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This Weeks Rewind with Ben Crump, Tezlyn Figaro and Nadia Hallgren · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club thirty. Good morning, everybody is DJ Envy,
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  Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the God Tests as well. She've been
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  Speaker 1: here the last two days, so you part of reference. Ye.
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  Speaker 1: We got some special guests joining us today. Test is
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  Speaker 1: back again and we also have Nadia Hall Green welcome you,
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  Speaker 1: and of course attorney Ben Crump, who has a new
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  Speaker 1: documentary called Civil that's out June nineteenth. Well, good morning, guys,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us. Thank you King for
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  Speaker 1: having us. Now for people that don't know, breakdown what
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  Speaker 1: is civil, what it's about, and tell us all about it.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly are Lee. I am always in eye of you,
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  Speaker 1: so I say that public, I thank you. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Civil is net Lix documentary coming out on June tenth.
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  Speaker 1: It was directed by the young, brilliant director Nadia Hagren.
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  Speaker 1: This uh African, Porto Rican, all kind of flavors in
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  Speaker 1: there also. I mean, she is it. Her vision is
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  Speaker 1: so incredible. I mean it followed me for eighteen months
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  Speaker 1: during a pandemic where we had not heard of George
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  Speaker 1: Floyd when they started filming. We had heard of Amadar,
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  Speaker 1: but but hadn't heard of Brianna Taylor at the time.
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  Speaker 1: And she is capturing all this footage intensely while we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with these families and so many other things like banking,
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  Speaker 1: while black environmental racism, fighting for the black farmers doing
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  Speaker 1: and she, more than anybody else, just understood the moment.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't just a documentary for today. This is a
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  Speaker 1: documentary as Kenya barrass and I who's the producer, created
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  Speaker 1: Black and said, this is a documentary for our children.
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  Speaker 1: Yet I'm born. I'm so glad you're here because there
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  Speaker 1: was a call that we got. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you were here, Envy last week, but somebody called it
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  Speaker 1: and they were talking about Larry Nassar and how there's
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  Speaker 1: this lawsuit against the FBI because of Larry Nasar, and
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  Speaker 1: how they knew about the cases against him but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't act on it, and somebody called it and they
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  Speaker 1: were like, well, this is discussing what is money gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Why do victims need money if they're truly victims, and
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  Speaker 1: this is just a money grab. So I know this
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  Speaker 1: is something that you, as a civil rights attorney, can
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  Speaker 1: speak to. So I would love for you to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that when people try to say, oh, they're just
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  Speaker 1: trying to get some money, or he's just chasing money
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  Speaker 1: and trying to fatten his wallet. I tried not to
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  Speaker 1: listen to the hate as much because I understand my mission.
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  Speaker 1: My tad. She's saying, now you gotta go back out
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  Speaker 1: on crump, I'm like, I don't have the time because
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  Speaker 1: I'm so focused on the mission. The mission is trying
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  Speaker 1: to say to people, psychologically and consciously, to American society
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  Speaker 1: that no, no, we matter, We deserve equal justice. When
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  Speaker 1: you have a wrong against us, we have a right,
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  Speaker 1: not only based on the Seventh Amendment of the United
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  Speaker 1: States Constitution, but just based on common sense. We have
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  Speaker 1: a right to send the message that you can't do
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  Speaker 1: this to us and get away with it. I'm representing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of black and brown people in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: County at McClaren Hall, which was a children's shelter in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles for fifty years, black and brown children were
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  Speaker 1: being raped and sexually molested in the county just looked
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  Speaker 1: the other way. It's been all these years, and now
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  Speaker 1: California because of things that were happening in bart Scouts
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  Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church said we're gonna give you three years.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who was molested in those things when you were
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  Speaker 1: seven or eight years old, you have a right to
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  Speaker 1: come forward. Think about those people. Yeah, the only thing
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  Speaker 1: you can get his money. You can't go back and
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  Speaker 1: give them their innocence back. But when you have that
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  Speaker 1: civil compensation, it makes the county pay, It makes the
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  Speaker 1: corporations paying those type of things. And like we say
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  Speaker 1: on the trailer of Civil if anything America understands, it's
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  Speaker 1: money capitalists, it's capitalism one O one. And when you
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  Speaker 1: start making people pay, then they change their conduct, or
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  Speaker 1: you keep going until it becomes financially prohibited for them
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  Speaker 1: to be able to afford to treat black people and
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  Speaker 1: brown people like second class citizens. Now let me chime
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  Speaker 1: in on that though, right quick. Because he gave you
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  Speaker 1: to Martin the which always say I'm Malcolm and he's
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  Speaker 1: marks before you go, yeah, because you know I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to go. There's a lot of people don't have the knowledge. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes people call here or see articles and they
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  Speaker 1: say Attorney Benjamin Crump is an ambalance chasing, right. He
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  Speaker 1: chases just to make money or the fat in his pockets. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And when Ted came up here, she spoke so eloquently
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  Speaker 1: about you don't solicit anybody. Yeah, people have to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to you. And many times people reach out to
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  Speaker 1: certain other attorneys or other anywhere anybody else and nothing
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  Speaker 1: gets done, and they don't sit get done two until
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  Speaker 1: you step on the stage cause a day. So now yea,
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  Speaker 1: now talkyo, Yeah, I'm a better talk about so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So to the dumbbos in the comments, I'm speaking directly
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  Speaker 1: to them. And again this is not a reflection of
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Crump. These are my own statements. When people say
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  Speaker 1: it's not about it's all about the money, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: that makes no sense. Only five percent of Attorney Crump's
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  Speaker 1: cases are police brutality, that's number one. Nobody talks about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar lawsuits that he's been able to
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  Speaker 1: get for folks who are alive and well the six
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar lawsuits he's been getting alive and well,
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  Speaker 1: America or any government has never paid for the value
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  Speaker 1: of black life. And so I find it amazing that
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  Speaker 1: the same people in the comments that will sue McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: for a slip and fall feel that it is not
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense if someone takes your life and
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  Speaker 1: you feel that that family should not deserve compensation for
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  Speaker 1: their children that's been left behind. What are they supposed
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  Speaker 1: to exchange Roman noodles like in the pen. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing we have is the money compensation. But to ignore
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Attorney Crump pushes for the criminal punishment,
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  Speaker 1: to ignore the fact that policy actually comes out of
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  Speaker 1: these cases. When you talk about the bround, the Taylor Law,
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about the and andre Hill law, when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about one hundred cities that have now enacted
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  Speaker 1: police reform since the murder of George Floyd, it has
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  Speaker 1: been because Attorney Crump and a few others and I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying a few, just to be generous, have brought these
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  Speaker 1: cases to light. There are billions of dollars every year
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  Speaker 1: that are settled based on police brutality. I ask people,
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  Speaker 1: why is it that your local attorney and your hometown
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  Speaker 1: never wants to take these cases. Why is it? It's
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  Speaker 1: not certainly not for a lack of advertisement. Every commercial year,
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  Speaker 1: every day is if you've been injured in an accident,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been into accident, So why don't they take
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  Speaker 1: those cases? Angel? That's the qua I ask people, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you see them with? The answer is in which
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  Speaker 1: you point this out in the film. They do not
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  Speaker 1: want to upset their DA. They don't want to up
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  Speaker 1: set the governor, they don't want to upset their chief
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  Speaker 1: of police. They do not want to be black balled
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  Speaker 1: and send the death threats for pennies. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: say this and I'll be quiet. When you look at
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  Speaker 1: these cases that attorney Crump takes or any civil attorney,
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  Speaker 1: these cases take years, two, three, four or five six years.
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  Speaker 1: You don't earn a dollar. So I would ask anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the comments, are you willing to work for forty
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  Speaker 1: hours a week for three to four years straight? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe not get compensation at the end. It just makes
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  Speaker 1: zero sense. It doesn't add up. The MAV doesn't math.
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  Speaker 1: So when you hear those comments amulance chasing, no, everybody
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  Speaker 1: say that tells their loved one in the amulance. I'll
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  Speaker 1: use one story Morrowbirt, a case I worked on in
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. The stepfather Monrobert said, do not. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want being Crump because the family called me first, because
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  Speaker 1: their son was being dragged off through the media. They
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  Speaker 1: called me first. He said, I don't want being Crump.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want none of that coming down because he's
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  Speaker 1: an ultra conservative Tulsa, Oklahoma, ultra conservatis black man, but conservative.
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  Speaker 1: But once his son got started getting dragged in the media,
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  Speaker 1: then it was can you call a turn the Crump
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  Speaker 1: because nobody was willing to stand and change the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: The narrative that has changed in the media affects the jury,
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  Speaker 1: it affects how they make those decisions. And so now
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  Speaker 1: seven years later, they're passing the Monroe Bird Law. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the stuff that people don't keep up with us.
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  Speaker 1: The free I Heart Radio app has over two hundred
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  Speaker 1: We're still kicking It with Attorney Benjamin Crump, Teslin Figuo
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  Speaker 1: and Nadia whole green that discourage you at all, Like,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, you out there to do good right.
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  Speaker 1: And then so when you got people and people that
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  Speaker 1: look like you that you're fighting for and they go
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  Speaker 1: at you, does that discourage you at all? Ivy, I
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  Speaker 1: try to be a student of history. Thirdgood marsh has
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  Speaker 1: my personal hero Martin, then Malcolm. These are the MLA people.
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  Speaker 1: Don't understand that they were hated mostly by black people.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have this revision this history that everybody
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  Speaker 1: loved them, but when they were at their peak, they
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  Speaker 1: were the most hated people in America by both white
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  Speaker 1: and black people. And so I always try to remember
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  Speaker 1: that and say, God, I know what mission you put
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  Speaker 1: on my shoulders, and I'm going to use these blessings,
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  Speaker 1: these influences to try to affect a better world for
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  Speaker 1: our children. And I'm never discouraged by anything. As we
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  Speaker 1: said in the family, don't be a spectator. If you
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  Speaker 1: feel you can do something, get in the arena. The
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  Speaker 1: easiest thing in the world to do is to sit
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  Speaker 1: at home and be a critic and don't do anything else.
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  Speaker 1: The hero is the person who puts themselves out there,
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  Speaker 1: risk their reputation, their family, safety, and even their life,
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  Speaker 1: and say this is about more than just me. We
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  Speaker 1: have these banking while black cases where we have recovered millions,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars for black people over two
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  Speaker 1: hundred millions of beings. Let's put the number out there
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  Speaker 1: so they can in the comments. And it's so astonishing
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  Speaker 1: to me, Envy and Angie, that people would say, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just about the money. What do you think banks
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  Speaker 1: and corporations are doing things for. Are they doing it
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  Speaker 1: just for charity? Are they doing it just because they
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  Speaker 1: had nothing better to do. No, they're doing it for
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  Speaker 1: the money. And so when we take on Whales Fargo,
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  Speaker 1: who we are currently fighting now because they were denying
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  Speaker 1: black people mortgages during a pandemic where the government had
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  Speaker 1: gave an opportunity, and I digress. I gotta say this,
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  Speaker 1: y'all absolutely doing the pandemic because they were worried about
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  Speaker 1: the economy. The government gave historic incentives to decrease the
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  Speaker 1: interest rate for home loans lord than they had been
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  Speaker 1: in seventy five years. Y'all understand for poor people in
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  Speaker 1: middle class people, the quickest way to gain wealth and
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  Speaker 1: equity is to be able to purchase a home and
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  Speaker 1: pass something more to your children and their children. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you get wealth accumulated. Well, even with all of this,
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  Speaker 1: Where's Fargo? Where's the nine Black people? White people were
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  Speaker 1: getting incredible incentives to increase their wealth by saying you
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  Speaker 1: got a two percent interest rate, you might save a
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  Speaker 1: million to two million dollars just because you were able
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  Speaker 1: to refinance. They said, no the black people. And so
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  Speaker 1: now I can where about the Negroes in the comments?
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  Speaker 1: So I can go say no, where's Fargo? You probably
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  Speaker 1: stop black people from getting a billion dollars in equity.
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  Speaker 1: So guess what being Crump gonna do. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what you say. I'm going to get those black people
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  Speaker 1: that billion dollars. But now let's talk to you, because
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  Speaker 1: this is a spicy room if you haven't, so, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about you. You directing this, and what made you
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  Speaker 1: want to do this film? Like most of us, I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting home during that time when everything was happening
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  Speaker 1: in America, the pandemic, George Floyd's murdered, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a filmmaker. I need to be out there doing something.
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  Speaker 1: And then I get a call from Kenya Barris and
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I've been working on something with Ben Crump.
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  Speaker 1: We want to make a documentary. Do you want to
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  Speaker 1: get involved? So grab the camera. Just got on the
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  Speaker 1: role with Ben, and I just knew that this was
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  Speaker 1: a moment to document history and what was happening in America.
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  Speaker 1: And you also showed Bankrump's family, his mom. Now, why
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  Speaker 1: was that important in framing this story? One thing I
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  Speaker 1: thought was so special when I met Attorney Crump was
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  Speaker 1: just who he is as a person, as an individual,
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  Speaker 1: his values, you know, at the highest standard at where
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  Speaker 1: that came from. Was that hard for you to expose
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  Speaker 1: that part of your life, because that's not something you
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  Speaker 1: ever do. It's very hard to expose your personal life.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this. My mom was here at the
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  Speaker 1: Tribeca Film Festival premiere and we grew up in the projects.
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  Speaker 1: My mother raised me and my two brothers and her
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  Speaker 1: baby brother, working two jobs, I mean, doing everything for us.
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  Speaker 1: And it was so beautiful for my mother to see
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  Speaker 1: what she did. I mean, it's standing ovation. And then
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  Speaker 1: out of Times Square they got Netflix really has invested
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  Speaker 1: in this movie and they have a Billboy eighty foot
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  Speaker 1: off the ground on forty second and Broadway, and for
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  Speaker 1: my mom Mo to say we started in the projects
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  Speaker 1: and that we're here. I mean, it's just a testament
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  Speaker 1: to a strong black woman absolutely saying I won't let
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  Speaker 1: this world destroy my children. And so my mom and
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  Speaker 1: my wife, my daughter, everybody in this film, they just
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  Speaker 1: kept it rare kep it too. How does your family
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  Speaker 1: deal with it? Because it's it's you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Yeah, I mean, if you could just take
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  Speaker 1: all the negativity, it is all good, but it bleeds
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  Speaker 1: into your wife, it bleeds into your kids, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, a test was talking the other day about
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  Speaker 1: the death threats. Yeah, how does your family deal with it?
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  Speaker 1: How are they okay? It's hard. Obviously as adults we
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  Speaker 1: understand what we're doing. My nine year old daughter watch
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  Speaker 1: the film for the first time yesterday and she said, Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: you got a death threat and she was very concerned
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  Speaker 1: about it. And so we had that conversation about baby,
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  Speaker 1: Dad is out here fighting for you to have a
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  Speaker 1: better world, and sometimes people don't want to see our
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  Speaker 1: black children have an equal opportunity at life. We have
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  Speaker 1: to fight for our rights. We can never take stuff
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  Speaker 1: for granted. And she was like, but you didn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything wrong. I said, baby, I know that, and you
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  Speaker 1: will learn that some people feel that they're superior to
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  Speaker 1: us because the color of their skin. And that's always
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  Speaker 1: a difficult conversation to have with young people because they
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  Speaker 1: want to see the best in the world. She was
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  Speaker 1: asking me questions, Man, she is terrified by these school shootings.
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  Speaker 1: Your children that have to deal with that trauma. What happens, dad,
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  Speaker 1: if it happens in our school, you know. So we
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  Speaker 1: talk about those things. I think about how my wife,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers, everybody in their minds, they are prepared that
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  Speaker 1: it could happen. And we have to protect your family
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  Speaker 1: when you're on the road so much. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: constantly checking on them and everything. And that's the other
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  Speaker 1: side that Tas was talking about. My law partners, Now,
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  Speaker 1: we don't make that much money doing police brutality. We
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  Speaker 1: make our money from doing mass tours, saying class action work,
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you know is going up against these corporate titans.
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  Speaker 1: This police brutality. Civil rights work. It's something you do
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  Speaker 1: because you care. Nobody does civil rights work to get rich.
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  Speaker 1: It's the least profitable division in my law firm. I
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  Speaker 1: pray so much that we can close down the police
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  Speaker 1: brutality the vision of the ben Crump law firm, because
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  Speaker 1: then that would mean tray Vine will get to live
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  Speaker 1: because somebody then profile him. Amad Aubrey. I mean all
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  Speaker 1: these young black people in the film now he has
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  Speaker 1: a part in, a fifteen year old, eighteen year old,
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  Speaker 1: in a nineteen year old in a week's time, all
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  Speaker 1: get killed by the police, completely unjustified. But if we
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  Speaker 1: can somehow have them look at our children like they
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  Speaker 1: look at their children, then our children would get to live.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I pray for, man, That's what I'm fighting.
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  Speaker 1: I've made enough money. I'm gonna be okay. My law
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  Speaker 1: firm would rather I just stopped doing the civil rights
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  Speaker 1: They like you did enough Crump. We can make money
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  Speaker 1: a lot easier and more of it if you would
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  Speaker 1: just quit doing the civil rights work. But I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: then I would be selling out my soul. Now. It's
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  Speaker 1: about fighting for our children, man. I Heeart Radio for
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  Speaker 1: with Attorney Benjamin Krump, Teslain Figuro, and Laddia Holgrin. So
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. Now, Ladia is the director,
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  Speaker 1: what's the biggest taket way you get out of this documentary?
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  Speaker 1: What I hope envy is that when people watch this
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  Speaker 1: film they have a much deeper, nuanced understanding of what
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  Speaker 1: life is like in our communities than they ever have before,
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  Speaker 1: and that they understand the work that Attorney Crump does.
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  Speaker 1: You know something we spoke about earlier, just this idea
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  Speaker 1: that civil law and criminal law are actually two different things,
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  Speaker 1: and we were surprised in this film when we showed
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  Speaker 1: it to people and they didn't understand it. So just
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  Speaker 1: to give people a basic understanding of how the law
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  Speaker 1: works as well. So it's an educational tool, but it's
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  Speaker 1: really to bring people in a show behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: of what these cases are really like other outside of
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  Speaker 1: the press conferences and the new cycle tells you when
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  Speaker 1: to cris anybody else anything else the world. I just
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  Speaker 1: important that people understand civil law and criminal law because
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  Speaker 1: the prosecutors, I think intentionally sometimes lose these cases. We
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  Speaker 1: have never lost a police brutality the case, but people
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  Speaker 1: sometimes can't distinguish the two, and so I think not
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  Speaker 1: it does a good job or reminding people of what
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  Speaker 1: we should have learned in seventh grade Civics class, that
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  Speaker 1: the government is the only people can prosecute you and
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  Speaker 1: put you in jail. And then the Seventh Amendment says,
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  Speaker 1: if you've had a wrong that you believe as big
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• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and if the jury agrees with you, you are entitled
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  Speaker 1: to compensation. And the law has some reason for that,
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  Speaker 1: because they don't want people trying to solve their disputes
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  Speaker 1: in the street by shooting and killing one another. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you come to the court in law, and if a
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  Speaker 1: Jared agrees, then the only thing we can give you
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  Speaker 1: is monitory damage. That's the accountability. That is the accountability.
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  Speaker 1: Before a text gives her final word, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to say that I know you've been inspired by Thirdgood Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: and you speak on it all the time. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like after seeing this, kids will being inspired by you,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. Thank you. I'll dropped the sick for the
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this in my last Breakfast Club interview
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  Speaker 1: until something happens, I want to give a quick shout
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  Speaker 1: It is about getting in the fight. What people should
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  Speaker 1: get from this documentary at the end is being Crump says,
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  Speaker 1: get into the arena. I know who I am, and
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  Speaker 1: I know whose I am, and what does that really mean.
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  Speaker 1: You've got three ways to get involved. Now. You can
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  Speaker 1: just be in the comments, or you can get involved
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  Speaker 1: on the criminal side, to push for the folks get arrested,
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  Speaker 1: to push to end qualified immunity, like what happened in
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  Speaker 1: New York City, by the way, like what happened in Colorado,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: by the way. You can talk about making sure folks
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: get arrested. You can talk about the protest side. You
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: can talk about the punitive damage aside, which is what
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: attorney Crump does. Or you can talk about the policy,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: which is what I talk about, which is one over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred cities have passed some level of police reform
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  Speaker 1: that nobody talks about. We still have to push on
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the federal level for the George Floyd Justin Police and Act,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: but over one hundred cities have made some difference. The
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  Speaker 1: bottom line is you have every opportunity to be involved.
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  Speaker 1: a child on the side that is watching with their
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  Speaker 1: fists up, watching what it is that we're doing. So
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  Speaker 1: you can push or you can talk. In the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: whether you are believing, I'm only talking to the believers,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it says that at the end, you know, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about who's the goat, who's the goat, who's the goat,
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  Speaker 1: around in hip hop, but in the end, there is
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  Speaker 1: going to become a time where the goat would be
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  Speaker 1: separated from the sheep. What is the sheep? People say,
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  Speaker 1: the sheep is who follows and who does what man does.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But in the Word of God. It says that the
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  Speaker 1: sheep is about the shepherd's business. So you are either
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  Speaker 1: going to be about for the least of these? Are
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you gonna be one of the goat that are not
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: here to serve those who have been in prison, to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: serve those who have been disenfranchised, to serve those who
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: have been marginalized. And when it's time to make that accountability.
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• 21:47
  Speaker 1: what if I'm right? Dj envy. If I'm right, there's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: going to be the question what did you do? And
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the answer won't be Well, I was in the DM
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  Speaker 1: I told being he should do this. I told tell
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  Speaker 1: people that's talking from the stands. We talked about that Friday,
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• 22:31
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  Speaker 1: question a lot of people get asked. I've never been
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  Speaker 1: a coffee drinker. My wife is not my thing. I
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  Speaker 1: prefer a good ginger tea with some honey as a
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: pick me up in the morning. Are my Carviva sports
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  Speaker 1: drinker one of the two. I'm actually sitting here to
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  Speaker 1: siding which one I want right now. But I respect
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: all coffee drinkers. Okay, A lot of y'all heard me
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: ask how do you like your coffee? And you answered,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I like it black, straight black, no cream with sugar.
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  Speaker 1: Some of y'all want cream and sugar. Some of y'all
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  Speaker 1: like a dark rose. Some of y'all like a half
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  Speaker 1: calf water down because it makes you too jittery. Little
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  Speaker 1: oat milk really okay. Some of y'all like a little lighter,
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  Speaker 1: blonde rose. Some of y'all don't like to taste at
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: all because it's too bit of Some folks like putting
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a little salt in their coffee. Have you heard of that?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: She eat? Nope, put a little salt in their coffee
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: because it blocks the bitterness. All right. There's a lot
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of ways to drink coffee. Personally, I don't dig it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: because I don't like the tasting. Someone not liking to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: taste of coffee is why sheland Downy is in jail today. See,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: she had an eighty one year old husband, and her
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: husband even got into an argument with her over the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: taste of his coffee. Now, Angelie, you have a coffee business, right, yes,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Coffee uplifts people. Coffee uplifts people. This is a story
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of coffee upsetting people. Okay, if someone doesn't like the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: taste of their coffee, ye, how do you handle it?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Try to get them a new one? Simple? Right? Yeah?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I would think if someone didn't like the taste of
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the coffee, you would simply fix them another cup. When
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you're married, you would probably tell said person fix your
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: own damn coffee. Then. Okay, if you don't like the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: way y'all made it, well, Sheila didn't either. Let's go
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to Fox thirteen for the report. Police, Well, it started
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: over the taste of coffee. But now one man is
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: dead and his wife has been charged with his murder.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Police say Sheila down and stabbed her husband to death
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: yesterday at a home on Renwood Street, not before the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: victim died. Police say he told them that the two
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: got in an argument over the taste of his coffee.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: He says, down they got angry and try to drink bleach.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: That's when he tried to stop her. She grabbed a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: knife and then stabbed him multiple times. Police say that
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Downey originally drove away from the scene, but it was
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: arrusted when she returned, the best part of waking up
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  Speaker 1: my ass? Okay, imagine getting killed because you didn't say that. Okay,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: my ass, y'all know what I meant at that. You
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: know they say the best part of waking up it's
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: folders in your cup. I said, the best part of
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: waking up my ass. Y'all know what I meant, wake up?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Wake up? As I was saying, okay, imagine getting killed
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: because you didn't like to tast of your coffee. Okay?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And what if that coffee you was drinking was death wish?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Do y'all carry that brandy? Death? Which coffee company? Right?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Death wish? Coffee company? Better? Hoping prayed this man wasn't
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: drinking their brand, because Lord ha mercy, that would be
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: terrible promotion. Listen, one thing for sure, Two things was certain.
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  Speaker 1: I would never let anyone who bleach fixed my coffee,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: because if she can stand in the taste the bleach,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: then clearly her taste budget is a questionable. But the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: reality is she was probably drinking the bleach because she
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: wanted to kill herself, and when that didn't work, she
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: got pushed to kill her husband. Look, man, let's be
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: clear about something, because we do this all the time
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and regards the humans. This woman, Sheila, didn't kill her
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  Speaker 1: husband over nor damn coffee. Okay. When you get to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the point where you kill someone over a cup of coffee,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you reached your tipping point in life, and with that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: person a long time ago. And folgers had absolutely nothing
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to do with it, all right. This woman was clearly
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: in pain. This woman was clearly hurting over something. This
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: is why I tell y'all constantly invest in your mental wealth,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: all right, deal with your emotional health fixed with in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: your head, okay, and in your heart. All right. Your
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: body is your temple. Your body is your house. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: if you don't deal with what's in your mental will house,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you can possibly possibly end up killing someone because of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: maxwell house. All right. What's interesting about this is Sheila
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: probably could have used a cup of coffee your damn self,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: all right. A lot of folks anxiety goes to the roof.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: They don't get their coffee in the morning. All right.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: My wife doesn't like to do anything, and she will
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: have an attitude until she gets a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: And there has been some research that shows coffee and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: caffeine may decrease anxiety symptoms, so Sheila probably needed a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: couple of Seattle's Best to take the edge off. All right.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how strong a person is, they always have
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a breaking point. And Sheila clearly reached her breaking point.
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  Speaker 1: And she will have to get the healing she needs
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in a state sponsor facility for the rest of her life.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And I would like to note that this situation completely mixed.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: The quote a bad day with coffee is better than
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a good day without it null and void. A bad
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: day with coffee is better than a good day without it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: That quote is nulling void, and that is complete bs.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Sheila's husband had a bad day. He got stabbed multiple
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: times and later died with his coffee. I'm just here
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to make observations people, Okay, everybody in line that Starbucks
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: duncan and yee spot coffee upflips, people, carry on. Please
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: let him Mark give Sheila Downey the biggest see huh
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: he uh, you stupid mother? Are you dumb? We still
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: want to know what the best part of waking your
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: ass up its? How do you wake as the best
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: part of waking up my ass? All right, I don't
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: even know why that sounds like that. But y'all know
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: what I mean. You know what somebody says like such
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and such my ass. No, I don't know why. No,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: nobody's such and such as my ass. I don't know what.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna gaf like me. You're not gonna gafl
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: like me this morn I'm not gonna happen. I'm not
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: gonna what's gonna ask. You're not gonna do it. I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: not gonna let you do it. I'm not gonna let
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you do it. I'm not gonna let you gaff like
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: me this morning. Nope, got therapy to day. I'm gonna
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: do it. That should be a good hashtag, all right,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: everybody hashtags. Part of waking up my asste means favorite
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: number waking up in No ass, that's not what I'll say.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: We didn't even say that. That's what it means to say.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: If you just said that under your breath, I heard you,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and everybody heard you. Rewind the tape you just said that. Nope,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you can't. Nobody can't get you. Don't play gay Bill. Well,
• 29:53
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• 29:57
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