*Steve Harvey has told his three sons the rules on how to deal with police during traffic stops: ‘Submit to every single thing he tells you.’
Of course, many took to social media to remind Steve, who also once endorsed racist culinary host Paula Deen, that even complying with law officials 100% of the time can still get you executed on the spot.
In wake of the recent shootings of black men by police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Charlotte, North Carolina, Harvey assembled a diverse studio audience Thursday for an hour-long show dedicated to improving race relations.
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His panel included both police officers and people who say they live in fear of police. During the episode, Harvey spoke about how he has instructed his three sons on how to respond if they’re ever stopped by police.
“It has been ingrained in us from the time I was taught how to drive, I was taught how to behave when I’m stopped,” he said.
Harvey went into detail about the procedure he tells his sons to follow, everything from hand placement on the wheel to their tone of voice, because in white supremacist America, white cops have the right to kill black citizens for whatever reason they see fit, and no court will convict them for it.
“Submit to every single thing he tells you, and try to get back to the house,” Harvey said.
Harvey tweeted that the procedure doesn’t always work, “but in that moment, the only goal is to try to #gethomesafe.”
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I teach my sons what to do when being pulled over by the police because I want them to come home safely. pic.twitter.com/xpiklNB6IB
— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) September 22, 2016
After the segment aired, Harvey received both praise from viewers on social media about his advice and criticism from cop bootlickers. Emory Law professor Dorothy A. Brown wrote on Twitter in response to the tips that “as we know that doesn’t always work.”
More Twitter responses below:
In the same episode, Harvey talks to Charles Kinsey, the North Miami behavioral therapist who as shot by a trigger happy officer back in July, even though he was laying on the ground with his hands up.
You recall that Kinsey was helping an autistic patient — who was believed to be armed — when an officer shot him. Reports later revealed the officer intended to shoot the autistic patient instead.
“All of a sudden boom, ” Kinsey recalls. “… They come up to me and I asked, ‘Why did you shoot me?’ The first thing he could tell me is ‘I don’t know’… They treated me like I was a criminal.”
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This shouldn’t be normal procedure in our country. pic.twitter.com/YNFrNcARqT
— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) September 22, 2016
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