WE ARE ALL HOSTAGES TO THE POLICE - 1.30.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
EPISODE 122: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:41) SPECIAL COMMENT: Watch the video of the torture and murder of Tyre Nichols by the Memphis police, and read what they first claimed had happened to him, and the unmistakable truth is confirmed anew: We are all hostages to the police. More directly, more urgently, more fatally - for people of color. But all the rest of us, too. Police who kill other than as a last, unavoidable act to protect the community are no longer police for any of us, and if they can be trained to kill because of race, they can be trained to kill because of politics, or sexual orientation, or because of whoever those who trained them want them to kill.
B-Block (19:19) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Olive, the mini-pug, in New Jersey. (20:16) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: A motive for FBI election tamperer Charles McGonigal: he was leading a double life; Trump's domes and binoculars; the ratings of CNN and MSNBC crash and burn but thank god NBC didn't have to deal with the controversy of bringing me back! (26:00) IN SPORTS: White Sox retain Benetti, Super Bowl set on the dumbest penalty in years, Pride Night without the Pride or the explanation. (29:46) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: THE Associated Press insults THE French, General Ripper rides again, and the vapid CNN host who says the Memphis police didn't murder Tyre Nichols.
C-Block (35:26) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: On the subject of the cratering of cable news, did I ever tell you how Lawrence O'Donnell tried to take Countdown away from me while I was taking care of my dying father? Or how he stole two of my senior producers to run his new show? Or how he leaked a personal letter of mine to Ann Coulter? Or how his ratings are now down below where MSNBC's were in 2003?
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:16.8 | We are hostages to the police. |
| 0:19.9 | All of us are hostages to the police, |
| 0:23.2 | more directly, more urgently, more lethally, people of color, |
| 0:28.8 | but all the rest of us too. Hostages to the police. |
| 0:35.0 | The Memphis Police Department, two weeks ago yesterday, issued this statement. |
| 0:41.5 | Quote, on January 7, 2023 at approximately 8.30 pm, officers in the area of Reigns Road and Ross Road |
| 0:50.8 | attempted to make a traffic stop for reckless driving. |
| 1:06.4 | Quote, as officers approached the driver of the vehicle, a confrontation occurred, |
| 1:11.8 | and the suspect fled the scene on foot. Officers pursued the suspect and again attempted |
| 1:18.4 | to take the suspect into custody. |
| 1:48.4 | While attempting to take the suspect into custody, another confrontation occurred, |
| 2:09.9 | however, the suspect was ultimately apprehended. |
| 2:23.6 | Quote, afterward, the suspect complained of having a shortness of breath, |
| 2:29.1 | at which time an ambulance was called to the scene. |
| 2:31.5 | The suspect was transported to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition. |
| 3:02.2 | Quote, the officers involved will be routinely relieved of duty, |
| 3:07.0 | pending the outcome of this investigation. |
| 3:14.6 | What five Memphis Police Officers did, as they beat Tyree Nichols to death on January 7, |
| 3:21.2 | as opposed to what they and their department said they did. |
| 3:25.9 | What they thought you would believe hours after they beat Tyree Nichols to death, |
| 3:34.0 | with body cams recording every moment, with a surveillance camera atop a pole |
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