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CNN Live At Daybreak

Tom Joyner Comments on Current Events

Aired July 15, 2002 - 06:45   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: So what is going to be the conversation at the water cooler as we begin the work week?

Tom Joyner hosts the No. 1 urban radio show in the country. Joining us live from his studio in Dallas this morning with the Monday morning buzz -- good morning, it's great to see you.

TOM JOYNER, TOM JOYNER MORNING SHOW: Good morning, how are you?

CALLAWAY: I'm doing great. You know I'm still amazed at this Iverson story from the weekend, throwing this huge party while under house arrest. I didn't even know you could do that.

JOYNER: I didn't know that either. You know I would -- I would like to -- I'd like to know, you know, where is it that you can be under house arrest until your lawyer gets back from vacation before you turn yourself in. I guess only if you can make a three pointer or score 45 points in a single game at the NBAs that that could happen.

But yes, Allen Iverson, who is going to turn himself in on Tuesday, has been told by the Philadelphia police that he has to stay in the house until his lawyer gets back from his European vacation. So to celebrate, Allen Iverson, who went looking for his wife at his cousin's house with a gun, so he's accused of, threw a party -- an all-night party. They partied in the rain. They played basketball, swam in the -- swam in the pool. He had all his friends and relatives over. Like I said, only if you've got an NBA contract should that work.

CALLAWAY: All right.

JOYNER: I wondering -- wonder what if -- what Coach Larry Brown is thinking now.

CALLAWAY: But we should say technically he is not really under house arrest but does have to stay I guess where the police know where he is. You know I would have loved to have...

JOYNER: Well the police said that once he -- once he -- the police said that once he comes out of the house, he's going to be arrested.

CALLAWAY: True, and he's waiting on his attorney to get there to help him out, I guess. I just would love to have heard that conversation, you know, about who's idea it was to have this party. Hey, you know you may be going to jail next week, why don't we just have a good time this weekend, right?

JOYNER: Yes.

CALLAWAY: Of course the other story everybody's talking about is in Inglewood, California now. Al Sharpton -- Rev. Al Sharpton in L.A. over the weekend and calling on President Bush to make police brutality a national issue. I thought it was.

JOYNER: Yes, it is -- it is. And everyone seems to still be talking about that tape. That tape had a -- had a bigger opening weekend than "Men in Black." And it's disturbing. You guys are showing this tape a lot.

CALLAWAY: Well we're not the only ones.

JOYNER: But -- I know. It's everyone. It's the media. But what's disturbing to me is that the lawyer for the police officer said that the police officer has done nothing wrong because the only thing he did was his job. And then the report came out that the police officer hit the 16-year-old boy that we keep seeing over and over again because he grabbed his groin.

Well trying to put myself in the police officer's place, if someone grabbed my groin, yes, I might -- I might react like that; but I'm not a police officer. I would think that police officers would act differently because they're trained to react in the worst of situations.

CALLAWAY: Right.

JOYNER: And hitting someone like that, a 16-year-old boy who's handcuffed, because he grabbed you in the groin makes you think that that's what they've been trained to do. According to this -- according to this lawyer, this lawyer says he did his job and that's -- and that's real disturbing.

Finally, I've got this one good story from a little town in Georgia where a white supremacist had a rally and no one showed up. They had -- they had -- they had -- they have a total of 75 people that were at the demonstration. There were more police officers than demonstrators. In fact, there were more people attending a ham radio convention than at the white supremacist demonstration, which I guess says a lot about racism today.

CALLAWAY: Right.

JOYNER: Racism ain't what it used to be.

CALLAWAY: Well let's hope not, right? You know got to have a convention like that when nobody shows up. That's a good -- a good plan.

JOYNER: Yes. Yes.

CALLAWAY: Yes. Well have a great week, all right? We'll be listening to you.

JOYNER: You have a good week, too.

CALLAWAY: Bye, Tom.

JOYNER: All right. Bye-bye.

CALLAWAY: Bye.

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