Name: Van Jones on the Common Ground Between Protestors and Police
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T07:45:04.000Z
Duration: 6 min 48 s
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So Van, we've seen so many peaceful protests turn violent.

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Do you think that was just bound to happen?

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Listen, if you think about it, if you have 100 people who all

come out at the same time, if only one of those people

is a troublemaker, is a paid provocateur,

is somebody who wants to do something negative,

or just some local knucklehead, troublemaker,

you're going to have a larger number of people

What I think is so sad is we're missing the common ground.

We don't like lawlessness in police departments.

it's lawlessness, police failing to obey the law in police

departments, which then creates lawlessness

So there's no pro-riot caucus in the black community.

Nobody wants peaceful streets more than black people,

I'm trying to raise two black boys here in Los Angeles.

But if you want to hold young people to high standards

And if you just stay consistent, we're consistent,

care if you're wearing your blue jeans and a t-shirt

we want lawful behavior, then there's common ground.

about the lawlessness in the police departments

because I'm so mad at the people who are throwing bricks,

There are 40 million African-Americans, 40 million.

Why should the rest of us have our pain and our fear

of what a tiny, tiny rounding error of people are doing?

And frankly, many of them have white and other people

There is common ground against lawlessness,

But we've got to be able to keep our eye on the prize.

Listen, there's three things, very simple.

Number two, bipartisan police reform legislation

to ban chokeholds and have excessive force, a standard

And number three, surge some economic support

into these communities that have been suffering all this time.

this airs Thursday if they will have been arrested.

and I know they're trying to find a solid case--

they don't wait for a young black boy or man

to be a strong case before they arrest them,

that was sitting on his head with his hands in his pocket.

So tWitch, what were you saying just now to Van?

That everybody needs to hear what he just said,

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Van Jones on the Common Ground Between Protestors and Police

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