AM Show Hr 2 | Father Speaks Out: The Assault at Katy ISD (Guest: Danny Gianfrancesco)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael very show is on the air.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
The father of the young lady at the Katie Taylor
ISD event. Danny g and Francesco is our guest. Danny,
Welcome to the program. You, Michael, obviously neither you nor
I were at We're in the classroom that day. What
you know, you know from what your daughter told you

(00:53):
Tell me what happened prior to the moment I see
on camera. I've seen the footage of his pun of
her pushback and then him began to pummel her. Was
there anything that happened prior to all of this.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, that was actually a retaliation. He had been sexually
harassing her with comments for a while and she tryingly
told her boyfriend and he told the kid to stop
talking to his girlfriend like that or there was going
to be problems or whatever he said. I don't know,
but that kid went to class and he was angry

(01:31):
at Brooklyn for telling her boyfriend. So he was sitting
behind her, chatting away, calling her name, saying inappropriate stuff,
and she, my daughter, don't take anything from anybody, including me,
And so she was arguing back, and she stood up
to go use the bathroom, and he came up to

(01:52):
her desk and he put his chest up to her,
and he was bowing up to her and yelling at her,
calling her names, and acting like he was going to
hit her. So she pushed him off of her, went up,
got a bathroom pass, went to the bathroom. She said
she was in there about ten minutes, crying angry, and
she calmed herself down and went back to class. And

(02:14):
what you see she was talking to the girl in
the front desk and he walked up, and that's when
the video started, is when he walked up. And so
I don't know if he told the kid next to him, hey,
you know, I'm gonna go slap this whatever, because he
started the video right on time. And the kid walked
up to her and he slapped her. And my daughter

(02:36):
looked at the teacher and said, are you going to
do anything? Did you see this? And the teacher was worthless,
And so when she turned back to the kid, she
saw he was bowed up and ready to hit her,
and that's that then you see the video.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So the video, but not once, not once, did.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
She hit him swing at him. She told me the
other day she just tried to close the distance so
that he couldn't swing on her again.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
So so it was his friend who filmed this. I
wondered how that came about.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I think they might be friends, but it was
another kid in the class, and he won't he won't
let he won't. He told Brooklyn that she could use
the video. But I've had Channel thirteen, Channel eleven wanting
to talk to him and he won't release. He won't
give him okay to use a video.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
So well, I have the video and it is I
watched it now several times and it is very disturbing.
I think it would be a lot more disturbing if
that was my daughter being punched by this punk. But yeah, wow.
You know, one of the things that doesn't, you know,
intuitively cross your mind when you watch a video is

(03:57):
to ask the question why is that person filming? And
in a case with this, this kid had to have
some sense that something is about to happen because he
is watching the scene from what would appear to be
where it all starts, because it's not like they're rolling
around on the floor by the time he gets his
phone out, see this, who is the teacher? Because something

(04:19):
needs to be done to this teacher. This is not
this is not appropriate.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Now at all. This teacher was temporary substitute teacher that
was not very temporary. He's been there all year, so
I don't know what qualifications he has. I don't know
if you've got to go through any training to be
a substitute. Apparently not, Danny.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I don't need training as a teacher to know that
when two students get into it, especially when there's a
size weight strength differential like this, that my job is
to get him off of her before he kills her.
I mean every person, I mean every person that makes
it to the age of twelve knows that well happened.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
In my day, we would have been fighting each other
to get at that guy right before any of this.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
If this had happened at our school, I don't care.
If it was the most unpopular girl and the most
popular boy, I don't care. If she wronged him, that
kid would have been beaten to death. It would have
been on. Everybody would have jumped, And in this case,
they're all sitting back going oh oh, they're gasping, but
nobody steps into help.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, what did I say about the kids these days?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
It says everything. Okay, So then fast forward, do they
finish out that hour of the clas what class is it?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
By the way, it was a fifth period of I
think geography okay.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Obviously was in conflict resolution. Okay, So the day is
almost over. Do they sit through the end of the
class at that point?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
No.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I got a call, I guess it was like two
fifty almost three o'clock the school ends at like two
thirty five by the assistant principal, who also was worthless
in this situation, and she told me my daughter had
been in a fight and it was with a boy,
and I needed to come pick her up. And you know,

(06:18):
you get that call, and I got a hundred questions
and she wouldn't answer single one of them. So I
was I was on the other side of town. I
had my father go pick her up, and then I
came here and she had purple, huge waltz on her forehead,
her jaw was swollen and black and blue, the back

(06:39):
of her head was sore, her shoulder was all messed up.
And so I went in the next morning to talk
to the principal. Well, the principal was not in school
that day, and then they told me that she had
meetings all day Thursday, so she couldn't see me till Friday. Well,
I put up a little stink, but didn't get me anywhere.

(07:01):
So Friday, I went in and had a meeting with
the assistant principal and the officer from KISD police that
was there to fill out the reports, and they were
not very receptive. Neither one of them had seen the video.
They made the call that it was a mutual confrontation

(07:22):
without seeing that video. I don't know what they went
off of. And I tried to show it to them
and they didn't want to see it. Neither one of
them would look at it. Then assistant principal, Yeah, who
is that she wouldn't look Miss Miles Jane Miles.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, and uh yeah, or she didn't she didn't want
to see it because she knew it was on she
didn't want to have to.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, I don't know, because that this was the next morning,
so in one place, so crazy, so totally we goo
that everybody has a farting to Michael Berry Joe.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Dream Up Growing Up. Nanny Jan Francesco is the father
of the young lady at the center of an incident
at Katie Taylor High School that needs to be reviewed
and not swept under the rug. Danny, let me ask you, Uh,
there are reports that your daughter was kicked off the

(08:32):
volleyball team after she's beat up by this black student.
And then you got you went down and talked to them.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah. I talked to three of the coaches and uh,
they were going to take her out of off season,
but they were going to let her try out again
next year, but they were actually going to remove her
from off season, put her in a regular pe craft
And I finally one of the coaches, I guess has
some common s ants and they kept throwing the team,

(09:01):
but they want her to run and do you know
punishment exercises. Uh, Brooklyn said, every day after school in April.
But I sent a rhtter to the coach asking her
to hold off because she just got released from concussion protocol.
I guess she was out a week after this incident.

(09:21):
She was still having Disney spells.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, basis, of course, and trust me, he will stay
on football team. They will not take him on. Well
what is that? No, you're good?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean, is that what they want? Reflecting their athletic.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Program, They don't care preasure, Danny. I'm telling you that
they don't fear you. They fear the people that would
be activated if they punished that kid. That's what they fear.
They live in fear of being called a racist. There's
no doubt will most people in this country do. Over
ninety percent of people do.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well. They should fear me because I'm not going to
stop until I a justice from my DA.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
The only way that happens is if you become the
turd in the punch ball. You have got to be
willing to be so unpopular even among the parents in
your circle who go all right, I think you got
your point across, because it is only let me tell
you something. After the George Floyd incident where he died
of an overdose, police officers across the country were shown

(10:33):
to be pulling up on scenes and refusing to engage
if it was a black assailant, black suspect, because they
were so afraid of being sent to prison for life
if they have to restrain someone who has a drug overdose.
I'm telling you the racial overtones in a case like
this that school hopes this thing goes away. The only
way you're ever going to get any semblance of justice

(10:55):
is to make yourself such an ass and such a
thorn in their side that they have to confront this
publicly or they have to prove you wrong. They have
to show that something happened that you say didn't. But
you can't deny he beats us, not out of her,
no matter what the terms are. I mean, I've heard
every angle. You can't deny he beats us, not out
of this little girl. So she's a freshman that once.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Wait, yeah, she's a freshman and he is what, he's
a freshman too, But I don't know how old he is.
I went up there and the school would give me no.
I couldn't even get a copy of it. They wrote
a citation. Brooklyn has to go to court for disorderly
conduct for this incident.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Danny and Jerry, very clearly, I am not a person
who believes in using our court system to resolve conflict
until the system refuses to fix it themselves. Get yourself
the most aggressive lawyer and sue them to Kingdom. Come
demand every document, Put every kid under oath, put every

(11:56):
teacher under oath. Every internal communication you can get all this,
Get every internal communication, because I guarantee you that assistant
principle emailed one of the teachers and said, hey, don't
talk about this, we don't need quant LX down here
or that little white girl. I guarantee you there are
things in those emails. I would sue that school. I
would sue the kids parents, I would sue that teacher.

(12:17):
I would make them a living hell until every scrap
of evidence came forward and we knew every detail of
how this was handling covered up. If you think that
you're going to win this case on the strength and
conviction of your character and being a father, I got
news for you. You blow your brains outside because they're never
going to help you. They're never going to help I'm

(12:39):
not that naive.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
I mean, I've got some people piling up here willing
to help me already, and I will not stop.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I'm in the business. It's this. I deal with this
day in and day out, and I'm here to tell
you you are not going to get relief. They're not
going to willingly. They're not going to willingly help you
or do the right thing. The only way that that
is when shame and fear and money and professional I
wouldn't stop until I had them fired. I wouldn't stop

(13:08):
until I had every shred of evidence and every person
involved their lives destroyed. You can't allow people to do this.
This is what Black Lives Matter does, This is what
kwan l X does. This is why they win all
the time, and people like you get screwed just telling you.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, this is I understand, and I agree with you,
but this is this is a sexual harassment problem. Is
what this is. And they're, like you said, they have
not cooperated with me at all, and they've made it
as hard as possible that I've gone to the KISD
police station three times now trying to get a copy
of the citation, any information, a police report. They keep

(13:47):
denying me, and you're gonna have to get a.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
You're gonna have to get a law I would have
the Katie police chief living in fear of my lawyer.
I would get a lawyer who is filing every document
possile and every day giving a press relief, a press conference.
I would make this the most high profile case. You
look at this kid that stabbed a white kid in
the chest, and he's wanted for they catch him for murder.

(14:12):
It's right, there's no doubt he did it. He's going
to prison for the rest of his life. They have
flipped the switch on this thing. He has raised hundreds
of thousands of dollars, he got his his bond drop
from a million to two point fifty, and the whole
thing has turned the other direction. And the victim's family
is saying, what just happened. I'm telling you, nobody is
going to do the right thing. I don't want you

(14:32):
to think I'm mad at you. I'm frustrated by the
system here and it riles me up. I'm telling you
I would go nuclear on this, and I would. Anybody
that knows me, no, I would. I would have a lawyer,
and we would be Everything we were doing would be
in the news that evening. All right, we want to
see every document you reviewed, we want to know who
reviewed it. We want the video put into the public record.

(14:53):
I would not stop. I would show no mercy. And
you know what you'll do. You won't solve your problem,
you won't bring back your child's own innocence. But what
you will do is the next little girl that gets
the hell beat out of her by a young punk,
that that school will say, uh oh, let's do the
right thing. This time because they won't do the right thing.

(15:15):
They will not They're incapable.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
They've done everything but the right thing they did. The
school board even or the kid even sent out an
email telling any parents that have a copy of the
video to erase it.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Of course, yeah there again destroy the Evans there any
hang in there, Bud. I wish you the best of luck.
I'm sorry if my tone, my wife says, I seem
like I'm yelling at her, when actually I'm just advocating
on her behalf. But I would get me the meanest,
toughest Tony Busby kind of lawyer, and I would make
hell out of their lives till they did the right thing.
And the triple crown weave is, you know, tilting to

(15:50):
the side, the leaning tower of Weaver. I'm telling you
my text email like, girl, well, let's tax day. That
you knew that already. It is that day when you

(16:10):
are reminded how much money the government takes from you.
Blows my mind. How excited people are that they're getting
a tax refund. Do you understand that means they've been
holding your money all this time? Do you understand that
just holding your money? There? Insurance companies make their money

(16:35):
off investing your money. So on Monday you give them
your money and they hold it till Friday, and by
Friday it's worth more than it was on Monday, and
they keep the difference. Even if they paid out one
hundred percent of premiums back to you or back to

(16:55):
premium payers across the spread of their base, they would
keep the invested income and that'd be enough to Oh,
I don't know, half nice downtown office buildings. Yeah, that
means the government held onto your money for an entire
year at a time of high interest rates. Heck, you

(17:18):
could go get a T bill, you could get there
have been times within the last year that you could
get five percent on your money with zero risk or
close enough. And that's not even that's not even undertaking
any real risk return, and they kept it. You. If

(17:39):
you gave them ten thousand dollars in January of last year,
and now you get on April fifteenth or a week
from now, when you get your return eighteen months later,
fifteen sixteen months later, you get that money back, it's
worth a lot. You lost money on that deal. Anyway,
Another subject for another day. Some of the richest women

(18:02):
in the world apparently loaded up their Gucci bags and
took a quick vacation. A rose all day to space yesterday.
Gail King, Katie Perry, and Jeff Bezos's wife, the one
with the big boobs, were some of the passengers. Of course,
how could we miss it? The media covered it like

(18:22):
it was Apollo eleven. Someone they hired pecked their bags
last night. Fly money they've got, they're no ash enough
ram and you gotta be high to think they can fly.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
And that right there the milestone of this whole ascent.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oprah watching her best friend go to space.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
The flight Instarcher said that I am her best success story.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Why because she's never had some and he goes through
the course.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Who's terrified of flying?

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Everybody who's gone through the course of somebody that there's
been a lifelong dream they wanted to do it, So
she said, I'm her best successor.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I'm so proud of me right now, very very fine grain,
didn't you get quoting to it like a powder.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I'm so proud of me right now. I'm so proud
of me right now.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
I tell you something, right now, you are officially an astronaut.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
How do you feel I feel super connected to love.
I'm so proud of me right now. You never know
how much love is inside of.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You, rocket Sham. It's all about then, like how much
love you have to give and how loved you are
until the day you launch.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
As I loved it.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
The month of April, You're like, I'm going to space
and I'm launching my tour and it's really incredible. Now
I know I'm asking this question for your fans. Will
you write a song about this experience?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh? For sure, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
And not only that, I have got to reveal my
setlist for the tour on a butterfly poor, I'm just
flying in space.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I don't know if anyone's ever did space. I don't
know anyone's ever done that before.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
So I'll just do.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
There's a lot of things that you've done.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
First, you are now officially an astronaut.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
And let me just tell you.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
On behalf of everyone here a blue Origin I'll webcast
and everyone all of these individuals that put this incredible
thing on congratulations.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
The concept of being an astronaut. You had people, well,
you had only men to start Chris Sumen Shepherd. These
guys were the best of the best. They were mental giants,
they were physical giants. They were accomplished men of science

(21:04):
who put their bodies through insane rigors to earn this
title astronaut. And now we've got this cosplay of Gail King.
Let me tell you something, anything Gail King does is
therefore necessarily not impressive Physically. That woman doesn't take the

(21:29):
stairs to the second floor. If the elevator's out, you're
officially at an astronaut. Hi to the field, Gail.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm so proud of me.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
I'm just so proud of me. I did this for me.
Grow power. And that's my problem with the girl power
girls is is powder puff football parading around like the
Super Bowl. There are women who do amazing things and
nobody talks about birth. We take it for granted because

(22:03):
it's how we all got here. You ever been in
the room that's trauma? Man? Were you in the room
for your baby's birth? Oh, you're probably still traumatized? My god,
you can't look them in the eyes of this day.
It's like a basketball coming out of your nostril. It's

(22:32):
it is a feat of nature. And that tain't splitzing
Halfy the Pisi and everybody's excited there's a baby, and
I'm thinking that woman. Have you ever seen a woman
right after they go through childbirth that's so much worse

(22:53):
than a career in the NFL? I mean really, And
you know, it's an amazing thing. Nature is an amazing thing.
Women have a God given ability shortly after giving birth.
And this is true in nature. This is these are

(23:14):
things we don't we don't choose. They happen that mother
immediately goes into caregiver mode, provider of milk and cover
and love and protection and all these things, and she
forgets the hell she just went through or why else

(23:37):
would they have another one? You know, you wonder they
have that one. That's girl power. But see the liberals,
a feminists, most of them don't have women, don't have
children themselves. They minimize what the real heroism of women
is and say, no, no, you need to be over here,
you need to be Katy Perry going. I feel that
one with the space of the Earth A show. You

(24:01):
have my attention, U game, Laura right zar. I hate
to sound insensitive, but it's always been my opinion that
women's been way too much on handbags. Who cares Obviously,
many do. Here's a post from today's drama in Nacadoc's
let's check out what's going on to Naycock. It's just

(24:23):
a sample of the daily trials up here. I roll
emphasis on Facebook nac talk listene. Hey, guys, this is
a far stretch, but I lost my clutch purse today
in town. It's a Louis Vuton clutch purse, except it's

(24:43):
Louis Vuton inspired because inspired was in parenthesis. Oh there's
no reason. If it's sufficiently inspired, nobody know the difference,
So just call it a Louis Vuitton. Who cares. It
has my husband's ID and both of us our phones
in it. So at this point you're thinking, well, that's
a bummer. You know, she lost her purse. It's not

(25:06):
Louis Vuitton, but she was honest about the fact that
this Louis Vuitton inspired le's you and me. When the
show's over today, go over to Harwin. Go into one
of the PAKISTANIU rip off stores. Hey, do y'all have
any Gucci inspired wallets in here? Because I noticed the

(25:28):
wallet's eighteen hundred and that seems dumb at the gallery
and I don't want to get mugged. So I was
just going to see if you had any Gucci inspired
wallets in here. Not that I seem like the kind
of guy that would carry a Gucci wallet, but if
you did, I was curious how much, because I'm guessing
I could get the same wallet for two dollars. But

(25:49):
if it was inspired by Gucci, I bet I pay
you a hundred for it, you know, because I could
pull it out at the club. People be impressed. They
were like, boo, you got a Gucci watch. Somebody else
go that ain't no Gucci got that on her? One
I said, he was inspired. This is inspired by Gucci.
Gucci can inspire things, all right. So it's a Louis

(26:13):
vuton inspired clutch purse. It has my husband's ID and
both of our phones in it. That's kamb oboma at
this point. It also has our food stamp cards. Wait
what oh? How does that work? When you go in
and pay for something and you pull out your food

(26:34):
stamp card. From what you're passing off as being a
Louis Vauton purse, it strikes me that all societies say, wa,
ho ho, hold hold a minute, you're using food stamps,
which means I'm paying for your food, but you're carrying
a Louis Vuton purse, which I can't afford. I work

(26:55):
and pay my taxes and you're carrying a Louis Vuitton purse.
Oh no, it's just a Louisviton inspired Oh okay, it
has our foodstamp cards. Also, one has his name on it. Well,
now somebody's walking around with this dude's food stamp card.

(27:18):
It'd be cool if he had a name. That might
not match up with the demographic profile of the person
that now has hold of his foodstamp card, wouldn't it.
It might be a oh, it might be an inspired
foodstamp card. Yeah, you probably get one of those two.
There isn't anything on the cards and nothing of value
money wise. I'm not sure why she would say that, Like,

(27:42):
if it's you, go ahead and give it back home.
Ain't nothing on it, ain't nothing on to it. There
are a lot of sentimental pictures and stuff on the
phones though, And my husband's idea is also important. So
if anyone at all happens to find it, please let
me know. I can give a reward for its safe return.

(28:06):
Out of what where does the reward money come? From
so many questions, but there's one more little nugget in here.
I was around several places around town, so I have
no clue, but I figured, since there are a lot
of people in this group, maybe I will be blessed
and can get it back. I like when people use

(28:27):
blessed in such a manner. Yeah, I went in, put
a pistol in that Arabs face, told him to hit
the cash register, and I was blessed with three hundred
and eighty three dollars. Yes, so I was able that
night to go to the club and I was able

(28:48):
to bless Destiny and she blessed me back with a
couple of dances, and we was able to both be
blessed by the club with some nice champagne in the
champagne room. And so I was able to bless the door,
the door men on the way out, and I even

(29:08):
blessed the valet parker who parked my car up front.
So apparently there's a follow up to her post with
the thanks in advance and a smiley face. And the
follow up was places where they stopped that day where
it could have been misplaced, and one of them was
Stands Liquor mark because you know, we don't have food,

(29:33):
we don't have money for food, but we have money
for booze. Our society has gone so soft, so inefficient,
so unjust. If you're a bad person but shameless about it,

(29:55):
you can live high on the hall while so many
people struggle and scrimp and save, work their tails off,
and their money is taken to give to losers. Where
is the concept to shame? Michael Berry, We've got to
bring back shame. There's got to be more shame, got

(30:17):
to be. Charles is traumatized by being in the room
during the earth Charles, Hello, yes, sir, Yes, Well.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
You're talking about being in the room one of the
babies born.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
I've got three and they all came to see section,
and I was in the room each one of them.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Well, I got to think that's easier than a natural
birth to witness.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Well, it was easier for her because she was had
little screen between her and where they was cutting.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
But I didn't. But it was not I guess she was.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
There was no pain.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
And when he when he did the third, when he'd
tied her tubes and he took that little piece of
meat and showed it too many he said, this is
what you were looking for, and he threw it on
the floor.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh that's old school. They wouldn't do that today. But
you know, I guess the trade off with the C section.
As you said, it didn't hurt her. It might not
hurt her at that time, but then you've got to
heal obviously after that for a much longer period of time.
It's just incredible that this is such a natural process

(31:44):
that you know, the giving of birth, reproduction of the species,
and yet it is so traumatic to the body. I
mean amazing, how many women have to be on bed rest,
how many gestational diabetes, how many women have lifelong problems afterwards.
It's a one that women bear the burden, but thank
god they do. And my only point is that's the

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kind when I fuss over women over wow, it's amazing
you gave birth, it's like they're a shamed they don't
want you should be proud of that. Man. If I
bust a pimple, I'm like, that was bro