um
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happened
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hey from oregon oh goodness oregon i
think we have some stuff on portland
later on today kansas texas it's nice to
see everybody out there heather baldwin
is from albuquerque new mexico that's a
crazy place all right um okay so here we
go today so the first case that i want
to talk about it's from an older case
that i'm sure everybody is familiar with
but i will go over a little bit of the
facts but mostly it's the legal updates
that happened yesterday so the brianna
taylor case this was in louisville i
know i didn't say that right but this
was in louisville kentucky in march of
2020 and the the short story when it
comes to the facts of the brianna taylor
case and this is one of the most famous
or infamous police officer involved
shootings over the last couple years
it's one of the main incidents that kind
of caused and helped to incite a lot of
the riots in the summer of 2020 and it's
one of those cases that people point to
when they think about this is what's
wrong with police departments today this
is what's wrong with law enforcement is
the brianna taylor case is one of the
cases that they point to and there's
actually a lot to this case it's pretty
complicated so not all of it is police
officers doing a bad job there is some
of that but not all of it is officers
just doing a bad job and not having an
appropriate response so some of the
facts of the brianna taylor case if you
remember this was in reference to a drug
investigation so briana taylor's
ex-boyfriend was someone named jamarcus
glover and brianna taylor they had an on
and off again uh
relationship and at the time they they
were off again so brianna taylor was not
currently dating mr glover however they
still were in contact well mr glover was
accused of drug trafficking and as part
of that investigation
there were there was
accusations that briana taylor was
somehow to some level involved in the
drug case and during this one night
there were four different either four or
five different no knock warrants that
were signed by judges that all were in
reference to this one case and the
reason why police officers might do that
is because you can imagine a situation
where there's a network of individuals
who are trafficking drugs and if you say
okay we have five houses that you know
we think might be involved in this drug
trafficking case so you know you can't
hit one house on monday one house on
tuesday that wouldn't make sense because
you can imagine that they would talk to
each other and any evidence that the
police officers are trying to get from
these raids you know wouldn't be there
so it's common place for police
departments to
essentially execute all of these
warrants for a single case especially in
something like when there's drugs
involved on the same day so i believe
there were either four or five houses
that were hit at the same time so all of
them were signed as i'll get into the
briana taylors in a second but all of
them were signed as no knock worn so the
first three or four that had nothing to
do with brianna taylor that
had to do with her but weren't at her
specific residence all of those were no
knock warrants and all of those went
down essentially without a hitch there
was no use of force and more importantly
there were no officer involved shootings
no police officers were injured and no
civilians were injured in those cases
when there were no knock warrants when
it comes to brianna taylor's case and
and you know we have to look at you know
what's being said because
some of the information
i think it's fair to say we don't have
all of the information or the
information we're getting from the
different parties might be conflicting
but here's what we think is that police
officers did have a no knock warrant for
brianna taylor's apartment so they from
the judge they could have gone in with a
no knock warrant so for whatever reason
though they decided not to execute a no
knock ward so it's unknown if it was
changed at the last minute from the
judge or from the supervisors if you
listen to some of the officers who were
there i know one of them wrote a book
and he's done podcasts and i've listened
to some of those those podcasts and you
know he basically talked about and he
said something to the effect of you know
we thought that we didn't think that it
was going to be dangerous going into
brianna's house we know that she didn't
have a criminal record that she was
going to be alone we essentially weren't
there to arrest her we were there just
for evidence in her house and they
thought that she was going to be alone
so they decided that's what the one of
the sergeants said they decided in the
moment to not do a no-knock warrant kick
in the door
and um wake her up like that in the
middle of the night so they
what's being said from the police
officers is that they decided to issue a
little bit of a courtesy by knocking so
they did knock and then once no one came
to the door that's when they kicked in
the door and once inside the door i
think after 12 seconds or so that's when
the police officer was shot in the leg
and that's when the officers returned
fire so with that there's there's a
couple things is that
um
kenneth walker who it was brianna
taylor's boyfriend who was home at the
time with her in his interview that he
did
with with the media and in all the
statements that he's made to
law enforcement and attorneys that are
public at this point he says that the
police officers knocked that they heard
a loud knocking
what he says that they didn't do is they
didn't yell police so he admits that yes
the police officers actually did knock
loud enough to where they were they were
woken up by it
and they were able to hear it pretty
loud and that it was concerning to them
because it was loud knocking so the idea
that police officers did conduct a
no-knock warrant into brian taylor's
house just isn't accurate because even
kenneth walker admits that there was
knocking now the argument from the other
side is that well you know had the so by
them knocking
it woke up mr walker and brianna taylor
and they were able to arm themselves
with a gun because there's mr walker
saying he thought it might have been um
brianna taylor's ex-boyfriend this
glover guy so the argument is that well
had they just conducted a no knock
warrant just like the other three or
four houses that night that had no knock
warrants where there weren't any issues
at all because you catch police catch
people by surprise had they done a
no-knock warrant
that probably would have saved brianna
taylor's life because they probably
would have gotten into the house quick
before really the individuals knew what
was going on which is the point of no
knock warrant so all of this stuff to
say that you know no knock warrants are
are bad it's possible that they're bad
but a no knock warrant isn't what
happened in brianna taylor's specific
case and actually if there was a no
knock warrant it's likely the outcome
might have been different okay so then
there was the officer-involved shooting
but what happened yesterday is the
attorney general of the united states
merrick garland so he charged four
different police officers involved in
this case with civil rights violations
but it's not the officers who actually
did the shooting he even went so far as
to specifically say that the actions
from the police officers
who actually did the shooting except for
one we'll get that in a second but the
officers who shot who killed brianna
taylor they aren't charged at all what
the allegations are from these
allegations have been out there for a
while but the allegations from the
attorney general and the department of
justice are that two of the police
officers who were involved on the
detective side so the investigation side
of writing up the search warrants for
brianna taylor's house that there was
some false information that there was a
false affidavit that was signed that
gave them so essentially when they were
applying for the search warrant for
brianna taylor's house that there was
false information put in that search
warrant and based on that information
that is false that's what that the judge
used that as part of probable cause to
issue a search warrant and
um then there's an allegation that there
was also a cover-up that after the
shooting that two of the allegations
that two of the officers afterwards got
together and essentially
um
tried to had a meeting to see if they
could get their story straight because
the shooting because the shooting
occurred so that's what some of the two
of the charges are and then there's a
supervisor of the of the detective unit
and he is also being charged with civil
rights violation so there's three
detectives who are so two two officers
and a sergeant in a detective unit who
are charged civil rights violations and
then so the third the last officer is
officer harkinson he was the officer who
was actually charged with state charges
for
wanton in endangerment because what he
did is he was kind of in a different
area so he wasn't in the apartment when
the shooting occurred but once the
shooting occurred
he said that he couldn't hear really
where it was coming from and the
allegation for lack of a better term is
he shot wildly so he fired the
allegation as he fired ten times and
five of those times he fired through a
door in a different apartment when he
couldn't see what was on the other side
so he was actually charged in state
court with charges related to that he
was acquitted of those charges but he is
one of the officers who was just charged
with civil rights violations for
unconstant unconstitutional use of force
even though his bullets didn't hit
brianna taylor they actually didn't hit
anybody but he was charged as well so um
i think what's interesting i think
what's interesting in this is that
merrick garland so i think we have to
separate and this is what i've been
saying for a very long time on this case
that the detectives who did the
investigation are completely separate
from the officers who
executed and conducted the actual
warrant and i think it's important to
remember that because the i i think what
happens a lot in the media because they
have an incentive to not be honest about
it
is that they essentially say make it
seem like the people who wrote the
warrant and maybe either did a bad job
were careless or worse case scenario
lied in the warrant those are the same
police officers who
went to the house and did the actual
warrant or they were all somehow related
but merrick garland went out in a
13-minute statement he actually went out
of his way to say that isn't the case he
said that the end off the officers who
conducted the warrant had no knowledge
that there was any problem at all with
the actual search warrant so i know that
a lot of people might be thinking well
isn't it their responsibility to know
like what's in a warrant that they're
conducting and that's a really good
common sense question to ask but i just
want you to think about it this way and
if this is really common in mid-size and
larger police departments that have a
lot of officers so if you can imagine a
situation this is what normally happens
they have detective units who conduct
surveillance they conduct interviews
they talk to
cis
in informants they're the ones who write
up warrants so one and then they get a
they get approved by the district
attorney and then a judge and then it
goes to a different unit who just
conducts the warrant so if you're one of
those officers or the supervisor of the
unit of who's conducting warrants you
have a warrant signed from a judge so
the idea that you don't have any idea
maybe you get one two three of these a
day a week who knows but the idea that
you are going to go back
and to do like a separate investigation
on a complex drug investigation that
took months for a main detective to do
the idea that you're going to go back
and do that doesn't make sense because
you have from the perspective of the
officer conducting the warrant you have
a detective or an officer who wrote
information in a probable cause
statement that they're putting in there
under oath that's approved by a police
department supervisor then that goes to
the district attorney's office for
approval and then finally it goes to a
judge so when you're the officer
conducting and executing the warrant you
have you know this process and you have
it signed by a judge so at that point to
go back and do any other investigation
on it it just doesn't make a whole lot
of sense and i just want people to
realize that there is a definite
distinction and two things can be true
at a time the officers i'm not saying
this happened because they haven't been
convicted of anything but it's it's
possible for officers who did the
investigation did put some false
information in an affidavit if they did
that they should be charged absolutely
if police officers lie under oath in
order to get a search warrant there's no
question they should be charged i don't
think anybody has any sympathy for that
because our civil rights are are
extremely important and there's no room
for that at all in policing but we can
all imagine a situation where there's
bad behavior on the detective side but
then in the moment when the police
officers are conducting the warrant they
don't have the knowledge that it's a bad
warrant they have good faith that they
are doing what they are supposed to do
and at the moment that they enter the
apartment they take shots the one of the
sergeants was shot in the leg and they
returned fire that it's a reasonable use
of force a reasonable officer-involved
shooting so this is something that i've
been saying for a very long time and
merrick garland who
has no
reason to
support or say anything positive about
any of the police officers he
specifically went out of his way to say
that um that the police officers who
executed the warrant had no knowledge of
this so uh and if you watch any of the
media reports on this at least for the
last like last night and and and into
this morning no one is making that that
uh the the distinction there because the
idea that the shooting itself was
unjustified is still a narrative that a
lot of people are playing into and the
explaining it this way about how there's
a separation between the two that was
even called out by the attorney general
and that is not something that you're
going to hear a whole lot of so uh pl
please put it please put in the comments
if um if you have any comments or
questions about that i did see someone
um actually put in the title of the book
i think it's called like 12 seconds in
the dark or something to that effect i
um i haven't read it yet but i have
heard that sergeant on i have heard that
sergeant on a couple different podcasts
and he he was there that night he was
the one who was i believe he was the one
who was shot so he does have some he
does have some interesting things to say
so that's kind of an update on the on
the brianna taylor case and and just one
thing because these detectives haven't
been charged or haven't been convicted
yet that they've been charged and and
like i said if there's there's
definitely a difference between the
detectives being lazy being incompetent
and purposely lying and doing something
that is dishonest and that would be
criminal so you know when this goes to
court we'll see if it's if it's
detectives being lazy and they just
didn't put the work in that they should
have that's incompetence um if they did
something criminal that's completely
different and i don't think anyone um
would have any issue at all with
detectives who put in knowingly false
information and lie under oath have any
issue with them being charged with any
crime whether it's in state court or in
federal court so that's that's some of
the of the brianna taylor case um also
the the next case that i wanna the next
case that i wanna talk about
it's a really tragic case it happened on
july 15 in hancock county georgia um the
woman's name is brianna greer she was 28
years old so i mean this is this is an
in-custody police officer death it's on
body cam i think we're going to share a
link to the actual body cam so you can
definitely go back and watch it and i
would encourage i'd encourage everyone
to go back and watch the body camera for
footage of it but let me just set this
up a little bit it's one of the most
tragic
in custody police deaths that i've seen
in a very long time so brianna grier is
a 28 year old female and she suffers
from schizophrenia and on this day she
was having a mental health crisis she
was in the middle of a crisis her mother
is the one who called for police
officers and her mother reported a
couple things her mother reported that
she was out of control and that she was
threatening family members including her
two young twin daughters so she called
for police officers to get some help
two deputies with the hancock county
sheriff's office they arrived on scene
where the body camera starts is brianna
grier is on the ground and she is
yelling so she's yelling something
effective that she's not drunk that
she's willing to take a breathalyzer
test the police officers handcuff her
and they do something interesting they
handcuff her in the front so her hands
are handcuffed in the front at this
point there's a decision that she's
going to be arrested for misdemeanor
domestic battery charges so i'll get to
in a minute but one of the questions i
have is you know some jurisdictions when
someone is in the middle of a mental
health crisis and if they've shown to be
a danger to themselves or others that's
one of the ways that police officers can
essentially
lack a better term take someone's
freedom away and make them go do a
mental health evaluation
what that does and a lot of times if
there are only misdemeanor charges
pending that's something that police
officers by policy or just by police
officers in the moment thinking this is
the best thing for this individual
that's something that a lot of police
departments do so i questioned about
whether or not that was even an option
for these for these police officers
there but what happened in this case is
so they handcuff her in the front they
ask her multiple times to get in the car
well i think we all know what that's
like when you have someone who just
isn't in their right mind sometimes it's
drugs sometimes it's alcohol but with
brianna it's not something she did
intentionally she suffers from
schizophrenia okay so so i mean this
isn't it's not her fault she didn't do
anything to make herself behave like
this so i think there's an added level
of sympathy there is that um so
essentially one of the sergeants or one
of the officers picks her up and kind of
you know kind of throws her in the car
nothing unreasonable but you know they
have to get her in the car so i don't
have an issue with that now once she's
in the car they close the door really
tight um the officer
who is driving there are two different
cars the single officer cars the officer
who is driving that car isn't the
officer who threw her in then he gets
into the driver's seat and before he
does he asks the officer who threw her
in who closed the door and says did you
close the other side of the door or is
the other door closed and the other
officer says yes now if it's your police
car you're responsible to know if
there's doors open and closed and stuff
like that but he gets in the car they
start driving as on body cam i'm glad
it's a good thing it's recorded they
start driving away and she's in the in
the passenger side they also don't put a
seat belt on her so she has her hands in
the front she has no seat belt on and
she's she's sitting um on the uh or
she's sitting or laying on the passenger
side the rear passenger side of the back
seat and and even in the body cam you
can hear there's like a thump or a thud
and she fell out of a moving car so they
get out of the car um they they stop
they say brianna brianna and they try to
talk to her and it seems like she's
she's not conscious but she's breathing
at that point ems gets there she does go
into a coma and she actually dies six
days later
so that this just has so many
questions so many questions about what
happened
the first thing i want to know is how
could this happen so i'm not a car
expert i don't know if we have any car
experts in here but if a door is close
and so just one thing i should say is
that the georgia bureau of investigation
has conducted an investigation and isn't
is conducting an investigation and and i
read the last couple days on their
website that
that they said that the reason that this
happened because at first it came out so
at first it came out that maybe she had
kicked the door she had kicked the door
open which no one should be able to do
anyways but that was some of the initial
reports on it but what the georgia
bureau of investigation found after
going to the car and doing some tests
and investigation into the actual
vehicle in the door is that the door
wasn't shut all the way so i'm still not
clear if it wasn't shut at all or wasn't
shut all the way now for it to not be
shut at all like do it just wide open
that doesn't make much sense because you
would think that even in the driver's
seat you'd be able to see that the door
isn't open but so they weren't exactly
clear there's no diagrams of exactly
where it was now there was another
officer on scene and at least as of now
the body camera footage from his car or
from his body camera it hasn't been
released so we don't know if maybe it's
captured on there to answer some of
these questions but either way the door
wasn't closed all the way and that's how
she fell out so a couple things about
that you know it's how is the door not
closed all the way but and again i'm not
a vehicle expert i don't know if anyone
else is but even if you have a door that
is closed if it's closed
even if it's not all the way locked that
isn't the kind of thing that typically
just opens please in the comments
correct me if i'm wrong it's not the
kind of thing that just opens by itself
and also like with most vehicles and
especially in any police car that i've
been in if one of your doors is open
there's an indicator there's a light
sensor sometimes there's a dinging that
goes on sometimes the the dome light is
on so there's also internal mechanisms
inside the vehicle because is it
possible that the door wasn't closed all
the way and that's you know the officer
as he's driving if he didn't have any
indication that's one thing but if there
was something ringing or dinging um or a
light on
that so that's good to know um on the
body camera it doesn't appear that
brianna is kicking and at least at least
when it comes to what you can hear on
the body camera there isn't anywhere
that shows that um that you can see
that's obvious that it was um that it
was left let out um or that that any
kind of an indication that the door was
left was left open so that was a pretty
tragic case now some of the questions
that i have about that are some of them
that i asked before so you know one of
the ways to so
they made a big deal about the seat belt
because i'm sure it's part of their
policy that you know when you transport
someone you have to put them in the seat
belt but she had her hands in the front
so if your hands are in the front you if
you want to you can seat belt yourself
also you can take your seat belt off so
if the officers had seat belted her with
her hands in the front she could have
taken that off of herself so um you know
really
do they have a policy there that when
you arrest individuals they have to be
placed in the back so what would that
consist of if officers did that you know
wanted to put the handcuffs behind her
back and then if that's part of their
policy well think about it this way so
here she is they had to pretty much use
some level of force maybe just low level
control tactics but they had to use some
force to actually get her in the car
uh now she's in the car her hands are in
the front okay um can you imagine a
situation where they say oh you know
what we really need her hands behind her
back so what they would have to do is
they would probably have to take her out
of the car probably by force and then
probably have to use some more force to
unhook one of the handcuffs and get both
hands behind her back and then they'd
probably have to use force to get her in
again well what if she is tased or
injured during that whole transfer the
criticism of police officers might be
hey you had this lady in the car
she was already in there
and she's handcuffed in the front she's
not going anywhere but you purposely
went out of the way to drag her out of
the car handcuffed behind her back and
threw her back in and during that time
of force was used so i could see there
being criticism there but i'll be i
would be curious to know is do does the
hancock county sheriff's office have a
policy about where they're supposed to
handcuff people and if um
if the individuals have to be placed in
seat belts and um it's hard to say if
this is you know was just so it's
obvious that there was no intention from
the police officers to kill brianna or
to do anything to harm her like that we
know that that wasn't the intention of
the police officers so the question is
going to be were the police officers
just negligent enough to create a
situation um uh to um read that comment
second on were they just negligent
enough to create a situation where she
lost her life um so we have a comment
from bruce blankenship i think you heard
the thud of her falling out uh you would
have heard her kicking it open if it
wasn't partially lash it would take a
good amount of force kick it open bruce
those are my thoughts exactly so the
body camera you cannot hear any kicking
um also
also yeah if it's partially latched
it should you're 100 right if it's just
partially latched
then in order to get it open you would
think it wouldn't just come open by
itself that you would have to use
some kind of significant force to get it
open if it would even open at all and
since there's no kicking that was heard
that makes it seem like either that was
just a huge malfunction with the lock of
the door or maybe that door was just
open was was
not locked but open maybe by like an
inch and that it was dark there's no
street lights in this location and it
looked like to the officer that it was
closed maybe initially brianna so i mean
typically we know that police officers
put people in on the passenger side
that's normally what police officers do
so is it possible that the officer
before the body cam started or before
you know was released kind of opened the
door just a little bit maybe an inch in
the anticipation that brianna is going
to get in there and then all of this
happened and then they just forgot that
it wasn't completely closed um so that's
that's that's something that could
happen and that's um
uh yes uh blue pepper let's see most
cops have
children they would never transport them
unbuckled so why drive an aggressive
person without a seatbelt yeah and blue
pepper that is a that is a great
question and the thing is most police
departments have policies that basically
say that when you transport someone that
you have to buckle them i guess my point
about the individual being with the
hands in the front so if you have
someone whose handcuffs are behind their
back which is typical and you seatbelt
them in they're stuck there's not much
they can do but i was just saying that
if someone is handcuffed and the officer
didn't buckle her in this time but if
someone's handcuffs are in the front and
you buckle them in well they could
easily just just unbuckle that so i'm
curious about for this police department
if they had either of those policies or
training for police officers about
having to buckle people in and where the
handcuffs have to be or should be when
they are taking someone to jail um so
another just another thing on this is
that i kind of mentioned it before so
because it was obvious that brianna was
in a mental health crisis and the
charges against her were only
misdemeanor charges so did this police
department have the option to take her
for a mental health evaluation or was
jail their only option maybe it's not
the fault of the officers or the police
department that maybe jail was the only
place that she could possibly go but
there are a lot of police departments
and cities who do allow for individuals
to be taken for mental health
evaluations when this is the case if
that's the case a lot of times police
officers are able to call ambulances so
it's just you know if we're thinking
about how do we avoid something like
this in the future what it's not just
monday morning quarterbacking it's what
could we have done so this doesn't
happen to get happen again because what
happened is worst case scenario for
everyone involved so um i that that's
the case that was just really sad um but
when it comes to how police officers
deal with and handle individuals who are
in mental health crisis that is a that
is a huge topic and i think this case
highlights a lot of those of those
issues that law enforcement and police
departments can do better um
absolutely um and someone commented a
minute ago um again on the briana taylor
case is that they said didn't her
boyfriend shoot first yes so that is
what happened so just really quick back
on that one what kenneth walker said and
it pretty much comports with what the
police officer said is that
once they entered the house
once they entered the apartment kenneth
walker said that he thought that someone
was robbing them committing a burglary
he thought it was somewhat what kenneth
walker's saying that brianna's boyfriend
is that he thought it was someone
committing a crime or or threatening
them in some manner he didn't know it
was the police so he said that he fired
a warning shot and those were his words
he fired a warning shot now the shot
didn't go in the ceiling it didn't go in
the ground it went right into a police
officer's leg so we'll never know what's
inside of his head if he knew it was a
police officer or not or if he was
trying to fire a warning shot but yes
but he shot one time he hit a sergeant
in the leg the sergeant almost bled out
and it was at that point that the police
officers returned fire and that was the
reason why the actual
use of force deadly force by police
officer in the brian taylor case was
reasonable legal and justified tragic
but it was reasonable for them to
respond in the manner that they did now
one of the thing about about mr walker
is he didn't have a criminal history so
it's not like he had a warrant where so
i i guess i'm trying to say is that he
has mr walker had no reason to shoot at
police officers he didn't have unlike
brandon's ex-boyfriend mr walker didn't
have a criminal history he was a legal
licensed gun owner so he had no reason
at being you know
25 28 years old to say you know what
today's the day i'm going to shoot at a
police officer for absolutely no reason
so i mean that to me that that seems to
be an unreasonable thing um now it did
happen late so what seems like happened
it was a mistake effect on behalf of mr
walker he shot the police officers but
so he wasn't charged he wasn't
prosecuted because
the d.a believed his believed his story
he knows the police officer but it was
also reasonable for the police officers
to return fire once one of them was shot
that's it it just that's reasonable
that's one of the times you can
absolutely use deadly force is when
someone is firing a gun at you um
so that was brianna taylor and brianna
grier um like i said for the brianna
grier for the brianna greer case um i
think we did post a link to the body cam
so please go please go watch that i
think it's an interesting case and i
think there could be a lot that comes
from it um also this isn't necessarily
police related but it's an interesting
story that i think a lot of people have
opinions on it's the it's the brittany
griner case so you know brittany griner
uh you know she plays on the wnba
basketball which i do not follow i like
regular nba basketball but
she plays she's one of the best players
for
in the wnba basketball apparently she
plays overseas in russia and what
happened is that you know she was about
five or six months ago when she was
entering russia she was stopped at the
airport
because she had vape pens with less than
an ounce of cannabis oil in them it's
completely legal here in the united
states i believe it was prescribed by
her doctor but severely illegal in
russia so she was stopped detained
arrested she went to whatever russia's
version of a trial is which probably
isn't much of a trial but she got nine
years in prison uh the max penalty she
could have gotten was ten years the
prosecutor asked for nine and a half
years so she got nine years in prison uh
tyrone said uh lucky it wasn't saudi
arabia they would have executed her and
that's what i and that's the you're 100
right on that so that's what i wanted to
to talk about there is that you know
listening to and i i covered this on on
my channel there were a lot of comments
about people saying something to the
effect of well if you do the crime you
should do the time and i get it listen
i'm a law and order guy i think that we
need laws but we also need to be
reasonable and we should criticize bad
ideas so
your your
the comments about saudi arabia and
that's exactly what i was going to say
so so you know because you could get
your head cut off in saudi arabia
because you have less of an ounce of
cannabis oil because you can get your
head cut off of that for that in saudi
arabia does that make it a good idea
does that make it reasonable no so we
should objectively be able to say yes we
know these are the laws but this isn't a
good idea and we should be able to
question and criticize those bad ideas
so something that's legal in the united
states um that you can get anywhere
there's there's there's vans that roll
around in california new york that sell
exactly what brittany griner was
convicted of in russia so she did get
nine years and i know they're trying to
do a prisoner swap where she's
essentially become a political prisoner
had this been a dear had politics been
different would her bag have even been
checked probably not so yeah obviously
this is a political
prosecution with what's going on there
um one of the people that they're also
trying to get back is paul whalen he is
a uh a citizen of the united states the
uk and ireland he's a former marine he
was given 16 years in prison in russia
for espionage so i think we're trying to
get him back as well also there's an
individual named mark fogle who is a 60
year old teacher who has lived in russia
with his family for a while teaching
english and stuff there and he was
convicted in uh
uh
2021 for having just about an ounce of
of cannabis as well or cannabis oil
about a half an ounce of cannabis oil
and he was sentenced to 14 years in
prison for that so i think all of those
people you know we're trying some type
of prisoner exchange the people that
russia wants back or some pretty um as
trump would say bad hombres so um i know
there's a lot of opinions going back and
forth but and i know that brittany
griner you know she was one of the
people who was kneeling kneeling during
the national anthem and and a lot of us
don't like those politics but despite
that we should be able to say
you know anyone being sentenced to nine
years in prison for something this silly
is is a bad idea it is it is ridiculous
in nature and we'll see what happens my
prediction is that she will not do nine
years in prison that there will be some
type of prisoner swap that we're going
to get her back and paul whalen maybe
mark fogle and we're going to give
russia a couple people who have actually
committed some pretty terrible violent
crime so um i don't know how fair that
prisoner swap will be but that is that
is my guess as to what will happen there
um
so do we have any do we have any any uh
any comments let's see uh james says i
don't like kneeling for the anthem i was
in the military and have a bit more
respect for traditions than that yeah
james that's a really good that's a
really good comment i think a lot of
people
feel that way um and you know i what
i've seen at least a lot like listen to
different talk shows and some of the
comments and some of the stuff that i've
done is that people comment you know
we'll be you know you know maybe she'll
appreciate america now well well great i
i hope that she does i hope she
appreciates our system of justice here
because it's probably the best one in
the entire world but just because she
didn't have a full appreciation for it i
don't wish anything bad for her and we
shouldn't wish for
people who might have different
political ideas i mean she's still one
of us she's still an american she's
still on our team even if we don't like
some of her ideas the best way to combat
those ideas is to um have those ideas in
public and put forth better ideas um
that's the best way to combat that so um
like i'm not sure about the whole
prisoner swap thing but i'm
anyone who has nine years in jail for
that it's a it's a little silly and i
don't wish that upon anyone even if i
have different ideas on politics than
her um and i know i touched on it uh
let's see protests let's see
oh goodness uh tyrone if you hate
america these people should go to north
korea or china for the freedom uh yeah
there's not a whole lot of freedom in
north korea or in or in uh china
protests aren't supposed to make you
comfortable no protests aren't supposed
to make you feel comfortable it's
important under the first amendment um
you know i think a lot of us just say
protest as much as you want don't burn
down cities don't burn down private
businesses um and do not block highways
because it's really annoying but yeah
say whatever you want sanitary corners
protests i don't think anybody has a
problem with that uh let's see
uh
okay
yeah bruce uh taking a knee for the
anthem of a country where you have the
opportunity is quite a conundrum yeah i
mean that's that's that's exactly
correct is that you know we have the
unlike other countries we have the
freedom
to take a knee or not um that freedom
you know doesn't mean that people have
to act in a certain way it's the idea
that the idea that people are free to
make those decisions that's what's
valuable that's what's important that's
what's great about the united states
let's see um so i know i covered it a
little bit last week the case of
christopher police sergeant police i
know it sounds like i'm saying police
i'm not i'm not saying his name right
the way you spell it is p-u-l-l-e-a-s-e
i think we're going to post a link to
the body camera video of this but i
touched on it last week but it is in
sunrise florida and an individual is and
let me set this up a little bit even
though we did post the body cam
definitely go and check that out because
it's pretty it's pretty astonishing body
camera i think this happened last fall
and essentially what happened here is
that an individual is under arrest for
all the news said is some type of
violent felony who knows what it is but
he's standing outside of a police car
and he's giving the officers a hard time
they're telling him sit in the car sit
in the car and they go you can go round
around with someone for an hour doing
that he's not sitting in the car finally
he sits in the car just about the time
the individual sits in the police car
sergeant police he rolls up on scene and
he's coming in hot like this guy this
guy is not he's not happy um and he even
at this point he goes to the individual
who's in the car and he starts screaming
yelling at the guy now what probably
happened is the and it doesn't show this
on body camera but the officers on scene
probably put out over the air or they
called it or they just called their
sergeant sergeant police that hey he's
not getting in the car what do you want
to do so because the sergeant went there
in a really bad mood with this guy for
some reason so my guess is you know he
had some indication or was called there
for some reason either way when he
actually
walked up to the car the guy was sitting
down he was sitting down in the car what
the sergeant does is he basically goes
into the back seat of the car he leans
in he starts screaming at the guy saying
you know don't respect my officers he he
takes out his oc his mace he threatens
to mace the guy then he says something
to the effect of you know if you ever
disrespect my officers again i'm going
to rip your soul from your
body so as he's saying that and
threatening to the mace the guy who's in
handcuffs and complying at this point so
all of this happens when the guy is
complying maybe he's a bad guy he
committed a felony he's given officers a
hard time fine but at the time this
happened he was complying so
police officers have to treat the
individual like there's someone who's
complying just because someone was a
jerk five minutes ago you cannot take it
out on them in the moment so as he's
doing this there's a three or four other
officers standing around then there's a
uh
a female police officer who's probably
about a third of the size of the
sergeant as he's screaming and yelling
at the guy threatening to mace him she
does him a favor she grabs him from the
the gun belt in the back and pulls him
away he immediately turns around he
takes his hand and he puts it on her
neck and he pushes her back and um no
one else steps in to do anything then he
goes back just to get get in one more
word and he screams and yells at the guy
in the police car one more time and then
he yells at her he says i'll see you in
my office in a few minutes and then he
tells everyone on scene to turn off your
body cameras now so
that's maybe not the first problem we
see with this but anytime that something
controversial happens or you're in the
moment in something when a police
officers give turn off their body
cameras in a situation like this and
especially when a supervisor orders to
um someone to turn up the officers to
trump their body camera or something
like this like it's never a good look it
is it is completely opposite of
transparency and what we want from
police departments um so the good news
is that he was charged he was charged so
really right after this happened he was
put on admin leave
and a outside agency
conducted the investigation sergeant
police was charged with four four
charges two of them felonies battery on
a police officer assault on a police
officer and also
tampering with evidence i think for you
know telling the other officers and uh
to turn off their body camera so so i
did do this on on on my channel i talked
about this and a lot of questions came
about so i just want to kind of go into
this because a lot of these cases aren't
just about the facts of the case but
the issues that come up come are
systematic and they come up in a lot of
different cases so if you uh let's see
uh james says i think police needs to go
easy on the steroids yeah the so
everyone watch the body camera footage
but you know if you've ever seen
breaking bad he looks like hank from
breaking bad only you know about a foot
taller 100 pounds heavier and on
steroids so that's who this guy this guy
looks like um but you know a lot of
these cases they touch on issues that
are bigger than just the individual case
and and in some of the comments you know
when when i covered the story that's
what it went into here is about police
officers and body cameras so some of the
comments and i really explored this a
lot this week is some of the comments is
like well you know police officers
shouldn't be able to turn off their body
cameras why is there even an off button
so that's what a lot of people are
saying so i just want to go into that a
little bit and i'd be really interested
to see what anyone here in the chat has
to say about that so do you think police
officers should be able to turn off
their body cameras and even more extreme
should body cameras even have an off
button so so think about what you're
going to say there i'm really curious to
see what people's thoughts are um or a
mute button that's a really good
question a mute button yes we can get
into that but one of the things that i
think is important to know is that most
police departments have body cameras
have a policy that covers when police
officers have to use their cameras now
maybe five ten years ago it was well you
know you record if you think something
is going to happen but you know we all
know situations where someone is being
reasonable being cool and then all of a
sudden it flips and you know in the
moment the police officer thinks they're
having a nice contact something happens
or someone else rolls up that they don't
know is coming and there's a use of
force and it's not on camera and you
know because it happened quickly it's
not the police officer's fault and there
wasn't really any violation of policy
because it happened so quick so now with
a lot of more modern and progressive
police departments are doing i think
it's actually a good deal essentially
the policy reads something to the effect
of all citizen contact has to be
recorded so if you're on a call if
you're on a traffic stop you don't just
record if you think something's going to
happen or you think you're gonna make an
arrest no if you're having citizen
contact on a call now if you go into a
gas station and you buy a coke or a
monster now you don't have to record
that but if you're on any kind of
official law enforcement duty you record
and that's pretty much easy you know if
you're going to a call for service the
policy says start your camera before you
exit the car so these are probably at
least from the management of a police
department side that's probably the best
thing for them to do um anyway so so but
so i think that's a way to fix this and
if officers violate that policy you can
go ahead and deal with that but to say
they shouldn't have an off button
doesn't make a lot of sense so
just think about it this way so police
officers police officers they have to
use the bathroom they get a lunch break
so what if they're working out on a
lunch break and they're at the
subposition at the gym you want them to
record the whole time that they're
working out how about if they're in
between calls and they're right and
they're writing a police report um
that doesn't seem reasonable also this
is the very practical aspect of how much
data for the servers would they be if
every police officer recorded every
minute of a shift so it just it just
wouldn't make sense for taxpayers to pay
for all of that data and storage so it
probably wouldn't even be possible but
if you think about it this way too
in in an era where it's so hard to
recruit police officers and i know i
said we're talking about portland but
really it's about seattle so right now
seattle police officers if anyone wants
to go be a seattle cop i think they're
offering incentives up to thirty
thousand dollars to be just an incentive
just to get on hired at seattle police
department so everywhere even good not
that isn't a good police department but
you know
places where people want to work
are having a difficult time recruiting
and retaining good qualified reasonable
police officers so now it's competitive
all these agencies want the same you
know
good decent officers imagine one of
these departments says hey all day long
your whole shift you have to record if
you could be in between a call writing a
report maybe your husband or wife calls
calls for a few minutes all of the all
of that's recorded when you're in the
bathroom when you're at the gym so can
you imagine any reasonable police
officer who has the option to
to work another place who would work in
an environment like that pretty much
nobody nobody reasonable would and it's
not that you want to hide anything you
can still have policies that say record
all citizen contact but the idea that if
i'm in between calls and i'm writing a
report and my buddy's sitting next to me
that i have to record our entire
conversa like
again this isn't if you're trying to if
there were
thousands of people who wanted a few cop
jobs yeah you can have all the
unreasonable policies you want people to
take those jobs that isn't the reality
now so so i just from a recruitment and
a retention standpoint for police
officers that doesn't make a whole lot
of sense uh let's see um let's see if we
got some other comments on that i'm sure
people have said a lot of things yeah
james agrees uh data storage yes um
uh yeah
data storage is definitely definitely an
issue uh serial killer that's a great
name uh i would never want to be a cop
this day and age yeah i think that's
what that's what a lot of a lot of
people say is that it's a it's a
difficult time to be a police officer um
but doing things like having a body
camera make sure that you run your body
camera while you're having citizen
contact all of that stuff can definitely
help protect you as a police officer uh
ego 10 okay unless they're on our tax
dollars they're on film and being held
accountable okay i'm not sure exactly
let's see they need to require more
train more and get paid
way more i agree okay so i like where
the ego 10 i like where that's going so
that's what people say you know we need
better cops we need more educated police
officers they need more training they
need this they need this i agree but a
lot of times and obviously ego 10
doesn't think that which is good but a
lot of times they say and we have to
they criticize the police of all these
things and we have to defund the police
okay well that doesn't make any sense
all of these things you're asking for to
make police departments and police
officers better things that we all agree
with yes we all want this they all cost
money they all cost more money so better
police officers better training better
equipment
crisis intervention units uh that can go
out to these calls so the crazy uh cases
like brianna grier maybe agree or maybe
don't happen yes all of that is more
expensive so we need more funding for
reasonable things to make police
departments uh better james ortiz i'd be
a cop the pay is good starting at 40k
yeah um starting at 40k yeah you know
what i um i mean there's a lot of police
like i said so seattle police if you
want to go be a seattle cop they'll give
you a 30 000 bonus and without overtime
i know the cost living there is high i
get it but you know you'll probably
start out somewhere around 80 000 a year
i have one of my good friends i went to
law school with is a police he's
actually an assistant police chief in a
small town in texas and he makes less
than twenty dollars an hour so um
you know police department salaries um
they they vary
widely um uh depending upon where you go
so those are really the the the cases
that i wanted to talk about this week
that i thought that were important um
there are a couple other cases
that
i know i asked last week hey if you have
a case put it put it in the chat so i
just wanted to um only cops um
if you guys don't follow the only cops
channel please please go do that they
are they are put out awesome content the
only cop says you can make 40 000
working the warehouse at costco without
all the
that makes sense yes you probably can i
don't know yeah uh yes that's that's a
that's a very reasonable very reasonable
comment you absolutely absolutely can um
but i know that i put in the i um
someone put in the comments there's a
case um police officer by the last name
of cox c-o-x
and i can't remember what state it was
in but
there was a shooting the officer went
there
and detained the individual outside of a
bar so i can't remember who said it i
told him i would look into that case and
i am
there's been some conflicting
information on that and the body camera
just came out so
i am looking into that one i will have
that one for you next week with some
some some reasonable um information
opinions on it so if you have any other
um things that cases that you want us to
talk about put it in the chat because
it's something that we definitely look
at and if it's an interesting case it's
definitely something that we want to get
out to you uh let's see uh egoten can we
talk about a border patrol agent
uh let's see
uh border patrol agent who murdered his
neighbor's dog um so i
remember hearing about that in the news
but i haven't done a deep dive on that
so yeah let me let me look into that for
for next week blue pepper says what
amazes me most the u.s has body cameras
europe has none three years of education
and has uh no police violence uh so i
wouldn't say they have no i don't i
don't like the term police violence um i
can get into that different day but you
know a use of force by by police
officers so there definitely is use of
force by police officers in europe um
i'm most familiar with some of the stuff
that's going on in britain um in in the
united kingdom you know they those
officers only certain officers carry
guns not all of them carry guns i think
they have tasers i just saw a case
recently in britain where there was an
individual who was having a mental
health crisis and they tried to tase him
the taser didn't work and as they were
trying to
it did work finally the taser actually
did work and while the individual was
under power
they didn't handcuff him right away
after the five second jolt from the
taser he got up and he went and he
jumped off a bridge and killed himself
so so there are issues with with police
in in other places but um um you have to
look at it this way is that
the violence and the murder rate in a
lot of these countries and the access to
citizens having firearms and use those
firearms against police officers aren't
the same so that the danger isn't isn't
as great um
let's see
uh james ortiz 40 years ago they paid
cost minimum wage seven dollars an hour
yeah i don't know who would do that do
that now but uh but yes absolutely
absolutely uh yeah and knife attacks are
on the rise in europe so they have they
do have that they do have that
problem there um so again so those are
the cases that i thought were
interesting that i wanted to talk about
this week um if you have any other
questions and comments put it in there
and like i said you know definitely let
us know if there are any interesting
cases throughout the week that you want
to um put in there um and and again some
of the case we talked about today we did
put the body cams out there so go and
watch for yourself and you know if you
have questions we can readdress them
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