Name: Omari Salisbury Checks in from the CHOP in Seattle
Uploaded: 2020-06-20T20:48:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Omari Salisbury Checks in from the CHOP in Seattle' from Tim Heidecker on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Omari Salisbury Checks in from the CHOP in Seattle' from Tim Heidecker on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-20. Transcript available.

good morning hello how are you here call me q you know like i'm i'm fantastic
and i'm i'm actually
right here in the chop one block less than one block from the east precinct
where these guys
have uh the chop residents now call like town square wow so but you're inside
there's no i just
got to take your word for it that's all i got to do i have to take a leap of
faith that you are not
putting me on well i mean i have no problem we can we can walk outside you guys
help me out yes please
do you're not wired in are you are you plugged no but i'm on a laptop instead
of a phone so i don't
want a cable to come out and we got this this microphone right grab the mic bobby
give us a
i got no problem let's let's go let's take it oh yeah let's go we're on the
road we're moving we're
moving we're on the road we're moving we're moving right now especially
accountability is key for yes
no fake news we're gonna walk outside i don't want to lose the wi-fi so we're
not going to go okay
yeah i hear you that actually right behind us are the new barricades that went
up you see there's one
right there it's got the blm the black lives matter on it and then if we go up
the street here we actually
do a morning show here ourselves and they're about they're behind us trying to
set up we need to go a
little bit lower right there behind us about uh 200 feet that's the east precinct
right there and if we
turn down right over here oh got a little choppy there it's getting choppy in
the chop down there so
we literally yeah thank you for calling my bluff we're literally out here
no i want this i want the eyes on this eyes in the sky what about the this is
so our andrew cowlett
do you know all gas no brakes by any chance do you know those guys do you know
that guy all gas you
got to check it out it's terrific he was just calling in and he was saying that
that that area
is kind is like it's like hipsterville or was or whatever it's like well it's
not the way it's being
presented uh by you know tucker carlson as a as a as a actual you know as an
independent media that's
been here from day one well before chap or chop or or chas when it was just
protest i can tell you
that this neighborhood is actually a very uh aggressive seattle capitol hill i
mean although it is the
arch district you got a lot of first responders that live here and also a lot
of tech bros from amazon
google and facebook who actually gentrified the neighborhood and so that's the
that's the the heart and soul of actually who's pushing this right then on top
of that you have
all these other people who come in so the people that are living in that square
that four block
square area are supportive of what's happening well so here's here's the story
and i'm glad that you
asked and we'll just wait right there bobby um i'm glad i'm glad that you asked
because see
really what happened is is how all this started is people wanted to peacefully
march past the east
precinct the police refused to let them do that and then like not this monday
like this last monday but the monday before is when it got funky and i'm the
one who filmed that
actual pink umbrella footage showing the police starting the riot over there
and that the police put so
much tear gas and pepper spray and rubber bullets into the mix that the
residents just got pissed man
right i mean they live in the neighborhood and that's why this has been
sustained this isn't
like a destination protest where you got to go down to wall street or down to
downtown right these
are the people who live in the neighborhood who are like yo this is
unbelievable that their police
department would have such a disproportional response so a lot of people who
didn't even
care about police didn't know who george floyd was you know tear gas got in
their house made
their kids sick and they came out on the streets that's beautiful i mean it do
you feel like there's a
complete insane i mean it's just this insane uh uh disconnect between what's
happening in in front of
your eyes and the way that trump talks about it or tucker carlson or they're
going to bring in the
national guard i mean it's it's you must be feeling like you guys got to come
down here and see what's
happening well yeah i mean what we see and actually i was on the phone with the
associated press for an
hour yesterday because they did their their fact checking or myth busting and
everything else and some of the
questions they asked me i was like man are you serious like like one of the
questions was are we
here that people neighbors in jazz are going door to door looking for rations
and i'm like dude there's
a trader joe's three blocks away and a kroger two blocks away i'm telling the
ap people this and they
were very serious they were like no these the reports were here and then it was
like that the
they're checking people's ids and everything they'll be honest with you it's
become such a tourist
destination they might need to add a visa fee around here yeah but but because
the people are coming
in i was gonna say you're opening up the barricades to let the oat milk
delivery come in right i mean
you gotta let me make sure the oat milk is getting to people so right right no
man it's it's it's been
real interesting out here and it's what also what's been interesting is that it
has been sensationalized man
you know i mean and it's not perfect as a journalist you know i see both sides
of it and i see
that there's people that are out here that are um you know i mean they're they're
making it up on the
fly to be honest with sure you know it's messy it's going to be messy it's
going to be it's not going
to be a perfect situation it's going to there's going to be people that take
advantage of a situation
but the spirit of it seems very true and very uh you know positive right well
the thing is too you
got to remember tim all these guys wanted to do was peacefully walk past the
precinct they never asked
for a precinct man they didn't expect the police to just i mean the police were
like sure no problem
no one expected that really meant that they were going to board it up and leave
they just thought
they were going to remove the barricades out the streets right and so the
protesters went from some
guys that were just protesting to now they have like a 200 million dollar
building in their asset in
their hands they never asked for that they haven't now they're making the best
of it what they can and
that's what you need now it's the chop yeah well i gotta get up there and come
in and you know hang
out i don't know what why not i love it i'm gonna tell you we got a very big
production loft here man
you know what i'm saying yeah uh that's right here literally right next to the
east precinct you come
up here to seattle man we love to host you it's a real we should do a do a
remote show from the chop like
over the summer what's going to happen when it gets because it gets it could
get nasty there and
see i know weather believe me i've been up there when it gets you know you got
to get in so you
can't be outside what's going to happen well i'll tell you like this tim you
know i'm saying you're
our guy so you can stay over here in the law okay but if you weren't our guy
and i'll tell you that
people can also rent a tent on airbnb there's there's tents that's amazing go
there you know but you're with
best though okay all right all right omar well thank you for your on the ground
first person
uh perspective i appreciate you calling in and best of luck and be safe and uh
god bless you for
for the work you're doing right on guys talk to you soon peace