Dave Smith

Like whatever you think of those situations, let's let's grant like.

The most charitable interpretations of both.

We'll go with the one autopsy for George Floyd that says the cop killed him.

We'll go with his murder conviction.

The absolutely should not have had his knee on his neck for that long after he was subdued.

Still, still.

He was a guy with a criminal record who was committing a petty crime.

And the idea that he had an interaction with law enforcement that went bad after that is not like just on the scale of outrages.

He wasn't just a college kid walking downtown who just got stabbed five times.

And you can just I guess the point is that.

you you kind of the part of the reason why this story is blowing up so much online is because it does get to this level that it's just intolerable man it's intolerable to expect people um largely meaning white people um

to accept this.

I mean, the way I said it on Pierce Morgan today was I go, just try to imagine that there's, there's literally the rule in the UK is that Sikhs are allowed to carry swords on them, but the population is disarmed.

And so, and I go, so you think about this, think about also like just the historical irony that the,

The UK has rigged the rules of self-defense not on behalf of Englishmen, on behalf of Indians.

What world are we living in here, man?

Yeah, you know, I was, the point you're making, I remember thinking about this a lot during the Derek Chauvin trial, which, you know, I'm sure probably a lot of right-wingers disagree with my take on all of that, but I more or less like, you know, I just don't,

I don't really work up a lot of sympathy for cops in, in his situation.

You know, I kind of feel like this, this cop is like a guy who you took that job.

If somebody had literally had a gun just to defend themselves with and had brought it across state lines and you stopped them, you would have, you wouldn't have lost one wink of sleep over ruining someone's life for defending themselves.