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(cheers and applause)first up, did you guys see the shooting that happened two daysago? because don't worry, if youmissed it, there was another one yesterday. baton rouge, louisiana andfalcon heights, minnesota. two videos in two days of policefatally shooting two blackmen who, when you watch the video,did nothing to warrant them losing their lives. you know the hardest part ofhaving a conversation
surrounding police shootings inamerica, it always feels like in america, it's like if you take astand for something, you automatically are againstsomething else. such a strange world to be in. you're either a cat person or adog person. you know, you're a red sox oryou're a yankees. when you text, you type lol orha ha ha! personally i'm lol. i know a lot of people are ha haha, and i respect that.
the point is we can cometogether and hate those who type lol lol lol lol lol lol. you can't laugh out loud, ha haha ha ha. it should be one way or theother. but police shootings, itshouldn't work that way. for instance, if you're pro"black lives matter" you're assumed to be anti-police, andif you're pro police, you're assumed to hate black people. when in reality, you can be procop and pro-black, which is what
we should all be! (applause)that's what we should be aiming for. i guess technically that meansyou could also be anti-cop and anti-black which would make you,i don't know, mel gibson, i don't know. (laughter)but the point is you shouldn't have to choose between thepolice and the citizens that they are sworn to protect.
you know what makes theseincidents even more painful is the fact there are some peoplewho don't even think that this police problem exists. do you guys remember the catcalling video in new york city where a woman walked around innew york for a day and over 100 men took that as an invitationto harass her. remember that. >> yes. >> trevor: i was shocked bythat video, by how extreme cat
calling actually was. i didn't know, because i'm aman. i did not see that in my worldand i didn't know it could happen for blocks and a womanwas harassed over and over again. i was shocked by that, when isaw the video. i didn't think men were soconcerned with the sugar content of women's breasts. i didn't know these things werehappening because i hadn't seen
it. i thought that was only done byconstruction workers and cartoon wolves. that's what i thought it was allabout. after i watched the video, irealized there was a problem, because seeing is believing, andfor some strange reason, when it comes to videos of policeshootings, seeing isn't believing. the police will always come outwith a statement like, i know it
looks like the officer shot theman, even though he was subdued. but what the video doesn't showfrom this angle is that the policeman feared for his lifedue to the suspect's physical actions that, again, are notvisible from this angle. i was asked the question, why isit that the police only do that when they're the ones on camera? because if there's ever a videoof you committing a crime, the police won't be, like, oh, iknow the it looks like the suspect is robbing the cashregister in the video, but what
you don't see from this angleis -- in fact how do we know the video isn't playing in reverseand he isn't putting money into the cash register? you can't judge from the video! why is the video never enough? tahrir rice, eric garner,video, only skepticism. when it comes to big foot,people see one blurry video and people dedicate their lives tofinding him. they leave their families anddedicate themselves to that
(bleep). it's hard to blame black peoplefor not trusting the police in this country because even whenpolice have the responsibility of filming themselves, stufflike this happens. >> the two officers are now onadministrative leave, both wore body cameras, however -->> during the altercation, the body cameras did becomedislodged. >> trevor: really? the body camera becamedislodged?
so, what, has it gotten so badthat even the cameras are, like, sorry, i can't be part of this,i've seen enough. really? the camera became dislodged? i call (bleep), yeah. (applause)because i've seen white people cameras, and those things nevercome off. >> (bleep)! >> whoa!
whoa! i'm alive! >> trevor: yeah. you know it's a white peoplevideo when it ends with someone screaming, i'm alive! (laughter)you know what pisses me off most about this? i don't think there is a problemwith the police. some people say i don't thinkthere is a problem with the
police. you know, black people aresurely doing something. maybe the black guy didsomething wrong. you can't deny the racism. at some point you have toacknowledge it. in fact, think of this, think ofthe most racist thing people can call black people. they call them monkeys, baboons,gorillas. yet, when people watch the videoof an actual gorilla being shot
for dragging a child, not onlywas there more outrage for the gorilla, the organizationresponsible for killing the gorilla admitted there weresystemic problems that needed to be fixed. >> a criminal investigation isnow focused on how a little boy fell into a gorilla enclosureclosure at the cincinnati zoo. reports show the zoo is makingchanges to prevent tragic accidents like this fromhappening again. >> that's right, (bleep)gorilla!
they're making changes for agorilla! one gorilla! one! (applause)it's the truth! it's the truth. i shouldn't even be afraid tosay it. america has a problem within itspolice force, and although this is a problem thatdisproportionately affects black people, it's not just a blackproblem.
this is an american problembecause, just today, there was a third video this time of a whitekid getting shot by the police while he was lying down on theground. this is an american problem,everyone is involved. with all this evidence on video,surely the least america can expect from its police is forthem to admit there is a problem because you can't fix somethinguntil you admit it's broken. you're probably saying, trevor,what does it help to just admit you have a problem?
well the las vegas policedepartment did that. in 2011, they admitted there wasa potential for bias, a better way for police to interact withsuspects. by acknowledging that andtraining officers on how to assess and deease cay calculatea situation, they decreased shootings by 36%. 36%! (applause)which is not perfect, but at least they're doing something,and if the police can get their
(bleep) together, in a citywhere you can rent a tiger and get married to a filipino elvispresley, then the rest of