April 24, 2026

Crime Wire Weekly 4/24/26 | Multiple Louisiana Mass Shootings Shock Bayou State, Boat Captain’s Random Attack

Crime Wire Weekly 4/24/26 | Multiple Louisiana Mass Shootings Shock Bayou State, Boat Captain’s Random Attack
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Season 10

Apologies this is late, we were waiting on some updated information regarding a horrific mass shooting that occurred in our area in the past 24 hours and wanted to bring you as much updated information as possible.

Timestamps:
00:31 Tragedies in Louisiana
05:30 Press Conference Reactions
11:37 Accountability in the Judiciary
16:28 The Impact of Gun Violence
18:22 A Shift in Baton Rouge
18:44 Shreveport Mass Shooting
22:16 The Aftermath of Domestic Violence
24:56 Police Pay Raise in Baton Rouge
30:47 A Bizarre Attack in Hawaii
36:17 Teacher Misconduct in Miami
38:18 A Fire Captain's Brutal Crimes
43:03 Cleaning Lady Assault in Ohio
48:53 Disturbing Case in Wales
52:30 A Shocking Fraud Scheme
57:14 Foolish Actions of a Delivery Driver

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Hey everyone and welcome back. Got a jam packed show

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for you today. And before we get into it, before

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we get into the topics, I want to let everyone

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know we did record this actually yesterday.

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Did we though we did?

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Did we? Jim? We did, but we had a problem.

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We only recorded video. There was no audio, so we

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were miming everything for it was an interesting episode.

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Yeah, we were like, maybe they can just read our

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lips right right, make.

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It real tough, So we were re recording this today.

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Today is Friday, so we'll get this out of cent

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as possible. But to get into the topics, five people

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have been injured in one killed in the Mall of

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Louisiana shooting. We're going to talk all about that eight

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children killed in Louisiana during a domestic shooting. In shreport,

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we'll also be talking about BRPD receives a massive pay

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raise aimed at building numbers in the bat and Ridge

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Police Department. We're gonna discuss that snorkelboat captain has been

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stabbed in a random shooting. A bizarre story war.

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He wasn't stabbed in a random shooting.

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I mean, I'm sorry, well, a random attack.

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I know what she said. He was stabbed in a

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random shooting.

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So many shootings above it, it's like everything seems like

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a shooting, but yes, a random attack. A Florida music

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teacher grooms a student in a bizarre way with the tattoo.

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In California, a fire captain kills his fiance and his

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son over a movie argument.

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Because that's logical, you.

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Know, it's drop of a hat. Now with all these things.

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A house cleaner was stabbed and sexually assaulted during an

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appointment with a homeowner. To give a quote. A man

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stores a mom's body so his mother he stores her

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body in a freezer to collect her pension.

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Do you feel like we're on real in the real

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world right now when we're reading these topics.

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No, it's absolutely crazy. It's unbelievable. And when you try

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to look for you know, every now and then you

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talk about these crimes and it's like, I want to

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find something not so heavy. Good luck with that. Yeah,

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everything's heavy.

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Yeah, And you don't want to become jaded, and you

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don't want to be like, oh wow, eight kids shot

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and then move on, you know, because that's a bad

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place to.

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Be, very bad place to be. So we've got a

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few more as well that we'll be bringing your way.

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But we're going to go ahead, jump right into it.

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And you know, yesterday we recorded that episode. It didn't

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have any audio with it, so we're re recording that.

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But in the meantime, a very tragic incident took place.

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So in some ways it's maybe good that we have

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to rerecord it because we can bring people this story

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is it's breaking sadly at the Mall of Louisiana, which

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is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Six people were shot with

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one being killed in a mass shooting. And I'm not

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gonna do the standard thing that I do, which is read,

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you know, an article covering the actual crime itself or

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what occurred. I'm going to go off my bullet points here.

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So there was a call to nine one one that

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was placed at one point two pm yesterday, So we're

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recording this on Friday. This was Thursday, this occurred, and

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that call said there was an active shooter at the

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Mall of Louisiana. Police then dispatched obviously multiple agencies to

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report to this. There was a huge police presence. They

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acted very quickly, super fast.

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It was impressive. If you said impressively the video that

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what's the word amateur just people filming.

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They came ready, they came ready, and they found six

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people shot. All those were transported to the hospital. Tragically

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one died. Reports are saying that was a seventeen year old.

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Investigation ensued and it was through this investigation that it

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was determined the shooting all transpired over an argument of

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some sort that turned into a gunfight in the food

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court of all places, and innocent victims did get caught

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in the crossfire between these two factions that were fighting

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each other so quickly, within hours, five people were taken

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into custody. No word yet on what that argument was over.

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And one of those individuals, incidentally, was a well, I

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don't know if he was a Livingston Paris resident, but

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they did catch him in the Watson area. He was

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a person of interest. They detained him. They did, upon

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detaining him, find him with some drugs and also they

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found him with possession of a firearm, which was an

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issue because this kid, and he was just harassed, did

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and charged with letting a firearm go off that he

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had in his possession at a stream of High school

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in Baton Ridge. Now in that case, he was put

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on an ankle monitor. He was then released to go

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home penning his trial. However, two days ago they allowed

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the ankle monitor to be removed and him go about

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his life until the trial and two days later. He

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is considered a suspect in the case originally, or at

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least a person of interest, but he was arrested for

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the other charges. He was not technically arrested in this

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particular incident, although he is considered a person of interest.

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Kelly's gonna pick up here and just say a little

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bit about a two pm press conference. Everybody came out

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from the Senator in Louisiana, Rick Edmonds to the Governor

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of Louisiana and Jeff Landry, the sheriff of East Baton

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Ridge Parish sid Gotro and also the chief TJ. Moores

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of the bat and Ridge Police Department.

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Yeah, like to your point, like you said, there was

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a lot of leadership that was in the room at

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this press conference, everybody from the top down. It wasn't

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like it was just a small press conference with a

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sheriff and a you know, maybe a homicide detective sitting

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there and giving out a little bit information. So the

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point I guess if they were trying to make that

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they all were invested in, this was well made by

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who was behind the camera. Now what was found out

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was that although they had these five people, those people

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have since, like Jim said, not been so much put

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in the spotlight. But a seventeen year old has now

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come forward and turned himself in. And this was seventeen

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year old Markel Lee. Now he didn't turn himself in

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right afterwards, and from what I read in another report,

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he too came in with a lawyer in hand. But

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he has been officially charged with one count of first

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degree murder, five counts of attempted first degree murder, and

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illegal use of a firearm. Now to that note here,

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everyone's like, oh wow, he's seventeen years old. Yeah, And

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they also have said that he has a juvenile criminal record,

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which I don't think is very shocking for me personally.

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In this instance, the victims have not all been named,

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but they have been released on multiple outlets that we've

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looked at. One victim, seventeen year old Martha Elizabeth Odom.

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Her autopsy report did come back and show that she

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was shot in the chest and did ultimately succumb to

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those injuries, and she was a senior, you know, a

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senior in high school that was just on her senior

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skip day and they came down, a little group of

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kids came down just to have some fun and go shopping.

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In this press conference, a lot of people came out,

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as you said, really preaching the violence in bat Urge

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has to stop. It appears they're drawing a line in

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the sand. And Jeff Landry, the governor. Governor Jeff Landry

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actually went off on judges in Louisian And of course, look,

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there's hundreds of good judges, I'm sure, but there are

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a few that have made questionable decisions.

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I want to talk directly about our judicial system. You know,

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judges hold enormous power, but they are not social workers

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with a gavel. They are the final gatekeepers of public safety.

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And I'm talking about both at the state level and

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especially in the Middle District, at the federal level as well.

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People say, we cannot arrest our way out of this problem,

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and they are right, but we can sentence our way

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out of this problem.

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So let me be clear.

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Judges who continuously release violent offend us back on our streets,

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who fail to use the full authority of their office

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to protect the public.

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Are going to be held accountable.

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When judges refuse to enforce boundaries or consequences. They're not

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rehabilitating anyone. What they're doing is abandoning young people until

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a tragedy like this becomes inevitable. And you know what,

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that's not justice, that's negligence that's masquerading around as mercy.

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The people in.

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Louisiana expect judges to uphold the law, to apply serious

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consequences for serious crimes, and to prioritize the safety of

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our citizens.

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Above all else. If a judge chooses.

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To hand down weak sentences to known violent actors, if

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a judge decides to turn violent offenders loose with minimal restrictions,

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if a judge fail to treat gang driven violence without

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the gravity it deserves, I am going to call them

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out individually, publicly, clearly, and directly, and I mean even

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the federal judges as well, because when a judge fails

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to impose the appropriate consequences, that failures should not fall

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on the state. It should fall on the judges shoulders.

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And when they fail to do their job, they put

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innocent people in danger. I'm asking the legislature for a

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full while the session is going on, for full and

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holistic review of our sentencing laws. I will support again

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reforms that ensure judges have built the authority and understand

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the obligation to keep dangerous individuals off of our street.

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We are no longer going to except complicity on our bench.

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Everyone including judges, will be accountable for public safety.

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And we're not just.

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And while we're talking about accountability in action, I'm asking

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that in coordination with local, state, and federal partners, including

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all of our law enforcement components, the National Guard, atf FBI, USDJ,

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I am asking them to prepare for a targeted warrant

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sweep focused on the individuals and the neighborhoods that these

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individuals came out of, or anyone who's connected to this incident.

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And I'm hoping that in the coming days we will

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be executing warrants on every outstanding individual that is tied

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to this activity. No one is out there holding those

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judges accountable when they just continue to allow it will

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not surprise me as the people who are involved in

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this before it's all over, don't have an extremely lengthy

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reps sheet. We probably won't see all of the juvenile

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misconduct that occurred because we've hidden that from the general public.

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It's a debate that we had in the legislature last year.

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In fact, people that go into commonplaces and decide to

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engage in that kind of violence, we should put them

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away for life. I'm done with them. It doesn't matter

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how old they are. Somebody has failed. It's not the

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government's job to raise these people.

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It's common sense.

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Not to go into a public space with a gun

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and start shooting around blindedly. We got a great We

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got eighteen thousand acres that ain't gold, and if it's

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up to me, I'd send them all there for the

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rest of their lives.

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Judges are the say so in this and we the people,

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have no one else to mitigate this issue for us.

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The police can do the policing and the arresting, and

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then the prosecutor comes in and does the charging and

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puts the cases out there. But if a judge lets

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them walk, what are the rest of us supposed to do?

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That's right?

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Who else is there?

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Well? And it's becoming a revolving door, and that, yes,

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that's not something you want. In the criminal justice system.

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There has to be consequences. Look, when you're raising kids,

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you got to have consequences. Everything you do has a consequence.

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Your kids need to know that same thing. In the

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criminal justice system. If there's no consequences or light consequences,

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you're not going to stop these people from doing what

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they're doing. So the state of Louisiana, or the leaders

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of the State of Louisiana, if any shout to the

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federal government and they're wanting to do something like occurred

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in Washington, d C. It sticks out to me where Washington,

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d C was crime ridden and it helped a lot.

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It does help, it's not going to help the law

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long term issues because I think a lot of this

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comes down to the parents. It comes down to the

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way these kids are raised. It comes down to parents

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letting their kids run all over the place and not

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paying attention and not being in their business, and they

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got guns and everything else in their possession and their

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parents are just ignoring that fact. Well, you know that

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carries a lot of responsibility here. Yeah.

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Well, and I also when I was watching the press conference,

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I made the mistake of reading the comments that people

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but I mean they're voters, but that people were making

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in these comments, and I was seeing most.

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Of them probably aren't voters.

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Well I guess old enough to be. Yeah, And I'm

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seeing comments like when Landry said, you know, we can't

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arrest our way out of this, but we can sentence

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our way out of this, and people were like, oh,

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that's not the right thing to do. You can't just

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throw people away. Well, I have news for everyone listening

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to this. Martha Elizabeth Odom seventeen years old. Her life

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was thrown away. Her life was thrown away, she lives

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no more. And so we have the fact that we

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have people that are almost If you are going to

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say that there is that that should not be handled

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at a maximum level. I don't care that this shooter

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was only seventeen years old. You murdered somebody, and you

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had choice, and you chose to do it, and you

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already had a criminal record as a juvenile. That tells

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me you don't learn. You are not a quick learner.

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You are to me, you are actively going against anything

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that you are spiting and laughing in the face of

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any judge that you've gone before at this point, Right,

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That's all that tells me. Right, I mean, as a kid,

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I got my ass whooped whenever I acted up, and

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I was better for it because I was afraid of

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my mother. Me going before a judge was never even

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a thought, you hear me, like, like.

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Never even Yeah, And it's so your mother raised you

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to have consequences. It's still things you did. These kids

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don't have, right.

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I got a healthy respect for authority.

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Yeah, there are very limited cases in the world where

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I understand. There's some parents out there do everything they

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can and they are trying as hard as they can,

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and these kids are just uncontrollable. And I get that,

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but that's not the majority of cases. That's a small

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percentage of the overall spectrum of this. So that being

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pro that's the long term deal that everybody needs to

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focus on, is getting control of that situation. But this

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right now is like an epidemic im batin rage, and

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the only thing that's going to solve that is something

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like a National Guard coming in there and just restoring order.

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All you're wanting to do is restore order, because right now,

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bullets are flying everywhere for those lessening outside of Louisiana.

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And we live in Livingston Parish, which is literally two

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miles from Baton Ridge, and in Livingston Parish, I would

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I would say we are relatively safe. We don't have

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the issues related to murtyrs and things of that nature

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that Baton Ridge does. And it really speaks to the

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job that our Sheriff's office does in our city police

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departments do here in Livingston Parish because it is by

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sheer miracle that we don't have to deal with what

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they have to deal with there. We don't have the

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shortages they have there, like on brpd's case where they're

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one hundred and fifty. Office are short. So this is needed.

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When you're short to this amount and your city is

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literally being taken over by a bunch of thugs, something

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has to break. And I can tell you the citizens

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of East Baton Ridge Parish, the citizens surrounding that, because

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guess what, I don't live there, but my wife works

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there and all my kids go to school at LSU,

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and I'm gonna tell you right now, I get nervous

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every time they cross that rub. I don't like it,

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and nobody else does either. Of that are good law

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abiding citizens that live in this area, and I think

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it's high time something like this is done because the

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Hugga thug programs ain't working.

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They're not gonna ever work.

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They're not working.

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Here's how about this. A thought to ponder before we

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move on to the next story is that had that

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shooter been handled as a juvenile when that record was going,

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he may not have been in the position to be

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able to acquire a weapon and be free walking around

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that mall to murder people just a few hours ago.

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We're gonna stay right here in Louisiana and we're gonna

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go to Shreveport, where, in one of the deadliest mass

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shootings in the United States in more than two years,

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eight children were fatally shot early Sunday morning in a

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domestic violence incident that spanned two homes in the Cedar

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Grove neighborhoods south of downtown Shreveport. Suspect thirty one year

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old Shamar Elkins, a US Army National Guard veteran who

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served from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty, killed seven of

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his own children and one relative before fleeing the scene.

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He was later killed by police following a pursuit into

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neighboring Bosier Parish. Two adult women, including the mother of

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seven of the victims, were critically wounded, but are expected

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to survive. And I have to say real fast that

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my heart and my thoughts and my immediate prayers are

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with this woman, because I don't know how you go

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forward when you are told all seven of your children

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have been murdered. The shootings began before sunrise on April nineteenth,

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and what authorities described as an execution style domestic dispute.

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Elkins first shot a woman at one residence before driving

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to a second home where the children were gathered. Seven

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children were killed inside of the house. One child was

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found dead on the roof after apparently attempting to run,

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and another child jumped from the roof and survived with injuries.

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The victims, identified by the Caddo Parish Coroner's office were

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three year old Jayla Elkins, five year old Sheila Elkins,

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six year old Calea Pew, seven year old Leila Pew,

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ten year old Marcaden Pew, eleven year old Sariah Snow,

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six year old Kadarian Snow, and five year old Braylen Snow.

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The victims included five girls and three boys. Seven were

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Elkins children, the eighth was his nephew. Family members described

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the babies as happy kids with friendly sweet and friendly

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and sweet. Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Chris Bordolon confirmed that

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ten people were struck by gunfire in the incident, which

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police characterized as entirely a domestic incident. So Elkins and

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his wife were reportedly in the midst of a separation,

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and they were scheduled to appear in court the following day. Elkins,

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who did have a prior twenty nineteen firearms conviction, fled

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the scene Carjacktavis, and then he was pursued by officers

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before he was shot and killed by police behind a

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home in Bojer City. Now Shreveport officials expressed shock and grief,

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and police Chief Wayne Smith said, I just don't know

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what to say. My heart has just taken Aback. Mayor

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Tom Arsenal called it maybe the worst tragic situation we've

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ever had. The incident marks the deadliest mass shooting in

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the US since eight people were killed in a Chicago

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suburb in January of twenty twenty four, and as investigators

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continue to piece together the timeline, the Shreveport community and

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the state of Louisiana are left grappling with the unimaginable

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loss of eight young lives. And what authorities say was

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a domestic argument.

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Yeah, and you know, two stories back to back that

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you can make no sense of in your mind. In

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this case, this guy killed seven of his own kids

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and another child that was totally innocent. Domestics very dangerous

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situations to be with. If you talk to police officers,

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nine out of ten times, they'll tell you the worst

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call that they go on and the one whether radar

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is up the most is domestics. So much emotion is

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involved in domestic calls. I can't make sense of this.

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There's not even you know, much outside of praying for

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these families that I can even comment and say. It

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makes absolutely no sense to me. It's like, you know, calculus.

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And two things. Two things. He already had a prior

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gun conviction, just like in the shooting at the mall,

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the guy that's a subject of interest right now already

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had a gun issue. Okay, this is this is not

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rocket science that you know. I'm not saying that they

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could have prevented necessarily him going and doing a mass

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casualty incident like this, But the proof is that he's

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already got a conviction and then but that only matters

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if you follow the law exactly.

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Obviously doesn't care about the law exactly, So the fact

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that he shouldn't have a gun doesn't mean it doesn't

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play a rolecause he don't care.

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And this might be just on more of a personal

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note here, but it frustrates me and incidents like this

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whenever they bring up their military experience and they try

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to somehow work that into mattering, because when you go

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to shoot your children, I think that you've kind of

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There's lots, there's plenty of honorable, great military servicemen and

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women and they would never do anything like this, And

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I don't know why, but it irks me when they

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tie that in as if it was somehow related.

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Well, I think that there's two schools of thought there

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that maybe they're trying to get at one. They're showing

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he had experience with guns, he knew his way around

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a firearm. If you're in the national war, are you

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not a shoot? You're trying to do all they saying

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that might have been one thing they were leading to,

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or they could have been leading up to. Maybe there

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was some PTSD issues going on with this guy, uh

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that caused us. Obviously, I don't consider that any kind

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of excuse, but you never know what the media.

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Yeah, they could have said who worked at Walmart.

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It's probably worth mentioning because it shows that he was trained.

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I guess to that point, I could, but he was

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also has a prior conviction, so we could have We've

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mentioned that he he used guns before too, So I

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get what you're saying there, but I don't know. I

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just don't like that. It seems to kind of shed

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light on on something that not you know that there's

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good people that I don't know. I don't I want

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that to reflect to reflect on that, but you know,

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good luck in hell man, because this is unacceptable and

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there's nothing you can ever say that would excuse that

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that behavior.

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Right, all right, let's get back to and we're of

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course going to stay in Louisiana, uh, because I brought

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you this story just two stories ago about the five

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people being injured and one killed in the Louisiana shooting

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and some things that Baton Rouge is trying to do

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to curb this problem. So they're trying to make improvements,

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and one of those things that passed just I believe

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a couple of days. As a matter of fact, I

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believed the day before. It was Wednesday when it was

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passed through the Metro Council, and that was a major

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pay raise for the Baton Ridge Police Department. The Metro

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Council actually approved the largest pay raise in the history

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of not only the department, but it also This pay

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raise is so significant it makes them one of the

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highest paid, or rather the highest paid police department in

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the state of Louisiana outside of the Louisiana State Police.

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So under the approved plan, starting salaries for police officers

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will increase from approximately forty thousand to forty one thousand

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a year, which is I couldn't believe they got paid

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only forty thousand a year to police freaking Baton Rage.

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But it's looking good now it's going up to fifty

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eight thousand a year annually, and after their first year

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of service they could earn up to sixty five thousand

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a year. Now, all sworn personnel will receive at least

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a fifteen percent raise, many receiving more. Non sworn employees

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will see a three and a half percent increase In

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Baton Ridge Police Chief TJ. Morse will receive a five

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point nine percent raise. The department wide increase averages nearly

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forty percent. Quote, this is a vote for the citizens

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of East Baton Ridge because that's important and our city

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needs protection. That from Coach Edwards, the mayor of Baton Ridge.

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He said that following the approval, and the city officials

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described the raise as the biggest across the board rais

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in the history of the department, as in critical for

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both recruitment and retention. The department is currently short about

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one hundred and fifty officers, as I told you earlier,

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from its allocated six hundred and ninety six positions. Chief

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Morris has reported that interests in joining the force has

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quote gone through the roof since the proposal was announced. Now,

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the pay hike, as I told you, is expected to

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make the Baton Rage Police Department the highest paid police

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department in Louisiana, and officials plan for the increase to

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take effect around mid May, with the first adjusted paychecks

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arriving in June. The raises will cost roughly seven point

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five million for the remainder this year and about twelve

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and a half million in additional dollars for the full

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fiscal year. So let's talk about this for a second.

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What do you think this is going to do to

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help with the situation in battery.

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Well, I can tell you one way that that's actually

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going to help that I don't think a lot of

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people are taking into consideration. And that's actually with our

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younger people that are coming up to go into law enforcement.

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And in my experience, a majority of police officers do

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not go to college and then become police officers. A

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lot of your police officers who want to do it

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for a career graduate from high school and maybe get

476
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:20.319
like a community college to your degree, and then go

477
00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:22.720
into law enforcement. And my point in telling you this

478
00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.400
is that recruitment of young people into law enforcement. And

479
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.960
this is a young man's game. By the way, when

480
00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:30.559
you're running the streets and you're you know, doing swat

481
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:32.519
and all that, that's not the old man's game. That's

482
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.359
the young man's game. And you can ask any cop

483
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:36.599
out there that they don't want to be chasing and

484
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:39.160
tackling people. The young guys do it. Well, we've had

485
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.640
huge issues in recruitment and I saw that in education

486
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:46.240
because I taught criminal justice, we did firearms and all that.

487
00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:50.680
And the issue here was that number one, pay is terrible,

488
00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:55.319
and when also the Department of education only wants to

489
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:58.960
push what they call high wage, high demand jobs. And

490
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.480
so my argument for different agencies and different groups is

491
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.799
that you're never going to get a lot of recruitment

492
00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:10.000
into law enforcement specifically because there's high demand, but you

493
00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:12.000
don't have a high wage to back it up. And

494
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.119
thus the schools aren't promoting that as a career path,

495
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:17.079
only nursing and things like that. I don't mean to

496
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:18.799
bring it into school, but I think that it's going

497
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:21.599
to be big in more ways than one, because if

498
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:24.480
they're getting paid and there's high demand, then it's going

499
00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:26.440
to be a great thing for the community, all right.

500
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.680
So another thing with that is not only will it

501
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:34.160
help recruiting these new officers as you bring up, but

502
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:40.599
it's also going to help attract from other departments officers

503
00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:43.640
that are already trained, already experienced. They're going to be

504
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.359
looking at this, I promise you, especially from these smaller

505
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:49.000
city departments, and they're going to say, wait a minute,

506
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.839
I can get a BRPD and I can make you know,

507
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.920
fifteen thousand more dollars than i'm making here. That's significant.

508
00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:02.680
And so brpd's police in general ought to be getting better.

509
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:05.640
It should be getting better and that Actually the Mayor

510
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:07.920
Baton Rouge was in this studio a couple of weeks

511
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:13.240
ago and said, you know, with that raise comes higher expectations.

512
00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:16.400
And just like anything else in life, you get a

513
00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:19.160
raise at your job and you're a baker, you better

514
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:21.759
start making some really good cakes when you're getting paid

515
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:22.519
that kind of money.

516
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:22.880
Amen.

517
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.240
And so I think that everything is going to improve.

518
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.119
I know we've brought a lot of bad news by

519
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.279
way of Louisiana today so far. Hate to do that,

520
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:34.720
but I do see a little bit of a silver

521
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:35.880
lining occurring.

522
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.559
Yeah, well they're getting the message. May have been a

523
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:42.799
little slow to get it, but kudos to whoever got

524
00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:46.839
all this put in place. Better pay, better candidates, better policing.

525
00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:47.400
Yep.

526
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.480
So that's awesome. All right, Let's go to Hawaii.

527
00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:51.200
Okay.

528
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.400
A peaceful three hour snorkeling tour off the Big Islands

529
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:58.640
Kona Coast turn into a nightmare Thursday afternoon when a

530
00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:01.599
twenty one year old Kansas Taurists allegedly grabbed a ten

531
00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:05.240
inch fillet knife from the boat's galley and repeatedly stabbed

532
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:10.359
the captain without warning or provocation. Avery Nissan of Overland

533
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:13.559
Park Kansas, was charged with second degree attempted murder, first

534
00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.559
degree assault, and second degree assault in the bizarre attack

535
00:31:16.839 --> 00:31:22.119
aboard a fifty foot catamaran operated by Hawaii Nautical. The victim,

536
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.079
sixty two year old Stanley Lerbiki, a boating veteran with

537
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:29.079
thirty five years of experience, suffered a deep stab wound

538
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.880
to his lower abdomen, along with multiple cuts to his heads,

539
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:36.200
his head, and hands. He was hospitalized in stable condition

540
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:40.480
after receiving blood transfusions. The incident occurred as the private

541
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:43.680
charter carrying Nissan, his mother, and a sibling was just

542
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:47.480
thirty minutes from returning to the harbor when Nissan stayed

543
00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:51.440
aboard the boat during a snorkeling portion where his family

544
00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.640
had entered the water. Witnesses told police he suddenly entered

545
00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:58.599
the galley, took the filet knife, and attacked Lerbiki from behind.

546
00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:01.319
Now you want to talk about some real manshit gym,

547
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:05.960
check this out. The captain, after being stabbed by the sky,

548
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:11.759
fought off the attack. Other passengers and crew members rushed

549
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:14.960
to help restrain Nissan. In the chaos, the bad guy

550
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:19.440
jumped overboard, and despite his serious injuries, the captain turned

551
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:22.599
the boat around, jumped in the water and rescued his

552
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:26.359
attacker before safely piloting the vessel back to harbor.

553
00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:28.359
That's crazy, He rescued his.

554
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.039
Attacker after being stabbed with a ten inch knife.

555
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:36.200
Wow, and go ahead, I don't want to cut y'all.

556
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:40.039
Oh sorry so. Lerbiki later described the unprovoked attack to

557
00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:43.519
local media as the random, wildest and craziest thing you'll

558
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:47.440
ever hear of, and the owner of Hawaii Nautical praised

559
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:49.599
the captain and crew as heroes for the quick actions

560
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.519
that prevented further harm. Nissen was taken into custody at

561
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.039
the scene by Hawaii County Police officers who responded to

562
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.160
nine one one calls, and he remains on bail, which

563
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:01.359
was one point five million dollars and authorities say, no

564
00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:03.000
motive has been established.

565
00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:05.240
And I'm gonna tell you attacked me with a ten

566
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:06.759
inch fiel aid and if I'm gonna leave you in

567
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.200
the water, and I'm gonna go back to the shore

568
00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:12.559
and take care of my business. And you know, this guy,

569
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.279
this wasn't just a flesh wound as they say. This

570
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:18.640
just wasn't just a poke. This dude lost half his

571
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:22.519
blood half his wood by the time he got to shore,

572
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:26.920
so he was damn near dead. Yet he still took

573
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.519
the time to rescue someone who just tried to kill

574
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:33.839
him for no reason. Random. Look, they don't know why

575
00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:34.799
this kid did this.

576
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.480
Some of the most badass men, and I mean this

577
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:42.279
that I had ever met. Our boat captains. They're tough,

578
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:49.039
they're gritty, they're no, I'm serious, they're like tough, gritty

579
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:50.960
people and they know what the hell that they're doing.

580
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:53.319
And isn't it like boat Isn't.

581
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:56.200
It like you've had different boat captains of me. B Yeah,

582
00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:02.200
maybe I had looked like Captain ab from Jael. Look,

583
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.039
we were out they're like sixty five years old.

584
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.759
Uh huh. We were out on the water in Florida

585
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:12.480
with this boat captain her. No, No, wasn't Brad Pitt.

586
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:14.760
Look is this old boat captain And he was thin

587
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.000
and all of that, but you know, real real dark

588
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:19.320
and leathery. And we went out there to go fishing

589
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:21.719
and I got to hit on my line and I

590
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.840
had a big fish, and so he jumps down and

591
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:27.719
he's like listen, and he got in my face and

592
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:29.239
he was not very nice, but he was a damn

593
00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.119
good captain. He was like, this is a fish of

594
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:34.519
a lifetime. Do not lose this fish if you cannot

595
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:38.159
reel it, pass it. And I was like, yes, sir. Anyway,

596
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:39.719
I fought that bad boy in and it was a

597
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:43.960
massive mahi massive And he even took a picture of it,

598
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.679
smiled and put it on his website. That's how good

599
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:49.119
of a fish it was. But he was this kind

600
00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:51.599
of guy that, you know, even though I guess he

601
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:53.840
knows the seriousness. You don't leave someone in the water.

602
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:55.440
I mean, they're gonna die if you leave him out there.

603
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.159
So well, I mean, you just stay at me.

604
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.280
That's why he's yeah, yeah, I want to take a

605
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:03.199
boat with that dude.

606
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:06.280
Yeah. Same, He'll definitely protect you.

607
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:07.079
Hell y'all.

608
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:11.559
All right, let's go to Miami, Florida and who I've

609
00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:14.199
seen a lot of grooming stories when it comes to

610
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.960
teachers and students, but this I've never come across. A

611
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:22.039
South Florida high school music teacher is facing felony charges

612
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:26.920
after a teenage student accused him of repeated inappropriate touching, kissing,

613
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:31.440
and professing his love, including lifting his shirt during a

614
00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:34.800
piano lesson to reveal a tattoo of two hearts, and

615
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:39.119
then telling her one represented her and the other represented him.

616
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:43.199
Rudolph In Fante, who is fifty three, a music and

617
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:47.239
fine arts teacher at Miami Senior High School, was arrested

618
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:51.119
following an investigation by police. According to the warrant, the

619
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:55.679
alleged misconduct began around August of twenty twenty five during

620
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:59.599
a private piano lesson and continued for months until the

621
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:03.280
student finally reported him to school authorities. The victim told

622
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:07.400
investigators and Fonte touched her butt on at least three

623
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.679
separate occasions, telling her the contact was quote out of

624
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:14.920
love and endearment. On one occasion, he allegedly pulled her

625
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:18.840
onto his lap and kissed her between the breast. He

626
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:22.880
also had prolonged uncomfortable hugs with her and maye wee

627
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:26.320
a manic comments such as if I was only thirty

628
00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:31.360
years younger now, that's disgusting, and he also said I

629
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:34.840
can't wait to be with you. The most disturbing allegation

630
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.719
involved the tattoo. During one piano lesson, he lifts his

631
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:42.119
shirt shows the student two hearts linked inked on his

632
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:46.239
rib cage rather and he told her one heart represented

633
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:49.880
her and the other represented him. Miami Date officials said,

634
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:53.280
and Fante had been placed on administrative leave and is

635
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:57.639
in the process of being terminated. Yeah, I would imagine

636
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.159
that process is already ever in the district safeties as

637
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:06.320
top priority. But man, these teachers are freaking everywhere lately.

638
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:11.960
I don't know if there's something about people where like

639
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:15.039
if he didn't have other victims, did he just like

640
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:18.000
hone in on this when it become obsessed or something

641
00:37:18.119 --> 00:37:21.360
like how do you get there? How does that even happen?

642
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:23.400
Were you with me you were a teacher?

643
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:25.440
Yeah, And I didn't even let him, Like if a

644
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:26.920
kid came to make up a test, I left the

645
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:28.639
door open, like there was you know what I mean,

646
00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:31.039
Like I had procedures in place that I was not

647
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.599
gonna mess with. You know. I didn't even when we

648
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:37.719
went on trips and stuff like that, I didn't have

649
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:39.559
students ride in the car with me if it was

650
00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:42.039
just me as the adult, because you know, I don't

651
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:44.559
want there to ever be a question of any type

652
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.920
of behavior, misconduct or anything like that. I mean, maybe

653
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:49.760
you think that's a bit much, but you've never taught,

654
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.119
then if you think that's too much. You've never taught,

655
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:53.840
and you don't know the weirdness that goes on. So

656
00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:58.599
that's just it said. The tattoo was the most disturbing

657
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:00.159
to me. The most disturbing was that he would think

658
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:03.159
it appropriate to kiss between the child's breasts and that

659
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:09.480
that would be okay totally. That's predatory. I can't wait

660
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:11.880
to be together. That sounds almost like a threat to me.

661
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:14.239
Wow.

662
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.880
So and he knew it was wrong because he said

663
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:19.159
if only I was thirty years younger. So he can't

664
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.639
even pretend like he thought in any realm that it

665
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:26.519
was okay, right, gross, All right, let's go to California.

666
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.800
A former California fire captain was sentenced to multiple life

667
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:33.840
terms without the possibility of parole Friday, after he pled

668
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:36.280
guilty to the brutal August twenty twenty five murders of

669
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:39.559
his fiance and her young son, killings that stemmed from

670
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:43.400
a heated argument over the betrayal of a firefighter in

671
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:48.039
the Christian movie Fireproof. Jim, I fall asleep during movies

672
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:49.679
all the time. I don't think I've ever been awake

673
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:53.360
long enough to get into this type of argument, Like,

674
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:55.159
have you ever gotten that heated over a movie.

675
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:59.639
I mean, no, not over a movie, a movie documentary.

676
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:04.440
I've got I know it really happened. Yeah, yeah, this

677
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.079
is I've never got heated enough to kill somebody. No

678
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:09.320
that I'm aware of that, you remember, huh?

679
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.039
All right, So Darren McFarlane forty seven, a longtime cal

680
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:16.679
Fire captain with the Emmador Eldorado unit, was sentenced and

681
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.800
Superior Court to two consecutive terms of life without parole,

682
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.400
plus an additional life term fifty years to life and

683
00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:26.920
fifteen years for the first degree murders of Marissa Herzog

684
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:30.559
twenty nine and her son Josiah Now. The deadly confrontation

685
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:33.320
unfolded on the evening of August twenty first of twenty

686
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:37.519
twenty five inside the family's Cameron Park home. Now McFarlane,

687
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.880
Herzog and her two children, Josiah, a nine year old,

688
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:45.119
and her daughter Sara Fina. They were watching the two

689
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:48.000
thousand and eight film Fireproof, starring Kirk Cameron as a

690
00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:52.480
firefighter struggling to save his marriage. Prosecutor said that McFarlane

691
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:56.239
became enraged at how the unseen firefighter was depicted as

692
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:59.880
selfish and flawed. The argument escalated when Herzog tried to

693
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:03.639
nine one one now. McFarlane decided at that point that

694
00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:07.320
he would attack her strangle her before then shooting her

695
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:11.039
multiple times. He then turned the gun on Josiah, who

696
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:14.159
was also fatally shot. The nine year old daughter survived

697
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.840
after begging for her life and was hiding during the rampage.

698
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:20.760
McFarlane fled the scene, but was arrested days later in

699
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:23.400
Mono County. He was charged with two counts of murder

700
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:26.360
and other felonies. Court records show he pled guilty as

701
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:30.159
part of a resolution that spared the surviving daughter from testifying.

702
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:33.559
The DA's office described the killings as brutal and said

703
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:36.719
the sentence censure as MacFarlane will never walk free. Family

704
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:39.920
members of the victims spoke in court about the unimaginable loss,

705
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:43.639
calling Marissa and Josiah loving kind souls whose lives were

706
00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.440
cut short in a moment of rage. McFarlane had no

707
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:49.119
prior criminal record that would have flagged him as a threat,

708
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.000
according to authorities, and he had been in a relationship

709
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.320
with Herzog for several years and lived with her and

710
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:56.000
her children.

711
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:00.800
Yeah, I've never seen that movie. I think you've seen it.

712
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:02.960
Oh, I love that movie. It's a great one. I

713
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.239
used it. So the whole motto of that movie, if

714
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:08.599
you don't know, is you never leave your partner in

715
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.039
a fire. And it's kind of a metaphor. So in firefighting,

716
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:13.480
when you go in to certain types of fires, you

717
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:16.199
know you have a partner in accountability. No matter what happens,

718
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:19.519
you remain true and accountable to that partner because your

719
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.360
life depends on it. And so that's the metaphor for

720
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.719
the movie is you never leave your partner in a fire,

721
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:27.440
no matter how bad it gets. So you're watching a

722
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:31.760
movie that's about the antithesis of what you're about to do,

723
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.360
and you get mad about a fictional characters representation and

724
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:36.719
then you turn and go postal.

725
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.079
Yeah again another story. You just can't make sense out

726
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.760
of a totally tragic A firefighter at that, someone who

727
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:50.320
is supposed to be protecting lives, not taking lives, obviously,

728
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.840
and you can't make sense of that.

729
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:57.119
Like the no, I mean his own child, I.

730
00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.920
Mean his own kid kills his own kid.

731
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:03.159
I mean it's his fiance's kid, but yeah, but I

732
00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:06.320
mean his kid, touche. Yeah, I mean a child in

733
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:09.719
general doesn't even like how he looks like Farley from

734
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:15.239
Super Troopers. But I mean, how you get you'll sacrifice

735
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.039
your family for a fictional character's role and you're mad

736
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.480
that he looks selfish, and then you are selfish. Maybe

737
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:26.920
what you saw, buddy was a mirror reflecting yourself, and

738
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:29.840
that's what sets you off because you sound like you

739
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:30.480
are selfish.

740
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.119
Well, he got a life sentence for it, and good

741
00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:38.000
for him. Yeah, and you know that took place in California,

742
00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:41.480
and in California you should never know. It seems like

743
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:44.880
a lot of people commit murders and don't get life sentences.

744
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:48.159
Unfortunately in California, say glad to see that they came

745
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:51.199
to their senses at least with this guy and realized

746
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.800
he don't need to be walking amongst the free. So

747
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:58.119
let's go to another story and look, we have a

748
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:01.800
we have a fan crazy Queen of Cleaning Lady who

749
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:05.639
is a major TikTok star. So if she's listening, she'll

750
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:11.000
go follow her on TikTok. Miss Samantha really loves the

751
00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:14.599
show and she does. I don't know what her process is,

752
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:17.239
but I'd be interested in knowing what her process is

753
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:22.239
when placing bids because We're gonna go to Ohio, Canton, Ohio. Actually, Kelleen,

754
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:23.760
do you know what's in Canton, Ohio?

755
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:28.440
I do know now because of our previous recording that failed.

756
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:30.880
But yeah, the Football Hall of Fame.

757
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:34.559
The NFL Football Hall of Fame, and y'all yesterday. She

758
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:35.360
had no idea.

759
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.519
I did, like an idiot.

760
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:40.199
You weren't an idiot. But I'm sure a lot of

761
00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:42.639
people don't name. But I don't know. Man. People are

762
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.800
probably like what she wouldn't know when I was home

763
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:47.360
with the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

764
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:49.519
When I think Canton, I think Kenton, Mississippi.

765
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:54.760
Yeah, no, different one. This is Ohio. And I'm gonna

766
00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:56.480
tell you a story about a twenty three year old

767
00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:00.719
Canton man who has been arrested for multi both felony

768
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.360
charges after he met a cleaning lady at his house

769
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.880
and decides it's a good idea to stab her with

770
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.599
a screwdriver in the eye and then repeatedly sexually assault her,

771
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:18.280
all of this taking place this meeting through a messaging app.

772
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:22.559
So what happened was the victim in this case? She

773
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:26.599
gets a message from Ezekiel Jackson, who is twenty three

774
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:31.480
years old and Ezekiel Jackson basically says, Hey, I need

775
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:33.239
to get my house clean. Can you come over and

776
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:37.280
clean my house? The victim, She says, well, I need

777
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:42.559
to get an estimate together, and rather than him sending pictures,

778
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.440
which is what I would assume occurs in most of

779
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:48.280
those cases, she does end up going to his house

780
00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:52.960
to give this estimate. She goes in there and he

781
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.960
just flat out hits her in the face with a

782
00:44:56.000 --> 00:45:01.119
screwdriver that caused a facial fry sure and a severe

783
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:04.599
injury to her left eye. He then forces her into

784
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:09.119
the bedroom and he sexually assaults her from ten o'clock

785
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.239
in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon. Imagine

786
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:17.320
that absolute over and over again. Uh. But here's where

787
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.880
it gets really crazy. And actually this lady shout out

788
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.800
to her for being quick on her feet as far

789
00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:29.519
as thinking concerns. She convinces him to drive her to

790
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:32.880
the hospital, and this guy basically says, I'm not going

791
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.360
to drive to the hospital because you're gonna tell on me,

792
00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:37.920
and she says, no, no, no, I got a whole story.

793
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:39.920
I won't tell on you. What I'm going to tell

794
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:43.840
them is that we're in a relationship. And you kind

795
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.639
of follow me around while I clean houses, and my

796
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:50.079
injuries on my face. I had fell while I was cleaning,

797
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:51.440
and that's what causes.

798
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:54.079
Hands fell on the screwdriver and it went in my well.

799
00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:59.119
This moron Iszigil Jackson. Thank god. He's like, you know what,

800
00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:01.360
that may work, thinking maybe I can get out all

801
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:04.159
this trouble, and so he does. He takes her to

802
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.360
the hospital and as soon as she sees two officers,

803
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:10.320
she does what she should have done, which was, hey,

804
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:13.880
this dude tried to kill me and sexually assaulted me

805
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:18.480
throughout an eight hour period today, and he gets orested

806
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:21.079
and goes to jail. Good.

807
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:25.159
I think that is wonderful way to take action. Of

808
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.400
kudos to this victim that you may be victimized, but

809
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:31.760
you do not have to remain that way. She thought

810
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:35.159
through it, and everything she did worked because it saved

811
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:35.840
her life.

812
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:38.800
Yeah, that's really amazing. Well thought that story. It was smart.

813
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:41.920
She didn't panic, and I mean I'm sure she was

814
00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:44.880
completely panic during the time, but to be able to

815
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.559
have the wherewithal to convince him a it's all gonna

816
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:51.559
be okay. You just need to bring me to the hospital.

817
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.440
It is pretty good stuff.

818
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:55.840
And that story had me thinking about what could we

819
00:46:56.440 --> 00:46:59.599
suggest maybe to people that are in careers like that,

820
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.280
like our realtors and people that go into houses and

821
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:04.760
gaming houses. Yeah, and I actually think I thought it

822
00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:08.719
might have thought of something that you should have mandatory

823
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:12.159
check ins every so often with whomever it is. Though

824
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.199
it's non negotiable, it's a mandatory check in. And even

825
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:17.480
to that point, when you do the mandatory check in,

826
00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:20.079
there should be a code word that you use if

827
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:22.880
there's a problem. So even if you're saying everything's okay,

828
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.239
you if you say yep, everything's copaesthetic and copaesetic is

829
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:28.480
the word that I have a problem that alerts the

830
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:33.079
other person or I'm aoka. It could be whatever that

831
00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:35.840
would not alert the person. But you've gotta you've got

832
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:39.599
to think outside of the box, find ways to help yourself,

833
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:42.280
you know, And maybe that could be it. Mandatory check

834
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:44.920
ins every so often and have a codeword.

835
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:47.639
I think I think those are great. I think, uh,

836
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:49.840
first of all, I think you should ever go to

837
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.679
do that by yourself if you especially if you're female.

838
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:57.159
I think that if any way possible, you can only

839
00:47:57.199 --> 00:47:59.280
do estimates with someone else. There I know a lot

840
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:04.760
of realtors do that. They won't show houses just by themselves. Look,

841
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:07.679
I'm a big preparit of arm in yourself anywhere you go.

842
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:11.000
I know that varies from state to state and what

843
00:48:11.159 --> 00:48:13.199
you can do and what the laws are, but that's

844
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:17.079
something that if it's allowed in your state, do it.

845
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.800
I would. I would recommend that because not everybody has

846
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:24.920
good intentions. So lastly, you know, I would kind of

847
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:28.480
make a like in this situation it was a cleaning lady.

848
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:32.599
I don't know that I would do in person estimates

849
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:34.760
unless I absolutely had to, and that may have been

850
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.760
her case. Maybe there was some special thing where pictures

851
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:40.599
wouldn't work. But usually you can base something off of

852
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:44.239
square footage pretty good. But I'm not the expert. Crazy

853
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:47.400
cleaning lady, confirm that we need.

854
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:51.440
You, Samantha. Give us your expertise here. All right, let's

855
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:54.599
go to We're going to go across the pond. We're

856
00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:56.440
going to go to Poorth Cole, Wales.

857
00:48:56.559 --> 00:49:02.400
Where's Wales over across the pond? But where is in England? Okay,

858
00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:04.320
I was excised.

859
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:08.000
I thought it was a trick. You know, I'm not

860
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:08.480
good at job.

861
00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:10.119
I looked like you weren't sure about that.

862
00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:12.599
Well, maybe I'm not because you've got me double guests

863
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:14.360
in must I always assume I'm wrong? Okay?

864
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:15.079
Well.

865
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:19.880
Christopher Phillips, sixty years old, pled guilty Thursday April sixteenth,

866
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:23.440
twenty twenty six at the Cardiff Crown Court to preventing

867
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:26.360
the lawful and decent burial of his mother into two

868
00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:29.800
counts of fraud after authorities say he kept her body

869
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.920
in a chest freezer inside the family home for approximately

870
00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:37.440
three years while continuing to withdraw her pension payments. Sylvia Phillips,

871
00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.880
which she was a retired company secretary, was eighty nine

872
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:43.480
years old when she died sometime in twenty twenty three

873
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:46.239
at the home that she shared with her son on

874
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.400
Poplar Crescent in the seaside town of Porthcall, South Wales.

875
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:54.639
Instead of reporting her death, prosecutors alleged Phillips placed her

876
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:57.800
body in a chest freezer and failed to notify local

877
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:00.639
or national authorities, allowing him to ac access her bank

878
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:04.320
accounts and collect her pension and benefits. The grim discovery

879
00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:08.079
came on February seventeenth of twenty twenty six. After get this,

880
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:12.519
her primary care physician was the one who raised concerns

881
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.840
about her welfare. Police officers responded to the home and

882
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:18.599
that's where they found her body stuffed inside of the freezer,

883
00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:22.719
and at an earlier hearing in March, Judge Vanessa Francis

884
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:27.519
postponed please, telling Phillips there was quote more everyone needs

885
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.199
to know and understand about this case end quote, and

886
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:32.559
that it would not be just to proceed without full

887
00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:39.159
clarity on the accusations. On April sixteenth, before Judge Tracy Clark, Phillips,

888
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:41.639
who was wearing a green jumper and glasses, admitted to

889
00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:45.480
all charges. His defense attorney requested a psychiatric evaluation, which

890
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:48.840
the court granted, and sentencing is now scheduled for June

891
00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:52.840
the second Now. Neighbors described him as appearing pleasant and

892
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.960
normal the entire time, but they rarely saw Sylvia in

893
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:58.559
her later years and they just believed that she was

894
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:02.480
a vulnerable adult. Some reports suggests Phillips use the funds

895
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:05.440
to support his bachelor lifestyle, but no cause of death

896
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:09.039
for Sylvia has been publicly released, pending further investigation, and

897
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:11.800
South Wales Police in the court have not released additional

898
00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.039
statements beyond confirming the charges, and the.

899
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:15.960
Police and It makes you want to say, what the

900
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.280
heck is wrong with people? Obviously this isn't just in

901
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:22.519
the United States. We just went all the way across

902
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:26.880
the pond. Yeah, and people are acting like fools. You know,

903
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.719
did it say if she died of natural causes?

904
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.239
Now they haven't said. I would assume that she did.

905
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:36.239
It sounds like she did because it wasn't a murder

906
00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:41.039
charge that he was charged with, right, So apparently I

907
00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:45.639
guess somehow they ascertained that she died of old age. Yeah,

908
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.000
and he decided he didn't want to give up that check.

909
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.480
It's just absolutely sick and of all the people to

910
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.079
disrespect like that, you're a mother, right.

911
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:59.719
So this is interesting to me because I'm guessing that

912
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:02.440
she had some type of ailment or some type of

913
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:05.920
medication or something that you know, the doctor and her

914
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:07.960
knew each other well that the doctor would raise a

915
00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:09.360
concern and say, goll ye I hadn't.

916
00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:09.440
Speak of.

917
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:13.440
In a long time to the now. And it makes

918
00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:16.159
you just think that when you love somebody, whether it's

919
00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:20.039
your spouse or your parent or whomever it's, you're inclined

920
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:22.679
when they pass away to almost do ridiculous things in

921
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:24.280
terms of honoring them like you want to spend all

922
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:26.159
your money, right, get them the best flowers and the

923
00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:29.000
best casket in at least I do. And sometimes you

924
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.440
have to calm yourself down and go hang on a second. Me,

925
00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:34.719
spending all the money doesn't indicate how much I love

926
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.280
this person, right, And there's only so much that you

927
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:40.639
can do when you're grieving. But what does this say

928
00:52:40.679 --> 00:52:42.480
about his own mother that he was willing to just

929
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.480
stuff her in a freezer? Her money meant more to

930
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:52.400
him than proper burial and celebration of life. Yeah, I agree,

931
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:53.679
that's morbid.

932
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:59.039
It is okay, So let's go to another story that

933
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:02.840
is I guess a lighter it's not a murder or

934
00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:05.679
death per se. And We're gonna go to California and

935
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:07.159
I'm gonna tell you about three guys.

936
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:09.079
Wait, is this a new segment that we're doing.

937
00:53:09.239 --> 00:53:11.440
Uh, it's gonna be called you can't make this up

938
00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:14.880
because you can't make this up. And I'm gonna tell

939
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:19.719
you about three guys that really, I mean, they really

940
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:22.280
just screwed the page on this one, and they came

941
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:24.679
up with a fraud scheme I ain't never heard of.

942
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:27.519
So I'm gonna tell you their first names, because their

943
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:30.519
last names are jacked up and I'm not even gonna

944
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:32.880
try to pronounce them there. Let's put it this way.

945
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:35.920
They're about twenty six letters, and they're every syllable in

946
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:39.840
the alphabet. So we're gonna say ALPHI, we're gonna say Ruben,

947
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:42.960
and we're gonna say they, and these are the three guys.

948
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:48.000
And they pleaded no contest to insurance frauds. So what

949
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:50.440
were they doing? You may ask yourself, Well, I don't know.

950
00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:51.519
I probably can't make it up.

951
00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:55.639
Apparently these guys had some money, and uh, they had

952
00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:58.800
some expensive calls. As a matter of fact, they had

953
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:03.599
a twenty ten Rolls Royce and I guess they decided

954
00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:06.599
that they were tired of that car and they wanted

955
00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:09.480
some insurance money from it. So rather than going and

956
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:13.000
wrecking it somewhere like most people would do it, they

957
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:16.519
figured that would be too obvious. So they decide that

958
00:54:16.599 --> 00:54:20.000
they're going to dress up in bear suits and put

959
00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:24.960
on claws, actual bear claws with like razors on the end.

960
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:28.599
Picture picture like Nightmare on Elm Street. So they put

961
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:32.400
on the nightmar on Elm Street gloves in full costume.

962
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:35.760
They go into the vehicle and they just tear the

963
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:40.840
shit out of the interior of this thing to the point, yeah,

964
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:46.840
where it's practically worthless. And so for their trouble, they

965
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:52.440
actually got paid by this insurance company fifty plus thousand dollars.

966
00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:57.960
And so then the police determined, wait a minute, this

967
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:01.079
is all a scam. And the way they determined that

968
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:05.440
was they did it with several cars. So these geniuses

969
00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:09.400
decided that, okay, this bear thing works. So we've got

970
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:12.199
another car here, and we're going to attack it with

971
00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:14.639
a bear costume. And they put on the full fuck

972
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:16.920
the full costume. When they're doing this.

973
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:18.400
You see, you're like digging like a dog in the

974
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:19.960
couch with the costume.

975
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:23.280
So they put on these costumes and they do this,

976
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:27.599
and what are the chances of you having three vehicles

977
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:31.599
and all three vehicles getting attacked by bear and the

978
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:34.480
bear getting inside the vehicle and tearing up the interior.

979
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:36.719
Well that's what they did. So that's where the brain

980
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:40.440
cells stopped with these three Obviously, insurance companies are going

981
00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:43.719
to say, wait a minute, three bears attacking three different

982
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.159
luxury cars is not going to happen in real life.

983
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:50.400
The chances of zero they get caught and they are

984
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.920
now in jail, and they all have restitution of over

985
00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:57.360
fifty thousand dollars each to pay when they get out.

986
00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.639
All right, So I'm gonna quiz you on something like.

987
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:02.920
That the last two stories for Kelly says that the

988
00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:04.679
last two stories I didn't even read.

989
00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:07.519
You did great. I just I like that lit. It's

990
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:08.400
like you knew it already.

991
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:10.920
Yeah I did. I knew it all right.

992
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:12.880
I'm a quiz you on something. If you were going

993
00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:14.840
to go online and you were going to buy a

994
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:20.239
realistic bear costume adult grizzly movie quality fake for handmade,

995
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:22.800
how much did that costume cost?

996
00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:29.039
Twenty five hundred dollars higher, Well, tell me, don't leave

997
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.360
us in suspense. I think people want.

998
00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:35.760
To sit there for thousand, one hundred and ninety four

999
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:41.400
dollars for a bear costume. Yeah, yeah, Well I'm not paying.

1000
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:44.119
I'm not paying. I'm not paying five grand to commit fraud,

1001
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:46.079
you know what I'm saying, Like, I'd rather leave food

1002
00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:46.880
in there, little real.

1003
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:49.920
Well, if you pay five to get fifty five, well

1004
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:52.920
you know that seems like a good investment, But you're

1005
00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:56.199
dumb and you do it three times. First of all,

1006
00:56:56.199 --> 00:56:57.719
I shouldn't be doing it once, don't.

1007
00:56:57.480 --> 00:56:59.280
Get me wrong, round upon three times.

1008
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:01.800
If you get a with the ones, consider yourself lucky

1009
00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:02.320
and move on.

1010
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:04.320
Yeah, go goat the second time or something.

1011
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:08.559
Yeah, I mean, at least you know it's crazy and

1012
00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:11.400
you just can't make sense. You can't make that shit up.

1013
00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:13.639
You can't make that shit up. But let me talk

1014
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.239
about something different now. And this is going to be

1015
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:20.159
our foolish felons section, all right, And you refuse to

1016
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:23.039
do it, I want him to go. So foolish, all right?

1017
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:25.599
That is great, No, it is not.

1018
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:28.800
I love it. So foolish, all right. A Mississippi man

1019
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:32.599
working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon has been

1020
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:36.360
arrested after allegedly firing multiple shots toward a family home

1021
00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:41.280
in Livingston Parish following a confrontation over him speeding on

1022
00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:44.360
a gravel road. The incident occurred in February on Horse

1023
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:48.880
Bluff Road in Springfield, according to the Sheriff's Office. Sean Gridinich,

1024
00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:52.119
the homeowner, told investigators that he and his family were

1025
00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:55.159
outside the residence around four pm when an Amazon delivery

1026
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:58.079
van sped past them at almost forty miles an hour,

1027
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.239
so Gridenich said he confronted the driver just a few

1028
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:03.960
houses down while the man was making a delivery, and

1029
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:06.639
that's when the driver told him, quote, you don't know

1030
00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:10.079
who you're talking to. I'm not the average mailman. I

1031
00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:14.719
got that tool with me. He was referring to his gun. So,

1032
00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:18.159
after Gridinich returned home and his wife called nine one one,

1033
00:58:18.480 --> 00:58:21.400
the van then drove past their house again and that's

1034
00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:24.880
when things escalated. He stopped at the stop sign, hung

1035
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:26.920
a gun out of the window and shot at their

1036
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.320
house three times. Gridinich said he saw the gun come

1037
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.519
out of the window. He was always down the road,

1038
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:34.559
but he did shoot at us. Now, luckily no one

1039
00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:38.079
was injured. But Gridinich went to go chase and pursue

1040
00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:40.719
the Amazon driver, but nine one one smartly advised him

1041
00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:43.760
not to do that. And obviously he's not scared to

1042
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:46.400
shoot his gun. And Gridinich said for about two weeks

1043
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:48.920
his wife was scared that he was going to come back. Now,

1044
00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:51.519
detectives were able to identify the driver's thirty five year

1045
00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:56.760
old Jared Tillman of Jackson, Mississippi, and LPSO obtained warrants

1046
00:58:56.760 --> 00:58:59.960
for his arrest you Jackson, His so Kate help fit.

1047
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:02.360
It's the song Jackson? Was this event?

1048
00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:03.519
Hender Jackson?

1049
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:08.800
All right, sorry, let's get back to the seriousness. So

1050
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:12.679
all right. On April fifteenth, Tillman was taken into custody

1051
00:59:12.679 --> 00:59:14.960
with assistance from the US Marshall Service, and he was

1052
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:18.559
booked into the Madison County Detention Center. Now he is

1053
00:59:18.599 --> 00:59:21.320
expected to be extra guided back to Louisiana and he's

1054
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.679
going to be put in our local LP detention center

1055
00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:27.559
during our investigation. According to the sheriff, the complainant said

1056
00:59:27.559 --> 00:59:29.639
that when he told the driver to slow down, that's

1057
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.519
when the driver produced the firearm and began firing rounds

1058
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:35.480
in the direction of the complainant before fleeing the area. Now,

1059
00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:39.239
the investigation remains ongoing. Specific charges have not been publicly

1060
00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:41.679
detailed at the time that I am covering this case,

1061
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.599
and the Amazon company issued a statement confirming that Tillman

1062
00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:48.119
was not a direct employee for them, but he worked

1063
00:59:48.119 --> 00:59:51.960
as an independent delivery service partner, which is like a

1064
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:56.719
small business that contracts that's contracted out to make those deliveries.

1065
00:59:56.760 --> 01:00:00.199
And so Gridinich expressed disbelief, saying that you know, it's

1066
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:02.960
just kind of mind blowing that an Amazon driver would

1067
01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:03.559
shoot at you.

1068
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.280
Yeah, it really is mind blowing. And look I get

1069
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:10.280
along with I have two different Amazon drivers. One is

1070
01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:12.280
a female, one is a male, and they are both

1071
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:15.519
cool and I talk to them all the time and

1072
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:20.079
I could never imagine them shooting at me. As a

1073
01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:21.880
matter of fact, next time I see them, we're going

1074
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:25.039
to have this conversation. I'm not asking if they knew that, dude.

1075
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:29.280
But you know, these contract companies that are contracted by Amazon,

1076
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:33.199
obviously they're so freaking busy. They can never hire enough

1077
01:00:33.239 --> 01:00:38.400
employees to have enough drivers to supply getting your packages

1078
01:00:38.440 --> 01:00:40.960
to you in one day, which a lot of times

1079
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:43.239
when I order it's one day later I end up with.

1080
01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:47.039
It blows my mind, Yeah, how quick it is. So

1081
01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:50.920
in those cases, obviously they have to hire these contract companies.

1082
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:54.360
And when you hire those you do some sort of

1083
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:58.320
due diligence. I mean, I'm sure they check their criminal

1084
01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:00.559
record and stuff like that, but they don't have a record.

1085
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:02.760
You don't really know who you're dealing with. It's not

1086
01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:07.039
like they're sitting down with Human Resources and Amazon talking about,

1087
01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:08.960
you know, their family and what they do in their

1088
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:13.159
spare time. So you are going to have situations like

1089
01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:17.360
this where maybe you deal with someone that's not living

1090
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:19.360
with a full deck and they decide they're going to

1091
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:21.320
shoot at you for yelling at them for speeding.

1092
01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:23.320
Yeah, so foolish.

1093
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:26.119
Yeah, what are your thoughts on it? Well, I think

1094
01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:27.320
you didn't say a whole lot.

1095
01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:29.639
Yeah, well, I mean it's just ludicrous. It's absolutely ridiculous,

1096
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:32.079
and then it makes you wonder if they're willing to

1097
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:34.159
shoot at you. My mind actually went to I wonder

1098
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:36.199
if these are the same ones stealing my packages that

1099
01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:39.000
don't arrive at my house. You know, I'm I'm not

1100
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:42.519
saying they are, but you know, you're paying good money

1101
01:01:42.519 --> 01:01:44.920
to have stuff delivered to you, and then.

1102
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.039
You've never had a package stone never, never that I

1103
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:52.320
can recall. I don't think I've ever had a package store.

1104
01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:54.760
I've had missed deliveries which ended up a really kind

1105
01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:57.719
of neat thing because I just posted a picture online

1106
01:01:57.719 --> 01:01:59.480
when I couldn't find the package, and I knew the

1107
01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:02.760
window in the picture wasn't my house and I couldn't

1108
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:04.239
figure out what it was, so just having to post

1109
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.920
it on Facebook and say, does anybody know where this is?

1110
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:11.199
Because I can't I can't find this package. And it

1111
01:02:11.320 --> 01:02:14.079
ended up being the church that my next door neighbor

1112
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:16.599
is the pastor at, and so he said, oh, my gosh,

1113
01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:19.119
I know that window, and he brought it the package

1114
01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:19.559
home to me.

1115
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:24.519
Oh, you're very lucky, very because that that is like

1116
01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:28.239
a needle in haystack. I know, I don't know what package.

1117
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:29.320
Was it something valuable?

1118
01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:33.079
It was I'd ordered some stuff at actually through the

1119
01:02:33.159 --> 01:02:35.360
school that was for the school. It was a for

1120
01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:37.199
a cart that I kept for students where I would

1121
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:39.559
fill it with like ponytails and deodorant stuff like that.

1122
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:41.920
And it was like a six hundred pack of ponytails.

1123
01:02:42.599 --> 01:02:44.360
Man, somebody would have been mad if they.

1124
01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:49.159
That's why they'd start shooting.

1125
01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:53.519
At That's that's like when you when you get those

1126
01:02:53.519 --> 01:02:55.800
storage units. I would I would be the person that

1127
01:02:55.880 --> 01:02:59.199
bought the storage units with like newspaper in it, yeah,

1128
01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:02.000
you know, or all paint cans rat with like half

1129
01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:04.760
paints in them. Yeah, it would be. And then the

1130
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:07.880
person next to me would get a Maserati in their

1131
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:12.119
storage in it, or a bear suit or a bear suit. Hey,

1132
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:14.400
apparently I can sell that for five grand or so.

1133
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:18.119
Now you know, you've been educated fully in a full

1134
01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:18.800
circle here.

1135
01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:20.400
All right? Any final thoughts.

1136
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:23.719
Yeah, I keep your head on a down swivel. That

1137
01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:26.079
would be my final thoughts for today. You never know

1138
01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:28.360
what's going on, and you need to be aware of

1139
01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:29.280
your surroundings.

1140
01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:32.519
Okay, Well, I also have a final thought okay, minus

1141
01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:36.599
a little more of a pleading towards keep these victims

1142
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:41.199
in your thoughts, in your prayers throughout these shootings that

1143
01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:44.719
I discussed today, we were very Louising and eccentric. Today

1144
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:49.760
we covered I believe, five crimes right here in Louisiana.

1145
01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.280
Two of them all of them are horrific in one

1146
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:56.239
way or another, but two of them extremely horrific. Hopefully

1147
01:03:56.320 --> 01:03:59.400
that is going to get better. And thoughts and prayers

1148
01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:02.320
to all the victims and the families of the victims,

1149
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:04.280
and all the people that do and love these people

1150
01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:06.159
involved in the shootings one percent.

1151
01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:09.280
And you can guarantee that as far as citizens doing

1152
01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:12.880
their due diligence when we go to vote or to

1153
01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:14.880
make decisions or of who's going to be in power

1154
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:17.639
and what type of policy you like, these cases right

1155
01:04:17.639 --> 01:04:21.840
here will absolutely be supported by me and by Jim

1156
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:23.039
and by the people we care.

1157
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:25.800
That's right. All of these people and that's right. And

1158
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:28.960
just to wrap that up, that's why it's so important

1159
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:30.920
that you vote. That's why it's so important you know

1160
01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:33.639
the feelings of the people you're voting for. Don't just

1161
01:04:33.719 --> 01:04:36.440
make it a popularity contest. Just because somebody has a

1162
01:04:36.519 --> 01:04:40.079
name that everybody's heard of, that doesn't mean their policies

1163
01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:42.519
line up with your policies or what you would do

1164
01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:46.079
in a situation. And especially in the judges, how many

1165
01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:51.320
crimes do we cover where Look, some judges are great, yeah,

1166
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.199
and I would vote for them tim Ways from Sunday,

1167
01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:57.559
But there are some out there that their decisions calling

1168
01:04:57.639 --> 01:05:01.719
to question whether it lines up with your personal beliefs.

1169
01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:03.840
So just make your voice heard. It's important.

1170
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:06.599
A little ounce of research can go along with That's right.

1171
01:05:06.719 --> 01:05:09.719
Until next time, I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jenny

1172
01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:12.239
and were your host of Crime Weekly.