On PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable present Washington Week on February 3, Nationwide Public Radio Weekend Version Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe and NBC Information reporter Ryan Nobles (previously at CNN) mentioned the brutal, deadly assault on Tyre Nichols, increasing from the killing to discover weird explanations for the assault by the 5 black cops, together with “white supremacy,” “meals insecurity,” and even mentioning the proposed Superior Placement highschool course on African-American historical past that was opposed as too ideological by the Ron DeSantis administration in Florida.

Host Yamiche Alcindor joined her company in dismissing Republican issues about federal regulation enforcement misconduct, whereas suggesting Democrats had been the one social gathering with the ethical authority to talk on the topic.

Alcindor: You speak about form of this stalemate. Ryan, Jim Jordan shocked me as a result of he stated the police misconduct is a type of the weaponization of the federal government, which I used to be like, I needed to do a double take. However he additionally stated in the identical breath he doesn’t suppose he can not consider any regulation that will cease what occurs to Tyre Nichols. So what are you listening to from Republicans, are they echoing Jim Jordan?

Ryan Nobles, NBC Information: Outline police misconduct, Yamiche. For a Republican like Jim Jordan, it might be the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago — raiding Mar-a-Lago to search out categorized paperwork that had been inappropriately taken. It might be Capitol Law enforcement officials roughing up protesters, as they’re known as, as they had been storming the Capitol illegally. That’s a part of the issue that we now have in Washington that Michael factors to, individuals are speaking previous one another. Even this stuff we expect can be type of fundamental data that all of us agree upon, an issue like police brutality or regulation enforcement run amok, completely different Individuals have completely different definitions for these. And significantly within the Home of Representatives, these members are talking particularly solely to these constituencies….

An NPR host turned the most recent determine on public tv to ludicrously insist that the spectacle of black cops beating to demise a black citizen was the truth is an act “rooted in white supremacy.”

Ayesha Roscoe: Effectively I imply look we now have to make use of the phrase, we now have to speak about — though these had been black cops, there may be an concept of policing that’s rooted in white supremacy. Like that’s one thing that folks make the argument over and over and that when you will have black our bodies, they aren’t, that black individuals are not valued sufficient. So in case you are able of authority, chances are you’ll really feel like you will get away with treating this particular person like they aren’t human, versus the best way you’ll deal with someone who’s white and harmless. And that’s only a truth. And we now have to actually take care of that if we’re going to take care of the problems of police brutality on this nation.

Subsequent, Ryan Nobles of NBC Information, speaking like a parody of liberalism, steered methods to stop atrocities like Memphis, together with….“funding meals packages”?:

Nobles: And that will get again to not simply funding police reform, it talks about funding training it talks about funding meals packages to get rid of issues like meals insecurity and poverty. That is all a part of the systemic issues that results in the state of affairs that we noticed in Memphis that lawmakers simply don’t wish to have a critical dialog about.

Alcindor: We solely have ten seconds left, whilst Ryan talks about training, we take into consideration the truth that the AP African-American research is being watered down, so it’s a tricky place to be.

Roscoe: It’s a tricky place to be. And I feel Ryan was precisely proper, we’re speaking previous one another. And even on the subject of what our historical past is and what we wish to study, we aren’t speaking the identical language.

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PBS Washington Week

February 3, 2023

8:22:30 p.m. Jap

Yamiche Alcindor: You speak about form of this stalemate. Ryan, Jim Jordan shocked me as a result of he stated the police misconduct is a type of the weaponization of the federal government, which I used to be like, I needed to do a double take. However he additionally stated in the identical breath he doesn’t suppose he can not consider any regulation that will cease what occurs to Tyre Nichols. So what are you listening to from Republicans, are they echoing Jim Jordan?

Ryan Nobles, NBC Information: Outline police misconduct, Yamiche. For a Republican like Jim Jordan, it might be the FBI raiding Mar-a-lago — raiding Mar-a-lago to search out categorized paperwork that had been inappropriately taken. It might be Capitol Law enforcement officials roughing up protesters, as they’re known as, as they had been storming the Capitol illegally. That’s a part of the issue that we now have in Washington that Michael factors to, individuals are speaking previous one another. Even this stuff we expect can be type of fundamental data that all of us agree upon, an issue like police brutality or regulation enforcement run amok, completely different Individuals have completely different definitions for these. And significantly within the Home of Representatives, these members are talking particularly solely to these constituencies….

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Alcindor: And Ayesha, I wish to come again to this concept that I’ve been speaking about, are you able to even legislate hearts and minds? In fact individuals even civil-rights leaders say we now have to have new legal guidelines however there may be this lack of humanity individuals are seeing after they see, frankly what they do see Tyre Nichols being crushed the best way he’s being crushed, particularly as he’s calling out for his mom and the identical when George Floyd calledout to his mom.

Ayesha Roscoe, Host of NPR’s “Weekend Version Sunday”: Effectively I imply look we now have to make use of the phrase, we now have to speak about — though these had been black cops, there may be an concept of policing that’s rooted in white supremacy. Like that’s one thing that folks make the argument over and over and that when you will have black our bodies, they aren’t, that black individuals are not valued sufficient. So in case you are able of authority, chances are you’ll really feel like you will get away with treating this particular person like they aren’t human, versus the best way you’ll deal with someone who’s white and harmless. And that’s only a truth. And we now have to actually take care of that if we’re going to take care of the problems of police brutality on this nation.

Ryan Nobles, NBC Information: And that will get again to not simply funding police reform, it talks about funding training it talks about funding meals packages to get rid of issues like meals insecurity and poverty. That is all a part of the systemic issues that results in the state of affairs that we noticed in Memphis that lawmakers simply don’t wish to have a critical dialog about.

Alcindor: We solely have ten seconds left, whilst Ryan talks about training, we take into consideration the truth that the AP African-American research is being watered down, so it’s a tricky place to be.

Roscoe: It’s a tricky place to be. And I feel Ryan was precisely proper, we’re speaking previous one another. And even on the subject of what our historical past is and what we wish to study, we aren’t speaking the identical language.