Noah asked, “How come Jacob Blake was seen as a deadly threat for a theoretical gun that he might have and might try to commit a crime with, but this gunman who was armed and had already shot people—who had shown that he was a threat—was arrested the next day, given full due process of the law and generally treated like a human being whose life matters?”
“How did Dylann Roof shoot up a church, James Holmes shoot up a movie theater and both live to tell about it?” he asked. “Why is it that the police decide that some threats must be extinguished immediately while other threats get the privilege of being diffused?”
From Trevor Noah:
Noah asked, “How come Jacob Blake was seen as a deadly threat for a theoretical gun that he might have and might try to commit a crime with, but this gunman who was armed and had already shot people—who had shown that he was a threat—was arrested the next day, given full due process of the law and generally treated like a human being whose life matters?”
“How did Dylann Roof shoot up a church, James Holmes shoot up a movie theater and both live to tell about it?” he asked. “Why is it that the police decide that some threats must be extinguished immediately while other threats get the privilege of being diffused?”