Morning Joe sometimes lays down some bare opinions but isn’t always the most popular. However, on this case, NBC’s Joe Scarborough has now laid it down what he thinks (and I agree too) about the Terence Crutcher killing and some media outlet’s decision to focus on the fact that he may have had some illegal substances in his car.

Scarborough was clearly outrages, he said that the stranded motorist was no threat and that the tape was a clear example of racist poling that groups like Black Lives Matter are pushing against.

He said:

“There’s just no explanation for it,… It’s not like Ferguson, where we have to talk to a lot of different witnesses. It’s not even like Freddie Gray in Baltimore. We have eyes in the sky over that and we see exactly what’s happening.”

His guest Princeton’s Prof Eddie Glaude Jr. highlighted the attempts by police to claim that he had illegal substances in his car saying:

“One of the most exhausting country is that we have to convince people, we have to convince white America of what is actually happening in our communities,

“Here we have a video clearly a video of a man with his hands up, seemingly complying in way, shape, form and fashion like we thought we saw with Philando Castille.”

Scarborough said

“Two things bare minimum have to happen on a state and national level. No. 1, body cameras on every cop. We need to see what was happening on ground level, and if the camera is disabled at the time of a killing, then the burden of proof is on the cop to explain why his or her body cam was not working, and secondly, you have to have independent prosecutors looking at this from outside the districts from where these shootings occur. Those are two basic steps. They would go a long way in stopping these trends.”

He went onto say,

“The Justice Department should step in and need to take control of this,” Scarborough said. “This is a problem that North Carolina can’t say, ‘Hey, this is particular to our state.’ It’s nationwide.”

“If you’re white, if you’re from the neighborhoods that we live in, and your arms are in the air, you could have, like, pounds of coke in the back and be straight out of ‘Miami Vice’ and you wouldn’t get treated like that,” Scarborough said.

WORD TO EVERY WORD OF IT!

Thanks to Raw Story for the details: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/morning-joe-who-cares-if-terence-crutcher-had-pcp-i-wouldnt-get-shot-over-pounds-of-coke/