CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, Wes Moore, joins Morning Joe, weighs in on the nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Aired on 6/1/2020.
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Wes Moore: We Must Change A System That Historically Overpolices | Morning Joe | MSNBC
OPPRESSION ALSO CAUSES PROTESTS! Unequal wealth is OPPRESSION!
Yeah but if you don’t nail these rioters the US might become like Zimbabwe with Robert Mugabe as POTUS. Get that rebel trash off our streets and into prisons.
Goes back to education and to the nuclear family Is there a father in the home? Do the children have parents that provide for them? What kind of examples do the children have in their lives?
Right on
“Are we to be American only at your convenience?”
They can be American when they act like Americans.
@Logic Police they are. They are using their freedom of expression to get the country to notice their frustration with inaction on police brutality.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F Kennedy. Unless socioeconomic change happens this situation will happen again. Until humanity evolves enough to realize that there is only one race, the human race, this situation will happen again.
@Taylor Craig Newbold …#anyway
Finally someone understands me
Remember all the the remarks tromp said in the beginning on Mexicans, Latinos and other races the comments he put out their race is his weapon.
a little bit over the top. “until humanity evolves….” keep it small. To change a system, you need to change the way people think.
BS… Blacks loot at power failure, hurricanes, blackouts, arrests you name it..
All they need is an excuse…
Time to fight back
Police Brutality isn’t just overpolicing. In that case, the police are acting like judge and jury and worst of all EXECUTIONER. They are sentencing people to death.
@Brother Sanguinary
Actually, he was probably told to go there by the Secret Service. These “protesters” better watch their step. There are reasons why we fought for the larger magazines in the AR-15!
@Michael Duff while he was handcuffed and on the ground; really Michael you’ll never have to worry about police brutality easy for you to make your opinion known but you’ll never face injustice like that of George Floyd; he was murdered in cold blood that is Criminal Homicide it is written in the Bible that should be punished with death whom commit Criminal Homicide; and the police officer should be punished with the death penalty! If not then he will face the. Judge of Judges GOD Almighty; and he might end up in that lake of fire being blotted out of existence;
@Michael Duff: naturally you need a machine gun AK 47 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahajaha; in my 44 year’s on this earth I have never resorted to owning a gun and I grew up in Boyle Heights East Los Angeles was born and raised there when it was one of the most dangerous places in the united states during the early 80s I have never needed a weapon and if I was you I wouldn’t be threatening anyone because I gaurantee you probably need a weapon because your Boxing skills leave a lot to be desired lol I learned how to box at eight year’s old and trained in Martial art’s when I was thirteen years old….
@Marcus Guzman Did they teach you to dodge bullets?
@Marcus Guzman How did he get on the ground? He fought being put in the car. You call it whatever you like but you know I am right. Floyd brought this on himself by resisting arrest. It wasn’t because he was black, but because he was stupid.
Well said Mr. Moore.
For decades, Americans have voted for “law and order” candidates promising us that everything would be better if we just had stricter laws and put more people in jail.
This is the natural result.
@Dug Nice You keep making the same mistake in the assumption that either party will work for the betterment of the people. Stop making this a black issue when its a class struggle against state sanctioned violence.
@Kyle Nickelberry
I agree, but I’m not the one who made it a black issue, the protesters and their organizers did.
The protesting and rioting only helps the “elite” class. I very much understand that.
@Dug Nice as long as you can see all of the angles then carry on and stay safe.
HERE’s OUR FREE America: http://www.vox.com/identities/2020/5/31/21276013/police-targeted-journalists-covering-george-floyd-protests
WE need to stop sitting home and shopping on Amazon! This is the END of America.
@Kyle Nickelberry
You do the same as well. ✌️
Meanwhile President Hunker in the Bunker is nowhere to be seen…..
And nothing to say unless it’s a vindictive tweet.
@William Bailey HE’S NOT THE PRESIDENT AND TRUMP IS CLEARLY GROSSLY UNFIT ! 🤬👍🏿👍🏻
@ma,ma gee’s gospel Biden should get out of his basement and set an example since he is hoping to be the next president. Dont you think?
@William Bailey BIDENS TALKED ALREADY ON THIS ISSUE MANY TIMES, WHERE IN THE H*LL WERE YOU, BUT TRUMP IS SUPPOSE TO BE THE SETTING PRESIDENT, AND EVERYTIME HE TALKS HE ACTUALLY PUTS HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH ! 🤔👍🏻👍🏿
gospel unfortunately all biben has done is blame and point fingers. He has yet to mention any solution that he might actually implement. Sorry, but pointing fingers is not anything concrete. It’s really just saying “I don’t have a plan” yea I couldn’t vote for someone who thinks hiding out durring the worst time in our history and pointing fingers with no viable offering to a solution. Unless ” if you dont vote for me you ain’t black” is a solution. No better than trump.
@William Bailey SAID THE LITTLE PROPAGANDA PUSHING TRUMPSTER WHO CONTINUALLY FOLLOWS A NARCISSISTIC CRIMINALLY INSANE CONMAN, AND LITERALLY THINKS TRUMP THE CHOSEN ONE, BIDEN IS DEFINITELY THE LESSER OF THE TWO EVILS ! 🤔👍🏻👍🏿
the reasons this started were a counterfeit money maker, and a store clerk. Right?
The person who called police in the first place? That person wouldn’t take a counterfeit bill so due to their direct action, calling the police to ‘arrest that man!’, a man died instead.
Similar to the ‘birdwatching criminal’, did George’s accuser make the call simply Because George was a black American?
Yes a 20.00 counterfeit bill. In Miami unfortunately you get them all the time! Smh
Nonsense, George is dead because George was stupid.
I am not American but I do believe that when a counterfeit note is presented, it is standard practice to contact law enforcement. As such, they may enquire of the citizen with the note where and how he got the note. The citizen may or may not be charged, I think, based on police discretion. I cannot blame the cashier for calling the police.
@Neon Clover i maintain the same phone call would not have been made if a white person paid using a fake bill (still unproven, as is Floyd’s intent)
@Neon Clover I thought the Secret Service handles counterfeit currency. The police would have just been there to collect information, not to try to arrest anyone.
Law EnFARCEment = The Real Thugs.
Does that include Val Demings?
@Robert The Bruce No. Go away, troll.
America is run on great western values ; values like colonialism , slavery , racism and regime changing . Seems more like western barbarianism and now I know why China built the great wall .
You’re seriously going to bring China in as a good example? Ask the Uighur how they feel about that. Tienanmen Square has not been forgotten. Freedom for all.
China never brag or boast of its ‘Chinese values’ and impose it on other nations unlike the pretense of US foreign policies .
We don’t care if you love us or not! You dont know what love is…
Time for change
Everyone sees it
Everyone knows it
End the power trip police
End police immunity
End police brutality
Make them accountable!
@David Hale my 12gauge. If I wait for police, my family would be dead. Clown
Anthony Egidio 12 gauges are for women.
You need to upgrade.
im with you brother, i’ll put my life on the line if i could to protest this.
@David Hale Still relying on straw men I see.
Then vote. Most young don’t do it. Nothing will change unless you do so.
And where is your president
Leading the voice for the helpless
No
Hiding in a bunker
Most pathetic president Ever
And he’s attacking mail-in voting during a pandemic, when he himself votes by mail!
Fact checked that he voted by email 3 times, and McEneny voted by email 11 times..so their excuses not to vote by email are absurd.
GRK Alexis I’m sure there are lots of Republicans who vote by absentee ballots but since the reality show star in chief hates it, they hate it too.
And tweeting to incite more violence.
From overseas: I like what mr Moore states!! I’d like to add, that the US needs more than a FAKE president and his disgusting gang to make America greater in the sense mr Moore is hoping for..
Yeah. Way ahead of you there. Did you not notice how Trump lost the popular vote by the largest margin in American history? He was elected by a minority of Americans, not the majority. Also, we tried to impeach him and remove him from office, but the corrupt Republicans, who only care about their tax cuts for the super rich, wanted their puppet in office and ditched their duty to the country for cold hard cash. We’ve been trying to get rid of this jerk for three and half years and the richest 1% have taken over the democratic process and denied the voice of the majority of people. Also, may I remind you that Russia meddled in our election? This was not what we wanted either.
BJ Rosen I know all that you state, and I follow the unvelievable events in the US since the so-called election of Trump. I even yelled at him when he was in Rome in 2017 to visit the Pope, wishing him to leave my beloved Europe asap. I wish you all the best and sincerely hope your country will find a new and peaceful balance, without racism, and with more freedom and wealth for all that need it!!! Kind regards.
Police needs to stop calling the cavalry and shutting down every highway lane for a simple traffic stop- let’s start with that.
Just like climate change and gun violence, this will all die down again until something comes up to reignite it. But real change hasn’t happened yet.
I don’t think it will die down again.
We are at the beginning of the greatest world and American depression in history. Unless we can regain the peoples trust in our press and government as benign entities the people will more likely than not tear down this nation around their own ears and build some government and a press that we can trust.
A start would be ridding your government of aged self serving trough feeders.
Yup. And getting rid of the ridiculous, out-dated, cumbersome and corrupt political system. Justice dispensed by political appointees, the majority vote LOSING the presidence (called ‘the popular vote”? wtf?), long repeatable terms, paid lobbying so that politicians answer to wealthy lobbyists not their electorates, gerrymandering, deliberate restrictions on voting stations so that people have to queue to vote, voting day on a Work day mid-week so that workers must leave work to vote? Corrupt, out-dated system.
Why is it that it takes a moment like this in our history to raise some form of public awareness?
I second that, when I was in the British Army I was in Kosovo and Bosnia, countries I never really had any understanding about.
I agree with the man
My comment:
We need Jesus in this issue.
Amen