Whoopi Goldberg asked whether “we need to see white people” beaten and killed by police before reforms can happen, then immediately denied she suggested that.
Speaking on The View, Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts discussed the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who died earlier this month after Memphis police officers repeatedly punched him while attempting to detain him in a traffic stop.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a white policeman or black policeman. It is the problem with the police, in the policing itself, you know,” Goldberg said. “Seems things don’t seem to make sense to people unless it’s somebody they can feel or they can recognize. But how many times do we have to… do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything?”
Immediately, Goldberg declared that she wasn’t “suggesting” what she seemed to suggest ahout white people being attacked by police. “I’m not suggesting that. So, don’t write us and tell me what a, you know, racist I am,” she continued. “I’m just asking is that what people have to see in order to wake up and realize this affects us all?”
Claiming she's "not suggesting that," Whoopi suggests white people need to be beaten by police before reforms will happen.
"Do you we need to see white people also get beat before anybody will do anything? … Don't write us and tell me what a racist I am." pic.twitter.com/dTJ72C6dTv— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 30, 2023
Goldberg further suggested that the first things on the mind of police officers when they arrest somebody is “murder,” and that the “other side” on television, seemingly Fox News, talk about blac people “like we have no humanity,” and that they are “some kind of monsters.”
Whoopi says police departments need to get a "sense of humanity."
"Is it just because folks have dehumanized us and made us like kind of monsters?"
She claims "that other side on television," says black people "have no humanity" and "murder" is the first thing cops think to do. pic.twitter.com/wz2bAvcYaq— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 30, 2023
Videos of white people getting beaten and killed by the police do exist, despite Goldberg’s claims. As journalist and author Wilfred Reilly noted in his 2020 book “Taboo,” while around 25% of the victims of all police shootings are black, those cases receive 80-90% of the media coverage. “There is a zero per cent chance that this lack of coverage is a coincidence,” Reilly argued.
These cases include Daniel Shaver, who was shot and killed by police in Arizona in January 2016, while attempting to respond to a variety of different orders on the ground, and Tony Timpa, who died after being restrained for 14 minutes by police in Texas of August that same year.
Overall, white detainees are 23.5% more likely to be shot by police than black detainees, according to Harvard’s Roland Fryer.
— The Daily Sneed™🕗 (@Tr00peRR) January 30, 2023
Newly released surveillance footage shows a #NorthCarolina SWAT team shooting an unarmed disabled man several times after he was accused of holding a hostage.
– The Independent pic.twitter.com/8jjj5BzSGK
— The Daily Sneed™🕗 (@Tr00peRR) January 24, 2023
george
February 2, 2023 at 7:01 am
how about this poopie, if you ever need a cop, black or white, they never show up to help you.and by the way loudmouth, most white people know when to keep their mouth shut when asked by cops to do something. jiggies on the other hand shoot their fat lips of and then start using your famous race card. if i was a cop, i’d shoot you and your kind first, then ask you a question much later.
bob
February 2, 2023 at 10:39 am
Overgrown , angry , worthless, vine climbing , tree swinging , nappy haired , watermelon picking Whoopie , is nothing but degenerate slut who is just taking up good air !!!!