Did Police Kidnap Flint Residents?

DURING A PUBLIC TOWN HALL IN FLINT, MICHIGAN, SIX INDIVIDUALS
WHO WERE UPSET ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY HAD BEEN DRINKING
POISONED TRICKING WATER, BUT ñ VOICED THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT
THE CITY HAD DONE, AND THE RAMIFICATIONS.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, SIX OF THEM GOT ARRESTED, BECAUSE OF
VOICING THEIR CONCERNS A LITTLE BIT TOO LOUDLY, BUT
APPARENTLY THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF IRREGULARITIES, A LACK
OF TRANSPARENCY, AND AN UNUSUAL DEGREE OF SECRECY IN THIS STORY.
JORDAN CHARITON, ONE OF OUR REPORTERS, HAS BEEN ON THIS; HE
WAS ACTUALLY AT THE TOWN HALL, AND HE SAW THESE PEOPLE GET
ARRESTED FOR ESSENTIALLY EXERCISING THEIR FIRST
AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
THEY WERE ARRESTED ON APRIL 20, HAD A MAYORAL TOWN HALL
HELD AT A HOUSE OF PRAYER MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH,
AFTER POLICE OFFICIALS WARNED ATTENDEES THAT THEY'D BE
ARRESTED IF THEY DIDN'T OBSERVE CHURCH RULES OF DECORUM.
THAT ME STOP RIGHT THERE.
IT'S INTERESTING THAT THEY DECIDE TO DO THIS AT A
CHURCH, WHICH IS, AGAIN, IT'S A RELIGIOUS PLACE, AND THEN
THEY TELL PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE CHURCH RULES.
IF YOU WANT RELIGIOUS, WHY DO YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE RULES,
AND WHY DID YOU PICK THIS LOCATION FOR THE TOWN HALL?
THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT.
IF YOU HOLD IT AT A CHURCH, YOU CANNOT ACTUALLY APPLY THE CHURCH
RULES, ACCORDING TO THE LAW IN MICHIGAN, WHICH MAKES SENSE.
IF IT IS A TOWN HALL, TOWN RULES APPLY AT THE TOWN HALL MEETING.
BY THE WAY, PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN FLINT, MICHIGAN, THEY ARE
WORRIED ABOUT THEIR KIDS, YOU CAN'T TELL THEM, WELL, I HELD IT
IN A CHURCH SO YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST RULES, I
HELD IT IN A MOSQUE SO YOU WANT TO FOLLOW MOHAMMED'S RULES,
I HELD IT IN A PRISON SO YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW PRISON RULES.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
SO ALL OF THESE ARRESTS WERE ILLEGAL IN THE FIRST PLACE,
THEY WERE FALSE ARRESTS.
AND THE STORY KEEPS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE.
WHEN THE TOWN HALL MEETING HAD BEGUN, THE POLICE COMMISSIONER
SAID THE FOLLOWING: "PLEASE DON'T BE IN HERE TRYING TO
DISRUPT THIS MEETING, BECAUSE IF YOU DO I'M GOING TO ESCORT
YOU OUT, AND ABOUT TO TAKE YOU TO THE BACK DOOR AND THEN
YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL.
I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY WITH NOBODY TONIGHT."
LET NEAT ñ JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHAT THE SCENE LOOK
LIKE, HERE IS WHAT IS THAT JORDAN OBTAINED, AND YOU
COULD SEE HOW THEY ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL, THEY ARE
JUST VOICING THEIR CONCERNS AND THEY GET ARRESTED AS A RESULT.
I'M THE ONE THAT BUILT THIS CHURCH.
[ INAUDIBLE ]
BULLSHIT!
HELL NO.
THAT'S BULLSHIT!
WHERE THEY AT?
WHERE THEY AT?
STEP BACK, TONY.
ON HELPING.
THAT'S MY WIFE.
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HER ñ
CAN I JUST SAY, ON TAPE, YOU JUST SAW CLEARLY THERE THAT
SHE HAD NOT DONE ANYTHING PHYSICAL.
SHE YELLED SOMETHING, AND THAT OFFICER DIDN'T LIKE WHAT
SHE YELLED, I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS OFFENDED BECAUSE IT WAS
INSIDE A CHURCH OR IF HE HAS A PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE
DUDE, BUT THAT IS NOT ILLEGAL, IT IS NOT REMOTELY ILLEGAL
TO YELLED SOMETHING.
THEY WERE ALREADY ESCORTING HER HOUSE, AND HE THEN MADE IT
PHYSICAL, BRINGS HER OVER, RESTS HER, PUTS HER HEAD DOWN, ETC.
ALL OF THESE ARRESTS ARE CLEARLY ILLEGAL.
AND IN ONE OF THEM THEY CLAIMED ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER.
WE HAVE THE TAPES.
YOU CAN WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE.COM/TYTPOLITICS.
NONE OF THE COPS WERE EVER TOUCHED.
LET ME GIVE YOU THE DETAILS, THEY WERE PUT IN JAIL
OVERNIGHT, THERE WAS NEVER AN ARRAIGNMENT, THERE WAS
NEVER A BAIL HEARING SET.
THEY WERE RELEASED THE NEXT DAY, BUT EVER SINCE THEN THEY
HAVE HEARD NOTHING.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE THE CHARGES ARE FILED; IS IT
THROUGH THE CITY?
IS IT THROUGH THE STATE?
CHARGES RANGED FROM BEING A DISORDERLY PERSON TO
INTERFERING WITH POLICE, TO THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE OF
ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER, WHICH IS A FELONY.
AGAIN, NO ONE TOUCHED A POLICE OFFICER.
THE ONLY TIME THAT THERE WAS PHYSICAL CONTACT WAS WHEN
IT WAS INITIATED BY THE COPS.
NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRAIGNED, NOTIFICATION REGARDING CHARGES
AT CITY LEVEL --
THESE ARE ALL STRANGE INCONSISTENCIES THAT ARE
OCCURRING, AND SO THE ACLU HAS GOTTEN INVOLVED, AND RIGHT NOW
ARE REPRESENTING FIVE OUT OF THE SIX INDIVIDUALS, AND ARE TRYING
TO GET SOME ANSWERS OUT OF THIS.
THEY WOULD OBVIOUSLY SEEM THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO FILE CHARGES,
THERE IS NO CASE THERE AND IT WOULD COME BACK TO HAUNT THEM,
AND I WANT TO AVOID HYPERBOLE HERE, BUT THOSE PEOPLE WERE
KIDNAPPED.
THEY WERE SCOOPED UP, THROWN IN PRISON OVERNIGHT WITH NO
CHARGES, AND RELEASED THE NEXT DAY, WE CAN'T HOLD YOU ANY
LONGER AND YOUR FAMILIES WILL BE ANGRY, SO WE WILL HAVE A BIGGER
STORY, SO WE'LL JUST LET YOU GO, FILE NOTE WORK AND WE WILL
PROCEED.
THE ASSAULT ON POLICE OFFICER IS NOWHERE ON TAPE, AND IF YOU
THOUGHT SOMEBODY ñ IF THEY REALLY THOUGHT SOMEBODY HAD
ASSAULTED A POLICE OFFICER THAT THEY WOULD LET THEM OUT THE NEXT
DAY WITH NO ARRAIGNMENT, WITHOUT ANY BAIL?
OTHERWISE THE COPS WOULD HAVE BEEN SUPER MAD, AND BELIEVE
ME, THEY WOULD HAVE IMMEDIATELY GONE THROUGH THE
PROCEEDINGS, AND THEY HAVEN'T.
SO, JUST LET THEM GO.
GIVE THEM CLARITY.
YOU CAN SAVE FACE, WE DON'T CARE.
I DON'T WANT THIS HANGING OVER THESE PEOPLE'S HEADS IN THE
FIRST PLACE.
YOU KNOW WHY THEY ARE ANGRY?
LIKE I SAID, THERE IS LEAD IN THE WATER, AND THEY ARE
WORRIED THAT THEIR KIDS, THEY THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES
ARE GETTING POISONED.
HOW ANGRY WOULD YOU BE?
LET THEM GO.
I THINK IT SHOULD GO WAY FURTHER THAN JUST LETTING THE
PEOPLE GO, I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME SORT OF
CONSEQUENCE FOR THOSE WHO ARRESTED THESE INDIVIDUALS.
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, RIGHT?
ABSOLUTELY.
WHY IS IT THAT WHENEVER WE HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE
CONSTITUTION, IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT ONE SPECIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHT, THE SECOND AMENDMENT ñ BY THE WAY, WHERE ARE ALL OF
THOSE SECOND AMENDMENT WARRIORS RIGHT NOW?
THE ONES WHO KEEP GOING TO UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES TO TRY TO
WORK UP STUDENTS, WHERE ARE THEY RIGHT NOW?
THESE RESIDENTS OF FLINT, MICHIGAN WERE RAISING THEIR
VOICES AT A TOWN HALL, THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF A TOWN HALL.
THEY ARE CALLED AGITATORS, AND WHAT COUNTRY ARE WE IN?
MY FATHER IS FROM CUBA, AND THIS SOUNDS LIKE STORIES YOU TELL ME
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN CUBA WHEN THEY WERE STANDING UP FOR THEIR
RIGHTS, AND THEY ARE JUST ASKING FOR WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
WATER, THEIR RIGHT.
I ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW WHO IS BEHIND LAW ENFORCEMENT, BECAUSE
I SEE LAW-ENFORCEMENT SOMETIMES AS ROBOTS WHO ARE DOING THE WORK
OF THE DIRTY, AND THE EVIL, AND I JUST THINK ABOUT, THIS WHOLE
INFECTION IS GOING ON AS A RESULT OF THIS ADMINISTRATION
WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT, PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT, ARE SEEING US AS PR
AND, AND ñ AS PEONS, AND ARE TAKING ACTION ON HOW THEY
THINK THEY SHOULD TREAT THE AVERAGE PERSON.
AND WHITE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO THINK THIS IS NOT ABOUT
YOU, THAT WHITE LADY JUST GOT HER HEAD SHOVED DOWN BY
THAT COP; THIS IS ABOUT MONEY, FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T
HAVE, WE ARE REALLY BEING BULLIED, AND TAKEN DOWN
THIS PATH, IT IS GETTING SCARY AT THIS POINT, IT REALLY IS.
YEAH, I MEAN, I'VE ALWAYS ñ
YOU FIRE THAT COP, LIKE I CAN BE A POLICE OFFICER.
PUT YOUR HAND ON HER BACK, MOVER ALONG A LITTLE MORE QUICKLY
IF YOU NEED TO TOUCH HER.
YOU ARE TAKING A JOB, AND WE GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO HAVE A GUN
AND USE THE GUN, YOU ARE DUTY-BOUND TO BE RESTRAINED.
IT'S TOUGH, BLOW OFF STEAM AFTERWARDS, GO TO A BOXING
CLASS.
BUT YOU CAN'T GRAB THAT WOMAN LIKE THAT; YOU CANNOT
ARREST SOMEBODY FOR YELLING SOMETHING THAT IRRITATED YOU.
IT'S PROBABLY WAS DESIGNED, WHATEVER SHE YELLED, IT
PROBABLY WAS DESIGNED TO PROVOKE THAT GUY.
YOUR JOB IS TO NOT BE PROVOKED, SO YOU DON'T GET TO BE A
POLICE OFFICER; HAVE A DIFFERENT JOB.
AS IDA POINTED OUT, THE COPS LATER CALLED THEM
AGITATORS; THEY ARE CITIZENS, THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP TO
PROTEST, THEY SHOWED UP TO VOICE THEIR OPINION AT A TOWN HALL.
IT'S NOT JUST WHAT YOU DO AT A TOWN HALL, IT'S WHAT YOU DO
IN AMERICA.
IF WE CAN'T DO THAT IN AMERICA ñ
COMMON VOICE OUR OPINIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT SUBBING AS
FUNDAMENTAL AS THE WATER WE DRINK ñ THEN WHAT IS AMERICA?
IF YOU GET ARRESTED FOR THAT, THAT IS NOT THE AMERICA THAT I
KNOW, THAT OUR CONSTITUTION DEMANDS OF US.
THESE COPS, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY KNOW WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE
THEY ARE GETTING HIMSELF INTO, AND THE PROSECUTORS AND STUFF.
IN ANOTHER ONE OF THE VIDEOS, THAT WE HAVE SHOWN ON A PREVIOUS
SHOW, ONE OF THE COPS SAYS, RIGHT BEFORE HE ARRESTS
SOMEBODY, YOU ARE DISRESPECTING THE CHURCH.
DISRESPECTING THE CHURCH IS NOT A CRIME, YOU CANNOT ARREST
SOMEBODY FOR THAT.
THAT GOES TO YOUR POINT, A MAN, THE CHURCH IS JUST WHERE
YOU HAD THE MEETING.
ONCE YOU HAD THE TOWNHALL THERE, IT IS NOT A CHURCH, IT IS A
BUILDING THAT IS HOSTING THE MEETING, WE SHOULD NOT HAVE
TO EXPLAIN THAT ANYBODY.
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DISRESPECT THE CHURCH.
WE HAD OUR PRESIDENT DISRESPECT AN ENTIRE RELIGION.
SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT IS POLITICALLY USEFUL, BUT YOU
ARE ALLOWED TO DISRESPECT A CHURCH AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
BUT THEY DIDN'T, IT IS A BUILDING, A BUILDING WITH
FOUR WALLS.
THE CHURCH WAS KIND ENOUGH TO LET THE CITY USE IT FOR AN
IMPORTANT THING, A TOWN HALL DURING WHAT IS
UNQUESTIONABLY THE GREATEST CRISIS THAT THE CITY OF TOWN
ñ THAT THE CITY OF FLINT HAS EVER FACED.
THESE PEOPLE SICK?
ALL THE SIX THAT WERE ARRESTED HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE
WATER IN SOME WAY.
RIGHT, SKIN CONDITIONS, ALL SORTS OF ANALYSIS AS A
RESULT OF THAT WATER.
BY THE WAY, THIS IS NOT JUST ISOLATED IN FLINT.
JORDAN HAS DONE A LOT OF REPORTING ON DRINKING WATER,
REUTERS HAS DONE A LOT OF HIS SENSES INVESTIGATIONS.
ñ EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS.
THERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH
POISONED DRINKING WATER, SO THIS TOUCHES ALL OF US IN ONE
WAY OR ANOTHER.
AND THAT LAST STORY WE DID ABOUT JEFF SESSIONS AUTHORIZING U.S.
ATTORNEYS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO CRACKDOWN ON DRUGS, AND MAKE
SURE WE RESTORE ORDER AND SEND DRUG ABUSERS TO PRISON WHERE
THEY BELONG, LIKE, IT JUST STRIKES ME THAT, I GOT IT, THEY
ARE GOING TO ARGUE THAT IT'S A STATE ISSUE, BUT WHAT I WOULD
HAVE LOVED TO SEE IS FEDERAL PROSECUTOR IS MAKING SURE
THAT WATER DIDN'T HAVE LEAD IN IT AROUND THE COUNTRY.
THAT WOULD BE A GREAT, USEFUL WAY FOR PROSECUTORS TO SPEND
THEIR TIME AND ENERGY, AND MAKE SURE THAT KIDS DON'T DRINK
POISONED WATER, INSTEAD OF SENDING PEOPLE TO PRISON FOR
3 TO 7 YEARS FOR HAVING A BAG OF MARIJUANA.
PEOPLE ASK ME, WHY DON'T YOU TELL JOKES ABOUT THIS STUFF?
WHY ARE YOU SO SERIOUS AND HEAVY-HANDED?
WELL, I MEAN, EVEN COMEDIANS ARE BEING HELD TO ñ STEPHEN COLBERT
IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR A MONOLOGUE, NOT EVEN US, WE ARE
ALSO BEING POLICED AND MONITORED ABOUT ñ AT OUR WORKPLACE, SO WE
WANT TO ñ YOU WANT US TO TAP DANCE WHEN WE ARE HAPPY OR
TALKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES, WE CAN'T EVEN DO THAT ANYMORE.
THE ABUSE OF POWER IS TRICKLING DOWN TO THE SMALLER PLACES, AND
NOW EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE THEY CAN REALLY ñ
TO BE FAIR, IDA, COLBERT WAS TALKING ABOUT HUMAN
GENITALS, RIGHT?
IT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR PRESIDENT WOULD NEVER DO,
SO WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE IT.
BY THE WAY, THAT'S YOUR REPORTER, JORDAN.
IF HE WASN'T THERE TO INVESTIGATE IT, GOD KNOWS
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THESE FOLKS.
IF THE FOLKS WHO RUN PUT MICHIGAN HAVE ANY SENSE AT
ALL, THEY WOULD TELL THOSE FOLKS THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING
CHARGED AND THEY ARE FREE TO GO.
THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT IN PRISON ANYMORE, BUT THEY WERE IN
JAIL OVERNIGHT.
THEY WERE KIDNAPPED OVERNIGHT.
YOU HAVE TO END THIS NONSENSE, BEFORE IT GETS WORSE, NOT
THE VENT BUT FOR YOU GUYS, BECAUSE WHAT YOU DID THERE
WAS NOT LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL.

Did Police Kidnap Flint Residents?

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