Maher Calls For #MeToo Movement of Police: If Most Cops Are Good, Why So Many Videos Of Them Being Bad?

Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by addressing police brutality in America.

“We need to stop saying that ‘most cops are good’ like we know that to be true,” Maher said. “I hope it’s true, but I need some evidence… unlike cops. The bad ones, not the good ones. The problem is, again, we don’t really know what that percentage is. That’s what I’m asking tonight. If most cops are good, why are there so many videos of them being bad?”

Maher then referred to a few recent instances of videos that went viral of cops using physical violence on unarmed individuals including a woman on the beach and a homeless man.

“That’s a lot of videos of guys that barely exist doing sh*t that hardly ever happens,” Maher reacted. “This is why NFL players want to take a knee, not because they hate the anthem.”

“It seems to me we need a Me Too Movement for the police,” Maher continued. “If Garrison Keillor had to go away for putting his hand on a woman’s back, perhaps we should decide what should happen when two men pin a woman down in the sand and punch her in the face because I’m sensing a power in-balance here.”

Maher suggested that there’s “a lot of rage” that police work brings out and that we need to help officers “find better ways to channel it” but called on people to call out the men who target the defenseless as “cowards.” He also demanded police to “review their hiring practices.”

“We need better psychological screening to weed out the people who become cops as payback for high school,” Maher said. “We need to ask the question: Are the wrong type of people becoming cops? It’s a fair question. The police attracts bullies like the priesthood attracts pedophiles.”

Maher later clarified that he personally knows good cops who “do their jobs like total pros” and that there aren’t any viral videos of them putting their lives on the line.

Watch the clip above, via HBO.