The Truth behind Black Cop Propaganda

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a man named Tyre Nicholls in Memphis Tennessee was pulled over in what should have been a routine traffic stop after being pulled over he was accosted by five police officers and asked to step out his vehicle Nichols was then met with immediate aggression and escalation even though he had done nothing to even warrant being pulled over let alone elicit the use of force or the threat of force within a minute he was cursed at told to get on the ground and threatened with being tazed before being pushed to the ground by the office officers officers

pinned him to the ground while continuing to threaten him holding a taser against his leg the carelessness of the pepper spray however hit some of the officers which allowed Nicholls a man reasonably in fear of his life the opportunity to run he was eventually chased down less than a mile from his mother's house where he was attempting to escape to there Nichols who was tall but due to chrohn's disease weighed less than 150 lbs was tased and brutally beaten by these five officers for four minutes straight As the police barked a mixture of threats and

orders at him before slumping his limp body on a police cruiser at which point the police can be seen laughing and celebrating their brutal attack on Nicholls it took 20 minutes before Nicholls received any medical attention he was eventually hospitalized and died 3 days later the subsequent investigation into Nichol's death found it to be a homicide they found the officers to have acted in a wanly violent and Reckless manner they found no probable cause for Nicholls initially being pulled over in the first place and no indication that he resisted or used any form of force

against the police as well as no criminal record or no indication that he was in the process of committing a crime footage from this deadly beating was released months later and it's as shocking as any incident of police brutality that has ever been seen in America he was beaten to death almost for the sake of the thrill for these officers there's no other sensible explanation for this Behavior but even less sensible is the fact that the five men who murdered Tyrie Nichols looked just like him Tyrie Nicholls killers were black male police officers degree murder

that's the most serious charge facing five former police officers you can see all of them in various parts of the video released by Memphis Police showing Tyrie Nichols last moments of life where he was pulled out of his car violently kicked and beaten and offered no medical assistance this horrifying story has all the usual markers that we often see accompanying bombastic and rely charged incidents in America an innocent and unarmed black male victim murdered in the Deep South in a place with a long history of racist terrorist violence against black people all coinciding with the

general disregard that police officers have for black lives pretty much Nationwide everything was exactly as we often see it except for that one important detail that would usually allow it to fit into comfortable racial narratives that we find familiar this event typified a lot of things that I understand about race America it exemplified the Hostile nature police towards black people and black men specifically it spoke to the spectacle that is black death in the way that it's portrayed and commodified in our news media now Don I want to take you out here here to the

scene this is where it all started this is the but the most interesting thing it Illustrated was the immense Gap that so many Americans black and nonblack had and understanding racism and how it works I wasn't all that shocked by conservatives and right-wingers who attempted to take the perceived novelty of this incident as an opportunity to deny the existence of racism which they do pretty much anytime racism occurs no matter the circumstances or how legitimate the claim might be but it was clear that white liberals and even some white left were stunned to see that

this brutal act of violence was intra racial some struggled to understand how and why five black police officers would behave this way it doesn't fit into the typical narratives around racial Injustice at least if you're an outsider it doesn't but if you know you know the depths of internalized anti-blackness are difficult to understand and if you don't have first experience with it it probably doesn't make a lot of sense countless unarmed black people men and women have been shot by white officers in just the last decade alone historically the vast majority of them have been

unjustifiable and often when they are Justified they present this belief that black people are just inherently dangerous and have maybe Supernatural capabilities to be violent I had reached out my window of my right hand to grab onto his forearm because I was going to try and move him back and get out of the car to where I'm no longer trapped and when I felt I just felt the immense power that he had I mean the way I've described it as it was like a 5-year-old hold on to H Hogan that's just how big this man

was Hulk Hogan he was very large very powerful man that's the only way can make sense and validate the excessive use of force in many of these cases but many of those incidents do occur quickly it's usually almost a split second decision that these officers make rarely do they have the Brazen mask off moment to be as cruel as these black men were to a fellow black men if I'm incredibly generous with police officers just for a moment I can acknowledge that the split-second decisions that they often make are partially to blame for fatal shootings

that they sometimes Commit This is why some cop apologists believe that better training would help stop this from happening this narrative is false for numerous reasons but at least it's somewhat plausible but we also see so many incidents of clear maliciousness in disregard for black life such as the murder of George Floyd or the recent murder of Sonia Massie where there is a clear depravity toward black life that led to the deaths in question but in both of those situations the police in question were white we can somewhat explain this maliciousness through a racial empathy

Gap when that's the situation the racial empathy Gap being a phenomenon that theorizes that a lot of white people people are just less likely to perceive pain and suffering if it's inflicted upon black people but for Tyrie Nichols it wasn't a split-second decision there was no racial empathy Gap as it's taught to us it wasn't a reflexive disregard for black life this was an intentional disregard for black life these men openly expressed a desire to hurt Tyreek Nichols they wanted to inflict violence upon him and reveled in it before during and after the ACT this

was as much an act of hatred as any scena police Le brutality that we've ever seen so the question you have to ask yourself is why and how what did Tyree Nichols do or what was it about Tyree Nichols to elicit such a barbaric and human and horrendous response from other fellow black men and the answer to that is complex and will be of course the subject of today's video but the first step to understanding the why here is recognizing that even the way I just framed that question is incorrect the first thing we have

to get is that Tyree Nichols killers were not black men they were cops I didn't do nothing you think you to huh you scared now huh I like that that's why I took this job I hate little [ __ ] like you little niggles you ain't [ __ ] so you may not fully realize it but black cops have been all over our media for Generations [Music] now we all going to drop you don't even get P the whole lot take your 4 put it on lot take put it on for am Dr Black Dr

it's got to grip the hearts and Minds give the people what they want from a ser real K I'm simply trying to say that it's important to use good judgment when using your firearm and I'm simply trying to say what's the big deal this is a really interesting phenomenon to behold once you recognize it and it betrays a lot of the significant underlying factors into the phenomenon that is black cops I couldn't or didn't find any solid analysis of just how disproportionate the depiction of black police officers are in movies and TV but just to

a cursory glance you'll notice that black men are highly over represented as members of law enforcement the milit AR or special agents or whatever in media the top tier black actors like denzo Washington Will Smith Don Cheeto Samuel Jackson Eddie Murphy and jimy fox have played some permutation of police officer pretty much like every third movie that they start in and this is a tradition that they likely inherited from Hollywood's first leading black man Sydney porier I just what you do up there in little old Pennsylvania earn that kind of money I'm a police officer

porier also regularly started as a black cop over the last 75 years Sydney parier Tom baringer and tisty Ali in the motion picture so thrilling your head will spin the NBC event shoot to kill Monday while there are plenty of white aist actors who have regularly played similar roles such as Tom Cruz Liam niss and Nicholas Cage there's also plenty who haven't and don't Tom Hanks one of the top actors of the last 40 years rarely plays any type of law enforcement or military figure in his movies at least in the usual vein of these

types of depictions Frank nobody's chasing you when you consider that the pool of true black aess actors is so small it's notable how often they end up playing in a role of law enforcement the record for the black actor with the longest tenure on a TV show goes to IC te for playing detective Finn since the year 2000 over 20 years playing this cop role fact you and now all my [ __ ] it's the same IC that made the song cop killer way back in the '90s some police officers across the country now say

they're feeling threatened by the lyrics of a rap song American people are really up up in arms about this song which doesn't kill it's just a song but the cops are in in America actually kill kids and the parents cry and scream and these cops don't go to jail they're just laid off you know there's no cops on death row you and now all my [ __ ] there's probably a little less oversaturation for black cops on TV in comparison to the movies but you still do see some very memorable and notable examples such as

Carl winzo Bonk Morland on The Wire Malik Yoba in New York under cover jet Jackson Shamar Moore and this woman who I feel like has been a police chep like 50 times over the last 50 years considering the long-standing antagonistic relationship between black people and the police this is a pretty interesting phenomenon why are so many of our celebrities including so many gangster rappers whose music was openly antagonistic of the police why are they so often hired to portray them in media the simple answer is copaganda but make it black copaganda for those unaware is

is a media phenomenon that is pretty inherent in all images and depictions of policing in America lawyer and civil rights activist alak Cara katnis describes propaganda as such a special kind of propaganda perpetuated by the police and the media that affects who and what we fear and what kinds of social Investments we support to address our fears as a result we see a grossly distorted version of crime punishment and safety in our newspapers magazines and other media Outlets the news generates fear by focusing on crimes committed by the most marginalized people while ignoring far more

serious threats to our Collective well-being it falsly suggests that the best way to respond to our fear is to increase government repression through police prosecution and prisons as opposed to addressing the root causes of interpersonal harm the concept of copaganda as a term to Define this phenomenon is relatively new it's a theoretical concept that was developed over the last decade or so as people began to become more critical of policing and and more questioning as to why policing as we knew it as ineffectual as it is has been allowed to go mostly unchanged for so

long however the reality of copaganda goes back nearly 75 years to a show called Dragnet is documented by Skip intro a fellow video essays and member of nebula and the foremost documentary of copaganda on television before Dragnet police were widely disliked and disrespected in the media often shown as buffoons and Oaths and then the show Dragnet was made in tandem with the LAPD and at this point we see a significant shift in the way police and policing are imagined in the media they become either these benevolent stoic agents of Justice or these masculine Crusaders doing

the hard work to protect the innocent often having to act outside of the laws in order to make things right I grew up in the '90s which was the Heyday of this type of media both on TV and in the movies shows like cops in ypd blue and Law and Order created procedural dramas and reality shows out of police work glorifying them and often dehumanizing criminals in the process the movies were worse series such as death wish that started in the 70s at the height of violent crime in America didn't even start actual police officer

instead his main character Paul KY was a vigilante acting outside of the law this is Paul KY this is the story of a man who decided to clean up the most violent town in the world I said turn around give me the money that series was highly influential and throughout the ' 80s and 90s it helped birth the action cop archetype where characters often played by the likes of syester Salone Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson were often in resistance with the actual laws of their job so they would commit wanting acts of violence and destruction

but they were Justified if not just for the sake of being really entertaining to audiences such as myself [ __ ] as we go forward I want to make sure it's understood that the goal of this analysis of media isn't to say that X media is bad for X reason and that it's not entertaining cuz it is and we need to acknowledge and admit this in order to have a stronger analysis of what actually is happening in this media that's being presented to us what actually is happening what messages are being spread and who are

these messages for I can't act like Demolition Man isn't one of my favorite movies of all time class is over John time for something new and improved oh hell holy [ __ ] I love this gun but also one of the most interesting and subversive works of copaganda ever like I'm probably going to do a bze on it now that I'm thinking about it how can you justify destroying a $7 million mini mall to rescue a girl whose Ransom was only $25,000 [ __ ] you lady good answer just understand I'm not here to ruin

your fun or make you feel bad for liking you know John wit or the next Jason STM movie at least not on purpose so far though it seems like I'm naming a bunch of white guys right but this doesn't mean black men weren't there getting in on the fun as I mentioned earlier Sydney porier often play police officers Eddie Murphy denzo Washington have been cops dozens of times and that tradition continues today with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart even denzo Washington's son John David Washington me yeah mean I can tell that you're a pure Aryan

white man from the way you pronounce certain words my favorite piece of black propaganda from this era is Action Jackson starring Carl Weathers I'm Mr about a p [Music] job simpler times then they literally do not make movies like this anymore which is probably a good thing but I can't front like I don't miss [Music] it barbecue huh how do you like your ribs and it's for good reason because the images in movies like Action Jackson contribute to harm in ways that we often don't understand until a [ __ ] gets killed by the police

watching Paul KY walk through his neighborhood and shoot rabbit criminals who just happen to be predominantly black and brown youth doesn't hit the same since George Zimmerman tried to be Paul kiry in real life and got away with it and you see this change in attitudes about the media happen in real time as police movies today while they still exist and are still copaganda are much less bombastic and where they are still trying to be exciting and action oriented there's clear shifts and tones in certain details a great example of that change can be found

in the recently released Bad Boys ride or die AKA Bad Boys 4 and very different from his predecessors if you're paying attention come on mik slow down we are late my stomach Mike I need a ginger ale get a ginger ale and nothing else Bad Boys 1 and two were products of the '90s and the early 2000s the he of this genre of film and and are full of wanting violence explosions and a general disregard for how policing actually affects the people that are being policed Bad Boys 3 is interesting because it's basically still the

same thing as his predecessors even though it's happening over 20 years later when public attitudes and perceptions of policing have shifted One Last Time one last time the action cop era was mostly over but they were still giving us full-on action cop violence but black and so I think that's one of the reasons why they got away with it Will Smith's character Mike Lowry is the Arc Type of cool black action cop guy which to say he's a violent thrill-seeking sociopath just cuz you got that gun to my partner's head you thinking I ain't going

to Splatter your [ __ ] all over this swamp huh that's what I'm thinking see what you don't understand is my partner came here tonight prepared to die H hell no Mike Lowry is all of that in the first two movies but at least he's a younger man then when thrill seeking is a slightly more acceptable behavior we even learned that unlike the average cop in these movies that AR is Rich he's a trust fund kid who was also orphan and got into police work literally solely for the thrill of catching bad guys and likely

killing a whole lot of them in the process I'm so sick of this [ __ ] what what I'm supposed to apologize for my family leaving me money all I ever wanted to be was a cop I get up early and I take it to the max every day but nearly 30 years later in Bad Boys 3 we see lry in his 50s still as the exact same man he was in his 20s fighting the creep of age and time to maintain this brazenly violent lifestyle even as it almost cost him his life that fool

put holes in me and you're filling them with hate Mike look you need to start thinking about your karma man this was a sign a sign yeah a sign to turn up so I'm supposed to bow down now get his [ __ ] a pass turn up what are you 20 you need to turn that [ __ ] off we see him brutalized and informant in the first 30 minutes and constant seek out the most violent outcomes to solve any problems he's facing and I'd argue that they couldn't get away with this if it wasn't

Will Smith a black man starring in the film but bad boys for Life came out in January of 2020 in that summer after George Floyd's murder produced Nationwide protests and riots we see an immediate greater shift in all of the most popular images of police and police oriented media cop shows like Brooklyn 99 try their best to make sense of their role in society it's been a tough year to be a black man and a police captain and shows like cops are canceled outright I would argue that we even see the traditional Aesthetics of police

media and action movies get subsumed into the superhero and fantasy genres in an effort to create more distance between our love of the spectacle of action cops and the real life consequences of policing so you see Will Smith fighting Orcs in brigh which I know everyone hated that but I can't lie it piqued my interest tell these [ __ ] in orcish to get the [ __ ] back in their vehicles and drive home or they're all going to jail but they speak English but you understand him right speak English of course and then Jamie

Fox has been a supernatural cop twice already on Netflix in the last few years fighting superpowered thugs in Project power and vampires in the day Shi so when Bad Boys ride or die AKA Bad Boys 4 comes to us earlier this year we see the effects of the shift in attitudes it starts with Mike Lowry getting married trying to subvert the Loose Cannon image that the characters had this entire time and Martin's character becomes much more prominent and the comedic tone is greatly [Music] heightened are those dogs fresh and for most of the movie the

most violent elements are not undertaken by police officers in fact will and Martin is this movie for the first like hour and 20 minutes they don't kill anybody they maybe kill DJ khed which you know that's you and then they even add this underdeveloped sub like that Mike Lowry Willl Smith's character can't do his usual psycho cop act because he has anxiety attacks or whatever Mike now your chance is now they can see him they know we're here I don't have it negative negative it's not until the last big action scene that they start actually

shooting people which if you're not paying attention you don't notice it but the way I was watching I was like ah I see what y'all [ __ ] are trying to do there's another interesting thing that happens in bad boy 4 which brings up probably the most significant point I'm going to make about black cops within the character Reggie who the [ __ ] are you I'm Mr benette I'm Reggie Reggie at first we only see as this oneoff side character and bad boys too when Martin and will traumatize him for comic relief when he

comes to take Martin's daughter on a date I just got out of jail and I ain't going back I ain't going back what's wrong with you you're acting all scared [ __ ] you ain't never seen a gun before stop pointing the gun at man [ __ ] look don't you disrespect me in front of com all right let the gun go off now this scene is still funny to me I still laugh watching get all these years later I'm sorry judge me if you want but it is less funny knowing how this weird patriarchal

habit plays out in real life where manp pointing guns and little boys before prom starts to go viral don't do that to my sons we going have to have a talk but this scene introduces arguably one of the most significant aspects of black man policing specifically the performance of manhood show me some IDE I don't have none on you don't have no there get your ass up against that wall this what the [ __ ] your problem you think you know it all you young Thunder Cat you got joints on you you smoke that [

__ ] if you're a regular viewer you know I've talked a lot about black masculinity and all his challenges and complexities I have a whole playlist that goes onto those topics if you want to dig deeper one recurring theme of my work and the work around black masculinity in general is the fact that black man were never meant to occupy the role of man in America the price you had to pay the price you expected to pay and which you have to outwit is your sex no a black man is forbidden by definition since he's

black to assume the roles burdens the duties and the joys of being a man in the same way that my child producing in your body was not did not belong to me but to the master he could be sold at any moment your manhood is being slowly destroyed hour by hour day by day your woman's watching it you're watching her watch it you know and the love that you have for each other is being to be destroyed hour by hour and day by day it's not her fault it's not your fault but there it goes

because the precious under which you live are inhuman my father finally went mad and I understood when I became a man how that could happen it wasn't that he didn't love us he loved us it wasn't he didn't love his wife his our mother he loved her but he couldn't take it it since slavery black men were at best brutes and bucks and most commonly referred to as boys even when they were full grown adults black men were livestock who served in menal roles as laborers or breeders or they were lazy docile backward things that

required the guidance and protection of white men in order to function and if not that then there were mindless monsters who required rigid policing lest they lay waste to any civil society and of course assault any white woman on site this paradoxical and often sexualized tension around around black manhood is at the core of much of America's racist past and the narratives around black men's feebleness or monstrous stereotypes that persist to this day even as rights have been attained and progress has been made black men today are often faced with remnants of that message that

we are not real men we can imitate white manhood and masculinity we can perform aspects of it but we will always remain defective versions of it even as we clearly present all the features both positive and negative of manhood the gold posts are move or actions are taken to to debase us in order to ensure that we are never comfortable in that role and to be clear this isn't isolated to black men it was black life in general this entire time any formulation of black life that too closely imitated white life was wrong it met

with resistance white women advocated for laws that forc black women to have to work in white households even when they didn't need to just to make sure that they always were working and couldn't be stay-at home ladies like they were anti- Laing laws made it illegal for black people to group together oddly for a good time and segregated schools created inferior learning environments for black children and so on what does this history of racial violence along gender lines have to do with Reggie and black policing though regardless of the realities of how black men are

regarded it has never stopped us from pursuing and playing the masculine roles that we can in our community all of these forces serve as bearers to keep this from happening but it doesn't make it impossible of course it's just extremely difficult but there is one pretty easy Surefire role that a black man can play play where the acknowledgement of his manhood is almost guaranteed and that is in the form of enforcer for the state whether that be police officer or soldier in 1965 the federal government commissioned the Manan report one of the most infamous government

works on race of all time I don't have time to go through the whole of this report though I've touched on it before and in my previous discussions of it I pointed out that the report presented the argument that dysfunction in the black family is why disfunction for black people exists the report explicitly looked at black men's inability to perform patriarchal masculinity as a core problem shown of the levels of crime and social dysfunction as well as men abandoning their families they also spent a lot of time blaming black women for this as well and

said in so many words that black men needed to find ways to reassert themselves as Patriarchs in the black family if they were ever going to function if you were a uh a white man in Mississippi you could go to work in a laboring job and become middle class if you were a black man that had the same non skills you couldn't get a job at all what you going to do about that you talking about my family if anything the black family along with the black church is all that kept the black community hold

and one of their suggestions was encouraging more black men to join the military there is however an even more important issue involved a military service for Negroes service in the United States armed forces is the only Experience open to the Negro American in which he is truly treated as an equal not as a negro equal to a white but it's one man equal to any other man in a world where the category negro and white do not exist if this is a statement of the ideal rather than reality is an idea that is close to

realization in food dress housing pay work the Negro and the Armed Forces is equal and is treated that way there is another special quality about military service for negro men it is an utter masculine World given the strains of the disorganized and matrifocal family life in which so many negro youth come of age the armed forces are dramatic and desperately needed change a world away from women a world run by strong men of unquestioned authority where discipline if harsh is nonetheless orderly and predictable and where rewards if limited are granted on the basis of performance

the theme of a current Army Recruiting message States it as clearly as can be in the US Army you get to know what it means to feel like a man of course it just so happens that the American Military apparatus was embroiled in one of the busiest eras of Imperial military activity of all time with various conflicts across the Grove throughout the 1960s including the Vietnam War which was incredibly unpopular among Americans right around the time this is written what do you think of the racial situation here at cam tension well I think for one

thing that the when the black guys come over here they have a sort of an inferiority complex maybe they pick it up in the states I don't I really don't know because sometimes I get the feel in myself to be truthful you know that uh you're being discriminated against but I've only been here 11 days and I can't really say no more that when I did come over they put me in Shore Patrol and I uh seem to jump right into it you know now of course joining the Army isn't quite the same as joining

the police force although a large amount of police officers often have previous military service this specific element of being in the military is just as Salient for black police officers as it might be for black members of the military on some levels not all but some being in a uniform as a literal armed wing of state power affirms one's masculinity in a way that is simply not possible for black men in most other areas of work even as black police offices experienc discrimination within their roles as police which is well studied phenomenon that is happening

they still get to exert a sense of power and authority that would be all but impossible to experience outside of that role they usually are brutal uh they like the instant Authority that comes with the badge and the uniform being able to perform this enforcer role for the state allows black man to unquestionably embody the masculine role in their families and Community because if you don't respect black men as men in any other capacity you have to respect the authority of the law the capacity for black men to distribute justifiable violence in the name of

the state or Law and Order allows them to supersede the usual barriers of how we view black men and place them directly in the same category of white white men you have some black policemen that seem to be trying to prove that they can be just as bad as some of the racist policemen uh there have been instances where reports have come to me where uh the the white policemen stand by while the black ones crack heads this is very clear in the media depictions as we see the biracial buddy cop movie as one of

the most enduring traditions of the genro we often put the orderly by the book official black police officer next to the White Cannon to play off that ju position and white audiences that might struggle with positive or powerful images of black masculinity can feel less threatened by an axent Jackson or Wesley Snipes and his mini cop roles because these displays of vural black masculinity and manhood still serves the state and the status quo at best you get a figure like shaft which was a black cop image built specifically for black people but you still also

see a lot of those same features created in a very safe image the mob wanted hul them back they got sha up to here one of the most unacceptable critiques of both black panther films is that while the film gers at being kind of radical and wakanda is this anti-colonial state that is willing to do violence to keep themselves safe and there's like this antagonism towards the white world we never see any actual violence done to colonial power by anyone that's an actual wakand the only persons that actually kill in the name of Liberation in

Black Panther are their villains we're going to send by brining weapons out to our wargs they'll armor press people all over the world so they can finally rise up and kill those in power and their children and anyone else who takes their side so this media trickery gives us the best or maybe the worst of Both Worlds with black cops and media we get to see the violent masculine display in a firm black manhood but in a safe and digestible way we get to reify this system and how it helps black men be real men

as in the case of Reggie who after this brief moment in Bad Boys 2 returns 20 years later for another brief moment in Bad Boys 3 where we see that he eventually married the daughter of Martin's character and is now a decorated military veteran as if to imply that the whimpering boy who was comedically traumatized by Willen Martin and Bad Boys 2 was strengthened and heartened by the experience and remained with the family where he could become a real man and then in Bad Boys 4 he gets his Shining Moment allowing his character Arc to

come full C [Music] in a surprising and satisfying twist that I'm sure went off in the theaters at one point in the film bad guys are attacking Martin's home while he isn't there so Martin's character is about to fall short of one of the most basic tenants of masculinity the responsibility to protect one's home and loved on so Marcus calls Reggie to warn him to get the family out of the Home Instead Reggie hides the women in a safe place and proceeds to single-handedly destroy The Intruders in a gloriously violent fashion ending with a slightly

unnerving salute to them via the inome camera system with the carnish and Chaos he calls Still In Motion behind him much of the surprise and Glee of his Elder Patriarchs who get to take credit for this man's activity who the [ __ ] is this guy my boy that's my boy at the very end of the film Marcus and Mike tried to again denigrate Reggie like they did years before but are forced to recognize that his capacity for violence greatly exceeds their own and they symbolically pass the torch to him by allowing him to take

over an iconic position of masculinity The Grill Master the film ends with this scene on the shot of Reggie who this entire time has this 1,000 yard stair in every movie for three movies now giving us a knowing and proud smile he's done it he's a man now this is what makes black copaganda so effective and black policing so Insidious let's be very clear this is an incredibly effective and engaging bit of long-term storytelling happening in the background for his character it's just pretty gross when you think about it too hard which is that's like

that's my job thinking about [ __ ] harder than [ __ ] are ready for I know I'm going to get a comment like this [ __ ] getting all deep as sh like I know I know I know keep watching I'm sorry I'm making you smarter forcing you to be like more critical of the media you watch but just continue continue it's good good for you in the long run trust me a core truth of black policing can be found in those lines from the Monty ham report the military is a world where the

category negro and white do not exist black cops aren't black they're cops Tyree nichols's Killers weren't black they were cops or at a minimum they were cops first because cops are real men and black males are not this is basically said outright in the scene from another black paganda movie black and blue here a question you think you're black think them your people well they're not we are you're blue now don't you ever forget that this scene happens after a tense moment where our female protagonist Alicia played by Naomi Harris attempts to deescalate a tense

tication between several black people and through the use of rise and righteous violence her partner Brown saves her by escalating the situation stop that is not necessary that is enough that had your name on it his use of violence here Justified because he correctly identified a threat black and blue was pretty heinous as a work of copaganda it was made in 2019 so it exists in the post Mike Brown black lives matter era where media would usually make attempts to critique policing while also doing everything it can to justify and legitimize it pulling upon the

tradition of what I'm going to call one bad aism the police are fundamentally good as a structure and a system and we just have to get rid of those few bad apples who of course just get hired in other cities as soon as they get rid of like I'm pretty sure the cop in Sonia massie's murder had been fired from multiple police precincts before then according to court records he held six different police jobs over the past four years in 2015 and 2016 came two DUI misdemeanors and before that an army discharge for misconduct and

that's a story that happens all the time when you talk about police officers that kill unarmed black people in the case of this film the bad apples are a set of police officers running a criminal Enterprise Which is far less rare than you think Brown himself is a part of this Enterprise being an accessory to the murder of several black men and eventually losing his life in the process of trying to cover it up and in that brown becomes an excellent example of the reality of black policing he thought that his Blackness would be covered

up by his bless that if he ordained and participated in the subjugation and harm of his own people that he would be spared by the reality of his role and this is hardly ever the case in real life or media whether it be brown and denzo Washington and Training Day dirty cops black or otherwise always get their desserts I think you made a difference here tonight West you change nothing maybe not but it's a start take his ass to jail in many of the notable cases in real life where black cops are responsible for unjust

if iable deaths such as the murder of Freddy gray or the shooting of Justin diamond in Minnesota the black cop perpetrators were not as lucky as many of their white counterparts yet black cops persist to protect their role and I would argue it's because they see this existence as preferable to the alternative they might be at a higher risk in their job in general they might face ostracism from both their own people and within their police roles but they have something that many black men and women never truly have they have the power of the

state and with the power of the state in hand all cops have the potential to do immense harm to black [Music] people they cleaned up streets in the city and made them safer for everyone in 1987 in the thick of the crack epidemic but years before the 94 crime Bill the Atlanta Police Department commissioned the Red Dog unit an aggressive anti-drug tax task force full of mostly black officers commissioned with getting drugs off the streets of Atlanta R dog stood for run every drug dealer out of Georgia and was named as such in conjunction with

the Georgia Bulldog football team and their famous bliing Red Dog defense or something like that how about them dog I was a Georgia Tech fan I don't know and this is because the Red Dog unit was not afraid to use shockin all Blix Creed tactics when it came to getting drugs off the streets in fact if you let the streets tell it this was their favorite Tac itic and earned them the nickname the jump out boys due to their propensity to just pull up and jump out of their cars with aggressive and often brutal activity

whereas some narcotics investigation may be drawn out in finesse Red Dog we're told is supposed to hit hard and fast and make their presence felt at what police say are known drug hotspots this again was in the middle of the crack epidemic that terrorized inner cities across the country well before a better understanding of crime and policing was prominent so red dogs their aggressive tactics their all black outfits complete with Black Jack Boots and black red dog hats were often presented in the media as Heroes almost like the action stars of TV with their military

style black fatigues and combat boots red dog is quickly recognized as a high-profile urban crime fighting unit there were black men and women willing to do the hard work of protecting their own communities with the power of the state behind them and to some effect this worked the Atlanta jails were suddenly full of young black people who were allegedly part of criminal drug Enterprises as well as many young and old black folks who were their customers $10 you pay $10 for this did you think it was cocaine when you bought it yes according to an

article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution the indictments for drug offenses triple between 1985 and 1989 interestingly though the drugs never seem to leave the Streets of Atlanta or Georgia for that matter Napper admits he is not optimistic about many of those arrested staying in jail for long but he says at least some may remember the Red Dog Squad may be back turns out as we know today that this type of action towards drug activity is not how to solve that social problem yet for over 20 years the Red Dog unit persistent with their controversial tactics

hands on your head them last night many of those who found themselves faced down for a search were clean and released so if they weren't running every drug deal out of Georgia what did they actually do well again if you ask the black folks of the swats and Bankhead and East Atlanta they were brutalizing Innocents and criminals alike when you ask me to lay down I laid down by a car and you kic me under the cup planning drugs stealing drugs and selling them back to drug dealers and just lowkey being what Mike Lowry probably

would have been in real life such tactics are not without risk an official says there has been one shooting episode nobody was hit uh don't know whether or I was shooting at us or not but they were shooting um but that that's not a deterrent at all CU we went right back in the next night they were seen as another Street gang just a gang for the state they just happened to be predominantly black and wear badges Atlanta is a unique big city in a lot of ways greatly because its political and economic power has

always been black centered this because going back to the post Civil War Era Union Soldiers remain in what is now Metro Atlanta for years due to Atlanta's importance as a rail and shipping center this made it so racist mobs and the KKK and all of them couldn't conduct with impunity like they did in other Southern population centers at least for a while which in turn allowed early black atlantans to truly set up shop and create political and economic power without it being burned down like places such as Tulsa and Rosewood at least not completely because

they definitely did burn down parts of Atlanta because racism fast forward a few Generations in Atlanta is one of the very few places in the country to have old black money black families like the heans and the youngs and the Russel and others have loomed large for nearly a century in this city and this is why Atlanta earned the nickname wakanda as in the mythical black City in the Marvel movies where black people experience a quality of life unlike anywhere else in the world and as a resident of Atlanta I want to be honest this

is kind of true if you have access to it Atlanta's black upper class and black petite bgea class does give the city a whole different vibe but only if you can afford to experience that Vibe but if you're black and poor it's like every ghetto everywhere in fact Atlanta has the number one disparity between the hav and a have knots in any major city in the country and just like every ghetto everywhere the police are often used as a means to manage that disparity and mitigate the problems and challenges presented from poor populations in the

city and they often do that with the types of extreme tactics that the red dogs were known for but in the city too busy to hate the black Mecca and wakanda it made sense that the Red Dogs would take on a black super cop veneer that will become popular in the media at the time yet under that veneer they conducted themselves as any police force ever has when dealing with black people with vicious inhumanity yes in the 80s and 90s crack was ravaging Atlanta but the Instinct of the black people in power was to make

the exact same decisions that whites in power did not to increase education or improve Social Services instead they built new jails and threw more people in them there was a way that the black bouis regard black folks in poverty that isn't very dissimilar to how white folks treat black people there's an inhumanity with it a racial empathy Gap probably and on some levels I get it because poverty and crime and drugs can produce the most inhumane behavior and lead to a loss of empathy but that doesn't make the negative response any better the Red Dogs

did not make the streets safer they mostly just terrorized them during one raid they accidentally beat down an undercover Atlanta cop who sued the city afterwards some of these offic you know they just attack people with without you know any regard or asking any questions or anything just than you come to Atlanta and ask a local Atlanta resident that's been here for more than 20 years about the red dogs and they'll give you a plethora of stories but the most infamous one comes in 2006 with the killing of 92-year-old Katherine Johnson tell me if you

heard this story before police serve a no knock warrant in the middle of the night are greeted with gunshots and kill an innocent black woman it happened so much more than you think Johnson was the victim of an alleged bot drug raid and based off off of a bad tip or maybe they just went to the wrong house or God knows what but this 92-year-old grandma was not a drug dealer she thinking someone was breaking into her home grabbed a gun and opened fire assuming they were robbers and they shot her half a dozen times

killing her and then realizing the Folly of their actions planted marijuana at her home this thankfully caused a ton of public outrage and the officers in question did eventually face consequences but sadly it did not lead to the dism manments partially because it's in question as to whether the Red Dog spefic specifically were responsible for this I'll leave you to your thoughts about whether or not that's the case ironically and unfortunately what finally killed the Red Dogs is something out of a Tariq Ned fanfiction after two decades of harassing poor black people in Atlanta what

finally killed the Red Dogs was a raid on a predominantly white gay club in the relatively upper class Midtown section of Atlanta the red talk swooped into the Atlanta Eagle a gay nightclub and bar like they often do thankfully without the typical violence but with a whole lot of homophobia officers shouted gay slurs and forced some 60 customers and staff to lie face down on the beer stained floor then illegally searched each person without serving any warrants there were people old people in their 50s and 60s and 70s just being shoved to the ground thrown

on the ground people with hip conditions nothing illegal was ever found but eight employees were charged with failing to have a city permit no arrests were made and no drugs were found but lawsuits were filed and over a million dollars was paid out to patrons which got the VIN Mar casim Reed to shut down the Red Dogs for good I know a lot of you gay agenda types are getting real charged up now and I get it it does say something that the city was okay with the Red Dogs brutalizing poor black people for literal

decades but the white lgbtq Community was off limits but notice that I said the white lgbtq Community because black queer people were never outside the red dog's Target Zone Remy says he holds no hard feelings against the Atlanta police department and he's satisfied with the outcome you know we started having a relationship and we started having dialogue well that was a horrible night but I think that that night strengthened our police force I think it educated some of them that didn't even didn't even know some of the things that they've learned through the years I

think that night has uh enlightened a lot of things in our city the core thing here is the preeminence of black versus white and poor versus wealthy and as soon as the Red Dog started being dog to the wealthy they were immediately taken off the board historically this is how the black bisi have always looked at the black poor if the black poor are brutalized by the police that they're getting what they deserve it's never the instinct to connect their shared plight with our own it's always to create space between us but I do think

that with these people coming in who are not our intellectual equals nor are there of our so sociological uh braet there's we The Classy the Civil the well- behaved black people who are deserving of equal treatment and maybe even a favor under white PR structures if we act right and then there's those others who drag the race down who make us look bad the majority of these people are not like we are and uh we felt that we maybe some of us felt we left the sou because we were getting away from this problem we

are part of this Exodus too but we are a little maybe embarrassed by the fact that here we're going to have a a mass element come in that that's going to create a tremendous social problem in the community and this is still an ideology and belief that you might hear today if you're around the right set of black folks black people persistently suffer from a collective identity that in some ways brings us together but it also makes it impossible for people outside of us to see any one of us as an individual each and every

black person into of themselves is representative of the whole especially if they're doing bad if they're doing good to quote France fan they're doing good despite their Blackness and if they're doing bad they're doing bad because of their Blackness so there's this constant urge that a lot of black people have to set themselves apart from those other Negroes and there's two sides it's black people there's [ __ ] the [ __ ] have got to go and when you think about that a group like the red dogs makes perfect sense cuz what better way to

show that than to have a whole group of black people responsible for brutalizing the bad ones this is what happened to Tyrie Nichols the red dogs are not unique many major cities in the country had similar task force whether it be the disbanded SOS unit in Chicago the shes unit that existed in Detroit in the 70s or the Scorpion unit in Memphis which was responsible for the murder of Tyre Nichols and in a not so surprising twist the Memphis police chief was a founding member of the Red Dogs in Atlanta I assure you that I

will be accessible transparent and equipped to impact change in all of these cities to quote abolitionist Creator BP of overthrow media the real function of these types of police entities whether black or white is to be the teeth or the attack dogs of the state and you know who's feeding and supporting the enemy The Casual drug user Gates creates an elite paramilitary unit he calls Community Resources against Street hoodlums or crash dozens of officers raate apartment buildings punching in walls even leaving their own graffiti on the sides of buildings and historically when black people get

the power to dictate the law and control these teeth the sad reality is that they are very slow to engage the fact that their plight is not so different from the plight of other poor black people that they sick the police on as long as they get access to power the unintended consequences be damned which brings you to the last subject of this video I would not be standing here were it not for the education I received and I know many of many of us will say the same thing and I believe a child going

without an education is tantamount to a crime so I decided I was going to start Prosecuting parents for truancy well this was a little controversial in San Francisco and frankly my staff went bananas they were very concerned because we didn't know at the time whether I was going to have an opponent in my re-election a friend of mine actually called me and he said KLA my wife got the letter she freaked out she brought all the kids into the living room held up the letter said if you don't go to school K's going to put

you and me in [Music] jail all right we had to take a water break for getting into this one let's go ahead and uh Start the Fire shall we so I have a lot I have a wide audience a lot of different people in my audience I love all of y'all I love most of y'all most of y'all are dope handful of y'all but you know it is what it is I can't control who watches me and there's gonna be different portions of my audience that are angry with this next section for different reasons so

I'm going to try to make a bit of a compromise I'm going to make some people a little happy while also making some of those people pissed off and like that same thing with other parts of the audience it is what it is so I'm going to openly say I'll be voting for KLA Harris in this year's presidential election I also think that you should should vote for Kamala Harris in this year's presidential election based on my personal beliefs and what I know about kamla Harris I think there is potential for some good things to

happen under a KLA Harris presidency even if those things probably aren't actually a result of kamla Harris herself but if Harris's record as a senator is any indication she'd be one of the most Progressive presidents ever right like if you just go off her Senate record in certain time period when she was getting ready to run for president there's some stuff there it at least shows evidence that she's am minable to pressure from the left unlike Joe Biden proved to be although some of her recent moves has shown her to be immune to it like

every other Democrat ever and let me be clear I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself pressure from the left also might be a myth in a neoliberal fascist Lake cap list reality that we're living in right now but the bars in hell this is not an endorsement just me being clear about my intentions and some reasoning as to why I think my intentions are valid I say this because watch for the hook if you don't have any intention to hold

kamla's feet to the fire after she's elected then you're just going to get Obama 2.0 a black face in a high place where very little of substantive value will be gained for any and all black people America hope is making a comeback and as a survivor of the Obama Mania Circa 2007 to 2011 I can't abide by that I won't sit by and watch Jin Z get ruined like we did by drinking the Kool-Aid of the shiny new black political figure that's going to save us all by herself there was no one here to warn

us well there were some people and we were we weren't listening which is another conversation either way I'm on the other side now so I'm here to warn you all and it just so happens that part of that warning really effectively coincides with the conversation I'm having here about black police considering that kamla for much of her political career has branded herself as a cop and a prosecutor and in that role she has shown herself willing to sacrifice the well-being of black folks at the bottom of the food chain if it meant that she got

to rise to the top dramatically higher conviction rates for violent crime our justice system needs drastic repair early intervention leaves room in our prisons for the violent criminals who should be there I did it in San Francisco as attorney general I can do it across California commas history as a prosecutor is somewhat mixed there's spots of progressive ideology that you might be hopeful about considering her record she did the Criminal Justice Center uh she formalized and implemented behavioral health court which became a national model for mental health treatment and wraparound Services um she also did

back on track which was is a uh Youth Court uh youth adult court for 18 to 24 year olds uh she brought in Latifa Simon um to implement that program to get kids out or young adults out of the criminal justice system without a conviction there were so many uh policies and so many alternatives to incarceration um these are just a few so it just surprised me that there was this spin out there in this narrative um that she wasn't Progressive she was the most Progressive prosecutor in in California especially more recent in her political

career when more left-wing and Progressive ideologies were more popular I proud to co-sponsor it it is about saying that this is about a right not about a privilege for a few but as you look through the totality of her career as a prosecutor you see some incredibly egregious stances and policies that make you wonder if you're dealing with the same person standouts include the alluded to policy that would send parents to jail for their children being chronically Trent from school so I decided I was going to start Prosecuting parents for truancy well this was a

little controversial in San Francisco as a former teacher and juvenile social worker I can tell you that sending parents to jail for anything is never good for their kids further as a state attorney general in 2011 she defied a federal court order to reduce California's prison population that forced them all to go to court multiple times these seem like conflicting stances and responses from a woman that wrote smart on crime later in her career and presents today as a progressive caring prosecutor that's trying to do more to change the way the criminal justice system works

at least that's what's in her rhetoric as a prosecutor when I had a case I charged it not in the name of the victim but in the name of the people for a simple reason in our system of justice a harm against any one of us is a harm AR against all of us and it makes you wonder where does she stand and that's the major key Camala stands with a power requires her to stand and in that regard she is like any other black cop or black supporter of cops yes Kamala moved further left

as she ran for president in 2020 but I can't help but see that as more related to political expedience than her true beliefs and this would make her typical for any black person in that role and K is not the first black district attorney or city officials who throw black people under the bus for the sake of political gain if you watch me then you're probably well aware of New York mayor Eric Adams and his tough on crime policies that have got him publicly put on blast by friend of the channel and New York defense

attorney oay olurin I I represented you to visit you to visit the family member of a slain officer no not the slain officer no but what about the 19-year-old that was killed Yesterday by NYPD and queens when he called for help have you said anything about that are you visiting them yeah the the the first of all there's Daniel Cameron of Kentucky who was the attorney general that declared that the killing of Banna Taylor in 2020 was justifiable and brought no charges against the officers involved this earned him enough political cache to represent the Republicans

in the run for governor in Kentucky though he eventually lost and yes of course he was a conservative Mr President I hope you can tell that Kentucky is Trump country I'm the only candidate endorsed by President Trump and the only candidate who stood up to Joe Biden similar levels of nonsense are happening in my home city of at Atlanta where district attorney fonnie Willis who's gotten a lot of attention for being the lead prosecutor on Donald Trump's case here in the city has sadly shown herself to be a liability for mismanagement of funds on at

least two highly egregious occasions feel free to look up why they tried to throw off the Trump case a reason that many people were willing to give her a pass for as Reckless as it was because of the important nature of that particular case but she's also as of time of writing defending a wrongful termination suit due to her treatment of a coworker another black woman who was whistleblowing on mismanagement of funds in her office her office is accused of taking money that was meant to be a summer diversion program for at R City Youth

and turning it into what was called a summer camp for the wealthy and mind you this is at the time of the Atlanta Water boys crisis and many other things going on with black youth in the city where they really needed help and she was giving it to her friends my first red flag was on our first day with the youth everybody went around and said what school they attended and where they're from and there were many students who were outside of the state outside of the county um it it was essentially a summer program

for the most privileged youth in around the country and this is after running a tough on crime campaign and blaming gangs for the riseing crime in Atlanta between 2021 and 2022 and not you know the global pandemic that was happening at the time that caused crime to rise in every major city across the country and that's not even bringing up the RICO case against Young Thug and YSL although them [ __ ] did that [ __ ] like I just I want to keep it real with y'all if if you're here you know they it's

I don't I'm not saying they should go to jail believe in jails but I'm just saying if you want to ask me if these [ __ ] is guilty of a lot of [ __ ] they're accused of another if you know you know situation andon is only the tip of the iceberg in Atlanta where our current mayor Andre Dickens is literally blocking the Democratic process and defying the will of the People by not allowing a vote on the ballot measure to block cops city cop City for those who know is a $90 million police

training facility project here in Atlanta that has been disputed and fought over for the last couple of years that $90 million is $30 million from corporate interest across the city and $60 Million worth of taxpayer money to fund a training facility where they're going to militarize Atlanta police so that they can continue to do what they've been doing since the Red Dogs meanwhile of course if you're here in Atlanta you know that only about a month ago we went without [ __ ] water for like a week but somehow we have $660 million to hopefully

train police to be just a bit less likely to kill a [ __ ] in the street as much as I love the city I live in I am scared here a lot of time because Atlanta serves as the perfect example of how Black Faces in high places does not automatically improve the quality of black life for everyone but the key thing I want to point out as a driving force for all of these figures be they black officers that police the streets or the law officials that carry out the alleged Justice the reason why

they're allowed to get away with what they get away with is our ignorance to the reality of policing when the administrators look like us it's like folks have to be on that full Candace Owen step to recognize when harm is being done to black people by black people what some of these prosecutors and police officers are doing to black neighborhoods Across America that's the real black-on-black crime understand that in almost all of these stories are recounted in each situation these folks have used their Blackness as covering to misdirect from the harm that they're doing they've

appealed to images of black excellence and respectability politics to give them the cache to vilify and exploit other black people for their own gain all while presenting themselves as allies to Black struggle but in reality their role is to manage black rage to keep us in our place and reap the benefits of fulfilling that role to racist power structures cuz if you ever really pay attention to them if you're in rooms with them under the right circumstances you'll recognize that these [ __ ] fundamentally feel like they're different than those [ __ ] like they're

different than the rest of us especially black folks who are from poverty in fact they see those markers of poverty as justifiable reasons for mistreatment no matter the case they point to the dysfunction and other black people as the problems into themselves and their state imbued Authority as a solution they appeal to our suffering under social dysfunction and their perceived Authority as the reasons why they should be allowed to continue doing what they're doing and far too often black folks fall for this trick worse yet we might even celebrate going back to the 94 crime

bill which I've talked about in other videos understand that wasn't just Joe Biden's s there were a lot of black politicians and social leaders that felt like that was a good thing I believe that the federal government must act to help take back our streets to ensure that every man woman and child in this country feel safe in their communities in their schools and in their homes and that is why it is imperative that Congress send this bill to the president because some black folks had this belief that only the bad black people would suffer

and for the life of me I can't understand what part of our history has ever encouraged us to believe that these systems could ever imagine Blackness as good in any context uh there was a time when uh the white racist police come into our community and brutalize and murder and torture black people but when they start when black people start defending themselves then they move the black police into the community and they're still torturing us they're still uh brutalizing us and we in uh conditions of the black community haven't changed at all so when uh

they start showing that uh that they are really Poli and not pigs then we can establish some type of dialogue because they're showing where they're coming from just doing what they're doing at the end of the day a cop is a cop and even those genuinely good-natured well-wishing off officers of the law operate in a system that fundamentally is aligned against black people and regardless of the Statue of the officer be it a local Beat cop or a future president of the United States their power comes before their complexion to everyone including you white moderates

and liberals who don't recognize how this is possible just understand it is so it's incumbent upon us to hold them to task to do right by us cuz their Position will instinctually encourage them to do wrong that is pretty much all I have for this one there is a strong chance that this video might be demonetized so please if you want me to continue to be able to make videos like this join the FD signifier patreon link will be in the description as well as the end of this video or you can just Google FD

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