MSNBC's Ari Melber fact-checks the political debate over "peaceful" protests and the Black Lives Matter movement and explores historical context for Colin Kaepernick's kneeling activism in this special report. Melber documents the contradictions of some current protest critics, and reports on America's long history of retaliating against peaceful civil rights protests as a prism for understanding Kaepernick's public vindication, even as the police brutality he warned about continues. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 09/17/2020.
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Trump Allies Lose Debate Over Police Protests And Kaepernick Kneeling | MSNBC
Donald Trump is killing America
@N 827 Remember that if he wins! IT’s rigged – he said so!
STF ..UP !
YOUR SICK AND A LIER !!!!!!
I SO SICK OF THE SAME STUPID TALKING POINTS!
GO GET HELP BEFORE YOU REALLY LOSS YOUR MIND TO DICTATORSHIP!🙄🙄🥴😑
@Duke Makedo Nope THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH !
@Darren Keck Yeah, the truth is the truth. MSNBC is the biggest news media propagandist that we have. They lie more, and more skillfully, than FOX News.
The point is that this was happening before Trump and it will happen after Trump.
Ari is hands down doing the best reporting on national television, nothing compares to the consistency he has with holding faces to the light.
TJ Maher True, you can tell that he really cares about the things that he reports on.
He truly is. But the reason I like him is his love for hip hop and the culture. S/O ari
*POTUS doesn’t want 4 more years Presidency, he does not give af about people… Trump wants 4 more years Immunity.*
Here’s the TRUTH about COPS killing BLACKS, the truth about George Floyd, Brionna Taylor and Jacob Blake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Ti7oVlmMc
How foolish u sound
How ill informed are u. U must not be listening….or listening to some other people who are not listening and that is sad
More time to create a oligarchs utopia and fascist country .
@JRG2733 And Santa will be here on December 25th.
They don’t want peaceful protests. Words can say anything but we know the truth. Ignore the brutality but rebuke the protests, hypocrisy at it’s finest.
Joe Biden will impose forced vaccinations on you ahahahahaha learn to spell if you want someone to take you seriously dumb s**t
Julia sutton, give me your source on forced vaccinations please.
Julia sutton, nevermind, I just caught on to your sarcasm🤣😂🤣😂sorry
@Joe Biden will impose forced vaccinations on you Ahahahahaha, you don’t know how to spell! Fool.
@Joe Biden will impose forced vaccinations on you “handle” is CB Slang for “name”. If you are still in the dark.. Google it; Punk!
‘Figuring out how to stop protests, rather than how to stop the brutality’
Perfect!
@Biblical Jesus Was Socialist Oh I understand that all too well. I also understand human nature. I feel nothing for the traitors on the left. War is coming and it will bring carnage, hunger, disease, poverty and fear. The inability of to live as adults, accountable for their own actions has brought this upon us. Urban areas will experience mortality rates of 98% plus within weeks of services going down.
Patricia Burkell The only threat to America is Putin’s puppet and his cult of idiots. Now be gone, you’re bothering me!
@Biblical Jesus Was Socialist So, I’m wondering what I mentioned that was a conspiracy..Please take your meds..you and biden
@kathy curtis If 200 000 dead, a crashed economy, 30 000 000 unemployed, the single largest cash bailout to the wealthy in history, his relationship with Jeff Epstein, Steve Mnuchin of sec treasury, his draft dodging does not change their minds, I’m not sure anything will. They will follow him until death. The exact same as Hitler. No politician should be idolized. The media has a job to hold them accountable. Something they failed to do with Obama. CNN and MSNBC had a big role in Trump getting elected. They are doing nothing more than repeating that task again. They need to stop giving him free air time. If you sit back and ignore every thing Trump says, you’ll find your life has not changed. The wealthy are stealing everything STILL. Joe BIden just accepted an endorsement form Rick Snyder. They guy that poisoned the people of Flint Mich. They still do not have drinking water. Something the Media refuses to cover. The media must change if you want Trump gone. Not the people.
@Jeff Woods I’ll answer everything you said is conspiracy theory. Stop responding your comments get dumber
Ever noticed the riot police are always around protesters and hardly seen around looters
😳
BLM is being PROPPED UP by the FAKE NEWS MEDIA with LIES, because they believe in this Marxist, Anti-American Movement!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJb4xEPhiVQ
Here’s the TRUTH about COPS killing BLACKS, the truth about George Floyd, Brionna Taylor and Jacob Blake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Ti7oVlmMc
Or the people with the guns. Unless they are helping them!
Because they r the looters.
Critics of protesters. Question ever been handcuffed and murdered without trial by a cop while four other cops watch?
Or ever had you child, wife , sister murdered for no reason by people of your same race ???
@tcnascar1gang members not sworn to serve and protect police are. Police arent suppose to be judge jury and executioner
@angus the cat was ok to have picnics just to witness a hanging
@dave b lol
@Latoya austin the descendants of trash Europe didn’t want say the dumbest things
Ha ha Trump disrespects the flag by inviting Russians and China to help him get elected. Hypocritical traitor!
Roger That Trump the most corrupt traitor ever, trump has been hypocritical for all his evil life , Black people are very respectful and intelligent over trump, trump some one never work in his dam life , vote him out that garbage p o s
Exactly! He’s everything but, a patriotic American. We should be able to recognize that a draft dodger doesn’t have any kind of understanding for what it means to be American.
They don’t want peaceful protests they just don’t want us to speak out.
@gusZ77…we are like the 14th century Muslims…at a crossroads and went down the wrong path…and never looked back/questioned if what they were doing was right for the people .
@John Doe…a misdemeanor is not cause for election in public.
Even if it was a felony the person deserves their day in court in front of a jury of their “peers” .
@Phil Giglio wrong. I live in the deep south
White ppl are w/you, the bigot racist’s are gonna loose in the end…
@CJL I’d like to believe you, but there is that 400 year time span where the biggest racists didn’t lose at all.
They talk about peaceful protest like Martin Lutheran King….We killed him too.
@Reggie Hendrix “Alex Hamilton” is a laughing stock. He was called out on his lies multiple times. I had a good laugh with his comments. Be well and be safe ✌️.
@Alex Hamilton👈 LOL, awesome LIER and thank you, for the laughs 👍. Just wanted to give you some credit on your comments. NOW, LISTEN to Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, ( Trump appointee) on capital hill TESTIFYING today. MAYBE, you can absorb (with your feeble mind) some education out of it. It WILL answer some of your FALSE “accusations” of your white supremacists (which you’re) IDEOLOGY! Again, knowledge is FREE. Your pathetic talking points, are null and void at this point.
@Gold Lyrics how many of that Minority? You talk like all blacks or all Latino’s are all on the same page. Do you know what percentage of Blacks and Latino’s are voting for Trump? You can not compare the 60’s to today. The battler a portion of Blacks are fighting now and leaving the Black on Black killings behind won’t fly. More Black moms and dads are screaming about their children being killed in inner cities by people of the same color. I really doubt the numbers you think you have you don’t.
@Alex Hamilton and what is white supremacies agenda because all i see is them killing other whites
@Noooooooooo I appreciate the book, I did not read it, I have better things to do.
Dr. King protested peacefully and he was murdered!!!
@missy Why do y’all even entertain him ? You know this dude is stupid on here. So why in the world do y’all even reply to this clown man ?
@Strident Atheist Martin Luther King had more support from the Democrats than the Republicans. But he didn’t support neither party.
@Harold Edwards I still watch the NFL bro. Because I enjoy seeing the Chicago Bears play.
BLM is being PROPPED UP by the FAKE NEWS MEDIA with LIES, because they believe in this Marxist, Anti-American Movement!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJb4xEPhiVQ
Here’s the TRUTH about COPS killing BLACKS, the truth about George Floyd, Brionna Taylor and Jacob Blake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Ti7oVlmMc
great to hear plain truth, it’s like music these days
As always, outstanding reporting.😀
From a great president:
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― John F. Kennedy
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” ― John F. Kennedy
@AJ Rimmer It’s what Trump wants his base to think, that all the riots and protests are because of the peaceful protesters. This is far from the truth. And to think that these right wing militias are doing crimes on purpose…that’s what people don’t see.
@AJ Rimmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmQGsQQ3Lx0
Exactly….
@hankakah but trump and his AG know….they sent those white militiamen and white supremacists to infuriate the protesters to instigate violence because they want to find ways to claim fascists and fascism.
Hanhakah I was thinking of that quote also.
Kaepernick’s “ratings” are now much higher than Trump’s. “You can blow out a candle, but you can’t put out the fire” (Peter Gabriel)
Great reference on both counts 💗!
mustafa1name Biko is a great song and chillingly about police violence too.
mustafa1name No. You. Liar. President Trump: ‘Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their ❤️ 🇺🇸 heart’. President Trump is fighting each day against the arrogant, godless, desinfo left’s attempts to indoctrinate our children with a radical, misleading, and unpatriotic story of America. Divisive and distorted histories ‼️of our country—everything from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to The New York Times’ 1619 Project—seek to erase America’s tradition of liberty, free expression, and self-determination from memory. For too long, the left has been winning that fight. For example, even though the 1619 Project has been criticized as inaccurate by multiple prominent historians, it already has been quietly disseminated in 4,500 classrooms across the United States. President Trump: We must stop the lies in America’s classroom
Every american should watch this, Brilliant.
@MJB For Trump you are kidding? or did I miss your irony?
@deltaaddair what does a “trained Marxist” even mean? Do you know what Marxism is?
This is all lies!!! The Kaepernick story is a lie-
Todd Morningstar -Thats because this Kaepernick story is all Spin!! He didn’t start kneeling because of police brutality!!!
It really is
She needs to keep Rosa Parks name out her mouth.
👍👍👍
Angela Bradley
Right. But thats how this type of racists operate, they put themselves under the warm light of civil rights idols by mere name dropping before they proceed to blow their dog whistle… its disgusting!
Burned me deep!
Isn’t Rosa Parks the lady that received the Ellis Island medal of honor while standing next to Donald Trump?
Agreed
This country is bipolar- It’s as horrible as it is great.
Certainly grates. There’s no political position that one can take and be happy at what they see in the US presently. You guys really need another civil war, but failing that bloodbath a vocational culling of both Nazi sympathisers and virtue signalling liberals would help.
Trump and his people aren’t “losing” anything until they get kicked out of the government or imprisoned.
First you have to find a crime to imprison them for, or are you saying they should be jailed for refusing to bow to socialist dictator wanna bes in the US? The second is you need to find someone that can defeat Trump in a nation that does not want socialism.
Yes, kicking out the crooks is only a prerequisite to getting Trump’s head, starting with his indictment on Jan. 20.
@JRG2733 First thing you have to do is to find a crime. This is not russia where you only need to choose a person, arrest him then find a crime later.
@robert hicks No, FIRST THING is to read Mueller Vol. 2, describing 10 indictment-ready counts of obstruction of justice. Those are the initial counts but more will be added in superseding indictments based on the renewed investigations starting in January.
@JRG2733 How can you obstruct justice when there is no crime to bring to justice? In order for an obstruction of justice to happen, there has to be a crime committed which the criminal doesnt want found. All of the charges stem not from Trump obstructing justice but from the swamp demanding trump bow to their demands and allow them to set policies. That is not the way the system works. The president sets the policies based on what he believes the people want. Trump knew that the people did not want the status quo to continue, but the swamp demanded that Trump continue with Obama’s policies. When he fired people that would not implement HIS policies, they said it was obstruction of justice.
They’re not ready for these kind of FACTS!
Tough because it was said and understood by many.
Niki Edmonds So True ‘ But they protest the removal of statuses of dead Racist Southern leaders who murdered Blacks. But get angry if we protest the modern day police killings of unarmed Blacks, it shows you that civil rights is still a goal Blacks have not obtained. While Whites falsely claim they are the ones oppressed because those terrible statutes are coming down.
@Marjorie Tillman yes he was racist and murdered blacks but to remove history cause you don’t like what he did 160 years ago is just wrong on of most remember american George Washington owned about 3 thousand slaves but i see nobody calling for his removal
@the TELLER1 those statues can be displayed in museums of our history…we don’t need to glorify monsters