>> Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
was called out on his own hypocrisy involving
police brutality. This happened during an
interview on Anderson Cooper's show. And something
pretty interesting happened, take a look
>> Through the sheriff I reached out to, the
mayor didn't want suppor, the sheriff did,
and we took action.
>> Right, I just think at a time like this,
only pointing out what you say are Democratic
failures, which I understand wanting Joe Biden
to say something that he hasn't said. But
not actually pointing out silence, you said
silence is complicity on Democrats' part.
The President has not even addressed the shooting
of Mr. Blake.
Now I understand there's an ongoing investigation.
And it's very important, because for all we
know, some circumstances may arise that would
more fully inform everybody's opinion about
what happened. Because we would know what
preceded this, or what was in the officer's
minds, or did this person have a gun?
Did this person have a weapon, which seems
the police say, looks like we lost your signal.
Well, we apologize for the signal loss, but
we appreciate Governor Walker's time, sorry,
live television.
>> So JR, I don't know, we might be unfair
to him. Maybe he was trying to fix his camera
angle and accidentally turned the camera off,
I don't know.
Maybe we should give him the benefit of the
doubt, what do you think?
>> I'm not sure in which scenario. First of
all, I was just amazed that those bars came
up. Like that right there, those rainbow bars,
I was like, that happens? Next we're gonna
see the static, those old school TVs like.
I was like, what is that? Like this has concluded
tonight's, like remember, 1 AM in the morning
or something back in the day, cuz I'm that
old, when TV would go off. It'd be late enough
that-
>> Yeah, I do remember that.
>> We ended our broadcast day, and it was
like.
And you wake up in the middle of the night
like, I fell asleep in front of the TV, I'm
seeing static. Like, that doesn't happen anymore,
I'm more amazed that those bars came up. Cuz
I have no idea how once you turn something
off, or if you accidentally disconnect something,
that rainbow bars pop up, I'm impressed.
>> Apparently they do. I love that's your
takeaway from this. And you know what, I don't
blame you, because Scott Walker is gonna Scott
Walker, right? So I don't know if he intentionally
turned off the camera, because he can't handle
the heat. But Anderson Cooper, to his credit,
was making a pretty good point, right?
So this whole thing about silence is you being
complicit, that's what they accuse Democrats
of. Well, I mean, we're seeing a lot of complicit
behavior by Republican lawmakers. Who either,
first of all the worst kind, try to make excuses
for the slaughter of black people by police
officers throughout the country.
And then there are those who just sit by quietly
and don't address the issue at all. Now, Walker
has addressed the issue in the past, I wanna
fast forward to some of these graphics. And
also note that former Governor Walker was
very much in favor of what the McCloskeys
did in pointing their guns at protesters as
they marched past their home, right?
So he's in favor of certain individuals practicing
their second amendment rights. But when it
comes to other people, well, he would use
the exact same action to justify a police
shooting. So let me give you the details,
so here's a previous statement from Walker.
This isn't the America I grew in, we've seen
racial tensions worsen and a tendency to use
law enforcement as scapegoat.
This kind of attitude has created a culture
in which we all too often see demonstrations
and chants where people describe police as
pigs and call for them to be fried like bacon.
Okay, so I wanna actually address the chants,
because that's a common thing that right wingers
like to bring, I don't care.
First of all it happened during one protest,
and they love to like latch on to that as
justification for murder, right? For people
to get murdered, that's what they latch on
to. What happened to like words don't matter,
right? What happened to, well, you shouldn't
need a a safe space from words you don't like
to hear.
Who cares what they're chanting. What matters
is who's getting harmed physically, who's
losing their lives, who's getting killed.
And we've seen multiple examples, endless
examples of where the issue really is.
>> Yeah, I mean, you've got the guns, you
got the law behind you. You got politicians
on both sides of the aisle, by the way, behind
you in everything that you do.
So what are you worried about what someone
says, what name they call you? They actually
don't, they use it as an excuse to continue
their actions, to keep it real. Because if
anybody really wants to read how in depth
this is, the Plainview Project, plainviewproject.org,
go to it.
You can scroll through countless Facebook
posts, social media posts, they were done
by police officers. Police officers also responding
to social media posts saying some extremely
disgusting things that have nothing to do
with frying or pigs. But what they call citizens,
and what they say they wanna do to them, and
how they laugh about it?
Well, I feel like pigs and frying is the least
offensive thing you can think of compared
to some of the things they say before they
go back to work and carry out those actions.
So that's the part, I mean, I also wouldn't
care if they decide to just talk trash about
people every once in a while.
But then after you talk trash about them,
you go out and you make it happen. You fulfill
those promises of what you wanna do to citizens.
And you do them, and walk back away, and say,
I'm just gonna go back to work, because I
know my department has my back.
So there's empty names and slogans, cuz someone's
mad about what you've done to them. And then
there's the people who are carrying it out,
and saying far worse things, and then doing
it some more. Which one are you gonna be offended
by, really?
>> Right, I'm gonna give you a few more statements
and then debunk some of what Scott Walker
says.
Not because Scott Walker matters, but because
this is the type of rhetoric that gets parroted
by others who justify police murder. He says,
police officers across the country need to
know that we have their back. As I've done
throughout my career, I will continue to have
the backs of police officers, sheriff's deputies,
and state troopers and treat them with the
respect they deserve.
No law enforcement officer should fear to
do their job the way he or she was trained
to do it. And no law abiding citizens should
fear for their safety from those sworn to
protect us. But I wanna be clear that the
America that Scott grew up in, right, was
actually much more dangerous for police than
it is now.
Because the way that they frame this in their
efforts to defend police is, my god, I mean,
it's a dangerous world, dangerous country.
Their lives are always being risked while
they do these jobs. But when you look at the
numbers, you see that this country is actually
a lot safer for police officers today as opposed
to decades ago.
Historical data for instance show that the
job of an officer is still safer today than
it was 30 years ago. Following a spike in
officer deaths during the infancy of the War
on Drugs, police deaths have been declining
for the past three decades. According to statistics
reported to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers
were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2019.
Of these, 48 officers died as a result of
felonious acts. Now, law abiding citizens,
however, continue to be shot down year after
year at rates unlike any other wealthy country.
In fact, let's take a look at this graph from
the Prison Policy Initiative. Which shows
you what the United States looks like in regard
to the total number of people killed by law
enforcement in the most recent year the data
was available, compared to all these other
countries.
You see Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands,
England and Wales, Japan, New Zealand, Iceland,
Norway. I mean, come on, the United States
is off the charts.
>> Yep, so when you look at charts like this,
this is one of those instances where I wish
someone had a chance to confront someone who
decides to say that policing is doing just
fine.
What one of Scott Walker's quotes was, is
that like they shouldn't be afraid to do their
job they've been trained to do. Well, this
is what their training has resulted in in
comparison to other countries. There's only
two conclusions you can come up with, police
are overzealous with killing people or Americans
are just really bad people.
And specifically the number of Americans you
kill, certain Americans that you kill, it
means they're particularly even worse people
than other bad Americans that we got. Cuz
we gotta kill them on the streets, they're
all bad, right? Or there's circumstances that
create those situations, or there's overzealous
cops.
So you gotta choose, are cops overzealous
or are Americans bad? Cuz both of those things
sound bad for a politician to say. American's
don't wanna hear you say, yo, Americans, you
guys suck. It's not gonna work, and also you
can't go against your police. So this is when
like facts and figures need to be confronted
to have people really get the answer.
Cuz you just throw out names and support for
people, but never actually talk about why
you support them.
