The weekend's here. The holiday weekend is here. K IF I am six
forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Mo Kelly.
The weekend is here. Hopefully you're not stuck in that traffic on any
one of those freeways, but most likely you are. Maybe you're just trying
to get home from work. Like Mark Thompson, he's probably in his car
right now, stuck in traffic. I know you only got off the air
four minutes ago, but still he's probably stuck somewhere in traffic. You are
probably stuck in traffic. Well, I got something for you. For the
next three hours, I'll be right here with you, giving you all the
updates. Mark Ronald will be checking in with the news. Tawala will be
doing something, probably not a lot. Have no idea what he does during
the show. He just kind of disappears. He goes in, he comes
out, he goes out, he comes back in. I don't know what's
going on, but we're gonna have a great show for you tonight. We're
gonna play name that movie called Classic, the Memorial Day Weekend Edition. It's
gonna be war movies, military movies, and espionage, movies, war,
military and espionage. We're gonna have some fun in the meantime. And let
me just start where I usually start. Crime, crime, crime. You
know how we've been talking about Metro and I have been really really laser focused
on increasing law enforcement presence on Metro trains, buses, and platforms, all
three. You need to have all three and somewhere on the Lake three like
Ellie County for to supervisor. Some were really really on the late freight,
like the La Metro Board of Directors. But they've all come around to my
position. Now, did you know that recent attacks on Metro writers and operators
some fatal. We've covered them. They've included shootings, stabbings, assaults,
robberies, hijacks and more. In the first three months of twenty twenty four.
You may not know this, Metro has seen a sixty five percent increase
in total crime. And it wasn't until that press conference they had back on
May sixteenth that the Mayor Karen Bass La Mayor Karen Bass and also a head
of the Board of Directors from Metro came to the same conclusion that you and
I already had that Metro was unsafe. So finally they have come home to
Jesus, as they say, and they're going to put more law enforcement on
buses, trains, and plata. And I was looking just looking around social
media, and I noticed Cafi's on Michael Monks, who takes Metro every single
day to work. God bless him, pray for him every single day.
He said that he did notice an increased presence of law enforcements and law enforcement.
This is what I try to tell people is it's not that more law
enforcement stops all crime. It's that law enforcement. The visual presence of law
enforcement serves two specific purposes. One it's a deterrent. We all know that.
And number two, you're not waiting for help if needed help is already
there. The way it was set up before was that you had law enforcement
maybe close by because it was shared responsibility between LAPD Long Beach PD and also
LA County Sheriff. And when they were patrolling, you would occasionally see them
on the trains, or they would be parked in a cruiser near the platform
somewhat nearby, but they weren't there if something was actually happening on a train
or on a platform, and definitely not on the bus. So there are
two things. It's therefore a visual deterrent and also so you have immediate help.
I shudder to think when this turns out and people start realizing, Wow,
increase law enforcement presence does have a positive effect on the crime quotient on
our platforms, trains and buses. It's not going to end all crime,
and I don't want people to think that it has to be perfect. Don't
let perfect become the enemy of the good here. It doesn't need to be
perfect. It's not going to stop all crime, but it will have an
impact, a positive impact, and help decrease crime. So we're gonna watch
that from day to day, week to week, month to month, and
I bet after few months people gonna say, wow, MO was right.
Yes, I know I was right. I don't need you to tell me
that. In spite of Mark Ronald trying to say that I'm rarely right or
he never wants to agree with me, never never. I take everything you
say with complete seriousness. No, you mean a complete grain of everything.
I respect your opinions on all matters. You are not a good actor,
and you're not even half way believable. Well, I just want to let
you know I'll try it again later. No, no, no, no,
no, let's try it again right now, this time with sincerity.
I trust nobody more than you. Mo. I don't know, Robin.
Does it sound believable. It doesn't quite sound believable to me. It sounds
like he's almost mocking me. I wouldn't dream of that. I don't know.
He sounds serious. Oh okay, so you believe him? Yeah,
oh yeah, all right, But I don't believe him. So maybe I'm
just a little jaded. That hurts my feelings. Now, you don't have
feelings, you're not a traumaton. Oh wait, that's right. So we
have a lot of good stuff for you tonight. In fact, when we
come back, kfi's on Chris Adler. She was researching a story, and
what they do is here at KFI, they'll send out the list of the
reporters and the stories that they're covering. And I saw that Chris Adler was
covering crime and how women specifically were taking martial arts lessons and self defense classes
to not only deal with the increase in crime, but also deal with the
increase in crime on Metro Metro. So I wanted to talk with her since
yesterday, we couldn't get it together. Yesterday she had other things going on
at UCLA because they had that encampment issue once again at UCLA, so she
was there covering that. But today she was able to find time for me.
So when we come back, I'll talk to Chris Adler about martial arts
and the Metro and you you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty. Last segment I told you about some of the change
is that Metro was going to make as far as bringing more law enforcement officers
onto trains, onto buses, onto platforms. Some two hundred and sixty officers
will see whether that makes a difference. But also I'm being told that people,
in a general sense, in response to the increase in crime in Los
Angeles County and beyond and specifically on the Metro, are now choosing martial arts.
Joining me right now is kfi's own Chris Adler. Chris, you may
not know this. I have taken martial arts and taught martial arts for the
better part of thirty five years, so this speaks to me very personally.
But what did you find out? What did you learn today? Well,
Mo I have to say that finding out about your martial arts skills when I
first started at KFI was such a surprise. I was it was a pleasant
surprise. I was like, wow, I can't that's amazing, you know,
So I didn't I didn't know that. When I learned about it,
I was impressed, very impressed with you. You know what's happened on the
Metro. There have been at least seventeen attacks on the Metro since January of
this year, and that's just what we know of. So it's actually really
fascinating to see people out here being proactive, wanting to take self defense courses.
And you know, I talked to one woman in Redondo Beach. She's
taking a women's empowerment course in Torrance at the Gracie Jiu Jitsu Academy. This
is run by Hennah Gracie with the Gracie family, and they offer a women's
empowerment course where they teach women how to defend themselves in situations where they can
be vulnerable if a man grabs them by the neck or a man grabs them
by their ponytails. And so I spoke with her. She said she was
on the Metro train on her way to Universal City and she got assaulted on
the train and said she never felt more unprepared for a situation, and that's
what's driving her now to take these martial arts courses or these jiu jitsu classes
in Torrance. And also spoke earlier this morning with an instructor at a Kraftma
God studio in La He said he started seeing a surge in people wanting to
take Krafma God classes after Hamas attacked Israel on October seventh, but even more
so now he's seeing people coming in, people trickling in saying they want to
be able to protect their families. They don't want to be caught in a
situation with all of the crime going on in La County, where they can't
protect themselves or their families. Well, I think that is good, and
I hope I can't speak for the level of instruction that they're receiving or the
type of instruction, but I hope that part of their training is also training
their minds to deal with identifying potential threats in advance of an actual situation unfolding.
I talked extensively about part of self defense is not putting yourself in situations
where you might be more vulnerable, or being exceptionally aware of your surroundings and
people who are around you where potential exits may be. Things of that sort.
Have you, in talking to people or in the news that you report
taking a different sense of what you may need to do as a woman and
someone who's in sometimes dangerous situations just reporting the news. Well, you make
an excellent point. And I will say the expert instructor at krovmagav Worldwide,
Ross Cashio, he said exactly what you said. He said, not only
do we teach you to defend yourselves, but we teach you to anticipate,
be aware of your surroundings. Today I was in a homeless row in Santa
Monica. There were homeless walking all around me. I was interviewing a homeless
man. And as I'm doing that, I'm watching and I'm looking around.
I'm making sure that I'm standing in a position where somebody can't come up behind
me. As I'm doing the interview, you never know what can happen,
especially being a female out there. I'm in the trenches, I'm down on
skid row, I'm in places that are pretty seedy, just like today,
it makes me really have to be conscious. And you know, I have
two children most so I got to make sure that I get home every day.
So I'm very conscious about my surroundings. I'm very aware of my surroundings.
But seeing all of this crime and having been a reporter, it has
changed my perspective. I think I would be more willing to go out on
the buses and the trains and kind of put myself in a position where it
may not be as safe. I do that as a reporter, but I
do carry my pepper spray. But I am very aware of my surroundings.
Now. I don't take martial art courses, but seeing the women out in
the field and seeing them being willing to take those courses and take that stuff,
it has inspired me to now to look into that because I think as
a female, it is so crucial for me to have that training. I
hope this moment is not a fad. What I mean by that is we
care about something for fifteen minutes and then we move on. I hope that
if and when the crime statistics get better or we're not as focused on it,
that we don't change our life level of vigilance and diligence in protecting ourselves.
It's not just now, it's not just for the next six months.
Hopefully, people if they start taking these classes, they will continue to take
them for years and years and years. It's something that I've done and I
continue to hone my own skills and senses as I get older. You know,
I'm not doing all the things that I did ten fifteen years ago.
But the world is still a very dangerous place. And if there's anyone listening
right now, I say, take a self defense class, take a martial
arts class. Learn how you can, on just a very small level,
just protect yourself or be a little bit more aware of your surroundings, and
that may be the difference in a serious situation. Now from here, Chris,
let me just ask you. Did you get the sense that these people
who are taking these classes were doing so because of the moment or something that
you think that they wanted to be more dedicated to long term? Well,
they were very dedicated. Some of the people that I spoke with in Rodondo
Beach, they've been taking these courses for a while. It was you know,
we've been seeing an uptick in the crime on the Metro a lot of
crime in the last few months. Some people are new doing it just in
the last couple of months, but there's people you can tell that have been
doing it for at least a year. The woman I spoke with has been
doing the women's Empowerment class at the Gracie Academy for at least a year,
and she says she's dedicated. It's changed her life. Not only is she
just she feel more confident to protect herself, but she's in shape. She
says it's helped her life, discipline in her life. She's become more organized
and so she said there are a lot of benefits to joining martial arts.
It wasn't just the safety aspect there is, there's so much more. And
it says she just became more organized and more more present in the moment and
in order to appreciate life more. And so I thought that was very interesting,
and I was like, you know what, I think she's onto something.
I really need to do this. You know, my kids, my
kids go to martial arts if you jujitsu, and the discipline that they get
is unmatched. And I will keep them in martial arts until, you know,
they become adults because the training that they get the discipline and the teachings
I think is so valuable. Mo I agree, That's all I can say.
It's applicable to every facet of life. Chris Adler, I contacted you
yesterday saying that I got to have you on to talk about this because this
speaks to me personally. Thank you so much for doing this, and thank
you for staying on top of this. Yeah, and thank you for teaching
the young ones to do with thee do. I mean, it's incredible what
you do, so thank you. Mo. I'm way too humbled. And
also, if you heard something in this conversation that speaks to you, come
see me. And also my studio, my Dojohn with the song sob Keto
four three five four Supulvido Boulevard in Culver City, would love to see you.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
We often talk about movies, science fiction, we talk about tech,
the future, all regular subjects on this show. But then every once in
a while, reality catches up to those conversations. The science fiction becomes science
fact, the future becomes the President Hawthorne, the city of Hawthorne is expected
to dispatch drones to nine to one one calls before the end of this year.
We're only talking six months, and this is to help make police and
fire efforts safer and more efficient. It would be like an advance information reconnaissance
where they would get information and send it back to first responders. Hawthorne has
enlisted the Seattle based company called Brink b r I NC, and they will
have a drone nest system. It's going to be integrated with the city's nine
to one one operations and these nests will be like hubs at different portions of
the city to better canvas the totality of the area when nine one one calls
come in. Quote it's the world's first purpose built nine one one response drone
and this is Brink's founder and CEO, Blake Resident. They would fly it
to respond to all all nine to one one calls, police, fire ems,
all the above. So if you were to call for a smash and
grab or domestic violence, or if there was a cat in a tree or
there was a car accident, any time you would call nine one one in
the city of Hawthorn. In the near future, the drones would be deployed
in advance of first responders, and the drone responses are supposed to be within
seventy seconds, a minute and ten seconds, and of course to equipped with
all sorts of cameras to give responding officers a better idea of what to expect.
This is straight out of the future and science fiction. And I know
you're busy, Mark Ronner, but I'd love to get your thoughts on this
as someone who had a police blogger crime beat, how do you think this
changes anything? Without being too cynical. I have to learn more about it.
I think that's the safest thing that I can say without what's the term
getting out over my skis. I think I need to study this a little
bit more. But color me skeptical. Okay, Well, I think it
has unintended consequences with privacy issues, of course, because I wonder what type
of retention of video. How long like you deploy a drone to a supposed
crime scene or a nine to one one call scene and it's going to record
everything it sees in and around that space. I don't know what type of
technology is using, probably facial recognition. There's some concerns there. I don't
know how long they'll hold on to these things. Even though let's say I
am down the street from the nine to one to one call and I am
identified in that, and it might have just been just a car crash having
nothing to do with actual crime behavior, my question would be, well,
am I then put into the system because I was identified in a nine to
one one call completely unrelated to it? Or is it dumped out? Those
are the things that I want to know. Yeah, if you're concerned about
living in a total surveillance police state, I think that ship's already sailed.
Mom. No, No, I don't worry about that. I would want
them to be explicit as far as what is being done, how it's being
done, and where the supposed line is between legal and illegal behavior is.
Yeah, good luck with that. I think our Fourth Amendment has effectively been
erased. You really have been paying attention over the last several years. Oh,
I have been paying attention. But I also want it on record as
far as what is And we had this conversation with the i'll say, the
robot dogs that they were sending in to various locations. Now, those were
terrifying, by the way, Yeah they are, but I could see how
they can be used the right way, but I always always want oversight and
parameters. They have the robot dogs with flamethrowers on them. Now have you
seen this, Yes, I have. It took a lot of willpower not
to swear when I said that. Just now, by the way, they've
got them with blank flamethrowers, the robot dogs. That's that's dystopian. We
can haul out the word dystopian for this kind of stuff right here. Well,
didn't I say, you know, we've gone from science fiction to science
fact. We've seen I would say, variations of this in all sorts of
movies which were set in the future. Oh yeah, I mean that particular
one was in a Black Mirror episode, which it's like a documentary. Now
there's no fiction left to it. No, And all we can do is,
since Hawthorne is a small enough city where you get a good sense of
how it's going to work, I want to see the fine print. I
want to know what is going to be done with the video, which is
unrelated to the nine to one to one call. I mean, you've had
Marcia Collier on here enough to talk about how essentially our privacy is a myth.
At this point, But in my experience as a crime beat reporter,
there's always a back and forth between police and civilians and police and the press,
and it's a tough needle for them to thread because they're expected to be
effective without going too far. At the same time, they'll go exactly as
far as as you can until you stop them, right. But also,
if the safeguards aren't there in the beginning, they won't be there at the
end. My point is, let's be explicit, let's be clear about what
that's safeguard or safeguards are going to be, what oversight there will be.
And I think there should always be civilian oversight to any of these activities,
in any of this technology. Oh, there's no question about that. Civilian
oversight is non negotiable. In my experience, police who are left to police
themselves have a mysterious ability to exonerate themselves every time about everything. Well,
I mean, I think think of this as the extension of the body camera.
You need to have the civilian oversight to make sure that the technology is
being used in a way that it's supposed to be used and it is not
used against the general public in an unlawful way. Yeah, and they need
to be fail safes as well, because cops can turn off their body cams.
That's right, and same with this type of video. So I like
the idea, but I want to see the proposed implementation. There's gonna be
a sort of a period of, you know, taking the training wheels off
of stuff like this to find out how it works, if it works well,
which and if rights it tramples on and you and I are lucky enough
to get to live through that before it's hashed out completely. Yeah, and
I'm just spitballing here. I wonder if the drone is dispatched to a nine
to one one location and it sees something that which may be a crime or
probable cause for a search, warn or something, I wonder how that plays
out. I wonder then always the unintended consequences of what this was designed for
and what it also ends up leading to. Yeah, we we I feel
like we're getting a little bit closer. What's that Tom Cruise movie Minority Report?
Minority Report? Oh No, that's exactly what I was thinking about.
Yeah, we're right there. Crime, it's almost a pre crime. I
feel like you are guilty of some pre crimes and I'm not going to name
them on the air. Oh thank you. I appreciate that because I would
hate to embarrass you. You wouldn't name on the air, but you'll put
him on social media. I'm sure, what at, mister Kelly? Where
where exactly? You're such an ass? What was it I said yesterday?
Mister mo Kelly at gasbag dot com? I forget what the what the address
was. I'm just trying to get it correct because I'll get it right later
with Kelly. We strive for accuracy. Kelly at Later with Mo Kelly.
Oh yeah, that's right there. We go on Instagram. You're listening to
Later with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI Am six forty. And we told
you earlier this week, we said that there will be more accusers. We
said there will be more allegations, more accusations, probably even more videos.
Well, the sixth accuser has come forward and she's suing Sean Diddy Coombs for
sexual assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress after allegend he had
dragged, excuse me, drugged and raped her multiple times while she was a
student. Her name is April Lampros and she's followed a lawsuit against Diddy,
and she claims that he showered her with gifts flowers after they met in New
York, but then they met up in a bar at nineteen ninety five and
ended up back in this hotel room. She's a former Fashion Institute of Technology
student, and she says did he plied her with alcohol and when they returned
to his room at the Blydiam Hotel, she began to feel ill, according
to the lawsuit, and did he allegedly started to force himself on her.
She was unable to defend herself when he began raping her. According to the
lawsuit. April woke up the following day nude, sore and confused. According
to TMZ, her lawyer wrote, quote, she was a hopeful yet naive
college student and took mister Combs at his word and believed that the first rape
was a possible Mulligan and decided to give him a second chance. I don't
know about that, but that's what her lawyer had to say, Mulligan,
that's what he actually put out on Credle. Wow. Yeah, like that
at all. I don't know who her attorney is, but I assume as
he he needs to be fired and me fired. He's not the spokesperson for
her, And I'm not blaming the victim. I'm saying she needs better representation.
Yeah, anyone that sums up what happened to her, even hazarding the
term mulligan is no, that's already a no. A mulligan is when you
miss a pott. Oh, yes, that's That's what I'm saying like this.
April also claimed she started turning down Ditty's subsequent invitations, which prompted him
to develop a monster persona as he grew angry, calling her repeatedly and threatening
to blacklist her in the industry. Back in nineteen ninety six, April was
ordered in quotation marks to Ditty's apartment and on arrival was introduced to his land
partner, the late Kim Porter. I'll get back to her in just a
moment. Lamposa claimed that the musician forced ecstasy down her throat, then demanded
she have sex with Kim while he pleasured himself before he allegedly raped her again.
There's a lot and it's Lewde. It's vile, it's explicit, but
it's not unlike what other accusers, including Cassie, have alleged when kim Porter
was mentioned. Kim Porter is deceased. According to the autopsy report, she
died of a form of pneumonia, but one of Diddy's bodyguards, I don't
know if we've talked about this, had come forward and said that he had
seen kim Porter physically abused by Ditty as well. All of these stories are
similar and overlap, and it's coming together. And it's what we were telling
you, that there were more accusers out there, and I would say this
for everyone that we know about. I would say there one or two that
we don't know about. Don't think that the only people coming forward other people
that this might have happened to. It cannot be lost on any one listening.
That. Literally last night, at the close of the conversation regarding Ditty,
you said, I guarantee you this, there will be at least two
or three more accusers before the week is through. Pretty much. Well,
we got one right here, yeah, you know, and maybe because it's
a holiday weekend, the courts will be open. Yeah, the courts will
be open on Tuesday, and we'll get some more then. But this is
gaining momentum. There are more people. When I say people. You know.
It could be men or women. You don't know who will come forward.
And I'm saying that because there are there are other insinuations and allegations regarding
Ditty which have not been put in a lawsuit as of yet, and I'm
not going to get out in front of that. But there will be more
people coming forward because this is just the beginning. And as more people come
forward, others who were possibly unsure themselves or unsure that they would be protected
by larger society, will feel strong enough to come forward and tell their stories.
And yes, Diddy is presumed innocent until he is found guilty in a
court of law in the sense of criminal charges. Yes, there is still
a federal investigation going on in the background because he had multiple residences rated,
and we don't know where that is going to lead. But all these things
are tied together because if you didn't know, all these accusers are talking to
the Feds. It's interesting to me that I saw and I saw this on
social media today. One individual guy, of course, wanted to put it
out there that because he had not been formally charged, because he was not
in jail, that this was a whole lot of nothing, and in the
end. In the end, he said, even with the video out there,
we as in individuals assessing this situation are going too far. We need
to move on because this is a whole lot of nothing, that sentiment,
And every time I see some guy saying that, it reminds me of exactly
the type of pushback we saw when you first launched the Cosby files. And
if you think about it, a lot of the behavior here, even though
it may be more physically violent than what was reported on in the beginnings with
Bill Cosby, a lot of what's happening is the exact same. Let's be
honest here, we live in a society where there I can't quantify it,
but there's a measurable portion of society which is okay with the abuse of women,
the sexual assault of women. They don't see it as actually criminal in
nature because it keep making excuses for it. They keep saying that, well,
it must be something else other than what the woman is saying. It
has to be something else, And this does not believe all women. I'm
saying, after a while, there's a preponderance of evidence against this individual better
known as Sean P. Diddy Combs. I tend to believe the multitude of
women and the video more so than I believe the random denials of Diddy.
They're going to be more accusers and there will be more apologists. Unfortunately,
because we live in a society where there's a measurable portion they're okay with the
abuse of women. It didn't start a few years ago, and it's not
going to go away in a few years. This has been that way for
quite some time. The only thing which has changed is that women feel powerful
enough or safe enough to tell their story. And also that comes from social
media. I think social media and the ability to come forward and maintain some
level of anonymity. I think that has helped. I think because once it
gets out there, you have more people willing to instantly share it, believe
it, and I think that has helped this moment, which of course was
sparked by the Me Too movement, which was started on social media. And
get ready, there's some other music moguls, names that you know, maybe
names you don't know, very very powerful, very successful, famous, who
are also going to be touched by this. Maybe not directly in relation to
Diddy, but there's some other names who have their own skeletons in the business
that they're going to have to deal with because their victims quote unquote just haven't
come forward yet. I'm not gonna call any names. I'm just saying I
know for a fact there will be other high profile people who will be implicated
just because of their own histories, and until that time, just nobody told
you there will be more accusers coming forward regarding Diddy. You're listening to Later
with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty