Back to episode — Episode 1352 Scott Adams - Chauvin Verdict and What it Means About America
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eorgia's voting law changes and got involved in politics. And as you might imagine, liberals and Democrats went different directions on their feelings about Coca-Cola. But here's the funniest you've ever seen in your life. All right, here's the poll results to this question. Does the Georgia voting laws and Coca-Cola's response make you more likely or less likely to drink Coca-Cola products? The…
← Previous segment →and killed a teenage Black girl in Columbus, Ohio just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd." Oh my God, police are terrible, aren't they? I mean just listen to this. Police shot and killed a teenage girl just as the verdict was announced in the Floyd trial. It's just going from bad to worse. The police just killing this teenage girl.
Oh there's more to it. Body cam footage appeared to show the girl attempting to stab two people with a knife while she was in the act. Feels like that could have been the lead sentence.
Here's another way this headline could have run instead of "police shot and killed a teenage Black girl." Another way it could have gone is "police saved the life of a Black girl by quick action just as the verdict for the George Floyd thing was being read." Both of those are true.
If you see the body cam, by the way, who knows what a jury will say, but the body cam shows a police officer doing some of the best police work I've ever seen. Because if you didn't see the video it was one young woman getting with a knife in the act, getting ready to stab another woman who was defensively trying to protect herself. And as the knife was coming down, a police officer with a pistol, not a rifle with a sight, from a fairly good distance, took out the knife woman without hurting the potential victim. That was really good police work, wasn't it? Yeah, like I'd hate to see that. I hate to say there's anything called a good shooting but that was as good a shooting as you can get. It saved the life in real time and it was really tight and he acted quickly.
Let me put this in another perspective especially. What kind of risk did that police officer take for himself? Huge. Huge. That was somebody who in a moment with no time to think took a gigantic risk of his whole life, that police officer. Because we know the George Floyd thing is changing how people see things. He took the risk of his own life to save a young Black woman who at any moment was going to be stabbed to death. He took that chance, his own chance. That's what happened.
And but it's reported as "police shot and killed a teenage Black girl just as the Floyd verdict was being read." Propaganda, people. It's propaganda.
Here's a provocative thought. You've seen on Facebook and other places that it's pretty easy now technologically to replace the face of anybody on a video, right? You've all seen it, right? You've all seen the examples. It's no big deal to replace somebody's face. Suppose you could, you got to the point where you could replace it so well, and I think we're kind of there, where you couldn't tell that a face had been replaced by another face. And then imagine that you use that technology to reverse the ethnicities on any video crime so that if you see the police attacking or in a conflict with somebody it just automatically reverses their ethnicities but everything else stays the same. And then you play for the jury the reversed ethnicities and you never show them the original. Would you get the same verdict? Of course you wouldn't. Not every time. Sometimes you would if the facts are clear. But no, it would change things for sure.
And what if you did that face swap, let's say you wait 10 years until there's some college students who have never heard of George Floyd. I don't know if that's possible but you wait 10 years and you run the entire trial by this bunch of students by just reversing the ethnicities. And by then maybe the culture is different, things are different. And just see if you get the same verdict. Somebody says they already race swapped George Zimmerman. I'm not sure what you mean by that. But think about the fact that this is now a technology that actually works. That would be interesting.
So Fox News is interesting about the verdict on the Floyd-Chauvin case. So apparently Hannity is backing the jury and say
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s it was a good result. Not too far from my own opinion although I'm not sure the facts of the case exactly supported it but I like the outcomes. Whereas Tucker Carlson is talking about the trial being unfair. I think I like the fact that these opinions are different. I just like that fact independent of whether I agree with them. It's just healthy that they're not on the same page. Remember I to…
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