The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Emma Gonzalez and Matt Deitsch Disarm Tensions with The March for Our Lives

Episode Date: August 20, 2018

March For Our Lives organizers Emma Gonzalez and Matt Deitsch recall some of the safety concerns and direct threats they've faced from counterprotesters. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that I wanted you to share with the audience, please. So I'm usually the one, me and David usually go up to the counter-protesters at our events and usually we have more people attend our events than obviously counter-protest. Right. But at one of our events in Dallas, there was a group of 10 people that were harassing people coming into our event. So we went and distracted them so that people could get into our event peacefully. And at the end of our conversation, they all agreed, for the most part,

with all of our policy. And so the next day in Houston, we were all excited. And so the next day in Houston, we're all excited to do that again. And the people were the basically it's like always divided right so it's like they're on the other side of the street and we have a permit so they like can't really come over to what we're doing and so they're like how life should be yeah and and they're they're mostly armed to the teeth like they have like guns on the try so they're try to show you that like hey the the the the kid yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids the the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the the the the the the the the the kids the the the the the the kids the the the the the the the the the the the kids the kids the kids the kids the kids the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the they. I I I I I they. they. they. the the the they. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the today. So I'm on the other side of the street now from our event.

And I'm talking to this man. He's about six, four, long beard. He is a camoskirt on, and he has a rifle, rifle, handgun, knife. And we're talking about extreme risk protection orders and he's agreeing with what I'm saying. And this woman was at our our the other side and she got in a screaming match with someone in a mom's demand action shirt and she got kicked out of our event and was back on the

other side and she has a handgun on her waist and she's pointing at me and she's saying, he has to go back to his side of the street. And I'm like, I'm having a conversation and she goes, no, he has to go back back back back back back back back back back back large man, scary man, puts his arm around me and says, he's staying, I like him. And she goes, no, he has to go right now. And he puts his hand on his gun. And she puts her hand on his gun, or her gun. And I pick his hand up from my shoulder, and I start to walk away. But that was the only time on this entire this entire this entire this entire this entire th th th the entire th the entire that was the only time on this entire tour where I feared for my life because this

was between two people who came to counter-protest us and one guy who was willing to start something because she wanted me to leave. And this is, there's another story where we were watching. Wait, wait, where's Beard Man now? I don't know where he is now, but... We don't know how the story ended. We lose tackle. I walked away, so to disarm the tension,

because they were about to have a shootout about me staying or not. No, Beard Man was like defending your life and you just walked away? I didn't want that to happen right there. I don't want to shoot out to have. Have you even tried to like search for him on Instagram or be like, you know how many bearded men? We met, you had guns, I was young. I know he's fighting for, I know he's fighting for extreme protection orders in Texas. Okay, okay. What else has happened to you this be prison? Tell the other, the other, the an interrary story. So we, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we the the the. We the the the the. We had. We the. We the. We the, we met. We the, we the, we the, we the, we the, we the, we the. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we met. We met. We met. We met. We met. We met. We met. We met, we met. We met. We met, we met, we met, we met. We met, we met, we met. We met. We met. We met. We met. We Douglas. And if the shooting never happened, me, him and our friend Jamal who designed these shirts would be selling t-shirts this summer. And so on his 18th birthday, we wanted to make it a really positive event, and we were going to be in Fairfax,

so we had snow cones and sunflowers outside the NRA. And we had about 1, 1,500 painting, there's art, and then there's a like a barricade we shut down the street is the first time that street has ever been shut down ever. Right. And so we shut down that street and on the other side there's about 25 people armed with some kids there and I wanted to go see who is over there so I get to the barrier and I need to say real quick they were screaming very profane things. They were they were screaming over people's speeches, they were calling us morons, they were screaming over Waki and Oliver's father painting the mural that was 18 candles for his son's birthday saying things like you guys don't know anything about what you're talking about. I just need to set the stage, thank you. So I have a snow cone of Sunflower and I walk over to to the the barrier and there's a few armed armed officers there trying to disarm any tension and I just look over and I see this large woman

with her arm around her daughter and she's screaming, Uranium One, why aren't we talking about Uranium One? And under her arm is this little girl, probably like eight or nine years old in a Confederate flag t-shirt. And I always remember what we learned from Ambassador Andrew Young and John Lewis they say hate is something that is taught. Never, you're not born with hate. And so I'm looking at this girl that's what I'm thinking of and this image will never leave my head because I look at her eyes and I see all she wanted was to come over and get a snow cone, and I knew her mom was holding her and not letting her come over. And I wanted to go over there and they wouldn't let me. And so it's that kind of divide where we're not having a conversation where we're not coming together in a positive way that is creating this hate intention.

Because there's no reason the eight-year-old girl should be having a Confederate t-fied t-t-shirt and be denied the-a-a-fied-fied-a-a-a-nosed-nosed-nosed-nosed-nosed-oedededededed-nosed-o-nosed-o-shirt and be denied a snow cone. Right. Just give her the fucking snow cone. So did you eat the snow cone? My friend actually dropped it on the floor right after. Mine fell too. I think that's just how snow cones go at the end of the day. They get there, they get rown away or they fall or... I was helping register voters. And I dropped your snow.

How long do you hold a snow cone for? It's for the greater good, Matt. You can register it. It was like five minutes. It was really good though. I love that you're out there talking to people say some of the things they do to you because it's a... I honestly, I've never seen something the way I've seen with these kids where people turn the victims into perpetrators somehow. It's honestly one of the weirdest morphings of an issue I've ever come across in my life.

You mean like every other issue in America? Well not, no, no, no, not genuinely. you say that, but you guys have been through. It it it it it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, thi, thi, they. th. their, their, their, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I. the, I, I. the, I, I, I. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the they. the the they. the the th. th. th. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th that, that, that, the the that, the the the guys have been through, it's a special type of thing. So I, that's why I say, ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you.

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