Speaker 1: It was the Casual Killing Act of sixteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: and it stated, should a slave be killed as a
Speaker 1: result of extreme punishment, the master should not face charges
Speaker 1: for murder.
Speaker 2: And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: And I know I can hear somebody saying it right now,
Speaker 1: But come on, dude, you're talking about the sixteen hundreds
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty nine.
Speaker 2: Really, and they're right.
Speaker 1: But funny thing how history has an interesting way.
Speaker 2: Of repeating itself.
Speaker 1: See the first half of the Casual Killing Act of
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty nine. Law stated, and if any slave resist
Speaker 1: his master or owner, or other person by his or
Speaker 1: her order correcting such slave, and shall happen to be
Speaker 1: killed in such correction, it shall not be accounted felony.
Speaker 2: But the master, owner.
Speaker 1: And every such other person so giving correction, shall be
Speaker 1: free and acquit of all punishment and accusation, as if
Speaker 1: such accident had never happened. Now that was followed by
Speaker 1: and also if any negro Mulatto or Indian, bond or free,
Speaker 1: shall at any time lift his or her hand in
Speaker 1: opposition against any Christian not.
Speaker 2: Being Negro, Mulatto, or Indian.
Speaker 1: He or she so offending, shall, for every such offense
Speaker 1: proved by the oath of the party, receive on his
Speaker 1: or her back thirty lashes. One of them situations worth
Speaker 1: the white person say you did it, You did it,
Speaker 1: and you're getting them thirty lashes. Now, I saw an
Speaker 1: interesting parallel by Viola Davis, and it was with Brionna Taylor.
Speaker 1: Remember her killed by the police while she lay sleep
Speaker 1: in her bed and the officers were pardoned. Should a
Speaker 1: slave be killed as a result of punishment, master should
Speaker 1: not face charges of murder. See when the Kentucky Attorney General,
Speaker 1: Daniel Cameron said that Brianna's killing was justified because the
Speaker 1: shots fired at her were in response to her boyfriend
Speaker 1: shooting at the cops. With the Attorney General only charged
Speaker 1: one of those three officers and the charges were for
Speaker 1: one time endangerment. Yeah, that was for shooting into the
Speaker 1: apartments of Brianna's neighbors. It was like no killing even
Speaker 1: took place, or, as the law stated.
Speaker 2: No such accident ever happened.
Speaker 1: Man, the similarities to the Casual Killing Act are obvious.
Speaker 1: Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were stalked, their
Speaker 1: homes were violated, and Walker, the boyfriend, was punished for
Speaker 1: raising his hand in opposition. Yes, there was a new
Speaker 1: law created, Brianna's Law, and a twelve million dollar settlement
Speaker 1: that was awarded to Brionna Taylor's family, but justice still
Speaker 1: wasn't served. It rarely is hell. Trayvon Martin's killer gets
Speaker 1: paid to make public appearances and sales artwork for upwards
Speaker 1: to one hundred thousand dollars for some of his pieces
Speaker 1: to his fans. Man, when cops kill black folks, that
Speaker 1: ain't negligence, coincidence, and they ain't accidents, it's damn near
Speaker 1: a legal right woven into the fabrics of the first
Speaker 1: laws of this country.
Speaker 2: And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: No,