Drunk Driving Kills, Trevor Noah!

Last week brought another incident. This time in Atlanta, Georgia. Cops get a call about Rayshard Brooks sleeping and possibly drunk in his car, which is parked in a Wendy's drive thru. Brooks complies after waking up, but fail the field sobriety test. Cue a scuffle, him taking a taser, attempting to shoot the cops, cops shoot him, he's dead. Of course, it's brought huge criticism, one of which is Daily Show host Trevor Noah. Basically, he's whining that it's always cops first to the scene and saying because it's not worth dying over being drunk.

Drunk driving is a very serious offense and Noah has no clue how dangerous and how lethal it is. According to the NHSTA, more than 10,000 people a year lose their lives in these crashes because someone was impaired. The reason Mothers Against Drunk Driving was created back in 1980 was because of a mother who lost her teenage daughter to a drunk driver who had repeat DUI charges. It was a way to show the effects of what can happen to an every day citizen. No one wants to see a loved one dead because someone boozed up and ran them over or plowed into their car. I keep thinking of the late Nick Adenhart, the LA Angel pitcher who was killed in 2009 hours after pitching his first game of the season. Andrew Thomas Gallo, who also had repeat DUIs and a suspended license at the time, still has 40 years left on his sentence for killing him and two others. I wouldn't be surprised if he is still feeling regrets of his actions.

Even if Noah wanted to see a good samaritan help, that's not going to solve anything. In fact, it would probably be even more dangerous than cops being told about a drunk driver. I would think the samaritan would be grounds for a warning. They could get hurt badly. In regards to Brooks, he broke the law. DUI's or DWI's hurt your income. Points on a license, potential rehab, car insurance rates going up. But instead of a simple arrest, he escalated by resisting. Tasers may not be the most effective, but they can kill in certain circumstances. This is a case where the shooting is justified and it's not anywhere to the level of what the Minneapolis cops did to George Floyd, and even what happened there is a little sketchy. You don't know what Brooks would do if he continued to use the taser.

Newsflash to Trevor Noah, being drunk is not the issue. Getting behind the wheel impaired is an issue. What Brooks did was wrong and regardless of him being dead, he did not make the situation any better by grabbing a weapon and resisting arrest. Maybe go visit real families who have dealt with drunk driving fatalities before complaining that it's a racism issue and cherry picking stuff to fit your agenda. There is a lot more pain and grief that surviving members have to deal with.