‘America isn’t a racist nation’: Brandon Tatum schools the BBC

"First of all, I think most of what I heard on the broadcast all the way here is confusing to me," Tatum said. "I think we're living in the twilight zone. This conviction, in my personal opinion, did nothing for our country, I mean people are living a lie."

Tatum noted the swiftness of Chauvin's trial and conviction, arguing that it was unusually quick for a murder trial. "I'm not really sure why people are acting like this is monumental," he said.

"Also, he did not get a fair trial in my personal opinion," Tatum continued. "There was a lot of obstruction that happened, they paid the family out $27 million before the jury could be selected. I mean, they're gonna have a case in appeal, so I don't know why people are celebrating."

"This is not a landmark case, I think people are, this is a political agenda. They're pushing lies in our country," Tatum said. "Policing in America is not inherently racist, we do not live in a racist country."

Tatum also resisted the claim that Chauvin murdered Floyd out of racism, saying that Chauvin "did the wrong thing" but that Floyd just "happened to be black," suggesting that an incident like this one could have happened to anyone.

Tatum also criticized President Joe Biden's remarks about the Chauvin trial prior to the verdict, suggesting that Biden was seeing racism where there was none.

"President Biden is an idiot in my personal opinion, and he's just talking because he's a politician," he continued. "Systemic racism, I mean, if you look at Joe Biden himself, he spoke at a Ku Klux Klax member's funeral and did the eulogy of Robert Byrd."

"We don't have a problem with racism in our country, we have a problem with people not following the law. We also have a problem with politicians making up things so they can get reelected."

When asked why black people are more likely to be killed by police than white people in America if not because of "systemic racism," Tatum noted that more white people are killed by police than black people on an annual basis.

While about twice as many white people are killed by police in the United States compared to black people, there are approximately five times as many white people in the country as there are black people, making the average black people more likely to be shot by police than the average white person.

Tatum brought up the example of Tony Timpa, a white man from Dallas, Texas who was killed by police in a manner similar to George Floyd. Tatum noted the lack of outrage surrounding that killing compare to that of Floyd's arguing that the mass publicity surrounding Floyd's murder was driven by political reasons.

He also noted that the crime rate among African-Americans is significantly higher than among white Americans, and that the police officers who patrol black neighborhoods are often themselves black.