Right-wing homophobe Pat Robertson just did something miraculous: called on police to quit shooting unarmed people.
During the April 15 broadcast of Robertson’s holy-rolling talk show The 700 Club, the televangelist came out against former cop Kim Potter, who has been charged with manslaughter in the killing of unarmed 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Potter claimed to have accidentally grabbed her gun and shot Wright; she claims she was reaching for her taser.
“There’s just no comparison,” Robertson uttered while comparing a model of a taser to that of a gun. “Now how she made the difference, when she shot that poor guy to death, saying this is what I thought was my taser. And if you can’t tell the difference in the feel of those things, it’s crazy.”
Robertson then reiterated that he supports police and the need for law enforcement, though went on to bemoan the death of George Floyd last year, and the recent pepper spraying of unarmed, Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario. Former police officer Derek Chauvin is currently on trial for murder in connection with the death of Floyd.
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“You know, the police in Virginia picked up a lieutenant in the Army and began to give him trouble — and our state police are highly trained, but why they don’t stop this?” Robertson said, referring to the case of Nazario.
“And this thing that’s going on in Minnesota with Derek Chauvin,” he then added. “I mean, they ought to put him under the jail. He has caused so much trouble by kneeling on the death of George Floyd — I mean his neck — it’s just terrible what’s happening.”
“And the police, why don’t they open their eyes to what the public relations are, they’ve got to stop this stuff,” Robertson concluded.
Robertson then went on to undermine his rare moment of sanity and attribute the recent rash of police violence to underpaying officers. “We don’t have the finest in the police department,” he said. “They’re low-paid people… it’s not a question of training, it’s a question of hiring a more superior workforce, and we aren’t doing it.”
Pat Robertson is not a man known for rational argument. In 2017, he attributed the Las Vegas massacre which left at least 59 dead and more than 527 injured to a lack of respect for Donald Trump. Throughout his career in television, Robertson has also demonized queer people, attributing AIDS to God’s judgment, claimed gay men had special rings that would spread HIV, advocated conversion therapy, and claimed a nuclear war would sweep over the Earth if American Christians couldn’t discriminate against queer folk.
BaltoSteve
As the saying goes, The blind pig still finds the sweet sweet truffle every once in a while.
Fahd
Small comfort to Daunte Wright and the other victims killed by police. I guess once it gets to the point where the police have to be concerned about “what the public relations are,” even Pat Robertson will call for action. Calling for action because this killing of innocents is making you look bad, just seems dehumanizing for the victims. I suppose it’s better than the “I support the police” denial of so many others.
ScottOnEarth
Even a broken clock is accurate twice a day. This evil bigot isn’t anyone whose opinion interests me. He’s just plain ignorant and archaic.
Creamsicle
Um, at least where I live a police cadet makes 80k/yr. Where the hell is he getting that police are underpaid? There’s no degree requirement to become a beat cop.
GayEGO
Well after all, Pat Robertson does not want to lose another boy he wants in his closet!
chinadad
Notice he said that Chauvin should be in jail for having “caused so much trouble” (probably the BLM movement). Not that Chauvin killed Floyd.
Mehki
Oh, I caught that.
Invader7
He’ll be dead one day…
skeldare
For some reason I thought this guy was dead. Maybe just wishful thinking.
yendor808
Not yet. He just looks dead.
wade.l
guarantee if it would have been a white male policeman mistaking the gun for a taser he would be justifying the error. This evil man is just as mysoginistic as he is a homophobe. Disgusting article.
HenryHawke
Why does anyone still listen to this raving lunatic? It’s the Pat Robertson’s of this world that are driving people away from Christianity because they preach one thing while behaving in the most unloving and un-Christian way possible. One cop might have put out the ridiculous claim she couldn’t tell the difference between a taser and her pistol, but Pat Robertson doesn’t know his rear end from a hole in the ground! He’s a fraud who’s fleecing people who are desperately trying to survive in a world that is changing faster than they can adjust or absorb. There really is one universal constant and that’s change.
Mehki
Christians literally turned me into an atheist.
yendor808
The killing of that boy is truly heartbreaking and there’s absolutely no excuse for it. But Pat Robertson is a worthless piece of scum and we’re all waiting for him to die. And not soon enough. He looks like he croaked twenty years ago. The Crypt Keeper comes to mind. Tik tik tik. We’re all waiting and will be filled with joy when it happens.
Chrisk
Damnit. Seeing him with the gun I thought this was a suicide post.
Cam
If it had been a make cop I bet he would have been put on paid leave while they “Investigated”. The only cop in Mn that they ever prosecuted before Chauvin was a black cop that shot somebody white, and here is a woman cop who gets charged fast, but remember with Chauvin at first the DA tried to lie and wouldn’t charge him, claiming they had evidence that Floyd may not have died from that?
Josh in OR
Something I’ve always wondered:
Why do Pat Robertson’s cheeks have chins…?
mailliw110
Damn, you just made me look at his face again. Just to see the chins!