Nick reacts to the bodycam footage of Tyreek Hill's detainment | What's Wright?

I have heard a lot of people talk about this and not to be rude I it it has felt a lot like stuff we've already talked about and everybody knows and it was a little frustrating for me because I think there are three important noteworthy angles that either have been totally disregarded or brushed over so I'm going to try to quickly get through all three of those and I think I'll probably surprise uh some folks with where I stand on some of this uh and if we're going to put this on the internet we can probably you know start it right here um all right so there's three things that came to me watching the Tyreek situation the first one is going to be somewhat sympathetic to the police and the other two are not going to be first one is this I I was shocked at how few people recognized or acknowledged why cops justifiably are terrified at every traffic traffic stop and why having the windows down and why tinted windows are so scary for police officers part of the Tyreek thing was actually a gun story even though Tyreek obviously had no gun there's nothing like that but we have decided as a country and certainly in States like Florida that everyone and anyone's allowed to have a pistol or more and so if you're an officer walking up on a car has to be terrifying no matter how well trained you are no matter what good bad or indifferent because so many people have firearms and so I don't I am I do I think there is way too much uh you know kind of apologies and people let uh bad cops off the hook and we'll get to that in a moment uh but I one part that I just think people fail to think about is it is got to be legitimately heart rcing anytime an officer has pulled a car over and is walking up to the car particularly in places where obviously there's guns everywhere particularly in places where it's totally legal for almost anyone to have a gun so I I have sympathy in those moments and it's also why I think as odd as it sounds like the tinted window laws are necessary like I get that man we have made the choice that we're just going to be the wild west when it comes to Firearms so I that part that part I totally understand and if it wasn't that if it wasn't for the proliferation of so many people having guns I just don't think there would be instant at almost any traffic violation this real tension and almost anger and all of that so that part I have I actually have sympathy for the other two things though one is a math thing and the other is a uh and the other is just a how things have to work for us to be able to have a cohesive Society the number of people who in their analysis made sure to point out well Tyreek was rude Tyreek could have handled that better Tyreek should have you know and the number of people who have just baked into their brains the acceptance of oh if you give a cop a shitty attitude or talk back or don't do exactly what they say you might get roughed up and you're kind of naive or dumb if you don't just accept and know that is abhorent we have done the opposite math on the expectations on how police officers should treat the citizenry that we need to do which is we hold them in our brains subconsciously to a lower standard than the Barista at Starbucks when we should hold them to the highest standard and here is what I mean you are not allowed to assault someone because they're rude to you and the people least allowed to do that in my eyes are the people who we give the most power to any cop in America has the ability to ruin any of our days at any moment at a minimum ruin our day and the ruin our day is the smallest thing and could for some people you know make them lose lose their job for some people with real violence for you know different instances but they're the only people they're the only people who have the unilateral power to prevent you from going about your day detain you arrest you cuff you humiliate you we have given them immense power that no one else in the society has with that power comes imense respon responsibility and you have kind of signed up you got to take more with a smile on your face than anyone else and we as a society have just decided Well yeah maybe that's how it should be but we know that's not how it works we all kind of know ah you talk back to the wrong cop you don't listen to them it's not just that you want to say you don't listen to them and you are going to get cuffed for failure to listen to a lawful command fine so be it but that's not what that was it was well you don't listen to them we all know somebody there might put you in a choke hold somebody there might KNE you in the back somebody there might put your face down on the pavement and yeah they shouldn't do it but we all kind of know they might that's and that's not how this is supposed to go if I go to Starbucks and I walk in there and what do you want mocha frap and quick with it toots like geez Louis what are you do what were you talking to me like that yeah I am I am talking to you like that quickly dumb Barista get a real job you know what nobody thinks is okay for that person to come across the counter put me in a choke hold and put me face down in the on the store no it's not even though in my mind actually that would be more acceptable than a cop doing it that's just a regular person with a regular job but if I walk up to a police officer and say hey say some awful things make fun of them do whatever kind of bait them and then that cop threw me in cuffs and threw me on the ground everyone would be like well you kind of had a coming that's the opposite of how this supposed to go when you are a public servant with this type of power there are things that you must be better than and so a lot of folks are it just reflexively being like Tyreek should have known better yes sure not his job not his job and here's the last point and this is the one that where I'm going to do some math here folks because the Miami Dolphins in their statement included these words the vast majority of police officers the vast majority we hear this all the time whenever there's one of these things everyone even the well we hear two things we hear the police Union come out and be like perfect perfect stop I see nothing wrong and you know what I mean of course fine but then we hear the people who are trying to delicately and lightly criticize the cops be like we know the vast majority are good but this guy was bad okay let's just do some real statistical regressions here okay what do we think vast majority means majority is 51% so vast majority is that 90% is that 90% it's the vast majority okay let's call it that so I watched that yeah there were there were escalating levels of Badness by a couple officers but nobody stopped it just like Scotty Sheffer thing nobody stopped there's five officers there so the vast majority of police would never do anything like this but we have five involved or in doing anything so what are the odds of that well it's 10% chance that one of them would but now we got to go 10% of 10% of 10 % of 10% of 10% you know what let's be kinder let's say vast majority means 80% so there's a 20% chance so let's do the math kids one of the five 20% chance two of the five 20% of 20% now we're down to 4% three of the five 20% of 4% now we're down to 8% four of the five 20% of 08 now we're down to0 2% % five of the five 20% of 2% so now we're down to 0.004% is that your guys experience is is your guys experience that when it either you have had encounters or when we see these videos that there is a one in 2500 chance that if there's five off officers around and one starts roughing someone up that none of them will stop it you think that's a one in 2500 or is it more the other way which is you are shocked whenever you see a video and there is one cop who is wildly out of control and another officer then actually comes in and stops it and that is where I will talk to the police directly because because no I don't hate all cops no I don't think all cops are bad no none of that what I do think is this there is a total inability for the cops who want to do the right thing and keep the trust of the community and treat people with dignity and respect to publicly combat the high school bullies who signed up for the job just to be able to do exactly what that guy did to Tyreek Hill there is such a a a culture of protectionism and Brotherhood that if it is the vast majority wouldn't do that those folks don't feel able to stop the min ority if we want to call it that that does it and that is a systemic problem but I it is it is really remarkable to me that we have all just kind of come to accept that what happened with Tyreek isn't that surp and folks are like man it could have gone worse he's lucky like you know if he weren't Tyreek Hill and again PE General good rule of thumb treat people respectfully understand you know people you know have empathy for others recognize oh maybe he wants my window down because he is scared because there is guns you recognize jobs are hard that is a general good rule of thumb to live by for all of us in all circumstances but it is perverse that the people we give the biggest leeway to when it comes to getting their feelings hurt or offended and reacting with violence are the people who should have the least because they are the people we give the most power to that's not the way things are supposed to go and when they do go that way there should be an expectation that somebody is going to say whoa whoa whoa that's not what we do here we're here to serve the public good and typically that's not what I see so that to me should have been the conversation instead we kind of had the same old conversations about race and policing which by the way I'm wearing the shoes right now actually if only there was a famous football player that once upon a time tried to talk about race and policing I wonder what would have happened to his career um we could have that and about the respectability of well just comply just pay attention to the orders and everything will be fine or we can have real conversation about why cops are afraid at traffic stops understandably about whether or not we should hold our police officers to a lower higher or the same standard we would hold A salesperson at H&M and whether or not we we think that in order to be considered quote one of the good cops you have a moral obligation to in real time step in when one of the bad cops is doing what happened to Tyreek just my thoughts hey thanks for watching hit the Subscribe button to get more from the show and make sure to click the Bell to get notified every time Time new content drops check out full episodes of what's right wherever you get your podcast or just click the link in the description below