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>> d.l: hey, everybody. how are you guys doing? [cheers and applause] good to see you, good to see you! well, i am d.l. hughley, and welcome to "the daily show." between me and leslie and wanda, this is looking like b.e.t.! do not be shocked if you see those diabetes commercials. [laughs] o, o, o, ozempic! black people of that song. you are still dancing to that song. [laughs] of course, we have a lot that we need to talk about. so we are going to get right to it. so i am sure many of you heard by now that a young black man in memphis was pulled over by the police, and we all saw how it

went down. >> for the first time, we are seeing the violent arrest of tyre nichols. what began as a traffic stop quickly turned violent as captured on multiple videos released tonight by the city of memphis. officers are seen pulling nichols out of the car, they use pepper spray, and deploy a taser during a struggle. then, for roughly three minutes, officers are seeing repeatedly punching and kicking nichols while he was handcuffed. >> as nichols lay on the ground bloodied and bruised, several minutes go by without any of the officers administering first aid. nichols died in the hospital three days later. >> is it a shocking video? yes. >> d.l.: shocking? you know who wasn't shocked by that, black people. like, i think that is a word we should throw out of our lexicon.

you don't see black people sitting around, saying, can you believe they beat the shit out of another [bleep] on tv? it is plenty commonplace for us. the only people who were shocked by this our people have not been paying attention before us, that is a flashback. so these videos are so commonplace, it is hard to be shocked. that is like watching a porno and saying, "he's sticking what where? ain't no way any hell that's going to fit." i mean, i don't know. i don't watch porno. let's stick to the story. it is not shocking to black people because that is probably every black parent's nightmare. that is why we train our children to deal with police. we act like they are going on safari or something. don't make a sudden move, noise, don't make any sudden moves, don't smile, don't run. so you can't be shocked when the

media also will spend a whole week prepping for the video. they told us how violent it was going to be. to me, that video got more promo than i did for this joe! [applause] like -- i ain't seen it tv show that anticipated since the remake of "night court." they weren't playing around. that's like they were rolling out a new movie release -- "from the people who brought you george floyd and rodney king"... i can tell you what i did find shocking, was how fast those cops got arrested. [applause] they got arrested so fast, they didn't even give us time to r riot. like, damn, what am i going to do with all of this gas? got to pour it back lawn mower.

because it usually takes a considerable amount of time, like usually come when they tell us a cop got indicted, a reporter is wiping tear gas out of their eyes. so it is just interesting, because they did get arrested fast, and i just -- these cops got arrested so fast, i got to wonder why... there is something about them... it looks arrest-worthy. i can't put my finger on it but i want to arrest them myself. i don't -- [applause] i don't know. maybe they get their hair cut at the same place. i don't know. i would tell you what did scare me as no one told us what tyre could have done to stop this from happening.

i mean, usually, you hear people saying, he should have followed orders but they gave him 71 different orders and 13 minutes. so not even wendy's can turn in order around like that. and then they gave orders that didn't make any sense, like, telling him to get on the ground when he was already on the ground. i don't know how they do it in memphis but where i am from, the ground is as low as you can go, that is it. but you know, it is a complex issue, and i know it helps me whenever i am delving into a complex issue that affects black people, i want an expert opinion, what i do is i turned to fox news. [audience reacts] i do. i learned how to make gumbo watching that show too. it is the reason that i found out why cops do bad things in the first place, and it is apparently because people are so

mean to them. >> this is the direct result of is all the defund the police stuff, right? >> and if you vilify the cops, you'll get less people wanting to be cops. >> these endless wars on police departments now, they have dissuaded good people from becoming police officers. that's a fact. they have had recruitment problems and they've had retention problems. you can look at the data like i can. and what happens is, you wind up getting stuck plain and simple with just bad guys. >> d.l.: hmm. the great thing about it is, we got a guy from fox to say there are bad cops. got them to agree with antifa. i've been here one day, and i'm changing shit already, it is great. [laughs] but there is one guy on fox news -- this dude came up with something that i got to tell you, i really did not see coming. >> it looked like gang violence to me. it looked like what young black men do when they're supervised by a single black woman, and

that's what they've got going on in the memphis police department. they've elected some -- or put some black woman in charge of the police force, and we are getting the same kind of chaos and disunity and violence that we see in a lot of these cities that are run by single mothers. [boos] >> d.l.: what the [bleep] is he talking about? [applause] [laughs] what is he -- so it is a single black mother that had the problem. so wait a minute. all of these cops, all of them, they had a single black too? and by the way, those of the images that came up when i googled "good cops."

if jason whitlock proves anything, it is that you do not have to be white to hate black people. i can understand. how can we expect jason to see the plight of black people when this dude can't even see his own dick? so... [applause] [laughs] i am d.l. hughley. you knew i was going to do a dick joke. stopped. [laughs] for more on this story, i'm glad to joined by roy wood, jr. [cheers and applause] [laughter] >> just to disagree, why did you have to come to me? [laughter] >> d.l.: i am sorry. let's not let a dick come between us. it is crazy. [laughter] what can you tell me about the

police officers that committed this attack? >> here's the thing, d.l., first and foremost, they were not just any police officers, they were actually part of an elite unit within the department with a special focus on violent crime. an elite unit. >> d.l.: that was elite. >> yeah, it was a leech. and the whole idea of an elite unit is already kind of weird, right? shouldn't the whole police force already be elite? i mean, you already got guns. you know, it's like -- this is like when you get on the plane and the flight attendant tells you, oh, you are lucky today, this is one of our elite pilots. who their hell was flying this before? but there is something even weirder about this elite unit and that is in the name of this elite unit. they were actually called the scorpion. an acronym. you know, the police loves the acronym. scorpion stands for "street crimes operations to restore peace in our neighborhoods." scorpion. and look, i don't know about you, d.l. come as a rule of

thumb, no police unit should be named after a "mortal kombat" character. >> d.l.: i agree, agree. >> because once you give them a name like "scorpion," it doesn't matter what the unit is even for, they're gonna be violent. you could have a police unit that only does paperwork but if you call them scorpions, they are going to be swooping in and will beings be ass with w-2 forms. >> d.l.: agree. >> here's the other thing, man, it is not that hard for the police to name a unit something the police are gonna do without naming it after a deadly animal. how about this? securing... neighborhoods... alongside... kind... enforcement. that's peaceful. >> d.l.: isn't that "snake?" >> don't interrupt me. what about this. this is peaceful. securing homes and rescuing kids with orderly lawful

functionality. damn. forget acronyms. we can do better. police unit is peaceful... gentle enforcement needs officers carefully inspecting downtown elements. >> d.l.: don't you want me to finish the week, man? that's "genocide." >> forget the name. police got all these elite units. how about the police form and elite unit that specifically is trained to not kill black people. [cheers and applause] that's the unit. it's an all unit. talking six months of boot camp, learning how to identify black people come identifying when our hands are up, identifying when we are complying. if you did all of that, you could drop the killings of black people by as much as 20%.

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for ben crump. [cheers and applause] how are you? >> i am good, friend, other than this situation. >> d.l.: out of all of the time, usually, you call me, i think it's tuesday. when i hear from you, i know it's bad news. you never call me when you win the lotto or had a baby shower. you told me about it because my driver happened to be tyre's stepfather and he told me about it previously. and so it struck me differently because i know rodney and i remember when he moved to memphis, and i knew that you were on the case, so i was certain that something positive would happen. do you think that the fact that the officers were arrested so swiftly is an indicator of things getting better or just, we got five black people so we will arrest them real fast? >> the police chief davis said it was important that they take swift action, that they move swiftly to justice, d.l.

she said that, because this video was so clear, that the community needed to see that. and so i said to myself, they got fired, arrested, and charged in less than 20 days. so this is the blueprint going forward, d.l. hughley. they cannot say anymore to us, whether a cop is black or white, when you see them on video committing a crime, using excessive force against us, that it takes six months, that it takes a year. no, you can't tell us that anymore because we will say, remember those five black police officers in memphis? you arrested them immediately. [applause] >> d.l.: what i do find interesting, i know that you have tried to do what you can in terms of police reform. but let me tell you, congressman jim jordan, he said on i think "meet the press," he is not sure that any law, training, or reform could have stopped what

happened to tyre nichols. that sounds like a set up to not do anything. i am tired of hearing about rotten apples, we got to start looking at the trees and the soil of the trees growing. [applause] if the premise is already nothing could have stopped that, that sounds a lot like their approach on guns, we must keep everything the same because nothing will stop it. >> yeah, you know, d.l., it really is troubling when we continue to see all of this evidence that we have a problem with the culture of policing in america. one of the questions i was often asked was, with those black officers, are you surprised what they did? and i said, no, because the race of the police officer isn't the determining factor of whether they are going to commit excessive use of force. but it is the race of the victim. it is often black and brown people who bear the brunt of

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believe a greater good is going to happen for this senseless death of my son. and so i am praying -- do it on the local level, we got to do it with the state level, if we can't get to the federal government, we got to win the battles we can, because every battle we win might just save your child's life. [applause] >> d.l.: there you go, ben. there you go, ben. i am -- you epitomize perseverance. i am so proud of you. attorney ben crump. [cheers and applause] >> much love, much love. >> d.l.: all right. we are going to take a really quick break and we will be right back after this. [cheers and applause]

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[cheers and applause] >> d.l.: welcome back to "the daily show." it is such a great honor. you all must be a union, jesus. [laughs] this is -- my next two guests, they have collaborated on a new book for young readers called "how to be a young antiracist." won't you please welcome dr. ibram x. kendi and nic stone. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> thank you.

>> d.l.: so "how to be a young antiracist," that means you are already banned in florida. [laughter] it is funny when we talk about race because we live in a country that, the congress and senate voted for the juneteenth bill. but we're the same nation that doesn't want to talk about slavery. they will have robert e. lee day on the same days. so i think when it comes to racism, i think that a lot of people believe that if they are not actively saying the n-word or doing or saying bigoted things, that means they are not racist. but in our children, we can see the potential of things that we hope we can realize but probably never will. so that is an angle i think that is probably substantive. >> yeah, i think when it comes to children -- i have two of my own -- and it's important for me that they enter a world that they feel empowered to change, which is why we wrote this book. so dr. kendi wrote his memoir years ago and i latched onto it, slid into his dms and asked if

i could do a young readers' version because it is important that young people have the tools. i get so many kids who ask, what do i do, how do i help, what do i change, how can i get into this fight and do something about it? and so creating a text like "how to be a young antiracist," we're giving them information where they are learning these definitions and learning what racism actually is. >> d.l.: give me an example of what racism actually is. >> so racism is a system of ideas -- you have racist ideas, and basically, they are made to keep inequities going, right? so the whole purpose of a book like "how to be a young antiracist" is to give young people terms that we can all agree on, that we know what we are standing against. >> d.l.: like what? >> like racism. having a term and definition for racism helps them see, this is what we are trying to fight. >> because one of the things that happens is, people who have historically been racist refuse to define that term. >> d.l.: of course. >> that allows them to exonerate themselves consistently and constantly. and even young people,

therefore, don't know what it is, so they can't even assess themselves and guide themselves. >> d.l.: books like this and having conversations with people don't turn off are really the crux of what we need to be doing. and for young people, it is so much easier, to learn a language, it is so much easier to learn a love language. what do i -- because i get angry. but it is really hard to come from a place of anger and try to be -- try to teach somebody something. >> yeah. >> d.l.: i think for me, the onus has to be lowering the temperature and listening, right? >> look, the book is really all about first turning inward. i think part of the issue is that we don't do a good job of humanizing ourselves. we don't give ourselves the space to be angry, we don't give ourselves the space to be sad, we don't give ourselves the space to have unpopular opinions, right? like -- >> d.l.: i do. [laughter] >> you do. [laughter] but even that, you know, the fact that you are like, i am

angry and i don't know how i feel about being angry, it makes sense that we are angry. so taking the time to look inward and figure out -- the beauty of "how to be an antiracist," the adult book, was you get ibram's whole story where here is very open about the racist ideas that he was holding. so taking that and distilling it down for young people so that they can see, oh, dang, this thing i am thinking is probably a little racist. we had an event last night in atlanta, and our teen moderator -- that was the first question she asked. i read the book and i pointed out all the ways that i have racist ideas and it made me feel a way about myself. what am i supposed to do? so having that self-compassion where you can see, okay, yes, i am a product of a racist environment, i probably have some racist ideas. taking the time to give yourself some grace, you will give other people some grace too and that is how we get to a point where we are working together. >> d.l.: the thing that is so frustrating to me is our stories tend to start in the middle. like, we were something before

this. it is just like, even what is going on in florida, you don't even want to learn our history. there was a time when enslaved people couldn't learn and now it is illegal for us to learn about enslaved people. [audience reacts] >> you spitting. [applause] [laughter] >> d.l.: and you would have heard it have you not been on "the new york times" best seller list. [laughter] and i think, i think that we have a lot to learn about how things work, and to really have constructive conversations, because it is so much more fulfilling to me to shout at somebody, but it doesn't really accomplish anything, and i'm really very proud that you write a book like this and i think the younger you start -- you have the babies too? >> yeah. >> d.l.: what the [bleep] is a baby going to do? >> look, you learn it somewhere. you either learn to love people

or you learn to hate them. >> d.l.: i don't want chocolate milk. [laughter] [applause] "how to be a young antiracist" and the "how to be a young antiracist" workbook are available now. okay, we have to take a quick break and we will be right back. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ and applause]

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