John Oliver: Go Take to the Streets Over Police Killings of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo

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John Oliver Urges Viewers to Take to the Streets Over Police Killings of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo

John Oliver: Go Take to the Streets Over Police Killings of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo
The “Last Week Tonight” host delivered a call to action over the police killings of youngsters Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo.
thedailybeast.com
8:50 PM · Apr 18, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-urges-viewers-to-take-to-the-streets-over-police-killings-of-daunte-wright-and-adam-toledo

After a truly hellish week of news, John Oliver dedicated the majority of his HBO show Last Week Tonight to the monstrous killings of Daunte Wright, 20, and Adam Toledo, 13, two youngsters (Black and Mexican) who were both unarmed when they were shot to death by police.

“In the wake of the shooting of Daunte Wright last Sunday, I can safely say this week has been a fucking nightmare,” said Oliver. “From the news that he was pulled over for minor traffic violations, including having an air freshener hanging on his rearview mirror, to the 26-year veteran of the police force who killed him claiming it was somehow an accident, to the local police department [in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota] flying a ‘thin blue line’ flag after the shooting, which is just corn-fed, deep-fried bullshit.”

According to Oliver, the response to the shootings was “depressingly familiar,” with “the president insisting on ‘peaceful protest,’ which is so often just another way to prioritize compliance over righteous dissent and to protect property over human lives—and those calls were especially galling given law enforcement’s anything-but-peaceful response, as police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades at protesters, creating more tension and anxiety in an already emotionally exhausted city.”

A clearly frustrated and angry Oliver was wary of going through the same motions—citing police brutality statistics, going after the bad-faith responses to the tragedies from conservative media figures, or reiterating how appalling the Wright episode was, but then the news broke of Adam Toledo’s shooting death.

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[msongs]

1. so we can expect this guy to lead the charge over the barricades, right? nt

[jaysunb]

2. +1. Nt

[tonedevil]

3. I think we know who won't be doing so. /nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. This sounds suspiciously like a paraphrase ... it's really not like John to say what this headline

says he said.

I'll watch it and let you know the facts.

Edit: So yeah ... that's pretty much what he said.

He did say that's what WE, White America needs to do.

I won't be expecting him to overturn any barricades or whatnot, but he's obliged himself to be seen at a protest at this point.