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Columbus City Schools and murder suspect arrested for murder while out on bond · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm just scrolling through all the headlines of the day,
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  Speaker 1: make sure I didn't miss anything. I want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that I'm up to date, informed, ready to go
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  Speaker 1: when the microphone comes on. And one headline that I
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  Speaker 1: did from where's this ten TV website about this New
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  Speaker 1: Albany shooting this morning? And I missed this headline man
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  Speaker 1: who shot six New Albany warehouse workers used ride share
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  Speaker 1: to escape. Now, I heard them mention a ride share
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  Speaker 1: driver in that SoundBite that Allison used there in the
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock news, but that's the first time I've seen
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  Speaker 1: that headline. I know there was some talk about a
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  Speaker 1: gray car or something like that he had not driven
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  Speaker 1: to get there, but I had no idea that they
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  Speaker 1: had got to the point where they're absolutely saying, yes,
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  Speaker 1: this was a ride share and I'm assuming you know
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  Speaker 1: Lyft or uber or whatever and whoever. That driver was,
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  Speaker 1: of course, very fortunate somebody coming from something like that
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  Speaker 1: getting in your car going home without incident. That's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily the way it could have played out. This person's
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  Speaker 1: obviously frazzled and desk and has just done something horrendous,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad it worked out that way. I really
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  Speaker 1: am Zachary in the other room who has been NAII
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know he Pea's Ever since I've got
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  Speaker 1: in here to day in the glasses fell apart, he's
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  Speaker 1: been kind of goofy's. But if he chimes in now
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  Speaker 1: and then, just remember he too is a human being.
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  Speaker 1: Try to be nice to it. A couple of stories
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  Speaker 1: that are really really hitting me hard today as far
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  Speaker 1: as just I don't know eliciting a most definite reaction.
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  Speaker 1: First of all the Columbus City schools I have had,
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  Speaker 1: I've had no problem taking them to task and complaining
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  Speaker 1: about the process, the personnel, the conduct of the Columbus
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  Speaker 1: City School's Board of Education. And when this president of
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  Speaker 1: the school board stepped down, I told you that I
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  Speaker 1: believe that Michael Cole would probably assume that position, and
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  Speaker 1: he did. And I told you that of all those
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  Speaker 1: board members, he's the one little bit of hope that
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  Speaker 1: I had on that school board that maybe something logical
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  Speaker 1: would happen, even if I disagreed with it. I thought
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  Speaker 1: at least it would be it would make sense. I
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  Speaker 1: would understand the path between point A point B and
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  Speaker 1: conclusion with him at the helm Well guess who's announced
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  Speaker 1: they're leaving the Columbus City school Board. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to say Cole announcing that he will not seek
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  Speaker 1: real election. He's been on the board for twelve years.
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  Speaker 1: He is not going to seek re election, So the
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  Speaker 1: clown show will continue without him. This may be the time,
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity for everybody who has ever considered even remotely
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  Speaker 1: running for Columbus City school Board to do it. Look
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  Speaker 1: they're dropping like flies over there. You could literally he
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  Speaker 1: could literally replace nearly the whole board in one election.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any prerequisite requirements? Unlike that city Commission I
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  Speaker 1: told you out last night, You do not have to
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  Speaker 1: be a particular a particular ethnicity, or have a political
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  Speaker 1: status that they will appeal you can. I think you
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  Speaker 1: just basically have to live here. Nice. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: all there is to it, that you have to live
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Okay, you've got a kid in the schools,
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  Speaker 1: in the public schools I do. It doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be in the Columbus City Schools district either. They I
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  Speaker 1: mean Stephanie high Tower was president of the Columbus City
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  Speaker 1: Schools while her kids went to private school So that
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  Speaker 1: always kind of bothers me, because that's not the only
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  Speaker 1: case of that. So I'm saying, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: are an interested citizen that wants to go down there
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  Speaker 1: and try to get something, you know, going that makes sense,
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  Speaker 1: that is that is reasonable and logical, I would encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to do it. Start looking at the filing requirements
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  Speaker 1: right now. Call your your party headquarters. You know, preferably
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is a moderate minded person or a conservative
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  Speaker 1: minded person. But you know, even if you are a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable Democrat who is just outraged at the ridiculous are
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  Speaker 1: left lean that your party is taken and you would
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  Speaker 1: like to go back to the days when it made sense,
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  Speaker 1: go for it. Call the Franklin County Democrat Party. Call
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  Speaker 1: the frank County republic Cars. Hey, I want to run
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  Speaker 1: for this position. What do I need to do? Go in,
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  Speaker 1: sit down, meet with them, interview with them, try to
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  Speaker 1: get some support. Yeah, good luck with that. Try to
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  Speaker 1: get some support out of them, and start running now,
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  Speaker 1: not two months before the election. Now, and if there
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  Speaker 1: are two seats available, we need at least eight candidates. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I want to overwhelm everything in Franklin County, not so
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  Speaker 1: that we can rule as Conservatives, as Republicans, as non Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: as non leftists. Not so we can rule, but so
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  Speaker 1: we can participate. But we're not doing right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that. Do we have an elected Republican in
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  Speaker 1: Franklin County? Now? Is there one? Less? I gave up counting.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this a long time ago. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there was one person, but I'll double check it.
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  Speaker 1: In we had the engineer's office, and then the party
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  Speaker 1: and the candidate got into a twist there, and then
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  Speaker 1: the candidate kind of changed with their position and the
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  Speaker 1: party said, hey, wait a minute, you're not with us.
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  Speaker 1: And so I don't even know who the hell the
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  Speaker 1: fright the county engineer is. I don't know. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that we've got anybody left. And
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  Speaker 1: one party rule, whether it is conservative or liberal, Republican
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  Speaker 1: or Democrat, one party rule does. That's not how we
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  Speaker 1: work our best, and in some cases, frankly, it's the
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  Speaker 1: way we anti work. We don't get things done, We
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  Speaker 1: unravel things. Well, it's one one side running everything, and
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  Speaker 1: there's nobody there to check and balance. There's nobody there
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  Speaker 1: to question, there is nobody there to stop things. Things
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  Speaker 1: come apart because you get airt you get stupid, you
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  Speaker 1: think you can do anything. Nobody's going to challenge, and
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  Speaker 1: chances are nobody does, and when they finally do, they've
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  Speaker 1: got a whole lot of work in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like what's going on at other levels of
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  Speaker 1: politics right now. You're giving me the look because did
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  Speaker 1: you look something up? Did you find something for me? No?
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  Speaker 1: I the Franklin County Editor. I can't tell what parties
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  Speaker 1: from what's his name? And Adam Fowler he might have
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  Speaker 1: been the Republican candidate. Yeah, I don't. I can't tell,
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  Speaker 1: So okay, I just I don't think there's I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's anything left. The entire city council, the mayor's office,
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  Speaker 1: frank County commissioners, frank the county prosecutor. Just the new
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  Speaker 1: Democrat just went in there from the previous Democrat. She
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  Speaker 1: jumped over from Clumba's City Council, was replaced with yet
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  Speaker 1: another legacy Liberal on Columbus City Council, and Auto Batey
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  Speaker 1: the third. I can't think of a Republican elected in
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  Speaker 1: this county right now. There may be one or two,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but they are drowned out by all
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  Speaker 1: the other noise. I suppose Adam Fowler, is he really? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, there you go. So we got nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Speak for yourself, don't look at me that way. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got nothing. We got you a lawnmower repair man. Also,
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  Speaker 1: you know how I am about the he was on
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  Speaker 1: our radar stuff right from right here in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus. A man listen now, A man who was
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  Speaker 1: already under an indictment. This means he had been taken
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  Speaker 1: before the grand jury, formally accused and awaited trial. A
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  Speaker 1: man already under indictment for murder is now accused. You
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  Speaker 1: know what he's accused of, Yeah, murder, murder and murder
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  Speaker 1: again three times. Accused of killing three women who were
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  Speaker 1: all shot in the head. The Franklin County Grand Jury
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  Speaker 1: indicted Hakeem Graham, thirty nine, in the depths of forty
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  Speaker 1: nine year old Don Clover, thirty four year old Sierra Muse,
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  Speaker 1: and thirty six year old Tiffany Parish on South Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Avenue December fifteenth, I'm sorry, sixteenth of twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: He was already indicted for allegedly killing Darryl Hambrick forty
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  Speaker 1: five days earlier on Mohler Street. Hamrick once lived in
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  Speaker 1: the South Ohio location. All topsies for the women showed
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  Speaker 1: all three were shot in the head with a bullet
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  Speaker 1: caliber described as large. One of them also suffered a
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  Speaker 1: gunshot wound to the right elbow. Jewelry and personal effects
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  Speaker 1: were still with them when police arrived. The indictments identified
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  Speaker 1: Graham as being part of the Deuce Deuce Bloods. That's
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  Speaker 1: your old sorority, isn't it that your Deuce Deuce bluds. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I left left the gang life behind the Deuce
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  Speaker 1: Deuce Bloods at the time he allegedly committed the murders.
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  Speaker 1: You guys all remember this, right, I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: all over the news for several days. These three women
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  Speaker 1: shot to death, and they said, wait a minute. The
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  Speaker 1: guy who in the other house used to live in
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  Speaker 1: that house with them. It's a gang affiliation, gang tied in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the Deuce Deuce Bloods are all.
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  Speaker 1: That's it sounds kind of like duck duck goose to me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the Deuce Deuce Bloods are. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know either, but he doesn't look like anybody who
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  Speaker 1: would do something, not at all. No, he looks like
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy, and you know, lives next door. Helps
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  Speaker 1: you cut you out somebody. When you look at him,
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  Speaker 1: you go, that's somebody who should be on the school board. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I think the neck tattoos are the selling point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what does it. That's what makes you really want
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  Speaker 1: to get to know this guy. Maybe you know, share
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  Speaker 1: a beer or something. He was already indicted for murder.
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  Speaker 1: He's a member of the gang Deuce Deuce Bloods, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell they are, which brings me, of course, to
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  Speaker 1: my ultimate question, why the hell was he not in jail?
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe that's just me. How many times are we
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  Speaker 1: going to have to have the Reagan tokes thing repeated?
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  Speaker 1: How many times somebody who is already under suspicion has
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  Speaker 1: been indicted. You got a relatively good case. Gang affiliations,
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  Speaker 1: maybe some drug charges. Maybe see when trafficking charge, you're
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  Speaker 1: pretty dag gone sure that you're gonna get a conviction.
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  Speaker 1: Why is the guy back on the street so that
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  Speaker 1: he can he can do hard? Was he wearing a
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it's not like the ankle
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  Speaker 1: monitor worked out for Reagan. You remember, you remember he
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  Speaker 1: was wearing an ankle. Monitors act That guy had an actle,
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  Speaker 1: except nobody was monitoring the damn thing he was wearing it.
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  Speaker 1: It was stylish, it looked nice with his new loafers
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  Speaker 1: and such, but but nobody was monitoring it. So he
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  Speaker 1: left his home and went out and grabbed her and
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  Speaker 1: killed her and dumped her. And here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go again. One man, three young women, all
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  Speaker 1: dead because some psycho duck duck goose guy decided that
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  Speaker 1: he needed to shoot somebody. I guess he didn't take
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  Speaker 1: their money or jewelry. Trust me, if there were signs
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  Speaker 1: of any kind of sexual assault, that would be in
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  Speaker 1: the story we know all about that didn't mention any
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  Speaker 1: of that, just shot in the head with a large
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  Speaker 1: caliber weapon, out there trying to earn his duck duck
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  Speaker 1: goose stripes. I guess why wasn't he in jail. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: the guy could afford an attorney better than anything you
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  Speaker 1: and I can afford. I have no idea, but here
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  Speaker 1: we go again. The judges that sit in the Franklin
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  Speaker 1: County Criminal Court, the politicians that hinder the arrest powers
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  Speaker 1: and the options that our law enforcement officers have when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to getting these dirt balls off the street.
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  Speaker 1: All of you should be taken to task. Have a
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  Speaker 1: come to Jesus and understand that you you are creating
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  Speaker 1: the next war in our streets if you do not
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  Speaker 1: hold and punish people who do things worthy of being
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  Speaker 1: held and punished, and you set them out there on
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  Speaker 1: the streets. Eventually, they're not going to come after three
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  Speaker 1: women in a house by themselves. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: come after some young girl getting off for a job
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  Speaker 1: at the restaurant that night. They're going to come after
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's ready for them, and then that person will
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  Speaker 1: be the bad guy. I'm sure you'll find a way
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  Speaker 1: to arrest and detain them while trash like this is
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  Speaker 1: out to kill again. Good job and good job Democrat
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  Speaker 1: City council. Good job will you Democrat judges, sacks and
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  Speaker 1: crap that are killing my hometown.