to your point, that may have been a mitigating factor. >> again, it's incredibly hard to watch. not good training, and we hold police officers to a much higher standard than that, and this is going to be adjudicated. as you said, this will go to trial. thanks so much, bill. stay with fox news to follow this breaking story. thank you so much for joining "prime time." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome into "tucker carlson tonight." officials in memphis, tennessee, have just released body cam footage of a police encounter that followed a traffic stop. what you are about to see took place less than three weeks ago. the footage appears to show police attempting to stop a 29-year-old called tyre nichols for reckless driving. he seems to resist arrest. then after a struggle and what looks like a very significant beating, nichols died.

memphis is one of those dangerous places in the western hemisphere where killings are very common, but this videotape and the violence it contains has dominated today's news, so we have asked trace gallagher to walk us through the footage. hey, trace. >> hey, tucker. we will do the step-by-step. it begins with the initial stop. remember, tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, though the video starts at a point where there is no evidence. we can't see any signs of reckless or erratic driving. but when police officers approached the vehicle, they are clearly agitated about something, because they don't go up to the vehicle and ask tyre nichols to step out. instead, they immediately open the door and they pull him out of the car, and immediately then try to push them down to the ground. you can watch some of this and kind of see the process as it goes forward. in the process, while they are on the ground with him, he is tased and apparently pepper sprayed. some of the spray gets into the

eyes of other officers on scene. the video, as you watch and you count, and it goes on, the initial part, for about 35, maybe 45 seconds before tyre nichols actually gets loose and runs away. let's listen to part of that. >> get on the ground! now! >> stop! all right, okay. >> before i break your [bleep] -- >> dude, dang! >> put your hands behind your back! >> before i drop your [bleep] right now! >> you doing a lot! i'm just trying to go home! >> man, if you don't lay down -- >> get on your stomach! >> i am! stop! i'm not doing -- >> [bleep] -- >> you can see he flees.

the officers gave chase but they can't catch him. then they come back to the car. several minutes go by before another police unit spots and catches nichols. this is the second scene, and the officer from the first scene also then arrived at the second scene. tyre nichols at that time was only about half a mile from his house, and at this point there is both body can video and memphis police video that is from a camera mounted on a light pole, that you can see the officers throwing tyre nichols to the ground. then there are two officers who grab nichols' arms and put them behind his back, and they begin punching him. another officer at the same time is kicking him. he is clearly unable to defend himself at this time, and when he's finally placed back on the ground you can see officers still kind of walking up and kicking him. it's very hard to make out what tyre nichols is saying, but we know that he is asking for help, and he's also apparently asking for his mom.

watch. >> hey! >> mom! >> watch out, watch out! >> mom! mom! mom! >> give me your hands! give me your hands! >> okay. all right. >> hey, man! give me your hands, bro! give me them hands, bro! >> the pull video shows a wide-screen perspective of exactly what police are doing and how bad the three-minute beating was, and then there is the final issue, which is that, while nichols is on the ground, you can see him there. as time goes by, you can also see other police officers and people gathering around. there is no urgency in getting nichols any type of medical

help, and the memphis police department has pointed that out. that's part of the charges here. at this point it's not just the five officers. at one point maybe eight, nine, or ten people on scene, and nobody appears to be scrambling for help. the bottom line, it's hard to tell what initial threat there was to police that justified the response. that may come out in court. or, what prompted the beating at the second scene. tyre nichols, we should note, is 6'3", 145 pounds, with no criminal history. so lots of questions and very damning evidence. it's been compared many times to the rodney king beating. it was not as long, we do not know the severity, we do know that rodney king survived, and tyre nichols did not survive. tucker? >> tucker: trace gallagher for us. thank you. as we said, that video is hard to watch. parts of it are brutal, it seems like an abuse of power. you can't kick a man when he's on the ground, handcuffed.

decent people oppose that. virtually all americans oppose that. we have to remember we don't know all the facts here. we have seen a lot of videos over the years that have been put to use his that had nothing to do with the topic o. so we should suspend somon the s killed, or died, in any case, was black, but so was every police officer you just saw hitting him. so, by the way, is the police chief of memphis. so is most of its city government. so also is the majority of the city of memphis itself. so whatever you think of them, white people didn't play any role in this particular tragedy. whatever this story may be about, it's not about racial bias. any honest person could see that immediately. but you would never know it from watching these so called news

coverage of this tape today. the only person w whose race mot media identified was the victim. moments ago on msnbc they just describe what you just saw as "rights of privacy." really? how? seeing as van jones didn't acknowledge that the police who hit tyre nichols were black, but, "they might still have been driven by racism." van jones didn't take the time to explain how. it was a lie, of course. they are all lying, and joe biden himself, the president of the united states, swiftly reinforced that lie, referring to an event in which every single participant, and their supervisors, was the same color. he lectured the united states that "fatal encounters with law enforcement have disparately impacted black and brown people." so the one thing you know, most people don't think that's right, but the one thing we know for sure is that there is a highly aggressive propaganda campaign

underway tonight, designed to manipulate you, and using the sad death of a young man in memphis to do it. that propaganda campaign, like all propaganda campaigns, is, by definition, dishonest. but it's more than that. it's worse than that. this is yet another attempt by our leaders, of our country, to inflame racial hatred in the united states. why would anyone ever do that? the consequences of doing that ripple through the generations. they don't go away quickly, but they are doing it anyway. why? we can't say for certain, that we can't help but notice that the last time we had race riots in this country, an incumbent president lost reelection. so joe biden, if you weren't senile, might be concerned by this. whatever the intent of lying about what you just saw might be, we know, that it's evil. and we are beginning to suspect that the violence in memphis

tonight is not organic. it's not just outraged people taking to the streets. why are we guessing that? because similar violence is also expected tonight in cities across the country. as we speak, antifa is coordinating riots on both coasts and in between. i would include seattle, portland, los angeles, new york new york city, washington, d.c., et cetera. barricades are going up in times square. nypd is worried about attacks on police and public transportation. "our rage is stronger than their power!" declared the antifa chapter in frederick, maryland. we already know there is a lie embedded in the claim. "our rage?" we got so mad watching cnn that we took to the street and set police stations on fire, or whatever they plan to do? no, that's not what's happening. antifa is not a bunch of hooligans. these are not idle kids who appear out of nowhere because they are so mad about what they saw on cable news or read

on twitter. antifa is a political instrument whose actions are always intended to affect a political outcome, period. antifa does not appear by accident. antifa appears with a purpose, to affect a political outcome, every single time. if there's one criticism of the rest of us watching this at home, is that we often miss that, because every channel is telling us something terrible happened, here's a video of it, and sometimes that video is terrible. and then they imply that, because of this video, the emotions of the people watching just erupt into rage and violence. but that's not what's happening. antifa is being organized by whom? we don't know. why don't we know? to do what? we can't say right now. but we know for certain that, in cities across the country, right now, antifa is mobilizing to commit violence. this is a political militia. so the question is, who is benefiting from it?

those are the people you ought to be asking questions of. and we are going to have time to do that. but right now we are on the cusp of what many in law enforcement expect to be a lawn and violent evening so there's nobody better to talk to, we felt, then the former police chief of the city of detroit, james craig, who, when violence and unrest came to his city, he quashed it. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: let's say you're in charge of the police force of memphis, tennessee, los angeles, atlanta, all the cities we listed expecting violence tonight. how do you respond? >> zero tolerance, tucker. detroit was one of the few big cities, as you know, that wasn't writing, wasn't burning. there were fewer attacks on police officers. we took a firm position. we don't tolerate violence. more importantly, you said it best, antifa. what is biden's doj doing about antifa? >> tucker: exactly. >> absolutely nothing, and it's shameful. look, i get the insurrection,

that whatever he doing about antifa? they are threatening cities across this country, and people, they lie and say things like, "you know, it was peaceful protesting." it's not peaceful if you are looting, setting up autonomous zones, taking over police stations, attacking police officers. that's not peaceful. so this madness needs to stop and we need to have courageous, ethical leaders instead of lying. and then, in the aftermath of the recent incident in georgia, what about that? what does biden say? "you know, why can officers just shoot someone in their leg if they are faced with an armed assailant cannot" are you kidding? when i last looked, died and has never been a police officer. i've never been a president, but i do have a shred of common sense. >> tucker: i just don't understand why this doesn't qualify under existing rico statutes as a criminal conspiracy. we just put a document on the

screen from antifa encouraging antifa militants to bring rocks and pipes and kerosene. there it is right now. burn it all down. so here you have an organized militia encouraging organized violence against the united states of america, and the justice department doesn't bring rico charges against antifa? what is that? >> we are reliving 2020. people ask me often, do we think 2020 is behind us and could never happen again? let's just go back to atlanta. it is not over. and i get so sick and tired of these race baiters making it into white supremacy. give me a break. i've been in this business for 44 years. look, i was on the front lines. i worked through rodney king. this is tragic, and certainly my heart goes out to that family, to the memphis police department, and the other thing, tucker, they are going to use this to demonize all police.

>> tucker: of course they are. >> these five officers are charged, and guess what? the transparency doesn't stop with just showing this video. what i the next steps? can we just paint every police department with one broad brush? we can't do it. when you talk about training, "all police are bad." no, they are not. i have worked with some of the finest heroes in america for 44 years, and guess what? when we had a bad one, we do it with that. the question i have, is this systemic? is as a pattern and practice in this police department? i don't know that. i guess we will soon find out. where was the supervision at? why didn't the officers give this young man aid when he was down? and what about the officers who just stood by and let it happen? they need to be charged. that strikes right to the heart of what the police department culture is like. i don't want to say bad things about memphis.

i know the chief, she's a wonderful chief, but i've got to ask the question, what's the culture of that scorpion unit? where was the supervision? these specialized units, you must have proactive supervision there. i don't know if that's the case. i just don't know. there's a lot i don't know. >> tucker: we are going to find out. chief james craig, formerly of detroit. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: of course the very same people we being on television about police brutality applauded when one of nancy pelosi's officers murdered an unarmed woman called ashley babbitt. yes, murdered. that's exactly what it was. for more clearly than anything use on the videotape we played. of course the point of this is to federalize local law enforcement, obviously. it's never about saving anybody's life. it's about accumulating power. but there's a lot of nuances here that are hard to untangle in real time, and that's why we are really blessed to go to one of the signs people we know, peter courson now,

a the civil rights commission. thank you for coming on. the literal among us are always sitting there with jaws open when they tell us that something is racially motivated or white supremacy. when the videotape tells us it's not. i'm certainly not endorsing with the cops and memphis did. it seemed pretty awful to me, but it didn't seem race-related. why are they telling us it is? >> well, it was horrific, and obviously our hearts go out to the family. but this is a time to take a breath and be deliberate about these things and not jump to conclusions, because that is precisely what certain bad actors, progressive actors, mainly, would like us to do. to jump to a conclusion that we are systematically racist, that white cops are slaughtering blacks, resting them in disproportionate numbers, brutalizing them. and but their narrative is thatblacn

cops, all cops, are part of a white supreme is a superstructure. obviously that is silly, that is done, but that's dangerous and it allows them to mobilize their shock troops to effectuate certain changes. and who gets affected by this? again, everybody involved was black, and the consequences of this, if we follow that narrative, that false narrative that blacks are being disproportionally shot -- the data is completely opposite of that. if that happens, we will have a revisit of the ferguson effect that happened after the michael brown incident. that is, policing withdraws. the amount of enforcement declines. and who gets hurt? what we have seen is, since the michael brown incident, for example, there's been not 5%, not 10%, but a full 50% increase in black homicides, because police enforcement has withdrawn. as the chief said, it's the last thing you want. i think that there are forces in this country -- i don't know who they are or what their ultimate

objective is, but i think they would be very happy to sow more chaos and been collapsed to the system. >> tucker: your last sentence should be printed out and hung on every fridge, because that's exactly what's going on. pepeter courson outcome appreciate you coming on ton tonight. we want to check in with our friend, jason whitlock, who is a the host of "fearless." what you make of what's happening, not just in memphis, but the national news media? >> everyone is behaving in appropriately, including these five memphis police officers. this is an open and shut case. the camera from above captures the police, doing something totally illegal. the second-degree murder charges are warranted. this is going to be a revisitation of walter scott, the guy who got shot on camera by a cop in the back.

he got convicted, went to prison. it's an open and shut case. this is, too. i don't get what people are persisting about. these are five black officers. the victim is black, the police chief is black, the police have been fired and charged, and they will be convicted, i would assume, by a predominately black jury in a city that is 65% black. so the system is going to work here. the other system that is working is the corporate media's insistence on promoting racial division at the behest, in my view, of the military-industrial

reality.

>> if they want to take us to a good place, i would examine the racial element of this. there is a racial element. and this is a story about young black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way. everybody involved in this, on the street level, was either 24-32 years old. it was a group of young black men, five on one. it looked like gang violence to me. it looked like what young black men deal when they are supervised by a single black woman, and that's what they got going on in the memphis police department. they have elected 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 the cities run by single mothers. if we wanted the breakdown of family that leads to disrespect for authority, that causes you to resist the police and run

from the police and not comply with the police, because you resist authority at all times, because there was no male authority in your home, let's have that discussion. but that's not where they want to take us. they want to take us down the path of saying, "you know what? this is tucker carlson's fault. this is donald trump's fault." it's not. it's the breakdown of family and the buying into all these left-wing things that have nothing to do with promoting family. >> tucker: you been on the show so many times, and everything the time you say something i never would've thought of, including what you just said, and i appreciate it. jason whitlock, good to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so maybe the bigger story everyone seems to be ignoring here is that riots are being planned in cities across the country. nowhere near memphis, physically or culturally. cities that have nothing to do with memphis at all. they are the opposite of memphis. seattle, portland, oregon. antifa is apparently planning riots in those places tonight. why, is the question.

first of the fact of it. jason rantz covers the pacific northwest for us. he joins us tonight. hey, jason. >> hey, tucker. yeah, we are starting to see some organizing in portland and seattle, but also new york city. we see that a lot of police department's are assuming there's going be civil unrest from these groups because of the way that they have operated over the course of the last couple years. and this is going to be a little bit of a test for these antifa activists, because they have effectively changed the way that they organize. they used to do a lot of this very much in the open. they did it openly on twitter. but now they have sort of learned their lesson and they have been going to apps like signal or mastodon or telegram would have more control as to who actually has access to the information they are putting out there for the organizing. on the one hand, that means it's a little bit harder to track. from the police perspective. on the other hand, it also means they are not likely going to have as many people show up immediately. and one thing that they have learned, and they are open about this, is that they will go ahead

and try to overwhelm a city's police department. for example, here in seattle, we have a decimated police force. if there are two, three, and before groups, they don't have to be that large, but we have ten people in each of those groups at different locations, you're going to move the police around, and they are not going to be able to properly do any of it on those spots. yet these open vulnerabilities that will be exposed if they end up doing those kinds of strategies, and what we have seen so far, police department's around the country have decided to hold their second watch shift so the officers are staying on board. you've got the third watch, which isn't even supposed to start for another hour and half, but they are already in. so you're seeing this kind of mobilization, just in case they start to get violent. and when we start to see the violence, usually around 7:00, 8:00 at night, our time in the pacific coast, they are pretty standard and what they do.

they march around, the hope that there is a larger crowd of nonantifa activists that they can hide behind. they of course are dressed in black block c can't identify them, and they will take their shots at cops whenever they can. for the most part, city leadership, with eight seattle, portland, d.c., san francisco, officers are basically told, you're going to have to take a lot of this abuse to a point, because if they get involved, they could end up making this even bigger. >> tucker: and no one does anything. equal protection is just evaporated. sad. really sad. jason rantz, appreciate it. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: fridays a penny a big day for body cam footage. we got what we should do for memphis tonight, but in san francisco authorities also released body cam footage from that very weird friday night the pelosi household had in pacific heights san francisco back in

october. we will have that, not that we can really make sense of it, but we'll have it anyway, and of course we will continue for the duration of this show to monitor the riots that appear to be unfolding across our countrym tonight. we'll be right back. ♪on.)ere ♪ hey! like your workplace benefits... and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financial choices together... can help you be better prepared for unexpected events. for a brighter financial future. thanks. ahh pretzel and mustard... another great combo. (voya mnemonic.) voya. well planned. well invested. well protected.

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>> tucker: what's interesting is that the rest of us got to see that body cam footage from memphis very quickly, by modern standards. less than three weeks after the events it depicts. that doesn't always happen. it really depends on what political forces want the public to see. again, this is all part of a much larger propaganda campaign. it doesn't mean the footage is fake, but it means you get to see it according to their timetable. so with that in mind, remember it took about three months to get the body cam footage in the paul pelosi break in case. a judge just order the san francisco police department to release it. fox news' kevin corke has it for us tonight. hey, kevin.

>> good evening, tucker. it is believed that officers had been originally called to the pelosi home when paul pelosi was able to suddenly place a 911 call during what appears to be a home invasion. the assailant, david depape, is said to have broken into and $7 million home, which i should point out is supposed to be monitored by capitol police. while it's possible we haven't seen all the available video taken that evening, what we have seen does tell a bit of a harrowing story. >> hi. >> how you doing? what's going on, man? dropped the hammer. >> hey, hey, hey. >> what is going on right now? l, to [bleep]

>> backup, code three. >> you just have to wonder, what happened in that circumstance andanend a bunch of other situa? what is less clear is why, when he called for help, paul pelosi repeatedly told that i will one operator he didn't think he needed police help, that he did say he didn't know the man who had entered his home. >> 2022. >> i guess i told them -- what is it? >> this is san francisco police, do you need help? >> there is a gentleman here. just waiting for my wife to come back, nancy pelosi. he's waiting for her to come back. but she's not going to be here for days, so i guess he'll have to wait. >> do you need police, fire, or medical for anything?

>> i don't think so. i don't think so. >> pelosi is still recovering from that attack. depape faces up to 50 years behind bars. meantime, former house speaker nancy pelosi said she had no intention of saying the "deadly assault on the has-been's life." >> tucker: kevin corke, thank you so much for all of that. a couple of obvious points. what we saw in the body cam footage is both horrifying, seeing poor paul pelosi in his 80s get hit with a hammer. it's absolutely awful. but it's also weird, standing there with a drink. what was that? we can't even speculate as to what that was. then the 911 call reveals above all that the 911 operator should be fired immediately. has there ever been a dummer 911 operator? probably not we can't have done 911 operators. it really matters. in the heat to defend nbc news, but we just got to be honest, the body cam footage completely

vindicates reporting from nbc back in november. here's what was reported. >> sources familiar with what unfolded in the pelosi residence now revealing, when officers responded to the high priority call, they were seemingly unaware that they had been called to the home of the speaker of the house. after a knock and announce, the front door was opened by mr. pelosi, the 82-year-old did not immediately declare an emergency or try to leave his ht instead began walking several feet back into the foyer toward the assailant and away from police. why pelosi didn't try to flee or tell responding officers he was in distress is unclear. >> we still don't know exactly what unfolded between mr. pelosi and the suspect for the 30 minutes they were alone inside that house before police arrived. >> tucker: so that's kind of amazing. the guy was just doing his job.

he clearly talked to someone who saw the body cam footage. now we've seen it and we know he was basically right. that's what it showed. news organizations don't typically punish reporters for getting the story right, but nbc punished that guy. they suspended him, then deleted that report from their website. we asked nbc today why they would do that, but they did not respond. of course, we know the answer, which is that body cam footage, whatever else it proves -- and we are not exact sure what it proves -- it definitely puts a crimp in their preferred story, which is that the pelosi household was invaded by q and nonactivists or something, or this was some right-wing militia attack on the speaker of the house's husband. that's not what it shows. and that nbc reporter was honest enough to describe what it does show, and for his efforts at telling the truth, he was suspended. shame on nbc news. chris bedford is the executive editor of the common sense society. thanks for coming on. what did you think of this

video? >> well, two things seem clear to me from this video. one is that paul pelosi appears to try to keep the madman calm. he's not making sudden movements. when the police flashed a flashlight in his face and move in, he is suddenly incredibly violent and nearly killed paul pelosi. the second thing that is still apparent from this is the absolute and total contempt of the city of san francisco holds for the american people. the whole reason a dozen news agencies had to sue for us to see this is because they declared that having this information would lead to disinformation. that american people having transparency, being able to see this video, would lead us down some sort of awful path towards lies and qanon. that's what content they have for us. we don't deserve the information we will be misled by it. but when you seen the video, it seems fairly clear, there is a frightened old man getting attacked. >> tucker: sure, by what seems like a crazy person.

every witness who knew this guy before the attacks of the same thing, which is that he's mentally ill, and he lives in berkeley in a bus with all kinds of left-wing stickers on it. he's not a right-wing activist, he's a mental patient. i think the call in the video seem to confirm that. but that was not the message that nancy pelosi wanted to tell us, was it, right before the midterm? >> no. the whole thing, and president biden spoke about it multiple times, is that this was some kind of right-wing attack on the speaker of the house. that was the actual disinformation. and nbc news was willing to spend seemingly permanently a veteran reporter who hadn't done anything wrong except for possibly interrupt this narrative with some things that spread on the internet and caused wonder over what exactly was going on. they were a couple of different theories about what actually happened in the first couple days, that within a week we had footage of this guy walking down the street with a hammer, breaking into the house with the hammer. why did they take so many

months, why did they hide this? except for the fact that they simply hold us in contempt. >> tucker: super quick question, do you still think there are good government liberals out there bothered by the obvious corruption on display around us every single day? to the even? >> i think there are still a few clinging onto that, holding onto that. he made a couple of them in the media occasionally, folks who ask what's going on. we talk them all the time. and glenn greenwald, for example, they say this ain't right. >> tucker: and it ain't. i agree with that. chris bedford, thank you so much. so the mexican drug cartels have crossed over, along with 7 million other people, into the united states, and they are operating in this country very violently. in some cases, with impunity. government officials don't seem bothered by it. administrators at mount pleasant high school in rhode island, a school run by the state, asked teachers to pay a debt that a student owed to a drug cartel. this drug cartel, the mexican

drug cartel, traffic. human traffic -- army against that? not anymore. they traffic the student into the united states. the vice principal, stephanie harvey, sent an email to staff members. "we have a student who came to america with coyote, a group that helps people --" the coyotes help people? "this group gives you a time frame to make a payment of $5,000. our student needs are urgent support to raise another $2,000." oh, so the school is figuring away to pay off the mexican drug cartels. a group that "helps people." is this even real connect apparently it is. they hung up on us. a journalist and document a filmmaker, cofounder of public, joins us. thank you so much for coming on. we want to talk to you, because he made such a smart point, i thought, that they's all this violence ongoing in mexico and it's been the case for 15 years now, and now we are seeing it in

the united states. >> yeah. well, just last week there was a mass murder in the california central valley of six family members, including a 16-year-old girl and her 10-month-old baby, both of whom were shot in the head. this kind of violence, this brutal violence, is rare in america, so authorities suspect that it was a mexican drug cartel. we are entering a dark period of american history, because it's important to understand that in the past the cartels would smuggle drugs into the united states and tell them to american drug dealers who would sell those drugs on american city streets. that's not the case anymore. right across the bay from me in san francisco, 100% of the cartel-supplied drug dealers are honduran nationals. they are smuggled into the united states by the sinaloa cartel, and they essentially work as contract employees for the sinaloa cartel. so what happens is the sinaloa cartel has taken over sort of

the retail side of the international drug market, and my concern is that, with that expansion in their business operations north of the border, now we may be starting to see the kind of brutal violence that has plagued mexico for decades, right here in our own cities and towns. >> tucker: so the drug dealers in downtown sent visits san francisco areworking berkels connect i want to know why you are the only person telling the story. leighton woodhouse, city viewers want to learn more, they can. thank you. so there is expected violence in memphis tonight, and many cities across the country, organized by antifa. we have a live report from the ground in memphis straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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across the country, memphis, tennessee, is preparing for violent riots right now. these are not organic, not just angry people who have been watching cnn. these are political events run by political actors, antifa, to effect a political outcome. he will spend time next week trying to figure out what that is. in the meantime we want to go right to the ground in memphis where jorge ventura, reported from "the daily caller," joins us. what are you seeing right now? >> right now, tucker, we are near the memphis and arkansas bridge right now. hundreds of protesters are here, and they've essentially shut on this major highway going on for two hours right now. behind us we have hundreds of vehicles, including truckers lined up in both directions here, and they have essentially shut down this bridge. haven't seen any police here at all, any type of control. we have been speaking to some of the working class citizens who are very upset and say they support the protests but to understand why they have to shut down this major highway.

two hours with no police presence right now at the moment here in downtown memphis. >> tucker: just to be clear, jorge, you have seen no law enforcement at all? >> we have not seen any law enforcement at all, tucker. i have been speaking to some of the citizens stuck in their cars and they don't understand where the polices. some of these folks have emergencies and a lot of the truckers have loads they need to deliver, but so far no police we have seen at all. this is going on two hours. tucker, i covered riots back in 2020 and this is the longest i've seen a major highway shut down. as of right now we have no law enforcement and we have truckers and middle-class citizens essentially just stuck here in limbo right now. >> tucker: man. be careful. jorge ventura from memphis for us tonight. that can go sideways, as you know. appreciate it. thank you. so, the last time we had race riots in this country was 2020, with the presidential election on the horizon, cities burned,

people were murdered, but we are told the whole point of this is okay because we are going to make policing better. we are going to stop police misconduct. well, what happened? we know conclusively what happened. a lot of people got murdered, because policing became much less effective. and that was true no matter what your skin color. killings of african americans skyrocketed in particular, up more than 50%, as you've heard. so the "let's abolish the police" idea was as stupid and deadly as it seemed. that has not stopped professional political activists from trying to bring it back. as we told you, it riots unfolding tonight all over the country. here they are in new york city saying, if we don't get it, bring it down. >> if we don't get it -- >> burn it down! >> if we don't get it -- >> bring it down!" >> tucker: michael shellenberger is one of the best journalists in this country. he just wrote a piece on exactly this today.

he joins us tonight with his perceptions. what do you make of this? what are we watching here, exactly? what does it mean? >> good to be with you, tucker. of course anybody saw the video of the young man in memphis, tennessee, being beaten by the police is horrified by it, but i think you're absolutely right, the anti-police movement has blood on its hands. at least 3,000 additional black homicides have occurred since the george floyd protests in 2020, and also the riots. we have seen about 30 unarmed african americans killed in 2022, 60 police officers, but over 8,000 african americans likely were killed in 2022, and this is due to this anti-policing movement. it's led to police leading the force in droves, the demoralization of the police, the pulling back of the police. so this is quite insidious and quite dangerous, and i think as we look at these protests going

forward you have to distinguish between people who are seeing genuine demand for police reform from the anti-police movement, which has turned into one of the most counterproductive and violent movements in american history. >> tucker: unless the real goal is not what they say it is. unless the real goal is to federalize local police and control every organization in the country with guns. do you think that's possible? >> what we are seeing right now is the decimation of police forces, and police departments up and down and all across the country, 300-500 police officers short. it's interesting, the protest you discovered in memphis, displaying that. there's not enough police officers and the result is that the people they said they wanted to save, african americans, have disproportionally suffered. so at least 3,000 additional black homicides since the george floyd protests. again, against 30 unarmed black deaths last year. it doesn't even compare. >> tucker: thank you. you always have the numbers. we appreciate it. michael shellenberger.

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>> tucker: it's been more than 48 hours since project veritas published undercover videos of a pfizer executive talking about his company's secret plan to mutate coronaviruses, to make them much more dangerous, on purpose. the company patently calls this "directed evolution" incentive gain-of-function research, but it seems very much like the same thing. pfizer has still refused to comment on this in any way. by the way, the executive also revealed they don't have to

worry about regulators in washington because they effectively own all the regulators. so why hasn't pfizer issued any kind of statement about this? because no one in the media has called them, and they know the control the media because they spend millions and millions advertising with the same news networks, including cnn. that might explain why today cnn, rather than covering the biggest story in america, ran a segment shelling for big pharma. >> the u.s. is looking to making covid-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, including a potential single shot that could immunize against both. the idea is part of the new simplifying vaccine strategy recommended by the food and drug administration. >> pfizer, moderna, and novavax said they are in the early stages of testing a single shot for both covid and the flu. >> tucker: meanwhile the fda found that getting your covid booster and a flu shot on the same day raises the risk of having a stroke.

but shut up, antiscience freak! google agrees with this. no questions. google just took down project veritas' video exposing the pfizer executive on youtube. according to youtube, "we removed this for misinformation." what? makes no sense. but have a wonderful weekend anyway with the ones you love, and we will see you monday. can't wait. ♪ ♪ >> sean: and welcome to hannity. we start with a fox news alert this friday night. tonight we are monitoring the ground in new york city, in the city of memphis, tennessee, where just hours ago local law enforcement released body cam footage showing the incident that led to the death of tyre nichols, allegedly at the hands of five officers, now former memphis police officers. this video is extremely graphic in nature and now cities across the country are bracing for potentially night of violence. before