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The Hartmann Report

HOW CAN WE FIX POLICING IN AMERICA?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Is there anything in the origin of our police departments that has led to the situation we have today?- and what can be done to change things?


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My op-ed today published over at HartmanReport.com is titled, we've seen enough people murdered by

0:53.7

American police. It's way past time for genuine reform.

0:58.0

Start out by talking about the horrors of this murder of Tyree Nichols, the latest victim of American

1:04.0

police. As his stepfather Rodney Wells told CNN, quote, when I saw the police officer, you know,

1:10.9

they have this little stick, this metal thing that they pull out. I saw them pull that out and start

1:15.6

beating my son with it. And I saw officers hitting on him. I saw officers kicking him. One officer

1:20.7

kicked him like he was kicking a football a couple of times. By the way, I would add Tyree Nichols,

1:28.8

weighs about 150 pounds. Every single one of these five cops weighs over 203 of them were high

1:34.6

school football players. Okay, back to his stepfather. But the most telling thing about the video to me

1:40.4

was the fact that it was maybe 10 officers on the scene and nobody tried to stop it or even after

1:45.2

they beat him and they propped him up against the car, no one rendered aid to him whatsoever. They

1:49.9

walked around smoking cigarettes like it was all calm and, you know, bragging about what happened.

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He was sitting there and then he slumped over and an officer walked over to him and said,

1:58.9

sit back up, mother of her, you know, while he's handcuffed. So he had to, you know, they propping

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