Battle stations. That is what plays me everyone goes to their battle stations. Immediately people go well once again another example of blacker people resisting the cops and being criminals and why are you driving drunk and why are you running away from the police. And then of course you have other people, you know, in their battle stations saying of course, another story of cops who immediately shoot a black man for just sleeping in his car. But like, it is messy. No one wants to admit that the thing is messy. Its [bleep] messy. If the story didnt happen now, maybe we would be looking at it differently. But it is a messy story. It is not the per sphect perfect story. And in a weird way it not being the perfect story means we shouldnt look at it in the most perfect way possible. We should try and break it down and understand how Something Like this comes to be. Because we dont always have video like this, we dont always have stories like this. We dont always even look at it like. This but lets talk about what happened. You have a man sleeping in his car. Right, a man is sleeping in his car and he is drunk. Was he drunk driving . Lets say he is. So he has broken some law, a law not worth dying for, i think we can all agree on that. The Police Approach him. And even then i ask the question, why are armed police dealing with a man who is sleeping in his car. He posed no threat to anybody. No one at wendys felt afraid, cars are driving around him, is he not stopping people, so why are armed police there in the first place . Thats the question i think, like these are the questions we ask, why, why, why, why, why. Why are armed police the first people who have to go and respond to somebody who is sleeping in their car whos drunk. Secondly, why do the police, i mean the man says to them, i will walk home. If you are protecting and serving people, what is the true purpose of you not wanting to drive drunk. Its that you dont want them killing themselves and other people. In this instance no one has died because of his driving and he hadnt killed himself because of his driving. And so as a police officer, maybe it is intaws i live in a utopian world where the police are treully trying to protect and serve, not trying to write enough tickets not trying to fill quote owes but trying to protect and serve. In that instance you would hope a policeman would say sir, you do not look fit to drive. You said your sister lives around the corner. You said well take you home. We didnt find you driving drunk, we found you asleep in the car. We will give you the benefit of the doubt. The country is burning down because of the way black people are dealt with the police. So let us show you, just in the moment, that it doesnt always have to end the way you think it has to end. Im not saying they had to do that, but it would have been nice. They arrest him. He fights. Now you know whats messy about this whole thing is we forget you are dealing with a descrurng person. Are you dealing with somebody the very fact that you dont not allowed to sign a contract when you are drunk, are you not allowed to do anything when are you drunk. We know what a drunk person is in society. They are not going to do the logical thing. So as a policeman if a drunk burn does an illogical thing, i think you should acknowledge the fact that they are drunk. It doesnt mean they deserve to die. They are drunk. We know whate what drunk people do. Have i been drunk, you have been drunk, everyone has been drunk. You dont deserve to be die for being drunk. And if police cannot respond or cannot handle a drunk person, then they shouldnt be responding. If you responding to a person who is drunk means that person can be dead, the whole point of you going there was to make sure that people dont die because of whatever has happened. But if the people end up dead, then what is the point. And people say he shouldnt have resisted yes, hes drunk. Im not excusing it but hes drunk. In a situation like that, the sober person in my opinion, the sober person, the onus is upon them to make sure the situation doesnt get out of hand. You are sober. Hes drunk. How are two sober men res wrestling on the grounds, how does it get that far . How does it end with him losing his life . And people always say the same thing. They go well, you know, if you didnt do that, then you would still be alive. They say this shit all the time, if you didnt do that. But the truth is, the f keep on ifs keep on changing f you didnt resist arrest, you would still be alive. Or if you didnt run away from the cops you would still be alive. Well, if you didnt have a toy gun and were 12 years old in the middle of the park then you would still be alive. If you werent wearing a hoodie, you would still be alive. If you didnt talk back to the cops you would still be alive. If you werent sleeping in your bed as a black woman, you would have still been alive. There is one Common Thread beyond all the ifs. If you werent black, maybe you would still be alive. Thats what i have to looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. Theyre going to be paying for this for a long time. They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. Cut sonny. Was that good . Line the desert never lies. Isnt that what i said . No you were talking about allstate and insurance. I just. When i. Lets try again. Everybody back to one. Accident forgiveness from allstate. Click or call for a quote today. It could be the first onebe youre having with friends. In a while. This filetofish could be the first lunch you made into an actual lunch break. And these mcnuggets could be your first field trip since school merged with home. Whatever this order is for you, well be here to take it. Daily social distancing show. So lets talk about some of the other news going on right now. As you may or may not know, june is pride month. Its the month where we take a moment to celebrate how far lgbtq rights have come while style still acknowledging its work to be done, also the month where j. K. Rowling tries to do what voldemort couldnt and destroy harry potter. But this year pride month has been made worse by the trump administration. They killed a rule that blocks doctors from refusing to treat transgender people and on saturday they announced a new proposal allowing single sex homeless shelters to turn away transgender people who are quote not really the right gender. And you know it is amazing that even during a pandemic and national protests, trump has still found a way to say screw you to the lgbtq community. Almost like if Hannibel Lechter was on his way to kill someone but took a quick de tour to burn down a community garden. How much hate does one person need. So this pride month wasnt looking great but then this happened. A major civil rights decision out of the United StatesSupreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled that lgbt americans are protected by the antidiscrimination laws of this country at their workplaces. They cannot be fired or otherwise discriminated against at work simply because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by chief justice john roberts. Gorsuch appointed by President Trump, chief justice john roberts, the leader of the conservative wing of the court, a 63 opinion which in ringing terms holds that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 encompasses lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendzer people in this country, protecting them from discrimination by their employers. Trevor yes, gay people across america just got a huge win. And mike pence just got a huge aneurysm, the Supreme Court has ruled that people cannot be discriminated against at work simply because of their Sexual Orientation or gender identity. And the reason is because they are protected by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And you got to admit, that is one bad ass law to still be helping more groups get equal rights. I mean we have to buy a new iphone every two years but show this act is rolling out new features 56 years later. And obviously this should all be basic de sensee. Nobody should be faired just for being gay. The only reason you should be fired is if you are doing your job poorly. Or if you are doing your job so well that you make the rest of us look bad, then you also need to go now the Supreme Court ruling isnt the only good news for human rights that is coming out right now. Because over the weekend black lives matter rallies continued spreading around the globe. Black lives matter and antiracism protests continue around the world. Thousands in europe, asia and the South Pacific continued marching to call for equality. Black lives matter still reverberating around the world. Protests in japan, new zealand, south korea, this as the u. S. Embassy there. Thousands of people have formed a human chain in berlin to unite against racism and discrimination. Participates were asked to wear masks and keep socially distant from one another and were linked by colorful ribons forming what organized called a ribbon of solidarity. Black lives matter protestors chanting black trans lives matter outside the brooklyn museum. A number of groups took part in yesterdays demonstration with transgender activists leading a march. Nearly 30,000 people all dressed in white in honor of black trans lives, it represented unity in the fight for equality, for justice, for two deeply marginalized groups in new york city. Trevor yes, from brooklyn to europe and all the way to new zealand, thousands of people from all walks of life are still assembling in the streets to say that black lives matter. And it really is a powerful thing to see. I mean the last thing this many people agreed on was that Carole Baskin probably killed her hulls. I mean they are even coming out in japan. They dont even have black people in japan. Japan is basically saying when we finally see a black person, we will welcome them with open arms. And as a whole, the world is watching these rallies take place around the globe. St clear that one person is starting to feel jealous. Donald trump, president of the United States and the only human who has ever fired a secretary of state and meet loaf. Trump hasnt been able to hold a rally of his own since before the coronavirus pandemic. But after months of waiting he announced that his first rally in months would take place this friday in tulsa, oklahoma. There was just one problem. A rare reversal from President Trump. Now delaying his controversial tulsa rally. It was initially scheduled for juneteenth, a day parking the end of slavery but after criticism for the timing and tulsas mystery as a city scared by century old race riot, the president tweeted many of my africanamerican friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday. I have therefore decide stod move our rally to saturday, june 20th, in order to honor their request. Trevor now one way to look at this is that trump is so oblivious he didnt even realize how messed up it with be to have a rally on juneteenth in a city where one of americas worst racial massacres took place. But i guess the Glass Half Full version of the story is that even someone as raitionzly incense tifer as trump is now recognizing the importance of juneteenth and that is not nothing. I mean lets be honest. A year ago if you told trump that he couldnt hold a rally on juneteenth, what would he have said. He probably would have been like if i cared about emancipation, i would have freed melania a long time ago. So the point is trump is recognizing in his own small grudging way the importance of juneteenth. And i think its good that trump made the decision to move the rally. Because nobody was buying his first solution which was to pretend that the rally was for juneteenth. You your rally in oklahoma is set for june 19th, was that on purpose . But but i know exactly what you were going to say. Im just asking. It is on the day of africanamerican emancipation. Thats right. The fact that i am having a rally on that day, you can really think about that very positively as a celebration. Because a rally to me is a celebration. Its going to be really a celebration. And it is an interesting date. It wasnt done for that reason. But it is an interesting date, but it is a celebration. Trevor really, wanted to celebrate the end of slavery with a stadium full of white people. What, this trying to gentrify juneteenth. Its a celebration, a a bull shit excuse, trump is like that dad who like i didnt just forget that birthday. I am off to the bar. Its me my birthday. Thats right, what better way to celebrate than getting drunk with all my friends. You know, im glad that trump didnt go through with this rally. Because if he did, there is a good chance there was going to be one black family who showed up thinking it really was a juneteenth celebration. Hey, i brought the potatoe salad, oh, shit, i misjudged this situation. So luckily trump seems to have solved the juneteenth rally dilemma but that isnt usually the case with trump. It is never just one problem. Because while his rally no longer conflicts with juneteenth, it still has a major conflict with the coronavirus. With President Trump now just days away from his first rally since the coronavirus outbreak, a new warning this morning from tulsas Health Department director. Dr. Bruce dart telling tulsa world a large indoor rally with 19 to 20,000 people is a huge risk factor today in tulsa, oklahoma. Noting a significant increase in cases, dr. Dart says hes concerned about our ability to protect anyone who attends, including our ability to ensure the president stays safe, acknowledging the risks the campaign is now requiring anyone who attends to sign a liability waiver, giving up their right to hold the campaign or venue responsible if they contract the virus. Trevor okay look, i know that social distancing has been falling out of fashion recently. But it is one thing for people to be gathering outdoors Wearing Masks to fight against Police Brutality and racial oppression. St another thing for thousands of people to gather indoors, probably without masks, to watch a boxing match between a mans mouth and his brain. I mean the fact that trump is making attendees agree to not sue him if they get coronavirus at his rally should be a pretty good signal that this whole thing is a bad idea. It also shows you how full of shit trump has been about coronavirus this whole time. Yeah. Because what is the contract even say, promise not to sue me if you get this deadly disease which is basically a hoax and not that bad but totally under control and you can kurn it with bleech. Also, how is donald trump going to tell other people they cant sue him. That is the most hypocritical thing i have ever heard. Suing people is trumps favorite thing in the entire world. As we speak the man is suing yankee candles for not having a hot dog screnlt. So either way it looks like this trump rally is officially happening. Coronavirus be damned. And if you are planning on going to this rally, i mean go with just remember every time trump makes you sign something in advance, it means you are about to get screwed. When we come back, i will be speaking to activist and former democratic candidate for georgia governor stacey abrams. Stick around. How about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no nnnnono only discover has no annual fee on any card. [jet engine] [splash] its not just the ships. The armor. Or the aircraft. [jet engines] its something more. Its the will to fight. And determination to win. Found inside each and every marine. That answers a nations call. Battles won. Daily social distancing show. My first guest tonight is stacey abrams, an ak vis and leader in the democratic party. Earlier today we spoke about her new book our time is now and her fight to end Voter Suppression. Stacey abrams, welcome to the daily social distancing show. Thank you for having me, or not. Trevor yeah, that say great way to put it. Having you and not at the same time. We are living thraw a very strange time where you know, it felt like coronavirus was the Biggest Issue affecting america and very quickly we have come to realize that there is a much longer standing issue that america has had that people are now standing up against and fighting about in the streets. And that is, you know, racial disparity. Police brutality, the lack of justice for black people in this country, for brown people who are oftentimes oppression oppressed. You have lived that life in more ways than one. You know, as a black woman and as someone who has been in politics, you have experienced america in a very unique way. How do you feel about what america is going through right now . I think that we do ourselves a disservice if we actually separate these moments from one another. What has happened with covid19 is that it exposed the fractured and inequities in our healthcare system. And the expectations we had where certainly workers essentially were the people we werent protecting but we demanded their allegiance to our needs anyway. And what we saw happen with george floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks just in the last month or so, what happened to tony mcdade is that we see that part of the de humanization that we experience with covid transplate translates into how we are viewed by those that are charged with protecting us. That Police Brutality, systemic injustice, systemic inequity are all part of the original sin of america, which is the deval yaition and de humanization of people of color, primarily and most clearly black people. Trevor atlanta has become a hot bed of these conversations. Georgia has become a hot bed of these conversations. Everything from Ahmaud Arbery to Rayshard Brooks as you just mentioned has thrown atlanta into turmoil. You know, you have had Police Officials resigning. You have had the mayor coming out and condemning the violence and it feels like atlanta is more on edge th