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cided he's leaving the World Health Organization. Now, maybe it's still in negotiation, because I'm sure if they gave him what he wanted he would get back in. But I think it's a strong move because Trump always does the thing that everybody says, "Well, you can't do that," and then he does it and then people say, "Okay, that worked." By closing travel from China, people said you can't do that, an…
← Previous segment →ke to the African-American man who was chasing him down to figure out what was going on. I think he talked to him. So at least there's one person who would know if he had an accent. But I don't think he did because I think we can hear a little bit on the video. So he sounded American.
And he did say he was going to take it, go with the guy, because he was much bigger than the guy who was chasing him. And then he just walked away. Yeah, he was a professional of some sort. So when you say that there was rioting going on, you can't leave him out of the story. You can't leave him out of the story. He caused it. Who was he? We want to know.
All right, that was interesting. There's something good happening and something bad happening at the same time. I'm going to get into that a little bit. But first I want to ask you about how confident you are that what you saw on the video of the cop killing George Floyd — how confident are you that what you saw in that video, I mean you saw it with your own eyes, lots of people saw it, there were eyewitnesses. How confident are you that what you saw gives you an accurate impression of what happened?
Because if you say to yourself, I know what happened because I saw it on video and I saw it with my own eyes, you have learned nothing. You've learned nothing. Where have you been for the last four years? If there's anything that is guaranteed to be true, it's video lies.
Now, did the video lie so much that there was no crime committed? I doubt it, because it looked like a crime to me. So I'm going to be very careful when I talk about this next topic because it'd be really easy for somebody to take me out of context. It looked to me like murder. It looked to you like murder. We all think it looked like murder.
I think then we learned from the autopsy that he didn't die from the knee on his neck, at least that wasn't the single cause. He didn't have a scientific cause of asphyxiation. Now the speculation, subject to more study, is that what killed him was probably some combination of effects. Some probably something about the way he was restrained, something about the way they were on top of him, something about the intoxicants perhaps, we don't know what were in him, something about underlying conditions he had or heart condition and hypertension, and it was a tense situation. Maybe all those things. Maybe it was a combination of all of those things.
But apparently he was not asphyxiated or strangled by the knee. They say they can tell. Can they tell? They seem pretty confident about it, but they said they can tell.
Now does the video lie? Well, the video I saw when I made my decision that he was clearly and obviously a murderer murdering a guy right in front of us, the video I saw showed only one person on the suspect. That's the one you saw too, just one person. Yeah, he had his knee on the guy's neck. But then we saw it later. We saw a reverse view and it shows that there were three cops on him. One was on the neck, one was I think more in the back, and one was sort of controlling the legs. So that's what we saw.
Now that's very different than one guy on him, right? So if you said to yourself, okay, I saw this video, I know exactly what happened. That cop, he killed the guy. What you didn't see is right beside him, behind the bumper, were two other cops on him. What's up with that?
Now it gets a little more complicated because I didn't see that in the first video. Do you know what else you didn't see? You didn't see any video of just before they took him down. You saw the video when he first got out of the car and you saw the video when it was like a few minutes before the end of the man's life. What you didn't see is why three cops were on top of him.
Now I'm not going to say that excuses anybody. So here's, I'm going to block anybody who imagines that I'm saying the cops are innocent. Okay? And I know that's going to happen. Somebody in the comments is going to say, oh you're saying the cops are innocent. I'm not saying that. I'm just talking about the facts we know and the facts we don't know. So I will block you the moment you imagine I'm saying that.
Okay, so let's look at what we've got here. We're going to the whiteboard. Here's the, I don't know if it's the simulation winking at us, but this might be more good news than bad, what I'm going to show you next.
Remember when Kaepernick did his protest and he famously took a knee? And that of course created great division in the country. People on the right said, oh you're disrespecting our country. People on the left said, well there's a good reason. It's a perfectly legitimate protest. And so there was great division in the country. And so that lasted a while, never really healed. It was just sort of we stopped talking about it for a while.
Now we have this situation where the policeman kills a black man by putting a knee on his neck. Now when I tweeted about this, some people thought I was joking. This isn't funny. Why would this be funny? It's murder or something like it. I mean somebody got killed. Nothing funny about that.
It is however potentially powerful, and powerful in this specific way that nobody in the world can miss the show because of the weirdness that's baked into it. That the protest would be taking a knee and then sort of what I would call the final straw, the moment when every single white person said, oh okay, that's what you're talking about. Now some of us were already there. Many of us were already there that the police can sometimes be abusive. We all know that that's true. We hope it's not the majority, but we know it's true.
At this point I think the entire country got red pilled or white pilled or whatever pill that is. Because what exactly is going through your head? So here's the question. What is going through your head when you go to protest racial discrimination, especially with the police? You show up in the city and there are more white people there to protest with you than there are black people.
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are you seeing the same thing I'm seeing? There are more white people protesting this latest event than there are black people, I think by a lot. How do you feel if you're Black Lives Matter and you show up and you think it's you against, I don't know, white people? Who do you think is on the other side? Who's on the other side? Because you look around and the people who are supporting you are all…
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