May 20, 2026

Crime Wire Weekly 5/21/26 | Operation “Restricted Domain”, Pool Noodle Prank, Escalator Traps

Crime Wire Weekly 5/21/26 | Operation “Restricted Domain”, Pool Noodle Prank, Escalator Traps
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Season 10

In today’s episode KJ and Jim bring you the week’s trending crime related headlines. Check out the below for all the topics of the headlines we are covering today!

Timestamps
05:00 Baton Rouge EMT Assault.
10:00 Operation “Restricted Domain” Leads to arrest of 60.
17:00 Pregnent Woman Gives Birth in Court.
21:00 Missouri Man Threatens H.S. Graduation.
27:00 “Utterly Unrelated Segment” Pool Noodle Mis-Shipment.
30:00 Man Dies After Being Trapped on Escalator.
36:00 Snakes on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
42:00 Florida Robbers Mace Themselves. “Foolish Felons”
47:00 Miami Hotel Sued After SA at Pool.
56:00 Auburn Grad Killed by Boyfriends Father.

OVERTIME

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All right, everyone, welcome back to Crime Wire Weekly. We're

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going to cover some of the topics we'll be discussing today.

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In Baton Rouge, an e nt has been assaulted by

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a patient in an ambulance and it may not be

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the first time for this guy, so we're going to

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be talking about that. Also in Louisiana, Operation Restricted Domain

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Targets sex Offenders.

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Good name. I like the what they called it.

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Yeah, they always come up with these interesting names for operations,

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whether it's in the military or in you know, the

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police spectrum. As this is sixty people arrested in that

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will be covering it. Pregnant woman gives birth during her

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Now that's a hell of a time to have a baby.

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Yeah, I mean literally bring your baby in with you

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to your life of crime. I guess.

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Yeah, there you go. Uh so we're gonna be talking

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about that. A Missouri man threatens a high school graduation.

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A lot of graduations taking place obviously right now, this

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is the time for him and uh one in Missouri. Yeah,

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I had some problems.

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Yeah, I mean a hell I was aut of a

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high school graduation just this weekend. And yeah it didn't

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it had problems, but nothing of that.

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Yeah, this is really bad.

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And the Ohio man orders one hundred and sixty five

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pool noodles and receives all of them in individual boxes

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from Walmart. Unbelievable story will be bringing your way today.

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A man dies after being trapped on an escalator in

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Massachusetts and uh, just terrific story. Video out there of

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that incident. We're going to be covering that a man

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abandons exotic snakes on Hollywood Woods Walk of Fame after

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police are called.

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He abandons them after police are called.

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Yes, so they get called because he had some exotic

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snakes to begin with. Donkes walking around with snakes and uh,

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we're gonna tell you all about it. Robbers and Florida

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mace themselves during a pawn shop heist.

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I love it.

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I love it A little bit. Got a little bit

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crazy with the bear spury on this one. Miami hotel

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is sued by a family after their daughter is groped

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in a pool.

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What do you have to say about that?

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Just uh huh, Well, I don't play at pools because

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you know your kids are in their swimsuits and the

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freaks are out, so you have to be It's so

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sad though, you have to be vigilant everywhere at all times.

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And I think that's the moral to this one that

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we're going to discuss. Auburn University graduate killed by her

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boyfriend's dad in Alabama.

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Yeah, that's that's got some odd odd oddness to.

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It, right exactly.

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And of course we'll have overtime after that, but we're

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going to jump into today's topics, and just prior to

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doing that, I do want to mention we brought you,

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of course, the story of Ricky Foster, who was subject

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of the Devilwaar's Dunks documentary. He was arrested on Friday,

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and we were going to report that to you today,

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or rather he was bonded out of jail. He had

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already been arrested. We're going to report to you that

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he bonded out, but before we could get to that,

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he has been rearrested. Shocker, So two days later for

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some more counts, in this case two counts a violation

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of a protection order while he was apparently out on bond.

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He has his own worst enemy. He cannot seem to understand,

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nor does he want to understand, that you cannot do

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whatever the hell you want.

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Well, he's off the deep end now and he's back

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in jail, and this time he leases his right to

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a bond.

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Yeah, and then the amount of money that I guess

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his family came up with to get him out, that

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his family property money, but money and property that his

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family believes in him. And I know, look, that's common.

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People screw up and their family loves him so much

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that oh, you know, they don't want to believe it,

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or else they just don't want their poor baby to

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sit in jail, whatever the hell it is. But to

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do that to your own family, whoever put that bond up,

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and then you go within twenty four hours and mess

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that up, You're sorry or you should be.

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Well he's back in jail again. But not much to

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report on that except for the fact that he's back

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in and this time he doesn't have a bond.

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So we'll jump.

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Into the main cusp of the episode today and we're

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going to bring you to Baton Rouge and a female

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East bat and Urge Parish EMS crew member was assaulted

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by a patient while transporting him to the hospital this

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past Wednesday evening, prompting an emergency call for police back

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up and leading to the man's arrest on felony charges.

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Kenneth Armstrong, whose age was not released, faces charges a

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battery of emergency room personnel, emergency services personnel or healthcare professional,

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and resisting an officer. This according to the BRPB, the

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incident unfolded at around six pm after an East Batnan

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Ridge EMS unit was dispatched to a medical call. Following

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an onseene evaluation, paramedics determined Armstrong further medical attention and

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began transporting him to a nearby hospital. While en route,

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Armstrong allegedly grabbed a female MT by the back in

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the back of the ambulance and assaulted her. The crewmember

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radio for assistant four. Baton Ridge Police Department officers responded,

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helped to restrain Armstrong, and escorted the ambulance the rest

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of the way to the hospital. Armstrong was treated and

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he was medically cleared at the hospital before being looked

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into ebr Parish Prison. Due to safety concerns for Savilian staff,

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he was not fingerprinted at that facility. The assaulted EMT

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was evaluated by emergency room staff and later released without

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serious injury. Now court records do show that Armstrong had

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a previous charge of battery of an er personnel. This

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in August of twenty twenty five, that carried an outstanding

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bench warrant.

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So sounds to me like he, you know, there's got

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to be something going on here with him, you know,

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in the dome, but outstanding warrant out walking around doing

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his thing. And you know, if you go to a

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hospital now, or anywhere really with that's a medical facility,

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there's signs up for this very reason that you know,

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it's against the law for you to assault staff. They're

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here to save your ass, not to kiss it. So

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this is something that unfortunately is very common, and you

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can I know, we have people that are nurses or

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in the medical field that'll tell you that people come

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in and you're trying to help them and they just

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want to be And it's no different if they're out

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in an ambulance that they come in contact with people

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who are mad, who are mentally unstable for a multitude

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of reasons, but they you know, they don't deserve to

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be beat on or abused or grouped or whatever the

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situation is here just to try to transport somebody definitely happens.

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I don't know if I would classified as common I

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know several EMT workers. It's certainly not something that occurs

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super often, but with this guy, it was twice that

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he's done this.

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This was not his first time.

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As a matter of fact, he had battery on an

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er emergency room personnel prior to this. So I don't

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know why someone would choose. You've got people here that

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are are they're trying to take care of you medically

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and you could die in some situations obviously without your help,

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and you're beating on them or doing whatever it is

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he's doing. It's not real clear on exactly what he

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was doing to this female email crew member, but uh, yeah.

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Well I can tell you this. When I taught years ago,

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we used to intern our students on ambulances because we

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had an EMT class and one of our students was

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right here in Baton Rouge doing her ride along getting

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her hours, and one of the first calls she went to,

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she got out to help and it turned into a

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shooting and she had to run.

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Yeah, and I believe you know that there's even a

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you know, a policy where if police are called to

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a scene and then EMS is dispatched, police have to

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secure that scene before MS can go in. They can't

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just go in before the police get there. Absolutely in

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these dangerous situations. So it's a very dangerous job. It's

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you know, it's aching to what a police officer deals

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with a first responder. You know, you get on the scene,

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especially a dangerous scene, shit can go down that ain't Yeah.

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I had a friend that he's no longer a deputy,

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but he got called out to a call one time

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and the husband was beating on the wife. That's why

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they responded. When he gets there, he goes to take

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the husband into custody, and then the wife jumps on

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him and bites him in the army had to go

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to the hospital and get his arm stitched up. You know,

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people will turn on you for a multitude of reasons,

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and that's just another example of you know, people are

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wilding out. Man. You gotta be safe. You got to

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be a vigilant. All right, let's go to Actually, we're

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gonna be right here in Baton Rouge. Now, this was huge.

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We had a multi agency operation that was led by

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the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation and their whole goal was

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to target sex offenders who were violating their Louisiana sex

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offender registration requirements and this resulted in sixty arrests. That

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is a massive number of arrests and this was all

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announced by the Attorney General's Office on Monday. So the

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AG's Office, alongside several sheriff's offices and district attorney offices

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said that the arrests were as a result of Operation

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Restricted Domain and this had started in February. So basically

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the operation was done where law enforcement databases and other

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resources were used to identify who were these registered sex

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offenders and guys, if you're a registered sex offender, that

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means that you have been convicted and that we know

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that you are a problem, okay, and so they have

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registration requirements and these requirements mean that there are certain

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things you have to do based on what you've been

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convicted on. Well, Operation Restricted Domain was a major success,

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and basically the state of Louisiana is saying there are

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no safe havens here for people who pray on children.

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Attorney General Liz Merle said, we will find you, we

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will arrest you, and we will bring you to justice.

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And so they did target these guys or follow these

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guys who were in violation of doing unlawful online activity

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and listen real quick to what all platforms they caught

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these guys and gals. What the platforms were. As parents,

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I think it's important Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, tick Talk, Discord,

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PlayStation Network, Reddit, Grinder, Luxury Date, and Fortnite. All of

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these are very familiar sites that I know children frequent

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because they're playing their games. But the largest number of

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these arrests came from sex offenders being identified on Facebook.

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On Facebook guys, thirty three instances were located from that

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meta owned platform. So Liz Murrell asked parents to be

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vigilant about allowing their children to use these platforms as

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well as games like Roadblocks, a frequent target of Murrell

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led sex crimes operations and lawsuits. There are no safe

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havens for sex offenders. That was a direct quote the

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Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office, Feliciana Sheriff's Office. And then there's

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like this massive list I could keep going through, but

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like our Livingston Paris Sheriff's Office, Public Safety and Corrections

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and a multitude of other agencies were part of this investigation.

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The eighteenth Judicial District Attorneys Office nineteenth twentieth twenty first,

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twenty third. All of those districts were involved in the

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operation as well, and the AG's office said that this

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year the IKAK Task Force and Cybercrime Unit have made

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a total of two hundred and ninety two arrests, identified

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thirty six child victims, and rescued thirty two children from

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ongoing abuse investigations. Huge.

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Yeah, and the IKAQ Task Force y'all, which is Internet

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Crimes against Children. This is a task force of individual

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investigative units inside of each sheriff's department inside of the

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State of Louisiana. So you have to opt into this program.

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And over time, the Attorney General's Office has partnered with

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any sheriff's office that would like to partner with them.

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They now have all sheriffs departments in the State of

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Louisiana participate in this and they kind of group together,

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band together, they share information, and all of this is

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used to catch child predators. Has been very successful and

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it's got a lot of these guys off the street.

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But in this case, these were.

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Guys that were registered already, So as Kelly said, they've

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already got a conviction and as part of their sentence

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they have to register on the sex offender registry and

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they're doing that, and then some of them weren't doing

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that when they were supposed to be all all of

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these sorts of issues, and so sixty people in one

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sweep listening scary.

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Very important to note two things here. Number one, if

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it's taking an IKAC team to locate, identify, and follow

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these guys and catch them in what they're doing, it's

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no wonder that it's difficult for a parent to track

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all of this, you know what I'm saying, especially if

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you're not tech savvy. That's why you have to be

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on top of it. Because predators of today are not

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the predators of yesteryear where they are riding up and

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down the streets. Not obviously some are, but we have

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given them a new avenue here with social media. We've

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given it to them. There's no checks, there's no balances.

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Even if there are some that they say there are

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on platforms, they're going to find a way around it.

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It is what it is. But secondly, is this, please

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I implore people look up your local sheriff's office website.

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They usually have a sex offender registries section on there.

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You can click it. You can put your address. In

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your address, it will bring up sex offenders and you

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can pick what radius you want, one mile up to whatever,

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show your children their faces. Be proactive, don't pretend it

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doesn't exist. You never know. It might save your child.

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And no parent here I'm assuming that had a child

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victim went oh, I know, I just didn't care. A

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lot of times it's happening under the radar and they're

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being groomed. So be proactive as best you can.

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And now that's the ones that have been caught. There's

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a lot of people not on the registry that are predators,

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and so you need to be in your kid's business.

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You need to be absolutely on their phone every night.

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If your kids under a certain agentle neator freaknfone, I

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will argue people down to death. An eleven year old

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doesn't need a phone, you know, what do they need

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a phone for? Or if they do have a phone,

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make it where and only make calls. You know, you

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can get phones that you can't download applications on. Get

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them something like that, because this is where these predators

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are shopping.

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And there's also believe that there's also things too that

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people don't realize, like metadata in photos. So if your

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kid sends a very vanilla or benign photo, for example,

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there's a latitude and longitude in those photos captured, and

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with the right software or with the right knowledge, someone

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can find where you are taking these photos. And kids

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what they don't know can hurt them. So it's well

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beyond just saying, hey, don't talk to strangers, be proactive

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being their business. I agree, yep, all right.

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Let's go to Brooklyn, New York and a thirty three

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year old woman to olivered to healthy baby boy on

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a wooden bench inside a packed Brooklyn courtroom. This is

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this past Friday night. While awaiting arraignment on low level

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drug possession and trespassing charges, Samantha Rendazzo, who was nine

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months pregnant at the time, went into labor. This is

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at eleven thirty pm that night. Her water broke as

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she sat on the bench, surrounded by police officers in

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court personnel. Court officers quickly assisted the judge as he

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cleared the courtroom, and she gave birth to what her

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attorney described as a bouncing baby boy just minutes before midnight.

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Both mother and child were reported in good condition and

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we're taking to the hospital immediately afterward. Now she had

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been arrested the previous evening after NYPD officers observed her

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and another person on a rooftop of a public housing

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complex with a controlled substance in plane view. She was

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charged with criminal possession and trespassing. According to police, she

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was wearing baggy clothing, did not disclose her pregnancy during

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the initial arrest or at the station house, and initially

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declined medical attention. Later at the station house, Randaza reported

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drug withdrawal symptoms and informed officer she was pregnant. She

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was transported to a hospital around three point thirty am Friday,

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treated and discharged later that day despite being in full term.

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She was then returned to custody and brought to the

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arrangement that evening. Her attorney called the birth a joyful

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and sad situation given the circumstances. He netted the court

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staff responding immediately and restraints were removed once labor began.

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Sharp also said hospital doctors had not realized how close

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she was to delivery. Public defender organizations they were reacted

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without rage and a joint statement. They basically said she

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gave birth in shackles on a courtroom bench. Without adequate

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metal care, privacy or dignity, rounded by court personnel, etc.

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So you know, look, she put herself kind of in

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that situation. I hate to say that, but you're on

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a rooftop the night before you give birth and you've

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apparently got a drugs and you're trespassing, and that's what

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puts you in a position where you were forced to

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kind of deliver this baby in a courtroom.

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Look how you're complaining. Yeah, give it's the system's fault.

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Given birth is not an illness. You know what I'm saying.

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Giving birth is not an illness. It's pregnancy. Deliveries happen.

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We've reported on deliveries and airplanes. That's that's not wanted,

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but it happens. People have given birth in grocery stores

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and on the side of the road. Hell, we've been

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given birth for how many years here, thousands and thousands

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of years. For them to react in outrage is absurd. Okay,

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you can't predict anything beyond the fact someone might go

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into labor around the nine month mark. We practice medicine.

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It hasn't been you know, perfected. So you know, she's

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where she was supposed to be. She was given immediate care.

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She gave birth in an air conditioned building, surrounded by

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people who assisted her. They took off her shackles and

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was transported to a hospital. What more do you want?

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How about there's the outrage over a pregnant woman using

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drugs when she's pregnant or allegedly. Yeah, yeah, I'll say allegedly.

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But come on, where there's smoke, there's fire. I believe that.

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So the outrage needs to be really I think maybe

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they should hold a mirror up to her and that's

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where the outrage should be. But hopefully this baby can

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help her change her mindset, turn her life around, make

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better decisions, and maybe this can be the thing that

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sparks that. That would be wonderful, all right. Saint Charles, Missouri,

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a thirty six year old Saint Charles man, whose wife,

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a local high school teacher, died by suicide late in March,

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repeatedly parked her vehicle at the school where she works

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and at a district administrative office at least fifteen times,

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even after being served with an order of protection. Whi

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well displaying a bumper sticker that read, quote unquote, I'm unpredictable.

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That's according to authorities that has creep factor written all

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over it. Alex Reikert was arrested earlier this month, and

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he was charged with first degree stalking, first degree making

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terrorist threats after prosecutors say he blamed school staff for

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his wife Sky's death, stalked a district employee, and posted

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online threats with countdowns that all pointed to the Saint

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Charles School District's Class of twenty twenty six graduation ceremony.

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Skyriikert had been placed on administrative leave by the district

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after her husband filed a defamation lawsuit in March against

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an anonymous staffer who allegedly sent emails to his employer

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accusing him of providing alcohol to children and other inappropriate behavior.

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She then died by suicide at the end of March.

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Following her death, Alex Riikert allegedly began targeting the school

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and a female district employee described as his former quote

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unquote paramore. He was seen circling the school in his

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deceased wife's car before parking it outside and in close

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proximity to the Saint Charles High School campus and then

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those nearby district offices of St. Charles Police Lieutenant Daniel

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Gibbons added that he even placed a Mupper stickle in

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the vehicle that read I'm unpredictable. So police say Rykert

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parked the car at the school twice in March and

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continued the behavior at other district buildings fifteen times after

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being served with a restraining order. So he then went

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and changed his Instagram account name to alex dot countdown

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and posted numerous social media messages featuring countdowns that all

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ended on this Sunday, as it's quoted, which was the

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date of the district's graduation ceremony. According to the authorities,

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SO prosecutor described the posts as communicating an implied threat

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involving danger to life with references to guns and a

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potential incident at the event. So in a bond request

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hearing I guess, prosecutors wrote that Reichert has lost his job,

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his wife, and his paramour, and that his behavior and

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social media posts indicate he has nothing left to lose

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and will take his anger and frustration out on innocent civilians.

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And they noted that he possesses guns and implied that

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he would use them. So the suspect presents a danger

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to the staffer, as well as to the attendees of

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the ceremony and the community. According to the filing, the

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suspect has already been served with an order protection and

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continues on his campaign to harass and to stalk. So

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Rykert was ordered held without bond and he remains in

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custody in the Saint Charles County Jail. He is scheduled

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for court appearance next week.

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What is a paramour?

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I thought that a paramour was like your your like enemy,

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but I think I'm wrong on that.

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Okay, we'll look that up.

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And while I like the band paramour, this oh his lover.

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Okay, your enemy, Jim.

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I'm glad I didn't say something crazy about you know,

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like this is my paramore? Oh my start my own.

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So this guy, from what I'm gathering from this, he's

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blaming the school for his wife's suicide.

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Yes, is that?

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Yeah, that's what it looks like.

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But he doesn't really get into why he would be

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blaming the school for that, does it?

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Did I miss something? No?

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But like what I'm the way I'm seeing this is

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that his wife was placed on administratively because of what

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her husband was accused of. If that makes sense right,

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because they said he was the one allegedly providing alcohol

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to children and doing inappropriate behavior.

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So i'most going to ask Scott something wrong.

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Obviously got some mental issues with him, and I don't

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know if the suicide is what drove him to that,

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but he needs some help.

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Man, What are you doing? Fifteen times?

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It looks like his wife might have been and I'm

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you know, I'm guessing with an educated guest here, but

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it looks like he had an illicit lover. Maybe the

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lover it's implying maybe that person maybe sent the email

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or something. Then the wife not only gets put on

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administrative lead, but also, you know, has her husband cheating

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and maybe it just got too much for her. Instead

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of him going, maybe I have something to do with this,

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he's mad at everybody else.

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I don't.

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He wants everyone else to suffer.

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I guess, well, and you got innocent kids at a graduation.

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And regardless of whether he means he was going to

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do what he was implying he was going to do,

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it's pretty messed up.

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Yeah, you don't. You don't there threatened something like that.

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That's not a joke at all. That's not even even

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if you're angry. There's certain things you don't joke about

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or that you don't say even in anger, and that's

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one of them.

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All right, let's go to the favorite segment of the day,

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and that is utterly unrelated. And this is where we

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cover something that's not necessarily a crime, but definitely interesting

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and fun to talk about. And this time we're going

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to take you to Ohio and a thirty five year

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old from Ohio who placed what he thought was a

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straightforward bulk order for some foam pool noodles and one

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hundred and sixty five of them.

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Actually, he orders these from Walmart and they must had

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a sale going on.

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I don't know why he would need one hundred and

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sixty five pool noodles, but he sure ordered that. And

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when they come in, they come in in one hundred

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and sixty five individual boxes.

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Could you imagine how much time it would take to

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open them?

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Well, his name Matthew Bright.

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He used cut up pool noobles actually as packing material,

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so it did come out what he used these pool

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noodles for. He sold antique cast iron cookware. He would

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restore this cookwar and then ship it back to the

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person he said he expected the order to arrive in

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just a few, you know, which you would think of

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as pool noodle boxes, just a few of them, maybe

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twenty five in each box. Whatever instead FedEx, and I said, well,

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Walmart filled the order, but FedEx actually livered it. The

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FedEx driver pulls up and he unloads one hundred and

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sixty five separate oversized cardboard boxes on the first day,

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and then the second day seventy five more that he

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didn't even order, so he ended up with two hundred

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and forty boxes.

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Now.

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Video footage shared by Bright shows his front porch and

474
00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:24.640
lawn completely covered in identical brown boxes, each containing a

475
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:29.079
single two dollars foam noodle. What are we doing, he

476
00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.640
said as he opens box after box. It's all one

477
00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:35.960
order with the exact same item. The post quickly spread

478
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.799
across social media, where users joked about everything from the

479
00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:43.559
delivery driver's easy day one stop and they weighed nothing

480
00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.559
to the Walmart packer who apparently spent an entire shift

481
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:52.240
taping and labeling one hundred and sixty five boxes. Many

482
00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.519
commuters pointed out the environmental waste in questioned Walmart's automated

483
00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.359
shipping system, which is what I was kind of thinking

484
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.519
was man the.

485
00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.400
Expense to ship those two.

486
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:06.200
Dollars noodles times you know what ended up being two

487
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:10.119
hundred and forty boxes. Walmart can't be happy about that, right.

488
00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:11.200
In response to.

489
00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.279
The backlash, Walmart did reach out to Bright and offer

490
00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:17.039
him a fifty dollars gift card along with an offer to.

491
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:19.160
Pick up the excess boxes.

492
00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:23.519
Bright told local media he was flabbergasted by the delivery,

493
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.079
but has seen the humor in it and now has

494
00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:31.160
more than enough packing material for years of shipping restored

495
00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:33.519
cook wear. And you ought to see it. If you're

496
00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:37.720
watching the Patreon right now, you're you're seeing these. It

497
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.079
took up his whole freaking storage ship, just the same

498
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.599
flat box containing one freaking pull noodle's.

499
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.519
I gotta tell you this, though, I actually sell resell

500
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.960
like stuff online too similar. That's genius to use the

501
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:54.039
pull noodle. That actually never occurred to me. So you've

502
00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.119
just inspired me. But for some reason I thought that

503
00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:58.200
he in my mind when we started the story, I

504
00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:00.319
thought he was going to have like a massive pool

505
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:01.559
party and they were going to be like doing a

506
00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:03.680
pool noodle fightle or something. That's what I thought he

507
00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:07.240
would be doing with them, but the boxes could be reused.

508
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.680
To uh shah, Well that's what he said.

509
00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:12.400
Yeah, so the people who are outraged by the environmental

510
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:14.759
I mean, I mean, you know, whatever, it could all

511
00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:16.799
be used, it can go. But that's that's got to

512
00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:17.839
be a new sense to store.

513
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.480
I mean, just from a business standpoint, as a business owner,

514
00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.640
I'm like, man.

515
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:24.440
Why didn't there software.

516
00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:25.319
A lot of waste of money?

517
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:27.480
Yeah, why didn't there software bulk that it's all going

518
00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:28.799
to the same address, you would.

519
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:33.279
Think, I'm sure they did, But some guy decided I

520
00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:35.680
think he was trying to be funny. Somebody at Walmart

521
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:37.000
thought he thought it was funny. Yeah.

522
00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:38.920
Man, they got people with says heme or at Walmart.

523
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.720
I think somebody's just not that smart and thought it

524
00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:45.240
was appropriate to a single pack of noodle. All right,

525
00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:50.240
let's go to Somerville, Massachusetts. And this story is not

526
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:53.519
only tragic but horrifying. And you don't ever think about

527
00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:58.319
this taking place because there's harrowing new surveillance footage that

528
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:01.759
is shedding light on the moments of forty year old

529
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:06.400
father of two, Stephen McCluskey, who became fatally trapped at

530
00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:10.920
the bottom of a moving escalator at THEBTA Davis station.

531
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:14.559
And here's the part that's just unnerving. While more than

532
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:20.799
a dozen commuters walked by him without stopping to help, McCluskey,

533
00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:23.039
who was a carpenter from South Boston who ran his

534
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.920
own home improvement business, stepped on the escalator shortly before

535
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.319
five am, this was February twenty seventh, as he was

536
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.000
heading to the subway platform, and if you watch the

537
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.200
surveillance video, which was obtained by a local news station,

538
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:38.920
NBC ten Boston, he lost his balance at the bottom

539
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:43.480
and fell backwards. He became entangled in the machinery. His

540
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.680
clothing and even the skin on his back was pulled

541
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:51.279
into the escalator's mechanisms, constricting his airway and penning him

542
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:56.200
in place. Now, more than twenty minutes goes by. McCluskey

543
00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:58.880
was struggling visibly. His legs were flailing as he was

544
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.839
trying to free himself, and the video shows him eventually

545
00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:05.440
going just limp. He's lying motionless on his back, one

546
00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:09.480
hand is above his head. Dozens of riders passed within

547
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.799
feet of him, some of them even glancing over and

548
00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:14.519
looking at him. One man did pause to pull on

549
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:16.960
his legs for a few seconds before just going oh

550
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:21.480
well and walking away. No one hit the clearly marked

551
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:24.279
red emergencies stop button that's right there on the front

552
00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:27.319
of the escalator. It took eighteen minutes for a nine

553
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:29.599
one one call to even be placed, and then another

554
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:32.720
few minutes for an employee to finally stop the escalator.

555
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.119
So when firefighters arrived, they found him without a pulse.

556
00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:39.519
It took the rescuers almost thirty minutes to free him

557
00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:41.839
from the machinery before he could even be transported to

558
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:44.519
the hospital by stretcher. But this was now almost an

559
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:48.039
hour after he initially fell. He was revived, but he

560
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.759
remained in a coma and then would unfortunately die ten

561
00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:54.000
days later. His family was speaking out from their home

562
00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:56.519
and they expressed the heartbreak and outrage over what they

563
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:01.119
described as a preventable inaction in a public see and

564
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:03.440
I have to say, Jim, I really actually agree with

565
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.079
them on this one. This is a quote. Nobody cared,

566
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:09.359
nobody stopped, nobody took the time to help to make

567
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:11.519
sure that he was okay. And that was his mother,

568
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.480
Mary Flaherty. She was crying while she said that if

569
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.519
somebody took that minute just to help him. He would

570
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:20.839
have been here today. He was a somebody, He had

571
00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:23.279
a life. We loved him. They treated him like he

572
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:27.240
didn't even exist. His sister, Shannon added, I want to

573
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.240
make sure that there's somebody or something held accountable for

574
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:32.960
the fact that my brother wasn't protected in a public space.

575
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:35.640
She noted that Mcluskey had struggled with drug addiction in

576
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:38.319
recent years, but he did his best every single day

577
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:40.640
to show up for the people that he loved. His

578
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:43.599
obituary described him as a devoted father of his two

579
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.319
young sons, Shane and Stephen, who meant the world to him.

580
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.480
He was a talented carpenter and he took pride in

581
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:53.079
building things and helping others, spending hours talking with people

582
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:56.359
and offering advice or fixes around the house. So the

583
00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:59.880
DA's office does have an ongoing investigation into this death,

584
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:02.759
and so they are now waiting the medical Examiner's ruling

585
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.079
on the cause and manner. Now. An escalator safety expert

586
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:08.400
his name was Robert Cotton, who has more than forty

587
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:12.400
years of experience, told investigators the delayed response was unacceptable.

588
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:16.680
The MBTA breached that duty. If somebody had knowledge of it,

589
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:19.559
that should have been active upon immediately. I don't find

590
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:22.960
that acceptable. That's way too long now. In the statement

591
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.240
from MBTA, they called the incident a terrible accident and

592
00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.160
reminded riders that anyone can stop an escalator using the

593
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:33.000
red emergency buttons and should call nine one one immediate immediately.

594
00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:36.480
They say that the personnel responded swiftly to all emergencies

595
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.000
and do everything they can to assist individuals and secure

596
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:42.039
the situation. The release of the fifty seven minute video

597
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:45.240
has renewed calls for accountability, and it raises questions about

598
00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:50.319
bystander intervention station staffing and then escalator safety protocols at

599
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.519
one of Boston Area's busiest transit hubs.

600
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:56.480
Yeah, one of the most bizarre.

601
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:02.240
Ways that someone has died I've ever come across via escalator,

602
00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:06.079
being trapped in the escalator. I never would have thought

603
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:09.319
that would lead to something like that, but obviously he

604
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:10.240
was choked to death.

605
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:14.079
Yeah, it's horrible. You don't realize the power in an escalator.

606
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:15.759
You know, you don't think about it. I know people

607
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.240
you know, you just don't think about that. You think

608
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:18.880
you're just going to step off of it. But the

609
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.160
problem is when things don't go like they're supposed to

610
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:22.920
when you don't step off, when you stumble and then

611
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:26.200
you fall. That's why that emergency button is right there

612
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:28.759
in the front. So we looked it up or because

613
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:30.119
Jim and I were talking about it before we hit

614
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:33.599
the record button, and I found on just a general search,

615
00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.079
nothing in depth, but it said that there are two

616
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:41.599
to three fatalities each year around the US in escalators.

617
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:43.000
So it's not a high number.

618
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.920
No, I mean that there's three hundred and fifty million

619
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:49.359
people in the United States and two or three, so

620
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.359
that's such a small percentage.

621
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.119
It's almost like almost minuscule, but non existent. But there's

622
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.440
a lot of injuries that happened, and twenty of those injuries,

623
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.480
twenty percent of them do involve entrapments like this. So

624
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:07.599
I don't I just and I'm I'm not trying to

625
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:09.800
blame innocent people that were just walking by.

626
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:11.519
But well, it's the fault, it's.

627
00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:14.360
Not their fault. But but then to see that and

628
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:19.519
to do nothing seems a callous. It seems like not

629
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:21.280
my problem, and you just keep walking.

630
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:23.480
I there's a lot of people in the world.

631
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.280
Maybe I know, and I don't want to be one

632
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:28.559
of those people. I want to stop and help anybody.

633
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:32.119
Yeah, if it'll be you know, yeah.

634
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:33.760
Someone just could have hit that button and need be alive.

635
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:34.760
Yeah.

636
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.679
A lot of a lot of you know, fade to

637
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.960
render aid. It's grime in some cases. Yeah, when you

638
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:41.880
don't do that.

639
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:43.840
If you have not ever seen it, just take the time.

640
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:45.119
When you go to your local mall or you go

641
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.639
somewhere with there's escalator, look at the very front of it.

642
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:49.840
There's a big red button right on the handle, at

643
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:53.000
the very front of the escalator, and that is the emergency.

644
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.440
Stop on both ends. Event.

645
00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:57.880
Matter of fact, I'll tell you this, I had one

646
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.440
incident in the escalator that seriously could have been bad.

647
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:02.840
You know, you're never supposed to put a stroller on

648
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.400
an escalator, right you never You're not. You are never

649
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.920
supposed to, I know. But I learned the lesson the

650
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:11.880
hard way. You're never supposed to put a stroller on

651
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:14.519
an escalator. But because of out of inconvenience, because it

652
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.119
would have made me walk around to go find an elevator.

653
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:19.119
One time I was at the mall, I decided to

654
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:21.079
get on the escalator. I was very young, it was

655
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.599
my first child. Rather than go on backwards where you

656
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:26.400
can like pull you know, I'm trying to say, when

657
00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:28.039
you get to the bottom, you can pull over the hump.

658
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.360
I didn't think that through, so I pushed your stroller

659
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.079
on it where I was behind it. But I popped

660
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:34.400
the wheel up, thinking okay, and then I'll just push

661
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:37.000
the back two wheels over it. Well, my wheels got

662
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:39.800
stuck exactly like they say it will happen, and it

663
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:41.920
caused a chain reaction and it scared the hell out

664
00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:43.840
of me. Thank god, there was a gentleman behind me

665
00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:46.960
that he actually grabbed me like hard and he kind

666
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:49.000
of picked me up and pushed me and we were

667
00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:51.039
able to make it over that hump. And it scared me.

668
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:55.679
But simple stupidity on my part, No really, but simple stupid.

669
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:58.960
I was wills get stuck.

670
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:00.880
Imagine being a young and you're the more on. A

671
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:01.920
came and pushed the stroller.

672
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:05.199
A man who was parading large exotic snakes around the

673
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:08.119
Hollywood Walk of Fame to post for tourist photos and

674
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:11.360
collect money, fled on foot when the lapd approached him

675
00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:14.800
this month, abandoning the reptiles on one of the world's

676
00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:19.639
most famous sidewalks. The incident occurred on May twelfth, when

677
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:23.599
officers from the LAPD's Hollywood Division Vice in It spotted

678
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:26.880
the man walking along the Hollywood Boulevard next to the

679
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:31.159
Hollywood Wax Museum. He was using the snakes, described as

680
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:35.000
several large exotic specimens, including what appeared to be a

681
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.920
yellow and white bow constructor, to attract pained tourists. When

682
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:43.000
officers attempted to make contact with the man, he slithered

683
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:44.039
away on foot.

684
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.199
How do you like that?

685
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:45.760
Like it?

686
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:46.719
That's called a pun?

687
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:47.360
I love it?

688
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:49.280
And he left the snakes behind that.

689
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:53.679
According to the LAPD's social media post, officers quickly secured

690
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:57.039
the animals, placing them into a large bending crate before

691
00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:02.280
transporting them to animal control. A lighthearted Instagram post that

692
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.800
had since gone viral, LAPD Hollywood referred to the suspect

693
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:10.920
as the quote snake signior equipped.

694
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.320
And that is kind of cornering. I didn't find that

695
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.360
very funny. Looks like the only thing getting squeezed today

696
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.440
was his escape plan. They need a new person running there.

697
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.880
He does corny scale offense, very good.

698
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:26.119
The department post evaders of the officer that was funny

699
00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:29.679
than what they wrote. Handling coiled snakes in the crate

700
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:33.440
loaded onto a police vehicle. It remains unclear how many

701
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:37.079
snakes were involved, what specific species they were, how the

702
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:42.000
man obtained them. Hollywood Boulevard a major tourists line hubbed

703
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:46.119
a major tourist hub lined with stars on the Walk

704
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.599
of Fame see frequent street performers, but live exotic animals

705
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:55.280
are actually not permitted without proper permits. Animal control officials

706
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:58.400
have not released further details about the condition of the

707
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:03.440
snakes or their fine disposition. The LAPD did not respond

708
00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:08.239
to request for additional comment in charges are possible or

709
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:11.559
more charges and an ongoing out investigation.

710
00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:14.840
So yeah, I can't believe you just abandon your animals

711
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:16.480
like that. So I'm wondering if you have some other

712
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:18.840
issues he might also need to be running from. I'm

713
00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:21.880
actually a fan of snakes being called danger noodles. I

714
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:25.239
think that that is one of the greatest descriptions of

715
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:27.440
a snake I've ever heard. So I call them danger noodles.

716
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:28.199
Don't touch them.

717
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.239
I mean, what do you think about the story? Though?

718
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:33.639
I think that he knew better that people make an

719
00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:36.360
assumption when they go to tourist places like that that

720
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:39.719
these people have some type of sense about them that

721
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:42.400
they have a permit, and that they assume that these

722
00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.079
snakes are not going to be dangerous in any way.

723
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:48.320
I obviously don't know anything about snakes, but that assumption

724
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.800
alone is probably the issue. And why the permit?

725
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.159
Why do you not know anything about snakes?

726
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:55.199
Because I don't want I don't want to know about snakes.

727
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:56.320
I thought you liked all animals.

728
00:38:56.360 --> 00:38:58.400
I do, but I don't want to hold one around

729
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.239
my throat or you never held one. Matter of fact,

730
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:04.159
I was on the line shooting the post course and

731
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:06.039
a snake slithered across my feet and.

732
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.320
The post course for those that don't know, as police corpse.

733
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:10.639
Yeah, and a snake slithered across my feet. So I

734
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:12.360
just holsted my gun and reached down and picked it

735
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:14.920
up and didn't realize it was a venomous snake. And

736
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.920
that's when everyone was like, holy shit, no, Kelly, no,

737
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:19.400
and I was like ah, So then I had to

738
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.639
throw it, but I didn't know how to throw it

739
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:23.320
because I've never been taught how to let go of

740
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:25.760
a snake, and so I just had to hurl that

741
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:29.519
bitch want out into the woods. Okay, I ain't afraid

742
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:31.719
of a snake. I just don't care for them. Eh,

743
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:32.639
I like the little groun.

744
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:33.360
It's all good.

745
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.599
I mean, most people are afraid of I'm not afraid.

746
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.480
The most common phobia. If I'm not.

747
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:43.639
Mistake, coroaches will put me on another level. One time,

748
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.400
students put a fake one in my papers on my

749
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.400
desk because they knew that, and when I was slipping through.

750
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:50.199
When I got to it, it freaked me out about it.

751
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:51.840
I pushed backward and I flipped backward out of my

752
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.239
chair and they loved it.

753
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.519
Well, it's interesting in this story that the guy was

754
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.000
making money, so he was you know, you would think,

755
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.519
I think that that would be not the animal that

756
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:04.800
you would want to bring to the Hollywood Walk of

757
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:06.440
Fame and try to get people to walk up to

758
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.960
you and pet a snake. I mean, look, I know

759
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:11.079
people that love snakes and they have them as pets.

760
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:13.760
I'm not hating on snakes, don't get me wrong, but

761
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.199
it seems like that will be the struggle to get

762
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:20.599
money with. But man, a yellow bow constructor i'd probably

763
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:21.039
walk up to.

764
00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:23.280
I'm not very check it out. Yeah, I'm not very

765
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:25.519
impressed though, with you abandoning your animals like that, like

766
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:27.920
you're using them to make money, but then when times get.

767
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:31.079
Touched, he's getting out of there, he's going to jail,

768
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:32.719
and he's going to have to abandon them anyway.

769
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:35.920
Well still, I don't know. It's just a bad idea

770
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.000
all around. I'm not I'm not surprised. I guess is

771
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.639
why I have lack of like shock factor, because people

772
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:43.880
do that kind of stuff all the time, and you know,

773
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.599
frowned upon, but at least the snake'sre okay, and he

774
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:51.639
ran off, you know. All right, Okay, this is a

775
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.719
very important segment, breaking it segment. I'll messed it up.

776
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:56.920
I was trying to give all right, this is a

777
00:40:57.039 --> 00:40:59.800
very important segment just now coming in, and it's your

778
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:04.119
favorite segment of foolish felons so.

779
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:07.440
Full that is not their favorite segment is unrelated.

780
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:13.639
It's so foolish. Okay, imagine that you are there. It is,

781
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:15.480
I got it. Okay, Imagine you want to go in

782
00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.440
and steal a bunch of stuff. You don't, but just

783
00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:19.559
imagine it. So you come up with a plan, right,

784
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:23.800
a plan that cannot possibly go wrong, right, And so

785
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:26.679
your plan is to be a masked man with your friends,

786
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.840
and you're armed with a hammer and bare spray, and

787
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.760
you're gonna go storm no other place than the local

788
00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:36.639
pawn shop to get your loot. But then your plan

789
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:42.199
collapses in spectacular fashion because when you deploy said bare spray,

790
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.599
it filled the store so quickly that you couldn't see, breathe,

791
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:50.239
or even speak because you got so unable to do anything,

792
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:52.840
and you had to leave empty handed. Well, that is

793
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.360
what happened here. The attempted armed robbery occurred at five

794
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:58.599
point fifty three PM at Value Pond and Jewelry. The

795
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.280
investigator said that once us specs carried a hammer and

796
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.880
struck a jewelry display case that had multiple items in it,

797
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:08.519
obviously shattered or broke the glass and created a small

798
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:10.719
hole so they couldn't even break the glass very well.

799
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:14.760
The second suspect then discharged the bear spray throughout the store,

800
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.840
directly targeting the employees and the customers, but the thick

801
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:21.480
cloud of bear mace quickly overwhelmed the entire business. It

802
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.199
did affect three employees and two customers who were treated

803
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.639
at the scene by the Orange County Fire Department for

804
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:31.519
chemical irritation. The employee Alicia Capuchin told reporters that she

805
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:34.519
initially thought the loud banging was a gunshot. I turned

806
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:37.199
around and they directly sprayed me in the face, and

807
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.360
they directly maced my coworker in the face. It instantly

808
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.880
burned your face and your eyes. Even right now, I'm

809
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.079
still feeling it in my face and my lips. It's very,

810
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.039
very potent, very strong. Police believed the suspects panicked as

811
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.079
the spray filled the store and ran out without taking

812
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:55.400
any property, possibly macing themselves. The pair fled northbound down

813
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:59.599
the street. Officers, canine units and even in one air

814
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:02.599
one responded, but they weren't able to locate these guys.

815
00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:05.840
Firefighters later ventilated the business with fans and open doors,

816
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:08.519
and police are still looking for the suspects.

817
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:12.320
Yeah, and people don't realize that that actually happens, not

818
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:16.760
necessarily when you're committing a robbery, but anytime people yank out,

819
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:20.239
you know, pepper spray that gets in the air, and

820
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.239
you can actually inhale that as if you're being a

821
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.639
you know, you're being attacked and you pepper spray someone,

822
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.280
you've got to be real careful not to inhale and

823
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:33.559
exhale that pepper spray. That's why the jail spray is

824
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:37.559
so much better in those situations. It's actually a jail

825
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.800
that is shot a gel like hair jail that is

826
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:44.280
shot out into the face of whoever is assailing you

827
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:46.320
because it can create a cloud.

828
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:48.719
Man. Yes, and bear spray is no jake, right.

829
00:43:48.679 --> 00:43:50.079
You're taking to do a big ass animal.

830
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:50.360
Well.

831
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:52.840
Part of your training to in law enforcement is that

832
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:56.920
you have to recognize two things. One, there's always a

833
00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:59.400
weapon involved whenever you get into an altercation with somebody

834
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.840
on the street, because you brought it. There's a gun involved,

835
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:03.960
and doesn't mean you're always going to maintain control of it.

836
00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:07.760
Number Two, when you spray your freeze plus P or

837
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.079
whatever on the street, you have to be able to

838
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:14.280
also fight while you're also you know, having the effects

839
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:15.880
of that. So one of the things we do in

840
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.079
training is that you get sprayed directly in the face

841
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:20.440
with it, and then you have to fight an assailant

842
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.559
with you know, they have a fake weapon, but you're

843
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:26.400
learning to mitigate those reactions because it makes it that

844
00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:30.159
much more difficult. So they're clearly inexperienced, they're clearly stupid,

845
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:33.440
and they got nothing, and I love that. I'm sorry

846
00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:35.840
for the people that did get sprayed. That's horrific. It's terrible.

847
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:39.559
But all in all, those idiots didn't get a damn thing.

848
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:43.000
No they didn't, and they won't try that again. But

849
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.039
you wouldn't even know that until you try it for

850
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:48.320
the first time. How heavy of a cloud that that

851
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:49.440
actually puts out.

852
00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:50.440
I mean, it's not like.

853
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:54.039
A spray of water that comes out in this fine

854
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:57.119
mist and you know, hits whatever you're aiming at, and

855
00:44:57.159 --> 00:44:59.280
that's it. I mean, the whole air fills up with

856
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.320
that stuff. Look and bear spray especially, that's.

857
00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:05.159
Pope, look put you out.

858
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.559
I went to the mountains and they said, hey, there's

859
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:09.360
bears out there, and I was like, oh shit, okay,

860
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:11.000
so don't pet them. They're like no, I'm like cool.

861
00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:13.639
So they put they put bells around our I mean

862
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.079
being facetious, but they put bells around her ankles and

863
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:17.840
they said, where are these bells? And I'm looking at it.

864
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:19.920
I'm like, this one dollar bell's gonna save me against

865
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.159
a big, old, angry bear, and like, yeah, they won't

866
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:23.800
come near you because of the bear. Well, then we

867
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:26.119
walk up deep into the trail and I kept looking

868
00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:29.679
at my husband going do you smell something? Smells like

869
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:31.239
the zoo? And he was like, what are you talking

870
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:32.840
about because he can't smell anything. And I'm like, it

871
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:34.719
smells like the zoo, you know that smell? And he's

872
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.360
like no, no, dad, gumt we come back out. And

873
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.679
then leader Guy goes, yeah, that's bear musk what you

874
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:42.800
were smelling? Okay? Great? Well I brought my little ding

875
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:45.320
to ding ding Bell to protect me. I needed this

876
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:46.239
big cloud of mace.

877
00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:50.960
They say that you if, obviously, if a bear approchaes you,

878
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:52.960
you want to make yourself as big as possible, and

879
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:53.639
you want to like.

880
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:56.920
Go buck wild on the bear, just start screaming, yelling.

881
00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:59.079
Jumping up and down. There's two different kinds because one

882
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.920
bear you make yourself when you play dead. It's like a.

883
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:03.800
Brown bear versus never playing dead.

884
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:06.320
Was you're gonna get your head swiped off by big

885
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:09.000
Opaul almost I'm a fight. You're gonna look ridiculous. Is

886
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:09.400
that a head?

887
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:11.440
I would it ripped my head off? Anyway?

888
00:46:11.480 --> 00:46:13.159
Where am I gonna put your headphones? Jim?

889
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:17.159
Yeah, all right, let's go to Miami and I'm gonna

890
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:20.679
tell you about a Swedish family who is suing the

891
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:24.719
Rydisan Resort Miami Beach for more than fifteen million dollars,

892
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:30.119
alleging that the grossly inadequate security allowed of non guests

893
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:33.840
to sneak into the hotels pool and to sexually assault

894
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:37.880
their eleven year old daughter during a vagation. The lawsuit

895
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:41.480
was filed in Miami Dade County Court, and it names

896
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:45.000
the resort's owners, operators, and managers, along with sixty eight

897
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:48.960
year old Osvaldo Diaz, the man who is accused of

898
00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:54.039
carrying out the alleged groping. The family parents and their

899
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:57.840
three daughters nineteen, fourteen, and eleven, have been staying at

900
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.199
the resort for just two days when the n and

901
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:03.679
occurred back in twenty twenty five. According to the lawsuit,

902
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:06.800
the eleven year old girl was swimming in the hotel

903
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:10.840
pool with other guests when Diaz allegedly grabbed her buttocks.

904
00:47:11.239 --> 00:47:14.639
Believing it might have been accidental, she went underwater to

905
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:17.960
get away from him. The complaint states Diaz followed her

906
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:21.960
underwater and then grabbed her between the legs. The girl

907
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.800
immediately climbed out of the pool told her parents and

908
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:28.880
older sisters what had happened, and her father followed Diaz

909
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.039
as he fled the property through a neighboring hotel. The

910
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:36.519
family called hotel security and Miami Day Police, who arrested

911
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:40.559
Diaz later that day. Diaz was not a registered guest

912
00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:44.400
at the Rytissum was charged with loot and lascivious battery

913
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:48.519
on a child under sixteen and burglary with assault and battery.

914
00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:54.840
He remains in custody awaiting trial. The family's attorney, Justin's Shapiro,

915
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:58.800
said the resort failed to provide basic security measures or

916
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.960
access controlled to the pool area, which is supposed to

917
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.159
be restricted to guests only.

918
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.559
Quote. There was no supervision, no access control.

919
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.639
Anyone could have followed the guest into that pool area

920
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:13.119
from the beach or from the lobby. We have no

921
00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:17.360
indication the resort had visible presence of security anywhere on

922
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:22.119
the hotel's grounds, which is grossly inadequate. The family is

923
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:26.719
seeking damages in excess of fifteen million dollars, and so

924
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:27.440
there you have it.

925
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.840
So I would agree that there should be some type

926
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:34.079
of security, you know, like you have to use your

927
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:36.559
wristband or your card or something like that to get

928
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:37.960
into certain amenities.

929
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:42.719
A most places have that, especially like a Radison, so

930
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:44.400
that's a higher end hotel.

931
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:47.000
But even if they do, all someone has to do

932
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:48.880
is swipe their card and he just walks in behind him.

933
00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:50.360
No one, have you ever turned around and said, don't

934
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.280
walk in behind me, use your own card. You know

935
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.719
that's not true. That's not going to happen. He would

936
00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:57.599
have found a way in anyway. I'm not saying they.

937
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:03.679
I'm not saying. What I'm saying is fifteen million seems excessive,

938
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:06.840
not to me, because I wouldn't want my daughter to

939
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.719
have if she if this affected us so profoundly. I

940
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:12.800
know this is coming off wrong the way I'm saying this.

941
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.079
I'm just like, but here's a I don't mean to

942
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:19.280
interrupt you, but I do want to say. You're looking

943
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:21.400
at fifteen million dollars as what it means to you.

944
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:24.840
That's that's like a dollar to the Radison, the company,

945
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:25.519
the Radison.

946
00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:28.760
Yeah, you have to when these.

947
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:33.599
Attorneys are suing corporations like that. The whole point is

948
00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:37.440
I'm suing you civilly so that you hurt. For that,

949
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:41.480
you feel like you've got to make a change. Fifteen

950
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:43.920
million dollars is not what fifteen million dollars is to

951
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.119
you to the radisin Just.

952
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:48.519
Yeah, I guess when I look at a civil lawsuit,

953
00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:53.199
I think that obviously pain and suffering obviously damages. Obviously

954
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:54.920
I wouldn't want any type of therapy or something. I

955
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.559
would I would have to put my daughter in to

956
00:49:56.679 --> 00:49:58.599
help her if she was struggling with it or whatever.

957
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:05.079
But I would want change as far as like in protocol.

958
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.360
In protocol, I would want I would be steadfast on

959
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:10.719
their ass about that, Like, you have got to protect

960
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:13.360
your guests. We come here expecting to be protected. But

961
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:15.239
in the same right, I bet you they come back

962
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:17.800
with an argument that we also don't do background checks

963
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:19.639
on all of our guests. Just because you have a

964
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.199
key doesn't mean that you're safe, and so we have

965
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:25.039
certain you know, but at.

966
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.639
Least you're making an effort. You can't just say, well,

967
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.039
you can get past that. I mean, of course you can.

968
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:33.679
But if you don't have that protocol in place, fifteen

969
00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:36.039
million dollars is going to make you put that protocol

970
00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:36.519
in place.

971
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:40.519
A millium won't. Yeah, that's the way that they're looking

972
00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:40.760
at that.

973
00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:43.760
Well, yeah, I just I hope that this fucker gets

974
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:46.599
put behind bars for a hot minute. Because he's clearly

975
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:49.280
a predator. He obviously went to this hotel because he

976
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:51.880
knew that he wouldn't have to give up any id,

977
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:53.920
any type of because he wasn't a guest there. Of

978
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.679
course you would go there because then they wouldn't know

979
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:59.679
who you were. And assaulted this little girl. I feel

980
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:03.880
horrible for her because I know that you know you're young.

981
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:05.599
You're a young girl. What did I do to deserve this?

982
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.360
Why would someone do this to me? It's because he's

983
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:09.199
a predator. Honey, you did nothing wrong. You're a kid.

984
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.320
You were swimming in a pool. And I don't know

985
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:17.239
that the fifteen million dollar lawsuit is going to change anything,

986
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:19.920
I guess is what I'm saying. I would hope that

987
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:23.760
they would go for more, like legislation or something to

988
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:24.719
make those changes.

989
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:29.039
Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's something in the

990
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.079
books there. But I wonder what fifteen million dollars is

991
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:32.679
for the family.

992
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:33.400
Yeah, can I get it?

993
00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:34.000
You know?

994
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.239
And the whole point of that is, Look, they just

995
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:44.599
had a lawsuit come down through the pikes from shoot.

996
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:47.480
I can't even remember exactly which company it was, one

997
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:51.400
of the major companies out there and they lost in

998
00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:55.679
this lawsuit in its class action suit many people involved

999
00:51:56.239 --> 00:52:01.199
one point one billion dollars billion with a B and

1000
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:03.559
it's still on bankrupt them. So much money they have,

1001
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:08.960
they can give away one point one billion dollars.

1002
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:10.360
And it doesn't and not miss a beat.

1003
00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:12.679
That's why Walmart miss a beat can box all.

1004
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.039
Few companies on earth that can take a one point

1005
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.079
one billion dollar loss and not miss a beat.

1006
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.719
This company is doing that. I wish I could remember

1007
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:23.239
who it was.

1008
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:25.639
But they have policy insurance policies for this type of

1009
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:27.679
stuff too, So I mean, I'm assuming there's gonna be

1010
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:29.719
an insurance payout if anything. So is it really going

1011
00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:31.639
to affect them or is it not? You know, those

1012
00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:32.599
are the things their.

1013
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:33.599
Insurance go up for sure.

1014
00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:36.840
Yeah, you know, I'm not sure how that works, but

1015
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:39.960
but yeah, I'm sure they have insurance on something like that,

1016
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:41.719
and their insurance is going to have to pay out,

1017
00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:43.800
but then they're going to have to pay higher rates.

1018
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.440
Did But my issue is that the bad guy here,

1019
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:49.760
the predator here, is who I need put away for.

1020
00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:51.639
I'm not I'm not hating on the lawsuit. I don't know.

1021
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:52.840
I hope it didn't come across that way.

1022
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:56.039
I'm just no, I was just succepted saying what we

1023
00:52:56.199 --> 00:52:59.159
as normal human beings. Yeah, look at fifteen million dollars,

1024
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:01.000
were like, wow, that's a ton of money. But to

1025
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:02.400
those companies that's nothing.

1026
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:03.519
That's nothing.

1027
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:06.800
To the Radison, absolutely nothing. So you have to sue

1028
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.119
for that fifteen million just to make them.

1029
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:12.880
At least feel it. Yeah, at least change something.

1030
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:15.039
If it was my daughter, it would be worth fifteen million.

1031
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:16.519
You know what I'm saying. I totally I get what

1032
00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:19.079
I'm saying. But I hope that they This guy should

1033
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.519
not have been walking around. I doubt that that's his

1034
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:26.519
first victim too. If you're that forward in a public setting. Wow,

1035
00:53:26.599 --> 00:53:28.920
and I'm thinking speculation, that is absolute speculation.

1036
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.159
But you'd be unlucky. And this is his first time

1037
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:33.480
A fiftieth Yeah, we don't know.

1038
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:37.400
I just don't. That's predatory. All in all. Okay, let's

1039
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.719
go to Trussville, Alabama. A twenty two year old recent

1040
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:44.039
Auburn Auburn University graduate who had just begun her dream

1041
00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:46.920
job in interior design, was shot in the chest and

1042
00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:51.760
killed inside her boyfriend's father's Alabama home in March. Authorities

1043
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:54.760
confirmed that this week, and the coroner in Medical Examiner's

1044
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:58.760
office officially ruled her death a homicide. So Whitney Harlowe

1045
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:01.639
Robison of rich Man in Virginia was found suffering from

1046
00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:04.559
a gunshot wound on March seventh at a residence about

1047
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:08.199
fifteen miles northeast of Birmingham. So first responders rushed her

1048
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:11.400
to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later. Now,

1049
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:14.360
the chief Deputy Coropner, Bill Yates, confirmed that the cause

1050
00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:17.239
of death was injury to her left lung, her heart,

1051
00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:19.599
and a orda due to a gunshot wound of the chest,

1052
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:21.639
and that manner of death, like I said, was certified

1053
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:25.159
as a homicide. Yates specifically clarified that the shooting was

1054
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:29.320
not certified as accidental, correcting an earlier report that had

1055
00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.480
described it that way. So Robison and this girl was

1056
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:36.440
a winter y'all. She graduated summacuum lauda from Auburn University's

1057
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:38.960
Interior Design program in May of twenty twenty five. She

1058
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:42.960
had recently started working as a trade consultant for restoration hardware.

1059
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:45.599
Her family and friends said that she had dreamed of

1060
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:48.440
a career in design since childhood and she was inspired

1061
00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:52.840
by watching those ht TV shows. Her obituary described as

1062
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:55.599
an independent woman with a radiant soul who touched and

1063
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.880
transformed everyone she met. But following an extensive investigation by

1064
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.239
the Trustviille Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division, fifty four year

1065
00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:08.320
old Travis Scott Towers now this is her boyfriend's father,

1066
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:11.519
who lives at the home with his son, also an

1067
00:55:11.519 --> 00:55:14.960
Auburn alumni, was arrested on May eleventh and charged with

1068
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:18.840
reckless manslaughter. He was released after posting a thirty thousand

1069
00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:20.920
dollars bond and is scheduled to appear in court on

1070
00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:25.559
July twenty second. His attorney, John Amari and Dame Stewart,

1071
00:55:26.519 --> 00:55:29.199
they described the incident as a tragic accident and that

1072
00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:31.880
he definitely was maintaining his innocence. They know that the

1073
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:34.320
facts will show that mister Towers has no criminal history,

1074
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:37.559
has been a productive and upstanding citizen for his entire life,

1075
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:41.000
and is not guilty of these charges. Police have not

1076
00:55:41.199 --> 00:55:44.280
released additional details about the circumstances of the shooting or

1077
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:47.880
what led to it. They determined that Towers acted with

1078
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:51.760
criminal recklessness in connection with the fatal gunshot.

1079
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.519
The reckless manslaughter would lead me to believe that this

1080
00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:58.280
was the situation where he and I don't know if

1081
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:00.800
he was showing her gun and went off. And I

1082
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:03.840
never say accidentally went off, because a gun doesn't accidentally

1083
00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:05.719
go off. You have to squeeze the trigger for the

1084
00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:06.400
gun to go off.

1085
00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:08.000
Now, the intention to.

1086
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:12.079
Shoot somebody might not be there, but if you you know,

1087
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:16.239
a gun doesn't just fire unless you pull the trigger. Uh,

1088
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:18.599
So it could have been a situation like that. I'm

1089
00:56:18.639 --> 00:56:21.960
not really going to speculate because we don't know. But

1090
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:25.280
reckless manslaughter is not the same as like second agree

1091
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:28.079
murder or anything like that. So it tells me there

1092
00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:29.480
wasn't intent.

1093
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:33.119
Right, So manslaughter in and of itself would imply that

1094
00:56:33.199 --> 00:56:37.559
there was culpability, which means you hold responsibility in the action.

1095
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:40.519
But the recklessness part, I mean, sometimes people will take

1096
00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:42.599
a magazine out of a weapon and they don't clear

1097
00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:44.239
the chamber, and they still have that one bullet in

1098
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:48.159
the chamber, and we don't know if it could have

1099
00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:50.199
been you know, doing something in the bedroom, what even

1100
00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:52.159
in the same room with her, and he you know,

1101
00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:54.679
pulled the trigger on accident, goes through a wall and shoots.

1102
00:56:54.760 --> 00:56:56.679
We don't know, obviously, there's a ton of stuff here

1103
00:56:56.719 --> 00:57:01.360
that could have happened. We go, we'll see where this goes.

1104
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:04.559
I don't feel like, you know, they were very clear

1105
00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:07.400
it wasn't a suicide. You know, they're trying to make

1106
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:11.840
that very clear that this was not certified as accidental.

1107
00:57:11.920 --> 00:57:14.480
They were yet specifically clarified that the shooting was not

1108
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:19.679
certified as accidental. So it's interesting. I can't wait to

1109
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:23.440
find out more about this one. If it's not accidental,

1110
00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:26.480
then that would mean it was on purpose. I'm trying

1111
00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:30.320
to say so maybe maybe there's just some misunderstanding in

1112
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:33.960
between the reporting and and what happened obviously, but but

1113
00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:35.800
I'll be interested to follow this one well.

1114
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:39.719
Definitely people posted as we get updates on that. Uh

1115
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:41.360
calle any final thoughts.

1116
00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:43.320
Yes, I want everyone to know that I am now

1117
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.559
the proud mother of a high school graduate. Yes, a

1118
00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:51.039
cong She also scored a thirty on her ACT, which

1119
00:57:51.039 --> 00:57:53.239
I'm very proud of. And she's going to be going

1120
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:56.360
into nursing. So shout out to all the nurses out there.

1121
00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:58.280
We had a new generation coming in and I hope

1122
00:57:58.280 --> 00:57:59.239
that they will receive.

1123
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.719
Her with love and support there you go in Southeastern

1124
00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:03.440
Nursing School.

1125
00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:07.519
No l s U. Oh they do. Matter of fact,

1126
00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:10.000
New Orleans is where most people go. But there they've

1127
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:12.159
opened it up, opened up now in l s U.

1128
00:58:12.880 --> 00:58:15.480
Uh nurse like here in nursing school. Yeah, I'm ptty

1129
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:17.840
excited about that. Interesting and your daughter, Wait a minute,

1130
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:19.519
your daughter had a big success too, I want to

1131
00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:19.840
I want you.

1132
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.239
Yes, she got accepted into uh the l s U

1133
00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:30.400
Department of Design. Yeah, girl, blank, yeah.

1134
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:32.440
Matter of fact, that's what this young girl right was.

1135
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:36.920
Uh, she was well, she graduated in Tier design from Albourne,

1136
00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:40.239
which is also a very good university there. But let

1137
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:43.119
me tell you in Tior Design school, uh, for these

1138
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:46.199
top rank colleges are very hard to get into, more

1139
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:50.360
competitive than law school. Seriously, have any They only accept

1140
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:53.559
like sixty people something like that every year and there's

1141
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:55.280
like nine hundred applicants.

1142
00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:57.440
Good job, little Chapman, good job.

1143
00:58:58.199 --> 00:58:59.039
Very proud of her for that.

1144
00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:02.440
You should be any of our listeners, guys, y'all brag online.

1145
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:04.760
Let us know, did y'all have any graduates any big

1146
00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:08.000
things this graduation season? Will support them, We support all

1147
00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:09.280
the successes that these kids are.

1148
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:09.880
Yeah.

1149
00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:13.519
Yeah, message Kelly, Oh my gosh, I am proud of

1150
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:17.480
all of that. I am too, super proud. Well, I've

1151
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:19.800
got a little bit different of a final thought, and

1152
00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:24.800
that is that I want to remind everybody that this weekend,

1153
00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:29.679
after you hear this episode, is Memorial Day weekend. Of course,

1154
00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:33.639
Monday is Memorial Day and very important to remember these

1155
00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:35.920
people that have died. It's not and look, I got

1156
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:38.719
a little pet peeve here that this is not Veterans Day.

1157
00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:41.960
So you don't shout out veterans on Memorial Day. You

1158
00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:45.760
shout out people who have died defending this country. Veterans

1159
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:48.440
have their own day where you can think, you know,

1160
00:59:48.519 --> 00:59:51.159
you want to thank people for their service every day, obviously,

1161
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:55.760
but Memorial Day is a day for those who gave

1162
00:59:55.880 --> 00:59:59.280
their life in defense of this country. So take a

1163
00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:03.400
minute and if you're barbecuing, hanging out with the VAM, whatever,

1164
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.079
and put some thought into those who have gave and

1165
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.559
paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we can have all

1166
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:13.320
these frames we enjoy here in the United States.

1167
01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:15.719
Amen. And I'll add to that real quick that.

1168
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:17.840
Now you can't that was my final thought.

1169
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:19.559
You didn't have that as a finals I'm trying to

1170
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:23.440
support you okay, go ahead, I'll let you then, all right.

1171
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:28.000
My dad is actually gonna receive an award this Memorial Day. Again.

1172
01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.239
He is a veteran, not he didn't die, but he's

1173
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.639
going to be honored at the Capitol on Wednesday. But

1174
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.800
all because of a deceased marine who died many, many

1175
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:41.480
years ago in Vietnam. My stepdad carried his body out

1176
01:00:41.639 --> 01:00:45.400
under fire and got a ton of accommodations or not accommodations,

1177
01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:50.199
what's the word. I'm looking for awards basically for that.

1178
01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:54.400
But that deceased marine's daughter reached out and she is

1179
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.800
the reason that's happening because she was so thankful that

1180
01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:59.199
she got to see her daddy one last time because

1181
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:02.079
they recovered him. So to that family, and I'll keep

1182
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:05.159
it private just for personal reasons, but to that family,

1183
01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:07.480
I want to thank them, even though I wasn't even

1184
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.679
born when Vietnam happened, thank her daddy specifically on this

1185
01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:14.679
Memorial Day forgiving his life and for our country. I

1186
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:15.599
think it's a beautiful thing.

1187
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:20.480
There you go, so and look, stay tuned for the

1188
01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:24.679
overtime aspect of Crime Wire Weekly. We're gonna be talking

1189
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:28.239
about topics today like the true Crime time Machine. We've

1190
01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:33.400
got We've got some Texas teens arrested after ten shootings

1191
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in Austin, ten separate shootings. These two Texas teens have

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finally been arrested. Some woman was arrested for believe it

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or not, arson after setting her boyfriend's clothes on fire. Yeah,

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so a lot of people have probably done that and

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got away with it.

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Well she didn't. We're going to talk about that.

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And a teen has been charged after an accidental shooting

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in Pennsylvania. We're gonna be covering that. So if you're

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a Patreon member, that's coming up for everyone else. Until

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next time. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennings, and

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we your host of Crime Weekly,