Jake Paul Arrested For Looting & The Karen Invasion - H3 Podcast #193

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H3 Podcast returns after missing previous week to make H3 video about protests
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William Osmond scheduled for next week, Oliver Tree for July 17th
All tested COVID-19 negative at Dodger Stadium drive-through testing site
- Easy mouth swab test, results next day
- LA doing good job with testing availability

Ethan shares personal police encounters where he received lenient treatment
- Had weed and bong in truck, drove off freeway nervously
- Realizes if he was black, outcomes likely would have been different
Systemic racism analysis:
- 250 years of slavery + 100 years of Jim Crow laws ending in 1960s
- Only 60 years since legal discrimination ended vs 350 years of oppression
- Public schools funded by property taxes creates inequality
- Poor neighborhoods get less funding, worse schools, higher crime
Prison system statistics:
- 25% of world's prisoners are in America
- Black Americans: 12% of population, 37% of prison population
- Use drugs at same rate as white people but arrested 6x more often
- Black people killed by police 2.5x more than white people
- No national database requires police to report killings
Recommends Netflix documentary "13th" about 13th Amendment exception for prisoners
Private prisons with state contracts to keep prisons full
Three-strikes laws, war on drugs targeting minorities
Prisoners do slave labor for 8 cents/hour, charged $2/minute for phone calls

George Floyd case: cop who killed him worked with Floyd at nightclub, had history of complaints
Candace Owens video attacking Floyd's character - Ethan calls this "character assassination"
Dave Chappelle response: "We didn't choose him, the cops chose him"
"All Lives Matter" response criticized as dismissive house-on-fire analogy
This is second civil rights movement for same issues

Confederate flag represents traitors who waged war on America
Statues erected in 1950s during Jim Crow, not immediately after Civil War
History was rewritten to seem about "states rights" and "heritage"
NASCAR bans Confederate flag, receives backlash from fans
Should be removed from public spaces, put in museums if historically significant

Minneapolis City Council votes to defund police
LA proposed budget: $3.1 billion of $10 billion to LAPD
Concept: reallocate funds from militarized police to social services, education, housing
Police handle too many non-violent situations requiring different expertise
Specialized response teams better than armed officers for non-violent calls

Report: universal mask wearing could reduce transmission to 1:1 ratio
Multiple "Karen" incidents at stores refusing to wear masks
Claim "medical conditions" prevent mask wearing (no legitimate conditions exist)
Orange County Council meeting with anti-mask protesters
Arguments: masks cause CO2 rebreathing, violate "natural rights"
Health official resigned after death threats, replaced

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