Trevor Noah opens his first Daily show of the week Monday with a powerful rebuke of the latest police assassination of an unarmed Black man to shake the country for the past 24 hours. And he began to notice that the so-called ‘accidental’ shooting took place in the same city where the Derek Chauvin murder trial (over the murder of George Floyd) is now entering its third week.
“It says just about everything you need to know, even if the trial is ongoing,” the host said, “protesting again in Minneapolis over the murder of another unarmed Black man, Daunte Wright.”
After setting out the details of the shooting, in which the officer allegedly thought she was pulling her taser, but “accidentally” grabbed her rifle, Noah fired back: “You have to make me joke.”
“Is that even a legal excuse?” he asked. And while he did not say that ‘tragic mistakes will never happen’, Noah argues that ‘maybe if the police did not pull out a weapon so quickly, people might not die because of a mess of Officer Urkel over here . ”
From there, he pointed out how ‘surprising’ it is that “police think everything is a gun except their own gun.” They claim to see guns in place of cell phones and wallets, but their own gun is ‘not a gun’.
Later, Noah draws attention to the other case of police brutality, in which officers in Virginia sprayed an army uniform during a traffic stop with no pepper spray for no apparent reason. the lightning. ”
“It’s fucked up!” said the host, in the version of Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario. ‘And please do not forget, this is how the cops treated one of the troops while wearing his uniform. Not a hoodie, not a suitcase of pants, so what’s the excuse this time? ‘
“If a black man in military uniform can not get humane treatment from the police, what chance does every other black person in America have?” he asked. “But if you’re surprised a member of the military is abusing his rights, you need to understand that the police are not giving a shit.”
“The reason they don’t care,” Noah explains, “is because they know they will get away with it. And until that changes, they will continue to care.”