every passing week. law enforcement itself, they are now telling us, has no moral standing to enforce the law. i have challenged our police department to recognize all of the ways in which the uniform has been burdened by racists. training for police officers on implicit racial bias and procedural justice because to deny it exists is to deny folks liberty and, in many cases, life. how can we continue to lose the lives of unarmed black men in the united states of america at the hands of white police officers? that is not justice. if you are young and black, you are treat you had differently because of the color of your skin. i don t believe that it s just a case of a few bad apples. i believe that the system is broken. tucker: it s crazy talk. none of it is accompanied by numbers because they can t prove it because it s not true. and outside of faculty lounges, everybody in america recognizes that.
policies by targeting malls and shopping centers close to freeways because they know police won t risk a high-speed chase for a misdemeanor. finally, for safety reasons, many large retail stores are now telling their employees not to engage these grab and dash groups. so a lot of these crimes are not even being reported. tucker? tucker: falling apart. trace, great to see you tonight. thank you for that. well, we recently told you that pretty remarkable story of a young man called carson king from iowa. king raised a million dollars for charity, for children s hospital, and the des moines register, the local newspaper, rewarded him by digging into his personal history all the way back to high school denouncing him for tweets he made seven years ago. for this, he was pilloried. anheuser-busch, which had agreed to a partnership with him, dropped him.
now, in a fascinating coda to this story. calvin, the reporter who broke the story, has been fired himself after he was found to have offensive tweets on his twitter timeline as well. amazing. do you know who still though at the des moines register ? carol hunter. she is the editor who made the call to publish the piece and to crush carson king. she appears to be completely fine. and to be clear, we are not calling for her firing. we just think it s a little bit weird that the kid gets fired, and the person who makes the decision gets to stay. is that fair? joe concha writes media for the hill. he joins us tonight. joe, is that fair? no, it s not fair. this isn t some rogue reporter, tucker, that just writes a story and there it goes, out, published. there is a vetting system. and the vetting system starts with the senior editor you just mentioned. she has a job tonight. and by the way, she only put out a statement, an op-ed, basically, explaining what happened. and we hear about
organizations, publications, demanding transparency from people in power that they cover. i agree with that completely. but, in this case, she should be answering questions right now in terms of why is she okayed it and why this reporter was thrown under the bus, because he very easily, tucker, could have been on order saying why don t you look into his social media history? look, as a writer and reporter myself, if an editor tells you to do something, you do it. when you estimate a story, the editor can either pull that out or put it in. either way, it shouldn t be completely your responsibility while the editors get away with zero responsibility. tucker: well, that does seem right. her justification was and by the way, she is basically illiterate. for a newspaper reporter, she can barely write in english maybe it s not her first language. we wanted to perform a background check on this subject. just some kid giving money to a charity, no. need for a background check. they didn t