{"id":391993,"date":"2021-04-13T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=391993"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:39:07","slug":"understanding-liberalism-with-rush-the-cops-are-always-racist-and-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/13\/understanding-liberalism-with-rush-the-cops-are-always-racist-and-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Liberalism with Rush: The Cops Are Always Racist and Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: It\u2019s my honor to be your guide today as we get the wit and wisdom of El Rushbo throughout the program and a very, very big problem in Minnesota. You know, there is one advantage in Minnesota. You get to see all sorts of things. For instance, if you live in our great state and you happen to run into a robbery in progress at your local Walmart, a protest may just break out.<\/p>\n

You never know. It\u2019s a little bit like John Boehner and his new book. You hear that? The former beleaguered Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has got a new book out called On the House: A Washington Memoir. You know, I was talking to a friend of mine this morning about this and he\u2019s very upset because Boehner is going on all these liberal shows, which is something Democrats rarely do.<\/p>\n

But Republicans love to validate their enemies. He\u2019s going on these liberal shows, and my buddy goes, “Hey, what is with this guy? He\u2019s always so bitter. He sees the glass half empty,” and I had to correct him. I said, “No, no, no. If you know John Boehner like I know John Boehner, the glass is pretty much half full all the time, if you get my drift. I\u2019m just saying.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"The more things change, the more they stay the same. And here we are a year later, nearly, from the George Floyd situation, and here we go again. Protests all over Minnesota yesterday and all over the country. USA Today reports that 40 arrests were made last night in Brooklyn Center here, a suburb just outside of Minneapolis — it\u2019s really part of Minneapolis; it\u2019s part of that “urban core,” if you will — and then all over the country.<\/p>\n

I mean, you\u2019ve got it in LA, in New York, and they\u2019re all seeing another crisis, and they do not want to let it go to waste. This is our chance to finish off the police once and for all. You know, we tried to defund them. We tried to reimagine them. We tried to declare that anyone who calls a policeman or woman for help is engaged in “white privilege.”<\/p>\n

We did everything we could, but it just wasn\u2019t quite enough. It seems that people still want the police. In fact, my old friend Dr. John Lott as well as Heather Mac Donald — people that have actually looked into the criminal justice statistics — show that black folks are nine percentage points more likely to call the police, more likely to report violent crimes committed against them to the police than white folks.<\/p>\n

I bet you never heard that on CNN or MSNBC, right? Because the narrative must continue, and the narrative in this latest case is simply this: The police are gunning for minorities. I mean, it\u2019s not as though they\u2019re putting their lives at risk to protect minority communities. No, no, no, no. That\u2019s not it, right? Well, of course that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

The easiest thing for a cop to do is not police, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s gonna happen. If you tell policemen and women that they can\u2019t chase a suspect if the suspect tries to get away in a car — they can\u2019t restrain a grown adult who is high on drugs, can\u2019t restrain them, can\u2019t do what you\u2019re trained do in some cases — then they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

And then there will be no policing and people will be able to do exactly what they want, and we will have a true Wild West scenario, something that gun control advocates always said would happen if people defended themselves. How ironic. The people that want the Wild West scenario are the liberal gun control left because they live in gated communities.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got security guards. What do they care if they put you at risk? So the narrative continues here, and it\u2019s so distressing because it\u2019s putting the country at risk. And the people who are putting the country at risk, quite frankly, aren\u2019t the protesters. They\u2019re not even the criminals, in many cases. It is the political leaders who keep lying to the American people and the media folks who keep regurgitating the lies.<\/p>\n

Here you have the Brooklyn Center city manager fired last evening because he disagreed with the liberal mayor\u2019s assertion that the police officer, a lady — and anyone who criticizes this police officer is obviously misogynist, sexist, hates women. Let\u2019s just get that right out there right now. If you dare to criticize this female officer, by definition, you are a sexist.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s exactly the way the left operates. So this woman mistakenly grabs her gun instead of the Taser — so she says, so the police department says — and the city manager says (summarized), “I give her the benefit of the doubt. You can say it was a mistake, you can say it was bad training, you can say it was incompetence, you can say anything else. But it\u2019s not prime fascia evidence of racism.<\/p>\n

“The guy had an outstanding warrant. They found expired tags. He had an outstanding warrant. They did their job. They made a mistake. So why would you fire this police officer before the facts are in?” For that, the Brooklyn Center city manager was canceled. He was fired. This is how it operates in Minnesota. This is Minnesota\u2019s gift to the United States.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re seeing here is lawlessness on one side and a lockdown, covid restriction for law-abiding on the other. It is total, absolute control. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And there\u2019s few people more corrupt than the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, who when he refused to protect the citizens of Minneapolis a year ago said, “It was my decision not to engage.”<\/p>\n

That meant not to quell the riots. There was Tim Walz: “Not to engage.” Well, he was at it again yesterday when he said “another black life lost at the hands of law enforcement.” Why would anybody want to be a cop, seriously? Why would anybody want to do this? So now here\u2019s his latest. If you want to know what the hell\u2019s wrong with Minnesota, listen to Governor Tim Walz.<\/p>\n

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WALZ: The next thing that we can do is, we can stop pretending that this is just the natural order of the universe and things happen this way. I\u2019m gonna demand that the legislature finally hold some hearings on some of these reforms, as I said, that have passed in other states and have proven to make a difference — things that we know that would reduce the chance of a routine traffic stop escalating into a loss of life. There are things that can be done. There are proposals that are out there. There\u2019s proven remedies that can be put into place.<\/p>\n

JASON: You mean like the Tim Scott police reform bill that would have had restraints on some of these chokeholds (not that a chokehold was in play yesterday), that would have collected data on policing in urban communities? It would have done everything that they want except one thing: Hold policemen and women personally liable. That\u2019s what Walz wants to do, and the anti-police left.<\/p>\n

They want to make certain that a cop can not only be prosecuted but then all of their assets taken away, their pension, their house, everything else. It\u2019s called undoing qualified immunity. Now, this, they say, is only fair, right? How about $27 million for the family of George Floyd? You telling me that\u2019s not enough? You gotta go after the cops\u2019 personal assets too?<\/p>\n

But none of it compares to St. Paul mayor Melvin Carter. Now, this guy\u2019s a real hack as well. Trust me. I\u2019ve had to work with him (or tried). It didn\u2019t work too well because he\u2019s just a charlatan, and Carter — talk about fanning the flames — is actually calling for “street vengeance” in the wake of this! I remember I had a staffer when was running for the Senate.<\/p>\n

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This was after I served in the House when I was running for the Senate last year. I had a staffer who lived in St. Paul during the riots. St. Paul, now, that\u2019s a ways from Minneapolis, folks. That staffer had to be evacuated, the riots were so out of control in St. Paul — and Melvin Carter didn\u2019t do jack. Here\u2019s what he said, the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, yesterday.<\/p>\n

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CARTER: We have to ask ourselves, “Why? How does this keep happening over and over again in America, in the world, in Minnesota?” We have to know that the First Law of Motion is that object in motion will remain in motion until some force stops it from happening, and so when we recognize this strong, horrific trend that keeps happening over and over and over again.<\/p>\n

We have to know that Daunte Wright will not be the last name, will not be the last hashtag on this list until and unless we take decisive and urgent action to ensure that he is. We\u2019re watching. The world is watching the Chauvin trial. The world will watch this process, and the world will ask if there\u2019s justice. But let me tell you, someone landing in jail for their deaths may be a starting point, but it\u2019s not justice.<\/p>\n

JASON: What in the hell does that threat mean? Are you kidding me? (impression) “We\u2019re watching the Chauvin trial. If we don\u2019t get a total, 100% guilty, death penalty, you name it, there will be more bloodshed, more riots. Oh, and, by the way, we can send these people to jail, life imprisonment. But that won\u2019t be justice enough!” What, do you want somebody to knock \u2019em off in jail?<\/p>\n

Is that it, Melvin? Let me tell you about the First Law of Motion. The First Law of Motion is if a cop stops you don\u2019t get in your car and drive away. That\u2019s the First Law of Motion. This is out of control! These people aren\u2019t interested in letting the wheels of justice work.<\/p>\n

They want mob rule, and they want it now, even though the Washington Post\u2019s own database shows that police had fatally shot 14 unarmed black victims as well as 25 unarmed whites in 2019. What, a black person gets shot every day? 14 in 2019. Another thing the media won\u2019t tell you. Rush commented on this not long ago, and here\u2019s what he had to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In Liberalville, in America today, the cops are guilty, the cops are the problem — just like in American foreign policy, the United States is the problem, not the solution. The cops are the problem; they\u2019re not the solution. Black Lives Matter exists on the premise that cops are white racist pigs murdering random, innocent African-Americans. And there isn\u2019t a liberal politician in this country that doesn\u2019t join that refrain.<\/p>\n

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But if you understand liberalism, if you just listen to these people. What more do you have to hear them go after all these so-called murdering cops who randomly murder innocent African-Americans, it\u2019s not gonna take long if there\u2019s no pushback to that before citizens are gonna get the idea that the cops are the problem and that the people that run cities and states are also gonna see the cops as a problem.<\/p>\n

You have your average New York City crime ridden neighborhood, you throw a cop in there, and that\u2019s what destabilizes the neighborhood as far as De Blasio and people who think like him. Leave the neighborhood alone. Those people have their own culture, they have their own life, the crime they\u2019re committing against each other, screw you.<\/p>\n

De Blasio even talks about raising his son to be afraid of the cops. And he\u2019s the mayor. His wife is African-American, so his son is a person of color, and he often tells people how he has to talk to his kid to be on the lookout for the cops, be on the lookout for the people that might intend him harm. They spread this myth. They spread this. They amplify it. They make it much worse than it ever is. So, to me, it\u2019s really sad. These people, I\u2019ll tell you, their jobs are tough enough. Law enforcement, military, they\u2019re jobs are tough enough without people that employ them or are their bosses coming along and portraying them as the problem.<\/p>\n

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