90's Black Sitcoms Warned Us | Renegade Cut

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Martin and other black sitcoms from the 90's tried to warn people about police misconduct. Support Renegade Cut through Patroen: / renegadecut
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[@andrewh978]

Also, do people forget that the “few bad apples” line literally comes from the phrase “a few bad apples spoils the bunch”

[@Garland41]

I feel that even with the full context it is wrong. Because it is not the other apples that are spoiling the bunch; rather, it is the barrel holding the apples.

[@Dachusblot]

Thank you! It annoys me so much that people forget that.

[@totallynotjeff7748]

I think they realize it, they just think that they can unspoil the bunch by removing the bad ones, which isn't how apples or police work.

[@Leftistattheparty]

@@Garland41 I like to say "The orchard and it's trees are diseased."

[@Saktoth]

Let's be fair, they think they can ignore the bad apples because they don't matter and there will always be bad apples. That it's just an unavoidable condition.

[@missolympiabinewski]

We had a lot of drugs in my white high school. People almost never had to deal with the police and the few times it happened there was community service and rehab as a result. I don't think the community would have tolerated the level of policing present in a black neighborhood. You see now the rhetoric around the opioid crisis. It was immediately talked about as a public health emergency as it impacted largely white communities. While the similar crack epidemic in black communities necessitated a nearly militaristic law enforcement commitment and harsh punishment.

[@sertaki]

@@scapegoatmiller9110 I really need to finally watch that movie. Never heard of that aspect being in there.

[@manniking233]

@@MrSoopSA Iran-Contra. This is why I hate the CIA and the Bush family. At least, Reagan was in hospital (supposedly) while it happened...

[@manniking233]

Prescott Bush was a fascist, by the way.

[@bigooft9521]

Yeah, as a teen, I moved from a majority Black school to a majority white school on a scholarship, and the difference in how the police treated each student body was really stark. The school I moved to had a really big drug problem, but there were never police around the campus and there wasn't really any kind of community policing. The few people I knew who did ever run into trouble at that school were the few students of colour or white students (like me) who were migrants or children of migrants who "sounded" or "looked" foreign

[@deank7327]

@@bigooft9521 I had the opposite experience. When I started attending all white suburban schools I was surprised about the police presence and zero tolerance policies. Fights and violence was normal in my prior inner city schools and mostly went unpunished. Typically no one was arrested unless weapons were involved, but it was the exact opposite in the suburbs. There was at least a police liaison in the suburban schools while my prior schools had private unarmed and armed security. In general the suburban schools came down a lot harder for everything and things tended to follow you which didn't happen as much when you were just a head in the crowd.

[@rodrigosoto4827]

I am from Chile and during the nineties the black population here was almost nothing. However, the Fresh Prince episode was really informative about the behavior of police officers against minorities, and it showed exactly how Chilean officers treat mapuche people here. Now the black population is bigger since the massive migration from Haiti, and every week you see examples of police brutality against them. Also, the media creates racial prejudice all the time.

[@AliceDiableaux]

It's the same thing in the Netherlands with black people but honestly it's even weirder here and it baffles me to some extent. Our two biggest minority groups are from our former colonies, which were Indonesia and some countries and islands in the Caribbean. The reasons and time when there were big migrations from there to the Netherlands differ because for example Suriname and Indonesia gained their independence in different decades, but as someone from an Indonesian family with friends from Surinam families, I can see how similar they are. They're both cultures around the tropics that were colonized by the same country for centuries and similar mixing of cultures has taken place. But now here comes the kicker: black people from former Dutch territories are treated WAY worse than Indonesians. I should really look this up because it's so bizarre. Indonesians are really regarded as fully Dutch, even though they had a way bumpier ride integrating when they first came here, while people from Suriname are not. They absolutely get racially profiled, there was a big thing not so long ago about one of our most famous rappers who is black and whose parents are from Suriname, and he was pulled over just because he was black and driving an expensive car (you know, because he's rich as shit from his extremely succesful rapping carreer). That would never happen to a person with an Indonesian background. There's also still a huge problem with all kinds of systemic discrimination against Turkish and Moroccan people, but that's easier to explain, because they come from people specifically invited to come work here when we had worker shortages and were not supposed to stay for very long but you know how it goes. But they had their entirely different cultures and they've only been here for like 3 generations, in contrast to Suriname and Indonesia where their and the Dutch culture had been mixing for centuries. It's a very interesting puzzle to see how all these things work differently in different countries and circumstances.

[@kappadarwin9476]

The reality is that not many people know about African culture or Africa so they often base their assumptions off the slave trader's point of view. Africa is often seen as a continent that is ravaged by strife with little influence on the world stage thus those of African descent don't get taken seriously by many. Indonesia has political and economical power, if the Netherlands does something that discriminates against the Indonesian community there will be a backlash.

[@deeperman1321]

Deep bro. Big truths

[@bussabim-yah]

The AWFUL treatment of darker skinned, indigenous & aboriginal peoples is worldwide. It has infected this entire globe. If the so called white or “almost white” people want to help, y’all must call it out and tell your ilk to stop their oppression of us. It’s that simple.

[@Addi_Teacha509]

I'm Haitian living in the US, thank you for sharing

[@user-lj5zc7kq2h]

Being white, raised in a poor neighborhood and harassed by them, I have never liked the police. Becoming middle-class later in life did not change this. I was sure to teach my children how the police treat the poor and people of color.

[@FreyOdyssey]

ye I can agree to that! Had a similiar expierence growing up

[@user-lj5zc7kq2h]

@the jack only after I know someone for awhile and they know what I'm about. The look on their face after I tell them is interesting.

[@SocialLocust]

@the jack I'm on the lower end of middle class and I've never been able to explain it to people who think differently. I told them about how I get profiled for the way I dress and I think because of my poor social skills and they tell me about how that is justified. idk. I got questioned by police because I went to a park in a rich neighborhood. They asked us why we wouldn't go to a park in our own neighborhood and implied that we should leave.

[@robertogurrola7465]

That's a class issue not a system of police issue. Everyone targets those beneath them regardless of profession

[@Adanmacreates]

@@robertogurrola7465 that's why we want police to have less power and fix the community through non lethal efforts. We want to fix the root of the problem, but can't do that when police abuse that power

[@nathanseper8738]

I read a book about a sociologist who studied inner city Chicago. A black man who was interviewed for the book said that the police are just another gang.

[@reginalibonoito]

Not just another,the have state power

[@bluester7177]

I'm Brazilian so my experience is different but here the police became literal militias in some places, some areas are controlled by them, people have to pay for "protection" and services, so at least to my experience, it can become the thing it is trying to combat.

[@KazeShikamaru]

He is sadly right. -Chicago native

[@edwardzignot2681]

The WORST gang.

[@lilrock1018]

Which I've been saying that since the 90s

[@inspectorwinship9538]

In the real world, Officer Winslow would have been terminated for filing that report.

[@illizcit1]

Would have been "gunned down by a senseless gang attack" or suddenly found with a trunk full of coke then Epsteined after being arrested.

[@DancersThatShoot]

All I’ll say is this. As a young black man, myself and my siblings, and millions of black children, are taught from an early age how to respond when you encounter and/or are detained by police and to be VERY careful as there’s a real chance you won’t walk away from that encounter. I was taught by my father. My father was, and still is, a police officer. If members of the same organization meant to protect and serve are warning you about how dangerous that same organization can be, and you STILL don’t understand the inherent bias, then there really is no making you understand.

[@amokdax1125]

tbh i respectfully argue at every cop now who pulls me over with no cause. i do it to let them know i'm not scared because the one time i showed fear they tried to search my car and they said my license plate light was out but it wasn't.

[@christiana5453]

@@amokdax1125 please be careful

[@robdisco9287]

Right

[@mistake1197]

@@amokdax1125 please be careful. All it takes is one cop with a vendetta to end up in the hospital or a casket.

[@Jath2112]

This truth is heartbreaking. I appreciate you laying it out.

[@blitzkriegdragon013]

My dad was vet, and came out of Vietnam disillusioned. He saw how cops treated his friends and family (he grew up in a poor farming town), and how shitty the people who served were. He told me that cops "are merely a bunch of wannabe military men who were too crazy for even the army to take." This stuck with me.

[@21centuryg]

Same disillusionment happened after WWII when African American war heroes came home to a racist nation after fighting against another racist regime. That's part of why the Civil Rights movement happened.

[@qurranreynolds4385]

@@21centuryg This is why black people should not join the military/navy. Not only do we deal with racism here in the "united states" but we deal with it when we serve a country that never accepted us from the very beginning.

[@wesleyprince3465]

​@@qurranreynolds4385I heard a street free style on TikTok not too long ago from a black dude who's name I didn't get who was formerly in the Marines and that shit was so fucking brutally honest. I don't remember the rhyme he used but he made the point of being thanked for his service while he was in uniform by the same white men who would justify his murder and call him a thug if he was killed by a cop in his own front yard with his hands up and that shit stuck with me.

[@nelsonth]

It's not just America, here in India, there's a similar disinclination to acknowledging police and the armed forces' brutality and misconduct, except in the vein of the bad apples thing. I think it's probably common to all countries, where the elite and the bourgeois need the police and armed forces to "maintain order" in an unequal society.

[@daisychainmilk]

I don't think he said it only happened in the US. ACAB means all cops are bastards. All cops all over the world suck. They all serve the same purpose.

[@nangke]

India abolished its caste system in 1950, but I imagine a lot of the effects and implications persist today

[@maybepolly_]

Yeah. Here in Chile we've always known the police sucks-- we just were too traumatized to fight back. Last October was ample proof of cops being absolute bastards.

[@sertaki]

@@maybepolly_ The stuff that happened recently in your country was really hard to watch. amazing to what heights of horrible brutality the police will go to protects its own power and the power of those who give it to them. I will not be surprised if the US situation turns into something similar before it gets better (which it hopefully will).

[@JC-jd1us]

Police are bastards everywhere, but in a lot of other countries people don't worship the police. They know the police are bastards.

[@Zephyr_Zeitgeist]

The tear gas one almost tips me over, it's so transparent. Non-lethal ('less lethal', that is, which still means lethal) when cops fire it, lethal when it's thrown back.

[@KorbenD3P0]

Gotta love double standards.

[@tanith117]

So is a taser Lethal when a Cop uses it, and not Lethal when a guy steals it?

[@OGEdger]

@@tanith117 Nope. It's the other way around.

[@wesleyprince3465]

Reminder that American cops break Geneva convention laws every single day when they load their weapons from the state with state purchased hollow points. Because it can't be a war crime if it's against citizens of your own freaking country, apparently.

[@itstoomuchman5503]

Regarding that "only a few bad apples" apologist way of thinking, my uncle used to say that there is no good cogs in a bad machine. You either conform to other bad cogs around you or you're spat out of the machine.

[@IamJacksSTD]

That is an amazing analogy.

[@Astraldragon0]

Yeah, I've seen stories of cops trying to do the right thing getting punished for it. There *are* cops who try to be fair and good, but they end up getting chased out.

[@fragilehandlewithcare3967]

Better Call Saul addresses this as well through Mike Ermentrout's back story.

[@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV]

Well, the full idiom is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch, so it's actually saying the same thing. Conservatives are just stupid.

[@bensingleton3128]

Exactly, apologists love the "only a few bad apples" line but forget another apple idiom, "one bad apple ruins the bunch." It's not just a problem with individual cops, when bad cops are allowed to exist it means the whole system is flawed.

[@elroma7712]

In the first year of university, i met a guy whose brother was an officer, he told me how they instructed his brother to arrest people from lower class mestizo background, even that the dude was a mestizo himself. In Argentina Police aren't people you respect down here they are people you fear.

[@incisivecommenter5974]

That's how it is here in the US.

[@meinthecorner5979]

that's the funny thing here in Argentina. Most police members come from poor backgrounds. I think it's worth a particular analisis.

[@pablodonner5213]

Also known for squeezing bribes out of people, truly the city's finest

[@fighterck6241]

@@meinthecorner5979 It was a similar situation in South Africa where a majority of the population was black, Apartheid had members of the black community working as police who helped to uphold that system for years. If a member of an oppressed community can bypass that system early enough in their life by getting a "good" job they can sometimes convince themselves that it doesn't exist and that they are doing nothing wrong.

[@pnutz_2]

@@fighterck6241 I still remember that photo of the guys at the academy and their instructor

[@IshtarNike]

I live in the UK, and while driving while black is less of a thing here, I never forgot the episode where will and Carlton get stopped and then arrested for driving a car that's too nice to them.

[@daved2352]

As a white kid from the midlands who loved the fresh prince I remember that episode being a powerful one. I'm amazed at how many people don't know about the Rodney King beating to this day, it was on telly loads at the time and really affected me as a kid.

[@ChavvyCommunist]

Interactions with the police are fatal much less often in Britain, that's true, but there's still plenty of instances of black people ending up dead after interactions with the police. Christopher Alder, Smiley Culture, Cynthia Jarrett, Mark Duggan, Sheku Bayoh.

[@artheaux666]

Yeah and they don’t believe you belong in “nice” neighborhoods it’s bullshit.

[@Echani3007]

@D. A-Y Productions London is one of the most if not the most one of the most multicultural cities ever. In my neighbourhood we have loads and loads of whites, some blacks and chinese Asians, those of the Indian subcontinent and some Jews.

[@sertaki]

I live in Germany, and while profiling is an issue (especially with people who look muslim, but also for blacks), it is nowhere near the levels of the US. Still, the Fresh Prince episode seemed spot on to me when I saw it as a young teenager. Germany had enough of the same problems that I could relate and at the same time be disgusted by the dimensions this issue has in the US. This was easily the show's episode that stuck with me the most over the years and probably the only one I can really think off when I try to remember any of the plots in greater detail.

[@brendanmccabe8373]

The phrase is “a couple of bad apples spoil the bunch” not “a couple of bad apples is ok the other apples will be fine”

[@CorbCorbin]

Yes, and it only keeps the bunch unspoiled if every “bad apple” is removed, along with any farming practices that produce “bad apples” are changed. I know this is a bit literal for the phrase, but when applied to law enforcement I think it’s applicable.

[@SherrifOfNottingham]

Keep in mind, the "bad apples" is usually a strawman more than an actual argument. It's only used by people defending police due to the extreme similarity and the rough double standard that is racism. Fact is if I said a few bad apples spoiled the whole bunch about black people, you'd call me racist and be done with it. Why is it suddenly acceptable to say about the police, because they chose to protect and serve?

[@jjju3]

if the market you're buying apples from consistently sells you bunches of apples with rotten fruit, and excuses that _oh well the rest are fine_ maybe you gotta shut down and reform that whole foods

[@StinkyWizleteets]

@@SherrifOfNottingham because they absolutely DO NOT protect or serve the public, only themselves.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

It's also used to deflect from actually addressing systemic problems, like it will get better if we just ignore the problem.

[@PeterEhik]

I honestly don't know a single black man who's never had a bad experience with the police, pulled over for no reason, arrested for no good reason, this has literally happened to me and every black man I know. I mean one of the more ridiculous events was me almost being arrested in college cause someone called the cops and said there was a noise complaint in my apartment, you see there was noise in my apartment but it was my white roommate and his friends making all the noise, cops get there, I'm pretty much asleep, they knock loudly and consistently, I open the door, one of them asks me to put my hands up and stand in the corner, see they smelled weed, at that time I never even smoked but my roommates were smoking, the weed was all over the table. I explained over and over how it wasn't mine and I wasn't high but the cops said my eyes were glazed over so I was lying, told him I was almost asleep when they came in but they searched the apartment anyway and were about to handcuff me when my roommate came back and "confessed". My roommate only confessed right away because he had a huge stack of weed somewhere in the apartment and he wanted the cops to stop searching. Even after my roommate confessed, the cops said he knows I'm high and I'm lying and that my roommate is covering for me. I was 18 at the time, like 150 pounds and a huge nerd, literally the least scary black guy in the world but it wasn't enough to not get me arrested. So FUCK THE POLICE!! BTW this was in 2010, just saying that in case someone wants to believe "racism is over"

[@fakenameu_u1859]

I'm so sorry that happend to you. I remember cops just making stuff worst any time someone call them to stop some fight or when searching for drugs. Im not black, but they are so violent when checking on poor neighborhoods.

[@np8139]

That's terrible. I remember jaywalking with a black friend. An unmarked cop car pulls up, and the cop gets out and starts getting up in the face of my friend. I tell him it was my idea to jaywalk. The cop just tells me to shut up and continues screaming in the face of my friend. He said that he'd haul his ass to jail if he saw it again. This was in the suburbs. His family was way richer than mine, and just like you, he was a skinny nerd who was not intimidating at all. If it's not too much to ask for, I'd like to hear the aftermath of your story. Did you get taken to jail? How long did it take to get out?

[@anastasiageorge1279]

A Van Called Rupert yeah but regardless of them also targeting working class white people, black people, no matter your social class, are always going to be a target & i’m speaking from experience of living in the UK

[@campkira]

you don't need to be black to deal with shitty cop.. and i was a son of a cop.. trust me when power getting over their head.. they become dick..

[@SirNic4180]

That's by design. Hello 👋 we see you.

[@hackprefect]

I believe I've said something like this on one of these videos before, but here I go again. My grandfather was a cop in 60s and 70s Memphis, Tennessee. My roommate's father is a retired sheriff, who I fully believe to be a decent person in general. One of my football coaches and mentors as a kid was a detective in the very city I reside in now. I still don't trust the police, as an institution. They have no incentive to protect citizens. Their job is only to ensure adherence to the law, by nearly any means necessary. Any protection that we, as civilians, receive is incidental. The entire criminal justice system is corrupt and self serving, seeking only to justify its existence, not the betterment of society. Fuck the police.

[@robdisco9287]

WHOOOOOOO thats that fire bro PREACH!!!!!

[@fcoomega7734]

"why our tv shows cant be apolitical like the good old days?"

[@jordandavis8875]

Lol right? As though media exists in a vacuum and isn't affected by current events or the experiences of it's creators.

[@JasperJanssen]

TheMightyShell don’t forget All In The Family. No politics there!

[@blairbuskirk5460]

Television has been used as a political device since it's inception.

[@vylbird8014]

There is no such thing as apolitical. There never was. People just have a way of not-seeing politics that they agree with.

[@reneebear3641]

Blair Buskirk Media has been used as a political device since it’s inception. Regardless of the form.

[@emilyperrett6648]

If you have a disability of any kind you are also vulnerable to being targeted by police. There's a bunch of cases of people getting killed just for being on the autism spectrum.

[@Dancestar1981]

People on the spectrum are discriminated against all their lives

[@wesleyprince3465]

This doesn't get talked about enough and is a huge part of the reason that cops need tons of more training if we have to keep them around.

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

Police misconduct has been known and ignored for decades...another great analysis.

[@ComradeCorwin]

It's not misconduct, it's the job. This was what they were always meant to do. Historically speaking, the institution of policing cannot be corrected, it can only be ended.

[@gorillamacgyver7411]

Ignored? Ignored by who?

[@meghanjean2624]

Things like loitering didn't even become a crime until after the Civil War, when the whole 'slavery is acceptable as punishment for a crime' was read by most of the South as 'find any reason you can to arrest black people'. The other day I saw a clip from that conversation between James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, where they talked about police violence against blacks, in 1971; and today I was listening to the third season episode of Slow Burn, about white people in the 90s freaking out about rap songs inciting violence against the police instead of questioning why so many rappers were angry at the police. All I can think is, thank god for cell phone cameras.

[@SirNic4180]

Still doesn't stop them. I heard this from a report. They said, the only thing a camera does is put your death or incident in HD. Cops are still getting off with lying 🤥. Cameras won't stop them. It's just giving them something else to explain away.

[@gognhere1307]

I mean, if nothing is done about "The few bad apples" Then you give the idea that bad apples are tolerated. A place where bad apples are tolerated naturally attract bad apples. And before you know, it's all bad apples, and people are dying of food poisoning.

[@ThomasSorensen1]

You could almost say, a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch.

[@totesnotahipster]

This is going to sound cynical but the biggest difference between activism now and say 2014 is that countries, especially the in the USA, are in the midst of a pandemic. The fact that people don't have to go into work is what is fuelling the numbers for the protests we're seeing, and that's not a bad thing at all, quite the opposite it's what the 1% and the establishment is terrified of, if you keep workers tired and busy they won't be able to question the state of the status quo

[@billhicks8]

I think you may have a point, it would be very difficult to collect quality data on this but I suspect not being held down by work as allowed some the time to analyse and reflect.

[@maryinsanfrancisco]

Not working and working from home (which may allow more flexibility) has absolutely freed people to participate in protests. The pandemic itself has also brought into focus systemic inequality that has to have contributed to the moment.

[@jeff6413]

That, and people being agitated and scared of losing income and worries about making ends meet. It's a perfect storm.

[@kage6613]

Correct, the material conditions for a proletarian uprising have been met in the wake of mass unemployment under covid. Many people are being radicalized daily. We are building towards a people's revolution.

[@David-uc4hc]

Very true. And what's also fueling these protests is the extreme economic conditions we're finding ourselves in and the fact that our entire government (including the entire democratic party, who have only enriched themselves in this pandemic) is going above and beyond to maximize the damage done to the working class. All political leaders have grown silent and become entirely irrelevant and ineffective (including Bernie Sanders). We are all we have left. Evictions are going to be starting up in the next few weeks, and we're all readying ourselves for a great depression that will inevitably be magnitudes worse than the previous depression. Suffering hasn't even begun yet and society is feeling the dread. On top of that you have illegal wars that dwarf the Vietnam war in cruelty and suffering, all to enrich our oligarchs who crush us (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan, the list of illegal wars continues). Riots and protests were inevitable. And thank god for them, it's time we dismantle this sham country that pretends to be a democracy. Starting with dismantling the state's dogs, the cops. Voting will do nothing. Direct action is our only path forward. People are seeing that now..

[@jacobscott2473]

Here's an anecdote: I watched the 2019 HBO Watchmen series without realising that the Tulsa massacre was a real thing. I thought it was an alternative history thing like the Squid Event, it just seemed too over-the-top. But no, absolutely a real thing. For context: I am an Australian, we don't get taught much about America in school past the basics, from memory you guys killed the Natives and divorced England to be even more crazy religious.

[@Osric24]

Even most Americans didn't know about the Tulsa massacre. It was buried because of course it fucking was. Can't have blatant racism make headlines right after WW1.

[@Iexapro]

People who live in Tulsa, Oklahoma were not taught the Tulsa Massacre and state history is required in most secondary schools in the U.S. They’ve worked diligently to hide years of oppression and cruelty inflicted on nonwhite persons in the U.S. They don’t want to acknowledge the hurt they inflict by building over Black cemeteries or desecrating of Native American land.

[@lightskinnedlarry728]

Yeah Australians don’t even cover their own genocides they don’t have time to cover others

[@wesleyprince3465]

"to be even more crazy religious" I didn't really get how true this was even as an American atheist in the "Bible belt" at that, until I saw the queen biopic when one of the guys says something along the lines of "what do you expect, it's America, a nation founded by puritans" or something of that nature. I was like....fuck dude, the fact that we're not too far off from the days of burning women for "being witches" is extremely depressing....especially when you then realize that the "satanic panic" legit ruined several lives just over 40 years ago, and that alot of it was started by an overly religious woman who would literally go on to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Cannot make this shit up, and it is truly embarrassing.

[@johnphills2402]

lol black **everything** have been telling y'all this!

[@keirtanaka2929]

Of course butt the idea behind specifically black shows is it doesn’t require the small degree of “commitment “ other genres kinda require: You might have to invest in a rap album for that source or coincidentally tune in when a black comic or movie is showing on television whereas a typically weekly show is leagues more likely for one to tune in as a source of (a) black perspective(s) on a multitude of topics especially policing & profiling thereof|

[@walt8899]

Facts

[@1989annasmith]

But how can we believe you when you are so uhhh black? Jk but there is a weird/sus amount of propoganda/media/discourse saying poc are liars.

[@spook9155]

What that other guy said You gotta like certain music or like a certain comedian and such in other cases But with a sitcom it's usually just something you'd stick on idly in the morning while you're doing something It will come on passively Or will have before the internete

[@makeitthrough_]

"black *everything"* made me think of Pharrell saying " black tie, black suit, black black black black" or w/e at the Lion King premiere lol

[@clashcitywannabe]

Family Matters was very prescient because it was about a cop who constantly threatened to kill his neighbor

[@renegadecut9875]

oh shit

[@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254]

And also that neighbor harassed his daughter for a decade....this show hadn't aged well

[@tanyavs1]

And he just walked into their house, uninvited...

[@El-RaShahzad]

STEVE

[@fighterck6241]

@@tanyavs1 oh wow that show hasn't aged well. As soon as this video started, knowing how thoroughly researched these videos generally are I thought to myself "he's going to say something about Family Matters."

[@gayhomosexuallll]

It's erasure to only talk about "Black men" and not the Black children and women who are also victims of police brutality. This language, especially pushed by white ppl thinking they're saying the right things, has to change. Black women have been saying this forever. Justice for Breonna Taylor.

[@v78michel]

No one is saying Black women and children don't face police brutality, but no where near as much as Black men

[@frostdracohardstyle]

@@moniqueloomis9772 Says years of hard backed data and stats in context. Get off it.

[@sasquatchhunter86]

His name was Duncan Lemp. If you think that your skin color is a shield against the state’s goons I have a beach front property in Arizona to sell you.

[@honeygirltru]

@@v78michel You have just proved what a lot of black women have been thinking/saying about Black Lives Matter Movement, it's only for black men. Thank you!

[@A86]

Preach!

[@blackromulan]

"Roc" was to 90s black television as Malcolm X was to 60s Civil Rights advocacy.

[@spaceylacey83]

Funny, that's the only one of these I never heard of. I watched all the others but they never managed to pierce my casual racism. My family tended not to watch anything, 'too black,' so I just had the other stuff and Family Matters.

[@NA-AN]

Are you in support of malcom x or are you not?

[@misticspear]

Facts. So underrated

[@a_real_one2000]

Roc was ground breaking show depicted low middle class Black experience. I still remember the eps In they talked about the H.W Bush, Clinton & Perot election. That definitely didn’t shy away from stories on serious issues.

[@bigneon_glitter]

"Roc" was real. It was "The Wire" of 90s sitcoms.

[@marmar929]

I may be betraying my age here, but I've been hearing the warning call about police brutality towards POC communities since Richard Prior. Comics are always the ones on the front lines sounding the alarm over society's shortcomings. They can make great pain more relatable to those who don't experience it. If only people listened better. Once again, very insightful and thought provoking analysis. Great job!

[@zillafire101]

George Carlin had a stand up bit that was banned where he called racist thugs used by the rich to keep Poors in line.

[@76shian]

You meant since slavery. Police were used to catch run away slaves

[@SirNic4180]

Incorrect. The information has always been there for everyone to see. This isn't new. This is just an old issue with a new name.

[@chloejohnson6861]

One thing that almost never gets brought up in these discussions is that we have TOO MANY LAWS. We don't need to categorize everything we find annoying or distasteful as an actual crime.

[@hobihope2981]

Family sitcoms like Fresh Prince were the best place to interject issues like this because they reached the entire family. Kinda makes me miss the whole family sitcom era (but not enough to want the laugh tracks back)

[@osaji922]

Those shows used what is called sweetener which is used in accordance with the laughs from the studio audience but all those shows were done in front of actual audiences. They still use live studio audiences to this day too and while it's not the heyday of the family sitcom, they still exist to a smaller degree.

[@SirNic4180]

Yet, the whole 🌎 😪 is still afraid of us 🇺🇸 😕 😔 😪 😞 😢

[@o0Avalon0o]

I've had family work for a "correctional" facility, I'll never forget how much they had changed, even after they quit. Those that didn't conform to abusing the poor &/or black, at best were let go, at worst were met with a workplace accident.

[@kjj26k]

Prison guards are a whole 'nother level of in-human.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Fuck that sounds like shit you'd expect of crazy movie mafioso.

[@wesleyprince3465]

Trips me out that numerous psychiatric studies and experiments have proven that these types of "professions", tend to attract the worst and often times most prejudiced types of people yet when they get caught fucking up there are still simps who will scream about how "ItS jUsT oNe BaD aPpLe!"

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

I'm a Black American so tho I'm thankfully that finally more are getting *_"Wait maybe cops shouldn't like...abuse their power?"_* I'm just so tired but I'm commenting for the algorithm.

[@staceymeans134]

I never watched Family Matters, but I did know that it devolved further into unreality every season after the introduction of Steve Urkel. I now see that the road to fantasy was started earlier.

[@caperknight]

Family matters is different because they were a pure network assembly line production. The show itself was a spin off of Perfect Strangers, the mom on family matters was an elevator operator on perfect strangers.

[@batty_babette]

@@caperknight Woah, didn't know that. That's pretty interesting actually!

[@KazeShikamaru]

I love Family Matters.

[@Foxpawed]

@@caperknight The entire ABC sitcom lineup eventually crossed over directly or indirectly. Steve on full house, boy meets world and Sabrina, etc. Some solid links in the whole Tommy Westfall theory.

[@SteelerFanInRI]

I'm pretty sure Urkel was there from the beginning.

[@msf2399]

I’ll admit to being a little young for most of these shows, but I do remember coming home from school and watching Everybody Hates Chris. One episode I’ll never forget, I turned on the TV just as the main character (a short, scrawny, teenage boy) was getting taken in by the cops and demanding to know what was going on; he was told that he was being taken in because a crime had been committed in the area and he fit the description given. The narrator then explained that that was half true as the show cut away to a white man outside of a corner store explaining to the cop that the man who robbed him had been, “black, about 6ft tall, early thirties, wearing...” The scene rewound as the narrator added, “But what the cop heard was:” And replayed with the shop owner saying, “He was black, and black, black, and black...” while still making the same indicative hand gestures he’d made the first time. It was a funny joke. I laughed. But even as a 7-to-9yr old, incredibly sheltered, middle-class white kid, there was a part of my brain that went, “Damn, that’s messed up...” I don’t remember a lot of things I watched growing up, EHC even less so (since it was normally already pretty far into the episode by the time I got home.) But that scene is burned into my brain. (That one, and the one where he’s so scared about losing his after-school job that he keeps going in while sick, winds up with pneumonia, and nobody realizes until he accidentally overdoses on cough syrup at the mall Santa booth. That one... that one also hit pretty hard.)

[@briankaslewicz6130]

Theres also the Mothers Day/Dept Store episode where the security guards overdo racial profiling to the point that the one white security guard get suspicious of his black coworker.

[@lukewright9031]

I remember an episode where Chris and his brother were presumed missing by their parents (can't remember what they were doing but the situation was that they took longer than usual come home). Chris' mother calls 911 and gives their descriptions and hangs up rest assured something will be done, but when Chris' father hears what she did he insists she calls 911 again but this time to tell the dispatcher their sons are white. *Immediately* she hangs up there's a knock at the door and it's two police officers saying they're responding to a call about two missing white boys.

[@nukiradio]

You'd have to be willfully dishonest to not see the unfair policing standards

[@KitFoxboy]

Paper Mario you’re right. People here get belligerent and even proud of their ignorance. Its maddening.

[@Failedprodegy42]

When you're at the top of the heap there's really no motivation to shake up the status quo for the benefit of the people at the bottom. It's wrong but that's just how it seems to work in the US.

[@annoloki]

That's just not true. Structures of power don't last hundreds of years on a well informed electorate... there's a reason why police lie, and why there is so much money in a propaganda system to keep the majority of the electorate from finding out the truth... it works. You can only see something that is in front of you, to be seen, and there is a lot of money spent keeping it from being seen by many people. You can't fairly judge people for not knowing what they have never been exposed to.

[@iswitchedsidesforthiscat]

Where did you get that profile pic?

[@wesleyprince3465]

Probably shouldn't be admitting this but my own dad who by all accounts was truthfully kinda pretty racist at times started to come around to cops bullshit towards the end of his life. Of course having gone to prison himself and having mixed grandbabies later in life probably softened his prejudice a little bit but still. You know it's fucked when even a formerly pretty racist dude starts to see that there's something even EXTRA fucked up with the way cops treat black people.

[@David_Axelord]

Let's not forget Carl Winslow's own history of police brutality from his time in Los Angeles.

[@kinoko5566]

I SHOT A KID!

[@thehopeofeden597]

I’ll never forget the episode where Carlton’s trauma induced obsession with self-defense leads to him being hospitalized from gun violence. That always stuck with me. No matter your amount of wealth or love or a safe home environment, nothing can protect you from the violence that came with being black. We just have to try and keep living. And now we have to try to change it.

[@wolfmantheimpaler]

I think it was Will who was hospitalized after getting shot

[@Thurston86]

wolfmantheimpaler You’re right, it was Will. They’re being robbed at an ATM, when Carlton reaches for his wallet and it makes the robber jumpy. He fires a shot at Carlton but Will steps in front and takes it instead. Later on, Carlton gets a gun and brings it to the hospital, where Will persuades him to hand it over. Very good episode (that is put in motion all because Will knocked over and broke a lantern that Carlton was going to take camping).

[@ridensroom6957]

Carlton was incredibly lucky to have avoided that treatment for so long.

[@udlrfbak]

the poor cant afford a lawyer, time off to fight, transportation money to prepare case, time to learn a system designed against them,etc.

[@ericvaughan1807]

I would say that part of the reason things are starting to change is the generation of people who watched these shows are getting old enough now to feel like they can do something. Yeah it took awhile but we all had to grow into adults first.

[@sertaki]

​@@MrSoopSA Maybe Trump's tantrum about mail-in voting being illegitimate will be remembered by the many conservatives who can't make it to the polls for whatever reason. Who knows, it might even offset the voter suppression. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@kathryngeeslin9509]

I'm 72, boomer leftist, have noticed my conservative compatriots are far more likely to get fired up to vote while liberals get apathetic and lethargic. Had so much hope for change, quick change, 50 years ago; and hope again more recently with younger generations, but ... they vote. We outnumber them, we don't see the perfect candidate, we don't vote, they do vote, politics drifts right/authoritarian, next candidates are less perfect, I see/hear younger "voters" saying they'll not vote "in protest". And of course blaming Boomers while doing the same goddamn thing. Vote! Covid 19 risks and voter "fraud" hoops be jumped, please vote. please

[@Cyromantik]

Over-policing is also how departments fluff up their yearly budgets.

[@KazeShikamaru]

I remember the episode of Fresh Prince where they had a black FBI agent that said, "The FBI is always watching black people." I laughed at that but now I think back and see how fucked up and true that statement was.

[@DGPHolyHandgrenade]

police brutality is so ingrained into american society that it's been in our pop culture for at least the last 60 years. Take a look at the movie Alice's Restaurant; where cops are seen harassing hippies and using physical force to make it known they werent welcome. Even Rambo: First Blood, the entire plot of that movie is that a small town cop harasses a veteran for no reason, eventually arresting said vet and beating him up at the precinct (ostensibly drawing, first blood) These are just two examples coming from the 60's and 80's This has been a problem for a very long time.

[@sagekaley]

whenever i hear white people go "well police wrongly kill lots of white people too!" i don't understand how this is a defense of the police. like perhaps this shows the police are inherently broken and should be defunded instead of deciding it's acceptable that they just murder people a lot. of all the derailing arguments and apologisms, this is the one that really always makes me realise some of these people just have a very different view on the value of human lives versus their own personal comfort. but good video! i remember watching some of these growing up... it's a shame so many people ignored the experiences shown in them

[@MissAlmostFine]

Exactly. Like they think that because they are apathetic about police violence that PoC and Blk ppl should be as well as to not make them uncomfortable.

[@ridensroom6957]

I just watched one of the earliest Fresh Prince episodes the other week, where Will and Carlton are pulled over for what everyone except Carlton can see. Great episode. It's so sad that this sort of thing still happens. "Those officers were doing their job, weren't they?" "I asked myself that same question the first time I was pulled over." 🤔😩

[@IshtarNike]

I'm so glad you mentioned the vicious cycle. I know a bit about sampling bias and this is something very few people, even other anti-racist advocates, point out so clearly. If you spend all your time in one place looking for crime you'll end up detecting more crime, and there will be an excuse to go there even more frequently.

[@mansoortanweer]

A line from the Fresh Prince jail ep sums up the situation. "Anytime you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something BAD!"

[@Xolanidj]

Honestly, it feels a little weird that people are JUST now paying attention to what we have been expressing for many many years. Even more weird that so many companies are JUST now recognizing a Black cultural event such as Juneteenth. I’m gonna wait this out (as if there’s any other choice), but this sudden support from those who have ignored for so long, feels a bit disingenuous. This channel seems to have a genuine analysis.

[@sunkissedking]

As a Black person, all I'm going to say is PERIODT.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@bernadetteleonard4940]

💯

[@kymanibrown8039]

Yeah bro

[@jhvh1134]

Just went through a couple seasons of "In Living Color" and kept thinking how is any of this new to anyone? It's been the same message for at least as long as I've been alive.

[@almondmilkbone]

That Fresh Prince episode was super formative for me. I think having a law enforcement officer who beat his children as a father made the racial bias pill really easy to swallow and internalize as a kid

[@Pat9x]

Sadly, police brutality is a big thing here in Chile too.

[@nachoroman2001]

yeah, and sadly, racial profiling is a thing too fuego a la yuta 🔥

[@MrGoblin1000]

Urkel was a creepy, entitled, nice guy that routinely "flirted" with a girl who made it very clear she was not interested in him and the show portrayed it as acceptable and adorable.

[@jeremynorris_hostyl1]

Family Matters was actually a pretty good show, when it focused on the Winslows. Then they dumbed it down and turned it into the Urkel show. It's the same thing that happened to "Good Times" as they shifted away from James (the father) to JJ (the son).

[@TheEmoSyndicate]

What exactly are you trying to say there Mr. Goblin. trying to re enforce a certain stereotype. yeh Urkel was bad but Sonic was cool.

[@fighterck6241]

@@lainiwakura1776 the show basically became wish fulfillment for multiple sectors of society. I've seen fanfic that was more realistic. Also life for black nerds like me in the 90s was so shit because of that show.

[@MalikIsmailAliRaymond]

People don't talk about this enough. I absolutely hate Urkel's character for this very reason now.

[@db1026]

Somsnosa I think it’s always sunny is mocking incels like Charlie who pesters the waitress.

[@Andrew_TS]

"Criminally underrated sitcom Roc." I see what you did there.

[@renegadecut9875]

No, it's just an expression.

[@Jj-ke3ug]

From a Black Woman with a Black Son, I can kiss you right now! Thank you for recognizing what we go through.

[@Ultimus31]

14:48 Okay, the very fact that 'Failure to Obey' is an offense at all, let alone a discretionary one, is absolutely goddamn terrifying.

[@justingerald]

The way you keep warning us FAMILY MATTERS IS COMING amuses me

[@devinewynder5443]

Of course black sitcoms warned us we been going through this since we been in this country. They were just showing life as a black man period. Sad part is you can watch a 90's sitcom in 2020 and it still relates...smh.

[@SubvertTheState]

I get stopped all of the time in my predominantly white town, car rummaged through, "dim" tailights, 'what are you doing' stops. I couldnt imagine including getting pulled out of the car, roughed up or shot to death for being black. Cops felt comfortable enough gripping their pistol while talking to me, god knows what he might smell or see me reach for if I was black. Its really stupid people cant believe that other people have other experiences.

[@carterslade8771]

Charles S Dutton is such a phenomenal actor. Might actually be the best thing about Alien 3. He brought the intense emotional reality of his experiences to his roles, and they're all the better for it.

[@TheDmolitionMan]

I can't remember this confrontational tradition in sitcoms being carried over to the 00's other than in Everybody Hates Chris

[@seanhenderson5996]

If I had to guess I'd think the rise of reality tv was to blame; fewer sitcoms were produced in the 00s so executives were likely much more picky about what was being made.

[@DJLawrence]

@@seanhenderson5996 I think this is what made Black-ish so impactful. It was a bit of a wasteland for black sitcoms by this point and especially sitcoms on network TV which would talk about well...the black experience

[@asielmilian38]

@@seanhenderson5996 that is very true.

[@chriscze6153]

Praying this reaches a wider audience - I loved this media as a child and this reflection of their commentary 25 plus years ago being so relevant now is amazing to think about and ponder over. Keep up the great work, thank you!

[@octopusmime]

Share it on reddit!

[@JamesSerapio]

I'm stoked that you bring up Roc. This is easily the best written sitcom from the 90s. Such a great cast too.

[@ryanshields2195]

Oh man. You had me squirming the first 17 minutes hoping you’d get to Family Matters.

[@fighterck6241]

Same here. But I knew he would. He kept spamming that city skyline from the intro throughout.

[@SteelerFanInRI]

Me too; as soon as he started talking about cop characters, I was like, "Oh he's DEFINITELY building up to Family Matters."

[@grnmjolnir]

Yeah, if Carl Winslow had filed that report he would’ve been considered a rat and been “ accidentally” shot in a confrontation or just not get support when he needed it. At the core of those who take the bad apples approach, the bad apples would kill the good ones that try to change anything

[@danaborris345]

Damn, Roc was a great show and Charles S. Dutton is an absurdly talented actor.

[@wildsheepc]

YES!

[@josephalcindor61]

“Name 2 Barry Manilow songs!”

[@Egilhelmson]

Thank the gods that it wasn’t *three*. Although being able to sing 5 or 6 by Rush would have worked as Make-up.

[@fedupN]

Oh mighty algorithm gods! See this humble offering and grant your blessings upon this video! *shakes keyboard at screen to invoke the techno gods*

[@JCT45]

Hi, I've been a fan of this channel for some time and I've been a black man my whole life who grew up in the 90s. Reengage Cut, I've always appreciated this channel and perspective and this video is no exception. I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes and I'm not sure why. I don't know .. i suppose this whole comment was just to say "Thank you" so .. yeah thanks

[@monzorella1]

I've been a black my whole life 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Can people stop being black ?

[@loszhor]

Good vid, it's irritating to see people throw around statistics they heard second or even third hand without even bothering to check it for themselves.

[@darkeimp555]

Damn, this goes right up there as one of my all time favorite Renegade Cut video essays yet. Maybe of all video essays I've watched period. This is so good, not just on an informative level but on a craftsmanship level, just the way each point builds on the previous and lands so perfectly at the conclusion. I want to just link this to every single person I see using those bad faith "statistics" because it just handily rips right through that nonsense and says "no, you know that was BS, and stop pretending you don't". And on top of that I could feel the love for all those old shows, and it made me nostalgic and happy to see them appreciated even in the midst of discussing such a serious and important subject. I just have to say brilliant work here, this is such a beautiful and crucial video.

[@coreybell2223]

Black sitcoms have been doing it since 70s sitcoms like Good Times and What’s Happening. Long before the 90s.

[@herpderpy9445]

True, but there were significantly more black sitcoms in the 90s than in the 70s, which means more potential exposure to non-black audiences.

[@ToastyJunebugs]

Did arrest quotas come about when prisons became privatized (so it becomes a 'company goal') or was that a thing before as well.

[@vylbird8014]

Different reasons. Remember that US police forces are partially self-funding: The fines go straight back to the police. So the incentive for the police is to focus their efforts on either the really high-profile crimes that make the news, or the crimes which are a quick-and-cheap conviction and a lucrative fine - traffic and drugs offenses. A speed trap is really just a money-farm to the police: You just pick a good spot to set it up, and wait for the fines to flow in. The best place is at the bottom of a hill, as drivers will pick up a bit of speed on the way down.

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

Prisons aren't privatized in my country, but the cops still have quotas to fill. A friend of mine's a cop and he sometimes warns me: "Don't do anything stupid the next few weeks, our quota deadline's coming up and everyone's making up for lost time" he also told me that they're specifically briefed to keep an eye out for "High Risk Demographics" (minorities, expensive cars) and "Demographical Anomalies" (minorities DRIVING expensive cars)

[@jediyarahim-danford7592]

Stop teasing me with Carl Winslow. You got me excited every time, then... 😂

[@TheCountOfMommysCrisco]

I remember this episode of Fresh Prince very distinctly. Despite your ending conclusion that the power of art to influence these things is limited, I don't think it's a stretch for me to say that as a white suburbanite teenager at the time it legitimately helped open my eyes to an issue I did not think was as 'real' as it was, and still is. I was already well aware of the fact that poor white people have it harder than their middle-class peers in terms of dealing with law enforcement. This episode showed me the same kind of hardship, but being experienced by rich black characters. It highlighted for me just how much of an impact racism actually has, when it's so easily capable of co-opting and negating the usual advantage that wealth would offer in these encounters.

[@cinetobi]

Agreed. This particular episode of Fresh Prince shaped my awareness for those issues just like the music of Public Enemy and N.W.A I listened to frequently that time. There is still a long way to go and a lot of things to do to reach justice and peace. Art can be a efficient weapon to reach that goals and it's the weapon of my choice.

[@vphiameradisogaarwa]

Renegade Cuts - THANK YOU - for pointing out Roc was "criminally underrated", it still is one of my all time favorite shows!

[@brookestevenson7645]

I’m black and a lesbian. You are a breath of fresh air. I won’t give you cool points for being a decent human, but your channel is refreshing.

[@crimsonpriestess]

Always great and timely content from one of my favorite channels!

[@da_pikmin_coder8367]

As a white man, I've been pulled over twice and cops have been to my house twice. In all four situations I got off scott free. One of them I got off for mentioning that I was Catholic, as the officer was Catholic as well. White people should be able to detect police racism, not just from the negative unfair treatment of black people, but the positive unfair treatment of white people. One time my dad got pulled over five times in one months and simply dismissed it as "I'm lucky." He's a little dense about it.

[@spaceylacey83]

I've been pulled over several times. Twice for speeding, once for driving without headlights, once in a roadblock. The time with my headlights, my license and inspection sticker were expired and I didn't have proof of insurance. During the roadblock, me and my friends had literally just thrown out a smoking blunt and had two ounces of weed and I had no license on me. My car HAD to smell. I only ever got one speeding ticket and never feared for my life. Three times out of four, the cops laughed cause I was panicking. One cop raised his voice because I was going twenty mph over the speed limit but he still let me off with a warning. Rather than recognize this as preferential treatment, I assumed black people were exaggerating to make white people feel guilty. 😬

[@witchsistah]

@@scapegoatmiller9110 I think one of the reasons my husband wants to accompany me to doctor's appointments is to show that a WHITE man is MARRIED to me so that I am valued more as a patient.

[@Docmananoff]

And the predictable acts by the police is also what spawned the universal anthem by N.W.A.

[@alexdyer5369]

This was A Very Special Analysis.

[@lucidexistance1]

I'm sorry, but I have to. "Daammmnnnnn, Gina!" I grew up with these shows. Surprisingly my kind of racist step father even watched them. I remember when Rok went live. I'm a little surprised these shows were popular considering today.

[@printezstroman]

"That ain't no damn puppy. "

[@NormanWoods]

I remember this episode of Roc and how real it felt, watching with my family. I also recall thinking about the episode when I was in a similar situation (at least the first time).

[@mickiemallorie]

You pulled this together quick. Great job as usual.

[@artcrime2999]

Roc was such a good show

[@marietemariete]

I'm from Spain and from watching these shows in my childhood I understood that there is a racial problem in the USA. So, if people did not get it, it's because they did not want to get it

[@seropia]

I know they don't take recommendations in the comments, but damn the analysis here makes me want a video on The Wire.

[@tubbylumpkins4885]

Great video as always. Thanks Regnegade cut.

[@TheRepty818]

This is a phenomenal video! The only thing I would add is that while the Family Matters episode clearly missed the mark, it did bring up a specific issue I've struggled with myself. When Eddie first tells his father what happens, Carl denies it. Eddie's response was that what happened to him was the "worst thing that's happened to me in my entire life. But having you not believe me is even worse." This is a parallel of what's happened to me a number of times in real life. I bring up an issue, and people I think are my friends, deny it. It's hard to explain how much it hurts to try and express to someone about what's happened to you and their response is to just deny it or to immediately come to the defense of the other person.

[@lionchampion587]

This is a brilliant summary. I love the way you use all these famous TV shows to clearly state your points. 10 out of 10! Keep up the Great work!

[@mtnjr]

Anyone else notice that Hank Azaria was one of the cops in the station booking the Fresh Prince and Carlton? 🧐 Got my eagle eye turned on today.

[@energicko]

Watching this video on Monday, Jan 18, 2021. Thank you.

[@hojuniverse]

Great job reviewing this through the lens of 90’s TV

[@BittenHand19]

I almost forgot about Roc. That was a great show. So good and they did it live if I'm not mistaken.

[@Theophiloz]

Okay, this is very informative, but why is Usher's "Yeah" playing in the background? 🤣🤣

[@yyyyyyyyyyyyy2340]

This is genuinely the best channel on KZbin

[@vincitveritas9556]

You could also be drug profiled. On highways around major cities law enforcement are often looking for drug smugglers which could often be anyone that stands out by driving too slow or even driving the speed limit when all the traffic around you is doing 5 miles an hour above the speed limit.

[@bluemoon1115]

Thank you, Renegade.

[@MrsBerry-of3lr]

Will someone please clone Mr. Renegade Cut? We need more intelligence in our sad, unevolved society!

[@picvegita]

I love and appreciate your work. Thank you for hope and information.

[@nathancadaman]

Eyyy, JGG getting the shout-out!. I'm glad I stumbled across Tweets of his crime stats videos.