Candace Owens — Brandon Tatum @ BLEXITLA Full Speech

Every couple of years, the media comes up with a narrative to make sure that we react emotionally. Okay? In 2016, it was police brutality. Every single night on our screens, They wanted us to believe that black men were just being gunned down in the street just because a police officer, Hey, are you black? Right? Not exactly what was happening. The next speaker is someone that I work very closely with Brandon Tatum, and he is a former...

a former police officer, and a loyal friend, so please help me welcome him to the stage. So this shit is moving kind of slow. Just tell my girl to tell a friend that it's time to go. Now tell me how you love it. You know, you're at the top, and on the heavens, right? What's up? It sh and motherfucker If you ain't running Y'all know, I got the time in my the pocket, all right. Stand to your feet. Listen, I want y'all to repeat something after me, all right?

I need y'all to have energy, though. You can't be in here with low energy. You gotta have energy. All right? So repeat after me. I'm gonna say it first, and then I'm gonna point at you, and I want y'all to say it, all right? Liberals can't bully us. Yeah, bullshit! Liberals can't bully us. Liberals can't bully us! All right, y'all, go ahead and take a seat. Y'all did a good job. Give yourselves a round of applause for being here.

All right, look, I like to speak from the heart. I don't like the right stuff down. So y'all bear with me. Look, I'm gonna tell the story about how I became a police officer, and why policing in America means a lot to me, and why I think the left is so deranged and foolish by trying to make us believe that police are bad. So I'll tell you this. I was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. Anybody in here from Funkintown?

I got a few get 2 shirts, 2 free ones. No, I'll just play. Anyway, I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, man. I grew up in and around the hood my whole life. I was raised to believe that police were racist. They were the racist white police officers. Every time I got pulled over, I was like, oh, they pull me up because I'm black. You know, I honestly got truth. He pulled me up because I'm black, man, because they don't like my car.

They mad 'cause they ain't got no brother driving a nice car. They gonna pull me over. I know some of y'all heard that before. And it is, it was prepared. It was perpetuated by my family members. Because your cousins, them, they say the same thing. Oh, they put me over because I'm black. And then you build the hatred towards police officers. So when you interact with them, it's already ingrained in your mind. So growing up, college, I played college football, had a pretty good time at the University of Arizona.

I had to make a real grown man decision in 2011. When football wasn't working out for me. My son was young, and I needed a job. And not one time did I think about the police department, not once, I just filled out the application. I was hoping the guy somebody called me back. Funny story. I always tell this story. People laugh. You don't have to laugh, you don't want to. But anyway, because I'm a real dude. So, Me and my significant other at the time we're arguing on the phone.

Over the phone. We're just talking. We were yelling, I think it was like the engagement ring or something we were arguing about. And then the next morning, the police department called me. And I'm like, she done called the police on me. She tripping. We were just talking on the phone. But anyway, I answered the phone. I said, hello? And they're like, it's a Tucson police department. I'm like, uh, how can I help you?

They're like, you applied for the job, right? And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. I did. So I guess I ain't going to jail this time. So I had to figure out, do I really want to do this? I've never, you know, I only had negative interactions with police. For the most part, they weren't all negative. I perceived that they were negative. And so I had to make a decision, went through the application process, and I had to do it.

I decided to do a ride along. And I got in the car with Officer Sean Payne, and it blew my mind. for the first time in my life. I saw a hero. I used to think football players were heroes. Nothing against football players. They work hard. They go to the football field. You know, they lose a game, they cry a little bit and then they go play another game. In policing, you lose, you don't come back. There ain't no coming back.

And you put your life on the line for your profession. So I did a ride along with Sean Payne. I remember the 1st car we went to, we went to help an elderly lady on the side of the road, which was pretty cool. I said, oh, this is all right. I could do this. And then all of a sudden, there was a suicidal call. There was a young person that, that, uh, was going to kill himself. He was trying to cut his wrist. Me and staying in the car going 70, 80 miles per hour down a residential street.

That's right. Go ahead. Tell them. We were going about 80 miles per hour down a residential street. Lights and sirens. We almost died twice, because people don't know how to move to the right. So if you see sirens move to the right, don't just stop. Don't go to the left, go to the right. All right. So, you know, we almost died a couple times, and I'm like, God dang, it's crazy. We get there, we get to the front, they kick the door in, and I was standing back a little bit, so they let me come in after them.

And I saw the kiddies back there cutting his wrists. They saved his life. I remember Sean Payne get back in the car after the call was over. And before we had gone on a call, he was asking me about my family. He's like, oh man, how's your family doing? So when we get back in the car, you ask me the same questions. And I swear, my heart was like this. And I'm looking at him. He's like, how's your family doing? I'm like, what family?

I don't even know what you're talking about. I ain't got no family. But from that point on, it inspired me. I said, bro, you do this every day. You're like, yeah, every day, every day I do this. I only did a half a shift. I was blown away. So I became a police officer. I worked hard every day. I put my life. I remember, I had a young son, he's eight years old now. But my young son was at home, and I would think about it.

Like, I'm willing to give my life. And all of my dreams up. Never see my son again, all my family, to save other people. Every day. It didn't matter what color you were. I'm gonna tell y'all this. It's very hard to be racist as a police officer. I'm just I'm just telling you the truth. Some of y'all know what it is. You don't get to pick what call you go to. So if you got animus in your heart against anybody, you about to lose that real fast.

Somebody's bleeding out, you gotta go. You gotta show up. Even if you don't like them, you gotta show up. You gotta be willing to die. So I was inspired. And what turned the corner from me politically, because I voted for Barack Obama in his second term. Yeah, go ahead and boo me. Go ahead, go ahead. I like that. I know y'all ain't born men, y'all born in Barack. The trash can, man. Okay anyway, but... So what changed it for me, 'cause I was with the police thing, I was also raised to be a Democrat.

You know, they say the Democrat for the black folks, for the Mexican folks. The Republicans are the racist white folks. Am I lying? All right, I just want to make sure y'all, y'all, y'all feeling me on that. So, so I had that in my mind. All my boys on the police department used to tell me, B, like, I don't understand how you believe in God, and you a Democrat. And I'm like, no, man, you know, God, it ain't, you know, it ain't all about that, you know.

But it was true. I was, it was, they planted a seed. And then look what Barack Obama did. He gonna go out. I used like Barack. Shooting the ball. Yeah. I was like, man, he cool. I didn't know nothing about his politics, but he was cool. And then he go out. and do the fool and start talking about police officers. Start commenting on situations that he had no understanding about. And this is the honest of God truth. I saw people begin to challenge me on the police department after Barack started making his statements.

His minorities start Hispanic and black start challenging us hard. Everything we did, they questioning us. Wanna fight? All this other stuff. His rhetoric was legitimately causing a negative effect on the police department. And listen, this is not something I read in a book. This is something I know. So then I had, I was, I was at a crossroads, because I say, bro, I can't support you. I don't care, I don't care who you are.

I don't care how much you doing threes and being cool. I can't support you. You can't you can't come against police officers. I know what we do every day. I don't have to be in every city. I know this a hard job. So, I said, man, I need to look across the aisle, man. I got to figure out all these all these Democrats are thinking the same way, and I can't vibe with that. So I went to the Republican side. And I like Ben Carson.

Ben Carson was my guy. Any big Carson? The only problem was that Ben was a little too sleepy. He was a little too sleepy. Oh, Ben Carson, I met his wife, wonderful. Candace was wonderful. But anyway, he was a little too sleepy, so Trump came along. And at first, and at first, I was a little apprehensive. You know, this is some billionaire guy that on the TV. I'm like, He just playing, right? He up here clowning, right?

Are he really serious? That he winning? Oh, I gotta check him out. So I went to Tucson. I mean, came to Tucson and did a rally. And I was like, You know what? As an informed citizen in America, consider what this man talking about. So I went, and I was blown away. I was blown away, not just because of what Trump said. I mean, it resonated with me. It was about American values and things that I believed in. It wasn't races and all this other BS that they say on television.

But the thing that shocked me the most were the protesters. I was like, dang. I mean, I'm walking through the front, and they calling me racist. Oh, you a white supremacist. I'm like, damn, how they get involved? I'm just trying to see what the man talking about. I didn't even got no Trump stuff on. I knew they were crazy after that. So I went in there, I was inspired. I said, You know what, man, this man is really speaking the truth, and I watched what the media did.

And I said, Man, they just, they ain't doing number line. Then I started really doing research. Larry Elder that spoke a minute. I mean, I was listening to his video just smoking people. And so, it kept me on that path. Let me transition for a minute to give y'all a level of understanding what bothers me now, right? I've already moved past the political premise. What bothers me now is the lies that they tell us in the community.

which creates the hatred and animosity that gets us killed. I'm serious. When they lie to you so much, and they get you believing that these people are trying to kill you. Now, now, I understand to a certain degree why people get mad at police because of the rhetoric. Then don't make it right. When you think that there's people in your community, that wanna kill you. They want to harm you, incarcerate, take your freedom away.

It's gonna make you mad. And the lives that they're perpetuating is causing people to be more aggressive. They pull you over for a traffic stop, you don't want to roll your winner down. Oh, no, bro, I ain't got to do this. And they telling people how to disobey police law enforcement. It's creating a negative vibe, which is causing chaos and confusion. Now let me say this. Just statistical, for statistical reasons. They make this big deal about police killing black folks in minorities.

They make this big deal. Like, every day you go out, you finna get smoked by a cop just walking down the street. Grown up on you. Oh, boom, boom, boom, you black. you know, they don't work that way. If you look at the statistics, right? And, and this is, this is what was troubling to me. You look at the statistics, and you look at what Black Lives Matter in groups like that prioritize, it's unarmed African American people or even Latino people getting shot by the police, unarmed.

And they push the rhetoric that if you're unarmed, somehow you're innocent. Like, you just you cannot do any harm. That is a lie. I was a cop. You can still fight and try to get somebody's gun without having a gun. You can still present yourself as a threat without having a gun, period. If y'all didn't know that up there in the balcony. you didn't know that. I'm telling you right now, just take it, take it for what it is.

But what happens is, oh, when you look at the stats, it's, it's literally, it's more of a chance that you get struck by lightning than for you to somehow get killed by a police officer as an unarmed black person or a Latino person. 2% of all shootings, that happened. Throughout the whole country. 300 some million people. 2% of the shootings are shootings of unarmed people. And I'll get a statistics from the black community.

Just say every unarmed person, last year. was shot. I'll go from 2015 because I have out of stats, it was fluctuating last year. If we go from all, say, all the black people that were shot by the police unarmed were unjustified. That would have been, and I'll say last year, if it was 17, or roughly 17 people that were shot, unarmed. 15 people that were shot unarmed. It'll roughly be .0000325%. of the black population that were killed unowned by police.

And this is what y'all arguing about? Let me say this. This is from the heart on this one. I believe this to be true. If a police officer does something wrong. You look at that one officer and you evaluate what he or she did, and they should be punished. You do not. Because we, because listen, Black and Hispanic folks, even everybody in here. You don't want somebody generalizing your race, so why generalize the police department?

You take one situation, you evaluate that situation, and that person either pays or they go free. Just like in the community. If one black brother do something, go shoot up something or rob somebody, you don't sit there and say, oh, I know, all these black people, they just, they're killing folks. That's not the way you work. It's not the way it works and it's not the way it works on the police department. So, I think I'm talking long, because I can talk all day.

Y'all already know. How many of y'all follow me on my Instagram, though? All right, all right. I like y'all a little more. But anyway, I wanna do this, because I don't know if anybody gave the opportunity. I want to give the opportunity for at least a few questions. That'll work. Any questions? At the very, very end, right now, right now. Okay. Y'all can't get no question right now. But anyway, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all.

Thank y'all.