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FOP President Brian Steel · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, my friends to another edition of The Power Hour
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  Speaker 2: on six ten WTV and on Chuck Douglas, you know
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  Speaker 2: who you are.
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  Speaker 1: We take it from there.
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  Speaker 2: We get one hour together, which means I talk really
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  Speaker 2: fast and you must do using even faster.
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  Speaker 1: My number eight two one.
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  Speaker 2: Nine eight eighty six eight two one WTV in or
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred sixty ten WTV in. The animals are running
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  Speaker 2: the zoo. I seriously, man, I'm I'm I am. So
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  Speaker 2: as soon as I got out of here last night,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the news hits and I felt kind of hopeless,
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  Speaker 2: kind of helpless, kind of I was off the air.
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  Speaker 2: I needed my microphone so badly. As reports were coming
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  Speaker 2: in about first of all club's police officer involved in
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  Speaker 2: an accident, and I thought, oh, well, that's it's sad.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they up in the London area. But apparently
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  Speaker 2: they were involved in an accent because they were responding
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  Speaker 2: to a call from two Mifflin police officers who were
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  Speaker 2: in trouble, under fire, trying to serve a ward. As
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  Speaker 2: I understand it, it was a stupid child support warrant and
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  Speaker 2: caused this domestic car or whatever. Oh my gosh, we've
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  Speaker 2: had We've had a deputy Moral County just killed a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago responding to domestic violence thing. And we
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  Speaker 2: had we had a deputy run down, just blatantly run down,
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  Speaker 2: murdered by some psychotic in the state of Ohio here
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  Speaker 2: just what two and a half three weeks ago, uh
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  Speaker 2: special duty retired.
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  Speaker 1: And he was just out doing his thing.
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  Speaker 2: Man, and and I prevailed upon you at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the show last night to be a better group
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  Speaker 2: of humans. We have a problem. People say it's a
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  Speaker 2: war on cops, it's a it's a hatred of cops.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's it's not just it's authority. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: problem with anybody anywhere having any power over us to
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  Speaker 2: tell us, hey, you're doing the wrong thing, because too
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  Speaker 2: many people are walking around in this's like thinking they
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  Speaker 2: can do whatever they want to whoever they want, whenever
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  Speaker 2: they want, and there should be no repercussions. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: when they get caught and they go into our court system,
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  Speaker 2: there seem to be no repercussions. As was the case
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  Speaker 2: once again, we're finding out that you know, at least
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  Speaker 2: one of the dirt balls could have been behind bars,
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  Speaker 2: but was instead released by our Franklin County Court system.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm yeah, I'm mad. I'm mad because you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about officers right now. Those who serve and
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  Speaker 2: protect put on the badge every day, go out there
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  Speaker 2: to take care of you from whatever's coming at you.
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  Speaker 2: But around the corner. Trust me, if they don't give
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  Speaker 2: a damn about the cops, they give less than the
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  Speaker 2: damn about you. And this is the basis of this
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  Speaker 2: prediction I've been making for a few months now.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to get worse in the streets for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good thing. I like this guy because I
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  Speaker 2: have to talk to him far too often. President of
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  Speaker 2: FOP Lodge Number nine, Brian Steeles on the Legacy Retirement
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  Speaker 2: Group dot gom phone lines. Brian, First of all, damn it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry for what's going on, and let's start with
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  Speaker 2: the important stuff. Two officers shot last night. How are
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  Speaker 2: they today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, brother, thanks for having me on. Thanks for always
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  Speaker 3: you advocate for the police, and I appreciate it. One
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  Speaker 3: officer has been released. One officer is still in bad shape.
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  Speaker 3: He is stable, which is great. He's still alive on
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  Speaker 3: this world, but he's got surgeries long row to cover.
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  Speaker 3: He's not out of the woods yet, so keep praying
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  Speaker 3: for him.
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  Speaker 2: Traffic stop in the Smifflin case incident, the guy takes
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  Speaker 2: off running from a traffic stop. He was a passenger
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  Speaker 2: in the vehicle, as I understand it, and in midstride
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  Speaker 2: just turns and opens fire. There was no altercation, no,
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  Speaker 2: just his own paranoia and fear and probably worry about
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  Speaker 2: getting caught for whatever he had in his pockets.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, listen, we know he's a violent offender, and
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  Speaker 3: he had a gun and he ran from the officer
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  Speaker 3: he felt. The officer pulled out his taser and the
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  Speaker 3: individual pulled out a firearm and shot our officer. What's
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  Speaker 3: so worrisome about this video? There's no excuse for ever shooting,
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  Speaker 3: but we can make these ecuse. Well, he shot to
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  Speaker 3: get away, which is not a good excuse, But if
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  Speaker 3: you watch this video, he was not shooting to get
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  Speaker 3: away from the officer. He was he turned out of
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  Speaker 3: stand and advanced to the officer while discharging his weapons.
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  Speaker 3: He was trying to murder that officer.
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  Speaker 2: So for everyone who always you know, there's always that contentment, why.
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  Speaker 1: Can't they distase him?
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  Speaker 2: Why did they have to That's why that right there
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  Speaker 2: is why the officer reached for a taser took a
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  Speaker 2: bullet instead.
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  Speaker 1: That is why when.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a bad guy out there, armed, dangerous and stupid,
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  Speaker 2: a taser isn't always the option. Deputy, You're absolutely right, Deputy,
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  Speaker 2: Moro County. A beautiful tribute. All of those red and
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  Speaker 2: blue lights in procession yesterday, beautiful tribute.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had any contact?
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  Speaker 2: I know Morro County's kind of outside of the FOP
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  Speaker 2: nine area, but have you have you talked to the family?
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  Speaker 2: Are they holding up okay? Anything that people need to
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  Speaker 2: know or could do for them.
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  Speaker 3: I reached out to local officials out there. I reached
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  Speaker 3: out to the local U out there, as the local
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  Speaker 3: union president. Just offered our thoughts, our support, whatever they need,
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  Speaker 3: will send members to the funeral. And I said, I
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  Speaker 3: said today, and yes, you're on the news. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have to know the cop. I am the cop. The
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  Speaker 3: cop is me. I don't care if you're in California,
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey, what jurisdiction. We all chew the same dirt
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  Speaker 3: out here. We're all the same family.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do, Brian? I mean, is there anything
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  Speaker 2: you know? Thoughts and prayers are wonderful things, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not getting the job done. We get, you know, especially
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  Speaker 2: here in Columbus where boy our mayor has decided he
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  Speaker 2: wants to see get another term. Is there anything can
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  Speaker 2: we mobilize in any way? Can we can we be somewhere?
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  Speaker 2: Can we meet so? Can we rally somewhere? Can we
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  Speaker 2: write something to somebody? Is there anything that people can do.
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  Speaker 1: To back up?
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  Speaker 2: Because I heard what you said. You said we're tired
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  Speaker 2: of it. Guess what, Brian? So are we What can
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  Speaker 2: we do to make your voice louder?
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  Speaker 3: So? I want everybody to know this. I want your
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  Speaker 3: listen to sisters, to know. Public safety is at risk
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  Speaker 3: in our city, in our county. When violence phones are
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  Speaker 3: granted leniency, good officers at innocent citizens are going to
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  Speaker 3: pay this price. I want to say that this is
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  Speaker 3: a wake up call and have a raw Ross speech,
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  Speaker 3: But this is twilight zone, Chuck. This is the first
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  Speaker 3: conversation we've had. This happens on and on and on.
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  Speaker 3: I had many elected officials. They reached out to me
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  Speaker 3: and they offered support and said what can I do?
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  Speaker 3: Elected officials from both sides of the aisle, And I
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  Speaker 3: told them the same I've told them all the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Be vocal, start working on a solution. The FOP cannot
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  Speaker 3: just carry the water by themselves. We need every elected official,
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  Speaker 3: every police chief, every pastor, every business owner to get
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  Speaker 3: in a room and say enough is enough. If this
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  Speaker 3: is just the start of a summer, this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be another long, hot, violent summer.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something, honestly, as trade as it sounds, we
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  Speaker 2: got to consider that, Well, it's not hot, it's not humid,
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  Speaker 2: it's you know that people aren't out drinking late at
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  Speaker 2: night in them summer barbecues and getting dumb. It's only
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  Speaker 2: going to get worse from here. I mean, that's not
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  Speaker 2: a threat. That's just logic based on experience and what
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  Speaker 2: we've seen over time. Is anybody aside from the people
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  Speaker 2: wearing badges think in that direction.
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  Speaker 3: If they are, I'm not being a well, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: aware of it. I'm not hearing it. We talk about guns.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody you hear is anti gun, gun, gun gun. These
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  Speaker 3: individuals are not supposed to have the guns. We have
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  Speaker 3: gun laws on the books. We need prosecutors to prosecute vigorously.
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  Speaker 3: We need we need violent offenders illegally owning guns to
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  Speaker 3: be incarcerated, and that's what we're not seeing. This individual
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  Speaker 3: had an F one aggravated burgerly charge. He had a
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  Speaker 3: switch weapon, a switch for a block which we've talked about,
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  Speaker 3: which makes it into almost a machine gun or in
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  Speaker 3: effective machine gun. And he also was not supposed to
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  Speaker 3: possess a weapon. Yet instead of incarcerating him, he got
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  Speaker 3: kicked right back out in the street with a piece
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  Speaker 3: of paper that pretty much just says, hey, pretty please,
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  Speaker 3: with sugar on top, don't do this again. And this
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  Speaker 3: is the individuals our officers had to.
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  Speaker 2: Deal with yesterday that unfortunately is uh, that's far too often.
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  Speaker 3: I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 2: I said, that's far too often that that kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing comes down community control or or probation or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever had a serious conversation with any of
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  Speaker 2: these judges in criminal court and ask them just why
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  Speaker 2: why are you so hesitant to lock up bad guys?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a philosophy? Is it a political thing? Why
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  Speaker 2: won't you lock them up? Because I would love to
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  Speaker 2: hear them in a face to face answer to that question.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a very simple question.
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  Speaker 3: I have never got a good answer to anything anybody
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  Speaker 3: I have talked. I remember, I've said this a thousand times.
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  Speaker 3: I don't pay everybody at a broad brush. We do
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  Speaker 3: have some fine judges, but if you look up some
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  Speaker 3: of these names, there are some repeat judges that can
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  Speaker 3: continuously allow this for citicism, and those individuals I don't
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  Speaker 3: think would ever sit down a room with me because
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to get lip service. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a hard conversation and I just don't think they
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  Speaker 3: want it. But they keep getting elected. So really, the
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  Speaker 3: citizens are the one who's gonna totally who's gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pilot this plane and make the decision. Elections matter. Who
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  Speaker 3: you vote for matters.
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  Speaker 2: I put it out there on Facebook earlier, and I
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people think, Ah, you're just ranting,
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  Speaker 2: You're just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm fed up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm fed up, and this is my hometown and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sick of seeing it going down the sewer like this.
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  Speaker 2: And I say, you know, if you're elected, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a judge in Franklin County, I think we need legislation.
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  Speaker 2: If that's what it takes, it should be mandatory for
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  Speaker 2: the criminal judges, for the domestic judges. You need to
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  Speaker 2: do a quarterly ride along with a Columbus Police officer
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  Speaker 2: and you know, my beloved West Side ten eighteen nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine, you want to do twelve, that's fine. Put
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  Speaker 2: them in Linden that you need to see what the
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  Speaker 2: people out here who aren't living with with armed security
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  Speaker 2: and in very nice mansions in the beautiful suburbs. You
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  Speaker 2: have to see. Here's what we're living with every day,
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  Speaker 2: and here's what you keep sending back to us. I
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  Speaker 2: think it should be mandatory that they got out there
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  Speaker 2: and witness it for themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you as tragic something that happened
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  Speaker 3: yesterday was and it's kind of kind of really just down.
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  Speaker 3: I was when this happened, because it does. It's an
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  Speaker 3: emotional sock in the gut. Two officers were involved in
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  Speaker 3: a car accident in the North London area responding to
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  Speaker 3: the officer downfall, and I watched a video these two
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  Speaker 3: officers were injured in accident and I watched community members run
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  Speaker 3: up to the car and pull these officers out. They
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  Speaker 3: thought the car was on fire, it was smoking airbags.
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  Speaker 3: But it's at a testament to the community supports their police.
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  Speaker 3: And there was males females, black, white, Everybody went to
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  Speaker 3: help their officers. And that's what I want the cops
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  Speaker 3: to know. Do not give up deep fighting. The community's
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  Speaker 3: worth it. And thank you to all those citizens that
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  Speaker 3: helped us out last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I and you know that's the reverse side of this.
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  Speaker 1: I hope.
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  Speaker 2: I know how difficult it is when they have to
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  Speaker 2: see this every day, But I hope that the officers
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  Speaker 2: do know there are more people like that like us
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  Speaker 2: than there are bad guys, and people like us are
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  Speaker 2: getting to the point where we're just as fed up
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  Speaker 2: with it as you are. We want your work to
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  Speaker 2: mean something because when it does, it benefits all of us.
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  Speaker 2: And we're more behind you, I think than media reports
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  Speaker 2: in our court system would let you know. And there
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  Speaker 2: our media in our court system need to start understanding.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are out numbered. You're on the wrong side
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  Speaker 2: of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I appreciate you know. I tell everybody the
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  Speaker 3: committee's worth it. And the officers had a long night
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  Speaker 3: last night. They went home, they saw their families, they
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  Speaker 3: had a shower, shave, they came right back to work
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  Speaker 3: and we won't stop. We have a ten thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: award for Deon Davante Dixon ten thousand dollars award by
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  Speaker 3: the Turn Order Police owning up money and Central Ohio
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  Speaker 3: Prime Stoppers ten thousand dollars. That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: We need people to call in give us tips. We
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  Speaker 3: have to get this individual all art streets.
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  Speaker 2: Are we assuming that he is still here in Central Ohio?
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  Speaker 2: Does he have connections in other parts of the country
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  Speaker 2: where he might have fled?
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, you know what, as officers investigators, we
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  Speaker 3: nothing's not on the table. We put out a nationwide
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  Speaker 3: alert for him. There's every a cop from here to
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  Speaker 3: California is going to get a teletype message with his
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  Speaker 3: information saying, hey, be on the lookout people, you cannot
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  Speaker 3: run forever. One or two things are going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: He could turn himself in and peacefully surrender and see justice,
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  Speaker 3: or he can get into another gunfight, which the chances
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  Speaker 3: of him winning this one are are pretty slim to none.
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  Speaker 3: So we want him to come peacefully. But like I
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  Speaker 3: always say, we're going to respond to a suspects actions.
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  Speaker 3: I hope he doesn't go down that route, but you know, we'll.
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  Speaker 2: Be waiting myself. My show, my airwaves are always available
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  Speaker 2: to you. Brian Steel, President of FOP Lodge nine. Whenever
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  Speaker 2: you need you just call.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, brother, appreciate you and your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: You take care of yourself and keep your head on
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  Speaker 2: a swivel out there. I can't tell you how much
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  Speaker 2: you are appreciated the work that you do, all.
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  Speaker 1: Of you, and it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's going I have to believe it's going to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise I'm going to be very distressed and depressed.
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  Speaker 3: He alp me too, brother, Thank you so much