Jon Stewart says police ‘are reflection of society’!!! Jon Stewart talks about the Black Lives Matter protests, police reform and Trump, whom he likened to “a malevolent Mr. Magoo,” in a new interview.
Stewart promoted the June 26 release of the film Irresistible, which he directed and wrote, in a chat with The New York Times Magazine. The film centers around politics — a Democratic strategist (Steve Carell) helps a retired vet (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town — and the former Daily Show host, of course, also waded into politics in the interview.
“I’d like to say I’m surprised by what happened to him, but I’m not,” Stewart said of George Floyd dying in police custody. “This is a cycle, and I feel that in some ways, the issue is that we’re addressing the wrong problem. We continue to make this about the police — the how of it. How can they police? Is it about sensitivity and de-escalation training and community policing? All that can make for a less-egregious relationship between the police and people of color. But the how isn’t as important as the why, which we never address.”
Stewart went on to say the police “are a reflection of a society. They’re not a rogue alien organization that came down to torment the black community.” And police are “enforcing segregation,” he continued. ”Segregation is legally over, but it never ended. The police are, in some respects, a border patrol, and they patrol the border between the two Americas. We have that so that the rest of us don’t have to deal with it. Then that situation erupts, and we express our shock and indignation. But if we don’t address the anguish of a people, the pain of being a people who built this country through forced labor — people say, ‘‘I’m tired of everything being about race.’ Well, imagine how [expletive] exhausting it is to live that.”
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Jon Stewart says police ‘are reflection of society! Jon Stewart says police ‘are reflection of society