Trevor Noah delivered an impassioned, frustrated speech about the latest black man to be killed by police in Alabama.
On The Daily Show, he took a break from his usual comic rundown of current affairs in the US to focus in on the death of Emantic Bradford Jr. After a shooting in a mall in Alabama, police killed the 21-year-old after seeing him flee the scene with a weapon.
After claiming they had caught the shooter, they then found out that they had killed the wrong man and the real killer remains at large.
“How does this shit keep happening?” Noah said.
He continued: “What’s wild about the story for me is that even if we work within a world where the police truly believe he was the shooter, how many times have we seen a shooter who is white and a man get talked down?”
He then mentioned the shootings in Aurora and Charleston as examples of white killers who survived. “Shoot immediately, ask questions later,” he said in reference to how black men are treated by police.
“This was a good guy with a gun, but if the good guy with a gun happens to be a black good guy with a gun, they don’t get any of the benefits,” he said.
“Multiple people heard gunshots and pulled out their guns, but the only one shot by police was a black guy?”
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Trevor on the shooting of Emantic Bradford Jr.: pic.twitter.com/bOiOvwGwE5
Bradford had a permit for his gun and like many people on the scene, he had a weapon on him yet he was the only one to be killed by the police.
“At this point you really come to realise that the second amendment is not intended for black people,” he said. “It’s an uncomfortable thing to say, but it’s the truth.”
Noah continued: “If you’re a black person in America, gun rights are not for you. The safest way to sell a black person a gun is they should say when you buy a gun, you get a white person with it and they hold it for you.”
The murder of Bradford has led to protests in Alabama.
