Fox News host Tucker Carlos slammed his inflammatory rhetoric on Thursday night when he essentially argued that Brona Taylor, George Floyd and Jacob Blake were held responsible by police for their own deaths and injuries, leading to Taylor being tied up in drug trafficking. Was. Make her case.
On the same day that a federal judge agreed with Fox News lawyers that Carlson’s program should not be taken seriously as news or information, the primetime star insisted that “every story we are told” about police brutality against African Americans. There is something wrong with that. “
According to Carlson, Floyd’s death at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers in late May – the impetus for recent calls to end racial discrimination in policing – did not cut Floyd’s knee with anger. .
“George Floyd was run over by racist cops on the street – that’s what they told us,” the Fox star said. “Yet when autopsy was revealed it showed that George Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system along with other drugs. Floyd said he didn’t breathe long before police landed on him because he was in fact sitting in the back of a patrol car, but the mob wasn’t interested in hearing those details, so they set Minipolis on fire. “
Turning to Blake, who was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha police officer, Carlson noted that officers tried to restrain Blake, and officers “harassed” him by claiming that “it doesn’t work” before Blake walked over his vehicle.
“When they reached for the knife, they shot him. What else did they have to do ?! Carlson spoke up. It was not immediately clear if Blake had a knife in his hand – a knife was later found in the car – and the video does not support the claim that he ever branded it.
The Fox News host, whose increasingly racist content has caused internal frustration among its black employees on the network, then defended the lack of charges against the three officers involved in Taylor’s death. The recent decision has sparked fierce protests in Louisville and across the country.
“Tonight’s mob is in Louisville to protest the death of Bruna Taylor,” Huff told Carlson. “News organizations told us Taylor was in bed when police shot him, but he wasn’t. She was in her hall. “
“We were told that Taylor had nothing to do with her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend who was being investigated by the police, which is why the police were there,” he added. “In fact, disrupted prisonhouse communications indicate that Taylor was warehousing that man’s drug money.”
He did not elaborate on the claim.
After pointing to Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Waker, who was shot by police before entering Taylor’s apartment, Carlos also claimed that he was not “surprised” when Taylor was run by “midnight” police.
“Then they repeatedly told us that the police surprised Taylor late at night. In a so-called no-knock raid, they entered his apartment. Then yesterday the Attorney General of Kentucky declared him another liar. Police knocked on Taylor’s door – they identified themselves as police, witnesses. “
However, Waker argues that he never heard three playcloth policemen announcing themselves before breaking down the door at 40:40:40 in the morning. New York Times Out of about a dozen neighbors in the apartment apartment complex, only one person was found who heard officers calling the “police.”
On Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, targeting a drug trafficking investigation, Lewisville prosecutors allege he tried to bribe Taylor with a lenient sentence if he offered to convict her. Glover, who is embroiled in drug and criminal syndication charges, claims that if he says Taylor was part of a criminal organization, he did not take it.
“The jurors considered all the evidence available in Breno’s Taylor case and yesterday they refused to charge the officers with murder,” Carlson concludes. “No evidence of murder has been found. This is how our system is supposed to work, we don’t blame the innocent. “
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