“The trust between police and the communities they serve is clearly a cornerstone of civilized society,” said Oliver, opening the show. To make up for it, one researcher that Oliver spotlighted has been gathering data for years on police shootings, via Google alerts. Related“The phrase isn’t ‘It’s just a few bad apples, don’t worry about it.’ The phrase is, ‘A few bad apples spoil the barrel,’” said Oliver. “And we currently have a system which is set up to ignore bad apples, destroy bad apples’ records, persecute good apples for speaking up and shuffle dangerous, emotionally unstable apples around to the point that children have to attend f—king apple classes! You cannot look at our current situation and claim that anybody likes them apples.”“Snow White wasn’t afraid of apples before she took a bite out of that one really bad one,” Oliver continued.

Source: National Post October 03, 2016 14:48 UTC