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  • >> Jon: WELCOME TO "THE DAILY SHOW"!

  • I'M JON STEWART!

  • MY GUEST TONIGHT ONE ANGELINA JOLIE, DIRECTOR OF THE NEW FILM,

  • IT'S GREAT "UNBROKEN".

  • BUT FIRST, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR YESTERDAY.

  • I BEGAN THE SHOW SOMEWHAT OVERWROUGHT BECAUSE NO ONE

  • INVOLVED IN THE DEATH OF ERIC GARNER WAS NEVER INDICTED.

  • AND I WANT TO APOLOGIZE BECAUSE I WAS WRONG.

  • >> THE PERSON WHO DID THE VIDEOGRAPHY OF THIS.

  • >> YES. >> THAT PERSON

  • WAS INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY IN STATEN ISLAND OVER GUN CHARGES.

  • >> Jon: GET IT? SOMEONE WAS INDICTED. THEY GOT

  • THE SHOOTER... OF THE VIDEO...

  • LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU KIDS OUT THERE.

  • PHOTOGRAPHING CRIME DOES NOT PAY.

  • BUT WHAT'S SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS IS THAT FOR MONTHS

  • WE'VE BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WITH

  • DARREN WILSON AND MICHAEL BROWN IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI.

  • DID BROWN HAVE HIS HANDS UP?

  • DID HE NOT HAVE HIS HANDS UP?

  • WAS WILSON AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE WHEN HE KILLED BROWN?

  • REASONABLE PEOPLE -- AS WELL AS PLENTY OF (BLEEP)

  • ONES -- COULD -- OKAY, THEIR PICTURES DIDN'T COME

  • UP.

  • (LAUGHTER) -- COULD REACH DIFFERENT

  • CONCLUSIONS.

  • BUT IN THIS CASE THERE WAS NO AMBIGUITY.

  • EVEN WITH CLARITY THOUGH, PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BLAME

  • THIS DEATH ON ANYTHING BUT THE INJUSTICES OF A FLAWED SYSTEM.

  • >> WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT MAN WAS

  • A BIG MAN.

  • >> HE'S A HUGE INDIVIDUAL.

  • >> GARNER OUTWEIGHED THE OFFICER BY PROBABLY 150 POUNDS.

  • >> Jon: HE IS GIGANTOR! HE IS A FLOAT IN A PARADE.

  • THEY HAD TO BRING HIM DOWN!

  • HE WAS THE ABOMINABLE BRO MAN!

  • OK YEAH, HE OUTWEIGHED "ONE" COP BY 150 POUNDS.

  • WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER FIVE COPS? OR MAYBE THAT'S JUST HOW MUCH

  • RACIAL PROGRESS AMERICA HAS MADE?

  • YOU KNOW, IT USED TO BE BLACK PEOPLE WERE ONLY THREE-FIFTHS OF

  • A WHITE PERSON.

  • NOW, THEY'RE LIKE SIX!

  • UNLESS THERE'S SOME OTHER REASON HIS SIZE WAS RELEVANT?

  • >> IF HE HAD NOT HAD ASTHMA AND A HEART CONDITION AND WAS SO

  • OBESE, HE ALMOST DEFINITELY WOULD NOT HAVE DIED FROM THIS.

  • THE POLICE HAD NO REASON TO KNOW THAT HE WAS IN SERIOUS

  • CONDITION.

  • >> Jon: PLEASE...

  • ASTHMA, HEART DISEASE, OBESITY, YEAH, THOSE ARE SERIOUS

  • CONDITIONS BUT, COME ON!

  • COME ON, THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT SAYS THAT GARNER DIED

  • FROM "COMPRESSION OF THE NECK" AND "COMPRESSION OF THE CHEST."

  • THAT SOUNDS MORE LIKE DEATH BY CHOKING THAN DEATH BY CHOCOLATE.

  • YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THE NYPD PATROL GUIDE DEFINES A

  • A CHOKEHOLD AS ANY PRESSURE TO THE THROAT OR WINDPIPE

  • WHICH MAY PREVENT BREATHING OR INTAKE OF AIR. WELL,

  • LISTEN TO ONE EXPERT EXPLAIN WHY THIS CASE ISN'T THAT.

  • >> I WOULDN'T USE THE TERM CHOKEHOLD AS A MARTIAL ARTITS

  • STUDENT, I WOULDN'T USE THAT TERM.

  • (LAUGHTER) >> Jon: GO ON, SENSEI.

  • >> IF YOU GO FOR THE TRACHE OR WHAT'S CALLED AN AIR CHOKE OR

  • THE WINDPIPE, YOU CAN LITERALLY KILL SOMEBODY.

  • THAT'S ILLEGAL BY EVERY POLICE DEPARTMENT STANDARD.

  • SO THE DEFINITIONS, IT MAY SOUND TECHNICAL, BUT IT REALLY ISN'T

  • IN THIS CASE, IS IT?

  • >> Jon: NO, IT IS, MR. MIYAGI, RESPECTFULLY.

  • THAT'S WHAT LITERALLY HAPPENED!

  • FACTS ON, FACTS OFF.

  • ALRIGHT, SO WE'VE ESTABLISHED BUT INCREDIBLY FRAGILE, OUT OF

  • SHAPE MONSTER WEAKLING. AGAIN, THEY WOULD JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW

  • AGAINST ALL AVAILABLE CRIMINOLOGY STATISTICS THAT

  • EVERYONE IS EQUAL UNDER THE LAW.

  • >> PEOPLE SAY VERY CASUALLY THAT THIS WAS DONE OUT OF RACIAL

  • MOTIVES OR OUT OF VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHTS.

  • >> THERE'S NOT A HINT THERE THAT ANYONE USED ANY RACIAL EPITHET.

  • >> Jon: SO, THE COPS HAVE TO USE THE N-WORD FOR IT TO BE RACISM?

  • YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THE PHRASE A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND

  • EPITHETS? I DON'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT

  • THIS COP IS RACIST BUT IT SEEMS THE ESCALATION OF

  • THESE INCIDENTS MAY BE A BY-PRODUCT OF A SYSTEM

  • THAT'S APPLIED UNEQUALLY AND WITH PREJUDICE.

  • BECAUSE IF IT'S NOT THAT, WHAT IS IT?

  • >> IN THIS CASE, THE POLICE OFFICER WAS DEALING WITH A

  • CRIMINAL WHO WAS RESISTING ARREST.

  • MAYBE IF MR. BROWN HADN'T COMMITTED HIS CRIMES AND THIS

  • GENTLEMAN HADN'T RESISTED ARREST, THEY WOULDN'T BE

  • DEAD TODAY.

  • >> Jon: YEAH, OR IF THEY DIDN'T CHOKE HIM.

  • I MEAN, NOT EVERYONE WHO RESISTS ARREST -- YOU KNOW WHAT,

  • I THINK I CAN DO THIS.

  • THIS YOUR HONOR, MAY I APPROACH?

  • NOT THAT WE WERE HAVING A TRIAL, OBVIOUSLY.

  • THAT'S WHAT THE GRAND JURY WAS GOING TO TRY TO GET TO BE DONE.

  • BUT IF IT PLEASES THE COURT, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THAT

  • RESISTING ARREST DOESN'T ALWAYS LEAD TO THIS SORT OF THING.

  • HERE'S EVIDENCE, EXHIBIT A.

  • >> COME ON. >> GET OFF THE BEACH NOW.

  • >> GET THE (BLEEP) OFF MY ARM BEFORE -- GET THE (BLEEP) OFF.

  • GET OFF!

  • >> FOR BEING A NUISANCE. REALLY? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW

  • THERE WAS A CHARGE FOR THAT.

  • >> I'M A (BLEEP) GOOD PERSON!

  • >> WATCH YOUR HEAD, WATCH YOUR HEAD.

  • >> Jon: YOU'RE TELLING ME SHE WAS LESS OF A MENACE TO SOCIETY

  • AT THAT TIME?

  • NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT SHE'S STRAIGHTENED HER LIFE OUT AND

  • HAS SHOWN US THAT SHE IS, AND I'M QUOTING HERE, A

  • (BLEEP) GOOD PERSON, BUT -- COME ON, PEOPLE, WON'T ANYONE ADMIT

  • THIS IS SYMPTOMATIC OF A LARGER ISSUE?

  • >> JOINING ME NOW IS KENTUCKY SENATOR RAND PAUL.

  • >> I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING BIGGER THAN JUST THE INDIVIDUAL

  • CIRCUMSTANCES.

  • >> Jon: THANK YOU!

  • RAND PAUL!

  • YOU KNOW, HERE IS A REPUBLICAN WHO HAS BEEN MAKING AN EFFORT TO

  • REACH OUT TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

  • HE'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT VOTING RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

  • SO THIS IS,THIS IS A START.

  • GIVE IT TO US STRAIGHT.

  • WHAT IS THE LARGER ISSUE HERE?

  • >> SOME POLITICIAN PUT A TAX OF $5.85 ON A PACK OF CIGARETTES,

  • SO THEY'VE DRIVEN CIGARETTES UNDERGROUND BY MAKING THEM SO

  • EXPENSIVE.

  • BUT THEN SOME POLITICIAN ALSO HAD TO DIRECT THE POLICE TO SAY,

  • HEY, WE WANT YOU ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR SELLING A LOOSE

  • CIGARETTE.

  • >> Jon: WHAT THE (BLEEP) ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

  • WELL, I GUESS NOW WE KNOW WHAT IT TAKES FOR A SENATOR FROM

  • KENTUCKY TO ADMIT CIGARETTES CAN KILL.

  • I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY!

  • I APPRECIATE THE PURITY OF YOUR ANTI-TAX DOGMA, BUT THE

  • CIGARETTE TAX IS TRULY THE LEAST SALIENT ASPECT OF THIS CASE!

  • IT'S LIKE SAYING, YOU KNOW THE PROBLEM WITH THE HINDENBURG,

  • GOVERNMENT PARKING REGULATIONS.

  • THAT'S IT!

  • YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT BIG BROTHER OVER YOUR SHOULDER GOING,

  • EVERYBODY'S GOT TO DOCK!

  • (LAUGHTER) HONESTLY, ERIC GARNER COULD HAVE

  • BEEN OUT THERE WITH MIX TAPES OR A A SQUEEGEE OR A

  • SNOWCONE AND THE SAME KIND OF (BLEEP) COULD HAVE HAPPENED.

  • FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TEN DAYS, A GRAND JURY, WHICH AT

  • LEAST IN FEDERAL CASES HAS A 99% INDICTMENT RATE,

  • FAILED TO INDICT AN OFFICER WHO CAUSED THE DEATH OF AN UNARMED

  • CITIZEN. THEY DIDN'T INDICT HIM FOR ANYTHING.

  • NOT MURDER, NOT MANSLAUGHTER, NOT EVEN RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT

  • WHICH IS LIKE ONE DEGREE ABOVE A PARTY FOUL.

  • AND FOR SOME REASON TO QUESTION A SYSTEM PRODUCING THAT RESULT

  • IS SOMEHOW OFFENSIVE.

  • >> THIS PROCESS HAS TAKEN PLACE.

  • IT'S OUR CONSTITUTION.

  • IT'S THE LAWS WE LIVE BY.

  • GET OVER IT.

  • >> THEY ARE TEARING DOWN RESPECT FOR A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

  • THAT GOES BACK TO ENGLAND IN THE 11th CENTURY.

  • >> Jon: SO DOES WITCH BURNING AND (BLEEP) WHERE WE DRINK.

  • BUT WE'VE CONTINUED TO IMPROVE UPON THOSE PROCESSES!

  • YOU KNOW, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • SYSTEM HAS TWO SEPARATE BUT EQUALLY IMPORTANT PARTS -- THE

  • POLICE WHO INVESTIGATE CRIMES AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS WHO

  • PROSECUTE!

  • (LAUGHTER) OKAY.

  • I GOT THAT FROM TV.

  • GRAND JURIES ALMOST ALWAYS DO WHAT THE PROSECUTOR WANTS.

  • SO MAYBE WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHEN IT COMES TO THE POLICE IF

  • PROSECUTORS REALLY DON'T WANT TO INDICT THEM BECAUSE THEY WORK

  • WITH THEM AND THEY NEED THEM AND THEY'RE ON THE SAME SHOW WITH

  • THEM, THEY'RE COLLEAGUES, AND THAT MAKES FOR A VERY

  • UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATION.

  • HEY, BEFORE I TRY AND SEND YOU TO PRISON, THERE'S SOMETHING I

  • GOTTA ASK YOU -- THIS YEAR, ARE YOU MY SECRET SANTA?

  • (LAUGHTER) WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.

>> Jon: WELCOME TO "THE DAILY SHOW"!

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