Noah added in how he finds it astonishing that police can mistake other items for weapons, “except their own gun.” 

“And by the way, don’t you find it amazing that cops think everything is a gun, except their own gun. You have a cellphone in your hand, ‘oh that’s a gun!’ You’re holding a wallet, ‘oh that’s a gun!’ Their own gun? No, not a gun, not a gun,” he continued. 

In 2016, white artist and self-proclaimed ally, Cara Levine, created an initiative entitled This Is Not A Gun to promote awareness of the basic objects that police have “mistaken” for guns, resulting in the shootings of unarmed Black people. 

“This Is Not A Gun is a socially engaged artwork whose purpose is to utilize collective creative activism to open space for healing and cultivate an increased awareness around racial profiling, police brutality, and societal trauma in America,” the initiative's mission statement reads.

Some of the items police have perceived as guns include a sandwich, a toy truck, a bottle of cologne and a hairbrush, amongst others. 

“Often my work comes from a problem that I can’t reconcile, that I’m working over in my head, like, how do I understand this? For me, it was I don’t understand how anybody could have ever mistaken any of these objects as a gun,” Levine said, The Guardian reported.  “So I thought if I could slow myself down and understand the objects and recreate them in my studio, make these objects very diligently and slowly through the wood carving process, maybe then I could understand how somebody could possibly make this mistake.”

Additionally, former President Barack Obama wrote how his and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s “hearts are heavy” over the death of Wright, emphasizing the critical need to redefine policing in America.  

"Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man, Daunte Wright, at the hands of police,” the tweet reads. “It’s important to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but this is also a reminder of just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country.”

Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man, Daunte Wright, at the hands of police. It’s important to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but this is also a reminder of just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country. pic.twitter.com/sgcbRjlApr

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 13, 2021

In his soliloquy, Noah also reviewed the footage of the two Windsor, Virginia officers that pepper-sprayed Black lieutenant Caron Nazario while in uniform for “alluding police,” as Blavity previously reported. 

“Please don’t forget, this is how cops treated one of the troops, while he was wearing his uniform,” Noah said. “Not a hoodie, not baggy pants, so what’s the excuse this time, huh? If a Black man in military uniform can’t get humane treatment from the police, then what chance does every other black person in America have?

Noah also asserted that “the police don’t give a s**t” about whether a person is a member of the community or in the military.

“They don’t care that you’re a member of the military. They don’t care if you’re a beloved member of the community. They don’t care if you’re recording them, s**t, they don’t even care if they’re recording themselves,” he said. “And the reason they don’t care is because they know that they’re gonna get away with it.” 

“And until that changes, they’re just gonna keep not caring,” he concluded.