When lies replace facts: Charlie Kirk’s warning of the ‘Ferguson effect’



Five years ago, misleading narratives regarding policing and racism were waiting at every turn. And even then — in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns and craziness — Charlie Kirk was out fighting to make the truth known.

“Three hundred eighty-five million police interactions happen every single year in America; 385 million. And 15 unarmed black men die. Fifty-two police officers were killed last year in 2019. Twice as many black police officers have died in the last two weeks than unarmed black men,” Kirk told BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

Kirk then named two police officers, David Dorn and David Patrick Underwood — two men, one a police officer and one a federal security officer.


“Do you think Black Lives Matter activists know those two names? Do you think they know the names of the 179 individuals that have been shot due to black-on-black crime in Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia?” Kirk asked.

“So I think if we’re serious about having this conversation about unjust death in America, we can’t allow an entire emotive quasi pathological conversation to hijack the entire narrative in our country,” he continues. “And I think it’s very dangerous, and also, it leads us to a place that does not create good public policy and divides the country unnecessarily.”

However, when people bring up statistics to prove their point, it’s often met with accusations and personal attacks from the left.

“Something I’ve been really sad about is seeing women, and especially Christian women, say that it is callous to talk about those facts and to talk about the statistics or to bring up the side of the police officers at all, the good police officers, because it is not showing proper compassion or it’s not showing enough sadness surrounding the tragedy,” Stuckey said.

“But what I want people to understand is that you don’t bring up statistics to say, ‘Oh, no bad people exist or no bad cops exist or we can’t talk about racism ever.’ It’s because exactly what you said. If we allow narratives to go unchecked without talking about statistics or facts, that’s how people, especially on the left, build public policy,” she continues.

When the left can run with these false narratives, Kirk explains that it becomes the “Ferguson effect.”

This was when the media lied and said, “Michael Brown put his hands up and said, ‘Hands up, don’t shoot.’ Never happened. Did not happen. And it’s been proven through witness testimony and also through an autopsy,” Kirk explains.

“But still, that lie became a narrative within the media, and the Ferguson effect in Ferguson, Missouri, ensued, which essentially is the police retreated,” he continues.

“People said, ‘We don’t want the police.’ Fine. Crime went up, rapes went up, violent arrest went up, violent crime, I should say, went up,” he says, adding, “Every sort of category of crime went up imaginable.”

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VIRAL video showing black man brutalized by police ignites outrage, but bodycam footage tells a different story



A video recording of the February 2025 traffic stop and arrest of a 22-year-old African-American man named William McNeil Jr. is going viral following its release to the public. The roughly two-minute-long video is disturbing, as it appears to capture McNeil being brutalized by police officers.

In the clip, McNeil sits in his car and talks to a cop outside his passenger window. He says, “When he pulled me over, he walked up, I opened my door because my window don't work, right? And then I said, ‘So what I did wrong?’ He said, ‘Well, for one, your headlights are off under this weather.’ I’m like, ‘There's multiple people with headlights off, first of all, and then there’s no rain.’”

The cop he’s speaking to then replies, “It doesn’t matter. You’re still required to have headlights on.”

McNeil then responds, “Can you pull that law up?”

“Yeah, when you step out of the car, I will,” the officer says.

McNeil then requests the officer call his supervisor, at which point, the officer gives the order to have McNeil’s window smashed. Another cop reaches through the broken glass and punches McNeil, who is not fighting back and has his hands visible, in the face. He’s then ripped from his vehicle, punched by several officers, and wrestled to the ground.

It certainly appears like disproportionate force was used on McNeil.

However, another video has begun to circulate, and it radically alters the narrative. Sara Gonzales contrasts McNeil’s video with the much longer police bodycam footage of the incident.

Before McNeil began recording his own video of his window being smashed and his forcible removal from his vehicle, he had already been interacting with police for several minutes.

Police footage captures McNeil with his door open asking the officer why he’s been pulled over. The officer, keeping at a distance, asks McNeil why his door is open, to which McNeil explains that his window doesn’t work. After the officer informs McNeil that he’s been stopped for not using headlights in inclement weather and for not wearing his seat belt, he asks McNeil for his license, registration, and proof of insurance.

McNeil, however, boldly says, “No, call your supervisor.”

The officer then tells McNeil to “step out of the vehicle.” Again, McNeil says no and then proceeds to slam and lock his door.

At that point, the officer tells McNeil that he’s under arrest for resisting. “Sir, this is your last warning to open the vehicle and exit before we are going to break the window,” he says.

McNeil refuses, and the officer warns him six more times that his window will be broken if he doesn’t exit his vehicle. McNeil never complies, at which point the order is given for his window to be broken.

Reports also indicate that McNeil was driving with a suspended license, was in possession of marijuana at the time of his arrest, and reached for a large knife when officers opened his door.

To hear Sara’s commentary and analysis on the incident, watch the episode above.

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LA sheriff's stations to protest 'wrongful and politically charged prosecution' of deputy



Nearly two dozen sheriff's stations affiliated with Los Angeles County will boycott a popular law enforcement event in protest of the prosecution of one of their own.

At least 20 L.A. County sheriff's stations — including Santa Clarita, West Hollywood, two detention centers, and the Training Bureau — have pledged to boycott the 2025 Baker to Vegas relay scheduled for April 5 and 6. The event — during which teams travel 120 miles between Baker, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada — is described as "the world’s most prestigious and unique law enforcement foot race."

These sheriff's station employees are disgusted with what the Los Angeles Sheriff's Professional Association called the "wrongful and politically charged prosecution" of Deputy Trevor Kirk, an Army veteran and father of two.

'Kirk deployed pepper spray — a mild, department-approved tool — after a takedown to gain compliance, avoiding lethal force like a gun, or Taser.'

Back in June 2023, Kirk and another deputy responded to a call about a possible robbery involving a man and a woman at a supermarket. A source connected with the LASPA told Blaze News that at least the female had been "caught in the act."

The deputies encountered a couple in the parking lot who matched a description of the suspects.

The deputies first placed the male suspect in handcuffs while the female suspect, Jacy Huseton, recorded on her cell phone. Kirk then allegedly attempted to take her phone before grabbing her by the arm, hooking his hand behind her neck, and throwing her "violently" to the ground, "face first," a DOJ statement said.

Afterward, Kirk allegedly placed a knee on the woman's shoulder, at which point she began hollering phrases often associated with George Floyd and Eric Garner, who both died during encounters with law enforcement. "Get your neck [sic] off my … off my … I can’t breathe," she said, according to the DOJ.

Kirk then pepper-sprayed her twice in the face, the DOJ said. Huseton was later treated for injuries related to the pepper spray and the impact of forcing her to the ground.

'It doesn't happen to white folks like this.'

The LASPA offered a different version of events. According to a press release from the deputies' union given to Blaze News, "Kirk deployed pepper spray — a mild, department-approved tool — after a takedown to gain compliance, avoiding lethal force like a gun, or Taser. He immediately called for medical assistance, per protocol."

Bodycam footage of the incident can be seen below:

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Video of the encounter went viral, and activists quickly sided with Huseton as an alleged victim of racially motivated police brutality.

"The day of the incident, I thought that I was going to be killed," she said at a press conference about a lawsuit she filed a few weeks after the incident.

"He tried to kill me … and for what? Because I was taking a picture or trying to take a video of possibly some misconduct on an African-American male."

"It doesn't happen to white folks like this," her attorney, Caree Harper, insisted at the time, "and we're not gonna have it happening to black folks like this."

Neither Huseton nor her male companion were charged in connection with the alleged robbery, which some outlets have downplayed as a possible "shoplifting."

However, just last month, Kirk was convicted of one federal count of deprivation of rights under color of law and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 21. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

The LASPA views his conviction as a "travesty" and a vicious miscarriage of justice. "If officers can be prosecuted for lawful duty, no one wearing a badge is safe," the union said in the press release.

Participants in the Baker to Vegas boycott hope that their protest will shine a brighter spotlight on what they see as an unjust prosecution. They're also offering an alternative event that will raise money for his family.

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Anti-cop activist accused of blowing $75K in donations, failing to pay employee



A nonprofit adjacent to the "Defund the Police" movement and its founder are in hot water after the attorney general of Washington, D.C., accused them of blowing tens of thousands of dollars on luxury trips and services while failing to pay an employee her due.

On Monday, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia announced a lawsuit against Raheem AI, a nonprofit dedicated to so-called police reform and accountability, and founder and executive director Brandon Anderson.

'My office will not allow people to masquerade behind noble causes while violating the law, cheating taxpayers, or stealing from their workers.'

Since 2021, Anderson has allegedly spent $75,000 in Raheem AI donations "for his own personal use," the AG press release claimed. His lavish expenditures allegedly included $40,000 in high-end vacation rentals, $10,000 for a trip to Cancun and other "personal travel," $10,000 on designer clothing, and even $5,000 in emergency veterinary bills.

Meanwhile, the Raheem AI board of directors apparently did little to stop these questionable alleged splurges. For one thing, since 2020, the nonprofit has not had a separate treasurer to manage finances and oversee spending as required by law, the press release claimed. The board also allegedly "failed to implement any measures to oversee the organization’s finances, including Anderson’s corruption."

Finally, Raheem AI apparently had only one D.C.-based employee — a deputy director whom the New York Post identified as Jasmine Banks — but failed to pay her "tens of thousands of dollars in earned wages," the press release said. The organization also allegedly compelled Banks to sign a noncompete clause, even though such clauses are illegal in D.C. for employees like Banks who made less than $150,000.

In filing the lawsuit, the D.C. attorney general hopes to dissolve Raheem AI, recover the misspent funds and Banks' alleged lost wages, and prevent Anderson from leading any D.C. nonprofit ever again.

"Brandon Anderson misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI Board of Directors let him get away with it," Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a statement.

Schwalb's statement also indicated that the police reform demanded by Raheem AI was a "noble cause" but that the organization had used it to shield itself from proper oversight.

"My office will not allow people to masquerade behind noble causes while violating the law, cheating taxpayers, or stealing from their workers," he said.

Anderson did not respond to the Post's request for comment regarding the lawsuit.

'Individual expenditures are easy to mischaracterize without the burden of context.'

Banks, who no longer works for Raheem AI, told the New York Times back in August that she now believes that Anderson and his organization may have been a "con" job all along.

Anderson, who supports abolishing the police, founded Raheem AI in 2017, initially to create an app where victims could report police misconduct and later to provide an app alternative to calling 911.

The organization is also obsessed with race, promising to "equip black, brown, and indigenous community crisis responders with the tools, training, connections, and funding they need to provide care," according to the press release.

Anderson claimed he named the organization after a boyfriend who died in Oklahoma in 2007 during a "routine traffic stop." Anderson alleged that the cop involved in the incident had a history of violence. However, the Times was unable to identify any homicide victim in Oklahoma with the name Raheem or any case of alleged police brutality in the state that matched Anderson's description.

Banks claimed she came to suspect that Anderson had never actually experienced police-related violence after he declined to join a group of survivors. "He wouldn’t engage with other impacted family members. I would invite him all the time, and he just wouldn’t do it," she said.

Anderson told the Times that the accusations lobbed by Banks and others were "rife with untruths" but did not provide any specific examples. He also acknowledged that his plans for Raheem AI have been a "failure."

"It’s easy to assign failure to one cause or another in hindsight, and individual expenditures are easy to mischaracterize without the burden of context," he said in a statement. "The bottom line is simply that it didn’t work, and as the leader of that effort I share most of the blame."

The Raheem AI board has recently "ceased operations" and placed Anderson on leave, the press release claimed.

As of Tuesday morning, the organization's website, Raheem.org, currently purports to be "under construction." An archived version asserted that "getting killed by police is the sixth leading cause of death for young Black men in America."

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Tyreek Hill is the NEXT George Floyd



Tyreek Hill found himself face-down on the pavement in handcuffs after he was detained by Miami police for reckless driving near Hard Rock Stadium before the Dolphins game.

“People are looking for the next George Floyd, and that’s why I think people are making a big deal out of what happened to Tyreek Hill,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” comments, noting that a similar thing happened to golfer Scottie Scheffler.

However, because Scheffler is white, no one cared.

“This is incredible. Tyreek Hill gets briefly detained, put on the ground, and gets to go on and play the football game,” Whitlock says. “Jemele Hill somehow connects this to Steven Ross, the owner, and so she tweets out ‘A reminder that Steve Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins, is a huge Donald Trump supporter — the same Trump who supports giving ALL police immunity from prosecution. Do with that what you will.'”

“They’re trying to immediately turn this into a political issue. There’s no authenticity here, there’s no fairness here. It’s like ‘Oh, we’ve got our George Floyd, we can use this. America’s all racist because Tyreek Hill got cuffed briefly,’” Whitlock mocks.

Stephen A. Smith is really pushing the political race-bait, calling what happened to Hill “totally unnecessary.”

In a post to X, Smith wrote, “I know the Scottie Scheffler incident was in Georgia — not Florida — and he was arrested, detained, booked. I also know we don’t know all the details, blah … blah … blah! But he wasn’t faced down on the ground in cuffs, then forcibly sat down again by officers a second time. Nah! This story isn’t going away — and it doesn’t need to.”

Whitlock notes that Hill has been accused of domestic violence and has several “baby mamas” — so he’s not a totally innocent man anyway.

“People act like there’s no through line, that there’s no connection, that ‘Hey, if I’m irresponsible here, that doesn’t mean I’m irresponsible over here,’” he says, adding, “Yes, it actually does. Irresponsible people do irresponsible things.”


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Louisville officer shot in Breonna Taylor raid shares the UNTOLD story



Breonna Taylor became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement when she was shot and killed by Louisville police — but the narrative surrounding her death has done a 180.

Years later, those who jumped to demonize the police have been proven wrong after a judge ruled that Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was the individual whose actions led to her death, not the Louisville police.

But that didn’t stop the cops present on the scene from being smeared by celebrities, politicians, the media, and activists.

This is why Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly is telling Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” — who calls the outrage following Taylor’s death a “racial hoax” — what really happened on Friday, March 13, 2020.

That night, Mattingly was serving a warrant in a drug investigation — and was initially lauded as a hero for his actions.

“Something happened, and I’m not sure when it took place, but it was fairly quickly,” Mattingly tells Whitlock. After the shooting, Mattingly was in surgery to repair his femoral artery, which was severed when he was shot by Walker.

“That night we went, and they said knock and announce, because Jamarcus Glover, he’s not at this location,” Mattingly explains. “So I said, ‘That’s fine.’ They said, matter of fact, she’s a heavy-set black female, give her extra time to come to the door.”

“After about a minute, no answer, my lieutenant says, ‘Go ahead, and hit the door.’ The breacher hits the door, when it comes open, I’m standing on the left of it. He’s on the right of it,” Mattingly continues, noting that the situation inside was strange.

“Normally people are giving up, they’re hiding, or they’re running. There’s never two people down a hall just in wait, and by the time my mind’s registering this, and I get my gun around to them, I see the tip of Kenneth Walker’s silver gun, and it’s too late.”

“Boom, shots fired, I feel the impact on my leg, I return four rounds and get behind the door. He dives into a room as soon as he shoots and leaves Breonna in the hallway. She attempts to follow him in the room ‘cause her feet crossed the threshold of the door, where she then fell back,” he explains.

“So she ran into the line of fire, chasing this guy who had abandoned her in the hallway,” he adds.


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Man awarded $900K after brutal police interrogation leads him to confess to murder that never happened, attempt suicide



A mentally disturbed California man is now nearly $1 million richer after settling a lawsuit in connection with a brutal police interrogation about a murder that never even happened.

On Aug. 8, 2018, Tom Perez Jr. called police in Fontana, California, just outside San Bernardino, to report that his father, Tom Perez Sr., was missing. When cops arrived at the home the father and son shared, they reportedly found Perez Sr.'s cell phone and wallet as well as bloodstains. A K-9 cop also reportedly detected a "deceased human remain odor," a court document said, according to HuffPost.

'They could get you and I to confess to killing Abe Lincoln if they wanted to.'

Perez Jr. was then brought to police headquarters for questioning. What followed was a grueling, hours-long interrogation into the alleged murder of Perez Sr.

During the interrogation, the cops — who have not been identified — repeatedly told Perez Jr. that his father had been stabbed to death and that he had killed him. "We just told you we found your dead dad, and you don't give a ****," one detective said.

Perez Jr., who was never formally arrested in connection with the alleged murder, insisted he couldn't remember doing any such thing. Police, however, claimed that he was simply suppressing painful memories.

On at least one occasion, Perez Jr. asked for his psychiatric medication, but that request was denied. Between possible medication withdrawal and the pressure of the interrogation, Perez Jr. eventually descended into a severe mental breakdown. He began tearing at his shirt, hitting himself, and pulling his hair, video evidenced showed.

And yet police pressure did not relent. In fact, cops brought in a friend of Perez Jr. in hopes of eliciting a confession. "They say they have enough evidence," the friend allegedly cautioned Perez Jr.

Investigators even brought Perez Jr.'s beloved dog into the interrogation room and threatened to euthanize her unless he confessed to the alleged murder.

"How can you sit there, how can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad?" an officer asked.

"Look at your dog. She knows because she was walking through all the blood."

Overwhelmed mentally, Perez Jr. finally gave police what they wanted: He confessed to murdering his father. Shortly thereafter, officers left him alone in the interrogation room. At that point, Perez Jr. strung together some shoelaces and attempted to hang himself, court documents said.

Investigators disrupted the suicide attempt and then placed Perez Jr. in custody in a mental hospital, where they left him for three days. During that time, cops prevented Perez Jr. from having contact with any family or friends, and he wallowed in anguish, presuming that both his dog and his dad were dead.

Only they weren't. Not only had his dog been taken to a shelter from which she was later rescued, but Perez Sr. was soon located in El Monte, California. He had simply gone to visit a "lady friend," his daughter told police.

Perez Jr. was eventually informed that his dad was very much alive, released from custody, and reunited with his dog. Not content to let bygones be bygones, Perez Jr. soon filed a lawsuit against the City of Fontana for the horrific experience, and last summer, Judge Dolly Gee ruled that a jury could very well determine that the brutal interrogation amounted to "unconstitutional psychological torture."

Last Thursday, nearly six years after the incident, Perez Jr. agreed to a settlement of $900,000, his attorney, Jerry Steering, announced. In the announcement, Steering echoed Judge Gee's ruling and claimed that police had "mentally tortur[ed]" Perez Jr. into making a false confession.

Steering also accused police of engaging in deliberately cruel interrogation methods. "They're not amateurs, and they know what they're doing, and they know how to do it," he explained.

"They could get you and I to confess to killing Abe Lincoln if they wanted to."

Thankfully, Perez Jr. is "doing fine" now, Steering said, adding that his client agreed to the settlement now because of the "looming possibility that the Fontana Officers might have prevailed on an appeal."

The City of Fontana and the Fontana Police Department did not respond to requests for comment from HuffPost and KCAL News.

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Horrifying bodycam video shows Missouri police officer shooting, killing non-aggressive deaf and blind 13-pound dog, city defends cop



Extremely disturbing police bodycam video shows the moment that a cop shot and killed a "non-aggressive" deaf and blind 13-pound dog.

On Tuesday morning, a Sturgeon Police Department officer responded to a report of a missing dog.

Nick Hunter, 35, reported his fluffy, 13-pound white Shih Tzu mix missing. Most concerning for the owner, is that the 5-year-old dog was deaf and blind. Hunter reportedly informed the dispatcher that the dog was "not at all" aggressive.

Sturgeon Police Department Officer Myron Woodson reportedly responded to the missing dog report.

Within minutes of attempting to locate the disabled dog, Officer Woodson reportedly fired two shots into the 13-pound pup.

Officer Woodson located the small Shih Tzu dog.

Bodycam footage shows Woodson approaching the small dog, and he is armed with a catch pole.

According to bodycam footage, the dog named Teddy is seen aimlessly trotting around. The officer is seen attempting to lasso the distressed dog, but is unsuccessful. The dog continues to walk randomly around the grass yard.

The dog is seen on video playing with a vine on a tree.

Suddenly out of nowhere, the officer is seen shooting the dog only three minutes after encountering the small dog without the animal being aggressive toward the cop.

Police bodycam video shows the officer shooting the dog at the 5:35 mark and firing another shot at the 5:41 mark.

Bodycam footage shows the officer walking back to his cruiser to retrieve a bin, walking back to the scene of the death, and putting the lifeless body of the dog into the receptacle. He places the bin with the deceased animal in the back of his cruiser.

The owner of the slain dog – a very distraught Nick Hunter – is seen confronting the police officer before he can drive away. According to the video, he is recording the officer as he questions him.

Hunter tells the officer that his dog was "completely blind and completely deaf."

Officer Woodson attempts to defend his fatal actions by saying that he saw a "dog walking around blindly," and he only can respond to situations with "information at hand" and claimed he had spent 10 minutes dealing with a dog that was "walking around blindly."

Woodson claims that he doesn't "enjoy shooting dogs."

"I'm not happy that I had to shoot a dog," Woodson says on video.

Hunter informs the officer that there are numerous non-lethal alternatives to making a dog respond.

Woodson states, "I'm sorry I had to do it. That's all I'm saying."

Hunter declares, "I can handle a dog dying if the dog was put down for a proper reason."

He adds, "He was not aggressive to a person, and not a harm to anyone."

Hunter accuses the officer of not attempting "to do anything properly besides lethal force."

The dog owner claims the dog escaped from its kennel after its collar slipped off.

The city of Sturgeon defended Officer Woodson's fatal actions with a statement that reads:

The city has reviewed the dispatch report and body camera footage regarding the recent dog at large incident. The city believes that the officer acted within his authority based on the information available to him at the time to protect against possible injury to citizens from what appeared to be an injured, sick, and abandoned dog. The dispatch indicated that the person calling in did not want to be contacted, and had reported that the dog, though not in her view dangerous, was injured, maybe blind, and had mud and dried blood in its fur. The dog’s strange behavior appeared consistent with the dispatch report of an injured or possibly sick dog. In order to better equip officers for future animal at large call outs, the city will be sending all officers to Boone County Animal Control for training and education, in hopes that this unfortunate situation does not occur again.

Hunter told KMIZ, "I filed a complaint formally with the city of Sturgeon and requested to speak with the mayor. The mayor did not contact me, instead posted a statement contradicting everything that me and the officer spoke of, saying the officer's fear was Teddy having rabies."

Hunter proclaimed that his dog was updated on its rabies vaccines.

"The officer was going strictly based off the fact that the dog walks with his head sideways due to him being deaf and blind," Hunter alleged.

He added, "I'm hoping these officers and future officers can find a way to follow the the fourth continuum, our levels, correctly versus going straight to lethal force. That should always be a last resort in dealing with any life."

Hunter told the news outlet that he plans on suing the city of Sturgeon over the shooting death of his dog.

(WARNING: The following police bodycam video is extremely disturbing and graphic)

Bodycam video shows Sturgeon dog shooting www.youtube.com

Why haven't we seen this VERY telling study on police & racism? Probably because the left covered it up



Author Coleman Hughes recently brought an argument in favor of colorblindness to the leftist panel of "The View," and they weren’t having it.

“Your argument for colorblindness is something that the right has co-opted,” one of "The View" cohosts said to Hughes. “You are being used as a pawn by the right,” she added.

The host then accused Hughes of saying that he was a conservative, which he denied.

“I think it’s better, and it would be better for everyone, if we stuck to the topics rather than make it about me with no evidence that I’ve been co-opted,” Hughes said.

“Who’s the racist here?” Glenn Beck asks, astounded. “We have gotten to a place or we were at a place to where we wanted to see people for the content of their character, thought that was right, and in many cases, that’s the way we judged the world.”

Hughes also mentioned a study brought up by Roland Fryer during a speech at the Free Press. The study was on police violence — and it didn’t fall in line with the left’s assumptions of bias in the police force.

“I collected a lot of data,” Fryer, who is also African-American, said. “We collected millions of observations on everyday use of force that wasn’t lethal. We collected thousands of observations on lethal force, and it was in this moment in 2016 that I realized people lose their minds when they don’t like the result.”

Fryer noted that he found “some bias in the low-level uses of force everyday,” which included “pushing up against cars and things like that.”

“People seem to like that result,” he said. “But we didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings,” he continued, noting that he had eight full-time RAs that it took to do the study over the course of a year. When he found the result, he hired eight fresh ones — and the study came back the same.

“I had colleagues take me to the side and say, ‘Don’t publish this, you’ll ruin your career,’” Fryer explained. “I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘What’s wrong with it?’”


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Harvard professor needed ‘police protection’ after publishing study condemned by Claudine Gay



Although Claudine Gay has since stepped down as the president of Harvard University, she once wielded her powers to further the woke agenda.

Many are aware of Gay’s refusal to address anti-Semitism on campus and the alleged plagiarism in her academic work, but fewer are familiar with how she attempted to destroy the career of Dr. Roland G. Fryer, a professor of economics at Harvard.

What was Dr. Fryer’s crime? Publishing research that found no racial disparities behind the killings of unarmed black men in Houston, Texas.

Pat Gray plays a clip of an interview of Dr. Fryer explaining his research:

“Yes, we saw some bias in the low-level uses of force — everyday pushing up against cars and things like that — people seemed to like that result. But we didn't find any racial bias in police shootings,” Dr. Fryer explained, adding that this research took place over a year’s time and involved the help of eight others.

However, because the result wasn’t what he expected, he restarted the research with eight new RAs.

“They came up with the same exact answer,” he said, but when he published his findings, “all hell broke loose.”

“It was a 104-page, dense academic economics paper with a 150-page appendix, okay? It was posted for four minutes when I got my first email [saying], ‘This is full of s***’ ... and I wrote back, ‘How'd you read it that fast?!’"

“I had colleagues take me to the side and say, ‘Don't publish this; you'll ruin your career,”’ Dr. Fryer continued. “I said to them, ‘If the second part showed bias, do you think I should publish it then?’ and they said, ‘Yeah, then it would make sense.”’

Thankfully, Dr. Fryer wasn’t swayed by his colleagues and responded with, “I guarantee you, I’ll publish it.”

His boldness didn’t come without consequence though.

“I lived under police protection for about 30 or 40 days,” he said. “I was going to the grocery store to get diapers with an armed guard. It was crazy.”

“People don’t like the truth,” says Pat.

“All he did was present facts, but that'll get you in trouble,” agrees Keith Malinak.

To hear more of Dr. Fryer’s story, watch the clip below.


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