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On Thursday, Larry Wilmore gave an excellent dissection of the dash cam footage that shows the arrest of Sandra Bland. Wilmore gets so angry during the delivery of his biting commentary on the video and the media response to the video that he has to tell himself to calm down.
Calling out the police officer who arrested Bland, Wilmore insists that the cop is the one who escalated the conflict, he says:
‘Are you done’ isn’t how you finish something — ‘are you done’ is how you start something.”“Here’s what I saw: I saw a woman who was very irritated and probably having a bad day, most likely because she was pulled over, smoking a cigarette to calm down, complying with everything the officer asked for. Then it got confusing because he told her to put out her cigarette but then offered to light her up by pointing a Taser at her head. To me and most reasonable people, it’s clear that this officer was wrong.”Wilmore then goes on to mock those who have victim shamed Bland, excusing the officer’s actions because of her bad attitude. Which appears to be the new covert phrasing of “uppity.” Wilmore says:“Yes, that would make sense, but on the other hand, the fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they’re not brutalized by police is insane.”Wilmore then says:“Sometimes the most rational thing to say is I don’t know, I don’t know what happened to Sandra. To engage in a guessing game can be reckless, but I do know the racial climate is super-charged right now. We joked about it earlier, but the black community is on edge, and it doesn’t surprise me to see a black woman get irritated with a police officer — just as it doesn’t surprise me to see a police officer neglect to de-escalate a situation.”
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