Turning Point USA Spokesperson Rob Smith provides insight into violent Louisville protests.
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Steve Ainsley and Brian back
to you in New York
Ainsley. Thank you. So much
mark
lets bring in Rob Space Smith,
author of always a soldier and
Iraq soldier
good morning Rob
good morning.
He said there is video of a
U haul. Truck and protesters are
unloading, shields and riot gear
and antipolice signs.
There is the video right there
looks like it could be
coordinated,
whats your reaction to whats
happening there.
My thoughts as soon as I saw
that video is who is funding
this?
Who is organizing this?
Who is out there exploiting the
pain and fear and emotions of
african Americans on the street
right now in Louisville, in order
to incite riots and violence and
destruction,
this stuff was obviously
planned.
So we really need to know who is
funding this stuff?
We really need to know where the
money is come from
and need to know who is behind
this stuff.
When I saw that video, it was
shocking to me how obviously
coordinated it all was.
I want to know who is out here
exploiting peoples pain in this
way.
Brian. What happened is over the
course of months. There was an
investigation by a grand jury.
The nature of the grand jury is
secret.
The deliberations are not made
public.
The attorney general looks at
that and makes the announcement
yesterday.
The sergeant would be the one
charged, but not for the shooting
death of Breonna Taylor
says thats, not justice.
The attorney general says I
understand the pain, but you have
to understand. There is facts to
this case that are different
than being portrayed
here. He is yesterday
the decision before my office
as a special prosecutor in this
case was not to decide if the
loss of Ms Taylors loss was a
tragedy.
The answer to that question is
unequivocally yes.
I understand that Ms Breonna
Taylors death has become a part
of a national story and
conversation,
but we must also remember the
facts, and the collection of
evidence in this case are
different than cases elsewhere
in the country.
If we simply act on emotion or
outrage, there is no justifiable
mob. Justice is not justice.
Justice sought by violence is
not justice,
it just becomes revenge
Brian, she was shot six times.
Rob your reaction to the
verdict. The attorney generals
announcement the Grand Jurys
decision,
I think, first of all, before I
say anything, you always have to
say when im talking about
Breonna Taylor, that her death
was a tragedy that should have
never happened.
I watched every second of that
press conference yesterday.
The thing that struck me, the
most is one of the first things
that he said that was a result
of the independent investigation
was that officers actually did
knock and announce themselves at
the door.
Steve thats right
when I heard that it threw
the entire narrative that had
been pushed by some mainstream
media outlets and a lot of
entertainers activists over the
last six months.
This no knock narrative had been
pushed to the point that Senator
Rand Paul, who is advocate for
criminal justice reform, actually
introduced the justifiable for
Breonna Taylor ACT, which sought
to ban no knock warrants.
This is how pervasive that
narrative had gotten in the
mainstream media.
When I saw that press conference-
and you saw that the facts came
out in that narrative was sort
of destroyed a little bit, and I
think the question is- and this
is a question that Daniel
Cammeron brought up in the press
conference is that do we want a
truth or do we want a truth? That
fits a narrative,
and the unfortunate thing is
that this narrative had been
solidified so much over the past
few months that people were not
going to accept anything but an
indictment of these officers
and they were primed for some of
the protests and the violence
that were seeing happening
right now.
Steve right,
I agree with you completely
about the new news about what
was the deal with the no knock
warrant
and he very effectively rob
walked through the prosecutors
case and what the grand jury was
presented and clearly they
agreed of with him where
apparently, the officers, the
grand jury and prosecutors felt,
the officers were justified in
using force because what they
did was they went to that
apartment.
It was the wrong apartment
for who they were looking for.
They went they knocked on the
door,
nobody came so they breached
the door
and Breonna Taylors boyfriend
thought they were intruders and
shot one of the police officers
in the leg
and thats when the shooting
started
and thats when she was killed,
but nonetheless, when he was
laying that out. One phrase that
he used yesterday Rob was mob.
Justice is not justice that got
a lot of attention on tv
yesterday.
Watch this.
I question the judgment of
the Kentucky Attorney General
Saying Quote: mob justice is
not justice.
He said it becomes revenge.
The president, having said that,
if Joe Biden wins, the mob wins
thats what he says.
We know this is very politically
loaded language.
Your death is irrelevant to
the law in the state of
Kentucky.
This was a black lives, dont
matter ruling.
Let me say this is a black
woman.
He does not speak for black
folk.
Is he skin folk? But is he not
kin folk
because he is up there with a
black face? He does not speak
for all of us.
This was not a tragedy.
This was a murder.
He should be ashamed of himself.
Steve Rob, I know you were in
Minneapolis after the George
Floyd verdict as well.
So how do you square what you
heard yesterday about the
attorney general?
Well, you know its
unfortunate but expected,
and you know he alluded to
this in his remarks.
I think he had made a remark.
That said there is going to be
entertainers and activists and
celebrities that are going to
tell us how to feel
none of them know the people of
Kentucky.
I think he said something like
that:
Daniel Cammeron being Black and
up there. This is not somebody
who was appointed as Kentucky
attorney General because of what
happened
he was already there. He is not
there to speak for black people
self there to speak for the
people of the Commonwealth of
Louisville Kentucky
thats. What he did
its not surprising to me that
he is the subject of attacks
from a lot of people on the
black left, who want to tie him
negatively to the president, who
want to call him. You know the
slurs that they use for black
conservatives
and for me it is unfortunate
because this isnt, a republican
or democrat thing,
this is somebody who was on the
side of facts and truth and very
emotionally and very
methodically laid all this out.
I dont know how anybody could
have watched that press
conference and said Daniel
Cammeron, doesnt care about
black people or black lives or
doesnt care with Breonna
Taylors family.
He was overcome with emotion
more than once. During that press
conference
Ainsley, you wrote an op ed on
Fox NEWS, dot com. Last night,
you talk about H how the Attorne
General was unjustly criticized.
Why was it important for you to
write this?
It was important for me to
write that, because there is a
lot of racialized language that
comes from both the black and
white left when it comes to high
profile african Americans that
are Republicans either people
like me, that are commentators
and influencers or people like
Daniel Cammeron, who are actually
in power
its really important to start
calling that stuff out it
does nothing to bring us
together as a country. It
does nothing to bring different
groups of african Americans that
may see this case differently
together,
and I think that it is very
important to call it out for how
destructive and divisive that
kind of language really is.
I somebody saying on one of the
other cable networks that the
Kentucky Attorney General was
eating. Coon flakes
thats, not a good thing to say
about anybody,
and we have to start talking
about how destructive that
language is to people as a black
conservative. I have been on the
other end of that stuff as well.
There is going to be a lot of
people that hate me right now
for basically just trying to be
on the side of fact and reason
when it comes to this tragedy
and trying to figure out a way
to bring Americans together as a
result of this,
and so people with get the
reforms that they are choosing
but that they want.
But, like Daniel Cammeron said
you know, mob justice is not
justice.
It gets to a point where it
becomes revenge.
I think there are a lot of
people with a lot of positions
of power,
particularly within the
african American left, that are
more interested in revenge than
they are in building up America
and bringing Americans together
after this tragedy,
Brian yeah,
we are running out of cities to
wreck because of verdicts people
dont, like
Rob Smith. Thank you so much.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-24.