You guys are such a great audience here. I love this. cheers and applause no, its great. As we all know, american Race Relations have been pretty tumultuous lately. Our weekly racial incidents are starting to feel Something Like an unlimited appetizer deal at a chain restaurant grotesque, nauseating, and neverending. laughter with the Racial Climate changing so rapidly, we thought it would be helpful to go to our inhouse racial meteorologist, gusty hail. laughter cheers and applause hows it going gusty . Thanks, larry. Were dealing with plenty of racial atmospheric pressure pretty much everywhere. Right . Things are heating up, larry. laughter so its okay to take off that hoodie folks. Seriously, take it off, because they will shoot you. laughter larry whats racial atmospheric pressure . Well, for instance, donald trump calling larry other way. The other direction. laughter its a new map. laughter larry okay. Donald trump calling mexicans rapists has really heated things up out west and near the border states. And the whole south is basically a giant racial cyclone. I know lots of people had been hoping that winds of change would sweep through that region and clear things up, but that just hasnt happened. Larry okay. Gusty wait. Is there something going on up in maine . Maine is pretty stable, but thats only because there are no black people in maine at the moment. laughter larry that makes sense. That makes sense. laughter you can see larry uhhuh. Clear skies at the moment. Weve heard rumors that the wutang clan is performing in portland next month. laughter at which point a pressurized front could come from the south and blow and up cause trouble. laughter larry absolutely. Sounds right. I see right behind your butt yep, texas is on fire. Whats going on there . Well, larry, theres a fecal front swirling right outside of houston. laughter larry fecal front . Are you telling me theres a [ bleep ] Storm Brewing in texas . laughter . You said it, larry. Put together that many minorities, cowboys, and permissive gun laws, and you can guarantee some atmospheric trouble. Larry got it. Okay. Okay. Thanks gusty. cheers and applause now, look this is going to be tough, but we really do want to focus on texas specifically whats going on with the sandra bland incident. Its gotten so many people talking because so much of it really doesnt make sense. A woman was pulled over for a traffic stop, and a few days apparently commits suicide in a jail cell. Theres still a lot to unpack in this story. Ill tell you what. Lets just look at the dashcam video that was released. You okay . Im waiting on you. This is your job. What you want me to do . I dont know. You seem very irritated. I am. I really am, because i feel like this is crap for what im getting a ticket for. I was getting out of your way. You were speeding and tailing me. So i move over. And you stop me. So, yeah, i am irritated, but that doesnt stop you from giving me a ticket so are you done . Larry okay. This is the first escalation. You asked her the question. She answered it, and then you got a little snippy. Are you done . Isnt how you finish something. Are you done . Is how you start something. laughter right . laughter cheers and applause just sayin. Thats all im sayin. Okay . And its very important to know what hes starting right now is an escalation. You asked me whats wrong and i told. Okay. So now im done, yeah. Okay. You mind putting out your cigarette, please. laughter larry okay. She said she was done. And you kept on going. You mind putting out your cigarette, please . Is the definition of not being interested in done. Youre fishing for undoneness. All right . Now, look, im not saying its the best idea to be smoking a butt when a cop pulls you over. But youre allowed to. All right . And it definitely shouldnt result in this im in my car. Why do i have to put out my cigarette . You can step on out now. I dont have to step out of my car. Step out of the car. Step out of the car. No, you dont have the right step out of the car. You do not have the right to do that. I do have the right. Now step out or i will remove you. I refuse to talk to you other than to identify myself get out or i will remove you. I am getting removed for a failure to signal . Step out or i will remove you. Im giving you a lawful order. Get out of the car now, or im going to remove you. And im calling my im going to yank you out of here. Okay. Youre going to yank me out of my car . Get out. Larry okay. All right. Lets do this. Were going to. Dont touch me. Get out of the car dont touch me. Im not under arrest. You dont have the right to you are under arrest. Im under arrest for what . 2547 f. M. 298, send me a unit. Get out of the car get out of the car now why am i being apprehended . Youre trying to give me a ticket for failure i said get out of the car. Why am i being apprehended . You open my car door im going to drag you out of here. Youre going to drag me out of my own car . Get out of the car i will light you up get out wow. Now wow get out of the car larry okay. Heres what i saw. I saw a woman who was very irritated, probably having a bad day most likely because she was pulled over smoking a cigarette to calm down, complied 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, its very clear this officer was wrong. If you are being stopped by a Police Officer, whether that Police Officer is right or wrong, dont you do what he says until afterwards. Then you can sue him. Then youre still alive. Larry okay, first of all, i dont know who youre yelling at. [ audience boos ] secondly, should one be on ones best behavior when the cop pulls one over . Ideally, yes. But most importantly, the cop is a professional. cheers and applause right . Should he not have been on such a power trip . cheers and applause now im yelling, don lemon. laughter let me calm down for a second. Its easy to say black people, why arent you acting like the dowager countess when a cop pulls you over . laughter oh, hello, officer. Im so pleased youve unexpectedly dropped in on me ah laughter would you like some tea . I brew it in my glove compartment. laughter next to my stash of weed that i have. laughter 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 theyre not brutalized by police is insane. cheers and applause okay. All right. Thats don lemon. Thats don lemon. What does fox have to say about this . laughter im not sure if i can watch. There was no reason whatsoever to arrest her. She didnt have to listen to him for that reason. She had to give him her drivers license and her information and that was it. Why is she in jail for three days . On 5,000 bail there needs to be an intense investigation. cheers and applause laughter larry this is how you know how [ bleep ] crazy a situation is. cheers and applause right . When i totally agree with white people who are talking about race on fox. cheers and applause right . Oh thats how crazy it is. Anyone else who i always vehemently disagree with also getting this right . Anyone . Anyone . I thought it was terrible. laughter larry youve got to be [ bleep ] me laughter i thought it was terrible. I thought he was so aggressive. It was a traffic signal, as i understand it, and, you know who gets out of a car for a traffic signal . Im a huge fan of the police but this guy was overly aggressive. Terribly aggressive. Larry even trump agrees . cheers and applause right . Oh. Okay. We have lost cabin pressure. laughter put your mask on first. laughter all right. But in all seriousness, theres a lot of speculation in the media and online right now about what exactly happened to sandra bland. Sometimes the most rational thing to say is i dont know. I dont know what happened to sandra, and to engage in a guessing game about how she passed this or that it can be reckless. But i do know that the Racial Climate is supercharged right now. We joked about it earlier, but the black community is on edge. And it doesnt surprise me to see a black woman get irritated with a Police Officer. Just as it doesnt surprise me to see a Police Officer neglect to deescalate a tense situation. applause i mean to me it almost feels like they were two players in a greek tragedy marching toward an inevitable conclusion. Sandra brand is one victim. But her story speaks to a larger issue. An issue we should be trying to solve before it becomes a problem again. 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And its something that weve had our eye on here at the nightly show. So we sent mike yard to the deep south of manhattan to find out more. Take a look. All i keep hearing these days in the news is the Confederate Flag that. Im sick of it. They dont have a monopoly on racism. Taxi laughter we have racism here too. Today, right here on this spot, new york is unveiling a historic marker for a slave market. Anybody want to buy one . Get your fresh, hot negroes. You want a negro. Hes one for you. One for you. You want to buy one . Hows that for racism . Huh . For 50 years men and women were bought and sold and forced into slavery. This was the center of commerce for the british. They centered all the markets here as well. A lot of time they had green that were for sale too along with the slaves. So you could debt a bag of grain with a little 61y negro. laughter how many new yorkers know that our citys slave market was rivaled only by the slave market in charleston, South Carolina . I dont think any of you knew that. How much to you think i would have went for . You . How much would you have paid . You . How much would you have paid for me . This became a place for buying and selling and renting human beings. They pay more for children. Wouldnt be me, they would bow a child before me . Theyd rather have a child. A child cant lift what i can lift. The brother with the yoyo trick. You go for a lot in this market. laughter . Youre hurting my feelings. Dont know if you would buy me. Uhhuh. And then youre saying would you buy a child you would buy a child before would you buy me. I dont need a child, but back in new york, during the time of slavery they loved children. Im getting uncomfortable with this. laughter the south dont own racism. The south dont own slavery. We can be just as backwards in the north. That stank is on all of us. We dont work for free no more. cheers and applause larry mike yard, everybody well be right back. cheers and applause daves been working on his game, and starting each day with a delicious bowl of heart healthy kelloggs raisin bran. Hows your cereal . Sweet tastes like winning. How would you know what winning tastes like . Invest in your heart health, with kelloggs raisin bran. No crying today. Get ready to be obsessed. Sweetarts soft and chewy ropes. With no artificial flavors or colors. New from sweetarts. Wanna get roped in . If you cant stand the heat, get off the test track. Get the mercedesbenz youve been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedesbenz dealer. Hurry, before this opportunity cools off. Share your summer moments in your mercedesbenz with us. cheers and applause larry welcome back. Im here with my panel. The nightly show writer jordan carlos. cheers and applause you can see him at the new york Fringe Festival in august former new york city Police Officer and comedian mark demayo. cheers and applause and assistant professor at fordham university, christina greer. cheers and applause were talking about sandra bland incident here. I just want to ask everybody how should you act when you are pulled over by a cop . Nice. Try to be as nice as possible. I was. I always was even when avis kid. And i wasnt always a cop. Eye used to act up and get into trouble. Whenever i got in trouble yes, sir apologies. Those are okay too. I try not to sing the theme from cops, you know . laughter . Bad boys bad boys what you going to do . Join in if you want to, officer. laughter you invite the officer to join in. Absolutely. Maybe he wants to get in on it. Larry mark . Just go out and get in his car. I just might. Bring your own cuffs too. laughter larry did you act within your rights or should you act polite . Well, i think for black people weve clearly seen when you act polite it doesnt matter. cheers and applause and so this is i think this the tension, right . So many parents have told their children and themselves if im good, right things wont escalate, and i can go on my way. We know that thats not the case. If we also tell officers that we know our rights, then we have officers telling us theyll light our asses up and drag our asses out. So larry its very frustrating. Im trying to make sense about why it escalated. Whats the conflict . Is it black white . Some of it to me was man cop woman driver. cheers and applause ill be honest with you. When he kept saying whats wrong . You okay . You having a bad day . overlapping talking ever ask a woman whats wrong . laughter and after that, whatever you do dont ever tell her you look aggravated. laughter lets be clear. Theres the intersection of race, gender and class, and with him power. applause larry heres what i want to ask you. Youre a former cop, right . Malcolm talks about the escalation moment. He talks about it brilliantly. And thats why you have training so you can handle when your hearts going fast and all that stuff. It looked to me like there was no training involved, because he provoked at every escalation point. Thats what i was trying to every escalation point he could have brought it down, but he pushed it further. There was the moment there cheers and applause larry you know what i mean . There was a moment there it was a regular car stop and then when he came back and he said, whats the matter . You look upset. Of course, im upset. I just got a summons or im getting a summons. She didnt know it was a warning summons and for failure to signal. Avis cop. I was in a cop car plenty of time seeing cops behind me and go, oh, my god what did i do . laughter there has to be little leeway where if you didnt signal, its not the end of the world. I wouldnt ask anybody to put out a cigarette. Theyre 14 a pack. laughter would you put out your cigarette . This among other reasons is why black folks shouldnt smoke but laughter cy would definitely put out my cigarette and like mark said i would get into the back of the squad car immediately without him even saying anything. Hell be like, what are you doing . Youd get in the squad car. Absolutely. Sort it out. You know what i mean . Id bring my own cuffs. These are very nice. You know . I like larry would you have can i just say one thing about attitude . Larry sure. You go to the dmv, somebodys there. You wait two hours on line. When you get to the front, youre not going to be like i need this. Youre going to be hello, hi, im yeah so because you want to get your registration renewed. When youre stopped by the cops you want to get out of it quick. Just be nice. Larry no chance of somebody shooting you at the laughter dmv. Heres something i think we should probably address which is the fact that being africanamerican, you always have to have the wherewithal to be on your ps and qs all the time, not just around the cops but around those who can call the cops. You know, and this lady just had a bad day. You know what i mean . And she didnt carry that mantle for a second and it cocked her. Its heavy. Its a heavy burden. Larry i dont like all the blaming on her. If she had only not spoken back then this wouldnt have happened. Black folks in this country are held to a completely different standard. cheers and applause we are. You know, we dont have applause . Larry the other component of it also depression particularly these kips of things in underserved communities, people who dont have healthcare, big problem nobodys talking about. applause big problem. So i mean, this is coming out after the fact, right . Police officer did not know that. But what about trauma . What about all the other people who black people who are heend the wheel black people whose kids are turning 16 and its a dreaded day for a black parent because they know that their child is now going to be on the road by themselves with Police Officers. I mean, this is theres depression and theres theres also something else. Theres a level of fear that black folks in this country have, and its from the state. And until people recognize sassy mouth. Shes allowed. Its not illegal. My son drives applause and i get nervous when he drives. I tell him listen, you get pulled over and i was a cop, and i tell him all the time exact i what to do. And thats on the other tip im from texas. And the love black people do get pulled over in texas speeding because were trying to get the hell out. laughter applause larry theres a lot of things were not going to know about this, but that one is thing we know for sure. laughter well be right back right after this. cheers and applause larry if you live in the new york city area or planning to visit, grab some free tickets to an upcoming taping of the the nightly show, showcased monday through thursday. For complete details go to the thenightlyshow. Com tickets. cheers and applause groan im starving. Weve been compromised dont let hunger kill your game. Hot pockets brings you new snack bites. Bitesize hot pockets sandwiches with 100 real cheese. Guys im back new snack bites from. Hot pockets [ horn honks melody ] well, well. If it isnt the belle of the ball. Gentlemen. You look well. Whats new, flo . Well, a name your price tool went missing last week. Name your what, now . It gives you Coverage Options based on your budget. I just hope whoever stole it knows that it only works at progressive. Com. So, you cant use it to just buy stuff . No. Im sorry, gustav. We have to go back to the pet store. [ gustav squawks ] hes gonna meet us there. The name your price tool. Still only at progressive. Com. cheers and applause larry thats our show i want to thank our panelists jordan carlos, mark demayo and christina greer. Goodnightly, everyone. cheers and applause [crowd cheering] [cheering swells]