good afternoon this is Daniel here with
Copwatch TV welcome into our live show
where we're going to break down some of
the most interesting cases in policing
from the last week or so so just real
curious to see where people are watching
from today looks like we have brilliant
disguise from Santa Fe New Mexico and
Brilliant disguise one of the cases that
we're going to cover is from Santa Fe so
I think it's the third one that we're
going to talk about today so definitely
stay tuned for that uh we got uh
autistic shill from Winnipeg man
Manitoba and uh Rich spilman good to see
you from SoCal as well all right so one
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over at police law news all right so the
first thing that we're going to talk
about today is you know this week there
were some different different uh uh
elections that happened all around the
country and you know what what's what's
really not just not just uh when it
comes to um uh elections in in in some
in some cities but also when it comes to
just crime policy in general so you know
over the last couple years especially
since like 2020 when there was the
defund the the police movement there
have been there have been some
Progressive crime policies that on its
face just didn't seem like a good idea
that they were obviously going to fail
and you know really in the last couple
weeks we've really seen those come to
basically where their predictable ending
is and even the voters in a lot of these
places that wanted to try out some of
these Progressive soft on crime ideas
they've decided that they're going to
reverse course and I'm going to talk
about a couple of those because that's
really important when when it comes to
policing in the United States so Oregon
so uh uh the the the state of Oregon in
2020 they decriminalized small amounts
of hard drugs that was the policy you
know procedure from this from the state
uh legislature that they had and you
know there there's a predictable
consequence to bad public policy that
led to just a ton of overdoses what
I mean by that is in 2019 or Oregon had
84 overdoses due to synthetic opioids by
2023 so last year there were 1,00 I mean
that's just an incredible amount so so
recently against last week the Oregon
house passed bill number 40002 which
essentially will make the possession of
hard drugs again a crime and you know
this this topic I to me this just isn't
all that complicated drugs like alcohol
and marijuana and and caffeine you know
maybe those aren't great for people but
you can still have a functioning Society
if those things are present in society
but things like heroin meth and Fentanyl
you can't you can't have a functioning
Society if people are on those kinds of
drugs so um you we should treat them as
such so it seems like uh the voters in
in in or Oregon have uh uh have changed
course on that also there was a couple
ballot measures in San Francisco um in
San Francisco so and one of the reasons
why is because uh last year 86 people
died from overdoses in uh 86 people died
from overdoses in San Francisco last
year so there were a couple propositions
that actually passed a couple days ago
now again this is San Francisco like
literally the most Progressive people
voting and here's what they voted for
they voted for prop e and basically what
prop e did is it basically gave more uh
latitude for police surveillance more
leeway for police officers involved in
Pursuits it gave police more access the
ability to utilize drones in Pursuits
less documentation of low-level uses of
force when police officers are involved
in them and also a limited oversight
from the civilian police commission also
they approved prop F which essentially
required adults who received cash
assistance um to be screened for drugs
and in these cases where these people
getting government funds if they test
positive for drugs they are forced to
enter into treatment otherwise they lose
those government benefits I mean it's
almost like Ben Shapiro was the one who
wrote these laws that the voters of San
Francisco ended up passing and then in
New York city so New York City I think
everybody heard about this so um
Democrat Governor Kathy hokel she just
implemented uh because of rising crime
and violence in the New York Subway
system she just deployed 750 members of
the National Guard to the Subways and
also 250 members of the State Police and
Transit officers basically to combat
Rising crime in the Subways and I'm not
sure if if National Guardsmen in the in
the in the subway system checking
people's bags if that's really the
answer to all this I mean it's certainly
isn't a long-term answer to really any
of this especially crime in New York the
thing is is that New York City the the
people there they already know how to
stop crime and to lower crime it's
called broken windows this is this is
what was implemented in the 1990s really
when Giuliani came in from the mid 90s
to the early 2000s this was a crime
control strategy that this was a crime
control strategy that that was utilized
and you know I I I can just say that but
the numbers speak for themselves so in
1990 New York City had 265 murders by
2000 they had 952 murders and I know lot
of people say they say well you know
crime was going down everywhere so this
really correlation um doesn't mean that
it actually caused the the the thing to
lower the crime to lower but yes crime
was going down across the nation but it
didn't go down that far 2600 murders
down to 950 a year again that drop in
crime was directly I think because of
broken windows policing essentially what
that is is it's it's basically that the
it's the it's it's the theory that was
that was um invented by sociologist Jame
Q Wilson and he basically says that if
you address the signs of social Decay
such as a broken window if you address
those smaller signs of social Decay and
that the likelihood that bigger crime um
is going to to um happen in those areas
there's a lower chance of that you
really it was the the best example in
New York city is in the Subways that
people were jumping turn Styles now
that's a that that's a petty offense you
know that's a small crime but what they
were able to find is when police
officers arrested people people were
aggressive on in in in in enforcing
those laws there were less assaults and
robberies and violent crime in the
Subways because it turns out that the
people who were committing the small
crimes were the same people who were
committing the violent crimes and yes
maybe you don't catch them in the act of
robbing someone at gunpoint but if you
could get 20 of them who are jumping
turn Styles so they don't have that
opportunity that's really the way to to
um to to do that Al so we have a couple
comments here um let's see Andrea Park
says uh shoot spaces I here where you
can use drugs except you cannot smoke a
cigarette in Australia uh Rich Spielman
says uh Frisco passes out meth pipes and
uh Steve lard says it's okay for people
to pour across the Rio Grand and it's
suspicious if residents travel to and
from work yeah uh I think that's a
reasonable uh that is a uh reasonable um
uh uh criticism there all right so the
first officer involved shooting that
we're that we're going to talk about it
also happened in New York City and this
is pretty typical of Officer involved
shootings I know that I say that and a
lot of times on this channel we cover
controversial officer involved shootings
because again you know there are
approximately a thousand fatal officer
involved shootings you know throughout
the country every single year you know
total officer involved shootings are
probably around 1,500 to 2,000 a year
you know the ones that are just we know
for sure that these are Justified
shootings you know a lot of times there
isn't a whole lot to talk about so the
the ones that not only the mainstream
media but that we like to cover here are
the ones where where there there's some
argument on where I can argue you know
what this is a legal shooting and
someone else could say well you know I
don't think it's a legal shooting and
you know both people might have there is
some reasonable debate in what happened
um in this case however this is a case
that I'm going to cover that there's no
doubt that this is a legal and
reasonable officer involved shooting so
again this happened in New York City on
December 23rd and we actually just got
the body camera video from it so let me
tell you what happened there was a 911
call where someone called police
officers and they said that uh man had a
knife and that he was on drugs and he
was violent and that's really all that
the police officers had is that a guy
who was on drugs and who's on drugs and
violent had um on on drugs and violent
um was armed with a knife so police
officers get to the apartment complex
they get there uh they can hear people
inside the apartment and they're
knocking on the door they're announcing
that they're New York police no one is
responding eventually they try to open
the door eventually the door opens up
and a woman just streams out she runs
out and as she runs out she has slash
marks on her face so she had been
slashed in the face with a knife it
turns out that is the offender's
girlfriend and she was actually able to
to escape at that point so now the
police officers they don't know who else
yes they have one person who is
definitely injured run out of the
apartment right past them but again they
have an offender and they don't know who
else might be inside that apartment so
police officers then enter the apartment
here's what they see they see the
offender 30-year-old man named Michael
doel and they see that he is armed with
a large carving knife and he has his
mother in a headlock and that's a pretty
dangerous uh situation for for the for
um the victim to be in obviously she's
in a headlock she could lose
Consciousness at that point and because
the police officers at that point had
evidence that Mr doel had already you
know slashed his girlfriend in the face
because they saw her run out with slash
marks is that he's also holding this
large carving knife right by his mother
who was in a headlock um police officers
did give him multiple commands and his
respond to those commands instead of
dropping the knife and cooperating with
with police officers his response to the
commands to you know drop the knife and
and get down on the ground put your
hands in the air his response to that
was I have a knife shoot me well that's
exactly what a police officer did just
as just about is the victim who is in a
headlock who is his mother was about to
lose Consciousness she later testified
or L later said that she was just losing
Consciousness it was that point that the
police officer did fire one shot it was
a head shot Mr doel fell to the ground
and he did die from his injuries um
that's a really difficult shot for
police officers to make CU you have to
think about it not only are you under
stress so anytime you do anything that's
under stress no matter if it's if it's
uh driving or playing a sport or or
definitely in a deadly force situation
here you are under stress and now you're
having to make a head shot with not just
a head shot for the offender but the
victim is literally right there so this
was in an incredible shot by that police
officer and this only go goes to the the
the the fact that police officers need
more training I mean this is really like
a Hollywood type shooting you typically
don't see stuff like this most police
officers go through an entire career 20
or 30 years and are never involved in an
officer involved shooting again I was
with the Albuquerque Police Department
for almost two decades after uh before I
I retired I made 3,000 arrests I was
never involved in an officer involved
shooting that's a good thing and most
police officers they they fall into that
category of you know making a lot of of
arrest and never being involved in an
officer involved shooting and the ones
who are involved in officer involved
shootings it's very rare that you have
to make a head shot to in order to save
a host's life because the the offender
is holding them at knife Point um so
that is something that's very rare this
did end the way that it it was supposed
to obviously any loss of life is tragic
but this is clearly a reasonable lawful
and Justified officer involved shooting
in the officer did save that mom's life
and listen I know what a lot of you are
thinking that they should have just
called a social worker I get it let's
see if we have any comments on this case
uh let's see uh Steve says a normal
person doesn't want to dig through other
people's stuff I agree yeah I agree
stealing stuff is bad Ethan hey Ethan
wants to talk about what's going on with
the Albuquerque uh police department um
we will cover that at at some point the
investigation is kind of ongoing so kind
of want to see where this ends up before
we talk too much about that um I kind of
want to see where where where that case
ends up uh rich spilman said uh my dad
did 22 years unholstered his gun twice
dad had no shots fired yeah I I think
that's about correct Rich um you know
again most police and now just because
an officer is involved in officer
doesn't mean that they did anything bad
just like with any kind of use of force
you know use of force from a police
officer whether it's having to use a
Taser or a beanbag shotgun or um or or
deadly deadly force the vast majority of
the time like 99% of the time it is due
100% in reaction to what the offender is
doing because again as as everybody
knows if you just cooperate and you act
like a normal reasonable person even if
you disagree with with what the police
officer is doing as long as you don't
fight with the police officer flee run
try to shoot the police officer or
anybody else as long as you don't do
those things the the the likelihood
statistically of you being harmed by a
police officer are incredibly low um all
right so the next case that we're going
to talk about did happen in Santa Fe New
Mexico um so I I think when I said Santa
Fe earlier people thought that I might
be talking about the rust case and I can
cover that if you want um so let me talk
about that really quick because when I
said Santa Fe I think that's what a lot
of people thought um so rust was a movie
that was being shot um just outside of
Santa Fe New Mexico a lowbudget western
movie um who that was written produced
and and uh starring Alec Baldwin um
during the uh during um uh uh during uh
the filming of this yeah Alec Baldwin is
is a trump impersonator extraordinaire
which makes this all the more all the
more strange um and and during this uh
during the the the the filming of this
Alec Baldwin um had had a gun and it was
a a a prop gun but it was still a real
gun he thought that there were um um not
live rounds in the gun uh apparently
there was a live round in the gun and um
Alec Baldwin during uh during a while
they were preparing for a scene did uh
fire the gun he did shoot and he killed
a uh produ I think it was the
cinematographer and he also shot uh uh
the director as well um so there a bunch
of people who were charged in that case
um Hannah ree Gutierrez was uh the she
was basically the armorer on scene so
she was charged with involuntary
manslaughter and she was actually went
to trial this past week and she was
actually convicted of involuntary
manslaughter essentially you know
basically you know what the the the Bare
Bones of this case came down to is that
there were live rounds on set and there
shouldn't have been and essentially what
the jury decided is that it was her job
it was Hannah Reed Gutierrez it was her
job to make sure that there were no live
rounds onset that was her job so she was
convicted of involuntary manslaughter
she faces a maximum penalty of 18 months
now Alec Baldwin is also facing an
involuntary manslaughter charges he will
go to trial this July now I know that
there are a lot of people who like the
obvious question at least that I've been
asking and that a lot of people would
want is like okay well now that now that
the AR has been convicted is that good
news for Alec Baldwin or is that bad
news for Alec Baldwin you know like how
does how does his case how does his
defense attorney see this and I can
really make an argument both ways and
then I'm going to tell you what I think
so when it comes to uh when it comes to
whether or not let's say this is good
for Alec Baldwin so basically that
theory would look like okay Alec Baldwin
is the producer and the actor and he
hired someone he paid Hannah Gutierrez
Reed money to do a specific job that she
was qualified and certified to do do and
that's to make sure that all the props
on scene for lack of a better term were
safe certainly to make sure that there
were no live rounds in the in the prop
gun or or in any of the firearms on
scene that the actors were going to be
using he basically said hey I have a lot
going on I'm trying to produce this
whole movie and I'm acting in it this
very important safety part I didn't take
that on myself I gave it to someone who
is certified by whatever body that she
certified from in order to do this
particular job she did a bad job it's
her fault I'm not just saying she did a
bad job a jury convicted her of being
careless so I didn't expect her to be
careless I didn't expect her to be
Reckless I hired her she is supposed to
be a professional a jury convicted her
in this case so of course it's not my
fault of course it's not my fault the
jury has already decided whose fault it
is so that's the argument that his team
is probably going to make but here's the
other side of this the other side of
this is yes is that Hannah Gutierrez
read the armorer she was convicted in
this case
but here's why I don't think it's great
for Alec Baldwin is because they
assigned some fault there is
recklessness there there is carelessness
there is some criminal fault there
because of her conviction now what
they're going to say is Alec Baldwin you
were not just you were not just an actor
on scene who was handed a gun you were
the producer you did the hiring you were
you were in charge of this whole thing
and essentially you created an
environment where people felt that they
couldn't the people were afraid of you
on scene and essentially the the other
actors and the the the the the people
who worked um like the the the armor and
the cinematographer and all of the other
extras the extra people who worked on
scene they didn't feel comfortable in
letting you know how unsafe this was
even though you should have known so you
were careless and um and you and you you
you went and and you blew off uh and you
know there's evidence in uh uh uh in in
text messages that you blew up off
meetings that you didn't attend a safety
course that that you were um uh uh
supposed to you are on camera doing a
couple interviews where you said that
you uh that you said that you never that
you never um uh pulled the trigger which
we know that isn't true and again if
that isn't true well how much else that
he might say or of evidence that might
be produced of his of him basically
defending himself how much of that isn't
going to be true either so so that's why
um that's why I don't think it was good
day for for Alec Baldwin so we I think
it's still an uphill battle to try to
convict him um I always thought that the
armorer you know had the most liability
criminal liability I always thought was
probably going to be with her and that
if anyone was convicted it was going to
be her but now that she was convicted I
actually think that it's more likely
that Alec Baldwin might be convicted as
well um all right uh kjun Randy says
with that logic police chief should be
charged with the crimes that the cops um
under them commit um yeah uh so well not
really Randy um though though what I
what I can say is that um if a police
chief creates a situation um where you
know something like this happened um
could a police chief be charged could a
sergeant on scene be charged and and
that's really what I what I'm going to
relate to Randy so there are different
cases um I I can't think of one the name
off the top of my head but there have
been multiple different cases where um
uh sergeants on scene or lieutenants on
scene um who actually weren't the ones
who fired the shot but were there on
scene who weren't doing things safely
who weren't in lack of a better term
reigning in the officer on scene they
were actually charged in that case um so
that that does actually happen cun Randy
if even if you look at the at the George
Floyd case so Derek chovin had his knee
on George Floyd's you know neck back or
shoulder
um the other officers didn't but the
other officers were were charged as well
and again they they you know weren't
they they they were charged as well with
uh you know failing to in in intervene
on the state and the federal level so
that kind of stuff does happen in
policing um but uh you know it's not
it's it's pretty rare that it happens
but it does happen and that's why we're
talking about the Alec Baldwin case
because it's rare as well so the other
case from Santa Fe New Mexico and and
again I did just I did just uh I did
just retire from a police department uh
here in New Mexico so I I I like talking
about cases that happen here in the
state cuz this is a weird State um so
you know this is the case I don't know
how many people have been following it
but I'm also on on on on Tik Tok um and
this is also have been in the local news
so you know I've been following this
I've been following this case uh uh
because I think it's I think it's pretty
interesting it's a little silly all
right so this guy's name is Elden Hami
he's a 29-year-old on Tik Tok he runs a
Tik Tok Channel called get the stick
he's 29 years old um he works part-time
at a dry cleaners um you know and he
would do some videos on Tik Tok um
comedy videos with with some of his
friends um uh he would do uh with uh
some of his friends and um you know uh
you know he had just under a 100,000
just under a 100,000 followers on Tik
Tok I think he had 880,000 or 70,000
followers which we which is pretty good
so um you the first time I started a Tik
Tok account before I got banned I had
144,000 uh followers on Tik Tok which is
which is pretty good that that's a
decent amount so he had a decent
following making his you know funny
silly comedy videos um well what
happened is he was working uh he was
working or really just helping out
part-time at a dry cleaner shop that his
friend was working at um so his friend
works at this dry cleaners in in in
Santa Fe and you know uh essentially
what what happened is is a New Mexico
State Police Officer came in to get his
uniform uh dry cleaned at this place of
business and apparently this is a pretty
you know popular place where police
police officers would take their
uniforms to well you know instead of the
the uniform just kind of going through
the normal thing and getting you know um
a dry cleaned alen hamy who was there
you know kind of helping out his friend
uh you know what what he decided to do
with uh uh that state police uniform is
he decided to um he decided to put it on
and make Tik Tok videos in that uniform
um I mean he got incredible views if you
go through his if you go through his
channel you know a lot of his videos did
get 30,000 views 50,000 views but these
ones where he's being silly in a in
dancing around in a New Mexico in an
official New Mexico State Police uniform
those were getting hundreds of thousands
of views so I mean he went from you know
70,000 followers to 115,000 followers
you know pretty much overnight um you
know listen the state police they take
their uniform and their Traditions
pretty seriously so you know obviously
this got around this went this went to
State Police and this is what's being
reported is that you know state police
officers you know essentially you know
went went to the business and they were
able to they did some they did some
research and they were able to find out
who did this you know they basically
made contact with Mr Hami and at first
they weren't going to file any kind of a
charges you know they basically said Hey
listen you know you're wearing a state
police uniform you know you shouldn't
have been wearing
it all we want you do is to take the
videos down take the videos down we're
not going to charge you and apparently
he agreed to that he told the state
police officers that he would go ahead
and take the videos down but he never
did so time went on he didn't take the
videos down um then local news uh got a
hold of this whole thing brilliant
disguise says his videos weren't even
that funny I agree brilliant disguise I
don't think he's funny um and again I
like comedy I don't think this guy's
very funny at all um but uh so you know
what the local news got got got uh uh a
hold of it and um after not taking the
videos down the state police went ahead
and charged him with a misdemeanor crime
of unauthorized wearing of a police
uniform or badge so they went ahead and
charged him with that misdemeanor crime
now now listen now on this crime I'm I'm
I'm going to be just as as as
transparent as I could be I think it's a
little weak um I really don't think that
I really don't think that he's going to
be convicted of this crime and here's
why um because one of the elements to
this crime is that the person isn't just
wearing wearing that uniform it's that
they are representing themselves as a
member of the New Mexico State Police
now because it's an obvious comedy
sketch it's obviously a joke I guess no
reasonable person watching his videos
would would ever think that he's a New
Mexico State Police Officer so if no
reasonable so here here's here here here
will be his defense if no reasonable
person would think that he's an actual
New Mexico State Police Officer and it's
clearly a joke then he's not really
representing himself as a New Mexico
State Police Officer so that's a pretty
big element in this crime so for that
reason I absolutely do not think he's
going to be convicted Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt I think it's a pretty
weak charge what he decided to do is he
hired an attorney and he filed a civil
rights lawsuit basically saying that
there's a violation of his first
amendment rights I also think that's
pretty weak I don't think that lawsuit
is going to go anywhere and here's why
it's because yes everybody has the right
to free speech and the thing is his
speech what he was saying his speech is
not being is not the reason he's being
prosecuted the reason that he's being
prosecuted is because of you know he was
wearing he was not authorized to wear
that to he was not authorized to wear
the official New Mexico state police
uniform and that's why he's being
prosecuted you do have a constitutional
right you absolutely have a
constitutional right to free speech but
you do not have a constitutional right
to play dress up as a police officer you
just don't so I don't think that that
civil lawsuit is going to go anywhere
now whenever I look at these cases I
kind of see okay like who's the winner
and who's the loser in this case so and
and so I I think so wrap this up two
things can be true he one he will not be
convicted and I think that's probably
legally correct and two his civil
lawsuit isn't going to go anywhere
because again it's not a violation of of
any kind of Rights because you know you
can't just like rich pilman just said
you can't borrow or steal I mean again
again there there there's no argument
that he was authorized to wear this
uniform but here's here's what I'm going
to say let's say he let's say he bought
the New Mexico State Police uniform on
eBay or something like that you know
what then and if and if they wanted to
go after him then or let's say a friend
who works in though my guess is he has
no friends who are actual police
officers but you know let's say a friend
let let him borrow that uniform and gave
him permission to wear it well then I I
would say yeah I you know what maybe he
does have a maybe he does have a point
but again the uniform was brought in to
to the dry cleaners he had no permission
to wear it so again it's because he's
wearing the uniform it's not because of
what he said um so I don't think his
civil lawsuit is going anywhere but I'd
like to talk about winner winners and
losers so who's the loser the loser is
the dry cleaning business which really
sucks for them because again they hired
this guy who then let his friend this
this guy on Tik Tok help out and this is
what happened the friend he actually
went on the news he actually went went
on the news and um he actually went on
the news and said that yeah like I
didn't know my friend was was going to
do this um I should point out that you
know if he's convicted which is unlikely
that he can go ahead and share a sale
with Alec Baldwin I think that would be
a lot of fun I think that would that
would make for some great Tik Tok videos
there um but it's it's it's it's so
that's the loser the dry cleaners cuz
this is just the business who you know
it wasn't the business owner who did
this it wasn't the manager who did this
it was like a friend of of an employee
um who who did this and again if you're
a police officer in in in the state or
any kind of a professional person like
are you going to bring your dry cleaners
there are you going to bring your
clothes there knowing that at some point
someone could wear them I mean this is
like I I think this was in an episode of
Seinfeld right this was an episode of
Seinfeld where it was you know Jerry's
mom brought in a coat or something the
person's wearing it so I I mean again
this is this is like from uh uh sitcom
in the90s that something like this would
happen so that's the loser the dry
cleaning business is the loser who's the
winner the winner is is is is the guy on
Tik Tok Hami he's the winner in all this
again he's mildly funny and that's being
generous to say that he's mildly funny
and he is basically getting outsized
attention for the level of what his
content should be he's the winner in all
um so again as someone who also creates
um content on Tik Tok and on Instagram
and I I I do this show um you know good
for him I I I guess because I don't
think he's going to be convicted his
civil lawsuit isn't going anywhere but
he is there is at least one local news I
mean and want I say local because New
Mexico is a pretty you know small state
when it comes to population the the
three major news channels in this state
are basically broadcasting stories about
him every single week this is a win for
him um okay all right and the last let's
see if we have any comments on this uh
let's see cjun Randy says they didn't
like uh what he was saying with his
comedy maybe cjun Randy but again he's
not being prosecuted because of what
he's saying it's for the unauthorized
wearing of the uniform and again the way
that the statute's written it's that he
has to represent himself and I don't
think he was representing himself
because it was comedy so again I I think
it's that it's that gray area where yeah
I mean he he should I don't think it's a
violation of his civil rights to to
charge him with this but I also don't
think he's guilty of the letter of the
law because I don't think he was
representing himself I think it was
obviously a joke Steve says uh charging
him with a crime proves his point and
just how stupid they are well that
wasn't his point um Steve I think you
should go back and watch his videos that
he wasn't trying to make a point that
police are stupid um at all go go go and
watch his videos um he's not really like
degrading police um I think he's just
being being funny if anything I think
what he's doing is he's more you know
making fun of how people in Northern New
Mexico talk um and I I think that's what
a lot of his videos are about it's
basically not making fun of cops but
making fun of people who live in
Northern New Mexico uh let's see uh rich
spilman thank you brilliant disguise I
think his friend worked at the dry
cleaners let him use the uniform for
videos he got fired yeah absolutely uh
Kuro says he should have uh used an
obvious fake uniform like a Reno 911
show I agree kuros yeah that's what he
should have done and my guess is that
this guy Hami he's not a bad guy okay
that's my guess and my guess is he
didn't wake up one day so you know what
I'm going to do I'm going to go uh we
help my friend out at the dry cleaners
just kind of hang out in the back smoke
some weed and you know hopefully uh New
Mexico state police officer will drop
off his uniform and I'm going to put it
on I'm going to dance around I don't
think that's what he intended to do I
mean to me this seems like I don't think
it was a crime but you know for lack of
a better term this is like a crime of
opportunity like he was there he saw the
uniform he just he was bored and just
decided decided to uh throw it on uh
let's see uh let's see Steve says I'll
bet that dry cleaner business made more
money because uh most people are sick of
police actually not Steve um like I said
so the friend who let him do this was
fired and um from everything that I'm
hearing is that the the the the dry
cleaner business is is hurting they are
the they are the loser in all this um
even if you don't think he should be
charged with a crime most people um who
bring their clothes to a dry cleaner
don't want the employees wearing the
clothes or making videos in their
clothes um so so I think that that
that's that's pretty much a standard
even if people have problems with police
which in Santa Fe they they really don't
I mean Santa Fe is a pretty liberal
place but they actually have a really
good and uh Progressive uh police
department that really has a lot of
support from the community because of it
they're actually one of the highest paid
um agencies in the state so um you know
Santa Fe police really haven't had any
controversial officer involved shootings
or anything like that so um you know
they actually have pretty good community
Community Support there and again even
people who don't like cops also do not
want their dry cleaners to be wearing
their clothes and stuff like that um I
think Santa Fe police is also switching
to like electric vehicles so again like
it's like the the hatred for police um
I'm not really seeing it a whole lot in
in Santa Fe and and I live about an hour
from there so um okay so the last case
that I'm going to talk about this is a
this is a tragic case um and we finally
got some justice in this case though
again nothing is going to bring this
this officer back um so I'm just gonna
I'm going to wrap this up because this
was this was this was a case that
happened back in August of 21 Chicago
police officer Ella French she was a
29-year-old police officer her and two
other police officers Officer uh Blas
and officer uh y yanes uh they stopped a
vehicle for expired license plates in
just a real shitty area town and um you
know I'm I'm from Chicago I think I've
told people that before I lived in
Chicago for 22 years before I moved out
to the Southwest to become a police
officer uh my family still still lives
in Chicago um this area is so is so
shitty my mom has lived in Chicago for
uh you know 75 years now in 75 years
she's never gone to this neighborhood um
I lived in Chicago 22 years I never went
into this neighborhood once in my life
because it's just a place you just don't
go so that's the kind of area that the
officers were patrolling a really
dangerous area it was so dangerous that
three officers conducted this traffic
stop which is pretty normal um in the
area of Chicago with a lot of violence
and homicides so these these three
police officers including officer French
conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle
for expired license plates back in
August of 21 the vehicle was driven by
Brothers aote Morgan however the
you say his name emote Morgan and Eric
Morgan um you know once the traffic stop
occurred Eric ran from the car emote
started a fight with police officers
during the fight with police officers
OTE pulled out a gun and he shot two the
officers he shot and killed officer Ella
French and he shot officer yenes who
suffered serious injuries and is now
paralyzed from his injuries um earlier
this year um Eric the one who read he
actually pled guilty to because he was
actually um part of it as well so he
pled guilty to I think aggravated
battery um he pleed guilty he's serving
seven years but the guy who pulled the
trigger is aote um he uh went to trial
this week and he was actually found
guilty found guilty of murder and other
charges I think the jury only needed
like two and a half or three hours uh to
deliberate I mean it's on body camera
video it's on surveillance video again
like there's no there's no ambiguity
here it it's on video what what happened
um uh but you know so he was convicted
which is absolutely what should have
happened we need some justice for
officer French um and you know right
after the verdict his mother if you ever
wonder like how do people become just
absolute pieces of like his mother
um after the verdict um she was talking
to the news and she basically did a
whole rant about how it was a coverup
how it was a cover up and how um she was
the one who was hurting and she was
still she was still fighting for justice
um you know I I just want to say that
you know she's not the victim emote is
not the victim they are the
problem and I think that's pretty
obvious to everyone and um Ella French
is finally getting some some justice um
I should also mention in that case uh uh
the the dispatcher um uh it's just
basically just a master class in being a
dispatcher in in in in a in a critical
scene he did an incredible job um I
think since then he has left the uh
police department and um I know one
point he was running for City Council in
Chicago I don't know if he if he if he
made it or not um but if you ever go
back Ella French um listen to listen to
that uh dispatch log and it is
absolutely incredible um all right let's
see um let's see if we have any other
questions before we take off for today
autistic shill says I used to work at a
dry cleaners when I was 18 you bet I'd
be fired if I ever would have done that
I wouldn't want to wear their clothing
that's just weird I agree it's it's
pretty weird it's pretty weird but again
like I'm not again like I'm I'm not
trying trying to defend this guy because
I think he's an idiot for doing this
obviously I just don't think he he
committed a crime um but uh yeah I mean
I don't think he committed technically I
don't think he committed a crime but his
civil rights weren't violated but again
he's the big winner in this he is now um
being talked about on National shows and
National media when again in my opinion
his content isn't all that good it's
it's a little funny but it's not that
funny so he's getting out outsized
attention uh let's see Steve Steve says
where I live a restaurant refused to
serve an officer in the police Union
cried like children the that restaurant
businesses almost doubled overnight yeah
I mean that that kind of stuff happened
Steve um yeah you know I I mean I I
think that uh I think that uh people who
own businesses um you know really should
be able to um refuse service to people
if they want including police officers
um I just think that capitalism should
take its place and um that has happened
before Steve where sometimes at least
what I've seen in the national news um
if there was a story about it Steve why
don't you go ahead and put it in the
chat I'm real Curious to look at it
because in the past when that's happened
in different um in different places it's
happened here in in Albuquerque it's
happened around the country and a couple
different Starbucks locations as well
typically what happens is the business
comes out immediately apologizes and
fires that employee um so that's usually
what happened um usually business aren't
seen as Heroes when this kind of stuff
happens but if that did happen um you
know I'm curious uh to see to see if
that's the if that's the case or not um
let's see uh brilliant disguise says
please look into Dotan Illinois police
department and their mayor Tiffany uh
hen oh I I absolutely will and I know
about that case brilliant disguise I
will go ahead and talk about that last
week I've been following that case as
well rich spilman said good show all
right well that's going to be it for
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