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DONKEY: 2 Ex-Officers & Members Of ‘Goon Squad’ Sentenced For Torturing 2 Black Men · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: This is a miracle, there is no question, and there
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  Speaker 1: are problems in this country between police and community.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you are a donkey to the latest on that
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  Speaker 2: police killing of a black man, now the new developments
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  Speaker 2: in the deafinitely spawshooting rampase.
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  Speaker 3: Then, yes, it was a really bad day for him
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  Speaker 3: and this is what he did.
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  Speaker 4: And so we are in a state of emergency.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, White supremacist violence, it is always has been the
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  Speaker 1: number one threat to our society.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm also very proud that my wife was white.
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  Speaker 3: To the practice club bitches, sur richnny, please tell me
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  Speaker 3: why was I your.
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  Speaker 4: Donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's discuss donkey today. For Wednesday, March twenty Feth
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  Speaker 1: goes to two white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who
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  Speaker 1: were members of a self.
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  Speaker 3: Styled goon squad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, their names are Hunter Elward, who was a thirty
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  Speaker 1: one year old former Mississippi sheriff's deputy, and Jeffrey Middleton,
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  Speaker 1: of forty six year old former sheriff's deputy who federal
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors described as the ringly of the goon squad. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know some of y'all believe I'm a race baiter,
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  Speaker 1: and you're saying to yourself, now.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you have to say the officers were white?
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  Speaker 1: Well, race plays a very important factor, because these officers
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  Speaker 1: ran up in these people's house without a warrant, all
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  Speaker 1: because the neighbor reported that several black men were staying
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  Speaker 1: at a white woman's home and reported seeing suspicious behavior.
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  Speaker 3: I put suspicious in air quotes.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind, this is Mississippi, a state that didn't
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  Speaker 1: officially abolish slavery until February seventh, twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, simply because someone forgot to do the paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: True story, the state of Mississippi had never submitted the
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  Speaker 1: required documentation to ratify the thirteenth Amendment, so slavery didn't
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  Speaker 1: officially get abolished until February seventh, twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: To when a state like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the suspicious, all right, suspicious behavior is simply all
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  Speaker 1: these black men living with a white woman, all right.
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  Speaker 1: That damn neighbor probably was thinking to himself, I got
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  Speaker 1: porn hub.
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  Speaker 3: I know black gang bang hardcore when I see it.
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  Speaker 1: So he decided to be the fun police and call
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  Speaker 1: the police. And this is what happened. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: WAPT sixteen AGC for the report police.
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  Speaker 5: This has been a historic day and historic sentencing.
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  Speaker 6: Hunter Elward, the man who shot Michael Jenkins in the mouth,
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  Speaker 6: got twenty years in prison, the first member of the
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  Speaker 6: Ranking County Goon Squad to be sentenced. Elward apologizing for
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  Speaker 6: the actions of he and others for abusing and sexually
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  Speaker 6: torturing Eddie Parker and Michael Jenkins in what started as
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  Speaker 6: a suspicious person investigation but later led to a cover up.
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  Speaker 6: Hunter Elward stood in court and apologized to both. Ben
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  Speaker 6: Parker stood up in court and forgave him for.
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  Speaker 3: You know what you knows giving and what he is doing.
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  Speaker 3: I forgive that. Other than that, he's you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, what he did and he has to be
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  Speaker 3: punished with it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Elward put his weapon in Jenkins's mouth, pulled the trigger,
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  Speaker 6: but it didn't go off the first time. He did
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  Speaker 6: it a second time, severing Jenkins's tongue as the bullet
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  Speaker 6: exited his throat. Jeffrey Middleton was sentenced to seventeen and
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  Speaker 6: a half years in prison, the reported architect of the
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  Speaker 6: Ranking County Goon Squad in the assault. In January of
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  Speaker 6: last year, six officers tortured. The victims tested their tasers
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  Speaker 6: to see which one was the strongest, and tried to
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  Speaker 6: cover all the evidence. After prosecutor say Middleton said he
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  Speaker 6: had no problems killing anybody.
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  Speaker 3: God bless that brother. He better than me.
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  Speaker 1: I would have had to talk to my therapist, my wife,
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  Speaker 1: all my spiritual leaders to get to that level of forgiveness.
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  Speaker 1: They tortured, sexually tortured this black man last year and
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  Speaker 1: a brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Attack that was based on race.
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  Speaker 1: Six cops came into this man's home with no warrant
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  Speaker 1: and assaulted these brothers with stun guns, a sex toy,
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  Speaker 1: and other objects. Let me tell you something, man, I
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  Speaker 1: was born in nineteen hundred and seventy eight. Okay, therefore
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  Speaker 1: I grew up on Wu tang torture tactics, and I
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  Speaker 1: always said that Wu tang torture tactics were extreme.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought in the civilized society Wu tang torture
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  Speaker 1: tactics would ever be necessary. But after hearing this story,
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  Speaker 1: I disagree with myself. Okay, sometimes you gotta get medieval
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  Speaker 1: on these fools. All right, these are some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that need to happen to these offices. In prison
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  Speaker 1: if you knew the Wu Tang torture tactics.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, torch, what will bet post with your cheeks spread out?
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  Speaker 5: Put a hango on a throad and let that she
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  Speaker 5: sit there for like a half hour, Take it off.
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  Speaker 3: And stick it in you. Yeah, I can lay your
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  Speaker 3: nuts on the dresser. Just your nuts laying on a
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  Speaker 3: dresser and bang them. She put a spike back, I'll.
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  Speaker 5: Pull your tongue out your fouth and stabish with a
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  Speaker 5: rusty screw driver.
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  Speaker 3: Story building out there, just my favorite one.
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  Speaker 5: I sow your told clothes and keep feeding you and
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  Speaker 5: feeding you and feeding you and feeding you.
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  Speaker 3: Is it possible to sow but closed?
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  Speaker 4: Jesus, I mean anything close?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder. Listen, y'all know. I'm a mental health advocate.
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  Speaker 1: I love therapy, I love meditation, I love plant based medicine.
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  Speaker 1: Were all on a healing journey, you notice about me.
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  Speaker 1: But I also believe in edgy and once you put out,
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  Speaker 1: you will get back. It's a really simple concept. If
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  Speaker 1: you live your life with the mindset don't do anything
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  Speaker 1: to anyone that you wouldn't want.
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  Speaker 3: Done, and you are someone you love, then you will
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  Speaker 3: live a great life.
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  Speaker 1: So that said, I want these cops to receive the
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  Speaker 1: exact same energy in prison that they administered on the street. See,
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  Speaker 1: if you ask me, this isn't the first time these
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  Speaker 1: officers have done this. This is just the first time
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  Speaker 1: they got caught and punished for it. I have no
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  Speaker 1: problem with I for an eye dil though for a
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  Speaker 1: dil do in this situation.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, do you know what I for an eye means?
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  Speaker 1: The principle of justice that requires punishment equal in kind
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  Speaker 1: to the offense, not greater than the offense, as was
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  Speaker 1: frequently given in ancient times. So if someone puts out
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  Speaker 1: another's eye, one of the offender's eyes should be put out.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've heard people say, IE for an eye makes
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  Speaker 1: the whole world blind.
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  Speaker 3: That is not true. The whole world will not be blind.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, nobody would be blind if whatever you did
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  Speaker 1: to someone got back done to you. I really believe
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  Speaker 1: that people would move a little different, a lot different.
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  Speaker 4: See.
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  Speaker 1: What those members of the goon squad don't understand is
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  Speaker 1: that it's all fun and games until the inmates got
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  Speaker 1: the dial though. Okay, and listen, I see the comments
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  Speaker 1: from social media sometimes and folks say, Charlamagne, you make
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  Speaker 1: everything about race. It's usually white people saying that, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't even get upset. I understand simply because race
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really exist you because it has never been a barrier.
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  Speaker 1: Black folks don't have that choice. That's a quote from
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  Speaker 1: a Nigerian writer's name who I cannot pronounce.
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  Speaker 4: The tim Amanda and goziad say it. Play one more time,
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  Speaker 4: tim Amanda and Gozia.
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  Speaker 3: Even when I hear it, I can't. You know, there's
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  Speaker 3: no in it what that means? Let me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to kim Amanda and Gozia dtier.
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  Speaker 1: It'll feel like I'll be spitting all over the place. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: blessens to that queen dropping a clue bomb for her.
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  Speaker 1: Just remember, whenever you tell a black person they making
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  Speaker 1: everything about race, just remember.
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  Speaker 3: That quote from Chi chi Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never
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  Speaker 1: been a barrier.
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  Speaker 3: Black folks don't have that choice.
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  Speaker 1: Please let Kathy Griffin give Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton
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  Speaker 1: the biggest he huh.
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  Speaker 3: Please give this giant jar male the biggest he hull
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  Speaker 3: state was this again? I'm sorry, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Let Chelsea hand looking in on this he haw he
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  Speaker 2: haw that is way too much.
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  Speaker 4: Dan maynaies and I feel.
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  Speaker 3: Like Chris Rock got something to say. Man, oh my girl,
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  Speaker 3: my girl working this morning? Right, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 7: You don't think they should get the death penalty though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: like let's stop playing.
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  Speaker 4: Well and I do you have that in Mississippi?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: What they still do that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you believe in I for an eye,
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  Speaker 1: nobody got killed sadly, I mean nobody got killed.
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  Speaker 3: Thankfully.
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  Speaker 4: He shot him in his throat.
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  Speaker 1: He did shoot him in his throat. They got they
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  Speaker 1: gotta I think twenty just happened to survive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: They trying to kill him, that he should be fried.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy and then hopefully when people see that you
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  Speaker 2: die from this, like it's not just you go to jail.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. I like the prison. I like the
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  Speaker 3: twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: But he pulled the trigger. Nothing came up, so he
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  Speaker 4: pulled it again like he knew what was up.
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  Speaker 1: I personally liked the twenty years in prison, especially if
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  Speaker 1: they're living amongst general population. Two police officers. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: what they did. Everybody their name is a pretty high
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  Speaker 1: profile Mississippi. You know, it's just like just just so
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  Speaker 1: it made some deal hotels deal.
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  Speaker 3: With that man.
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  Speaker 7: But then nah, then you got to take a shower
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  Speaker 7: to clean himself off.
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  Speaker 4: I say, ten years and then death penalty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you. You don't like the twenty years of torture.
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  Speaker 1: You understand these police officers in prison for doing what
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  Speaker 1: they did to a black man in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they may kill themselves.
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  Speaker 3: That might be true.
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  Speaker 4: They may commit so becau don't nobody want to go
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  Speaker 4: because they feel like they can't go through twenty years
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  Speaker 4: of that? Nah, most of them is they can't go through.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: Why why even give them an option to get out?
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  Speaker 2: They're still in the twenty years they give them for
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  Speaker 2: good behavior, so they have to do what fifteen fourteen?
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  Speaker 3: They still can live.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, they got twenty years, do you know? You know
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we don't even see these cops get sentenced at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell y'all.
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  Speaker 2: They got twenty years, okay, how they should have to
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  Speaker 2: non God, we ain't looking for.
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  Speaker 4: Them answers from you. Ain't all know what to tell y'all?
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  Speaker 4: Like what we just saying what we think?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, I'm just saying what I think why are
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  Speaker 3: y'all Why y'all? I don't know. Yeah, maybe just tells.
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  Speaker 4: What everything to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Is, okay? If they like that, I like booty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Envy, you sound like you want to be
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  Speaker 1: in there with them or something.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. Okay, you got a lot of ideas you
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  Speaker 3: wrote you were down over there. I just said, just
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  Speaker 3: kill him.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't say no, no.
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  Speaker 3: You started to say the mother things that you stopped yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All right, when we come back saying wrap it up,
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  Speaker 1: not in prison, NBC.
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