On his show Sunday night, John Oliver covered the police brutality that has plagued America throughout 2020
Photo: YouTube An update on the marble racing will have to wait. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, a somber and furious John Oliver dedicated a segment to the police brutality that has plagued America throughout 2020, reminding viewers of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and, most recently, George Floyd — who were respectively “killed by wannabe police in the street,” “killed by police in their own home,” and “killed by police on the street.
Oliver then played a clip of Fox News host Tucker Carlson reflecting on the filmed encounter between black bird-watcher Chris Cooper and white dog owner Amy Cooper, which went viral in May after the woman called the police and, in an exaggerated tone of terror, falsely claimed that the man was threatening her life. “Ugly opinions, police brutality, officious bird-watchers, rude and entitled ladies walking their dogs in big-city parks — all of that is bad,” Carlson offered.
Oliver also doubled down on his usual criticism of Donald Trump and his social-media habits, this time how the president threatened to shoot every person who participated in looting during protests. “Set aside that when a man like Donald Trump uses the word ‘thugs,’ you know exactly what it’s code for,” Oliver explained. “‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’ is actually a quote from a notoriously racist 1960s Miami police chief.
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