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Speaker 1 (00:41):
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today's show. Also, Chicago police fired ninety six shots in
forty one seconds, killing a young black man doing.

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A traffic stop.

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Speaker 2 (02:47):
Here we go again, another simple traffic stop result in
the depth of a black man, This time a seat
violation in Chicago leads to ninety six shot being fired
in forty one seconds. This took place on March twenty first,
when tactical officers with the Chicago Police Department stop twenty

(03:10):
six year old Dexter read before gunfire erupted on both sides.
The release by the camp video sparks questions rather than
providing answers. How could the plane clothes officers seed Dexter
was not wearing a seat belt when it's windows were
twenty were tinted, And how was Dexter supposed to know

(03:31):
who these Plaine clothes officers were when they didn't announce
themselves or they surrounded his car with guns?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Drawn.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, what you're about to see is very triggering. So
we're going to give you a heads up to turn
away if you do not want to see this video.
So we're going to give you that time. All right,
there's a two minute and forty five second video.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Folks. Watch what happened.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
The window do not fucking roll it up.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
The doors not a fucking door unlocked the doors, not
a fucking door knocked the lord.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Open the door down, Open the.

Speaker 8 (04:09):
Door down, open the door. That's okay, rare, rare, yeah,

(04:51):
a good we did night.

Speaker 9 (05:02):
We an't got ambulancing her out. We got I got
over there for utter down.

Speaker 10 (05:22):
We got amailt it out.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Well good, all right.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Andrew Strove, the Sivas attorney, he is representing the family here.
Andrew pled to have him on the show. Okay, so Andrew,
here's I'm just gonna give an example. I remember when
I lived in Chicago and I was I pulled over.
This car was at a green light, wasn't moving. I

(05:56):
pulled over, you know, and and.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I took off.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Car behind, I mean starts chasing me. And I don't
know who the hell it is, So I keep going,
I don't know who the hell is. So then we
go another block. Then the car pulled up beside me
and he's yelling get over, get over, get over. So
then he gets out of the car and then came
looking my car windows up. Then he shows his badge

(06:20):
and then he goes, why the hell you didn't pull over?
I said, I don't know who the hell you were. Yes,
you were in an unmarked car. Okay, I can't tell
who you are. Why the hell I'm going to pull
over because some dude is telling me to pull over
when I see this here what I saw when that
body cam started. At no point did I hear anyone

(06:43):
yell roll your window down, Chicago police, this is in order.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now have you seen anything? Well, these officers identified themselves
to this young man Roland.

Speaker 11 (06:59):
Not only did they not identify themselves as Chicago police,
they rolled up.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
On him, cut him off, unmarked.

Speaker 11 (07:06):
Police car, plane closed, officers wearing hoodies and baseball caps.
Dexter Red had no idea from what I've seen on
the video that they were police officers. So what we
see is an unconstitutional, unreasonable, pret tactual racist stop on

(07:28):
the West side of Chicago. And as you know, Roland,
they've got these tactical units that do unconstitutional policing with
decades of history regarding abuse and black communities.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
So to me, what started?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Wh wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait wait.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Wait now, now, I'm sure you're.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Telling me that he's driving down the street. All of
a sudden, cars pull out in front of him, they
block him in playing close folks jump out over over
a seat belt.

Speaker 11 (08:05):
But we don't even know if it was a seat
belt because you can't see in those tinted windows. They
had no reason to stop him. It was a pretextual
racist stop by tactical officers working. And here's the thing,
Roland that's so disturbing. As you know, there's a federal
consent to cree pending against the city of Chicago, and

(08:25):
part of the historical evidence shows these tactical units are
terrorizing citizens on the west and south sides. And so
it's it's it's tragic. And then in the middle dozens
of rounds fired, and then at the end you see
an execution style military shooting of Dexter Read as he

(08:48):
lay dying on the ground next to his car. It's
it's tragic on multiple levels.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
How many black and Brown.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Went are you are you?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Are you telling you telling me that because I I
cut the video, are you telling me that while he
is laying on the ground, a shot was fired into
his body while he was laying on the ground.

Speaker 11 (09:08):
Three more shots. He came out of the car unarmed.
You can see him unarmed. They shoot him again, and
then when he's laying next to the car, the one
shooting officer pumps three more bullets into him while he's
laying unarmed.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
By the car.

Speaker 11 (09:21):
And we've asked the state's attorney to consider criminal charges
against the officers. We've asked Mayor Johnson to disband these
tactical units that terrorize black folks on the West and
south sides. You know, there's so many issues rolling with
this case. Now they're going to say he had a gun,
there was a weapon recovered in his car, but let's

(09:43):
talk This all started with an unconstitutional, pretextual stop over.
They say, a seatbelt violation, which they couldn't even have
seen because he had dented windows.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
It is stunning to actually wash that. And again, we've
done these stories so many times, and another black man
dead because of a traffic stop. In this case, supposedly
a seat belt. Before it's been an air freshener hanging down,
before it's been a tail light, before it's been a
license plate. It's always something small and all of a

(10:20):
sudden escalates. And I also last question, how many officers
were involved here?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I mean you need that many officers rolling?

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Great, great question.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Listen to chuches out the belt not being worn.

Speaker 11 (10:34):
Five officers in an suv, four men and one woman.
One of them is wearing a hoodie, the other one
are wearing baseball caps. They jump out. They're called the
jump Out Boys. They jumped out, surrounded the unit. Well,
guns pointed into the car, and it just erupted into
gunfire and it ended.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
In an execution.

Speaker 11 (10:55):
And the City of Chicago and Mayor Brandon Johnson has
got to commit to the consent to create and reform.
How many black men need to die before we'll change
the behavior of certain members of the Chicago Police Department,
especially these tactical units.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Ninety six shots in forty one seconds, Andrew keep us
abreast of what happens in this case.

Speaker 11 (11:18):
Appreciate you, Roland, thanks for having me on.

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Folks.

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Let me introduce my panel.

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Robert Bertillo H He is host People Passionate, Politics, News
and Talk thirteen eighty W a OK out of Atlanta.

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Scott Bolden. He is, of course a lawyer in d C.

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Former Chair National Bar Association in d C Chamber, d
C pack Tamil Commerce pack Scott, I listen, I understand
the role of officers. I understand when it comes to
combating crime. But you it takes all of that for

(13:54):
seat dealt violation.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
No, it doesn't take all of that. But you know,
I love breaking these videos down.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
If you if you look at the first ball, So
we're gonna do this here, we're gonna do this here,
make this point right here, and we have a video
for several angles and so we're gonna do this. We're
gonna we're gonna play these videos and then we're gonna
we're gonna go through that and we can sort of describe.
So make your initial comment. Then I'm gonna have them

(14:22):
replay the first video. Then guys get the other videos
ready so we can actually break it down.

Speaker 12 (14:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
First, tactical units aren't hired and aren't on duty to
make traffic stops. That's first thing, even if they saw
him coming from the front window of his car and
said he didn't have his vital didn't have his seatbelt on.
That's how what tactical units do. And if it's a
traffic stop, you don't go up to the car with
your gun's drawn saying put your put your windows down,

(14:51):
so that that's blown away, regardless of what they investigate.

Speaker 16 (14:54):
Secondly, ninety one shots in forty one seconds.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
There are officers shooting from one hundred to two hundred
feet away right, which means that's dangerous for people around them,
it's dangerous for the officers.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
And the victim gets out.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Of the car unarmed, with his hands up, and when
he gets to the back of the car, they're.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Still shooting, and those bullets.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
After he's got his hands up and he's outside the vehicle,
that's when he gets shot.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
And you can see he gets.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Gunned down by three, four, five, sixty seven different shots. Includingly,
it looks like the officers from a distance who's behind
the car just firing and reloading in fire. That makes
absolutely no sense. There's a lot more going on here
is why they stopped him. More importantly, just irresponsibility in
regard to just unloading your firearm on a traffic stop

(15:49):
like this simply because he's got a gun makes no sense.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
And he didn't have a gun when he got shot.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Folks go ahead and put right.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
And the other deal is you can actually carry a
gun and people carry guns for protection.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Roll the video then nobody they.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Didn't even by the way, and there you go.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Audio turned up, turned out, the doors not a door,
unlocked the doors.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
I'm not a door knocked the door open, the door open, the.

Speaker 8 (16:22):
Door down, open the door.

Speaker 17 (16:30):
Shut, rare, rare.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
All right, good.

Speaker 10 (17:15):
We did we an't got it while we're an ambulance out.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
We got it around. You get over there for nanny's
utter down.

Speaker 17 (17:30):
Don't booking coming out.

Speaker 10 (17:35):
We got annas around.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Who he's dead.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
He's not well known.

Speaker 10 (17:50):
Were the fender?

Speaker 6 (17:53):
He just almost wants them.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
They get over there for him, do not booking move.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
I don't know the goodness you.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Start shooting?

Speaker 15 (18:03):
Thank you my gun?

Speaker 6 (18:05):
Well I go the gun.

Speaker 10 (18:11):
Okay, we try to get it.

Speaker 18 (18:12):
Five.

Speaker 10 (18:14):
Yeah, we have an offer. Shot more hours.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Have you know?

Speaker 6 (18:22):
You're wrong? I don't know who it is.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
What's happen?

Speaker 6 (18:29):
What's on you?

Speaker 9 (18:40):
Casey right here?

Speaker 6 (18:41):
Hacks up. What's your feet? What's your feet?

Speaker 10 (18:44):
I don't know, said anybody there. Yeah, yeah, we're aware.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
We haven't married.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
All right, folks, Now cue up the next video so
we can look at it from that particular angle, and
good press play.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Roll the window, do not roll the window the doors?

Speaker 10 (19:14):
Now lock the doors.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Down today?

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Say what was good?

Speaker 6 (19:47):
All right?

Speaker 3 (19:47):
So there's another angle. Let's play that.

Speaker 13 (19:49):
One'll put you put your window down?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Man?

Speaker 19 (19:57):
What do we do?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
And hold this one down?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
So not not.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Hold probably?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
All right, So we got three more videos. Press play
the next one.

Speaker 8 (20:53):
Down?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
All right? Next video?

Speaker 20 (21:22):
Why why did they approaching with his guns?

Speaker 6 (21:40):
This was a tactical stop.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
This was not okay the traffics, all right, okay, last okay,
here's the last video. Here's the last video. Press play,
all right, so we've seen that video there.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
All right?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
All right, So so okay, Sir Robert, we played six
different videos. At no point in a single video do
I hear cops say police? Now, in the fifth video
we played, you see somebody with a vest on. It's
this police on the back, I'm assuming it says on

(22:18):
the front. But when they come up to the vehicle
that nobody identifies themselves at point and I don't see
I don't see a badge dangling from their neck.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't see anything. Hell am I supposed to know
who you are?

Speaker 21 (22:35):
One of the many questions I think all of us have.
This is an outrage for that community and for any community.
And when we hear all this hyperbally around, why are
we still marching and protesting and demanding accountability and even
demanding from the body administration of federal legislation on police brutality.
This is why there are so many points where the
police could have de escalated this situation from the beginning

(22:58):
by identifying themselves, by finding ways to talk these things down.
And I'm even quite sure who fired the first shot
in this situation, but those set of circumstances, should ninety
one shots be needed for this type of this type
of interaction, Not to mention you're in a populated area,
think about the collateral damage it could have happened. These

(23:21):
cops are firing from one hundred two hundred feet away,
and it's right to ventually. So it is an absolute
atrocity that has taken place in this situation. And I'm
hoping that as evidence comes out, we find out exactly
what motivated these cops to respond in this matter, Scott.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I think back to the shooting of the black couple
in Cleveland, when the cop jumped on top of the
car and it was firing shots down bus shots have
been fired as well.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
And you just said and granted that that was after
car chase. This is I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Hit unmarked vehicles. But I'm sorry, I don't care if
you're in Chicago where people got well carjacking and things
like that. I'm gonna even when we played them, even
when they got out of the car, and to your point, Scott,
guns were already drawn.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
He hit his window all the way down.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I'm sitting here waiting for somebody to say we are
Chicago police.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
So they're talking. He's like, I don't know, I'm raising
my window up.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Who the hell?

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Y'all?

Speaker 6 (24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
And the other question that's going to be raising the
investigation is there were playing There were unmarked cars, but
one of those cars and all of your videos had.

Speaker 6 (24:39):
Lights flashing, but they were on the back. I don't
know whether they were on the front or not. That's
one thing.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Some of the undercover had police on the back of
their jackets. But not necessarily on the front. You didn't
see the badger's dangling, as you said, like they have
in New York. But this was a tactical stop. This
was not a traffic stop.

Speaker 10 (25:02):
It just wasn't.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
It doesn't take five people to do this. They had
their guns drawn. They were looking for something, whether it
was drugs.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Gun, He was a suspect. They approached that car to
get him out of that car, which means decisions were
made before they stopped that car.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right, This isn't him just driving, and they do a
traffic stop, so that's part of the investigation.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
They don't appear to find drugs, but they found a
gun in the car.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
But it reminds me of Lakwan McDonald when when whatever
the case may be, if there's a gun on the scene,
or even if he has a gun like Lakwanda.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
Did not.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
From from from Wisconsin, not a Kwan. It was Falander,
Flander or.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Somebody right.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Castile.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
When the training of these players, if there is a
gun or they believe even shots are fired, they are
it appears to be trained to just empty their weapon,
whether there's a threat or not. The reason the two
hundred feet away with the with that one angle with
the cop firing right, he's firing two hundred.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Feed away and he's empty in his his nine millimeter.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
He doesn't even see the the victim walks into the
line of fire.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
He's just firing at the car. Boomo pop pop pop
pop pop. He's just firing at the car. He gives
no way he's gonna hit the victim who's in the car.
He can hit all the police officers, he could hit
community people. His police officer could walk in the line
of that fire.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
That's completely irresponsible and ridiculous because if you see on
the video, the victim walks into the line, if he's
walking to the battle of the car, his.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Hands up and he walks into that gunfire. That's what
that video shows. And if he walked into that gunfire,
he didn't have a weapon on him. He left the
weapon in the car.

Speaker 22 (27:08):
And then lastly, when they approached the car, right, look
how they escalated.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
Don't roll your windows, dumb, roll them up, don't roll
them up. Don't roll them up, don't roll them up.
They got guns drawn.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
And as he rolls his window up, the voice inflection
of the police officer, they.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Begin to yell, they begin to yell.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
They all get to yell, and they're holding their guns
because I get it that they don't know what they're
dealing with, right, but they have a sense of what
they're dealing with. But he hasn't shown a weapon yet.
And then they had this conversation. But they're yelling, yelling,
and the shots are fired. Who knows who fired the shot.
If the young man fired the shot, even if he did, right,

(27:49):
then they're free to fire, but not recklessly fired. Right.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
If they fire into the car, they've got to see
whether they hit something or not. Remember, they don't don't
know who else is in the car too. There could
be a passenger, there could be kids in the back.
This is irresponsible at several levels. That's it. I could
do a lot more analysis, but that's my immediate response
to this. This is crazy.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Robert fine Comet, Oh, No.

Speaker 21 (28:17):
One of the fundamentals of gun owners who have been
gun training is never fire or even points your weapon
unless you not only know exactly what you're aiming at,
but what is beyond it.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
And then this deseration.

Speaker 21 (28:28):
They are firing blindly into a vehicle, and as Scott said,
there could have been children in the back seat could
have been explosives in the back seat for all they know,
and they are firing blindly into it. How is that
going to be self defense or defense of an officer?
How exactly do you explain the need for ninety one
shots when I think at some point in time they
thought the other officers firing was the defense or was

(28:52):
the victim firing back at And so they start firing
at each other ostensibly because did you see how they were,
how scared they were. This is not a job for
the people, for people who are jitterally or scared, and
that showed in their reaction. And I'm hoping we'll get
more information on this about our prayer to the family
and of course the victim in this case.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, absolutely insane. All right, folks, we'll give you up,
keep you a prize of this story.

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after spending more than a year pressing him to accept
a plea agreement that would have sent him to pri
for at least four years. The cole Mana of the Tributary,
the investigative reporter who broke the case, joins me now
from Jacksonville, glad to have you on the show, Nicole.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Right.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
So now the Sheriff's department goes, yeah, they really didn't
follow the rules in how he was pulled over strip search.

Speaker 23 (32:22):
Right, So the Sheriff's office actually opened their investigation into
this arrest after our reporting on what had happened, our
reporting that question if they broke policy, if they broke
state law. That investigation was opened in March of last year,
and it was closed in September. We only learned about
it by filing another record's request asking for that investigation.

(32:44):
They had never notified us that it was closed, despite
the fact that our reporting is because of our reporting
is why it was opened.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
So now I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Okay, So the risk takes place in February, they opened
investigation at the fact, what was he initially stopped for?

Speaker 23 (33:03):
So the invest actually took place in September of twenty
twenty two. We didn't publish our first story until March
of twenty three, so that is when the investigation was open.
What happened in that arrest is the police were doing
a kind of drug operation. An undercover officer gave twenty
dollars to a different man, and that man was seen

(33:26):
walking toward Ronnie Reid. That man went back to the
officer gave him whatever amount of cocaine, and then those
officers approached Ronnie and searched him down, patted him down,
didn't find any drugs, didn't even find the twenty dollars
that police had given the original man and then that
is when the strip search occurred.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
So they never actually saw Read give this guy drugs,
so therefore they assumed he was the drug dealer.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Right, That's how it seems.

Speaker 23 (34:01):
The original arrest report on Ronnie isn't exactly clear of
what happened other than this other man walked toward him.
In the investigative file from the internal investigation, we saw
an extra line that says an officer witnessed a drug exchange.
But again, there were no drugs found on Ronnie either

(34:24):
at the time of the arrest or at the jail.
The twenty dollars that was given to the other man
in exchange for cocaine was found in his hand when
he was arrested. It was that money was never found
on Ronnie Read either, and his defense attorney told me
that she brought that to the state Attorney's office and said,
I've never seen a drug dealer give on credit.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Again, another one of those crazy stories of what caps
say one thing and something else you know actually happens.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
But what was a nuts here? They were trying to
get this man to plead guilty, right.

Speaker 23 (35:03):
They spent more than a year trying to persuade him
to plead guilty and take a four year prison sentence,
but he kept fighting. He went through multiple defense attorneys,
and ultimately the case was dropped in November I believe
it was November fourteenth or fifth, or I'm sorry, February.
I believe it was February fourteenth or fifteenth, and that
is when the state attorney said that they did not

(35:26):
have enough evidence to bring him to court and prosecute him.

Speaker 21 (35:32):
Question from the panel of Robertry first, so will there
be any sort of apology, restitution, anything paid to this
man for what he's had to go through in this situation?
Because I've had similar cases to this, This is not
an isolated incident of what systemic changes is the police
department want to make the stop this from happening in

(35:52):
the future.

Speaker 23 (35:54):
So one of the interesting things that came out in
the internal investigation is that the officers who stripped Ronnie
said that they were actually never trained on what the
search policy is and they didn't even know that what
they did constituted a strip search.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
So of course we asked jso.

Speaker 23 (36:10):
Knowing this information, have you done additional training in the department.
We never got to answer back on that. Jso told
one of the local TV stations here that they do
offer and do require training on searches. But again, we
don't know if there's anything that they're doing beyond what

(36:32):
training they say they already have. And I do know
Ronnie is talking with a civil attorney.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Scott, Yeah, Scott Bolden here, he needs to talk to
a civil attorney about this. You know, the idea that
the police believed that they could strip search someone in
public because they didn't have proper training.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
I had good home training, I had good upbringing.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Taking somebody's pants down or making them strip in public
just seems to be just at your core, we shouldn't
do that. We should take them to the station, or
we should put him into police van or something.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
You just your core should tell you that, whether you're
a police officer or not.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
But here's another question, similar to Roberts right, what about
training and what about reformation of the prosecutor's office. I'm
a former prosecutor from New York City. Either you got
the evidence or you don't. Theoretically, philosophically, rather ethically, under
most state bar rules and the ABA, if you can't

(37:38):
prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. If you can't
prove the case, you don't bring the case. Then you
don't sit there for a year and try to get
them deplete or something, because that means they're not trying
to do justice, They're trying to get a conviction.

Speaker 16 (37:51):
Right, Any discussions with any groups or that State's Attorney's
office about that reformation piece or that ethic because that
Ronnie ought to bring technical charges against the.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Assistance state's attorney for how they had handled this case.
Because if they were going to dismiss it anyway, what
were the internal memorandums about whether they could prove the
case or not.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
And was there a memo that said are just.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Getting to take a plea as opposed to dismissing and
doing justice? Roland, that's the difference between doing justice and
just going after conviction.

Speaker 6 (38:26):
Go right ahead, man.

Speaker 23 (38:29):
I think that is something that he's exploring with civil attorney.
We actually haven't heard too much from the State Attorney's
office on why they decided to continue to pursue these charges.
When we first wrote the story, the answer was essentially,
a crime was committed and we are moving forward with
this case. We haven't heard much of an apology or

(38:51):
any other details of why this was dropped or what
the internal communication looked like, but that is information that
we are looking to get hopefully through future.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah, record, i'd.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Make that part of your investigative reporting because that gets
lost sometimes.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
But that's a huge issue.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Because the police are one problem, but the prosecutors drive
the investigation, drive the prosecution, and they've got to be
ethically based and if they violate their ethics, they ought
to be brought to accountability.

Speaker 23 (39:24):
Yeah, there are definitely the story, just like you said,
Jo in the State Attorney's office. So yeah, we're going
to continue reporting on this and seeing what we could
find out.

Speaker 21 (39:34):
And Roland, one of the first cases I did with
him Daniels back in the day was a case similar
to this where a man had half an aspirin on
the stove and they tried to charge some a possession
of crack cocaine intent to distribute.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
And it took us over a year to.

Speaker 21 (39:49):
Get that case dismissed against him once they finally got
labor results to show there was half an asprin. So
this is not an isolated incident. Just thank god we
have in general, that you can actually deal with issues
like that. US yep.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
AP absolutely crazy, Nicole, great.

Speaker 23 (40:06):
Jot reporting, keep it up, Thank you, thank you for
having me.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
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that's the thing that you know, absolutely people want to see.
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Unfiltered folks who talked about the goon squad in Mississippi.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Six white cops who brutalize two black men. Well, they
played guilty to federal charges. Now they have learned their
faith in state charges. The five former ranking county deputies
and a former Richland police officer played guilty to state
chargers in August for their involvement in the racist assault
against Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. This grace

(42:59):
law enforce officers have already been a sentence between ten
to forty years in federal prison. Ranking Accounty Circret Judge
Steve Ratlif for Senats Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton and Danielle
Obdyke the fifteen years for hindering prosecution and five years
for conspiracy to commit hindering prosecution. Joshua Hartfield got ten
years for hindering prosecution in five years for conspiracy to

(43:20):
hinder prosecution. Christopher Debtman got twenty years in prison for
burglary and five years for conspiracy.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Hunter L.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Moore got twenty years for aggravator that saw twenty years
for burglary and five years for conspiracy to commit hindering prosecution.
The state sentences will run concurrently with federal sentences. They
must permanly surrender their law enforcement certificates. I mean, well,
you see right here, these six thugs and what they did.
In the bottom line is, let's not even believe for

(43:49):
a second this was an isolated incident.

Speaker 21 (43:52):
Robert here, Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say, Roland.
You know, for every one case like this to come
to like we have this w was the Red Dogs
in Atlanta years ago. So many law enforcement agencies around
the country have squads of this nature, have groups of
this nature, and often in the name of public safety,
in the name of combating crime, because no communities when

(44:15):
crime goes up, they get very lax on human rights.
All of a sudden, they were able to put these
units out there, but we've seen over and over again
the excesses that happen when you give officers this type
of power and this lack of accountability. I'm glad that
these officers have been brought to justice, but we have
to work on making the wholesale changes to law enforcement
and criminal justice performing.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
In this country.

Speaker 21 (44:37):
This is why it is important for us to still
push forward even in this election year that George was
justine Policing Act.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
What you see here would just simply six thugs, six
gang members with bad as in good Scott.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yeah, and there are goon squads like this still in
existence the police department, police chiefs who should resign in
this case, but hasn't tolerated as this kind of mantra
that to catch thugs or to stop prime in the
roughest parts of the neighborhood, you need a rough unit.

Speaker 6 (45:14):
Well, no, you don't. You just need a unit that's
going to do good police work and do it by
the book. But this whole idea that you don't want
to know, you don't want to know how we sell.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Primes in tough communities because it's the price you pay
for democracy or your constitution or for a safer community.

Speaker 6 (45:30):
It's all bullshit. Basically, there's nothing good about what these
people did. They done it before, and senior management and
police departments know they exist.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
They tolerated with a blink or nod until something like
this happens.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
And nine times out of ten it happens.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
The poor black people, the least, the lost and the
left out and then they're prosecuted or they're fired from
the police force.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
But the damage has been done already. It's just pathetic.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah, and so certainly glad to see these thugs brought
to justice. Speaking of bringing a judge justice, a thug
to justice, Donald Trump's trial begins on Monday. Ool, y'all,
this food tried to suit a judge. I mean he
will delay and delay and delay. I mean, this is

(46:24):
one of those with a judge.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Well, a judge just gotta say, man, sit your ass
down and stop this. They struck that down, this idiot.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Also it's also today, Alan Wasselberg, who was his numbers guy,
got sentenced today to five five months into jail, I
mean in perjury lying about uh that, So, I mean
you gotta be stupid to say, yeah, I'm willing to
go to jail for Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Well was burgh.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Benefit of the love from that inappropriate relationship. But he
got another five months. He must like jail.

Speaker 6 (46:58):
He would like it.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Boy, he'd have met somebody in jail because he keep
going back for top of Trump. But the judge in
this case, you know, made a very quick roll league
and basically he says, sit your ass down, your day
is coming. Your day in court is coming, and it's
coming fast. Your first criminal trial, the first time you've
ever faced the criminal justice system, not the civil justice system.

(47:22):
And I'm gonna tell you it's gonna be tough on
Donald Trump. I keep telling everybody that those cameras are
gonna be in the courtroom.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
You gonna see that this is a day of reckoning
because he gonna get.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Convicted of some of those counts, if not all of them,
because it's a paper case.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
It's an easy case to try. It's about fraud, it's
not about hush money.

Speaker 16 (47:43):
The lawyer for Donald Trump, they've got key witnesses, but
they also have corroboration, written corroboration.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
That regardless of what his lawyer pled to and went
to jail for, it doesn't matter. They can corroborate what
he's saying. And so his day of reckoning is coming.
The press and politics and political folks make up like
this is the least important case. Thirty one felonies is
the most important case, and that judge will sentence him to.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
Jail, and whenever that happens, right, they're going to have.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
A hard time getting him out or of serving that
jail time, they could keep him out while he while
while the appeals work.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
But at some point in time, your day of reckoning
is going to be upon Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
It's hard to imagine him winning the race convicted with
thirty or or less or more felonies.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
It really is because he won't be campaigning and.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
A lot of that money he's raising right now has
got to go towards legal fees. So the Republican Party
is in a hot mess because Donald Trump is leading
the Republican Party right now.

Speaker 6 (48:46):
Very unfortunate and well, the Republican rabbit who.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Are not attack.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Robert, this man's attacked the judge, attacktive judge's daughter. I
guess he thinks that that stuff flat Blair, so they
slap him with a gag order.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
And then am I the only one who found it strange.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
That Michael Abanatti was on MSNBC last night talking from
federal prison saying Trump can't get affair here.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
And know your man is sitting in.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Jail for seventeen years for schooling everything else. I don't
want to hear his ass, Robert. I ain't trying to
hear no. Michael Albernati jail Highest Confessions.

Speaker 21 (49:30):
Look this is what we talk about when we talk
about the auction nature of the criminal justice system. When
you have money, when you have access, when we have
political connections, you have a completely different experience in the
criminal justice system.

Speaker 6 (49:46):
Than the normal person.

Speaker 21 (49:47):
We have to tamp back down on that if we
want to actually have a functional system. I want to
work founding Father John Jay talks about the legitimacy of
our system in the criminal justice system in the courts.
The courts, you don't have armies, they do not have
an enforcement mechanisms. Therefore, the people have to actually believe
that the system is fair or out the system collapses
around itself. What we see is if you have unlimited money,

(50:11):
you can find file unlimited lawsuits and motions and delay,
et cetera.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Along the lines.

Speaker 21 (50:16):
That is something that is not available to your average
Defendants in these cases have to put guard RELs in
place to ensure that no one can use money or
political connections or anything else to face a different criminal
justice system in it than your average every day person.
Because once you start establishing that as a rule and
as a fact, then people have no reason to believe

(50:39):
in the system as it is.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
And that's how you end up with failed states something
see across the world right now?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Absolutely so, it's it's nuts nuts, nuts.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Money. All right, folks, Shall we come back? I mean
it's please.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
I'm like Michael, he can't get a trowel in New York.
Shut up, go back to your jail, Salem. All right,
we come back. Bruce Smith, a former NFL player Pro
Football Hall of Famer, now is a part of a
casino being in Virginia. He says Black folks should be
participating economically in these areas, especially when they in majority

(51:22):
of black cities.

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Louder and Prouder in Washington, Roland Martin Hill.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
So Virginia has commissioned several cities to be able to
build casinos in the state, now Urban one. They had
two referendums, they lost those two in Richmond. Now you've
an effort that's in Petersburg, Florida, and Bruce Smith Pro
Football Hall of Flank famer says, you know what, why
are these casinos being built in black cities and black

(53:31):
people not participating? Well, he has joined several others to
bid on that casino. There are a number of people
who are vying for that license. They are very lucrative licenses,
and so Bruce Smith joins us right now, Bruce, glad
to have you here. The reality is right, since Don
Barton died, there's not been a single African American owner

(53:52):
of a casino in the United States.

Speaker 25 (53:55):
Well, uh, and Hi, Roland, it's good to be on
your show and and thanks for having me. I hope
that we're about to change that. There's too much at stake.
There's too many people that have paved the way for
this opportunity and we cannot.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Let it pass us by. It's not the fact that.

Speaker 25 (54:22):
In the project in Richmond didn't have African American participation.
The majority of these folks were not from Virginia. And
when we have these these economic opportunities, groundbreaking economic opportunities

(54:43):
and once in a lifetime opportunities that come in our doorstep,
and for Virginians not to have a major stake at
these opportunities, I just think that it's it's an injustice
and we need to make sure that Virginians have a

(55:06):
seat at the table because we live here, we spend
our money here, we send our kids to school here,
and we know how to strengthen our communities and what's
needed in our communities and to help uplift our people,
as opposed to folks from out of town coming in
here and telling us what we think we need or

(55:29):
what we should have or the opportunities we should get
quite frankly.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
And lot.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Look, we've seen this before where licenses come up and
people outside buy for those licenses. I look at valleys
in Chicago that buy for one in Illinois. So you
have these, you have these, you know in the national
international casino companies. But your whole point is, hey, if
you're a state and you're a city, you should really

(55:57):
be looking to the people who are from there to
participate in the economic economic viability of these projects.

Speaker 25 (56:06):
It strengthens the fabric of our communities, our cities, and
quite frankly, the state. We just had these opportunities come
to like when legislation was passed to build five casinos
in the state of Virginia, just like with marijuana licensing.

(56:29):
I'll give you the prime example of what I'm talking about.
There is a casino in Portsmouth, which is a predominantly
African American city. There was out of town developer and vendor,
well not developer, but casino operator that came here. And
there's only five percent African American participation in a predominantly

(56:53):
African American city.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
That speaks volumes.

Speaker 25 (56:58):
So when this opportunity came along, because of my long
history with the Courtish Company. One of the things that
I emphasized that we had to have a significant stake
in uplifting this community and having a seat at the table,

(57:21):
and they agreed. And I think we're about to make
history if we are chosen to be the developer of
this resort casino entertainment development. We're going to employ over
the life of the buildout seventy five hundred people. We're

(57:42):
talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that will go
to the state as well as the city in tax
revenue new tax revenue. So I just think this is
a once in a lifetime opportunity for the citizens of Petersburg.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Uh.

Speaker 25 (58:04):
And it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for Virginians
to have an opportunity to invest in this generational project
that will create generational wealth and will also decrease the
wealth gap in our state and in our cities.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
Scott Hey, Bruce, Scott Bolton here, Bruce.

Speaker 27 (58:31):
If these are licenses that have been awarded, are they
going to be voted on by a referendum or are
we beyond that? And I can see Bourbon One is
a client of mine, but I did not represent them.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
In regard to the Virginia licenses and stuff, but I
know a little bit about it, just on the periphery.

Speaker 9 (58:48):
Uh.

Speaker 28 (58:48):
These these five licenses, do they have to be voted
on by a referendum or are they locked in and
there's a commission that's going to award them based on
an RFP?

Speaker 25 (59:00):
Yes, this this casine, this casino license will be voted
on by a referendum. So the process, I'll give you
the short version, and the short version is, uh, the
city sent out an RFP.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Uh.

Speaker 25 (59:15):
There were five vendors that answered the RFP. We happen
to be, in my opinion, the strongest team. The Courts
Company has over one hundred years experience of development. I've
got over twenty they have.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Yeah, I'm familiar with them.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
Yes, Uh they have Uh they do business all over
the world.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
They are very strong.

Speaker 25 (59:43):
They have they've built and they own casinos in a
number of major cities. But the fact that and let
me get back to your referendum. So the person that
will be selected, the group that will be selected by
the city council and the committee, UH to move forward

(01:00:05):
as being the vendor. Uh, First they have to become
a host city, which means it has to go through
the It has to go to the through the House
and the Senate.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
They have to pass it, the.

Speaker 25 (01:00:18):
Governor signs the bill, and after the governor signs the bill,
then it becomes law. There's a hold up right now,
there is language in the bill that talks about.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
That that it has to go back.

Speaker 25 (01:00:39):
The governor took that language out, which was and I'm
losing my training thought right here for a minute. But
the governor took the language out. So now it's up
to Don Scott to do the right thing. And doing
the right thing will be doing the right thing for
the citizens of Petersburg that has high rate of unemployment, poverty,

(01:01:04):
food deserts, limited resources to fund schools. There's just so
many problems that exist, and this will be the economic
engine that this city needs to provide hope, entertainment, and
give these folks a shot in the arm with good

(01:01:26):
paying jobs and a prosperous future.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
Yeah. But Bruce, I just share this with you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I don't think you have to worry about black people
in Virginia supporting this initiative because they certainly want it.
Your opposition is going to come from those who don't
live in the community and those who have a view
of the world that is not that you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
And I don't share. Given the melanin in our skin.
That's first here. And the same thing is local support.
There was no issue with local support.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
You may have even more, but prior efforts had good
local supports.

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
That your opposition is well organized, financially backed, and they
are forced to deal with. Do not underestimate them. Because
those referendums, those two referendums.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
That were lost already, they were they made all the
sense in the world for people that looked like just
like us.

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
So I'll leave it at that. Good luck, brother, well
well uh.

Speaker 25 (01:02:23):
And the word I was trying to recall at the time,
I probably had too many cussions while I was playing
playing in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
I did say that.

Speaker 25 (01:02:32):
You said, but but but it's called it the reenactment clause.
The governor took it out. So the governor did his part.
Now Don Scott has to do his part, and then
it's not time to play politics with the people of

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Ports of Petersburg.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Uh.

Speaker 25 (01:02:56):
These folks want to work, They want their city to
be uplifted. This city has been forgotten about for decades
and generation, and this can be the economic engine that
puts them on the map and something sparked for new
growth within their city, new economic growth and opportunities for

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the people that actually live there. And I agree with
you one, but we will be well armed as we
go into this referendum and make sure that the people
of Petersburg understands what's at stake and who's opposing what's
about to take place.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
You said that, house Speaker Don. You said, house Speaker
Don's gotten much of the right thing. Specify that what
do you mean by that?

Speaker 25 (01:03:49):
Well, the buildings needs to be cleaned. It needs to
be a clean bill so the city of Petersburg can
do their business. This, this opportunity should not be delayed,
not one single day longer. These folks in Petersburg desperately

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need this economic engine, this opportunity for.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
This once in a lifetime project. To delay it.

Speaker 25 (01:04:24):
Any significant amount of time, we'll put people in the
same state that they've been in for a lifetime. They
need this project in the worst way, and we want
to do everything we can to make sure that we

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bring a project that brings massive number of jobs, get
tax revenues so they can repair their roads, so they
can fund their schools, so they can have the tax
revenue and jobs that are created to sustain families, and
they can feel proud about it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
All right then, Bruce smith Man, I appreciate it. Good
luck in your efforts.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Roland, thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 25 (01:05:16):
I'm man appreciate all the work you do throughout all
the communities all over this country.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Matt much love and respect.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
I appreciate it. Thanks a bunch, all right, folks, going
to break we come back.

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Blacks are voting Democrat.

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I'm going to tell you why. Yep, we're going to
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and black people are voting for Democrats.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Is out of habit. Listen to this foote.

Speaker 30 (01:08:20):
They don't want to talk about that. They don't want
to talk about the attack of October seventh on Israel
because Biden is no fan of Israel. Any Jewish person
that votes for Biden does.

Speaker 14 (01:08:31):
Not love Israel.

Speaker 30 (01:08:33):
And frankly, should be spoken to how a Jewish person
person can vote for Biden is or a Democrat because
they are on the side one hundred percent of the Palestinians.
And he doesn't know how to get out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
He's stuck.

Speaker 30 (01:08:49):
But he is if you look at what he's done,
he is totally on the side of the Palestinians. And frankly,
it's incredible that historically Jewish people vote for Democrats. To me,
I cannot and I know you're Jewish, Wayne, and I
know you vote for me, but I don't understand it,
then you probably don't understand it either. If you take

(01:09:10):
the ten worst presidents in history, add them all up,
they haven't done damage to our country like this lunatic
has done. That's and that's not even including the weaponization
of the DOJ against me, his political opponent, and all
of the other things that are taking place. He has
done more damage to this country than any other president,

(01:09:30):
and multiplier times the ten worst. There's never been anybody
like him. It's horrible. And you know, when you talk
about the Jewish people, you can also say the black people,
African Americans have been brutalized by this man. And by
the way, if you look at his statements about them
in the nineteen his statements about them in the nineteen nineties,

(01:09:51):
he spoke horribly about black people, horribly about and I
mean like at a level that very few people we
have heard.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Yeah, he's a racist. His best friend was Senator Byrd.
You know, I really think a lot of its habit.

Speaker 30 (01:10:07):
When a lot of its habit, I see you caught
onto that when I said it initially in the program,
A lot of its habits Jewish people by habit, and
they just they vote for the Democrat and black people
by habit vote for the Democrats. But now the African
American population is where at the highest level anyone's ever
been at. As a Republican. It still should be much

(01:10:29):
higher because of what I've done with criminal justice reform,
with funding the black colleges and university, with all of
the opportunity zones. Nobody's done more than I have. Nobody's
done more since Abraham Lincoln. I actually wanted to go
beyond Abraham Lincoln, but some people thought that wasn't a
good thing to do, so I left it at That.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Is the biggest lion fool you've ever seen. And see,
this is what happens when you keep telling lift folks
start believing it. Trump sat there and said, I've done
more for the African American people than any other.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
President other than Lincoln. You a damn lie. Then he
lied about HBCUs. Y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
Y'all noticed Trump and his supporters can never give a number.
They can never give a number Scott as to how
much money they gave to HBCUs. Seraintim Scott, Trump, they
can never give a number. Then he talked about what
I did apocome justice reform, First of all, it's not
what you did. The Democrats passed the build the House.

(01:11:32):
Then when the bill got passed in the House, it
was stricted in the Senate only because Senators Dick Durbin
Kamala Harris Court Booker said this ain't strong enough. So
and then he loves some opportuniti zones. Scott, I have
yet to find and I've been looking. I've yet to
find any data on these opportunity zones that shows how

(01:11:55):
they benefited black folks, low income people. Can't find it,
cannot find it. And I'm telling you what Biden and
the campaign has to do. They gotta say, lie, lie, Look,
don't give me that whole you know, misstatements don't get no.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
You gotta say lie, lie, lie. And then if they
ever debate which was which is for a question, then
Biden's gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Say stop lying, still lying, you aligne because.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
That's what he is. He is a liar.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
And oh, Biden made some comments that I disagree with
obviously in the nineties. But let's remind Donald Trump was
sued out of the gate because him and his dadd
would keeping black people from writing the apartments in the seventies,
and Wayne forgot how he wanted to have the death
penalty for the Central Park five. Now they exonerated five. Nah,

(01:12:49):
you ain't getting up the hook like that, sucker.

Speaker 6 (01:12:53):
Yeah, you know, the Biden campaign needs to run an
ad about that.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
If they're spending multiple millions on black and brown voters too,
to keep them in line, they need to do an
ad that says just that Donald Trump says a lie.

Speaker 6 (01:13:07):
And then the reality.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Okay, he gave some money to the historical Black colleges,
but that's not that that's not offset by what Biden
has done.

Speaker 6 (01:13:15):
In regard to historical black colleges or or better yet.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
But but but Scott, exactly, but Scott, Scott, hold up,
it's not that he gave money in his budget. And
doctor and my fret brother, doctor Walter kim Bro, who's
been president to HBCUs, has worked with several others. He
has said, he said Trump zero the program they keep
touting was a program with the only account about ninety

(01:13:39):
million dollars at HBCUs. Okay, let's just be okay, that's
the program that keeps him was made permanent. But Trump
Trump kept zeroing that program out of his budget, and
so they never want to talk about that, and so
it ain't even even a question when it comes to giving.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
But he is a liar.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
And then they say, well, black people both Democratic out
of habit. No, actually, black people, I've been voting Democrat.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Let's be real clear. Let me started voting Democrat with
Kennedy nineteen sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Before that, white people were voting for Republicans because black
people were voting for Republican based upon policies from Lincoln's
Lincoln's Best Nation Proclamation all the way through the eighteen
hundred nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
But it was policy, not have it policy.

Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
And the other thing is another thing is why would
black people vote for Donald Trump or Republicans? Now, So,
if you want to talk about policy, what policy or
initiatives does the GOP have that says, yes, we want black.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
People who want to empower you and we want you
to vote for us. Yeah, that's the question I always
ask black Republicans and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Republicans are anti gay, they're anti DEI, they're anti abortion,
they're anti gun control, they are anti criminal justice reform,
police reform, anti voting rights. I mean, they're anti pre childcare.

(01:15:12):
So that's eight policy considerations right there, whether you intellectualize
your vote or not, will give you reasons as to
why you vote Democrat as opposed to Republican.

Speaker 6 (01:15:24):
You got to give me some policy that says.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
That black people ought to be here with me, and
you just don't anything, I'll tell you something else.

Speaker 6 (01:15:31):
He lied about Biden too, and this Hamas war. I
don't agree with Biden, and I think you ought to
be doing more. But we're talking about humanitarianism.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
We're not talking about supporting Palestine or Hamas.

Speaker 6 (01:15:43):
We don't support a nobody doesn't or the Jewish people
he done more.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Those are our bombs being dropped, right, Those are our
financial and military support being dropped, and our concerns about humanitarianism.

Speaker 6 (01:15:56):
Are being ignored. So I don't know what he's talking
about about.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
If your Jewish and you vote Democratic, because Democrats don't hate,
don't like black people, don't like the Jews. No, we
support Israel a two party state solution. We also support
the Palestinians.

Speaker 6 (01:16:11):
Right to live.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Instead of bulldozing Gonzaga, there's got Gaza. There's gotta be
a way to eliminate a mosque who brothers isn't even
in Gaza, the leadership and elsewhere and cutter, but just
bulldozing through military.

Speaker 31 (01:16:26):
You know you're not gonna outrun these images Palestinians and
children and hospitals and camps being bombed because they're one
or two of MOSS leaders there.

Speaker 6 (01:16:37):
They's got to be a better way.

Speaker 22 (01:16:38):
And you got to give these people a way out,
and you got to give them food help. They're over
there bombing aid workers. They bomb they bombed and killed
some of the hostages, right, and what about the hostage
We got to bring them home.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
Those a mess. Some of those people are Americans too.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
But just bombing your way through to stay in office,
be being not in yahoo, do not face criminal justice
charges to stay in office because you don't want to referendum,
but you don't want new elections right at the expense.

Speaker 6 (01:17:09):
Of thirty thousand Palestinians.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Something's gotta get All Biden is saying is listen, we
support you, but there's got to be a better way
to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:17:19):
How is that anti Israel? It just simply is it?

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
You know, I don't know why we get creaking say
anything he says, because he just lies all the time.

Speaker 6 (01:17:27):
You say it enough time, he believes it, and yeah, yeah,
but I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Yeah, But the reality is, you got you got people
who believe the lies, and we have to say no,
here's the truth. And I'm telling you right now, Okay,
I don't care what any poll says. If you are black,
and if you are broken and white, if you've broken Latino,
you gotta be a fool. Vote Modnald Trump. That man
don't give a damn about none of y'all. He that

(01:17:51):
y'all want. I'm telling you of any of his hotels.
This man is an absolute ingrate. He is demonic, he
is evil. He deserves absolutely no votes whatsoever.

Speaker 6 (01:18:05):
And it manifests itself. He's told you who he is believing, right,
And we just we just won't Since when did we
oppose Biden because he too old? All of a sudden,
we don't like his aim, You won't like his energy.
Really well, I like what he's doing with the economy,
for sure. I like what he's doing with climate change

(01:18:26):
for sure. I like what he's done on the abortion issue.
I like all that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
And there'n't more enough reason to vote for him for
those reasons alone. I tell you one last thing, Roland.
This abortion issue I'm gonna tell you. You can talk
about the economy, you can talk about criminal justice. Before
you about all this, let me tell you.

Speaker 6 (01:18:44):
Something, the value differentiating. That's a word, the value differential.
In this election may be democracy and his other, but abortion.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Driving a wedge issue on leveraging that issue on abortion,
where you have white women around this country telling their stories,
because it's more than just abortion. It's it's it's life sciences,
it's healthcare, it's the ability to have babies or to
save your life if you've got a bad birth process,

(01:19:14):
if you will.

Speaker 6 (01:19:15):
That's got to resonate with every woman in here. I
don't like seeing women get abortions, but it's a woman's choice.
The government ought not be in it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
And eighty percent, i'm sorry, seventy five percent of Americans
wherever you pull, maybe sixty five percent say it ought.

Speaker 6 (01:19:30):
To be a woman's choice. Even in red or conservative states.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Those numbers are there, And so I think it's gonna
be a real wedge issue.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
If the Democrats don't throw put their foot.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
In and drive a truck through that issue, then I
don't think they're gonna win.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
But abortion has gotta be.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Front and center, you know, I got I got some
some full in our in our chat talking about rolling stole.

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
Point me there pomp to lie.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Show me how much money went to HBCUs under Trump
compared to Biden Harris. I wait, Donald Trump only actually
accidentally went to HBCU because they had this event that
we were going to give him an award of being
at college that got ridiculed and slammed because it was

(01:20:29):
really put on by by some Republicans.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
This man is a fraud. All he cares about are
the rich in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
And I don't from the life of me, I don't
know what y'all folks with no college degree only high
school diplomas are thinking by giving, by saying you're going
to vote for this man.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
He don't give a.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Damn about nobody making forty thousand dollars or less. Hell,
he don't care if you're making one hundred thousand less.
He is unscrupulous, He is a fraud. He is a
shameful individual, and he keeps lying. And I'm gonna call
out the lie when he says it. Lie, lie, lie,
lie lie l I E not l ye lie l ie.

(01:21:13):
He's a liar. And again, I dare any of y'all
watch him show. Please bring to me the proof how
opportunity zones have been effective.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
I wait, let me go to break. I'll be right back.

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Folks, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass form Commas congsman Karen Bass.
She says she wants to see California Congresswoman Barbara Lee
replaced Marcia Fudge as the Secretary of Hood. Fudge, of course,
announced her decision to step down. She's a former congress
woman from Ohio, and the White House is not indicated

(01:23:42):
who Biden is going to name as his next HUD secretary.
They're responsible for billions of dollars when it comes to housing.
But the Bass says she wants to see Lee. Remember
Lee ran for the United State Senate and so she's
not running for her congressional seat until her term will
be up when the new Congress is sworn in junely,
so we'll actually see what happens there, folks. I'm here

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in Augusta, Georgia, where the Augusta National Invitation, also known
as the Masters is taking place. I'm guests of Mercedes
Benz here and I was at the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Course today today. It was a practice round. It was
also the Part three.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Contexts Uh and I ran into a couple of groups
that that Mercedes has invited out and they've been invited
the East Side Golf. You've had them on the show
in addition to the more House Golf team. Check it out,
Hey folks, Rollard Martin here we are at Augusta National
and I'm sitting here walking off the course. Then I

(01:24:42):
ran to these guys Morehouse Golf team east Side Golf
here enjoying the festivities courtesy of Mercedes Ben So y'all good,
all right, all right, so we have a little fun
and of course, guys been.

Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
A great week.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Certainly was glad to see them out there. And one
of the things that they are doing with the Master's
is reaching out paying colleges, the HBCU this here in
Augusta are reaching out of other folks as well, providing
an opportunity to experience one of golf's majors. And so
I'm sure Scott, that's music to your ears being a

(01:25:23):
aren't you? But not only more House grab on trying
the board.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:25:28):
I chaired the governance committee on the Board of Trustees.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
And I just want to know that you played in
young boys from Morehouse and howld your handicap go up
or down?

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Because I know I did not. I did not play
them well.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Of course we were there were just watching the Part
three contests, but I ain't got no problem cracking my
clubs out if necessary. And yes, my golf handicap is
my golf handicap is three point seven.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
So it's pretty damn good.

Speaker 6 (01:26:01):
How do you get a three point seven handicap?

Speaker 20 (01:26:04):
Like?

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
Where are the other point three? What is that? Just
an average? You know usually have a three?

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
See No, no, that's that's because that's that's what that's
what happens when you were when you working alongside when
you got bootleg friends of yours who don't actually turn
in their scorecards, who don't turn in their scorecards where
they can actually showcase, uh, their handicap. And so when

(01:26:37):
I put it, yeah, so yeah, so I have a
golf handicap index from from the folks at the U. S.

Speaker 20 (01:26:45):
G A.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
So yeah, we got skills.

Speaker 6 (01:26:48):
You've shown me that, you know, But I'll show whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
But but I'll be happy, I'll be hey, I'll be
happy to bring your live behind out to the golf
course and some of your legal money.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
I mean, so you guys.

Speaker 6 (01:27:04):
Country club and I'm gonna let I'll let you play.
They only have so many one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
What's the name of your club? What's the name of
your Club.

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
Lakewood Country Club in Northern Bees Lakewood. Have you played that?

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Okay, Okay, hey, I'll be I think I played Lakewood.
So I will be having some boys I gotta come
and take.

Speaker 6 (01:27:33):
I want you to come out and play my team.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
Hey, hey, you can put your little team together.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
I ain't got nobody dusting off some short I ain't
got no problem dusting.

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
Off hitters too. They big headed, the big hitters and
things together, going to that's what I do. Because I
can't play word ship. I want to put.

Speaker 20 (01:27:57):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
That's probably the one thing you and I have agreed
on the most. You can't play with ship.

Speaker 20 (01:28:03):
So yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
And also I did run. I did run. I did
run to a couple of captins on the golf course
and and one guy is like, he said, you got
that Red?

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
I said, now let me help you out. The colors
of my show are my high school colors jack yads
high school.

Speaker 4 (01:28:21):
Uh and gold.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
And so that's that's why I have the shirt on.
That's why I have this here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
So I did let them know, uh, let them know,
so you know, you know, and and again alphas, we
can show y'all how to well Red.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
So that's how we do it. Uh that I've got,
We've got dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
I actually looked much better than black and old gold. Oh,
I look great, and red I looked. I look much
better in black and old gold.

Speaker 6 (01:28:53):
Your mama years ago that you were a fine black man,
and you believed you believed right. That's the first problem.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
My mama said, your mother, My mama said it, My
daddy said that, my grandparents said it, My aunts and
uncle said it.

Speaker 6 (01:29:09):
And not one lie with prejudice. They prejudiced.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
They also they're all so smart.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
I got to go, I got, we got dinner in
twenty minutes, and so I'm cutting short.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
Uh that is it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Yes, So now you you ain't got you ain't got
to complain about.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Uh, well, you know, I mean I've.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Been I've been a lot of other golf tournaments. Uh so,
Uh it's looks that there were number of people. And
listen that there were number there were a number of folks.
The number of folks who I ran into, and then
theo who I ran into. There were a number of Uh,
there were a number of folks.

Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
Let me show this here, let me go here and
show this. I took hold on, just do this, No
no no, no, I just no, no, no, no, I
just no. I just just remembered.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
I just remember because I don't want to go ahead
and do this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
Uh So, there were there were a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (01:30:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
First of all, I'm gonna tell you something. Everywhere we go,
we run into fans of roland Mark unfiltered their people.
They were on a golf course out there. Who I
en't ran the one white guy who said I didn't
get his name. He said, he said, I'm a conservative.
He said, but I appreciate your point of view.

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
Uh and and I love your show. So I was like,
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Uh So it was but again, but but but again
that there were another number of brothers and sisters out there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
I do love I do love what you see black folks.
Because again it looked like.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
And I was like, that's me uh and so uh
so I so I helped him out. Uh but that
was when after I finished uh uh going around. There
was a young sister. It was so funny she was
she was taking me around.

Speaker 9 (01:30:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
She she goes to a high school. She goes to
a high school here in Augusta. She plans on going
to nursing university. Of Alabama and uh, she didn't know
who I was. Uh, but it's all good and we
were Uh. I saw these two sisters who were working
in the tournament. They had pink hats on, and they

(01:31:14):
had pink hats and they had their green shirt on,
and I said, I know, y'all a ka's uh and
I dropped by.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
To see them. Uh. And of course of course they were,
and so it was good to see them.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Just give me a second, I'm gonna go ahead and
show this here.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
And then also I also I got to give a
shout out to a brother as well.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
He was he runs all content.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
We worked, we worked together uh at CNN, and I
got an opportunity to uh see the whole content uh
centers and massive complexes.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Brother, he runs all of it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
He's from New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
Had a good time uh chatting with him as well.

Speaker 15 (01:32:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
And uh so so let me shout out. Let me
shout out Derek Moore. Derek Moore. Uh he again broke
all the content stuff. Fantastic brother. Uh So I just
want to give him a shout out. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
And uh, it was good seeing the folks.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
And again I want people to the reason I'm saying
that I want people to understand, uh that look, our
people are here, Our people are here, our people are
are are working the event, the people who are attending,
who are working in corporate communications as well. Uh, and
so I think it's it's always important to showcase folks

(01:32:39):
who are doing. Also happened to Uh Carol, check you'all
email and check your text.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
Let me know what y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
I put it in the group of me as well,
so let me know where y'all have it. Uh, So
I pulled up, let me know y'all have it. So
so I was going around speaking to lots of different people,
and I understand I have not seen Ron Townsend, So Scott,
you may not know him. He used to that television
Ron Townsend in nineteen ninety became the first African American
member of Augusta National. And then remember when they had

(01:33:08):
a lot of the criticism for lack.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
Of women here.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Martha Burke and her group they were protesting. And so
then it was around that time when conn Lee's a
Rice became it brought into one of the first female
members of the club. Saw her on the course that
opportunity to speak to her. We're going to put the
photos in a second.

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
So today was a practice round the Part three contest.
It's the only day you can take photos. You cannot
bring They don't even allow cameras on the grounds. And
if they kich you with a camera, not only will
they take the camera, they will also literally take your
credentials and ban you for life. So could not if

(01:33:49):
any of that. But I did that opportunity to take
some pictures. And so to Derek Moore again, who runs
all of content for the Master's old team of mo
of a thousand, gave me a tour of the whole facility.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
We worked together at CNN back in the day. Uh,
and so it was great to see him. We're gonna
show his photo in the second. Let me know when
y'all got it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
And then I cannot remember the sister this. Okay, check
your texts. It's also in group me. Uh so uh
it's all there. Also was, like I said, the sister.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
Who drove me around, she was showing up giving me
the tour of the whole joint.

Speaker 10 (01:34:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
That was too funny as well. And so she said
you know what she says now, she said, my polges.
I don't know who you are, she said, but my
mom and them probably do. I said, baby, you tell
your mominem who. I said, when you tell your mamanem
who your momanem who you who you drove around? Uh,

(01:34:47):
they gonna tell you exactly who you drove around. But
you know, one of the things that I one of
the things that I do is I always I speak
to all. I speak to everybody. I speak to all
of you know, everybody who worked worked there. You know,
that's how you're supposed to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
So it was so you know, the brothers and sisters,
who worked the.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
Security, who working on the grounds, who working the concessions.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
I ran to this one sister. She has Sigma game roll. Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
We were in the concessions area. Uh, and she I'm sorry,
We're in the merchandise area. They do crazy business in
merchandise and so she so we so we took a
picture and I said, because she didn't have a camera,
I said, listen, we gonna email it to you. No, no, not,
she said, I need you to autograph by hat. So see, Scott,
that's how I know you. I know you don't know Scott,

(01:35:37):
I know you don't know this feeling, Scott, I know
you don't know what that's like.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
So uh so let's go ahead and pull the photos up.

Speaker 9 (01:35:43):
I just.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Did. That's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
People who keep telling people, right, people keep telling you,
do you see they said yeah, and they keep and
they tell you to your face stop getting rolling the
hard time.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
So yeah, so go ahead, pull the folk, go ahead,
pull the photos up. Your we played. So that's my man.
That's my man. Uh, that's my man. More. Uh, that's
like I said, runs the content deal.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Great brothers so so so good to see uh to
see him, Derek Moore go to this is the this
is the young sister who would drive me around.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
If y'all, if y'all, if y'all know her, if if
her people know her, let her know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
I put it on TV because she didn't realize I
had a show.

Speaker 9 (01:36:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
And then what we got next, Uh the photo I
shot that was one of the part three is Conley's
the rights. I had got opportunity uh to speak to
her as well. So uh and that that's another photo
of her. So uh, look at my social media folks
are gonna have some more content. Uh. And again today
was the only thing I could take photos, so I
had to give as much as I can.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
So you know why I should.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
I should took a picture of all the black people
I ran into, but it was way too many. So
the brothers and sisters are out here.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
So that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
Scott appreciated, Robert had to go all appreciate be on
today's show as well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
Folks.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
I'm gonna be live from here tomorrow as well. And
so again I can't shoot video, I can't shoot content,
so today I can get it. But it was so
great seeing the brothers of the east Side Golf. We
feature them in our Marketplace segment, and great to see
the brothers on the more House Being's Golf the more
House Golf team as well. Folks have said, y'all watching,
you're watching YouTube. Hit the like button, y'all wish with

(01:37:24):
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I also hope y'all understand that you know we appreciate
Mercedes inviting us. I'm talking to them with love because
you know, we had a Mercedes Sprinter got total we're
having it rebuilt, uh, and so you know I'm talking
to them about also being a sponsor partner of roller
markin unfields with the Blackstore Network. But we appreciate the

(01:37:47):
opportunity for us to be able to go places cover
these stories because we get to interface with fans people
who support our show. There were people who said, man,
I donate to your show as well. In fact, at
dinner as a band performing and one of the brothers
took a picture and said, I got to donate now,
And I'm like, yes, you do.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
So that's what we do, and so we want y'all
supporters as well, because again, our goal is to.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
Cover the stuff other people are not covered and talk
about the issues that matter. You know, we hate the
fact that we have to show these videos when brothers
have been shot and killed out police officers. But here's
the whole deal. Other media's not covering that stuff. They're
not covering it. And I'm gonna tell you right now,
these attorneys they thank me because they say, Roland, if
you don't, if you're the only one covering this stuff,

(01:38:33):
we have an outlet that we ever be able to
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others when it comes to these cases. I've had family
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For covering the story.

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My loved one was shot and killed and you were
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