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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 152 - 4 year old shot this weekend...where is the mayor · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 719 on a Monday. It's that time of week. I
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  Speaker 1: always look forward to it. Christopher Smitherman, former vice mayor
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  Speaker 1: of the city of Cincinnati, offering his thoughts and comments
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  Speaker 1: in a segment we call the Smithervan. Christopher, welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. It's always great having you on the program.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so frustrated this morning when I hear about a
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  Speaker 3: four-year-old girl. And I've been listening to your show. She's
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  Speaker 3: sitting on her porch. And in South Cummingsville, there's a shootout,
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  Speaker 3: like a war shootout.
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  Speaker 2: And a four-year-old is shot.
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  Speaker 3: Now, she's in a hospital in Cincinnati fighting.
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  Speaker 2: For her life.
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  Speaker 3: I can see her family there in the waiting room
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  Speaker 3: all weekend at surgery after surgery.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even know whether the four-year-old girl is going
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  Speaker 2: to live.
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  Speaker 3: And people ask me, Brian, why do I talk about this?
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't want to be that leader that accepts
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  Speaker 3: this as normal. It's not normal for a four-year-old to
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  Speaker 3: be sitting on a porch and be shot. It's not
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  Speaker 3: normal a year or so ago, the 11-year-old by Corey
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  Speaker 3: Bowman's church playing on a playground She's shot in her chest.
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  Speaker 3: And we still don't know who killed her.
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  Speaker 2: It's not normal, dude. And we've got a mayor.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a city council that is so disconnected from
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  Speaker 3: this kind of bad behavior. And it incenses me to
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  Speaker 3: my core. And so I don't want to be the
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  Speaker 3: leader anymore. And I've been listening to your show, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: because you've been highlighting it. You obviously don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be the leader that accepts that a four-year-old girl is
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  Speaker 3: sitting on a porch and is shot in South Cummingsville.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher, I guess I'm trying to put myself... in the
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  Speaker 1: position of, you think that these are gang, we have
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  Speaker 1: gang problems in downtown Cincinnati. I've been, I've heard that
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I've heard it from you and others, but
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  Speaker 1: let's assume this is a gang situation. You got, you know, the,
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  Speaker 1: the bad guys are over there, the other gang, and
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  Speaker 1: you're a gang member on this side and you start
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  Speaker 1: squeezing off rounds of the other guys that you might
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  Speaker 1: have some sense of awareness around you that there was
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  Speaker 1: a four-year-old in your line of fire that you might
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  Speaker 1: not want to do that because it's going to bring
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  Speaker 1: down massive police heat. Hopefully you're going to get caught.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the cameras will catch you. You're going to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, tried and convicted of shooting a four-year-old. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I just, I don't understand it. But then again, who
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  Speaker 1: in the hell starts randomly shooting into crowds of people anyway?
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  Speaker 1: That's just bat crap insane, Christopher. Can you, through legislation,
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  Speaker 1: through good leadership, effective leadership, stop idiots from doing idiot things?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And the way the government has been responding to
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  Speaker 3: violent crime by being.
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  Speaker 3: Meaning not allowing your police to do the proactive policing,
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  Speaker 3: stopping people, asking questions. When people are caught, Brian, they're
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  Speaker 3: arrested and the judges are letting them out. Within three days,
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  Speaker 3: no bonds, you got a gun, you shot somebody. The
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  Speaker 3: system and the criminals understand it, that when they do
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  Speaker 3: crazy things, nothing's going to happen to.
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  Speaker 2: Them, Brian Thomas. So that's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is that the criminals now are running the show, right?
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  Speaker 3: And City Hall is sitting back quiet about it. For example,
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  Speaker 3: if the mayor, if there was some ribbon cutting somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: you would find Mayor Aftab out saying something about it.
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  Speaker 3: How does a four-year-old girl shot in your city, sitting
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  Speaker 3: on her porch, And.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't heard from the mayor. Yeah. How does that happen?
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 3: Your voice and my voice and the top of the hour.
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  Speaker 3: We should have a statement already.
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  Speaker 2: From the mayor. This is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to find the people. We're going to search.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to turn over every rock. And we're going
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  Speaker 3: to find who shot a four-year-old girl sitting on a porch.
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  Speaker 2: But guess what? crickets at city.
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  Speaker 1: Hall right and that opportunity provides a wonderful opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: the mayor to plea to the folks that might have
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  Speaker 1: information on who in the hell did this to help
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  Speaker 1: out yeah and drop a dime in the police department
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  Speaker 1: so we can find these evil guys you know this
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  Speaker 1: is what we need we need cooperation between members of
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  Speaker 1: the community and the police department for our own best
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  Speaker 1: interest so four-year-olds don't get shot anymore that's a good
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  Speaker 1: use of the time That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And I know we're short on time in the break,
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  Speaker 3: but when we come back, I want.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about why he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Because there's a reason why Mayor Aftab doesn't do
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  Speaker 3: that going into Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait. We'll bring Christopher Smith back to reveal
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  Speaker 1: and unfold the reason for this insanity going on in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 3: 729-55-KRC-TheTalkStation.com.
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  Speaker 1: Monday, talking with Christopher Smitherman in the middle of the Smitherman.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you teased what we were going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about in this segment, particularly why it is that the
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  Speaker 1: city's mayor doesn't want to talk about crime at all.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't use opportunities like a four-year-old getting shot on
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  Speaker 1: a porch in crossfire between presumably gang members. Why he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't use that as an opportunity to plea to the
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  Speaker 1: citizens to help police officers solve this and other crimes. Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: So Brian, the only way to expose the mayor is
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  Speaker 3: to show his previous behavior. So a year or so ago,
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  Speaker 3: when there was a fight, a brawl in downtown Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 3: where you had at least three press conferences where broad
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  Speaker 3: leaders were brought together, the mayor was there, the city
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  Speaker 3: manager was there, The city's solicitors, I mean, they brought
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  Speaker 3: everybody to that press conference. And they demanded that a
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  Speaker 3: white person be arrested.
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  Speaker 2: Stay with me on this.
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  Speaker 3: There was so much energy around those press conferences.
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  Speaker 2: So why do.
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  Speaker 3: They treat that, and they were wrong about that, but
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  Speaker 3: we were headed into an election. They were up for reelection.
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  Speaker 3: That's the Jerry Maguire moment. where they're looking for that
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  Speaker 3: issue that moves their political career forward in some kind
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  Speaker 3: of way.
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  Speaker 2: They're using a situation.
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  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they hold a press conference today with a
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  Speaker 3: little black girl or the black girl who was killed
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  Speaker 3: a year ago on the playground by Corey Bowman's church?
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  Speaker 3: Why weren't there ever any press conferences when Rhonda Wynn's
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  Speaker 3: daughter was murdered, five children walking through.
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  Speaker 2: OTR in 2025, no arrest.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't they hold those press conferences? Because white people
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  Speaker 3: aren't involved. See, they're so racially charged that a white person,
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas, has to be involved in the incident for
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  Speaker 3: it to be valuable to them. The life of that
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  Speaker 3: Black girl, as they say, Black Lives Matter, only matters
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  Speaker 3: if a white person is taking it or a white
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  Speaker 3: person is.
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  Speaker 2: Involved in it.
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  Speaker 3: If it's black on black, this city hall doesn't care.
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  Speaker 3: They're not interested in that narrative because it doesn't help
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  Speaker 3: their political careers. You have to look at the behavior.
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  Speaker 3: They hold press conferences. They demand that white people be arrested.
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  Speaker 3: They were wrong about that. White people started this fight.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't. They showed white.
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  Speaker 3: People being smashed, brutally beat up in downtown Cincinnati. And
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  Speaker 3: there were at least three press conferences about it. Here,
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  Speaker 3: four-year-old black girl shot on her porch. 11-year-old shot on
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  Speaker 3: a playground, right? Rhonda Wynn's daughter being shot walking across
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  Speaker 3: the street.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't have.
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  Speaker 3: That same type of political energy because they just don't care,
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. You have to insert with a Democrat that
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  Speaker 3: a white person is there involved. And that is what
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  Speaker 3: makes the black life valuable. Outside of that, they'll say
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  Speaker 3: nothing about it, sir.
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  Speaker 2: But that.
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  Speaker 1: That masks the problem, Christopher, does it not? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the whole idea that, for example, was it that Russian
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  Speaker 1: guy that they insisted be charged when he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: do anything, that they couldn't get an officer on the
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  Speaker 1: scene to charge him with a crime because they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find that he had committed a crime? And so they
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  Speaker 1: roll him out and they force... the captain, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: at the time to issue the citation, they made him
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  Speaker 1: do it, I guess under threat of him losing his job.
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  Speaker 1: So he was forced to do something that I suppose
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  Speaker 1: in his experience, since there was no crime that he
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  Speaker 1: could discern, to charge someone criminally. That, to me, it
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  Speaker 1: is outrageous beyond words. But what good are you doing
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  Speaker 1: for any community if you refuse to address headlines the problem,
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  Speaker 1: which is black-on-black crime? It's not all black people, Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: You know darn well that many people in largely predominantly
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  Speaker 1: black communities don't have a problem with the police officers
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  Speaker 1: and appreciate them patrolling the neighborhoods because it creates a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more safety in their communities. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: segment of the broader population. You're not being racist by
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  Speaker 1: accusing some segment of society of being criminals when they
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  Speaker 1: are demonstrably criminals. I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 3: See, this mayor believes in reparational government, reparational criminal government.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to protect the criminals because he believes in
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  Speaker 3: his mind that the criminal justice system in some way
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  Speaker 3: has been detrimental to black Americans. So this is this
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  Speaker 3: restorative kind of conversation. And in that, you could have
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  Speaker 3: a black person with a gun shooting and a judge
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  Speaker 3: let him out.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're black?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Do not shoot someone. Do not murder someone. Does that
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  Speaker 1: bear a racial strike, Christopher?
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  Speaker 3: Brian, if you start putting your logic on this, you'll
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  Speaker 3: be lost like I'm lost in it. But what I'm
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  Speaker 3: sharing with you is that you have a government that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't believe in the police. They do not believe in
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  Speaker 3: law and order. And I'm sharing with you that the
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  Speaker 3: magical sauce for them is a white person and specifically
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  Speaker 3: a white male must be involved for it to matter.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So it's as if a crime has not occurred when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't involve a white person.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 1: So what becomes of society?
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas listens to me as crazy as it is, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I know. That is where we are. And I'm sharing
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  Speaker 3: with you if tomorrow there's a white officer who's involved
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  Speaker 3: in a shooting with a black male with a gun
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  Speaker 3: anywhere in our 50 states, as we go into Labor
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  Speaker 3: Day weekend, the Jerry Maguire moment will begin. But the
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  Speaker 3: four-year-old girl who was shot on her front porch or
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  Speaker 3: the 11-year-old who was shot a year ago on that
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  Speaker 3: playground in OTR where they would not put up lighting,
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  Speaker 3: they will.
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  Speaker 2: Not discuss it.
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  Speaker 3: It's the inconsistencies that you see that expose their hypocrisy,
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. You have to have a white person involved
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  Speaker 3: in the sauce with the Democratic.
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  Speaker 2: Party for black lives to matter. Outside of that, it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to matter, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you, and I think you're right. If there
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  Speaker 1: is a white officer involved in a shooting of a
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  Speaker 1: black person that maybe attacked him with a gun, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you have a clear, justifiable shooting. In other words, imminent
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  Speaker 1: apprehension of grievous bodily harm or death. The officer felt
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  Speaker 1: that way and was justified in using the firearm. It
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  Speaker 1: would blow up. It would be nationwide. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Evil white officer shooting a poor unarmed
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  Speaker 1: or whatever black man. Why does it happen that that
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  Speaker 1: particular instance would blow up? I think, Christopher, it's because
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  Speaker 1: it happens so infrequently, and yet every single weekend, you
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  Speaker 1: and I have to, every single Monday, you and I
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  Speaker 1: are looking back over the weekend and talking about all
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  Speaker 1: this black-on-black crime, murders, poor four-year-old black kids minding their
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  Speaker 1: own business on the front porch getting gunned down by
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  Speaker 1: some gangbanger driving by. I guess that happens so often
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  Speaker 1: it's not even worth addressing, Christopher. Is that where we are?
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  Speaker 3: It's worse than that, but that's part of it. It's
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  Speaker 3: worse than that. It's saying this doesn't move their political needle, right?
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  Speaker 3: They're interested in headlines. They're interested in clicks. This is
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  Speaker 3: where their mindset is. So, for example, if the mayor
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  Speaker 3: comes out and makes a statement about this four-year-old being shot,
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  Speaker 3: the context of it would be that's bad. But I
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  Speaker 3: want to let you know crime is down. This is
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  Speaker 3: about your perception. We have crime under control. It won't
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  Speaker 3: be about the atrocity of a four-year-old who's being shot
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  Speaker 3: and that family in the emergency room trying to put
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  Speaker 3: her back together. That will not be his focus. His
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  Speaker 3: focus will quickly pivot to we've got to get.
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  Speaker 2: Guns off the streets. It's the guns issue.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody's putting guns in the urban core. Two, the next
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  Speaker 3: step is your perception crime is down. He can't stay
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  Speaker 3: focused on the issue of the girl being shot.
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  Speaker 1: All right, pause. We're out of time in this segment.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring Christopher back. It's 738 right now, 55KRCD Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get USA Insult. Talk Station. 741,
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  Speaker 1: 55KRCD Talk Station. Brian Thomas with Christopher Smitheman. Talking about violence, mentally,
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  Speaker 1: violence in downtown Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Our mayor does not seek to address it or talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, doesn't use the shooting of a four-year-old, for example,
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  Speaker 1: to plea to the community to help out the police
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  Speaker 1: department and solve the crime. And the other thing, I
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  Speaker 1: just saw this post from earlier this morning, Christopher, over
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  Speaker 1: at Signal 99, who usually comes fully loaded with all
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  Speaker 1: the information and the inside scoop. Listen to what she
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  Speaker 1: wrote this morning. Talking about Judge Bloom in the juvenile
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  Speaker 1: court not being real difficult or hard on crime and
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  Speaker 1: letting juveniles go off with a pass quite often. She says,
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  Speaker 1: consider this. If a juvenile shoots at you and tries
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  Speaker 1: to kill you but misses, Judge Bloom rules in juvenile
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  Speaker 1: court will throw out the gun spec charge. Gun spec
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  Speaker 1: charges get filed by officers, tossed by Bloom's juvenile court,
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  Speaker 1: and she points out gun spec convictions carry mandatory sentencing,
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  Speaker 1: and Judge Bloom will not allow that for anything but
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  Speaker 1: homicides or felonious assaults. If there's a gun problem out there,
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  Speaker 1: how do you deal with gun problems? Don't you prosecute
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  Speaker 1: the ones with the guns and charge them to the
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  Speaker 1: fullest extent of the law to send a warning shot
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  Speaker 1: out to all the other kids who might pick up
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  Speaker 1: a gun, Christopher?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Because the next time they shoot, then they kill somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Or hit a four-year-old.
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  Speaker 2: Or hit a four-year-old.
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  Speaker 3: Brian, let me take this opportunity to highlight our officers
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  Speaker 3: who were injured last week in a chase through downtown,
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  Speaker 3: 70 miles an hour. where the person hit another van,
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  Speaker 3: sent three people to the hospital, and the two officers
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  Speaker 3: crashed and went to the hospital. Five people to the hospital,
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  Speaker 3: two officers hurt. Yet again, you don't hear anything from
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  Speaker 3: City Hall about that, right? And so, you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is why our officers don't feel supported, because they're out
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  Speaker 3: there every day trying to deal with this craziness. But
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  Speaker 3: when they're injured... They're doing their jobs. You don't hear
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  Speaker 3: the mayor go to the hospital. Let me check on them.
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  Speaker 3: Let me call Ken Cobra and figure out how they're doing, President.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Cobra of the FOP. These stories are buried, dude.
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  Speaker 3: In the news, and there's a reason why these stories
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  Speaker 3: are buried in the news. And my understanding is the
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  Speaker 3: gentleman who was driving that car that they were chasing
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  Speaker 3: is someone, as you described, who had already been arrested
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  Speaker 3: and had been let out. And there he is yet again,
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  Speaker 3: driving a car and almost killed five people. This is
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  Speaker 3: the same situation that you're talking about in juvenile court.
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  Speaker 3: This judge is saying on Signal 99, I shoot, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't hit anybody. Well, let me let them out.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess they can keep shooting. I don't get it,
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas. I'm trying to get my hands around why
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  Speaker 3: this city seems to be very, very soft on crime.
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  Speaker 3: And what that does is it puts all of us,
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  Speaker 3: all 52 neighborhoods, at risk. And the sad part about
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  Speaker 3: it is if the election was tomorrow, they'd vote the
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  Speaker 3: same people in. They'd do the exact same thing. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting that I have the answer, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what it's going to take to wake up
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  Speaker 3: the electorate that this.
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  Speaker 2: Is not about politics, man. This is about our lives.
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  Speaker 3: Our quality of life, and making sure that we are
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  Speaker 3: electing people that focus on the basics for us, right?
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  Speaker 3: So that I can drive through downtown. I can drive
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  Speaker 3: my car through downtown and not feel like someone driving
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  Speaker 3: 70 miles an hour who's been let out by a judge,
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  Speaker 3: is going to run into my.
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  Speaker 2: Car and kill my whole family.
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  Speaker 3: I have the right as a citizen to believe that
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  Speaker 3: the leaders, the judges, the county commissioners, the mayor, the
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  Speaker 3: members of council, that they're going to at least all
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  Speaker 3: agree that keeping us safe is their number one charge.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to leave our show and our time
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  Speaker 3: together without just acknowledging. And I've heard you talk about
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  Speaker 3: what happened in Nepal. Look, man, I, my heart goes out.
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  Speaker 2: To all the people. The numbers were in the hundreds.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're in the 5,000. We're probably going to get
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  Speaker 3: into the 10,000 of people that are missing or covered
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  Speaker 3: that they can't find. And so my heart certainly go
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  Speaker 3: out for that international crisis. It's, on my radar, and
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  Speaker 3: I certainly have said prayers for those people, and I've
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  Speaker 3: heard you this morning talking about that national crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a horror show there. I mentioned it in
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  Speaker 1: the context of Matthew 25 Ministries being wonderful about getting
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  Speaker 1: whatever your contribution is to the people who most need
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  Speaker 1: it as opposed to paying off you know ceos and
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  Speaker 1: boards of directors a massive overhead i mean there are
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  Speaker 1: charitable institutions out there but quite often a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money doesn't go where it needs so that's why i
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  Speaker 1: always put a plug in for m25m. org i believe website
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  Speaker 1: your dollars will reach it christopher i just have to
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  Speaker 1: before we part company on this this topic going back
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  Speaker 1: to the juvenile courts you know on the heels of
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  Speaker 1: signal 99 pointing out that gun spec charges get chucked
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  Speaker 1: out by judge bloom in the juvenile court Then she
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  Speaker 1: pivots and gives a great illustration. This is right in
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  Speaker 1: your wheelhouse there, Christopher. Now let's talk about 15-year-old Daravion Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: finally bound over to be charged as an adult for
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  Speaker 1: shooting and killing 25-year-old Kyle Merrick, April 2025 on Short Vine.
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  Speaker 1: Daravion Marshall had previously been charged with 16 serious charges
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  Speaker 1: starting when he was 13. Several of the charges were
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  Speaker 1: robbery with gun spec charges. Gun spec charges were tossed
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  Speaker 1: per bloom. Dravion, out on electronic monitoring, he cut off
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  Speaker 1: his ankle monitor and then went out and murdered Merrick
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  Speaker 1: a few days later. Had the previous robbery with gun
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  Speaker 1: spec charges been allowed not to be removed by Bloom's,
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  Speaker 1: she says little meat puppets, but by Bloom and her policies,
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  Speaker 1: who threw out all the gun spec charges and allowed
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  Speaker 1: this kid to continue to be let out on the street,
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  Speaker 1: Merrick would still be alive today. There's a perfect illustration
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  Speaker 1: of exactly what you're talking about there, Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know why our judges can't be held
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  Speaker 3: accountable when they make these kinds of errors and it
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  Speaker 3: costs somebody their life. So you had the person in
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  Speaker 3: custody and you didn't hold them or you didn't hold
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  Speaker 3: them accountable. And then they killed your loved one. I
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  Speaker 3: don't we've got to look at how we can.
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  Speaker 2: Hold judges accountable. accountable.
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  Speaker 3: Me as a stockbroker, if I make an error, I
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  Speaker 3: have E & O insurance. There's accountability in that. I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand why a judge doesn't have similar moments where
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  Speaker 3: you got a bad person in front of you and
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  Speaker 3: you say, well, I'm just going to let them out.
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  Speaker 3: And a month later, they kill somebody and that judge
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  Speaker 3: keeps their job or we can't legally go after that
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  Speaker 3: judge for making that bad decision.
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  Speaker 2: Some things are obvious.
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  Speaker 1: The instant response to that is two things. First off,
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  Speaker 1: it's the ballot box is what we're always told. Well,
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  Speaker 1: your choice is don't vote them into office. Vote somebody
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  Speaker 1: else in. In this particular case, we should all vote
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  Speaker 1: for Susan Lucan as juvenile court judge to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of Bloom. Susan has promised to be a lot tougher
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  Speaker 1: on crime than Judge Bloom has demonstrated that she is.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't care about holding these juveniles accountable. But the
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  Speaker 1: other thing is if you're a judge and you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: there and this is their argument, How can I read
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  Speaker 1: the future? This little, you know, Dravion has been in
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  Speaker 1: front of me many times. I think he's finally learned
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  Speaker 1: his lesson that he shouldn't be out on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to let him out on emergency or on
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  Speaker 1: electronic monitoring and he'll stay at home with his mom.
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  Speaker 1: And no, it didn't work out that way. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see the future. How was I to know that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to go out and kill this Merrick guy?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that there's any response to that, Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: And therein lies the challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Well, all I would say, Brian, is that when you
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  Speaker 3: have a repeat offender, I think our judges have the
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  Speaker 3: responsibility to at least spend time holding them, holding hearings,
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  Speaker 3: making sure that the decision, whatever it's going to be,
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  Speaker 3: that decision, you're showing the public, I.
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  Speaker 2: Thought about it.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell me you arrested them on Friday and they're
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  Speaker 3: back on the street on Monday. See, that's what's driving,
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  Speaker 3: I think, the public crazy, that you've got somebody with
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  Speaker 3: a gun. They didn't kill anybody, but they shot.
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  Speaker 2: They're 15.
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  Speaker 3: They shot, you know, randomly. You arrest them on Friday
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  Speaker 3: and they're back on the street on Monday. I think
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  Speaker 3: these judges, and I agree with you that Susan Lukin,
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  Speaker 3: that's the penicillin. People should be voting for her, no
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  Speaker 3: question about it. But there are all of these elections
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  Speaker 3: that are coming up that I think that we should
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  Speaker 3: be red alerting. I don't know why the margin of
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  Speaker 3: error is 2% or 3% on some of these Senate
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  Speaker 3: races across our country. From my perspective, they shouldn't even
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  Speaker 3: be close. Right. And so I don't know what the
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  Speaker 3: public is thinking about, but all I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: is this. When I dropped my daughter off at BGSU,
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  Speaker 3: the first person that approached us was, I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: register you to vote. And I looked at that person
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  Speaker 3: and said, my daughter is registered.
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  Speaker 2: And she will vote at home.
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  Speaker 3: So I can tell you that these universities are energized
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  Speaker 3: and they're out there trying to register our babies, our
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  Speaker 3: children to vote. where they go to college so that
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  Speaker 3: they can harvest those votes to make that 2% and 3%
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  Speaker 3: margin as close as they possibly can. And I tell
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  Speaker 3: parents out there, make sure that your children are voting
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  Speaker 3: at home.
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  Speaker 2: They're not voting at.
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  Speaker 3: These universities where these professors and these administrators are trying
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  Speaker 3: to harvest their votes.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithen, appreciate the heads up on that reality, and
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  Speaker 1: God bless your daughter, and I wish her all the
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  Speaker 1: best dealing with the challenges of modern college education. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do this next Monday, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Brian. Take care, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You do the same.
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