Name: "A Poverty Of Empathy" - Sen. Cory Booker On America's Failure To Address Racism In Policing
Uploaded: 2021-01-19T18:25:10.000Z
Duration: 4 min 22 s
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WE WERE TOGETHER, I THINK, IN JUNE OF 2020, AND ON THAT NIGHT

I BELIEVE THAT THE -- IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE, NOW "BLACK

LIVES MATTER" PLAZA, TRUMP HAD SENT OUT FEDERAL MILITARY

TROOPS, FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TROOPS TO PEPPER SPRAY, TO GAS,

TO RUBBER BULLET PEACEFUL PROTESTERS SO HE COULD HAVE HIS

BIBLE-HOLDING MOMENT, AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE SAME NIGHT

THAT RAND PAUL PREVENTED THE PASSING OF THE ANTI-LYNCHING

HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU SEE THE LACK OF PREPAREDNESS BY SECURITY

FORCES ON THE DAY OF THE PRESIDENT'S RALLY COMPARED TO

HOW THE "BLACK LIVES MATTER" PROTESTORS WERE TREATED ON THAT

>> I MEAN, IT'S THE HURTFUL HYPOCRISY THAT THERE ARE MANY IN

THIS COUNTRY WHO KNOW VERY WELL THE DIFFERENT TREATMENT THAT IS

GIVEN TO DIFFERENT GROUPS IN OUR NATION, AND I KNOW THIS FROM

GOING TO UNIVERSITIES LIKE STANFORD AND YALE AND WATCHING A

DRUG CULTURE THAT EXISTS IN MOST COLLEGES WITH LITTLE TO NO

ACCOUNTABILITY, AND I WATCH WHAT HAPPENS IN THE COMMUNITY I LIVE

WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT JUSTICE SYSTEMS, WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT

LEVELS OF TREATMENT AND, SO, YEA, IT HURTS AND IT, FRANKLY

AND AGAIN, WHAT MAKES ME MORE WORRIED IS NOT -- IS NOT SIMPLY

THAT THIS EXISTS, BUT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE COMFORTABLE WITH

IT DOESN'T DISTURB THEM AT THE CORE OF THEIR BEING THAT THEY

KNOW THAT MY JUSTICE AND YOUR JUSTICE ARE INTERWOVEN,

INTERCONNECTED, AND, THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE FACING THIS KIND OF

HYPOCRISY THAT BEARS UPON HOW YOU PROTEST OR HOW YOU DRIVE

YOUR CAR OR WHAT HAVE YOU, THEN I HAVE AN OBLIGATION, YOU AS MY

BROTHER OR SISTER, I HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT

AND WE'RE FAILING IN THIS COUNTRY, AND IT'S A POVERTY OF

EMPATHY TO ALL WHO JOIN TOGETHER IN COMMON CAUSE TO DEAL WITH

WHAT I BELIEVE IS THIS PERSISTENT DISLOCATION THAT

EXISTS WITHIN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ONE LAW ENFORCEMENT, WITHIN OUR

>> Stephen: BEFORE WE GO, I HAVE ONE COMPLETELY UNRELATED

QUESTION TO ANYTHING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SO FAR, BUT IT IS

AN ENTERTAINMENT SHOW, AND I KNOW, BESIDES BEING A SENATOR,

( LAUGHTER ) I ALREADY KNEW THAT YOU WERE

DATING ROUGH CZARO DAWSON -- ROW ROSARIO DAWSON.

>> I DON'T CALL HER A DROPOUT TO HER FACE BECAUSE SHE ACTUALLY

WE ALL ARE INCREDIBLY BLESSED, AND THAT IS ONE OF MY BLESSINGS,

AND, YOU KNOW, I PRAY ON THIS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY THAT WE

ALL CAN BE ONE IN THE FORCE, SO TO SPEAK, AND, GOD WILLING, MAY

>> STEPHEN: SENATOR CORY BOOKER, EVERYBODY!

WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH A PERFORMANCE BY "INFINITY SONG."

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