good morning this is daniel here with
cop watch tv i just want to welcome
everyone in thank you for joining today
we're going to go over some of the most
important issues in policing and go over
some of the stories that have happened
recently and for a few of them that have
relevant body cam links we're going to
link those in the chat as well so in the
comments so
you can see the cases that we're talking
about there was so much that happened in
the last week or so that it was almost
difficult to try to figure out which
cases to talk about so that's one of the
things if you have a case that you think
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sergeant george says uh first time
watching the live stream by the way well
thank you sergeant george if you have
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lot of questions which is a great thing
but if you if you do a super chat we
will for sure answer your question um
but you know one of the great things
about covering these kinds of issues and
one of the interest one of the reasons
why i am just so interested in this and
always have been it's because there just
isn't a lack of cases you know every
week there's new cases there's new body
cam and it's just every week there's
just so much to talk about and it's just
such an interesting topic so i'm going
to get into the cases right away um so
the first case that i want to
the first case that i want to talk about
is uh it it's a a french fry killer and
you know the if you know it's a weird
week when you say that we're going to
talk about a french fry killer case and
you have two cases to choose from so
there were actually two cases in the
last 10 days or so that involved
mcdonald's cold french fries and a
killer so but the first one that i'm
going to talk about so this happened on
august 5th of this year in kennesaw
georgia and we do have a link to the
body cam video that we'll put in there
so you know after the live chat
definitely go and watch the body cam
video because it is it is really good
body cam video um so what happened on
this date is an individual named antoine
sims he went into a mcdonald's in
kennesaw georgia and you know the french
fries just weren't to his liking so and
but the thing is they weren't cold they
were lukewarm so he went back into the
store to the mcdonald's and he got into
a thing with the manager now most people
when your food is not um up to the
satisfaction level that the customer
thinks you know you just you go in you
ask for a refund or
for them to make you more food and
there's pretty much standard practice
and policy from fast food chains they
deal with this all the time it isn't
that big of a deal so i kind of always
think that when things like this go bad
i almost always blame the customer
because you know the mcdonald's
employees they deal with this all the
time anyways so the the the
confrontation about the lukewarm french
fries got so heated that both
individuals called police so anton sims
called police and so did the manager of
the mcdonald's store now okay so this
happens sometimes but the reason why
it's so strange that anton sims called
police is because he had a warrant for a
homicide and it's not like you know he
was this mastermind criminal where he
did something years ago and he had no
idea that the police were on him so he
didn't think he would come up on
anyone's radar no no no earlier in the
year in uh earlier in 2022 the the facts
of this case i you know all i really
know is that there was a dead body that
was burned that was found in a car that
was burned and there were three people
who were charged with that homicide i
believe that anton was the individual
who was he was at least accused and he's
innocent until proven guilty but he's
accused of being the getaway driver for
that particular homicide so he was on he
was released on bond he had an ankle
monitor and he was supposed to have a
court date for this homicide charge on
july 26th he missed that court date and
then this happened august 5th so you
know 10 days or so later so it's not
like he was confused so he has a warrant
for a homicide he initiates the police
contact which is which just doesn't make
any sense so police get there they talk
to both individuals and you know at this
point they hadn't run anton's name so
they don't know him from anywhere else
all they were going to do at the request
of the management from mcdonald's is
issue anton a criminal trespass notice
basically just putting it on paper
saying hey you are criminally trespassed
from this private business you're no
longer welcome here so this is your
notice so you know in a perfect and
ideal world you give that to the
individual and then you know if the
person comes back it's at that point
that they would um be arrested or they
could be cited or you know somehow the
police could take some enforcement
action so it was during that process
that the police realized that hey this
guy has a felony warrant so they while
they're um right giving him the citation
you know they kind of want to get him
close and um they're just about to go in
to make an arrest and of course he he
starts to run he says he's afraid he
starts to run there's a foot chase now
one of the things in the body cam video
happens in the foot chase is almost
immediately the officer falls down and
you know i just want to say that when
you're a police officer and you get into
a foot chase you know
police officers falling during foot
chases you know it's especially if
you're not like a first or second year
officer it happens all the time the
reason is is because the gear that
police officers carry usually is
somewhere between 20 to 30 pounds and
you wear these boots these heavy boots
they're great for standing but they're
terrible for running so it's the heavy
boots
and the 30 pounds of extra weight you
start going a little bit and the forward
momentum just makes you splat so the
officer he immediately falls down um the
antoine ends up running long story short
they do end up finding him in an
adjacent apartment complex not that
longer not that far after that they get
into a foot chase with him a taser is
used and he gets into custody so they
end up you know arresting him and you
know it's just one of those things where
it's he liked lukewarm
his love for hot french fries was so
great that he's willing to spend like
decades in prison just to make sure that
everybody knows about it which is just
absolutely crazy and one of the other
things that i want to point out in the
body cam video let's see so we have a
serial killer that's a great name i know
i said that last time well hopefully the
fries in prison will be to his liking
because that's where he is headed
absolutely absolutely yeah hopefully
hopefully he has fries in prison um but
one thing that i want to say about his
stay in prison should he be found guilty
is you know so there's this bit that
dave chappelle has done where it's one
he talks about and it reminds me of this
so this is connected i promise he does
this bit where he says you know if i'm
ever in a situation an emergency or i
have to call 9-1-1 i hope they never
play it on the news because i'm going to
sound so scared i'm never going to be
able to look my buddies in the face
again it's a funny thing that dave
chappelle does so that's kind of what
happened here so after he was tased
after the taser and he's laying on the
ground
antoine lets out this like high-pitched
scream it almost sounds like if you
listen to it the first time it almost
sounds like an ambulance siren i mean i
think someone is going to use this as
their ringtone on their phone it's
absolutely crazy it's the strangest
sound but how could he ever phrase face
his buddies in prison after that if they
see this body cam video so so i want to
talk about that case because it kind of
has a good ending um when it comes to
french fry killers because you know he
was he was in custody it's a little bit
funny that he initiated the police
contact himself and you know i just
can't help but think that if only the
french fries were as hot as the dead
burned body in the car this whole thing
probably could have been avoided
so the second case about a french fry
killer which i'm not going to get into
the details but it was actually kind of
a sad case it's a really sad case
because of an incident at a mcdonald's
in
brooklyn where an individual did
complain about french fries the staff
apparently or allegedly laughed at the
individual and the person who had the
cold french fries end up stabbing the
worker at mcdonald's and they ended up
passing away they have the individual in
custody but both of those two things
happened in the last in the last couple
weeks um so like i said the first one
was a little funnier so we did we did um
share the body cam footage for that so
uh does anybody have any comments about
about that let's see yeah hopefully the
fries in prison that that's a great
comment i like that um melania you saw
the video he was so stupid yeah i don't
know what he was thinking uh saint
george sergeant george uh yeah those
poor mcdonald's workers yeah i mean the
real mvp is that is that mcdonald's
manager who you know didn't give in to
this guy you know for whatever reason he
was like we're not going through the
normal process so whatever he did to be
a jerk um you know um
someone commented freedom fries that is
so funny thank you thank you uh and they
had a five freedom prize that is that is
so funny but yeah so um that that is
that's an interesting case sometimes
sometimes you know i know that it's it's
kind of standard to say that you know
criminals are stupid um but yeah
sometimes they really are so this just
doesn't make doesn't make a whole lot of
sense um
so the next case that i want to talk
about it's a case that happened in
pasadena california on 8 14. so really
just a couple days ago and you know what
i initially wasn't going to talk about
this case because this is a case that i
i saw the case i read the story and then
i um i watched the body cam footage and
i thought okay this really isn't a story
you know this is a good story about cops
you know on my tick tock channel i have
a i have a playlist called good news
about cops it's almost one of those
cases that i thought about putting into
that file because it to me this is a
good story about police officers doing
something reasonable and there's like a
good outcome but and i'll get into the
details in a second but the uh but the
outcry from this happened at a school so
the outcry from the public the teachers
students and people in the city were
just so overwhelming negative against
the police officers that i have to talk
about it because we are going to post
the body cam footage for this one but i
just i'm curious to see maybe it's me
maybe i'm missing something but i think
the police did a very good and
reasonable job here let me tell you what
happened so again this was in pasadena
california on 8 14 22. so it was it was
a sunday and it was it was day shift so
the middle of the day on a sunday
or in the morning on a sunday and there
was a call for service to police so
essentially a neighbor calls in and says
that he sees something at the school so
it's a sunday so there's no class in
session the neighbor calls in and he
gives police this information he says an
individual just jumped the fence to the
back of the school it's a male or female
individual he couldn't tell in their 20s
or 30s they have a backpack it looks
strange he jumped the fan he or she
jumped the fence and they're on the
school property so that's all the police
officers have going into it so you know
as a police officer you're thinking a
couple things okay well you know maybe
this could be someone who's supposed to
be here maybe not but if it's someone
who's supposed to be there there should
be signs of that you know the gate will
be open because the gate's locked with a
with a a padlock the gate will be open
there'll be a vehicle there we can run
the vehicle you know we could there's a
lot of things police can do to you know
try to determine what happened so you
know police officers get there and they
see a couple things they see that the
gate is locked so there's a gate and
they actually in order to get in they
have to use bolt cutters so the gate is
locked with a chain link around it and
they do see an individual inside the
school property so he's not just walking
around on and he matches the description
it's a male in his 20s or 30s and he has
a backpack he's walking around and he's
not just walking around like the
perimeter of the school the police
officers can see two different doors to
the school are wide open and you know
you might be thinking well if it was
someone who was supposed to be there
wouldn't they just unlock the door and
walk in like why are these doors wide
open one of the doors looks like it's
some kind of a storage closet so it's
weird so for in the moment the police
officers you know reasonably think that
they have you know maybe a burglary or
breaking and entering either way it's
some type of felony that someone's
committing at a school so there's only
two or three police officers there so
they use the bolt cutters to enter the
school and to enter the gate they walk
in and from a reasonable distance behind
cover they give the individual as he's
walking out of the school to give him
commands they don't swear at him they
don't they're not derogatory but they
basically give him commit give the guy
commands to walk towards him turn around
get get down on his knees the individual
he cooperates he complies they place him
in handcuffs once he's in handcuffs he
tells him that he's a janitor there at
the school now the only way that they
might know that he has kind of on like a
blue a blue like a like a blue collared
shirt and it says like the pasadena
unified school district but i think it's
the initial so it says pusd on it and he
says that he's
he's a janitor there well you know i
mean it's it's you know the police
officers want to make sure anybody could
say that they're a janitor at the school
the gate was locked i mean a caller
called in and said this guy jumped it
why would a janitor jump the fence so
you know almost immediately the guy says
i didn't jump the fence i have keys here
are the keys here's my phone please call
my boss so the police officers do really
a quick investigation one of them walks
around the school just to make sure that
there's no one else inside the school
and there wasn't
in the meantime another officer calls
his finally calls his boss on the phone
and the boss of the of the janitor at
the school he confirms yeah he's there
he's supposed to be there um so you know
after but he was in handcuffs for
probably about six minutes during the
six minutes the the police were nice
they were polite they didn't swear them
they didn't throw him to the ground they
handcuffed him and they had him sit on
the curb so so you know when it comes to
the treatment of the individual who at
the time that they think is a felony
suspect they were respectful and
reasonable with the subject and i'm not
saying that the police should be praised
for doing this i'm just pointing out
this is exactly how police should treat
people no matter what crime an
individual is suspected of committing if
you have someone who is cooperative and
polite then that's how police officers
should act so i'm not saying we should
praise the police officers for this we
should just note that yeah they acted as
police officers should when someone is
cooperating so that's a good thing um
and they end up releasing the guy you
know after after he was released they
all kind of laugh about it the
individual the janitor and
and the police officer kind of laughing
about it the police officers apologize
they say hey we're sorry this happened
you know we'll put a note in the system
to make sure this doesn't happen again
and you know it seemed like in the
conversation to the janitor like that he
understood why why this happened um
so
that should be the end of it right but
no there was unbelievable outcry from
teachers from students and they want and
the mayor had to get involved so luckily
the police department is backing the
police officer saying hey they did
everything correct but the outcry is
terrible the police chief had to make a
statement the principal at the school
had to make a statement the um
uh the mayor of the city had to make a
statement they're doing a more deeper
investigation into it and i i just want
to say that to me that seems
unreasonable
to me this seems like this is exactly
how our police are supposed to respond
so it was a it was a suspected felony
crime in progress now i want to just
talk a little bit about eyewitness
testimony this is one of the reasons why
i witness testimony
is just garbage it's awful it's it's
it's if it's not on video you almost
shouldn't believe it because if you
listen to the 911 call which is also on
the link like you can tell that the
person who's calling in like he's not
he's not like trying to to
to get someone in trouble for no reason
he's not trying to he's not lying he's
not trying to be rude he calls even
during his call he says
you know like i'm not sure if this is
anything but it looks suspicious so i
just want to report it you know they ask
the guy if he wants contact with the
officers he's like no i don't need
contact with police like i just want to
make sure everything is okay so if you
listen to the 911 call like it really
doesn't sound like there's any bad faith
on behalf of the individual who called
but he's being accused of being racist
some people are saying that he should be
put in jail and the thing is is that
it's because he said that he saw someone
jump the fence now i don't think he was
lying but eyewitness testimony is so bad
what likely happened is he saw someone
who was walking towards the fence he saw
the fences locked he looks down for a
second to grab his phone to call police
or tell his wife or husband or kids that
hey something's going on here and he
turns around and two and a half seconds
later he looks and the guy's over the
fence and he just he just assumes what
happened like like he didn't see it but
the mind is the brain is such a weird
thing
his mind filled in gaps and he couldn't
distinguish what was real and what was
not especially because you know this was
a stressful situation for him so you
know that's why i witnessed testimony
it's just garbage i listened to the 911
call like this guy wasn't lying um he
just he just got he got it wrong but the
police officers you know net police
officers when they get on scene they're
not psychics you know they don't have a
crystal ball so police officers know
that this information is coming from a
citizen who might not seen everything
perfectly and then they try to
independently verify what the individual
said so if you look at it this way
it's like police office like all the
things the guy said they get there okay
the gate's locked well the guy said that
there's someone in there they see the
door open the person matches the
description it's a sunday you know
typically people aren't at schools on
sunday so i think it was reasonable for
the police officers to have to believe a
crime had been committed and i just want
to talk about that this is a little bit
off topic but it's related this is why
and and please put in the chat if you
disagree because i know that there's
people who disagree and i'm cool if you
disagree because i'd rather have a
conversation about it it's this is why
qualified immunity is so important for
police officers so qualified immunity
protects police officers from personal
lawsuits from civil personal lawsuits so
qualified immunity does not protect
police officers like kim potter does not
protect police officers like derek
shelvin it protects police officers like
this who in the moment make an honest
reasonable mistake and it was a mistake
because you know essentially they
handcuffed someone and temporarily took
away someone's freedom for about six
minutes when the person was totally
innocent so you know without qualified
immunity this is one of those cases
where police officers might be sued
personally for their response so so like
i said qualified immunity it does not
stop police departments from
investigating from terminating it
doesn't stop the state from revoking a
police license qualified immunity
doesn't stop prosecutors from state
charges or federal charges it only it
only protects police officers from civil
personal civil lawsuits if they don't
violate any established rights so this
is why i always say that qualified
immunity is a good thing it's for cases
like this
again cases like derek chauvin and like
george floyd there was qualified
immunity in minnesota it didn't matter
because he violated clearly established
rights so i just kind of want to put
that out there that this is a great
example of why reasonable police
officers want qualified immunity it's
for situations like this not for actual
crimes that are committed uh let's see
uh let's see and here i was about to say
sergeant george he was about to say how
this has qualified immunity written all
over it yeah see look at this i think
this is your first time in this thing
sergeant george and you're you're on the
same page yeah this is exactly why
qualified immunity now when people are
against qualified immunity and like put
in the chat if you think i'm wrong when
people are against qualified immunity i
found a couple things they don't
understand what it is and then once i
explain it they go oh okay
or you know they don't want bad cops
protected well listen i don't want bad
cops protected either good cops don't
want bad cops protected either there was
qualified immunity in minnesota and
derek chovin was still he was fired and
he's doing 22 years in prison so
qualified immunity does not protect a
police officer if they violate clearly
established rights so just want to just
wanted to put that out there so you know
that's kind of what i'm going to talk
about and you know i think it's it's not
a perfect so it's not a perfect
uh let's see it's almost like the
harvard students were celebrated
this is almost like the harvard when the
students were celebrating the closer of
the police substation i'm not sure what
case that is but um i'm sure you'll put
it in there um yeah so it's
so you know and i and especially in a
heightened
sensitivity area when it comes to police
officers and response to schools no of
course i'm not saying that this is
uvalde or this anything but you have to
realize that especially after the police
response from uvalde was so awful was so
horrible was so terrible on many levels
which i've gone over a bunch of times so
i'm not going to do it again now but
let's just all agree the police response
to evoli was was terrible so anytime
police officers whether students or
they're not are dispatched to a school
the fact that they are going to make
sure that they cross all of their t's
and dot all of their eyes and make sure
that they aren't leaving anything on the
table and that they are going to make
sure that that they do a good job um
that's a reasonable thing for a
responding police officer to want so
another thing when it comes to and since
we talked about uvalde so um someone
tagged me in a tick tock and i know it's
silly and this guy has 400 000 um
viewers so he he tagged me in a tick
tock and i did i did a response to it
and and you know he said a couple things
and you know
there were about a million views on this
post he did and the thousands of
comments of people agreeing with him so
i just want to say that maybe i'm on the
wrong track let me know if you think i'm
wrong or not so the point of his tick
tock and i think we did i think we did a
link in there um the point of it was he
said that
that um that the yuvaldi police were
involved in a cover-up and then he went
in to talk about how bad the response
was so when it comes to the bad response
we're all on the same page we all agree
but do we really think the yuvaldi
police are involved in a cover-up i
don't think so here's why so the all of
the body cam video that has been
released over three hours of body cam
has been released by the mayor of uvalde
dan mclaughlin so he released all the
body cam so just up first if you are
releasing body cam footage like then
you're probably not engaged in a
cover-up and listen common sense would
say that the response from police in
uvalde was so horrible was so awful like
they should be engaging in a cover-up
because it was so terrible but they're
not like the police in uvalde are trying
to like justify what happened and
explain what they did and then they
released all the body cam footage the
mayor of uvalde released the body cam
footage even though the texas department
of public safety asked them not to the
texas the head of the department the
head of the texas department of public
safety he even went to the attorney
general to try to get the city to not
release the body cam footage and they
released it anyways because they wanted
the raw footage out there because
somehow they think it's going to
exonerate what the police officers did
which again that makes no sense but i
really don't think that if all the
police are involved in the cover-up so
it's possible that both things can be
true it's a terrible response but at
least the police in uvalde aren't trying
to cover up what they did they're
putting all the body camera footage out
there
uh let's see uh malena i back the blue
but not the bad apples wearing a badge
taking advantage of the job yeah i think
everybody would would agree with you but
and the the people who are going to
agree with you
mostly our police officers are are going
to say that yeah you know we police
officers want qualified immunity they
want protection if they make a
reasonable mistake and it's the people
who are committing crimes on duty who
screw it up for everybody else like
nobody wants them protected uh let's see
uh anna from what you say
they had reasonable suspicion politely
detained him for less than 10 minutes
i'm no fan of most police but clearly
they did nothing wrong or rights of
violating you know i i i appreciate that
you know that's one of the reasons why
not only cop watch tv makes the makes
the content they do to put out the raw
footage but also you know one of the
reasons why we do this show on fridays
is because i think it's more interesting
to have conversations with people who
might not agree so so uh an edify i i
really appreciate your comment and
you're saying that you're not a fan of
most police but the fact that you're
able to even though you don't like most
police which is fine the fact that
you're able to look at an individual
situation and not let that cloud your
judgment that means that you are an
honest person looking at these cases
that is rare and that is something that
all of us appreciate uh let's see even
the governor greg abbott is covering up
for the police university yeah so i
that's
such a great point i think if there is
anybody trying to do a cover-up in
uvalde i think it's the head of the
department of public safety in texas
it's the governor it's people who are up
there it's so i mean you have to look at
it this way and i just break it down
simply the people who are trying to
release the body cam to the public no
cover-up the people who are saying well
hang on let's
that's how you know that um people
the less transparent the more likelihood
of a cover-up um not that you've all
they placed it everything right they did
everything wrong and they those the ones
who should be trying to cover it up but
for whatever reason they're not they're
trying to justify so i just wanted to
make that point that you know i don't
think you all the uvalde police are
involved in a cover-up i don't think
that makes a whole lot of sense um so
any other comments about that definitely
definitely put it in there uh
one more one more comment makes you wish
sergeant george makes you wish that
certain police officers should get
qualified immunity yeah i know i i do i
think qualified immunity is a good thing
like i said the bad the the the cases
they cite the the um the the walter
scott case in south carolina where
officer slager um
derek chauvin all of these cases they're
all like qualified immunity doesn't
protect them anyway so if you have an
argument against qualified immunity i'm
good with it i want to hear the argument
but don't list the police officers who
are committing crimes and in prison
because literally qualified immunity
just doesn't just doesn't um
apply to them if it's a successful
cover-up then we would never know yeah
you're right we would never know if it's
a successful cover-up but the way that
we can try to get around that ourselves
is to get as much body cam footage as
possible so if we have all of the body
cam footage and it's not edited in its
raw body cam footage there isn't a whole
lot they can cover up i mean they can
spin narratives of course but people who
are informed and who actually watch the
footage you know um they would know
what's going on and i think transparency
is the way that we should deal with all
of these issues so the next case i want
to talk about is does everybody remember
drew peterson
oh hang on didn't help kim potter no so
hang on a second tomorrow no no it
didn't help kim potter so yeah kim
potter was charred we've talked about
that case before but kim potter was
charged she killed dante wright during a
traffic stop in a case of taser
confusion so she thought that she pulled
out her taser she didn't it was her gun
and we know that we have to get into the
facts but we know that it was a mistake
because of her reaction afterwards and
even the attorney for dante wright's
family admitted yes she made a mistake
even the prosecuting attorney who
prosecuted her and tried to get her 10
years in prison i think they were asking
for seven years in prison even they
admitted this is a mistake so like
there's no question this was a mistake
but yes but if you look at the kim
potter case she made a mistake she was
neglig the mistake was negligent and
because of her negligent mistake which
is you know the short form of what the
law is because she made a negligent
mistake and someone died as a result
that is um you know essentially um
involuntary manslaughter so she got two
and a half years in prison she had
already done so i think she has to do
about two more years uh one more uh
let's see quick question
do you think civilians should own body
cams as well yeah of course
absolutely um it's not that i think they
should so i think it should be legal i
love when people record uh record police
um i don't think there's anything
problem with that as long as they are
respectful and keep a reasonable
distance yeah um absolutely so you know
so i i go out of town every so just a
personal story real quick my wife is
from a small town in south dakota we go
back there
you know once a year or so and it's a
small town we usually go to the gym
around midnight there's nothing out
there it's just corn fields it's about
20 minute drive to the gym long story
short the cops in that town have nothing
to do at night i get pulled over every
single time this past summer i was
pulled over twice even though i'm pro
police i like police i trust police
officers but every time i get stopped i
have my cell phone camera running just
in case my wife is like what are you
doing and i'm like listen you never know
i don't know if they have body cameras
so so yeah so that's how i behave um
especially if i'm out of traffic and
i've never had a bad experience everyone
has always been nice especially
especially in that small town so yeah i
just want to put it out there that no i
think that civilians should have body
cameras absolutely dash cams are a good
thing too okay so i want to talk about
drew peterson so i'm i'm originally from
the the chicagoland area so
drew peterson is the case that i
followed for the last you know 15 20
years or so and if you remember this was
the case in bowling brook illinois drew
peterson was a sergeant and he was uh he
was you know in his 50s his wife was you
know 30 years younger than him her name
was stacy peterson and she went missing
once she went missing she was like in
her 20s you know when he was in his 50s
um it was his fourth wife and what
happened with the drew peterson case is
after she went missing her body has
still never been found it was yeah
tomorrow yeah he is a bad dude he's a
bad hombre yeah he um so after so then
his
lungs so his third wife ended up
kathleen savio years before had died in
kind of a mysterious way and there were
there were allegations but bowling brook
is a town about you know 15 minutes from
the south from southwest side of chicago
um so so yeah so drew peterson yeah he's
a he he is a character so he
so
his third wife died under suspicious
circumstances years before so once the
fourth wife died once the fourth wife um
went missing they went back exhumed the
body of the third wife did an
investigation and he was actually
convicted of killing of murder in the
third in the of the third wife's case so
what makes this what makes this you know
kind of interesting is stuff in this
case is still going on they've still
never found stacy peterson there's all
kinds of allegations that throughout the
years the 30 years that drew peterson
was with the bolingbrook police
department that he would have all these
domestic violence calls but like he
would never get taken to jail even
though there was evidence multiple wives
and girlfriends have called on him and
there was cover-up from the bowling ball
brook police department and all of this
kind of i mean this hit chicago i think
it was a national story but this hits
chicago like crazy unless i'm i'm from
that air i'm from about 15 minutes from
bolingbrook illinois so you know i'm i
was very familiar with this i followed
this case so you know a couple things
about this so the recent news about this
is you know he was convicted back in
2012
of killing the third wife kathleen savio
so when while he was in in jail for that
he tried to hire a hitman to kill the
prosecutor whose name is james glasgow
the will county prosecutor he tried to
have killed by a murder for higher
charge obviously the person who he
contracted for the murder for hire was
an informant he went to trial on that
and drew peterson was convicted of the
murder for hire trying to kill the
prosecutor that put him in jail so so
he's got 38 years for state for kathleen
savio's murder and 40 years for trying
to kill the prosecutor so i don't think
he'll ever get out
the recent news on that is he is still
fighting to get his police pension which
is crazy so the second murder conviction
or you know the murder for higher
conviction was in 2016 but he's still
trying to get his police pension so the
reason i'm talking about this because in
the
because in the last in the last week
the appellate court in illinois came
down and basically said that they denied
his police pension the reason they gave
for denying the police pension isn't
because he was charged with a crime or
because he's in jail or even because he
was convicted of homicide the the
language in the illinois police pension
that they were able to use to deny him
his pension benefits is because he used
his specific police training and
possibly even did some of this on duty
and it was the it was the nexus the
connection between
it was the nexus the connection between
his police training and the crimes that
he committed that put him in jail so he
was denied his police pension but it is
absolutely crazy that this case is still
going on one other kind of and none of
this is funny but this is a little funny
funny thing about chicago is a weird
place so there was a radio station
called 97.9 the loop that played classic
rock and they had this kind of a crazy
dj anyways when this happened when stacy
first disappeared drew peterson he
couldn't get out of the spotlight he was
doing media interviews he absolutely
loved it well the this is before he was
con convicted when stacy was just
missing so the loop 97.9 uh radio
station in chicago had on drew peterson
on the radio show and they did this and
they did this funny thing where they
were had a contest to win a date with
drew peterson so um so many people
complained and they actually had to had
to call it off but i always thought it
was funny that the radio station was
trying to do a win a date with drew
peterson while uh police were still
searching for his fourth wife so um yeah
so those are the i always thought that
the drew peterson stuff is always is
always pretty interesting uh let's see
if we've got any comments
about that uh
okay another five if you mix up a
non-lethal with a gun you should
uh
yeah so yeah so that makes that make
sense yeah a non-lethal yeah so i mean
that that's what kim potter did it was
basically weapon confusion and that
happened so if you do if you look at the
research on the weapon confusion you
know i think they've started to study
this at least from what i've seen around
2000 and approximately once a year so in
the last 22 years it's happened about 20
times and there's a lot of different
reasons for that but the biggest
explanation and the best explanation
that i can think of for the weapon
confusion is that in the police academy
and then after the police academy during
training and during qualifications
police officers fire their handguns and
they reach for and they draw their
handguns literally thousands of times
how many times do police officers pull
their taser
a couple times in the academy
maybe more in the academy but you know
maybe once a year they fire two or three
rounds or ten rounds from a taser so
it's just one of those things when
police officers and yes it doesn't
happen often you know there's 250
million annual police contacts you know
this happens you know essentially one
out of every 250 million police contacts
so it isn't that happens all the time
but it is a weapon confusion that
happens and the best way that i can
explain it and i know this isn't a great
analogy but how you have to think about
it so a lot of times people have two
cars and then the the shifter to drive
the car sometimes it's in the send the
center console sometimes it's up on the
steering wheel well you can imagine a
situation we've all done it where you
get into one car and you reach down for
the shifter because that's where you
think it is because that's where it's on
your other car and really it's up there
so does that mean that you're a bad
person are you a racist are you are you
a horrible driver and should never be
able to drive again because you reach
for the wrong thing now obviously it's
more it's more it's more severe in when
it's a police so i'm not i'm not saying
that when it's a police and there's
weapon confusion someone dies but i'm
saying that like what happens inside
your brain and the weirding and the
weird things that the human body does
and how memory affects things it's that
same train of thinking that same line of
research that is is the confusion to
where your hand automatically goes to
somewhere else even though that's not
what you intended to do so that's the
best way that i could that i can think
about that uh let's see uh same for yes
scott peterson yeah we might talk about
scott peterson next week because he he
might get a new trial which is really
really interesting um so i also want to
talk about alec baldwin so
so everybody so everybody knows um
everybody knows about alec baldwin um
and we've been trying to keep that up to
date here so that happened in new mexico
in the middle of nowhere pretty much
where alec baldwin was filming rust and
you know he was he was holding a gun
that went off and he killed helena
hutchins during the filming or you know
the the pre-production of his rust
western movie so you know just the one
main thing about this is you know in an
interview that he did he said that he
didn't pull the trigger and you know i
think it was george stephanopoulos he
did the interview with said that
um yeah and we will post uh uh yeah okay
yeah i think i think we have a
and just so you know cop watch tv was
one of the first ones to have some of
the alec baldwin footage when it comes
to the interviews with police and on
scene think cop watch tv i'm positive
cop watch tv was the first one in the
country to have that so if you haven't
watched the alec baldwin footage
especially his interview with police
detectives right after this happened
check it out it it it is a it is a great
great watch um anyways but you know in
an interview with george stephanopoulos
stephanopoulos he said that he didn't
pull the trigger you know it was one of
those things he was almost confident to
the point where it was a little
irritating because he didn't because
when george stephanopoulos asked the
question about pulling the trigger he
was like oh no of course i didn't pull
the trigger you know everybody knows
that like well i mean like it's so it's
like well i you know something just came
out where the fbi said not so much and
essentially they shot a hole in his
magic gun theory because the fbi said
and i and i quote that the firearm could
not have been made to fire without
pulling the trigger so the fbi took the
firearm they did whatever diagnostic
test they did on that specific firearm
and essentially said it could not have
been fired unless someone pulled the
trigger so i think that's an important
fact to know now again i'm not
i'm not
saying alec baldwin should be charged
with a crime police are still doing an
investigation i i don't know i'm civilly
i think it's obvious that he's he's he's
he he's responsible but i'm not saying
he should be charged with a crime i'm
not saying that he's definitely innocent
either um i just think it's it's
important to know that he says he didn't
pull the trigger and you know the fbi is
basically saying that you know um the
fbi is is basically saying that yeah
that isn't that isn't the case the only
way it could have been done now i know
we talked earlier about you know memory
a couple different cases and you know
weird things the human body does so in
defense of alec baldwin which i almost
never do in defense of alec baldwin when
you're in a situation like this and you
take someone's life it is probably the
most stressful situation that anyone
could have in their entire life if we go
back to the first case we talked about
the caller he's on the phone watching
someone maybe break in that person was
so stressed out that they mistook
someone jumping over a fence so i guess
what i'm saying is like if if that's how
human memory works imagine what alec
baldwin's memory is of this exact
incident so just because it's his memory
that he didn't pull the trigger that
doesn't necessarily mean that he's lying
i mean when you're in a situation like
that you get tunnel vision things are a
blur you know time slows down so i
wouldn't i wouldn't put a whole lot i i
believe that he probably believes that
but um you know it's good to know from
the fbi that you know the trigger was
pulled um which is which is reasonable
which anyone who knows anything about
firearms knows that guns don't magically
go off so the idea of a magic gun
doesn't make a whole lot of sense uh
let's see
uh
let's see
uh
okay uh
i'm not
okay so uh sergeant george he's asking
if shawn sticks to make a guest
appearance on the live stream if sean
stix wants to um if uh he wants to come
on i think i think we would have him he
does a great show over on i think it's
called on patrol live now so yeah if he
ever wanted to come on we would welcome
him a hundred percent yeah only cops
human memory is so bad yeah um oh only
cops does a great body camera view every
week so they know almost more than
anyone that that human memory is it's
just it's just crap it's it's
absolute eyewitness testimonies absolute
garbage um so one one other thing that i
wanted i want to talk about here and
it's one of those things where you know
it's it's just not correct information
so i just wanted to get it out there and
for some reason you know this criticism
is a lot of it is coming from the right
from the republican side which you know
a lot of times we don't see but it's in
reference to the irs and the the
the hiring of 87 000 more irs agents now
listen i don't want there to be 87 000
more irs agents it's my opinion that and
i'm not an expert on federal staffing
levels but if the federal government is
going to hire 87 000 more law
enforcement officers maybe they should
be put on the border patrol maybe they
should be put in the secret service
maybe they should put in the fbi or
maybe isn't 87 000 just about the number
of people that we would need to um put
one armed police officer in every single
school so again if they're going to do
that putting 87 000 people in the irs
doesn't make a whole lot of sense a lot
of people are against that however right
now the irs has 21 000 law enforcement
agents and that the 87 000 people that
they're looking to hire is over time and
i think right now they're only looking
to hire 300 300 to 350 more actual armed
law enforcement but that's really not
what not what my concern is so in the
posting for the job for you know the irs
agent is there's the thing in there that
said that the individual or the
applicants for this job one of the
things that you have to do is you have
to carry a gun and be willing to use
deadly force if necessary and people
just lost their minds over this usually
it's people on the left who overreact
and lose their minds you know kind of in
a dishonest way but this time it was
coming from the right i heard it on clay
and buck i heard it on all kinds of
people criticizing this and and like i
said i don't know if it's honest
criticism and and they just they just
don't know or or they do know and
they're not being honest about it but
either way i just want to put it out
there that the irs they have a law
enforcement division so the irs agents
are actual law enforcement officers
they're federal law enforcement officers
so they are they go through they go
through whatever federal academy they
are sworn federal officers so so the
idea that the language of armed having
to carry a gun and will use deadly force
if necessary that is standard
boilerplate language for all federal law
enforcement jobs so you know the idea
that anybody lost their mind or that was
on the news that was a little silly
because i mean that is standard language
for law enforce for federal jobs
in the law enforcement area fbi dea
marshals border patrol all of them are
going to have that including irs agents
which are actual federal law enforcement
officers that armed
that armed
requirement is not for civilians or
accountants that's only for the actual
agents that was a pretty big news story
and i just kind of wanted to debunk it a
little bit because it seems a little bit
silly
so those were the cases that i had that
i wanted to go over i'll see if
i'll see if there's any more uh
questions or comments in here tracy l
says well they can put one military
person each school we have more people
in the service than law enforcement
right yeah you know i don't i don't know
about that um the numbers i'm not you so
i'm gonna guess yes so um all the
numbers that i've seen is there are
somewhere between seven and eight
hundred thousand police officers in the
united states now that isn't that counts
local you know city county state police
also all the officers and the federal
agencies including those 21 000 that are
already in the irs so you know if the
total number is 800 000 you know
probably half of that is local law
enforcement um so my guess is our
military has in the millions so yes you
would think there's more people in the
military than there are actual police
officers um so yeah i don't know if um
what the what the answer is but if
but if um
you know if they're going to be hiring
87 000 law enforcement agencies on the
federal level which which they're not
but if they were i think most people
would agree that the proper use for
those 87 000 people wouldn't be in the
irs maybe border patrol or putting them
in schools or something to that effect
would probably make the most sense uh we
have a lot of people talking about
talking about taxes which is which is
great so you know in law school when i
was in law school you know i did take
tax law and you know the way that the
system has worked you can essentially
drop one class in all in all your years
of law school you can drop one class and
still graduate on time so tax law was
the the class that i dropped so anything
about taxes i'm not an expert on i'm not
going to know a whole a whole lot about
it because that was the one class i
dropped because it was so horrible and
boring uh let's see um so just a little
bit of a teaser for next week so um this
is a little bit out of my area but it's
so interesting that i've been paying
attention to it a lot so kind of a
teaser for next week what i'd really
like to talk about is
mar-a-lago and trump and you know just
the legal issues
around the fbi raid and what happened
and i just want to leave it with a
question so you know you know the the
fbi raided trump's mar-a-lago for these
documents that you know apparently have
something to do with national security
and i'm just going to leave it with a
question because this is the question
that i'm going to try to get answered
this is what i want to know if these
actually were national security secrets
national security threats and the entire
country is at threat because trump had
these why did they wait 18 months
so if it's i guess my thought is if it's
an actual national security threat go in
on day one
get them back ask for forgiveness later
why wait 18 months going back and forth
with with his attorneys and then
eventually doing a raid if it's
something that is uh like like top
priority national secrets were all in
danger so so it's the 18-month gap that
it doesn't make sense that there was an
18-month gap
and these are national secrets uh that
are um that have to be
back into the custody of the national
archives immediately that doesn't make
sense that's an issue i'd like to talk
about so i think we'll get into that
into that next week so let's see if we
have any other comments otherwise those
were the main cases that i want to talk
about but like i said before if there
are any other interesting cases or body
cam footage if you have any suggestions
definitely put put them in the comments
put them in the chat you know even if
you watch it later on um also i know we
a lot a couple of the cases we talked
about we posted the body cam footage you
know make sure you put your put your
thoughts about it in the chat if you
think that i got something wrong put it
in there we definitely go go through
those and and i'm always interested to
see what people have to say because the
idea of debating and discussing these
issues i think is important it's okay to
disagree as long as we're willing to
have a conversation with people who
disagree with us i think that is the
most important thing so i just wanted to
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