this is the Tom Hartman program welcome back Tom Hartman here with you on the line with us is Ben

jealous the president of people for the American way pfa w dot org the website visiting scholar at the

Annabelle school at Penn former president of the NAACP former candidate for governor of Maryland and Ben

jealous is his Twitter handle Ben welcome back to the program I'm curious what you know that you're

tracking a whole bunch of stuff of pfa w and you yourself as well I'm curious your thoughts on these

police who keep falsifying police reports covering up murders calling the medical distress

um... you know lying about what's on the body cams and then entire police departments like we're

seeing with the with the Louisiana state police for two years covering up what certainly appears

to me to be a the murder of an unarmed black man by a bunch of white cops what's going on with this

so you know this all goes back to first principles what your mom taught you when you were a kid

which is you can't be good if you're protecting your friends who are doing that right in the

law we call that being an accessory after the fact and the simple fact is that while only about

ten percent of the officers are doing bad things in the country about eighty percent are willing

to protect them by staying silent there is a no snitching culture amongst the cops and we have

to break that and it's the unions that enforce it so what you see in Louisiana is a murder

and every single officer who knew about it and didn't tell is an accessory to murder after the

fact those officers need to be prosecuted from top to bottom to send a message to every officer

in this country if you murder somebody we're coming for you and if you protect them and if you

protect an officer who murders somebody you're going to prison two i completely agree with that

sentiment and in fact i i would think it should go as high as those videos ever went i you know

if it went all the way up to the attorney general's office that that person should be prosecuted as well

i'm totally with you on all that do you see any evidence that the state of Louisiana is thinking

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