rawstory | “Snow White wasn’t afraid of apples before she bit into that really
bad one. But I’ll tell you, the next time an old lady comes at her with a
piece of fruit, Snow is going to get the f*ck out of there.”
That argument, he said, “has some real problems.” Many “good apples,”
he said, are forced to enforce bad laws and policies that
systematically persecute non-whites. Furthermore, police aren’t being
forthcoming with accurate statistics.
“Even some of the most basic questions are hard to answer,” he said,
as FBI Director James Comey pointed out when he said before Congress
that “We can’t have an open discussion because we don’t have the data.”
Oliver said that some schools are teaching students how to interact
with police in order to minimize the chance of being shot, which he
called “f*cking depressing,” but noted that this is the only class
students take where they don’t wonder when they’ll get to use these
lessons in real life.
The “bad apples” argument, he said, does a disservice to the issue and to the people who police are sworn to protect.
