This Could Be George Floyd All Over Again
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day. We bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. We do this because there's new headlines every day and that can get exhausting and can cause anxiety. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here for the true story. The story of the day today. Another black man murdered by police. Here's what happened. When I first heard about this story, an old friend of mine, I haven't talked to him in 25 years, but I'm still friends with him on Facebook. I saw a post they put, and it was a picture of a memorial. And the caption said, one tased him, two others pinned him down. a fourth police officer fatally shot a black man in Madison, Wisconsin.
So one tased, two pinned him down, and then another shot him dead. And you have this visual, because there was a picture, you have a visual because there was a picture of the vigil, not of the shooting or the interaction itself. So you get this image of just like execution on the street. That was the first I heard of this. I said, oh, I wonder what happened. So I looked it up. Someone called 911 because there was a suspicious looking person checking parked cars, peering through windows, trying to get into cars. So we had an anti-social, some anti-social, not even anti-social, anti-civilization behavior. So normal productive people in Madison, Wisconsin called 911. Police arrived as they're supposed to.
What happened in the Madison, Wisconsin police shooting and how was it first reported?
They tried to detain him. He resisted. They tased him. Looks like it didn't work somehow. He then pulled out a knife and injured an officer, at which point another officer shot him three times. He attacked police officers. In the middle of this tussle, I don't exactly know the injury, so he either cut or stabbed a police officer. Case closed. What are we even talking about? This will keep happening for one very simple reason. People don't want to go to jail. I've said this a billion times.
I guess we'll say it a billion more. Until jail is Disney World, no one will want to go. Now, he's been in jail already. He didn't want to go back.
Now, did he not want to go back enough to not break into cars anymore?
No.
But what he really wanted to do was keep breaking in cars and not go to jail. So we have to decide if we want to allow that behavior. He had a criminal record of drug possession, theft, resisting or obstructing an officer, the whole thing. So he didn't want to go back. That's what happened. So we have two stories here, two side stories. First, body cameras. Madison, Wisconsin police don't have body cameras. Now, body cameras are really interesting. Black Lives Matter activists, they don't want them anymore. They did want them. One of their demands during George Floyd and that whole, whatever, one of their demands was we want body cameras on all police officers. Now they don't because all these videos were coming out where Black Lives Matter activists would say, oh, police shot an unarmed black man.
And then the video comes out and the unarmed black man is running at the police officer's full speed with a knife in their hand. There was one story in particular, I forget where it was, but a black man was murdered by police officers and they demanded answers, right? And how could police do such a thing? My baby would never, he's a great, my baby's amazing and he would never do something bad, right? And then the body camera, no, you know what this was? This was a road rage incident. And these two guys got out of the car. And the white guy, who was an off-duty police officer, murdered the black man. That's what happened. Then dash camera footage came out. And the black man pulled out a gun. That's when the police officer, the off-duty police officer, shot back.
So when the footage came out, to the family's credit, the lawyer backed down, the family, apologized and said they were shocked that their son would do such a thing. They never would have believed it and were sorry. And he was in the wrong. And the whole thing was over. Again, to the family's credit for doing that.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–1:46
2
What happened in the Madison, Wisconsin police shooting and how was it first reported?
1:46–7:24
3
Why did the speaker argue this shooting appears justified according to available details?
7:24–12:16
4
What does the police bodycam footage (or lack of it) reveal about this case?
12:16–12:50
5
Why does the host argue some activist groups oppose body cameras and what examples were given?
12:50–21:24