Right-wing podcaster on Tyreek Hill arrest: “White people” aren’t “crying about it” when they get pulled over
Matt Walsh: "I see Black men who completely disregard the cops and act as though they're above the law and impervious to the basic rules and standards of conduct of the rest of us have to live by”
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From the September 11, 2024, edition of the Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Oh, is that what you tell your kids? That's what you tell them? If there are cops around to get to some light, that's all you tell them? Well, then you're a terrible father. You're just a bad father.
Like, have you considered telling them to comply with lawful commands? Have you thought about telling them that? Why don't you tell your kids to simply comply with lawful orders given by officers of the law? Why don't you tell your kids that if they're speeding, they broke the law, the cops have every right to pull them over, and you just take the damn ticket and move on. You got caught.
Why don't you tell your kids that? It's like these do you really think Black people the only ones who get pulled over? Is that real? Like, they really think that. I actually we're at a point where I think some of these people think that the rest of us don't get -- I was driving I can't remember if I mentioned this.
I was on vacation in the summer. This just happened. And I'm driving through, upstate New York. I get pulled over for going, I was going less than 10 miles over the limit, less than 10 miles. And I, you know, you always think that really they give you 10 miles, it's kind of like a grace period.
So if it's 35, you could get away with 45, you got to get into like 40, the fifties really before the, I was going less than 10 miles over the limit. And I still got pulled over. Cop came over. He's like peering in my car and stuff, looking around. Got a bunch of luggage.
He's asked me asking me where I'm going, acting very suspicious. Meanwhile, it's like I was barely speeding. It was annoying. I've been driving for 12 hours. I just wanted to get where I was going.
But you see, you know, it's not so this kind of thing happens. And guess what? If that cop had come over because he's giving me a ticket for going 8 miles an hour, 8 miles over or something. And in the middle of talking, if I had just rolled up the window and said, nope. Sorry.
Guess what he would have done? He would open the door and throw me out of it. That's what he would have done. He would do that to anybody. It didn't happen to me because I'm not a freaking moron who would respond that way.
You know why? Because I well, I was speeding. I was. I mean, I feel like you could have let it go, but you didn't. Fine.
I was speeding. I gotta take if you're giving me a ticket, I'm just gonna take well, what else can I do but just take the ticket? I could make things a lot worse for myself by being a belligerent, but I'm not gonna do that. So why don't you hear these stories? These horror stories because, like, I didn't come on the air the next day and say, oh my gosh, I got pulled over.
This is what this is what we have to deal with in society. Okay? I wasn't tears in my eyes welling up this dramatic story of getting pulled over. This is this is what I have to I didn't do that.
Because I'm a grown man. You take you take the ticket and move on. So if you don't hear the stories from, like, white people about getting pulled over it's because we're not on the air crying about it. You know, the other thing we're told that, you know, Black men are afraid of the cops is what we're told. They're terrified that they're gonna be executed on the spot.
Tyreek Hill was afraid, allegedly. Well, if that's the case, why are you going out of your way to antagonize them? Why are you doing everything in your power to make your interactions with the police as stressful and contentious as possible? When I see videos like the one with Tyreek Hill or any of the footage of any BLM marty, I don't see Black men who are afraid of the cops. I see Black men who completely disregard the cops and act as though they're above the law and impervious to the basic rules and standards of conduct of the rest of us have to live by.
If you're afraid for your life while dealing with the cops, why would you roll up a tinted window? How is that gonna make you safer? How is that gonna make the situation less volatile? You are making it more volatile. You are directly actively making it into a more volatile situation.