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JUSTICE FOR CHRISTOPHER | We Advocate for Social Injustices and Human Rights| · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: M hm sall plusper your life, say no against men,
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  Speaker 2: Against me, shall plussper.
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  Speaker 3: Will gentlemen, I have your attention. Please the show stops
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Hello, Hello, and welcome, Welcome. I want to welcome
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  Speaker 2: everyone to another episode of the Proof podcast. We have
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  Speaker 2: the Way and hopefully we're going to have doctor Ceci
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  Speaker 2: here with us on tonight. We have been taking these
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  Speaker 2: opportunities on these free episodes to allow them to come
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  Speaker 2: on and share a little bit about what's been going
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  Speaker 2: on within our judicial system and sharing about some cases
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  Speaker 2: that have been really affecting our Brown community. We want
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  Speaker 2: to bring some light to some things that you know,
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  Speaker 2: we thought we were moving past, but yet we see
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  Speaker 2: that we are yet stuck. But it needs to be
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  Speaker 2: brought to the light. We have definitely been seeing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of disparity within the digital system and it is
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  Speaker 2: time for us to stand up and to speak up
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  Speaker 2: and speak out so that people can see what's really
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  Speaker 2: going on. And it's time for some people to be
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  Speaker 2: held accountable for the things that have been taking place
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  Speaker 2: and the things that have been brought upon families. It
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  Speaker 2: is time for people to really see what is really
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  Speaker 2: going on in these great Americas. So tonight we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: bring brother Dwayne own up and allow him to introduce hisself.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, I think we're gonna have to make
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  Speaker 2: a space for him over here on the Crew podcast
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  Speaker 2: coming up season four, because he has definitely been a
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  Speaker 2: pillar over here, definitely coming on in his willingness to
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  Speaker 2: share and bring a lot to a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that is happening and within the judicial system. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna bring him own up and allow him to introduce hisself,
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  Speaker 2: and then he's gonna tell you a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: the case that he's been he's been working on, sharing,
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  Speaker 2: advocating for and sharing across these social media y'all know
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  Speaker 2: what we do over your on TikTok and what we
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  Speaker 2: do across the platforms that God has allowed us to
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  Speaker 2: have and allowed us to grace, and we just want
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  Speaker 2: to be the change that we desire to see in
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  Speaker 2: this world. So we're utilizing our voice and positive ways.
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  Speaker 2: So without further ado, I'm gonna bring my brother Duwayne
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  Speaker 2: up and allow him to introduce himself, and then he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell y'all a little bit about mister Christopher nee
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  Speaker 2: Hies that we have been sharing. So brother Dawayne, come
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  Speaker 2: on in the room.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome everybody.
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  Speaker 6: I definitely welcome everybody in, and I appreciate everybody for
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  Speaker 6: tuning in today. I want to thank everyone for just
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  Speaker 6: being blessed in this moment. We have today two lovely people,
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  Speaker 6: a king and a queen, uh, that's coming in to
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  Speaker 6: speak to us about the plight of their son. He
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  Speaker 6: had got into a situation uh in mid Lothian to
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  Speaker 6: where he was actually aggressed upon, and uh, there's video
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  Speaker 6: evidence out there. This is back in July of this year,
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  Speaker 6: and we're going to have them speak on this, uh,
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  Speaker 6: this situation, because it is a travesty in my in
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  Speaker 6: my mind, in my opinion based on what I know.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm going to have them come and give us
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  Speaker 5: a brief.
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  Speaker 6: Synopsis of exactly what happened so we can get into
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  Speaker 6: the weeds of this situation. And I want to let
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  Speaker 6: you guys and introduce you to mister and missus theos.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it's good evening, and we are the parents of Christopher,
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  Speaker 4: and just kind of a little brief synopsis of what
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  Speaker 4: happened back in July.
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  Speaker 1: Our son, Christopher, and three of his friends went up
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  Speaker 1: to the.
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  Speaker 4: Community park maybe about maybe five five minutes from the house.
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  Speaker 4: All the kids in beloathing, they go up there a lot.
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  Speaker 4: So him and the friends went up there just go
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  Speaker 4: out there for you just you know, do what kids do,
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  Speaker 4: have a good time and whatnot. When they were approached
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  Speaker 4: by another group of kids who don't actually live within
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  Speaker 4: Midloath and lived about thirty minutes away different surrounding little
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  Speaker 4: cities around, but still within Ellis County. So they approached
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  Speaker 4: him and his group of friends said that they wanted
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  Speaker 4: to speak with him about and it wasn't even originally
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  Speaker 4: approached to my son specifically.
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  Speaker 1: It was approached to one of his friends and they
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  Speaker 1: you know, they stold them.
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  Speaker 4: They wanted to have a conversation about something, and because
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  Speaker 4: they come up to another area of the park, so
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  Speaker 4: they went over there.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking that, hey, we're just gonna you know, talk, and
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  Speaker 1: at that.
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  Speaker 4: Point they were aggressed upon, well, the one friend was
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  Speaker 4: aggressed upon, and there was a little you know, altercation
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  Speaker 4: that was ended.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was a.
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  Speaker 4: Female in the video that you'll see she approached the
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  Speaker 4: son and starts yelling at him, calling him the N words.
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  Speaker 1: Spitting on him, and you can see in the video of.
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  Speaker 4: Her friends or pulling her back, telling her to stop,
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  Speaker 4: trying to keep her from you know, putting hands on
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  Speaker 4: my son and with throughout the video on my son
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  Speaker 4: instead of walking around her trying to walk away and
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  Speaker 4: trying to get away from her.
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  Speaker 1: And then at some point.
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  Speaker 4: She's able to break free of the grasp of her friend,
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  Speaker 4: in which she lunges at my son with her hand
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  Speaker 4: out of it, you know, attempting to strike him, and basically,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he was just a little bit faster, whether
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  Speaker 4: it be reflexes or whatnot, and he opened palms just
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  Speaker 4: you know, light slap across her face one time. Mind you,
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  Speaker 4: this is already after she had already spit on him,
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  Speaker 4: called him the N word a whole bunch of times,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, she had already assaulted him. And then
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  Speaker 4: at that point, after that slap, her boyfriend and several
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  Speaker 4: of his friends that were with him, both male and female,
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  Speaker 4: all in a mob attack. They you know, aggressed upon
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  Speaker 4: my son, with which he defended himself using a using
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  Speaker 4: a knife, and the individual that he did end up
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  Speaker 4: stabbing turned out to be the son of the Ellis
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  Speaker 4: County Sheriff's deputy. So that kind of adds a whole
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  Speaker 4: another layer to all this.
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  Speaker 1: Situation in terms of whether it's going to be how
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be tried, and then just some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that we've already seen already.
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  Speaker 4: Immediately after this situation took place, we started to receive
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  Speaker 4: death threats, people posting our address on various social media
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  Speaker 4: sides pictures of our house saying it would be ashamed
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  Speaker 4: of something happened. We were informed that there was a
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  Speaker 4: group chat group chat with about fifty one people that
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  Speaker 4: wanted to cause harm to our family, So that kind of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that added to that as well, and then
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  Speaker 4: just somewhat the lack of concern as well from the
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  Speaker 4: middle of them police department as well. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I told him that, you know, we were receiving death threats,
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  Speaker 4: and he just either one of the officers, the officer
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  Speaker 4: said kind of chuckle and said I heard about that,
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  Speaker 4: and then kind of walked off. And then even after
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  Speaker 4: I had told him via text, because he didn't give
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  Speaker 4: the detective, I don't know if he was a lead detective,
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  Speaker 4: but he presented himself as a lead detective. He gave
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  Speaker 4: me his card and told me to text him a call,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, if we received one, I did. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: hear anything back two weeks later. Until two weeks later,
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  Speaker 4: mind you long, you know, texting that my family is receiving,
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  Speaker 4: you know, continue to receive threats to our lives and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: So it's kind of you know, recent what happened. They
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  Speaker 4: did charge christ with two counts of aggravated assault and
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  Speaker 4: one kind of assault class.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so I remember when the video was released by
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  Speaker 6: the media, and you can clearly see during that moment,
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  Speaker 6: Christopher was in a constant retreat. I think I remember
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  Speaker 6: as soon as I saw it come on, and you
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  Speaker 6: can hear the inward being used by the young lady.
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  Speaker 6: You could see the other young lady holding her back
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  Speaker 6: she breaks that grasp. But I know I remember seeing
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  Speaker 6: Christopher retreating the entire time. When she swung at him,
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  Speaker 6: he retreated. When the boyfriend and the other friends start
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  Speaker 6: coming at him swinging, he was retreating and you can
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  Speaker 6: see him then pull out the knife, which let's just
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  Speaker 6: get everybody clear. In the state of Texas, anything under
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  Speaker 6: five point five inches as far as a blade, they
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  Speaker 6: consider it as a tool. I mean, anyone can carry
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  Speaker 6: one in the state of Texas. It's legal to have it.
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  Speaker 6: So that mean youa toddler all the way to Grandpa
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  Speaker 6: can have a poker or a knife at that size.
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  Speaker 6: So it wasn't anything illegal for Christopher to have in
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  Speaker 6: this instance. He was retreating the entire time when he
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  Speaker 6: stabbed the young man or swiped at the young man
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  Speaker 6: and the others, because I think he was just really
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  Speaker 6: trying to flee for his life at that point time.
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  Speaker 6: You can hear the people saying, oh, he's been stabbed,
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  Speaker 6: but you can still see them aggressing up on him
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  Speaker 6: even though he was still retreating even with the knife.
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  Speaker 6: So in my mind, under our defense laws here in
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  Speaker 6: the state of Texas, he doesn't have a duty to
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  Speaker 6: retreat at all none. But he did that anyway. He
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  Speaker 6: still gave them grace to get away from them, and
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  Speaker 6: they still aggressed upon him, they still assaulted him. And
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  Speaker 6: what I found is once I did hear of this
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  Speaker 6: case again because I heard of it initially and then
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  Speaker 6: I saw someone talking about it on TikTok. So at
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  Speaker 6: that point I decided to put in the four request myself,
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  Speaker 6: and I put in the four requests to the City
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  Speaker 6: of mith Lothian, because I figured this happened at at
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  Speaker 6: an actual park, so they have cameras. So I asked
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  Speaker 6: them for their cameras, and they came back and told
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  Speaker 6: me there was nothing responsive to my request. So then
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  Speaker 6: I had someone that I know that lived down there
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  Speaker 6: and look at the park and they said, there indeed
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  Speaker 6: are cameras, and so they I emailed them again and said, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I know you have cameras. I need those camera angles.
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  Speaker 6: I then got a letter from them stating that they
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  Speaker 6: were taking it to the Attorney General's office to see
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  Speaker 6: if I can obtain those cameras. So we went from
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  Speaker 6: not having cameras to now having to go to the
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  Speaker 6: AG's office. I also put in the four requests Ellis
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  Speaker 6: County as well, and then also to the police department.
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  Speaker 6: I think they just lowered it up. I only remember
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  Speaker 6: getting a response from them. I just remember someone got
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  Speaker 6: a law firm. I forget which one it was, but
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  Speaker 6: they said they were going to the AG's office.
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  Speaker 5: So what I did.
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  Speaker 6: Understand from that is that since this young man is
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  Speaker 6: the son of one of the Ellis County Sheriff's officers,
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  Speaker 6: then they're trying to protect that and they're trying to
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  Speaker 6: protect them, and so I just believe at this point
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  Speaker 6: we have to put pressure on Ellis County to release
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  Speaker 6: the information one of that officers. We can see what
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  Speaker 6: kind of disphene their records he got, but then to
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  Speaker 6: make that connection so we understand exactly what is going on.
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  Speaker 6: We know what's going on, but you have to have
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  Speaker 6: a paper trailer going on. And I just feel that
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  Speaker 6: they are trying to protect the real crime, and the
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  Speaker 6: real crime is that that group of individuals, those thugs
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  Speaker 6: and that's me speaking, decided to aggress upon Christopher that
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  Speaker 6: day and his friends for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 5: The reason is really not that important.
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  Speaker 6: But when you follow someone and you continue to follow
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  Speaker 6: them and you aggress upon them, and they're trying to
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  Speaker 6: say no and retreating and you still aggress and then
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  Speaker 6: they defend themselves, that is not a crime. And so
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  Speaker 6: for that reason, I want to know, without you getting
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  Speaker 6: any into any specifics and to the actual case and
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  Speaker 6: defense of the case, what was the district attorneys conversation
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  Speaker 6: when they were at arraignment and at pre trial or
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  Speaker 6: any kind of motions that they had. Were they matter
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  Speaker 6: of fact about these two council charges charging them with
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  Speaker 6: or were they just kind of methodical that, hey, we
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  Speaker 6: charged them with this, this and this.
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  Speaker 4: So he actually hasn't had any any to try or anything.
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  Speaker 4: He had he had the court a court day he
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  Speaker 4: did go, but the DA didn't even show up. I
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  Speaker 4: guess maybe a system was there or whatnot. And that
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  Speaker 4: was rescheduled to the twenty third January. So as of
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  Speaker 4: right now, he formally hasn't seen any you know, any
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  Speaker 4: you know, any at any really corporate seedings. But just
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  Speaker 4: to speak on the fact that they are trying to protect,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in fact that he is the son of
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  Speaker 4: a shared kind of shriffs, you know, deputy. That was
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  Speaker 4: kind of evident in the very just with the simple
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  Speaker 4: fact that bond was the bond started the bond. It
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  Speaker 4: was three and fifty five off the job. Just the way,
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  Speaker 4: just the way things have been trying to you know,
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  Speaker 4: just the way things have been trying to move. They
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  Speaker 4: weren't showing.
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  Speaker 1: So when he wasn't daddy, we never found out. He
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  Speaker 1: never knew that he was indety. They weren't really communicating
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. Everything's kind of just.
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  Speaker 4: Under the table kind of moving, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: no real communication as to what's going on, So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just in the signals, just the way, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: the way everything's kind of been being handled, just in
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  Speaker 4: the single just the fact that he was the only
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  Speaker 4: one charge.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else's charged with anything.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, I think that that was the main strange
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  Speaker 6: thing to me looking at the video, knowing that they
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  Speaker 6: had the media coverage that they had, because the media
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  Speaker 6: played that video and they had disortations about the video,
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  Speaker 6: and you you can clearly see and as the media
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  Speaker 6: reporter was saying, is that you can see them aggressing
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  Speaker 6: upon this young man, and you can see him immediately
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  Speaker 6: trying to defend himself as it got to the end.
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  Speaker 6: Outside of that, he was leaving and trying to get
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  Speaker 6: away the whole time. And so based on just that
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  Speaker 6: reporting alone, it troubles a person just looking at it
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  Speaker 6: to say, hey, how do we get to the point
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  Speaker 6: of charging him. How do we get to the point
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  Speaker 6: of charging him when we see five or six people
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  Speaker 6: aggressing upon him. You see one lady being kept back
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  Speaker 6: and she breaks loose just to go get him, But
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  Speaker 6: he's the one being charged. And so that is kind
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  Speaker 6: of the reasoning for taking these stands on the media platforms,
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  Speaker 6: because we do have to get people involved outside of
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  Speaker 6: your family and outside of your legal team to be
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  Speaker 6: able to put pressure on County, on the DA's office,
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  Speaker 6: on the City of mid Lothian, on all those people
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  Speaker 6: to do the right thing. And the right thing here
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  Speaker 6: is to miss dismissed these charges and then charge the
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  Speaker 6: people that that assaulted Christopher that day because they assaulted him.
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  Speaker 6: They they they charged him. They kept him from leaving
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  Speaker 6: because they kept surrounding him and they assaulted him, and
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  Speaker 6: so those should be the proper charges.
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  Speaker 5: How is Christopher doing these days? Is he holding up
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  Speaker 5: pretty well?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? So, I mean, given everything that's going on, I'm
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  Speaker 4: belying I said my son was doing. He's been struggling emotionally, uh,
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  Speaker 4: dealing with depression, not leaving his room, just over overly
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  Speaker 4: heightened with certain things like my son, My son is
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  Speaker 4: legitimately struggling right now. We have gotten therapy because you know,
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  Speaker 4: so to help him through this. But you know, at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, I watched.
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  Speaker 7: My sons wait, you know, he lost a lot of weight.
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  Speaker 7: He's struggling at the moment. He had a few meltdowns.
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  Speaker 7: So were just pouring life into him and trying to
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  Speaker 7: keep him encourage. We visit some trade schools and to
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  Speaker 7: keep him busy because he did graduate it, he's gone
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  Speaker 7: to school, he's looking for work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look iffy on how that will play.
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  Speaker 7: Out for him and most definitely him Lothian.
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  Speaker 1: So we you know even that it's just getting the
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  Speaker 1: face and people know who he is.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely can't work in me love and regardless of where
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  Speaker 4: it works, is always still a chance that somebody may recognized.
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  Speaker 7: M Always friends are enjoying their senior years and the
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  Speaker 7: guys that attacked my son is also and you know,
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  Speaker 7: so my son gets that. Meanwhile, you don't participate in
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  Speaker 7: any of it.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, I think I remember hearing about the bond situation.
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  Speaker 6: I know you said that they had a high bond.
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  Speaker 6: You guys were able to get that reduced down some
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  Speaker 6: and you weren't able to get down So no, so.
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  Speaker 8: The bonds three and fifty five we pay, yeah, I
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  Speaker 8: think it was, yeah, And so we had to pay
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  Speaker 8: the temper of that and so they didn't reduce anything.
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  Speaker 2: We knew we had to get our son that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So given, given, given, give him the father's connection
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  Speaker 4: to law enforcement, and just I mean, stuff like this
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  Speaker 4: has happened before.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't about to risk, you know, having my son
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  Speaker 1: being a place where I couldn't be there, we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be there, and somebody wanted.
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  Speaker 3: To do something to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well, I just I'm troubled by.
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  Speaker 6: Just the willingness of these organizations in the state of
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  Speaker 6: Texas because it seems to be something that's not just
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  Speaker 6: cater to just one moment. It seems to be a
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  Speaker 6: connection in this in the state of this type of
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  Speaker 6: behavior and so and it seems to always affect our
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  Speaker 6: young men and our young women, and so we definitely
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  Speaker 6: have to step up and stand up for you guys.
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  Speaker 5: I also know that you guys have a go fundme
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  Speaker 5: set up.
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  Speaker 6: A gifts and my Bad gifts and go and so
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  Speaker 6: we want to make sure that you guys give that
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  Speaker 6: out to everyone so that way they could help and
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  Speaker 6: contribute for the different things, because we know that this
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  Speaker 6: gets expensive with with lawyer fees, with counseling and therapy,
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: just with everyday expenses because you can't do things differently.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: As you said, you guys, we get death threats and
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: different things that nature. So you have to kind of
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: redo and reboot your life, and it can be very expensive,
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: and so we want to make sure we give that
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: information out.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Could you give them the Gifts and Go information.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was actually playing on the bottom of the screen,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: but it seems to go to w ww gifts dot
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: com and if you just put in you can put
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: in Christopher nienhist or Justice for with the letter with
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: the number four Chris, and you should be able to
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: find it. Will have our family picture on. We all
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: have redstrats on.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Most definitely, most definitely we need to make sure we
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: uh get that out so that way people can help
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: because this can get expensive.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: It can get expensive.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: We are praying that somehow this thing breaks that we
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: get the proper information, because we do have some some
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: for your re question, and I'm going to be working
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: to try to get that information that I requested because
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: I requested bodycam. I requested the camera footage from the
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: actual rec center itself. I requested all of the information, really,
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: some of the smaller information you think they would give you,
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: like the rest records, the bookend sheet. They wouldn't give
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: me any of that stuff. They sent it straight to
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: the AG's office. To cover it up because they know
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: it's a lot of flaws in it. They know that
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: it's a lot of things that they had to add
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: and do things because he should have never been charged
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: that day. He should have never been charged. He should
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: have never this case is never went forward at the least,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: or at the most, I'll say they should have referred
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: this to the grand jury at the most, but instead
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: they charged. And it seems like that is a common
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: denominator in this case and the Parma Anthe case and
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: some of the other cases here with Christopher, even with
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Tristan Weeklies case, the young man that someone tried to
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: aduct in the school, they did the same thing. They're
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: covering up the initial paperwork to show their work and
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: so people can't see that. And if you get it,
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: then they try to cover up the videos.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Try to cover up this. And so we're just gonna
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: have to work hard.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: And the only way we can work hard is getting
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: it out to the public, getting it out to the
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: community so people can work with us and work with
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: you and make sure that you, guys are not alone.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: And that's the most important thing, is to make sure
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: you're not alone in this. So people that have a
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: little bit more warwith all than we do can force
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: these people to get that information out and hopefully force
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: them to dismiss this case, and then hopefully you guys
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: can go out and get Christopher to press charges against
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: each one of those people because they did assault him,
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: and no one's addressing that because he has that trauma
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: that he has to deal with of being aggressed upon
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: that day. Because you can see the fear in his
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: face and see the fear in his body and the
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: way that he was reacting, but you can also see
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: he was trying to protect himself and trying to fight
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: for his life as well. But he gave them grace
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: to retreat and they didn't give him grace at all.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: And so we have to always make sure that we
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: focus in on that. What are some things that you
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: guys want to give out to the public that you
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: guys think from the bottom of your heart that they
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: need to know.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: One thing that I.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Definitely want to touch on is the arrest Affidavid. That
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: was that was It's been flowing around that whole entire
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: arrest Affidavid is solely it's solely information given by people
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: that were either on the on the you know, friends
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: of the individual that got stabbed, or bystanders that may
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: have been in the park, whether or not their information
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: is accurate, whether they spoke to those kids and that's
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: what they got their information from and presented it. It
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: was never none of that information was ever given by
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Christopher or anybody that was with him. There's so many
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: inconsistencies in that in that in that arrest Affidavid that
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: they use to serve the search warrant. But that's just
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: something that really needs to be put out there because
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: a lot of these people are reading that arrest Abidavid
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: and taking that exactly for for for the word, that's
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: what it is, and that that's the truth.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And that's what happened, But that's not what happened that even. Yeah,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: So that's just that's just something that people.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Definitely need to know rot if you have anything that's
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: team So that's that's that's one big thing for sure.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: And that also that we This isn't like the first
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: time my kids have been attacked by a group of
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: white kids.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Out of this happened. This happened when we first moved here.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: This isn't the first, This isn't the first incident of
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: racial stuff we've had happened to us. This is the
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: first incident of targeted things, whether it be issues with
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: the Midloathing Police Department, of unfair treatment, issues with the
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Midloathing Independent School District with unfair treatment. This isn't this
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: isn't just the isolated event. This is just kind of
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: the icing on the cake of a lot of stuff
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: that happened. We were already in the process of trying
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: to move Midlod, leave Midloathing because we had already started
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: to realize.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: The culture of Midloathing and what it is.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: And to speak on other incidents, we're not the only
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: ones that had had situations.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: After the situation happened with Chris.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: There was a family whose house you can see a
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: guy run up there, Porsche gasoline all on their porch,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: along their like, along the front of their house, lights
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: and on fire, and you can clearly clear he has
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: a mass in but you can clearly see them. It's
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: big enough where you can see that this is you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: it's a Caucasian gentleman. Midloathing Police Department doesn't know anything.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: All these people at doorbell camera. Suddenly nobody can find
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: this guy. They had and I actually went over and spoke.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: You know, I kind of actually developed a relationship with
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: the family, Like I said, another life, and we kind
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: of developed a little relationship, a little bit of a rapport,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and you know, he kind of updated me on we
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: talk about things, and he kind of updated me on.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: His stuff that was going on with him. He told
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: me that the mid loveth And police department came to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: his house, inside his house and had the nerve to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: ask him, do you think maybe your wife is cheating
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on you and maybe her lover did it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: They were going out of their way, out of their
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: way to convince him that it wasn't a white guy,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: that maybe one of your daughter's baby daddy's did it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: These are the things that they were saying that they
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: were saying to this man to try to or they
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: was looking for our house.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just just it was They.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Said a lot of crazy.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: There's another family that had I think this was like
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, maybe had like schwashed the cuz go
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: back to Africa, spread painting in her house. School board
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: member wearing black face, but refused to recuse herself from
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: the school board despite community members protesting her still being
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: a member.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Of the board.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Just my kids have never been called the N word
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: ever until we moved out here. And it's a consistent thing.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: And the thing that I've said before in another interviews historically,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: prior to you know, prior to maybe twenty twenty, really
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Midlothian has always been a predominantly Caucasian Caucasian in town, right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with the past maybe six seven years, ten years, there's.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Been a large influx of African American people moving out here,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: and there's been a lot of clashing back and forth,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: you know, people who and even in the comments with
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Chris when in like the Facebook comments in Ellis County
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Facebook or Ellis County, I think it's a Sheriff's department page,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: the Midloathan Police Department page. The comments were that's what
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: happens when the demographic changes. If y'all hadn't built the
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: basketball courts, they wouldn't come. I hope he gets gentle
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: bent over a jailhouse bunk. I mean, these are the
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: things that are coming from our so called neighbors, because
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, they like to present
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: this all in inclusive town, but they're still underlying it's
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: still underlying racial tensions that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They don't want to dress and they try to sue
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: stuff under the road.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and that and that seems to be the
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: culture of a lot of the smaller Uh yeah, it is.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: That's the if.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: You're right, you're right, and and it's it's sad because
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: that's been the direction of this state for the past
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: decade or so, even though it is Texas and you know, hey,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I'm a lifelong Texans, so we've dealt with you know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: different variations of things.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: It has mm hmm, yeah one ba you right about it.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: And that's kind of the moment of this thing, is
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: that we need to stand up against that evil because
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: that's what it is.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: It's evil.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: And you know, like says there, this is what we
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: know in the state of Texas, and it's not anything different.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: The last decade, it has elevated itself because these people
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: are more bold, they're more in bolding, they're right straight forward,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: and since we have started moving into more of what
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: they call their spaces than they think that they're embolding
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: to push back.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: And so the leadership, yeah, we did start at the head,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: and you read about.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: It falling straight from the leadership. So they've made it okay.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen some of the videos
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: that I've been posting, but there's been a lot of cases.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: There was a young Caucasian lady. She stamped her mate
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: over one hundred times and her dog a hundred times.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Say she got one hundred hours of community service. Where
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: they do that at that is the white privilege that
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: it's roaming all around this earth, them thinking that they
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: are more than what we are. And they don't design
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: these laws for us, no way. And they hate when
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: we allow these laws to work for us that are
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: not designed for us. They hate when they work for
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: us and they're not designed for us. But they just
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: don't know. They time is up. They had four hundred
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and fifty years. They time is up. They time is up.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: We're not taking it no more and they're not going
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to continue. We know why they target our young teenage babies.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: If you don't know why they based these prison systems
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: that they're building on that and they beggon on getting
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: some free labor. People don't understand that slavery never ended.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: It just went from being to next the chains around
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: your next, two changs around your feet, in your arms.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: That's what that is, but it stops. It stops with
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: this generation. It stops. It will not go past us.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you it will not. It stops right here.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: And people gotta.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Understand that if we don't stand for something, we're gonna
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: continue to fall for anything. I will not fall for anything.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I am the change that I desire to see in
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: this world. And I'm telling you I won't change. So
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: you won't see me sitting now, and that you won't
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: see me being quiet. I'm telling you these people they
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: gonna get enough of us. They're gonna get enough of us,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: and they're gonna stop messing with our babies. They figure
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: they can get them at at nineteen and twenty and eighteen,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: they even going younger. If they can get them that long,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: they can get twenty thirty years out of them. Because
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: if you look at the average black person in the
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: state of Texas that go to prison, they spend in
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: twenty to thirty to forty years. I just watch individuals
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: come out thirty five years behind prison pards for something
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: that they did not do. Yeah, and that is that
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: it's the norm in Texas. I'm not from Texas, but
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I see what goes on in Texas, and that make
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: me want to fight for the individuals that are there
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: because it should not be happening, should.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Not be definitely right.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: And that's and that's what this thing is about. It's
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: about filling those seats that get Governor Greg abbot Uh
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: promise private to the private institutions to keep them at
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: one hundred percent capacity. And that's why, Yeah, that is
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: how we've got to go.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: That's why, that's why it's very important that we are
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: taking our rightful places, that we are going to these meetings,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: even though they don't want us there. It's it's time
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: for us to go sit in there and see what
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: they're talking about. They can't deny us to go in
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and see what these people are doing. And then when
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: these offices come vacant, we got to run for these offices.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Don't care if you ain't got no kind of experience.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: They don't got none. They keep putting their brothers, their sisters,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: their nieces and nephews, their uncles and all that tism
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: that they use in these offices. It's time for us
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to do it too. It's time for us to step
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: in there and allow our voices to be heard because
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: it's the local elections, and these local offices would matter,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: don't matter because they're gonna put who they want to
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: put up there in their presidency. But if you people
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: that's fighting on the local level and then county wide,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: state wide, and then you sitting on these seats in
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Congress and in the Senate, then you can make the change.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Then we can see change.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: You right about it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Coming together, And it's gonna take all of us putting
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: our foot down and saying enough is enough, and it's enough.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: I'm tired of them, and that's what that's what it is.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: We have to protect our babies.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: We have to get them in a position to where
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: they're able to stand up against this tyranny with us
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: standing behind them, making sure that they can stand up
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: behind against this tyranny. And that's what it's all about.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: We have to stand firm and protect Christopher, protect these
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: young people that are out here facing these moments and
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: get them out of it, and then protect the ones
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: they're trying to get into that same trap. And that's why,
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: as Sis said, we have to make sure we start
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: changing these laws, running for these offices, going to stand
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: up in these city council media meetings, and school board meetings,
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: and the Senate needs and hearings and go in there
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: and start being the change that we desire. We have to,
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: we can't be fearful of it. But I definitely want
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: to thank you guys for coming in today. We're going
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: to have to make a greater space as well for
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: you guys again to come in and update on this case.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Hopefully we have some news coming up in the beginning
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: of the year, because I'm definitely trying to get some
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: things taken care of in you guys' favor, and so
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: we definitely want to tell you guys that we are
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: behind you, We're praying with you, but we're also working
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: hard behind the scenes to make sure you guys are good.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: I know I don't talk to you guys at all,
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: but I am working behind the scenes to make sure
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: that things are good and I get in contact with
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: those that do contact with you guys. Because we definitely
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: got to see Christopher free. We got to see him
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: able to go on in his life and do things.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: We know we still got to fight in Texas, we
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: still got to fight in the United States, but we
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: want that fight for him to be without that charge
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: on his neck. We want that to be free, we
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: want that to be dismissed. So he wants to deal
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: with that. But you guys, I want to give you
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: guys an opportunity to speak to the people before we leave.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: And again I just want to thank you guys for
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: coming in today and sharing with us what you guys
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: going through, because I don't think people really realize what
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: the plight of our kings and our queens raising black
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: kings and queens are going through in these small cities
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: in the metroplex. We just think the DFW Metroplex and
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: we say, oh, Dallas for Worth, Okay, everything good. But
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: we don't think about meth low Teing. We don't think
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: about Olvilla, we don't think about Redo, we don't think
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: about all these other different friend cities that are out
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: there where people are living and doing what they need
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: to do, but people around them don't want to give
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: them peace. So I need you guys to speak to
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: the people, uh one last time in closing and just
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: let them know from your heart what you guys got
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: going down.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Just everybody out there, man, we appreciate it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Support y'all, giving the prayers, the you know, the thoughtful,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: kind words. You know, just it all means a lot
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: to all of us. We're fighting for our son's life,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: you know, fighting for his future. We're fighting for our future,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: of our family.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: As well, his name as well.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Self defense is not a crime, like you know, like
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: we said, the video clearly shows on someone's attack and
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: he defeated himself as as anybody should in any type
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: of situation like that. Stuff like this has to stop,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: you know, it's becoming a continued problem. We as a people,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: we as a community, we gotta get behind, you know,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: each and every one of these situations, like you said,
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: applying pressure to these DA's, like you said, getting ourselves
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: in into these these positions, these opposites so we can
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: make a difference. I know, I'm not gonna stop after this.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna fight with my son. We're gonna fight for
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: our son. But after this, is it on end? Because
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: that's gonna be another There's gonna be another Christopher, that's
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: gonna be another Carmelo, that's gonna be another somebody else,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: And we're gonna get behind the fight the same way
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: people are fighting for us and just knowing you know,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: these donations, you know, everything that's given is solely being
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: bent to keep our son from behind bars in his defense.
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  Speaker 1: So just you know, just keep that in mind as well,
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  Speaker 1: and keep the prayer.
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  Speaker 6: Most definitely the most definitely, We're definitely gonna keep praying.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: And I just want you guys to know that we're
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: fighting with you. And as a person who has been
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: in the system, fighting this system from the outside inside,
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: I know what that looks like. And there's no reason
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: for someone that was defending themselves to have to go
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  Speaker 6: through this moment, but he is, And so we know
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: that God won't put more on us than what we
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: can bear, even though sometimes it seems like that, but
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: sometimes it's a catalyst to something greater. And so just know,
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: just like with myself, they have pushed me into advocacy
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: more than what I was and so I understand now
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: throughout all of those tests and trials of advocating for others,
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: I can just imagine what you guys are going through being.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Actually part of the situation.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: And all I know is that this too shall pass,
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: because we know we serve, and we know whose we are,
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: and we know where we come from, being the kings
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  Speaker 6: and queens that we are, and We're going to trust
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: God that he's going to make this thing come out
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: in you guy's favor and that it's going to be
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: a blessing that that young King Christopher will being able
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: to stay and proclaim and help others that have faced
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: this moment just like he is. Give him new purpose
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: on top of the purpose that he already had in
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: this life to be able to move forward.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: And so that's our prayer is that this thing is released,
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  Speaker 5: this thing is dismissed.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: You guys are made whole because this has put a
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: rock in your place and in your way that you
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: have to climb over for no reason. And so we
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: ask God that he make you guys hold, give you
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: the peace that passed all understanding that you're able to
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: go forward in this thing as a family and stay
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: that tight nucleus knowing that God got you back. And
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: so we definitely are praying with you guys. We are
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: covering you guys in prayer, but we're also covering in
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: action too, because we're going to definitely do what we
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: got to do to help you guys and to make
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: sure that we are the support outside being that armor
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: around you guys. So I definitely thank you guys tonight
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: for coming in, and this won't be the last. We'll
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: reach out again and try to get you guys in
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: another time so we can kind of get more into
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: the webs and the weeds of this case and try
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: to see what we can do to strategize to get
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: this case dismissed. Queen Angela, you want anything you have
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: to say before we leave, Well, I just want them.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: To know that we are yet cheering for them. I
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: don't know if y'all know, but every day I try
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: to share something positive about your son. I created this
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: picture of him and it has his name on it
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: and it says self defense, It's not a crime. I
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: share that every day. I share some type of inspiration encouragement,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: just to let people know that we are yet pulling
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: for him and Carmelo. These kings will not get lost
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: to the system. These kings will get justice, and we
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: are fighting for them. We are standing with them, and
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: we want them to know that self defense is not
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a crime. It is not a crime. We want our
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: babies to make it back home to their families. They
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: leave their families and we want them to make it
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: back home to their family safe. So we are here
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: to provide a space for you guys. So know that
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: you guys are welcome here. Anytime you want to come
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: and share. There is going to be a full feature
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: inside of the magazine that we're gonna talk about your
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: baby story. We're gonna share you know, a little bit
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: about your family and things that you guys want the
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: public to know and how they can assist you guys
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: on this journey. Again, we thank you guys for stopping
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: by and allowing us to share this story and allowing
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: us to be a part of the advocacy for Christopher.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: So know that we are yet praying and God is
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: yet working no matter what it looked like to us
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: in the natural, know that he's working. He's working behind
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the scene because that's what he do. He's a way maker.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: So we good and I think so yeah, any time
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: y'all I want to stop by, just let us know
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: we're always here. January is our break period, so normally
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: you'll see me on here a lot. I am the
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: person that's behind the scene. I do all of the
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: production over here on the network. So the hosts take
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: a hiatus. Their last show is gonna be December the
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: thirty first, and they won't return until February the first,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: so during that time I have plenty of time to
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: play with the network. So if y'all want to stop
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: buying January and share y'all story and get it out
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: there more, y'all more than welcome to because this one here.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Once we finish here, I'm gonna upload it and it's
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: gonna be distributed out to about fifteen different platforms, so
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: people are gonna be able to hear it. So I
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: just tell y'all, just share it out. Just share it
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: out every chance you get so people can hear of
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: what's going on, they can learn how they can give
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: to the Give Seeing and Go again. It is running
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: across the bottom of the screen, but you can go
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: to give Seeing go dot com, backslash Justice for Chris
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: and make your donation. Donate to the family and show
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: them that you are rallying behind them, because we all
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: know that when things like this happen, and especially with
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: what they're dealing with, that there are costs behind these
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: things and they need protection. They need to be protected
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: because I'm sure that y'all have other kids, right, Yes,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: they they have other kids that have to be protected.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: They have other kids that have needs and wants as well,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: so we have to make sure that they're okay, and
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: definitely have to make sure that Christopher is okay because
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: we know that trauma, a lot of trauma comes behind
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: situations like this, and even though we are strong people,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: we do need help. So he definitely probably need some
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: counseling and he's gonna need some ongoing things. And so
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: this is over and and and he says that he's okay,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: so we have to be there to rally behind them.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: So if y'all can donate, please donate as much as
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: you can, as often as you can. And if you
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: can't do anything else, you can lift up a prayer,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: say a prayer, send some words of encouragement because every little,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: big helps. And that's how I got y'all again. Thank
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: y'all for stopping by and sharing.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Opportunity.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Most definitely just appreciate everything you all have been doing
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: vi the scenes, and you know it means.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: A lot to us.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: It's definitely we definitely appreciate you guys, And to everybody
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: out there listening, we definitely thank you guys for tuning
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: in today.
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: And with that we say good night. Y'all. Have a
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: good one, be blessed well now
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  Speaker 3: Hm.