder. Second-degree murder is a felony offense. It is punishable by up to life in prison with the possibility of parole. As it stands now, this is merely an allegation, and as with any defendant, he is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The elements of second-degree murder are relatively simple. First, there was a death, a death done by the defendant, and then when the killing occurred, the defendant had one of these three states of mind, an intent to kill, an intent to do great bodily harm, or the intent to do an act that the natural tendency of that act would be to cause death or great bodily harm. And finally, that the death was not justified or excused, for example, by self-defense. Taking a look at everything that I reviewed in this case, I believe there's a sufficient basis to proceed on a when this actually happens, because oftentimes, you know, district attorneys look out for police.

And I keep saying this, for all these people out here, and I see these people post stuff on social media, in chat rooms with others, man, all this marching and protesting, all this stuff does not mean anything. I can guarantee you the fact that we have seen in the past several years an increase in police officers who are being charged with murder, who are going to trial is a direct result of people going to the streets and demanding accountability. You're absolutely right, Roland. For anyone who may have incidentally seen some of the testimony in recent weeks before the Grand Rapids,

their equivalent of the city council, it's been quite striking. Citizens of all backgrounds, all races and cultures, I watched this young, this teenage young lady who was at the microphone testifying with a number of her classmates behind her. She happened to be of African descent, but there were a number of students behind her who were not. And they blistered that city council. I mean, blistered it. And so, you know, if anyone can say, well, that doesn't make any difference. Oh, no. Just go look at some of, no. Go look at some of that testimony.

Go look at some of the people who said it. They said, we're fed up. We're not going to have it anymore. In 2017, that Grand Rapids Police Department handcuffed an 11-year-old at gunpoint. Later on, they had five teenagers at gunpoint as well during that same year. And in 2020, they shot a—one of somebody shot a protester. One of the cops, Paterola, shot a protester in the face with a gas canister. Now, is that outlying behavior? No. The Paterolas have license to kill, and they will hunt. Now,

you know, the prosecutor in this case, certainly the charge is there. Any reasonable finder of fact should be able to convict that person. But we know the Paterola may get off. But the point you're making is the point to be made. These people will move as more and more of us move to end this. I would encourage people to go look at some of that testimony before the Grand Rapids City Council. You know, this is why, again, you know, Larry, we talk about pressure. We talk about why that is important. You know, it was very interesting seeing this here where you had, you know, Kevin McCarthy on the floor of the U.S. House yelling and screaming for Democrats to do something about a bill that Senator John Cornyn put forth dealing with security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

And the thing that I found to be interesting was, hmm, you're demanding people move now, but you had no sense of urgency to protect citizens from cops with the George Floyd Justice Act. You're demanding people move now to provide security for nine Supreme Court justices, but you're blocking gun legislation. And so I'm going to play this, and I want you to comment on that. Listen to this, y'all. Let me see.

Let me go ahead and get this reconnected. It's just been so striking listening to these folks. Go ahead. Now you should play it now. House Democrats are leaving. Today they want to leave for a long weekend. They gave tomorrow back. I spoke to the majority leader this morning.

I told him nobody on this side would object. A unanimous consent. He could run that bill on the floor right now and send it to the president so we could protect the Supreme Court. How many times do they have to be threatened? How many people have to be arrested with a gun outside their home? What would have happened had he not called 9-11? He didn't just have a gun. He had zip ties. But somehow you want to leave.

This bill could be on the president's desk right now. And so could the George Floyd Justice Act had House Republicans not voted against it, had the Senate not blocked it. So let's give him an Oscar because all that is just performance. Listen, when black folks were killed in Buffalo, I didn't see McCarthy go to the House floor and demand that we pass, that we do something about the white supremacists that killed all those black folks. In fact, most Republicans voted against, all but one Republican voted against the bill to deal with domestic terrorism that was passed after the Buffalo shooting, including Kay McCarthy.

And that's the message, right? We care about Supreme Court justices, but we don't care about the lives of children killed in Texas, of Black folks killed in Buffalo. So we see where the priorities lie. Yes, obviously, in our understanding and points of reason and concerns regarding Supreme Court justices, but the bottom line is, Roland, we just had another mass shooting today in Maryland. So what is McCarthy prepared to do about the lives throughout the United States that have been impacted by gun violence? Obviously, not just mass shootings, but we see other elements of violence, gun violence in communities throughout the United States. What is he, what's the plan? This is all showboating because obviously, like you said, Ronan, when it comes to, you know, when it came to Republicans having the opportunity

to highlight that white supremacy is not something they believe in or support, they didn't do it. When they had an opportunity to support comprehensive gun reform, they didn't do it. So once again, we see where the priorities lie for not only McCarthy, but the Republican Party. But we need, once again, this is why it's important to continue to apply pressure from voters to make sure that folks wake up and realize that if we don't force the Republican Party to change their perspective on guns and violence in the United States, that we'll continue to see photos of children, of various people from various backgrounds being slaughtered,

and then it will continue over and over again. And I am certainly as one person tired of seeing these montages of lives lost. And this is why, Recy, they must be confronted at every turn. This is why I believe that the families of people killed by police should call for their own White House meeting and should call on President Biden to tell Senator Tim Scott and Senator Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and Republican leadership to meet him there and look them folks in the eye and explain why they have not moved the George Floyd Justice Act. And here's the whole piece. I perfectly agree with security for public officials, whether they are Supreme Court justices or leadership of the House and Senate and the

White House. But how about you have the same vigor to protect American people? Well, they won't have the same vigor because what they want to do is insulate themselves from the radical lurch that the right-wing court is remaking itself and remaking America to the point to where border agents can go in without a warrant and beat the shit out of people, and you can't sue them. You have no recourse about it. And so what Republicans understand, like Kevin McCarthy understand, the urgency they have around this is the fact that the Supreme Court is sitting on a lot of very radical decisions that they haven't released yet because the PR from it will look horrible to say that you don't have to have concealed carry permits when kids are being slaughtered in schools. And when you're basically undoing any kind of protections that even the states can impose on their own citizens, the Supreme Court is embarrassed, but they're not

shamed enough to ever do the right thing. And so that's what the urgency is about here. But guess what? When you don't want to protect people around the border within 100 miles of a border, which is, I believe, 60 percent of the population, was what I read, when you don't want to protect Black people from getting killed by the police, when you don't want to protect children from being slaughtered in schools and elders from shopping in grocery stores, then you can go to hell in a handbasket. You can be in the same boat as the rest of us. So I'm not for violence against Supreme Court justices. I'm not saying that in any way, shape, or form. But what I'm saying is, if there is a backlash, it's a backlash that you brought

upon this country. And you don't get to sit in your in your ivory tower and watch everything go to flames. You're going to be down here in the trenches with the rest of us dealing with the fallout. Folks, folks, that particular police officer, as I said, turned himself into authorities. He is set to be arraigned tomorrow. Second-degree felony murder is an offense punishable by up to life in prison without the possibility of parole. And so we'll certainly see what happens next. Now, Ben Crump is representing the family in that case.

Now the Houston police chief is calling out Ben Crump, who is representing the family of Jalen Randall, who was shot and killed by cops there. The chief says that Crump made false claims regarding the death of Randall. Chief Troy Fenner said the official autopsy results are pending, but preliminary results indicate there was one gunshot wound to the front of Randall's neck.

Here's a statement that they released about the independent autopsy results being released by Crump. And then the chief says, this afternoon I met with several community leaders to brief them on false information being released regarding the fatal incident involving Mr. Randall. We respect and understand emotions and pain that families who have lost loved ones go through during these

investigations. Having said that, the family attorney, Mr. Ben Crump, who I respect as an advocate for justice, is claiming Mr. Randall was shot in the back of the head. This is a false statement. To publicly make such a false claim is irresponsible. While official autopsy results are pending, plenty of results indicate there was one gunshot wound

to the front of Mr. Randall's neck. Mr. Crump and his team have publicly stated and used a diagram to indicate the gunshot wound was to the back of Mr. Randall's neck. While this is only one component of a comprehensive investigation, it is necessary to correct the

misinformation. I take everyone in our community to not rush to judgment and wait for the investigations to be complete. Now, we did reach out today to try to get Ben Crump on today's show, but unable to book him. And so we certainly will continue to do that to try to reach him. I actually will be in Los Angeles tomorrow with Ben Crump and his organization because they have their Equal Justice Now Awards taking place tomorrow.

There are a number of people who are going to be honored, and I am one of those folks who will be honored with their Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Awards. And so, yeah, I'll be talking to Ben tomorrow. So hopefully we will get his reaction to this. Now, the Randall family says they want the officer who pulled the trigger to be indicted, to be indicted. Now, this is also the statement that the Randalls released. Shortly after Jalen was killed, we spoke directly to emergency medical professionals who told us that Jalen was shot in the back of the neck.

Randall's parents said in the statement, the funeral home director told us specifically that there was no bullet wound in the front of the neck, only the back. As a family, we have been trying to find peace since Jalen was killed. It is extremely difficult to find peace when the very people who executed Jalen are seeking to discredit us and the people who have been helping us advocate. And so, again, we will be following this story through its conclusion. All right, folks, got to go to a break. We come back. The Department of Justice, they are launching an investigation into the Louisiana State Police for their actions when it comes to the killing of black men, including Ronald Green. We'll tell you that and show you some of that news conference today by the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Again, folks, if you're watching on Facebook and YouTube, hit that like button.

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the announcement earlier this morning. There are other reports of unwarranted force after pursuits involving the use of tasers and blows to the head. Our investigation will be thorough and comprehensive. This marks the first statewide pattern or practice investigation of a law enforcement agency that the Justice Department has opened in more than two decades. The investigation will also involve unprecedented cooperation among the Civil Rights Division and all three United States Attorney's Offices. The goal is to promote transparency and accountability, which ultimately will increase public trust. I'll note that this investigation marks the 75th investigation of a law enforcement agency conducted since Congress entrusted the Department of Justice

and only the Department of Justice with the authority to conduct pattern or practice investigations of law enforcement agencies. We take this responsibility seriously. Every American, regardless of race, has the right to constitutional policing. And we know constitutional policing is necessary to ensure public trust and to enhance public safety. Now, the investigation comes amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of primarily black men, including the 2009 deadly arrest of Ronald Green. The announcement of a pattern or practice probe comes more than three years after white

troopers were captured on long withheld body camera video beating, stunning and dragging Green on a rural roadside near Monroe, Louisiana. No one has been charged in the case. Mona Harton, Ronald Green's mother, will be on the show tomorrow. This is something that, Reesey, a number of groups have been calling for this investigation. Normally what happens when things happen on local level,

they call in the state police, but in this case, they can't trust the state police. The governor has been interrogated in terms of when he was made aware of this particular case. They initially told Ronald Green's family that he died in a car accident, and the truth came out. We've seen story after story. But again, let me say why elections matter. For all the people out there who keep posting nonsensical stuff saying, oh, black people have not gotten this and Biden has not done that. Let me remind everybody who runs their mouth, who listens to idiotic people on social media,

who were saying that Biden is the same as Donald Trump. And that is this. The Trump administration made it clear they do not they do not want to investigate police departments. They made it clear they did not want to look into them because they said it was hurting the morale of police. And you have seen more and more examples coming out of the Civil Rights Division, now led by Christian Clark, of this administration holding correctional officers, holding police departments accountable, and holding individuals who commit hate crimes. We've seen people who have been charged, folks who have been convicted. And so the reality is this, there's no doubt in my mind that if a Republican president was sitting in the White House, you would not have this announcement

today. Oh, 100 percent. So shout out to Kristen Clark. She's been doing a really phenomenal job. And, you know, I remember a lot of these representation doesn't matter kind of debates people had, people where there was white progressives or black people aligned with the white progressives. But I think Kristen Clark is a prime example of why it matters that we have somebody like us

who's for us and by us, in this position. This is the actual fifth pattern and practice investigation that's been launched by the Department of Justice. They are doing one on Minneapolis. They've launched one on Phoenix, Mount Vernon, New York, Louisville, and now we have Louisiana. And the thing that's really rare about this, this is the first statewide pattern and practice investigation over two decades. So this is not something that's very common.

And, you know, that happened that... Looks like Recy froze. Recy, you still there? Yeah, can you hear me now? Now we got you. Go ahead. You froze there. Go ahead. Okay, yeah. So, yeah, I was saying that this is the first time they're doing a statewide investigation in two decades. All right, we're having some issues with Recy's connection. Let me go to Larry. Listen, Roland, I was in Baltimore after Freddie Gray's murder,

and obviously they had the pattern of practice domestic probe and eventually signed a decree with the city of Baltimore. And I think one of the things in terms of why these investigations are important is they found in terms of their investigation that Black men in Baltimore City were being stopped repeatedly and not found to have anything that was illegal. So if anything else, and like I said, I know there have been conversations about how effective these, you know, if there's a consent decree to sign, how effective they are. But I think these investigations are important because it identifies corruption, hopefully roots it out, and it will force the state of Louisiana to make changes. It shouldn't take several years after we have clear video of a black man being lynched on a highway for them to do anything about it. So I congratulate DOJ from doing this, as you highlighted, Roland. They've been consistent in terms of investigating various jurisdictions that are obviously not doing what they're supposed to do in terms of making sure the civil rights of citizens are being met.

And, once again, I think this is important. I think they should continue to do this and hold people responsible, because, once again, it's tiring to consistently see Black people being killed on roadsides or anywhere else. And we have to finally do something about it. So these probes are really important. Once again, it'll provide a lot of statistics about how Black folks are disproportionately stopped in Louisiana. I found that Black people make up about a third of the population, but they're twice,

more than twice likely to be stopped or being engaged in some kind of assault by police officers. And that's ridiculous. So I'm glad like I said, this probe is going to be conducted and hopefully they'll get to the bottom of this issue. And Greg, keep in mind what you heard Lara just say there. It was the Trump administration, when they came in, Jeff Sessions, they wanted to get rid of that consent decree in Baltimore. And it was Baltimore that fought for it.

And the federal judge said, absolutely not, we're moving forward. And so, again, for the people out there who say, oh, this is no big deal, no, it is something that is important, because for all of these people who say that, guess what? You ain't speaking for Ronald Greene's mama. You're not speaking for the people in these cities, in Louisville, Breonna Taylor's mother, or her relatives. And so, it amazes me when I listen to these people who say,

oh, this is nothing, this is performative. Well, you ain't got a loved one who's been gunned down and the cops lied to you. So I don't really give a damn what you have to think. Well, let's say it is performative. Let's say it is performative. The video you showed with our sister Kristen Clark there, flanked by those three brothers, if we certainly don't see what the optics are, guess who does? general. But in this case, what we're seeing here, look at those black people standing there. Now, see, those black people have the added benefit of being something that in this country is far too rare. They are, what's the word? Oh, yeah, the law. Do you know how much fear that this is exactly what white nationalists have

been fighting against since they started this criminal enterprise. Now, in the case of Louisiana, you're absolutely right, Roland. You're not Aaron Larry Bowman, who got hit 18 times with a flashlight by this cop, Jacob Brown, who has tallied 23 use of force violations for Louisiana State Police since 2015, 19 of which have been black people. So, you know, on the ground, it makes a big difference. You know, it's funny, we just passed Prince's birthday this week, so he would have been 64. And we all remember when Prince came to Baltimore, performed his song Baltimore in the wake of what happened to Freddie Gray and the uprising that took place there. And we all went up to Baltimore. And I know we will never forget seeing every kind of police vehicle, tanks, horses on the damn freeway. Where did all these

damn police come from? But you know what they faced? They met thousands, tens of thousands of people in the streets of Baltimore that said enough is enough. So, I mean, at the end of the day, none of the societal problems we have are going to be solved overnight. And this is a long-distance struggle. It isn't one election cycle. It isn't one protest. It isn't one anything. It is a long-distance struggle.

And as we'll see tonight with the January 6th commission, this country suffers too many times from amnesia. And what the white nationalist party has done, they've decided we're not even trying to convince anybody. We are going to cape, Recy framed it beautifully at the beginning of the show. We're going to cape for what we cape for and damn the rest. Now it's up to the rest of us to decide, okay, we're going to stop talking to y'all too. It's time to overwhelm you now. And this is just another step in that direction. It is. And so folks, again, what we just continue to see, folks, is just the kind of behavior that is consistent by police departments around this country continues. And then you have those people who say the George Floyd Justice Act isn't important.

This is why. And again, and I'm just going to go ahead and say it and not give. I really don't care. I don't really give a damn if any of you fools out there, y'all do your little videos and your little bullshit Instagram posts and you sit here and like, oh, you caping, oh, you boot licking, all of that. This is very simple. The United States Senate is 50-50 right now. There are two Democrats who do not want to get rid of the filibuster. So for all y'all people, and I see your little bullshit, little tweets,

and your little posts on Facebook, and your little IG posts, and your little TikTok videos, and your little Snapchat videos. I see all your little BS. And I can call you by names, but I won't because that's the most attention you've ever gotten in your life. Yeah, I'm talking to all you so-called new black media people who I never seem to see show up at anything black. Which I love talking to y'all miles. Love running y'all miles on YouTube and Twitter and social media.

Here's the thing. For all the things that you claim you want, tell me how you're going to get it. I'll wait. Tell me exactly how you're going to get the things that you claim that you want if you do not change the very people who are in place. Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk later became trade ambassador, trade representative for President Barack Obama. Ron's one of my golf buddies. Ron's like, Roland,

all that other bullshit don't mean nothing unless you can count votes. And when you can count votes, and you got the votes in your pocket, that's when you know you won. So if I sat here and did some math, and I said, hmm, if the same people who love to

post and tweet and run their mouths would actually use that energy to push Sherry Beasley in North Carolina, she'll be the next United States Senator. Which means you can take one off the board for the Republican Party.

And if Fetterman, and there are some issues with Fetterman, but I'll take a Fetterman over Dr. Oz any day. That now takes another Republican off the board. Wisconsin's primary is going to be coming up. The person leading on the Democratic side is Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. So imagine if Mandela Barnes takes out Senator Ron Johnson in Wisconsin. That's three.

You got that fake MAGA fool, J.D. Vance in Ohio. So imagine if black folks and others in Ohio support Congressman Tim Ryan. That's four. And imagine if Democrats in Florida get their act together and Val Demings knocks out Marco Rubio. That's five. Imagine if black people and poor white folks in Kentucky would stop voting against their interests and voting for Rand Paul would instead support Charles Booker.

That's six. And imagine if the same black people running their mouths, including some folks based in Louisiana, would use the energy to register black people between now and November to support Gary chambers You could take out Senator John Kennedy, you know that that fake talking fool there as well

That's six you protect Warnock in Georgia. You protect Nevada, New Hampshire And also you could potentially could take the seat in Missouri. What I'm laying out is if folk actually put the work in, the Senate could potentially look like 56-44, 57-43, 58-42, 59-41, dim to Republican, dim to Republican. Now, Manchin and Sin cinema don't control the show. But some folk out there love to tweet about what folk

not doing, what they should be doing, and who licking boots and who doing that. And you know what's going to happen? They're going to be the same people posting and tweeting if Republicans control the House and the Senate. They're going to be the same ones saying, oh, look at this here.

We cause Democrats to lose. Now what are they going to do? And while the Republican Party is running the train on you, yes, I said that for a reason. While they're running a train on America, you're going to be sitting your happy ass there on social media saying, see, see, look what I told you.

All the while getting nothing that you claim you want. But go ahead and play around with that America. Because, see, I can already pull the story up and show you how the Republican Party, they are already planning. Y'all think I'm lying? This is a political right here, y'all. They are already planning. They are already planning. Look right here. Let me pull it up.

I'm going to show you this here. Just in case y'all think I'm lying. Just in case y'all think I'm lying. They are already planning what investigations they're going to launch when they take control in 2023. Y'all, they're already planning it. They're going to give Marjorie Taylor Greene her committees

back if they take over and she wins in Georgia. They're going to fully endorse and support these white supremacists. But, y'all go right around and keep playing. Go right ahead and keep playing.

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Hi, I'm Eric Nolan. with me, Faraji Muhammad, only on the Black Star Network. We love you guys. Take it easy. It's an 11-month investigation with the American people. The committee reviewed more than 135,000 documents and interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, including Trump advisors Jared Kushner, his daughter Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and former Attorney General Bill Barr. The committee wants to prove former President Donald Trump was at the center of the illegal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. What else should we expect to learn from tonight's hearing? Joining me now is Michael Solzano, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focuses on democracy and government reform.

Michael, glad to have you on the show. Already, Republicans are trying to say that this is, well, they've been saying it since it was formed, an illegal committee, that they are unjustified. They've got the communications arm of the Republican Party, Fox News, saying they're not going to show the hearings at all. Is it too late, though? It's 11 months.

It took place on January 6th. But is it too late? Has it already been baked in the minds from your perspective in terms of how people just feel about this? And Republicans are saying, hey, focus on inflation, focus on gas prices, focus on baby formula. Americans don't care about January 6th. Your thoughts? Roland, thanks for having me on. No, I don't think it's too late at all. I think that, of course, it's taken a while for the committee to really dig in and do its investigation. You

threw out some really good figures there about those figures show how deeply this committee has been doing its work. You know, it's had the key staffers on the committee themselves used to be former prosecutors. So they have been taking their time to uncover as many facts as possible. And they're going to start weaving the facts together for America tonight. And I think that the majority of Americans are going to go into watching these hearings with an open mind. They're going to want to see how the facts come together. They're going to want to connect the dots. And then they're going to want some accountability. Now, of course, as we know,

a big portion of this country, 30 or 40 percent, maybe the Fox News followers, are largely shut off to this. But that still leaves 60 percent of the country that's going to be following it, that's going to be discussing it. And after these hearings happen over the next few weeks and after America learns about the true depths of this conspiracy and how to keep it from happening again, it's going to start conversations everywhere. And hopefully that will have a ripple effect, and hopefully that will start to change some minds of people who we didn't expect to change their minds. But we're starting off with a vast reservoir of people who really do want to know what is going to be revealed from these committee hearings.

And again, what's interesting to me, this continuing effort to discredit it, is because the people who are trying to do discrediting, they literally are still in power in the United States House. I was just talking about why we've got to vote in November. These people will be in control, in power, chairing committees, speaker of the House. These people, they will be in control. They will. And they've already, several of these MAGA Republicans have already said that they're going to, if they take over the House, they're going to impeach President Biden in the House. So we know what they're already planning and what they're

already cooking up. And that just links into this larger ongoing conspiracy, this effort by Trump and his MAGA allies, the extremist part of the Republican Party, to engineer the results that they want. They tried to do it in 2020 throughout the presidential election cycle. This really came, obviously, Trump and his allies started doing this before actual Election Day. They did it through Election Day. They did it through January 6. And this is an ongoing effort, an ongoing conspiracy, where we're seeing Republicans, extremists in many states changing their state laws, enacting voter suppression laws, election sabotage laws, taking a number of other steps.

We have also seen how a number of Trump's extremist allies are actually running for office and becoming their party's nominees, like Doug Mastriano, who is the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania. So this is all part of an ongoing plan that I think is really going to be illuminated through the course of these hearings. And I think it's really going to help answer the question about how to bring accountability, most importantly, how to keep this from happening again. I don't really care which party tries it. If Democrats try it in the future, then they should be held accountable for it as well. But if we don't get our hands around this

and really see that MAGA extremists are pulling a lot of levers to try to take control of the House, the Senate, and especially the presidency in two years, our democracy is going to be in trouble. Also, I keep trying to explain to people that they cannot forget what Trump was complaining about. He was complaining about the votes in Fulton County. That's Atlanta. Black people. He was complaining about the votes in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Black people. He was complaining about the votes in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Black people. He was complaining about the votes in Detroit, Michigan. Black people. He was complaining about the votes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Black people. So when Donald Trump was whining and complaining about the election being stolen, what he was saying to his white supporters, look at what those black people stole from us. Yep. I completely agree. And, you know, I research and write about democracy issues and election issues, uh, as my full-time job. And what's... what I've been saying for a while,

and I know that you and many others have-have been talking about this as well, Trump's entire effort, along with his allies, was really an attempt to stop the emergence of a vibrant, multiracial America. And they absolutely are trying to. They were reacting to the protests a couple of years ago around the murder of George Floyd. We've always seen this backlash whenever there's been some sort of progress. But this backlash is very much about trying to keep the emergence of a multiracial society. I think they are very scared of what they saw in Georgia, which elected two Democrats

and President Biden. And they're that's why this is all part of a big plan to be able to nullify the votes of millions of Americans and overturn valid election results when they when they wanted to. And I'm afraid that this could continue in the future unless we really get our hands around this, because this goes to the core of our nation. This is the core of what makes us a democracy, which is people should have their right to vote and have their votes count

and to not have leaders overthrow valid results. That's why this should matter to every American. Yeah, and what we have to understand is that these people and I've been saying this, which is one of the reasons, look, my book is coming out in September called White Fear. They do not like the browning of America.

And so they cannot stand the fact that you have an increasing number of black people and Latino people being elected to office. They can't stand that. And so therefore, this notion of they are taking America from us, so therefore we must take it back. That's all this whole make America great again crap is all about. They cannot handle the new America.

That's exactly right, Roland. And that's why, you know, there's obviously the MAGA wing of the Republican Party has become the dominating force in the Republican Party. And thank goodness that there are some reasonable Republicans, some pro-democracy Republicans in the party still. And whoever would have thought that some of us would be heralding someone like Congresswoman Liz Cheney as a pro-democracy warrior. But she is an example of somebody who's willing to stand up to the MAGA extremists who tried to overthrow or tried to block the peaceful transition of presidential power. And I feel like there's got to be some sort of alliance amongst progressives and independents and pro-democracy, reasonable Republicans who are not part of the MAGA faction. Because if that doesn't happen, then these extremist MAGA

politicians, Trump and his allies, are going to continue to do whatever they can. And all they have to do is mess with the election process in just a couple of swing states where their candidates are running, again, for example, in Pennsylvania, where Mastriano was running. All they have to do is put in some secretaries of state who oversee the elections inside of states and throw some of the elections towards Trump or the Republican nominees way. And that's why these hearings are going to be so valuable, because it's going to shine a very bright light

on those sorts of tactics. And I predict and hope that Americans are going to rise up and say, this can never happen again. Greg, I'll start with you. The hearings start in about in less than 45 minutes. Greg, from a value standpoint, what do you think it will provide to the American people? Well, I have no idea. I don't think there's such a thing as the American people. I think we have the attention spans of fruit fries. I think I was watching Adam Schiff yesterday talk about the fact that they hired a television producer, a film producer to try to get the message home. James Goldson, the former president of ABC News. So, you know, I'm listening to you, Mike, and I read the article that you wrote in The Hill last week about dark money.

And just thinking about the primaries, we saw all that money that was poured into the L.A. mayor's election that swayed people's opinion. This guy, the guy who's running against Karen Bass, is telling bold-faced lies. We saw how mass media said, well, you know, they took out the San Francisco progressive D.A., and they sent, San Francisco sent a message to America and went right across the bay in Oakland, a black woman as progressive or more than him won her primary. And in Contra Costa, another black woman as progressive, him, won as well. I'm wondering tonight how we take on the fact that there is no American people. This is the problem Joe Biden

has. So I guess I would ask the question, Michael, of you, when we talk about reasonable Republicans, the reason Fox News isn't showing this tonight is because they live in a different world and they have declared war. At what point do we say us versus them and stop chasing this fantasy called the American people? I know Schiff and them are going to try to produce this tonight

for people to watch, but people are not going to watch. And the money is being poured into people, even the ones who can't be convinced, are being convinced away from their interests, and the people who hold on to white nationalism are clinging to it, and they can never be persuaded because the thing they fear the most is including the rest of us.

I mean, at what point do we just say enough and we just got to fight for this, and there's an us and a them in this. Well, I agree. It's a high hurdle here because a lot of people have retreated into their own camps and you've got the whole Fox News audience who might not even see any of this. But I think it's incredibly important for Congress to be doing this bipartisan investigation to really lay down the fact to make the factual record for history. And I've got to think that with a lot of the country watching and polls have indicated that over 60 percent of Americans are open to they want to watch these

hearings. They're open to considering the evidence, connecting the dots, hearing what this conspiracy was all about, and how to make sure it never happens again. I've got a hope that that's going to create some sort of national conversation. And I agree that even as splintered as we are, hopefully the media can focus on it. I mean, look, we remember back to the Benghazi hearings, right? Those were as partisan as you can get. But the Republicans just stuck with it for years. And they made Hillary Clinton come and testify, in fact. And she did. She testified for approximately 11 hours. She went and answered their questions. But they just kept talking about

it over and over again. And it seeped into the public consciousness. And the mainstream media covered it nonstop as well. So that's what my hope is here, is that there's enough conversation around this amongst enough of these splintered groups that there is going there going to be some repercussions from this. But at the tail end of it, if we haven't moved any Republicans, any MAGA Republicans, especially out of their camp, then I agree that Democrats or progressives really have to move forward with the narrative that's going to come out of this hearing, which is that this is a deep-seated conspiracy amongst Trump and MAGA Republicans, and it's still going on, and we need to do everything we can to stop it.

And people need to vote accordingly. Recy. Well, I would be remiss if I didn't say that Liz Cheney ain't shit, okay? She made one halfway decent decision, but she is still a complete enemy of everything that Black people need from an elected official. She voted against the domestic terrorism bill after the Buffalo massacre. She also voted against this great replacement theory, condemnation, even though she tweeted about how thoughts and prayers or whatever the hell she says.

So, fuck her. But as far as these hearings are concerned, it would be very surprised. I'm sorry. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I just had to put that out there because it's still Romar and Unfiltered, okay? I just had to represent. But anyway, as far as these hearings are concerned, I hope sorry. I just had to put that out there, because it's still Romar and Unfiltered, okay? I just had to represent. But anyway, as far as these hearings are concerned,

I hope that they're entertaining. I really do. I hope that there is something really just captivating. I'm encouraged to hear that there's professional movie producers or whoever the situation may be, child, because people want to be entertained right now. If it's not entertaining, nobody gives a damn. So the more theatrical, the more performance nobody gives a damn. So the more theatrical, the more performance, the more captivating, the more juicy, the more tantalizing

it is, the better. If this is a serious little proceedings that go on and it's dry and boring, it's really going to fall flat, okay, just like the Mueller report did. So the bottom line is where the attention span of this country is right now, the Democrats have a very high bar to clear. Fox News folks ain't watching it, OA, and people ain't watching. We ain't going to get no MAGA Republicans. But if we do get people to recognize the severity, as your guest pointed out, of the Secretary of State's elections that are coming up, of the way that there have been people who are forging electors, trying to put forward, forge electors for Donald Trump. And, you know, and how much this is, how much is at stake going forward, not just in 2024,

but in these midterms, maybe then some good will come out of it. But the reality is that anything as appalling and shocking as we're going, anything that's going to shock and appall us is a feature, not a bug for the Republicans. It is a blueprint for them. And I highly doubt that they will be less emboldened to try this the next time. All right. You want to follow that up? Well, again, I agree with so many of those comments, and I think that this is going to be a high hurdle to change minds of MAGA Republicans. That's not going to happen. But I just really feel that these, hopefully, as you said, these hearings are going to be well-produced. They're going to be gripping. They're going to cause conversation. They're going to allow Congress to create a record for history about these things, about these crimes, this conspiracy. And I think that that will all be helpful. Even if it's at the margins, it's important

to do. And it's important also to get accountability. If this can help put pressure on Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice to bring charges against people, maybe even Donald Trump, that's another beneficial aspect that could come out of it. So I'm going to stay optimistic right now, but still absolutely know about the high hurdles that exist in front of us. Larry. Yeah, Roland, I think one of the things we have to do is acknowledge all the work of Chairman Thompson. From his years, decades ago as alderman in Mississippi to today, he was the right person to put in charge of the committee. But the other thing I want to highlight is kind of what Recy talked about in terms of, you know, of Americans. I think that this way it's playing on national television at night, it reminds me a lot of, you know, these reality TV shows. And one of the things I worry about with Americans is that if there's no, you know, twist or term or kind of definitive moment where they're shot, that it will fall

on deaf ears. So I'm really curious to see how this plays out tonight. Like many Americans, I have no idea how this is going to go. But I'm assuming there's going to be at least one significant moment where the committee shares some information that Americans didn't know about, particularly as it relates to President Trump. But it is a tall task, and it will be interesting to watch. And I agree. I think there are going to be some twists and turns in there. I think there's going to be some very compelling witnesses along the way.

They've looked at 140,000 documents and interviewed 1,000 people. There are going to be some things revealed that we don't know, and hopefully the committee will piece it together in a way that is absolutely compelling for the American people. All right, then. Michael Zuzan with the Center for American Progress. We appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thank you. All right, folks. A Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate faces several misdemeanor charges for his role in the January 6th insurrection. Ryan Kelly, an ardent defender of Donald Trump, was arrested today in Western Michigan. Kelly's participation in the insurrection is documented with photos of him in a baseball cap trying to rally the pro-Trump crowd. He is one of five candidates on the August 2nd Republican primary ballot.

The winner will face Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November. Folks, you heard Reesey mention the Great Replacement Theory. That was a resolution that was put forth by Congressman Jamal Bowman folks, you heard Risi mention the great replacement theory. There was a resolution that was put forth by Congressman Jamal Bowman that was voted on today in the U.S. Congress. It's no shock that Republicans did not support it. Now, this is what he tweeted. I just passed a resolution condemning the great replacement theory for the first time in history. The resolution passed 218 to 205 in the House. I received widespread support from the Democratic caucus.

That was the first tweet. There were a series of tweets that he actually sent discussing that. Now, again, I keep telling you all House Republicans and House Republicans, and yeah, two Democrats voted against the resolution. Who are the two Democrats? Find out, please. Bowman stood firm on his stance against the hateful rhetoric. This is what he said today. It takes two things to kill multiple people whom you don't even know. It takes hate and evil in someone's heart and a weapon of mass destruction in their hands.

We know we need gun control. We also need to fight against hate in all of its forms to truly build a multiracial democracy, the one that we all want so desperately. Racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, homophobia, and hate in all forms are choking at the promise of our democracy and regressing us into tribalism. We are so much better than that. In Congress, we must treat both the issue of gun control and the root causes of hate. The great replacement theory believes, believes that only white people are responsible for progress in our society and that the growth of a multiracial and multireligious society is a threat to white

people's existence and the health of our nation. This has spread and infected the minds of so many. It is a conspiracy theory used to stoke racially motivated violence all around the world, from Charlottesville to Christchurch, New Zealand, and recently Buffalo, New York, where a white supremacist wrote a 180-page manifesto citing this conspiracy and then drove more than 200 miles where he carried out a mass shooting in New York, not in the South, in New York State. These are no longer fringe elements of our society. The great replacement theory has gone mainstream thanks to right-wing Republican pundits like Tucker Carlson, who mentioned these theories more than 400 times on the most-watched news network in the country. Top Republican leaders use it as a political weapon. It now threatens our very existence as a democracy and as a society. Our lives and our

sense of safety are threatened. Nazi thinking, veiled as political banter, can no longer go unrecognized and condemned by our nation's legislative body and by the Democratic Party. Our response must be strong and we must demand accountability. ...who voted against the particular measure. Some Democrats complained with the lumping of this into the gun control legislation. Representatives Elisa Slotkin of Michigan. Please, come on. Show it up, please. Go to my iPad. Representatives Elisa Slotkin of Michigan and Jared Golden

of Maine. They voted no. Now, Golden previously opposed gun legislation that was passed in the House. Slotkin said her vote was to protest the way Democratic leadership had lumped the gun control measures together in one package.

But again, just so y'all know, Republicans are real clear when it comes to this whole issue of great replacement theory because it appeals to their white nationalist base. That's just the reality. Alright folks, gotta go to break. We come back.

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And so I love how she said, boom, she put in how much she's paid, what her balance is. And so I appreciate that. Thank you so very much. And I told y'all, our supporters give to us in many different ways, and we appreciate every single dollar. Let me see here. There's a money order here from Dr. Karen Kudge. She says, Thank you for expressing the best perspectives of black people

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Betty, I appreciate that. And so let's see here. So Betty sent us like family photos. Who is this? This is Jeremiah. And so, okay, y'all gonna like this one here. So, okay, I gotta do this one here. I gotta walk up to the camera. So Jeremiah, so this is a pretty funny one here okay anthony i got no no no i gotta do it separate way so i gotta do something different hold on y'all gonna get a kick out of this one here reesey i don't know if your baby do this i don't know so it looks like when we are on the show j Jeremiah is all up on the TV screen

watching Uncle Roro do what he do. So Betty sent in the photos showing me how little man is all up on the television when we alive. So Betty, so Jeremiah is one years old. See, I told y'all, y'all got to get him young. That's how you keep him for a long time. So, I appreciate that.

Thank you so very much, Betty, for sending these photos of Jeremiah, and hopefully y'all are watching the show as we speak. All right, folks, got to go to a break. We'll be right back a powerful movement is rising across america from the mississippi delta to the apache stronghold from the homeless encampments of washington state to the coal fields of appalachia of West Virginia. We are the 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this country, and we are building

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Welcome back to Roland Martin Unfiltered. Now, in Arizona, a Trump-backed U.S. Senate candidate assaulted a man in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt at a GOP event. Watch this. Holy God. Sure. a man in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt at a GO. Hey. Right now. Out. Out.

Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Okay, you locked the door. Come on in. You can't hit a woman. What the hell is wrong with you?

Who do you think you are? Move. You know what? I'm a retired policeman. Your conduct is abhorrent. The master has claimed a 73-year-old protester punched a woman moments before the recording, and he had to intervene. This is the same black Masters, black Blake, who blamed gun violence in America on black people? Yep, that's the same one.

And, of course, there's no shock that that's who Donald Trump has endorsed for the United States Senate. This is one of the four seats Democrats hold right now that they are trying to hold on to in the midterm elections. Yeah, that's today's Republican Party, just so you know. You see right there how people really get all bent out of shape when it comes to Black Lives Matter. We've seen people actually try to paint over images on streets where they have it just outside of our studios here in Washington, D.C. We're on Black Lives Matter Plaza, and some have called for that to be taken up. Well, a California businessman is suing the U.S. Postal Service for seizing boxes containing Black Lives Matter masks.

Rene Cadonez, shipment to demonstrators in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Minneapolis were labeled seized by law enforcement in 2020. Rene is the owner of Movement, Inc. He joins me from Oakland, California, along with his attorney, Jabba Deshuzad-Avely. Hope I got it right. Jabba, did I get it right? It was close enough. First of all, go ahead and pronounce it. Go ahead and get it right.

It's Jabba Tshuashvili. Tshuashvili. Okay, Jabba, we got it. All right, then. So you're with the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia. Okay, so, R, what what what happened? You were shipping masks. How did they seize them? Well, actually, that's a question we would like to know as well. It was a typical order. I've been shipping with the Postal Service for many years at that same post office.

We were shipping masks right at the beginning of the raging pandemic to protect communities that were out there protesting the police violence against unarmed black and brown men in our communities. And, you know, it was just face mask that we printed for the BLM movement. And so they seized them. And so how long did they hold them? And what reasoning did they give for this? Well, I think they held them for about 24 hours, but the way that we had shipped them, they were supposed to arrive the following morning. So because the protest began the following day. So holding them for any amount of time and delaying them really put our community at risk. The reasoning that they gave us, they the post office said that they resemble packages that could have been unmailable material, whatever that means, and that they were going to high high drug traffic areas. I mean, I think for in America can be considered a high drug traffic area. So. Mask, we're going to a high traffic area. So mask, we're going to a high traffic area. High. I don't even, even knowing what the hell that means. Jabba, your thoughts. Yeah, sure. So, you know, just to even find out this

information was a long haul for Rene. He had to submit Freedom of Information Act requests, appeal, how much of those requests were then redacted. But ultimately, what we learned through the Postal Service's own internal notes was that they had no legitimate reason or any actual suspicion that would justify these seizures, right? Their own notes say, like Renee mentioned, that the packages were being shipped from one high drug area to another. Now, frankly, that could apply to just about any large city or maybe even just about any city in the country. The other justifications were just as absurd.

They said that the reasons were that the boxes were taped on all sides. So, again, that applies to, that could apply to just about any Amazon package that we all get every day. And they said that the masks were sent by a frequent shipper of packages, which, again, that could apply to any small or large business in the country. So at the end of the day, even crediting the Postal Service's own explanations and internal explanations for what happened here, this was an egregious and blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable and suspicionless seizures and searches of personal property. Um, it-it...

So... their explanation, again, for... given... And so, are they suggesting that your suit is without merit? Well, they haven't responded to the suit yet. We filed the suit yet. We filed the suit last week. They have 60 days to file a formal response in court to the suit. So we'll see what exactly they say in response.

But frankly, what we're expecting is not a response on the merits, a response that tries to justify their conduct. What we're expecting is them to invoke various court-created immunities that protect federal officials from lawsuits at all. You know, many people have probably heard of qualified immunity, which shields law enforcement and other government officials from lawsuits and makes it really hard to sue them. Well, in a situation like this, where you're suing federal officers, there's an added layer of immunity known as Bivens immunity. So what we're expecting them to do is invoke various kinds of essentially non-merits-based justifications for why this suit should be tossed out.

Rene, have you had any issues with your packages since? Well, we really don't use the postal service anymore. There's other private shipping companies that we prefer to use now because of this. All right, then. Well, look, we will certainly keep us abreast of what happens in this particular case here. It is still strange that there was a mask and all of a sudden that was a problem shipping them. So thank you so very much. Thank you. All right. Renee, thank you so very much. All right, folks.

It's a story of Tennessee that I've found to be quite interesting and weird, and that is the only black-owned radio station in Tennessee is at risk of losing its license from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is threatening to revoke Joe Armstrong's license for WBJF after Armstrong failed to report his conviction for falsifying tax returns. Armstrong's lawyer, Andrew Ward, defended Armstrong in this statement. He said, This conviction has nothing to do with the station, and we believe it is an injustice to use this against him.

He continues to provide a valuable service running WJBE, which is important to the community of Knoxville. He served his probation successfully, paid his fine, and had his civil rights restored. He has done everything the criminal justice system has asked him to do. Now, Armstrong revived the radio station in 2012. Owned by James Brown in the 60s and 70s, WBJF was the only black-oriented radio station in East Tennessee.

Now, what's strange here, Larry, is that they say that he didn't note this on subsequent paperwork about this tax issue. But this is not like it was a violation of indecency standards. So, you know, I can get it if you say we'll issue a fine, but literally snatching the license? So I guess Republicans wouldn't consider this an overreach because it just doesn't add up. And so, as the attorney highlighted, the two issues are not related. In addition, you highlighted, Rowan, that this station plays a critical role as it relates to important topics, relating information to the Black community. So this station is a community jewel.

And as you highlighted before, it burned around for decades. So once again, this is an overreach by the government, and it makes absolutely no sense. I'm sorry to hear that they're trying to take the license away, but I'm hoping some federal officials will, you know, send a letter to find out what's going on and support efforts to make sure that he can keep his license and the station can continue to provide a vital resource in the Black community. Reesey?

Yeah, you know, when did the FCC start doing anything again? I haven't heard about shit that they're doing. So this whole dams the rules situation when it comes to a Black radio station is very convenient. So this definitely just seems excessive, and

it's in the public interest to have a Black-owned radio station operating. And so hopefully the owner, you know, you're not supposed to falsify documents. I understand that you're supposed to follow the rules. I understand that. But at the end of the day, this is a major factor in terms of black owned radio. And so hopefully they do the right thing on this one, because we know that there's Donald Trump, God damn, didn't pay his taxes. And he has all kinds of tax shit and he's still off somewhere getting Secret Service protection

living his best life. So I think they can go ahead and find somebody else to have the license or whatever fine they have to get through, do that because this is definitely excessive. Greg? Yeah, I agree. I mean, again, I mean, this is

where we have to, the words you used earlier, pressure is very important. It's extremely important. I mean, is he being persecuted? I mean, this is a guy who was a Democratic state rep in Tennessee. They convicted him in 2016 of making a false statement on his 2008 tax return because he had failed to disclose some income based on selling some cigarette tax stamps that wasn't illegal to do. And then he filed later. He paid for what he had done, and then he filed later in terms of FCC filings related to the station, and he filed a little late.

And you look at it and say, well, this is kind of a technicality. Why are y'all drilling down on this? And you can't help but think it's political. And parenthetically, the previous story that you covered, Roland, talking there about the brother from the West Coast, you heard the counselor evoke the Bivens rule. This is what Recy was talking about. This is what Recy was talking about at the beginning of the show, the Egbert versus Boulay decision that the Supreme Court put down last week, no, yesterday, on the Fourth Amendment, unreasonable search and seizure. I'm raising that to say that, you know, as the government begins to or continues to kind

of try to protect itself from doing whatever the hell it wants to do, whether it be federal border agents in terms of the application of Bivens in that case, or in the one we just heard, opening your mail and having somebody pay for something that they already paid for in terms of the damn post office, or in this case, having something else that we paid for, namely federal oversight in terms of the FCC, used as a cudgel against a black man in East Tennessee with a black radio station, you can't help but sit back and think to yourself, is this a matter of the rules, or is this just a matter of politics being played?

And so, whereas Congressman Barbara Lee intervened in this post office case and forced them to at least say, well, your package looks suspicious, which got them a step further, or whether, in this case, we need to put the hammer down on whoever is over at the FCC and perhaps get some members of Congress to write some letters over there on behalf of one-time Representative Armstrong. We've got to get involved in the political process and put pressure on people, because this is patently absurd.

Yeah, and again, folks, understand the FCC governs all broadcast licenses. So we're talking about radio stations, television stations. They don't govern cable. And so, y'all, pulling of a license is extremely rare. I mean, it is very, very rare when that action is taken in this country. And so we'll see what happens there. I got to go to break. We're going to come back and we're going to talk about this Georgetown professor who acted a fool over Judge Katonji Brown

Jackson. They suspended him. Then he got reinstated. Then he quit. Then he went over to the Manhattan Institute with a whole bunch of other racists. So we'll tell you about that. And Resee, you may have to stop cussing because when Betty sent

this letter, this is what she said that the little man, Jeremiah, she said, I have a granddaughter who has a 15 month old son. She works at night and I take care of him. Night she works, he's an energetic, intelligent boy. He comes running when he hears your music. He loves to look at you on your introduction to your show. His name is Jeremiah and he is so excited and happy when he sees you, as you can tell by the pictures I enclosed.

He pays attention to everything you say. Well, just mute me. You can mute me. One has to wonder if you somehow are reaching him on a level that we cannot understand. And so she sent the photos and her donation. on a level that we cannot understand. And so she sent the photos and her donation as Betty knows and JJ.

So look, Reesey, you know, you're gonna have to like, you know, sign language your cousin. So Jeremiah ain't hearing this on Thursdays. Okay. Let me also shout out Suley, Craig Williams, and Todd Williams. And

I sort of appreciate your donation. And let's see here. Okay, who's this here? They sent some cash. Ardo's Plumbing. They sent a whole bunch of cards. So sent their cash and they said, every single step you take gets you closer to your goal.

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That were two. So, that were two. I appreciate that. Let's see here. Roland, thank you for this platform of truth. Sincerely, truth be told. I read him earlier. George Daniels, I love the work that you do

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And Tanya Robinson. Tanya, I appreciate that. And Larry and Greg, we got a frat brother who sent this here. And they just went all out. Let's see. Hello, Roland. I gained much insight from watching you and all your broadcasts. Uniform, educate, and catechize current racial events in a profound manner.

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That's a loving show. And shout out to Dr. Jackie. So Merle is, I guess Merle is a delta. So it says Merle J. Merle J. Lucky. All right, so again. All right then, well, cool.

And so these were greetings cards done by Lydia Hallam. Okay, all right, Lydia. That's nice. We got to find out what you do with were greeting cards done by Lydia Hallam. Okay, all right, Lydia. That's nice. We're going to find out what you do with greeting cards. So I always give a shout out to y'all. Okay, real quick break. We're coming back with our last story. You're watching Roland Martin Unfiltered on the Black Star Network.

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university law professor, says he's a free man after resigning from the university this week. Ilya Shapiro's resignation comes months after the controversial tweets he made about President Biden choosing, quote, a lesser black woman for Supreme Court justice. He said, quote, because Biden said he's only considered black women for SCOTUS, this nominee will always have the asterisk attached,

fitting that the court takes up affirmative action next term. Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid, proud, and very smart, even has identity politics, benefit of being first Asian, parentheses, American, but alas, doesn't fit into latest intersexuality hierarchy, so we'll get lesser black woman. Thanks, heaven, for small favors. Shapiro was scheduled to start work at the University on February 1st, but was immediately placed on administrative leave of the University. Investigators remarked people were very pissed off, many students and faculty. The investigation concluded last week and Shapiro was reappointed to his position, but he resigned, claiming the University was a place that did not value free speech. Now,

the University responded, saying Georgetown urged its members of our community to engage in robust and respectful dialogue. Our speech and expression policy promotes free and open inquiry, deliberation, and debate and does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial, or objectionable.

Now, here's what's interesting. Shapiro, y'all, did announce the next day he was taking a job at the Manhattan Institute. Hmm. Who works at the Manhattan Institute. Hmm. Who works at the Manhattan Institute? Oh, Christopher Ruffo, the one who has been leading the charge against critical race theory. And also, Heather McDonnell,

that white nationalist, white woman who's always talking about policing and blaming everything on black people. This ain't no shot where he ended up here, Greg. John McWhorter used to work for, I wonder if he's still over there. He's still there. John McWhorter used to work for him. I wonder if he's still over there. He's still there. John McWhorter, he's still there. Oh, yeah.

But you know what's interesting, Roland? I'm not torn about this. I mean, you know, I have friends on the faculty at Georgetown Law, and it is difficult because this guy has a platform. He wrote op-eds about this in the Wall Street Journal. He supported this guy at Princeton

named Katz, who came out against critical race theory. And it becomes difficult, I think, because part of the thing that he used to defend himself at Georgetown, he said, there are professors on this faculty who came out strongly against the leaked opinion in Roe versus Wade. And he evoked a professor, I think, in the School of Foreign Relations or Foreign Service at Georgetown and said, you didn't do anything to hurt. I think what drove this more than anything else was student complaints. So we have to be, I think, careful because we live in a society where, yes, this might be very satisfying in this specific instance, but you know how many black women and men on faculties around this country

have been assaulted, claiming that they are outlandish? I think, you know, I have to sit back and think about this for a minute, because I think it was the student complaints that really kind of pushed Georgetown to act as quickly as it did. And really, Larry, you're on faculty there. We're living in a world where students ain't taking the same shit they did before. The students are not like, shut up, be quiet. They're the faculty. No, there are students who are saying, I'm sorry, I don't want to be taught by a racist.

So something similar happened at UCF. A professor who was tweeting a bunch of nonsense and eventually was fired from UCF. Unfortunately, he was recently reinstated. So I think I want to go back to this story. If you're going to tweet about black folks, make sure you capitalize the B, first of all. Second of all, Roland, you're right. I work in higher education.

If a student complains, you have a a problem and so he found out quickly i think the interesting thing is he had he made sure he had somewhere soft to land before he got out of there right so that's the really key thing to keep in mind is he already had a job job set up and he wrote all those op-eds in washington uh wall street journal etc but he knew he had a place. He already had a place to go. He probably signed a contract, already had a handshake agreement. So he's not like he's out, you know, really sacrificing himself on behalf of right wingers. He's really just toting the same line we hear about CRT and also, you know, denigrating black folks, et cetera. I want to give Reese a opportunity to chat real quick because the Democrats are coming into the hearing.

Go ahead and pull it up, please. Reese, your comment on this issue. I'll keep it quick. Go to hell, Ilya. He just wants to be a victim because ultimately, Dr. Carr, he got his job. He decided he wanted to quit so that he can be a martyr of sorts for, you know, anti-woke, whatever the situation may be. So here's another white man getting to say whatever the hell he wants to say, no matter how racist it is.

And the reparations paying Georgetown let it slide. That's the story of white people in academia.