The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Where Are the "Good Apples" Among America's Police?

Episode Date: April 17, 2021

Trevor reflects on the ever-present occurrence of deadly police violence against Black people in the U.S. and the seeming lack of cops willing to rise up and take a stand against it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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September 17. What's going on, everybody? I've been watching these police encounters that have been all over the news over the past few days. The question I kept finding myself asking when I was watching the video of the lieutenant who gets pulled over by the cops. He's in military fatigues, right? One of the troops. He's being treated trash by the cops and not like just as a

troop as a human being. He's being treated like trash. They claim they were afraid but there's only one person exhibiting fear in that video and it's him. And I found myself watching that video over and over again and I realized it's because I had one question that that kept on nagging in my brain. And the question was, where are the good apples? Because we're told time and time again that these incidents that black Americans are experiencing are because of bad apples, right? There are bad apples in these police departments who are doing these things.

They use chokeholes that are not allowed. They use excessive force. They're violent and their words and their actions so the people they're meant to be protecting and serving. These are bad apples. We've got to root them out of the force. My question, though, is that the police system in America, the system of policing itself is not fundamentally broken, then we would need to see good apples.

And by the way, I'm not saying that there are no good police men. Don't get me wrong, I'm asking where the good apples are. And what I mean by that is, where are the cops who are stopping the cop from putting their knee on George Floyd's neck? Because there's not one cop at that scene. There's one cop who's on trial, but there's not one cop at that scene. You know? Where are the other cops when Philando Castile is losing his life.

Like, where are the cops? You know, where are the good apples? Because it's funny how we live in a society where people who defend these cops at old costs will say, oh, black on black crime, and you see these people in their communities, they don't care that. But go to any black community, any disenfranchised community in America, and you will find people marching against that same crime.

You'll find community leaders, you'll find parents, you'll find siblings, you find people constantly saying, please, we need to stop the gangs, we see the community doing something. I mean, the fact, they call, their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th, th, th, th stop the gangs, you see the community doing something. I mean, the fact they call 911 when something happens, that tells you something. But I don't seem to see that with the cops. We don't see a mass uprising of police saying, let's root out these people. We don't see videos of police officers stopping the other cop from pushing an old man at a black lives matter protest or from beating up a kid in the street with a baton. We don't see that. So my question is where are the good apples? And honestly I believe we don't see

them not because there are no good people on the police force. I think there are many people who are good on the police force. That's why they join because they want to do good but I thi thi's their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their toeaughananamamamuu. their. toeck. toeckoesp. toe. toe. toe. toe. their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. toeateateateateateateateateateauuuuu. toeau. toea. toe. toe.a. toe.a. toe.a.a.a. toe. toe.a.a. They're toea.they want to do good. But I think it's because they themselves know that if they do something, they're going against the system. The system is more powerful than any individual. The system in policing is doing exactly what it's meant to do in America. And that is to keep poor people in their place. Who happens to be the most poor in America? Black people. You monetize them, you imprison them,

which monetizes them again. It's a system. It's not broken. It's working the way it's designed to work. And once you realize that, I feel like you get to a place where you go, oh, we're not dealing with bad apples. We're dealing with a rotten tree that happens to grow good apples. But for the most part, the tree that was planted is bearing the fruit that it was intended to.

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You're rolling? But that's all about to change. Like none of this stuff gets looked at. That's what's incredible. I'm Seth Done of CBS News, listen to 60 Minutes, a second look on Apple podcasts starting September 17th.