00:00You know one of the biggest things we don't appreciate in South Africa, I've
00:02learned to appreciate it since I moved to the US, is what a civil relationship we
00:07have with our police. We can fight with our police when they stop us with not
00:18one thought in your head of losing your life. That's a luxury in America. I didn't
00:23even think about that. I just moved to the US to start working on The Daily
00:26Show and one day I was driving and I got pulled over by policemen right and I get
00:32pulled over by this policeman and being pulled over by the police in America is
00:37a stressful experience because they make it a game show where you've got to try
00:41and figure out what's going on. In South Africa it's simple, straight to the point.
00:47You get pulled over, the Metro Police comes there, he tells you, my friend, you were
00:53spitting. License. Letter, letter, letter. License plus no seatbelt. License. Then
01:01immediately you're in the game. Oh, come on man, come on. Yeah, don't come on nothing
01:04here. Sitbelt wear now. Letter license. Letter license. Is it driving here? Shoemaker. Yeah.
01:10Yeah. Now you're in the game. You know it's time to talk. It's time to work things out. In
01:16America, they don't play that game. Policemen walked up to my window. I was sitting in the
01:20car. Got up there. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Sir, do you know why I pulled you
01:28over? Shouldn't you know why? Why are you asking me? No, I don't know. Sorry, what did you say? I
01:39said,
01:39I don't know why you pulled me over. I pulled you over, sir, because you were speeding. Oh,
01:45okay. I didn't know. Do you know how fast you were going, sir? Did you not check your notes before
01:50you came? I feel like this is part of your, now I'm doing your job and my job at the
01:56same time. Sir,
01:57are you giving me attitude? No, I'm not giving you attitude. I'm just saying you can't ask me why you
02:01stopped me and then ask me how fast I was going. Next thing you're going to ask me to write
02:05my own
02:05tickets. Sir, are you giving me attitude? You're going to get out of this car right now. Sir,
02:08are you giving me attitude? And I was just talking to the guy because I was like, look, man, you
02:11can't, you can't say, here's the craziest thing the cop said to me. He looked at me and he's like,
02:14sir, I'll tell you something. You're going a hundred miles an hour. And I was like, a hundred
02:17miles an hour. He's like, I was like, how did you know that? Where's your, can I see the thing?
02:23He's like, what are you talking about? I was like, show me your, show me your, your gun. And he's
02:26like, I got, no, not that one. Whoa. I want to see the laser gun. Show me the speed. He's
02:31like, I don't, I don't,
02:31I don't need that, sir. I estimated that you were going a hundred miles. I was like, estimated.
02:36What does a hundred look like? You can't just estimate a hundred. So you're just going to look.
02:41He's like, I can do that. Okay. I can look and estimate. I'm like, dude, that's a dangerous
02:44thing to do. So you just look and then you go, that guy's going a hundred. You can't just estimate.
02:47Imagine if I just do that with you where I'm like, estimate standard seven.
02:51Yeah. You can't just do that. I'm sorry. So what did you just say to me? I didn't, I didn't
02:56say any,
02:57I'm look, I'm just saying that it's not fair for you to, like, it's a weird experience with police
03:01over there. And my friend was in the passenger seat. He was shitting himself the whole time.
03:06He was just like, yo dude, shut up. Yo dude, shut up. Shut up, Trevor. Shut up, Trevor. You're
03:10going to get us killed. Shut up, Trevor. I was like, what do you mean? Get us killed for
03:13what? How, why are we getting killed now? He's like, shut up, Trevor. Shut up, Trevor.
03:17I take that for granted because in America you could get shots, you know, and you read stories
03:22and you see stories of black Americans getting shots. And that is true. They get shot at a
03:25disproportional rate, but white Americans also get shot by the police all the time. White police
03:29in America, police in general in America are trigger happy. They don't play games. It's
03:34all racism. There's just police as a whole. Shoot first, ask questions later. There they
03:38are. You, freeze. Should I get that order right? We take for granted the relationship we have
03:51here. In America you read stories of people getting shot because they pulled out their
03:56wallets. In South Africa you'll get shot because you didn't pull out your wallets.
04:05We're always talking. That's my favorite thing about South African police is that you feel
04:11like you're part of what's happening. Pull over. The cop comes there. How are you, sir?
04:18I'm fine. I'm fine. How are you? Yeah. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I don't know
04:23if you saw here. Let me just show you. Let me just. Can you see here? Check the numbers. Check
04:28the numbers. See that one there? Top score. Yeah? See there? Top score, eh? See that number
04:36there, eh? Yeah. What does that number say? Then you're like, it says 160. 160. Yeah? If it was Pac
04:45-Man,
04:45you have an extra life now, eh? Yeah? 160. So, what are we doing now? Ah, malume. Yeah. Yeah.
04:59What are we doing now? Ah, malume. Hey, yeah. I know, my man. I know. They feel your pain.
05:06We're in this together. I almost feel like we need to send South African police. We need to send
05:13South African police to America just so that Americans can learn what it's like to have
05:18a functional police force that's not always threatening to end your life, you know? A police
05:24force where you can communicate, where you can air your differences without fear of mortal
05:30retribution. Wouldn't that be great to have Americans in sticky situations? There they are,
05:38at a standoff. The police pull up. Woo! Woo! All right, we're going to hand you over. We've got a
05:46Sergeant Matabula here. He's a specialist from South Africa. We're going to hand you over.
05:54Hello? Hello, sir. How are you? Man, I ain't coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm greeting you.
06:05How are you? I said, how are you? Don't just shout here. We are talking. How are you?
06:13I'm fine, man. Thank you very much for asking. How are you? I'm doing good. Thank you very much.
06:20Okay, what's going on here, my brother? Look, man, that shit y'all trying to pin on me,
06:25it ain't true, man. I'm innocent. Okay, so just come out and we can talk. Nah, man, I know how
06:32this shit
06:33goes down. Y'all going to kill me or I'm going to spend the rest of my life in jail.
06:38That's not true.
06:39That's not true. Just come out, we can talk. I know what y'all going to do, man.
06:44I got two options. I'm going to die. I'm going to spend my life in jail.
06:48There's another option.
06:52It involves a good drink.
07:05It doesn't have to be this way.
07:24It's not true.
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