Law & Order - Negative Peace Over Positive Peace 

Separation of powers.... Yes and no. Not so fast on that conclusion, please. He was there as a citizen. He was not legislating. So, no breach there. Just undue use of influence for his own grandstanding., Call it unethical, but not illegal.

@@showcaseSampa if he's being introduced by the lawyer as a congressman, he's not just a citizen. If he had a connection to the case, and just happened to be a congressman that would be different. But his involvement and attachment to the incident is purely based on his political position, so it would be an overreach.

@@KappaKiller108 His involvement here was as a politician not a congressman despite being introduced with the title of congressman. A politician is just a citizen exercising their civil right to be involved in politics. That fact that he was a politician using the title of congressman is irrelevant no matter if that title was earned or not. If he had been interjecting himself in the lawful proceeding of the court by abusing the function of his position within the legislative branch then that would be a violation of the separation of powers but that is not the case here. All he did was talk. Talking is not a function of the office he holds any more than breathing is; he can talk in court just as much as any citizen can. Of course the judge was correct in her ruling: The lawyer had no cause to call on the congressman to speak at the hearing, especially after the judge had already made her ruling. However that fault is on the lawyer more than it is on the witness. The lawyer should have known better (and probably did know better) than to do what he did so the judge was more than justified in ruling the way she did. Admonishing the lawyer for what he did was entirely justified.

@@g00gleminus96Couldn’t that lawyer be disbarred for doing the opposite of representing his clients for their best interest? He basically betrayed them.

Totally true, he was not even making a legal argument in their defense and instead just reiterating the Congressman's talking points. As for the Congressman I agree he had no standing and should not have been allowed to speak.

Describes sharpton and jackson to a T

@@hint0122 and anyone else claiming "Social Justice" for that matter...

@@RavenheartIndustries Seriously?! 🙄🙄🙄

And the way Richard Brooks said the line was perfect.

@@blf112761 a phenomenal actor, love his moments like this.

She sure did.

Me too. Paul Robinette also deserves credit too. Justice applies to everyone, and if you think that just because you have a particular skin pigment that you should get some leniency, then you're in a whole realm of idiocy.

@@foolslayer9416 ...not only are you right, but absolutely right 100%. Justice serves, and is supposed to serve, everyone. While watching these clips I was thinking about how George Floyd might have been scripted into this sort of episode back then...and I was inwardly shuddering at the supposed repercussions, script or no script...

@@terencedove5047 George Floyd's death had the exact same scenario as this situation. The only difference was that politicians didn't start cowering. Racial rights should not be acknowledged in a lie. Those rights will be lost the moment the world is informed of those lies or someone acknowledges those lies. Martin Luther King stood up for the likes of Rosa Parks that just wanted to seat where she was comfortable, the 6 black women and men that just wanted to sit in a diner and eat or the employee that didn't want to go to a different bathroom because of their skin colour. George Floyd's death was unfortunate but not as a poster boy for minorities rights. Intelligent people can clearly see that he was resisting arrest and the circumstances of his death is still unclear.

@@shahidulkhan9566 Wholeheartedly agree. He didn't deserve to die, of course, but that man was no hero and it sickens me to see him revered as one. If he'd been white the reaction would have probably been "Well, that's too bad but good riddance." Not long before that happened, a black man threw a white child from the top level of the Mall of America because he was in a bad mood. And big shock... no protests, no riots, no paying that child's family millions in restitution. As far as I'm concerned, we were basically being told that innocent white child's life was worth nothing compared to a criminal just because the criminal was black and the kid wasn't.

I loved this part!!!!

Yeeeessss!!!!

Deep

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so he moved to baltimore and became the chief of police

Then how are we seeing it?

Lol your logic is impeccable.

@@adriansrealm Good one.

Politicians nowadays get their powers from the abundance of leering eyes, not truth.

@@adriansrealm Because the cameraman is always invisible. 🤷🏿‍♂️ I learned that from every social media video on earth. 🤨

Never annoy a judge! :D

That defense lawyer knew she was right on all accounts, and knew damned well that she wouldn't hesitate to knock his ass down if he pushed too hard. Amazing scene.

I felt that line from here.

Antonio Costa i can tell u like L&O cuz i see your comments everywhere

@@Swarm509 That's why he didn't say anything after the sentence was given because he knew that the judge was on the verge of blowing up on them. Of course, big mouthed Congressman Eden just HAD to run his mouth for the sake of grandstanding.

Robinette was such a wonderful character

​@@missaniebananie6473totally agree he was amazing

As she should. He was there as a citizen, but he pressured her as a congressman. She stood for separation of powers, the independence of her function as a judge and her power to decide matters that come to her

Bojack727 lmao the judge slapped his ass down and it was glorious to watch

As my mentor once said to me. Often the best way to use the truth is as a blunt force instrument.

Fool Slayer Your mentor is sharper than a katana.

Truly a popcorn moment!

Well, no matter how many ways you look at it. You can't always hide beyond Black Lives Matter. Sometimes I think they forget the world is made up of many different types of people and they would also have a rough time too.

Fancy words can be twisted. Good intentions can be grown in deceit. I'd rather use truth as a blunt force instrument than try and work around a lie with a scalpel.

The Crow City of Angels? That's a deeeeeep cut

I didn't expect to hear that word used in a tv show, it's usually a movie thing

Living in northern europe. What is meaning of this Oreo thing? It's a kind of cookie?

@@ichijiroo yes it's a cookie but think about what an original Oreo looks like and there's your answer.

@@ichijiroo Looks "Black" on the outside, acts "White" on the inside.

I agree with Paul, he's spent his adult life trying to help his fellow Blacks out by fighting for change from within the system while promoting racial equality and how is he thanked for it by large numbers of his people? By being called a sellout, a traitor to his people, an oreo, a corrupt puppet of Whites, etc. People like Congressmen Eden /the politician fanning the flames/ seem to think that the only "true" Blacks are ones who want to tear down the existing system and replace it with ones where Blacks either rule and oppress Whites or where only Blacks exist and White people are all dead and burning in Hell......

I shouldn't find it funny watching a pot call a kettle _white,_ but I do.

The more false evidence in favor of a claim, the more it will look like there is no real evidence. People need to learn that, when the example they've been running with turns out to be fraudulent, that doesn't mean their claim is

​​@@wessltovyou're right. But when built upon a false foundation, other similar claims that are real are cast under a bad light. It builds a lot more doubt in the minds of people which does a disservice to the real claims

​@@rafsolototally agree

And a great cinematic choice to select that particular diner with the street scene outside the windows. It really captured the mood.

@@lucygray6162 Great way to end this episode!

Robinette was hot!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Indeed!!!

It is funny a year ago I saw this and I was like you get him judge. How after so many events in the wold the congressmen has a point.

Richard Brooks is an excellent actor.

He and Dann Florek were axed because the show needed women for balance. Too bad Brooks was not a part of SVU or Criminal Intent, he would have been excellent.

@@generatorx By that point though he'd already done some cameos as a defense attorney. His entire personality & viewpoint had done a full 180, almost in agreement with this congressman.

@@diosoth The character was written that way for his return, of course, but I always though of it as an FU to the guys who got rid of him. There was a seen with him and Claire that made it clear that they were and had been friends which was interesting.

@Bub the Zombie He was also cast as a villain last episode of Firefly - he did a great job of playing a stone sociopath.

Dude, muslim is a religion, not a race. Not every arab is a muslim, far from it.

@@randallflagg3700 You're right. There are plenty of Southeast Asians that are muslims.

Congressman Eden didn't care what Stone was like, he just wanted to advance his career and used everyone in his attempts to do so.

ryan macdonald stone was great, a times too idealistic. One of the the best DA.

Nah

Totally. The acting makes it really flow well.

Season one is one of the best.

@@gawainethefirst Yup!

Over 30 actually, time to get out the walker, my fellow grannies and grandpas 😂

Ostsol She basically said “Try Jesus, not me”.

It’s why I roll my eyes when I see fellow black people say “black people can’t be racist because racism is a form of systematic power”. Like no, racism exists in all forms and colors. And it saddens me how on social media you see hundreds of black people being openly racist but have no idea that they are being racist.

You think because a Black man said it, it means a Black man wrote it, directed it, thought it?

@@kernalbert4939 I did not notice them mention skin color.

@@masteroftheuniverse9929 You don't have to mention it when there is a visual. It's two Black men talking contextually and conceptually about race...

@@kernalbert4939 You mentioned race in regards to who wrote it, directed it, thought it.

@@masteroftheuniverse9929 Yup.

I liked the original crew. Stone, Robinette, and all the original cops. Even Cragen.

@@TheBatugan77 they were good, but I also liked Paul Sorvino and Jill Hennessy too.

Ha ha ha.

Loved Robinette's time as an A.D.A. and was sorry to see him go. I was ecstatic when I heard he was coming back in season 6 in a guest spot.....but I did NOT like the change in him once he became a defense attorney. He became too much like the congressman in this episode for my liking. (SPOILER ALERT) In Custody in season 6, he practically blackmailed a judge to recuse himself from the case based on some racist remarks the judge supposedly had made in an old case Robinette had worked on with Ben Stone. This is a tactic that the congressman in this episode would have thoroughly approved of. Stone had the right idea at the end of this episode that Robinette should think of himself as a lawyer who happened to be black, not a black man who's a lawyer. Unfortunately, at the end of Custody, Robinette tells McCoy for a long time he agreed with Stone, but has now reached the opinion that he was wrong, he was just a black man who happened to be an attorney. I always wondered what had happened to Robinette to make him change his point of view.

I loved that entire scene. A Few Good Men, one of my favorite movies.

Lesson to be learned...... Don't ever cross an educated black momma on her wrong side,, judge or not judge, you are going to get a tong lash from her to set you back to the floor. Mind and mince your words, that is the subliminal lesson.

Yes, I never really understood why people slept on Robinette. The original cast is the best because if they had never made it work, there would be no spinoffs or 20 seasons of L&O.

Close to 70 percent of White Americans had a negative view of MLK in 1966, two years before a White man killed him. You only like King now because he’s dead.

Jamaal Shelton Sure, Jan.

@@giovannirastrelli9821 I mean it's likely if King were still alive he'd be respected now. It's less that he's dead and more that 50-60 years has passed and the country has changed its mindset. But in King's day most white people didn't like him. Their attitude towards him mirrors attitudes toward the Black Lives Matter movement today. MLK was also far more radical than the way he's presented today.

@@giovannirastrelli9821 “Jan.” Their name is Jamaal, Harold.

@@Bheliar *woosh*

The first couple seasons of L&O had some of the best episodes. I miss this show. I can't stand the SVU crap, I miss good police work AND legal wrangling in my crime dramas.

Jamie Garrity you look so beautiful.

Jamie Garrity did you graduate from high school back in 2006?

Jamie Garrity do you wear a Size 10 or Size 12 Shoe and Flip Flop?

Jamie Garrity did you graduate from high school back in 2006?

Prove it. Whenever someone starts with "Fun fact" it's usually not very fun and seldom a fact.

@@FIREBRAND38 He's not lying. It's from the 1st season.

Yeah ... I remember thinking that in all the years, they never re-shot the intro to the show ... just changed the actors at the end walking down a corridor

​@@aggressiveattitudeera887 hfjfjfufhhur

Racism is alive and well unfortunately, and there have been people on all sides who've tried to manipulate it or lie about it to further big or small goals. It's ugly, sad, but true

@@juliantapia1407 Which is why Americans deciding to elect a segregationist with dementia as the 46th is funny.

No they aren't a lot of people still like Special Victims Unit but they also like the original as well. You know I see you video after video talking shit about Special Victims Unit. And like I've said before when you have to talk shit about another show to make yours look better you make your show look shittier in response.

So far as I can find, it's for sell by season on Amazon prime and by the episode on RU-vid.

RexTheDinosaur1 >actually looking through another commentors channel

@hiddenhandmusic okay thanks

That’s why it continues to draw ratings hmm ... yeah people totally dislike it I’m one of the new viewers.

What's the Tawana incident.

@@celsiuskelvon6328 - Tawana Brawley Incident. YOu should be able to Google that or go to Wikipedia to find out the informaiton you need.

Celsius Kelvon She supposedly faked a racial attack on herself that gained national attention (that’s the simplest summary but it’s worth a google)

Obviously

They show them all now.

He lost weight, last time I checked.

It's probably somewhat based on it, or something quite like it. Law and Order in all it's iterations was/is famous (infamous?) for using events "ripped from the headlines" to quote the trope to inform and inspire their episodes.

@@1stAres it's actually 100% based on Tawana Brawley.

In the 80's? That pompous little punk was spreading his victimhood crap well into the 2000's, basically telling black Americans they would never amount to anything, even after we had a black President. He didn't stop his poverty pimp speeches until the police officers in NY were murdered by one of his followers. He was threatened with legal action for indirectly inciting the murders, and he ran for cover, leaving the moms of several gun-victims standing alone at the podium.

@@lucygray6162 That's why I have no patience for the "Reverand" Al Sharpton.

Levi Bradley he was just breaking balls

You ever hear of Flashpoint? I'd say it deserves to be right up there.

And Barney in Silence of The Lambs.

The scenes.. That pelt coat search through the garment district. NY as its finest, a mix of posh and derelict, a far cry from the sanitized and posh gentrified self it became.

I thought I recognized him from somewhere else ...

“Take a seat, Colonel!”

@@nigelft thanks on saying that! I wondered where I had seen him!!!

@@Spider_7_7 Take your seat

OMG How did I not see that sooner?!

Snaaaaake! Bzztbep

Its amazing how many of these episodes are still relevant... some more than when they aired! Great show.

@David Bryant who are the sheep ?

@@Overyvonne Don't you love vague comments such as his?

@@Overyvonne White apologetic Democrats

@@PR--un4ub I have your answer

Yeah I think so. He’s also Burrell in The Wire

It's a damn shame what they did to that dog!

Frankie Faison

Of course it doesn't

Back then, this show’s viewers were mature adults. Now it’s mostly teen girls who only care about ships like Bensler or Rolisi

Well, once the network bigwigs then must've given some artistic latitude, from the pilot to season 1-2. Once the series took off and became a gravy train for producers, advertisers, you know it is bound to get meddled and diluted. Advertisers pay the bills, and they are going to have a say, not for the show artistic quality's best interest. So much is true, Michael Moriarty left, and last I heard, he was running acting workshops for wannabe playwright artists.

Coupled with the last line, about angels and snakes, and the episode almost takes on a religious allegory of some sort.

Eaton is his last name

As a country we've gone back 30 years.

@@anon6116 It depends on what you mean by that statement. If you're talking about the blatant racism of the far left Antifa types, I'd agree. But if you're talking about regular Americans, I would not.

crucisnh No, I wasn't, not even a little. Take your political agenda and take it where it's wanted, it's not wanted here.

@@crucisnh Whine about stupid antifa all you want, but don't ignore Charlottesville, corruption among the police force, or actual hate crimes still going on today.

@@juliantapia1407 Who IGNORES Charlottesville? The media brought it up every change they got because morons who should have been removed from the evolutionary chain kept taking a quote by the 45th president out of context in regard to the incident. I see them ignoring the statistics about Asian hate crimes (it's not white people who commit the majority). I see them ignoring the fact that Floyd autonomous zone is has become a ghetto. I see them ignore the fact that Antifa is STILL committing acts of violence in Seattle and Portland. Defunding the police only hurts the black community.

What happened in that case?

@@mew10521 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T78DwdFUq0c.html&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes

ALL of us were back when this episode first aired, lol! Play the race card, get slammed HARD... >;-)