WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.278 You know, for the past couple of nights 00:00:02.298 --> 00:00:05.612 here on the program, we've been dealing with the fallout from 00:00:05.642 --> 00:00:07.970 the grand jury decision in Missouri 00:00:07.970 --> 00:00:12.097 failing to indict the officer responsible for the shooting death of Michael Brown. 00:00:12.097 --> 00:00:15.757 We did our best here to process those events. 00:00:15.757 --> 00:00:18.483 Even enjoyed, actually, a bit of fun at the expense of the 00:00:18.483 --> 00:00:21.763 St. Louis Rams and St. Louis Police Association twitter war. 00:00:21.773 --> 00:00:24.813 And I know, uh, doing those bits helps no one 00:00:24.813 --> 00:00:27.225 other than maybe us here at the show 00:00:27.225 --> 00:00:30.420 individually as a creative outlet 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:32.870 a catharsis, a way of processing emotion 00:00:32.933 --> 00:00:34.975 that may be otherwise undigested 00:00:35.055 --> 00:00:37.734 By the way, that process brought to you by.... 00:00:37.824 --> 00:00:40.793 Arbys. (laughter) 00:00:40.793 --> 00:00:44.863 "Arbys: You think pain and grief are hard to digest?" 00:00:44.903 --> 00:00:48.453 (Laughter) 00:00:48.453 --> 00:00:53.493 But anyway, at least that process has begun 00:00:53.494 --> 00:00:56.083 and we were glad to be able to move forward 00:00:56.083 --> 00:00:58.443 ever so slowly, hoping that we might, 00:00:58.493 --> 00:01:01.733 as a country, have a respite from these types of injustices 00:01:01.733 --> 00:01:03.533 and we did have a respite 00:01:03.533 --> 00:01:06.733 for maybe... (ugh, bleep) what time is it? 00:01:06.733 --> 00:01:10.482 "No indictment in the death of Eric Garner 00:01:10.482 --> 00:01:12.676 a grand jury in New York City has decided 00:01:12.676 --> 00:01:15.460 not to charge a white New York City police officer 00:01:15.510 --> 00:01:17.300 in the death of an unarmed 00:01:17.340 --> 00:01:19.010 African American man." 00:01:19.057 --> 00:01:24.277 I (stuttering), I just.... I don't know. I honestly don't know what to say. 00:01:24.318 --> 00:01:29.258 if comedy is tragedy plus time 00:01:29.283 --> 00:01:31.563 I need more (bleep)ing time 00:01:31.578 --> 00:01:35.588 but I would really settle for less (bleep)ing tragedy to be honest with you 00:01:35.616 --> 00:01:38.256 you know, I think what is so utterly depressing 00:01:38.285 --> 00:01:41.515 is that none of the ambiguities that existed in the Ferguson case 00:01:41.552 --> 00:01:43.342 exist in the Staten Island case 00:01:43.374 --> 00:01:46.714 and yet the outcome is exactly the same 00:01:46.714 --> 00:01:50.809 no crime, no trial, all harm, no foul. 00:01:50.843 --> 00:01:52.910 In Ferguson, at least you had conflicting 00:01:52.910 --> 00:01:55.828 witness testimony, you had conflicting forensics 00:01:55.828 --> 00:01:58.074 you had the specter, at least, of police 00:01:58.074 --> 00:02:00.544 self defense. But here, there is none of that 00:02:00.623 --> 00:02:02.493 the coroner called it a homicide 00:02:02.513 --> 00:02:04.379 the guy's not acting threatening 00:02:04.409 --> 00:02:07.249 and we know that not through witness testimony or 00:02:07.286 --> 00:02:09.716 unreliable bystanders, but because we are 00:02:09.734 --> 00:02:11.184 (bleep)ing watching it 00:02:11.218 --> 00:02:12.998 someone taped it 00:02:13.031 --> 00:02:15.771 a couple of days ago, the White House proposed 00:02:15.809 --> 00:02:18.189 more cameras on cop vests as a solution 00:02:18.196 --> 00:02:19.786 to this type of violence 00:02:19.806 --> 00:02:22.126 I assume that the solution they're proposing 00:02:22.141 --> 00:02:26.011 if implemented, would look something like the Eric Garner case 00:02:26.037 --> 00:02:28.397 I mean maybe, to look at the bright side 00:02:29.243 --> 00:02:32.203 (pause) uh... we're about to safe ourselves a (bleep) load of 00:02:32.203 --> 00:02:33.463 money on cop camera vests 00:02:33.463 --> 00:02:37.008 but damn.... we are definitely 00:02:37.008 --> 00:02:39.175 not living in a post-racial society 00:02:39.175 --> 00:02:40.637 and I can imagine there are a lot of people 00:02:40.667 --> 00:02:43.153 out there wondering how much of a society we're 00:02:43.153 --> 00:02:45.130 living in at all. 00:02:45.130 --> 00:02:48.830 uh... and that's our show. So uh, cha cha cha (laughter) 00:02:49.153 --> 00:02:51.843 Blah! I don't- don't know what to say! 00:02:52.162 --> 00:02:54.902 It just happened. So I'm, I have not had a chance 00:02:54.936 --> 00:02:56.116 to really digest it 00:02:56.130 --> 00:02:57.843 uh, I'm gonna need a segway 00:02:57.843 --> 00:02:59.599 I'm gonna need a piece of video footage 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.579 to change the mood here 00:03:02.196 --> 00:03:05.986 (audience laughs, video has no sound) 00:03:07.683 --> 00:03:12.923 (laughter) 00:03:13.262 --> 00:03:15.819 Ok, it's nice, I like it, although in my current frame of mind 00:03:15.819 --> 00:03:17.458 I can't help but wonder, oh, of course 00:03:17.458 --> 00:03:20.792 the white cat's getting a massage 00:03:20.792 --> 00:03:22.416 (laughter and applause) 00:03:22.456 --> 00:03:24.346 (comidically yells in frustration) 00:03:24.458 --> 00:03:26.740 (bleeeeeeeep) 00:03:26.740 --> 00:03:27.910 (laughter) 00:03:27.910 --> 00:03:31.820 well now I'm at least ready for some good news.