- I think part of the reason I like masks, in addition to the whole
common decency thing and caring about other humans, is my face seems a lot more appealing when you see less of it. What's up you Beautiful Bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday, welcome back to the
Phillip De Franco Show, buckle up, hit that like button, otherwise it will punch you in the throat, and let's just jump into it. And the first thing that
we're gonna talk about today, you know, I know tonight is
the first presidential debate. There are just 34 days until election day, but I do really want
to hit on the fact that the election has actually already started. According to a report from NPR yesterday, almost a million ballots
have already been cast. And I'll start updating this
list as more states are added. Right now, if you live
in Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan,
parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey,
Vermont, or Illinois, you can actually go vote in person today in what many of these states
call in-person absentee voting. But if you're someone that's concerned that your vote might
accidentally get invalidated because of the mail, or you're concerned about all the doubt that's been cast from, let's say President Trump or whoever, you vote in person today,
obviously be as safe as possible. Know that that is
available to you right now. Then as far as mail in voting, if you live in North
Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia, and you were approved for a
mail in or absentee ballot, they have been mailed out to you. And if you do want one,
you can request a ballot and hope to get approved, but know that all of
these states have rules about who qualifies and doesn't. Also, if you live in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, South Dakota, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Missouri, North
Dakota, or Nebraska, those states have also
sent mail in ballots to those who requested them. However, in these states, you can still request to get them and anyone who wants one is eligible, you don't need an excuse. And finally, all voters in
Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont,
Illinois, and Maryland, should receive mail in
ballots automatically, so keep an eye out for that. Also, if you didn't see your
state listed, do not worry. The upcoming days and weeks will see more states joining these. Obviously all of that, very pertinent information
for the registered voter. Which on that note, if you are a professional procrastinator like myself in many avenues, but for you if you are of voting age and you are not registered,
it is still not too late. But the deadlines for your state
are just around the corner. So if you want to be that change
that you see in the world, you want to be a part of this process, go to vote.org, it has
fantastic resources, and it can also help you
get registered there. I mean this most urgently
starting with South Carolina. You can either go in person to register, or you can mail in a registration. That needs to be sent
and dated before Friday. You can also register online and that deadline is actually
coming up this Sunday. But to that, I say, "Why
then if you can do it now?" Also speaking of this Sunday, that is the last day that you can register if you live in Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Rhode Island. And in all those places,
except Mississippi, you can register online. And actually, if you're in Louisiana, you have until October
21st to register online. And of course, with this story, and anytime we talk about voting, I'm gonna link to a ton
of resources down below if you need any help whatsoever. You know, obviously because of this year, but not just because of this
year, it's a big deal to me. The reason I created this show, I started talking about the news in my early twenties as a young person, I didn't have a lot of people
to talk about the news with, not a ton of people were engaged. And so I kind of sought
out looking for my people. You know, one of the reasons I hit so hard on go register to vote, go vote, is because you could be
a part of a huge change. You know, there's always conversations about how few people
vote in America compared to the whole adult population. But in addition to that,
the United States has one of the lowest rates of youth
voter turnout in the world. You know, there I'm
talking about 18 to 29. I'm gonna expand that to 18 to 35, to fit more of my, almost
my entire audience. And I'm not gonna shit on you if prior to this moment you were like, "I'm never gonna vote." It's very easy to look
around in this country and be disillusioned and feel hopeless. My bestselling clothing literally has the words "emotionally
exhausted" on it, I get it. But that doesn't mean give up. But also I will say, this year, it will be interesting to
see if we do see an uptick. The stakes are the highest they've been at least in my lifetime. It feels less impossible for more people to avoid what's happening. I think it's why you're
seeing people like, even he would call himself one of the last people you would
imagine would say this, you have people like Tyler the Creator, trying to get the youth vote out. - Please, please, if you are young and you're back don't hurt, go to them polls and cast a vote. And I didn't give a about none of that, just like a lot of y'all. This is actually gonna
be my first time voting, but I see the light and a
lot of y'all gonna be like, "My vote doesn't matter "and they're gonna pick who they want." Yeah, you weird, keep that up. Y'all was posting black squares and protesting from y'all phone and rights this and
canceling everybody, pull up. Y'all want a new DA? Pull up. Y'all want all these rights, pull up. - Yeah, I guess the final
thing I would say here is never doubt the power of your vote. There is so much money and so much effort put into this campaign, not only to get you to
vote for the other person, but also to get you or groups
of certain people not to vote. And they do that, not
because it's funsies, but because you do have power. Yeah, that's where I leave that. Then let's talk about a story that is the source of my favorite
headline of the day. "YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week "by killing crowdsourced captions." Yeah, so if you're unaware, YouTube has had a feature
called Community Contributions. Once enabled on a channel, viewers could provide
captions for the video to, you know, help other people. It was something that was
helpful for the deaf community, as well as translations or even just captions in other languages. Something that was especially helpful, considering the alternative was YouTube's automatic captions, which are often wrong. So much so that for a little while we saw a trend of people recreating
videos they uploaded but only using the captions
that were auto-generated. Now, as far as why YouTube
made this decision, they provided an answer but then also seemingly contradicted it. Writing in their announcement, "While we hoped Community
Contributions would be "a wide scale community-driven source "of quality translations for
creators, it's rarely used "and people continue to
report spam and abuse." But then they also say, "We know many of you rely
on community captions, "and thanks to the feedback we receive, "YouTube will be covering the cost "of a six month subscription of amara.org "for all creators who have used "the community contribution feature "for at least three videos
in the last 60 days." All right, I see people pointing to those two statements going, "Isn't
that a conflicting argument?" But a number of those
people very likely having already signed a massive
change.org petition. As of recording this video
over 512,000 people have signed a petition calling for YouTube to not remove community captions. Though, petition aside, it does not appear that YouTube will be
reversing course here. A decision that has inspired
comments like, quote, "We at YouTube understand
what it's like to be deaf "because no matter how much you
protest, we can't hear you." And I will say, personally,
I am torn on this issue. As YouTube has pointed out,
the feature is rarely used with less than 0.001% of
channels having published community captions,
showing on less than 0.2% of watch time in the last month. All right, so that is heavily underused. But with a site as big as YouTube, 0.2% is still a massive number of people, which I think is why we saw so many people sign the petition. So with that, I'm inclined
to think that YouTube actually found a decent middle ground in offering channels and communities that have been using this feature, a free subscription to a service that will allow them to continue it. Though YouTube's decision
to kind off load this on a third party, it doesn't feel great. I guess kind of where
I'll leave this story is if you are a content creator,
I highly recommend you use a third party transcription
caption service. You may not be aware, if you
get to my videos super fast, but we've actually provided
captions for a very long time. We use a service called Rev. It takes a little time because the transcription starts
after we upload to YouTube. Like yesterday's video, for
example, it's 15 minutes, it has captions for English and Spanish, it costs $45, which for
a channel of my size, is not prohibitive. But you know, if you're a much
smaller channel, it would be. Yeah, I think if you are a large creator, there's no excuse for your
videos not to be captioned. Yeah, with this whole story in general, I would love to know your thoughts, Is YouTube completely in the wrong here? Does it make sense for them as a business? Any and all thoughts and
opinions I'd love to know. Then let's talk about sports and COVID. We've seen sports coming back. The NBA with the bubble in Florida. Baseball came back, we saw
that outbreak with the Marlins. And of course we have the NFL, which just finished its third week of the season, and boom! The headline, "Titans have
NFL's first COVID-19 outbreak "with eight positives." According to the NFL, this involves three Titans
players, five personnel. The NFL also saying in the statement that the Tennessee Titans
and Minnesota Vikings, which was the last team
that they played, they have "suspended in-person activities
following these results." The NFL adding "Both
clubs are working closely "with the NFL and the NFLPA, "including our infectious disease experts, "to evaluate close contacts, "perform additional testing
and monitor developments." Though the potential silver lining here is that this might not be widespread, with the Vikings releasing
a statement saying they had not received any positive results from their testing after Sunday's game. This is gonna be an
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these massive updates to the Breonna Taylor
story, and specifically the updates around the Grand
Jury ruling from last week. So Breonna Taylor was, of course, that 26 year old EMT who was shot and killed in her own apartment in what's been largely described
as a botched drug raid. Louisville police were serving a warrant because they believed an ex-boyfriend of Breonna's was using her
apartment to receive packages. Notably, both Taylor and her
boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, didn't have any prior drug
arrests or convictions, and no drugs were found in the apartment. While serving the warrant,
Police say they knocked, they identified themselves
before entering, but Walker as well as Breonna's family and multiple neighbors
have claimed they did not. So because of that, Walker
said that he thought that they were an ex or an intruder. So when police entered by
force, he fired a weapon, hitting one of the officers in the leg. The officers respond by
unloading into the apartment, hitting Briana, killing her. One of the officers,
detective Brett Hankison, blindly fires into the apartment, which also traveled into
neighboring apartments. Where we last left this
story last week was with Kentucky Attorney
General, Daniel Cameron, announcing that none of
the three officers involved in Breonna's death were
charged for her actual killing. With him saying that the
Grand Jury overseeing the case decided not to charge
two of the officers at all, that being Jonathan
Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove. With Cameron also adding
that the FBI found that the bullet that actually
killed Breonna Taylor came from Cosgrove, and noting
that the only person that actually got charged
in this was Hankison, who was charged with three
counts of wanton endangerment. Though, notably here, those
charges are not connected to the death of Breonna Taylor, but rather because he shot so recklessly, resulting in shots going
into a neighboring apartment. In response to this announcement, we saw Breonna's family, their lawyers, and many other strongly condemn Cameron, saying they didn't
believe that he advocated on behalf of Breonna at all, and calling for more transparency and information as to how Cameron presented
the case to the jury. There we saw Cameron refuse to release any Grand Jury transcripts or recordings, arguing that it could interfere with other ongoing investigations. And that right there is very significant because of two major updates. The first is that an anonymous juror on the Breonna Taylor
case filed a complaint in court requesting that all recordings and transcripts from the jury
deliberations be released, and to make it so the jurors on the case can be permitted
to speak about it publicly. This is because the
juror claims that Cameron actually misrepresented
the jury's discussion, saying that Cameron never
actually offered them the option to bring homicide charges against the officers who killed her. Now very notably here, that complaint flagged several remarks that Cameron made during his announcement. In his remarks, Cameron noted that many people would be
unhappy with the decision, but emphasized that his role
was to pursue the truth, present all the facts to the Grand Jury and let them decide, adding... - While there are six
possible homicide charges under Kentucky law, these
charges are not applicable to the facts before us because
our investigation showed and the Grand Jury agreed, that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire
after having been fired upon. - In regarding the
investigations findings, Cameron also said that the officers claim that they knocked and
announced themselves, was backed up by an independent witness. And there, when a reporter asked why the testimony from just one
witness was so credible, especially because, out of a dozen witnesses
they had spoken to, only one said that they
heard the police knock. Cameron responded... - I think the more pertinent question is, what was the evidence
provided to the Grand Jury? What was sufficient for their purposes? They got to hear and
listen to all the testimony and made a determination
that Detective Hankison was the one that needed to be indicted. - And really notably here, when asked if he ever
presented manslaughter or homicide charges to be considered by the jury, Cameron said... - I won't get into the specifics again, the proceedings themselves are secret. But what I will say is
that our team walked them through every homicide offense and also presented all of the information that was available to the Grand Jury, and then the Grand Jury was ultimately the one that made the decision about indicting Detective
Hankison for wanton endangerment. - But in the complainant, we see the juror accuse
Cameron of using the jury as a shield to deflect
accountability and responsibility. And adding that in
Cameron's public remarks about the decisions the jury made, "He further he laid those decisions "at the feet of the Grand Jury, "while failing to answer
specific questions regarding "the charges presented." And continuing that "Cameron
attempted to make it "very clear that the Grand Jury alone made "the decision on who and what to charge," and thus were the ones who decided not to bring homicide
charges when in reality, he was the one who never gave them that option in the first place. With the complaint going on to say, "The only exception to the
responsibility he foisted "upon the grand jurors was "in his statement that they 'agreed' "with his team's
investigation that Mattingly "and Cosgrove were
justified in their actions." The juror then goes on to
argue that it is in the public interest to release the record
specifically because so many citizens have shown a lack of
faith in the legal proceedings and the justice system itself. Saying, "The public interest spreads "across the entire Commonwealth when "the highest law enforcement official "fails to answer questions "and instead refers to the Grand
Jury making the decisions." With them later adding,
"It is patently unjust "for the jurors to be to
the level of accountability "the Attorney General
campaigned for simply "because they received a summons
to serve their community." And with all of that said,
like I mentioned at the top, this is not the only news that
we got yesterday regarding the release of records. During an arraignment
hearing for Brett Hankison, where he pled not guilty to all charges, we saw the the judge
overseeing the case ordering a recording of the Grand
Jury proceedings to be added to the court file by noon tomorrow. Last night, we saw Cameron announcing that he would follow the judge's orders, release the recordings
with him reiterating the statement that he believed the Grand Jury was meant to be secretive and that releasing the
records would compromise the ongoing federal investigation, and it could have unintended consequences, such as poisoning the jury pool. But adding, "Despite those concerns, "that they would comply
with the judge's orders." Also noting the release would address the legal complaint filed
by that anonymous juror. Also saying he didn't have concerns about jurors speaking to
the public and adding, "Once the public listens to the recording, "they will see that over the
course of two and a half days, "our team presented a thorough "and complete case to the Grand Jury." Though, very notably in that statement, he also confirmed for the
first time that he never asked the jury to consider homicide
or manslaughter charges. So now with this story, that we continue to see
developments, we wait. You know, along with some of this, it will reveal information about what was presented to the jurors. You still have a lot of questions about what happened that night and how the investigation
was handled from the get go. Especially because over the weekend, Vice News reported that it
obtained previously unseen video from body camera footage of officers and SWAT team members who
showed up after the shooting. With Vice reporting
that that footage taken by 45 different cameras and included in the investigative file
shared with the AG's office, shows officers appearing to break multiple department policies and corroborates parts of
Taylor's boyfriend's testimony. Adding that "It also raises questions "about the integrity of
not only the crime scene, "but also the ensuing investigation "into what happened that night." The report goes on to give
examples of policy violations, like the fact that none of
the officers who were present for the raid were separated
and paired with an escort. It also says that the footage
shows Hankison returning to the active crime scene and even stepping inside the apartment. After he's asked to
leave by the SWAT team, he's allegedly seen walking up to a SWAT team member on the sidewalk and asking if his body camera's on before the video cuts out. The report also said one of
the other officers present during the raid violated protocols by interviewing witnesses. And in regards to the
parts of Walker's testimony the video backs up, Vice reports that the footage
shows officers threatening to send a narcotics dog to attack him. And when he asked what he
did, Hankison told him, "You're going to prison,
that's what's going on, "for the rest of your life." With Walker's lawyer
addressing the new footage and a statement to Vice saying, "It's all just further evidence "of a coverup to violate
their own policies "and allow suspects involved
in the shooting to have access "to the crime scene and
interview witnesses. "There were some professional officers "who attempted to secure the scene "and protect the integrity
of the investigation, "but unfortunately they arrived too late." Yeah, that is essentially
where we are now. And of course with this story, I would love to know your thoughts. And that is where I'm
going to end today's show. As always thank you for being a part of my daily dives into the news. Also, if you're new here, definitely hit that subscribe button, join the family, maybe even text me at 813-213-4423. You're gonna get notifications, behind the scenes, other cool stuff. But with that said, of course as always my name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been filled in. I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.
