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what we can't even consider to be normal. take a look at this video where any goober, each driver hangs on for dear life in his vehicle while it's being stolen in d.c. last tuesday, the car crashes killing 66 year old mohammed and war. police say 2 girls, aged 13 and 15, assaulted the victim with a taser while attempting to steal the vehicle. the 2 were arrested and are being charged with felony murder and armed carjacking. both have pleaded not involved the juvenile privilege of not guilty. their next court hearing is scheduled for wednesday, a go fund me page has been set up for an war's funeral costs for teenage boys also arrested for other armed carjackings in d.c. just days later on saturday. local police arrested 213 year old boys for 2 armed carjackings happening less than 2 hours apart. later in the week, 2 other boys ages 13 and 14 were also arrested in d.c. for an armed carjacking. and in rico county, virginia, a 13 year old 8th grader was shot and killed while walking home from school with
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a friend by a 14 year old boy last friday. authorities say the victim lucienne bremmer nor her friend knew the suspect. the juvenile was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder and possession of a firearm. prosecutors say he may be tried as an adult then in boulder, colorado last monday, a grocery store shooting, took the lives of 10 people, including one officer, 58 minutes of terror plaguing those inside. i saw him run off, i ran in the other direction and i was a lot slimmer. i guess you had seconds faster. i would say you see 21 year old elmont alyssa being escorted out of the scene in handcuffs . authorities say alyssa carried a rifle type of firearm and a 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun. his defense lawyer asked for a mental health assessment. he remains held without bail on 10 charges of 1st degree murder and following the tragedy. many lawmakers are using the situation to propose a gun legislation. i will already committed to bringing universal background checks,
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legislation to the floor of the senate. the senate judiciary committee under chairman durban, held a hearing to examine several commonsense proposals to reduce gun violence this morning. on march 16th 3 asian massage parlors in the atlanta area were targets of a shooting, reportedly carried out by the same suspect, probably by your ordinary money. that was the no 11 call released by atlanta police. when an employee of golden spa was hiding from 21 year old robert long, long reportedly killed at least 8 people at 3 different massage parlors. long claimed he had a sex addiction and apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. but with 6 of the victims being identified as asian women, the stones in the shooting motivated violence, protests emerging nationwide. that while all these crimes seem to vary in motive
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authorities are still working to uncover specifics in all of these tragedies. reporting for news are to you now to give us to give us the 1st 6 of you on this issue. we bring in our panel of legal and media analyst, lionel lake, up till a conservative commentator and alan, or of the american immigration lawyers association. and i thank you gentlemen, for joining me in this conversation today. lionel, i'm going to start with you just for the stairway to realize the killing. do you think right now in the place we are considering we're coming out of pandemic, that we can actually have an honest discussion about these crimes, the motivation behind them, and what we can do without have this idea of fear retaliation for what you're saying might not actually be politically correct or fit a narrative? no, absolutely not. no one is interested in discussing the facts before us.
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nobody wants to talk about what really happened, what didn't happen, what usually happens. you know, if you bring up race, gender, geographic location. if you talk about anything other than a blanket statement that tragedy, you'll get into trouble. or if you can somehow work in it, we need to work on comprehensive gun laws because you see if we had gun laws, this wouldn't happen. they would be saying, but we have murder laws do. why would those laws not work? well, that's a good question. but imagine your question very succinctly. no, we can't. we have to just mount the usual acceptable platitudes and move on. lest we feel do a lot of consternation fall upon us, and i can already tell you just by what we're going to post is that, you know, one of the title of this is i'm already going to get lots of the hate e-mails. did
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you guys might get to, i apologize ahead of time. these are good. you got exactly what we need to have this conversation. allan, do you think that is what the problem is? why we're seeing a rise in crime? more importantly, younger crime is. that's what got me about natasha's story. we're seeing younger people now getting involved in these very violent crimes. do you feel like right now we're at a place in america, and should we be talking about the difference between crime and hate crime? and what is motivating them? right, so our laws talk about the difference between the levels of crime and crime has a higher sort of tension level because they want to sort of deter that. but exactly as previously that if the deterrent is the crime and the murder laws, the brass don't want under way. so therefore you would use a resource levels to say, well, maybe we can make resource guns and do some sort of take your guns and the like. but i think the question isn't really about having a true conversation, it's about the root cause, which is the high unemployment educational gaps,
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a lack of infrastructure, and basically the whole sort of theme around the united states right now, where there are constant protests everywhere. our capital was recently the seach, so it's a gives a sort of about once they get balance, which is a very american thing, right, we watch it all the time. and so did those of the talk shows well, and that's i think, in the lake, how much does pop culture have to do with this conversation? whether we're talking about the music that's happening right now. the movies that people are able to watch is pop culture. having the influence and having a negative influence on the events or gee, i hope i don't get the arrows that are going to be truly shot my way. but i'm going to say something a little different here. i don't, i think that those elements are important. even pop culture is important, but we're really talking about personal responsibility. the 1314 year old that has nothing to do with resources. it actually happened in the navy yard area where there are half a $11000000.00, condos, really a hop,
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skip and jump away from my home. and now obviously i don't live in that neighborhood, but we're really talking about personal irresponsibility. i don't think that those other elements, they contribute in some way, but i don't think that that has anything to do with it in too often. what we've seen is that when we've had these conversations and actually i'll circle back very quickly to what my colleague, my favorite colleague, lionel said, i agree, we actually can't have this discussion honestly, because we really don't want to really dig in. what we, what we like to talk about is white supremacy. and that's when we're talking about race. but outside of that, we don't get the discussions at all because we see that so many of these instances, whether there are the, the culprits are black or hispanic, or any of that. we don't like to talk about that because we're concerned about cancel culture. well, if we want to have a honest conversation about it, i'm all for it and i think we're well past that time where we need to do that. alan, you heard what molly said, what is your thoughts on that?
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is it, is it become basically down to race and not be able to talk about one versus the other out of all the stories that you presented tonight that i know all the facts and only one has a race factor. the others are just crime right? because in most of these factors, the one thing that is, they're all american. so when someone talks about white supremacy, race issues, you know, it's a very american example. so yes, we need to address those issues that cause for the structure in the very conversation that we have right now about society, resources in education, addressing our crime because we can't like everybody, you know, because that doesn't work as well as a crime. so we're tells us that we have other issues that we need to address the root cause is some kind of national basis or in receipt of that, you know, we should address that. but it is also a resource bases and people just not having access and maybe not having the program resources to get an education to go like this isn't the appropriate thing to do. to say this is an appropriate thing to do for society. and those are the problems that we need to address. so i'm saying that these people are just flawed. is
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a very american thing to say. well, i want to bring in manila chan is host of in question here on our to america. when this happened a week and a half ago, i reached out to you and i had a conversation about as well going to the atlanta spot. i think that's what i was referring to as the known hate crime that's been identified when it happened. there were marches, there were corporate calls to actions, there was social media hat hashtags, but sadly, the violence did not stop despite all of that. and i want to warn our audience of the graphic footage we're about to show that is a march. and it's of an asian man who was pummeled unconscious by a stranger on the brooklyn subway train. that just has come out. then there was another attack also in manhattan just yesterday, where a 65 year old woman was kicked to the ground. her head stomped on and anti asian remarks were made. this is a building worker was standing there and watching. that's just as shocking and did not come to her as a manilla. these stories are not new to you. you've covered them as a journalist, but also as a member of the asian american community, you know, do you think?
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do you feel the reaction last week that we saw initially that came out had any long term effect on bringing the spotlight to the anti asian hate crimes that are happening in america today? well, i think what happened in atlanta, i think, really galvanized the asian american community who before that i think we kind of felt like we were the invisible minority. i mean, we were often used as the model minority myth. and, you know, we're not a, a monolithic group, right? people have different experiences, different waves of different groups of asians that came here. so we didn't have very different experiences. i want to address real quickly the, the white supremacy. you know that people are directing towards not only what happened in atlanta. i think that was more of a, of a sexual in nature supremacy. not a white supremacist issue that comes from,
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you know, a different kind of sexual deviancy. however, that that's a problem directed towards asian women and how we've been marginalized to be nothing more than than sexual beings, that you can discard, like a sex doll. and i think that was the problem in atlanta by a large, i don't believe personally that that white supremacy is the huge problem facing the asian american community. if you talk about white supremacy in, the way of the k.k.k., there's no more than maybe about 5000 or so. klan members across a country of 330000000 people. so i don't think that's the problem. i think the problem here is that we have an empathy problem in the us. i think a lot of it comes from that council culture where you do one thing wrong and i think touch on this. you do one thing wrong and you are forever marked for life. you're the, you're, you are labeled whatever that is in that one moment because we have lost empathy in this country. and that's why we cannot get along. ok, but that's the thing,
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the lake empathy, that is a key word that all of you are shaking your head on that we all agree we've lost it . but how do you get it back case in point boulder shooting last week. a lot of people think that once the name was released of who as this story was going on, and you never saw the same type of reaction for the victims in that shooting that you might have seen in the one just days prior. do we not have enough empathy? should we put the spotlight on those victims were garbus of who they are, what they are, where they're at, when it happened so that we try to deter others from doing it again to a nother community. if i could dance on camera, i would be doing that right now. you're absolutely right, scotty. and i think part of the problem is that it goes back to people being afraid to get into certain discussions well before what happened in atlanta. and i think her name is dee on t.v. or something. i follow her on instagram. she's an asian american reporter out of san francisco. she has posted story after story,
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after story of attacks on the asian community. i do believe that we need to make a distinction between attacks on people who happen to be asian, american, and those that are actually hate crimes. those are 2 different things. but what we've done is we've conflated the 2 where it's much sexier to talk about what you know. everybody wants to have these stop asian hate size. what only when it's related to white supremacy, what, what they believe is white supremacy. but any of these other instances, for instance, what you talked about in manhattan, which you talked about in brooklyn, you will never hear a conversation about let's protect asians and tying that to the race of the culprit, we need to get out of the race discussions at all and talk honestly about the victims, victims matter, that's what we should be talking about. good versus evil and why don't i want to bring you in on an element that we haven't brought up? is that, do you think that there are actually people and i think we can actually all agree
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that there are people and there are groups that actually benefit from a continued hostile atmosphere and discourse. but are we allowing ourselves as a society, be even manipulated by those groups to not find a solution to not have that empathy? are they actually taking advantage of this situation? unfortunately, at the cost of continued lives that we're losing? well, the answer is yes. and let me tell you, you're not going to find a solution to this. there's always been crime in crime over a period of time. ask me say to be right now. i hate hate crimes. i hate that term because if you could tell me what a love crime is, good for you. you know what happens to a prosecutor who has to prove a hate crime. let's say if any of the cases you have to be so easy to go in. there is say, i have to prove that this defendant intended to kill or hurt these people. that's a point i'm out identify, and that's done. but now, when you call that a hate crime, part of my level of proof, part of my burden of proof is i've got to prove the motivation and the animus. and
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if i can't prove that, the reason why these people in atlanta were attacked was because their asian, or the reason why this asian woman in brooklyn was attacked because she was just there 1st, or she was an asian person. and i'm a lose my case. we love this term, hate crime. it is a, it is a, is a hobgoblin. you don't want to do that. you don't want to complicate the case and i must say just quickly, ever since i can remember as a kid, everybody has been always trying to appeal to confuse relation and cause we've been hearing everything in my lifetime, from ozzy, as born to before that, to frank sinatra to elvis to you name it to, to video games. if you look at cultures like japan that have historically some of the most violent video games and culture at their hand, you don't see this. there is something that is malignant in our culture. what it is, what causes it, you tell me, we are a unique people and very quickly,
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don't give me his business about guns because there are more guns in mexico and other places than here. but the reason why they kill each other is because our drugs, we kill each other because we're having a bad day. we kill each other because we just, we can't get a date or we're forcibly celibate. we are a demented society. that's the problem. while lionel monella malique and out, and we could go all our i want to thank you for joining us now. is a conversation. like i said, i'm going to apologize ahead of time. people be nice to me, at least they're willing to talk. and i think that's part of the issues right now. thank you for joining me. we will have these conversations again after the break, i want to talk about the different types of korra, different roles that are being changed around the country regarding crime. and they're actually going to make our streets safer in the future states and
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seems wrong. well, we just don't get to shape out just to get educated. and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. what a pandemic? no certain, you know, borders just lying to nationalities the summer heat sinks to judgment is coming very close to sleep. sometimes we can
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do better. we should everyone is contributing each in our own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenges created just a response, has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are indeed together. and baltimore, there is going to be no more prosecution for drug possession prostitution or a low level crime. and most major city councils are looking to pull funds from their police budgets and relocate to other community based initiatives and programs
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. but to movies like this bring peace or they make communities less safe. tell us with conversation i want to bring in and prepare president of the institute for liberty and the tall, a democrat strategist. thank you so much for joining me, gentlemen. great to be here. that have to know and i want to start with you since you obviously you're also a radio host there. and baltimore, do most of the residents of baltimore know of these changes and how are they being received within the community? well, they do very much know that know about these changes and it's funny, it's very much a mixed bag. obviously, if you are someone who is a fan of the criminal element and of committing petty crimes, you are someone who is very much in favor of this. but a lot of baltimore residents have been left a uneasy. the reality is that, you know, you can use statistics in many different ways. for state's attorney. marilyn moseby to say, well, you know, we had these restrictions the beginning of the pandemic. they resulted in 80
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percent reduction in, in the rest. well, that's a still fulfilling prophecy if you're going to substantially reduce the number of arrests you're going to have a fewer number of arrests, but for the local residents who are dealing with you know, filthy streets and teenagers run amok. they've got a huge problem with the very aggressive squeegee kids in baltimore that have been themselves accused of a number of more violent crimes. you have folks who are feeling very, very much uneasy on that thing, anthony. you know, i don't know how you feel about these laws, but it does not having consequences for small crimes. lead to more. and what about the victims of those crimes? did they not have a right to justice in this situation or protection? well obviously they have a right to justice and protection, but i think when we're talking about what no broken crimes are or broke window crimes, we call them low level crimes. i think the point is, you know, the punishment that has been doled out and how it's been doled out
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disproportionately to black and to hispanic citizens throughout the country and throughout the history. so if there's any type of program that could reduce or that could, that could kind of foster a safer, better way without the costs and the costs of tax and the cost of taxes to the taxpayer. just to cover a low level crime, the prosecute someone from a misdemeanor. i've been a criminal defense attorney for 20 years and to prosecute someone for $2000.00. crime can cost up to $200000.00. so you have to look at the costs. how severe is the crime if there's not any type of true injury to the, to the victim? maybe there's some type of finance to tenants that the, that the defendant could pay as opposed to prison and jail. right. well, and that, you know, i have to ask you, ask you though, how does reducing law enforcement? we've seen this idea of defund the police happening. how does the concept of reducing law enforcement budget specially in these high crime areas help make this
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committee's better and does it make them safer? that's my main concern on all of this. yes, there might be some bad apples with any place forces they need to take care of. my concern are the good people that reside in these areas. i don't want them to move out or feel like they're forced out because a crime and without law enforcement there, who's going to keep these communities safer? well, i'll throw that question back to you who keeps communities safe in higher income areas. they have private security. you know, if a stockbroker or a high level accountant gets drunk in parks in his driveway, the private security make sure he gets home safely. so i'm thinking if these communities can come together and provide some type of private security that, that is in conjunction with the police force, i think that may be one way of reducing of defunding the police or reducing crime and making it more say, i understand your concern, but i think that you have to look at it from a perspective as to how we treat certain citizens, how we penalize other citizens for the same. so, you know,
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he crimes or even if they become violent, well, and i want to find out how would that work with them, you know, all the more. well here's, here's the problem, right? when you have a situation in baltimore where you've had a crime crisis, right? of both violent crime and low level crime for a very long time. and the problem, of course, is that it's only the well heeled only the wealthy, who are able to secure themselves secure their property, secure their families, take their kids out of the really bad public schools and put them in good schools. and for those folks who can afford that, but who can't afford to stay, but who can afford to leave baltimore, they will in turn, leave baltimore. and so as people are concerned about the income gap and income inequality, baltimore is certainly a prime example of this. the problem, of course, is for the folks who are left behind who are victims of these crimes. and there are victims. sure. you even when we're talking about broken windows policing, the, the idea that somehow broken windows in a neighborhood, or public urination or public deaf occasion doesn't have an impact on a community, doesn't drive down property values doesn't make people feel unsafe or unwilling to
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get outside of their homes, you know, when i drive to my station in baltimore, i drive through west baltimore and it is, it is a, in fact i've got colleagues who, who don't understand why i drive through certain neighborhoods. it happens to be the most convenient way to get to and from the station. these are communities that are being left behind the idea that they can somehow band together and form private security to deal with this. it's just, it doesn't bear fruit in terms of reality. and real quick, if we can ignore the fact that maryland, mostly the state's attorney in baltimore announced this right after she and her husband it was announced are under federal investigation. there is a craven, political angle to this that, that we just, we cannot ignore that. this is being extend. well, anthony, well, i don't know about, i don't know of whatever is going oh, in maryland will be. but what i do know is that, you know, the taxes that, that some of those said is that a lot of the citizens pay in a city like baltimore or a city like detroit where i'm from, i'm from, or sick aagot. i don't have those taxes who go
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a lot better ways than paying police officers to come in there and beat them up and sue them up. so i think there's a much better way that their tax money could be spent. and i'm talking about the factory workers. i'm talking about the bartenders, the nurses, i'm talking about those people who are paying high level taxes. and though in the police and some of these communities and a small amount of police, not all police, but some of these bad apples that you just mentioned, go into those same communities and beat ensuite up and killed the people who are paying taxes. so i think that's one of the issues that is more gravely, that more gravely needs to be taken care of, as opposed to whether or not maryland moseby is in trouble with the federal government. but that's the thing at the a lot of these communities, they continue to reelect the same people over and over again. i've got about 30 seconds left. why is that they cannot continue to vote thinking that they're doing a good job? well no, they can, and they've been and this is been going on for, for 40 years. but you can say the same thing about about the other side of the aisle, certain certain groups, just elect people who haven't done anything in our good interest. we can look at
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appalachian for the same for the same blue collar whites. what i think needs to be done is there needs to be some new writer teaching way of handling crime in there. and i'm not going to that we had to continue that conversation. and i think andrew, thank you so much for joining us. and that is actually getting my way south that way that we're having a conversation like this. we will see you back here tomorrow. make sure you download part of that t.v. ad for all of your stations and mark, thank you and have a great night. welcome
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