WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:27.480 The weekend's here. The holiday weekend is here. K IF I am six 2 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.640 forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Mo Kelly. 3 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:36.039 The weekend is here. Hopefully you're not stuck in that traffic on any 4 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:40.200 one of those freeways, but most likely you are. Maybe you're just trying 5 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.439 to get home from work. Like Mark Thompson, he's probably in his car 6 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.359 right now, stuck in traffic. I know you only got off the air 7 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.479 four minutes ago, but still he's probably stuck somewhere in traffic. You are 8 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.479 probably stuck in traffic. Well, I got something for you. For the 9 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.600 next three hours, I'll be right here with you, giving you all the 10 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:03.439 updates. Mark Ronald will be checking in with the news. Tawala will be 11 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:04.959 doing something, probably not a lot. Have no idea what he does during 12 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.359 the show. He just kind of disappears. He goes in, he comes 13 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.159 out, he goes out, he comes back in. I don't know what's 14 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.560 going on, but we're gonna have a great show for you tonight. We're 15 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.120 gonna play name that movie called Classic, the Memorial Day Weekend Edition. It's 16 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:26.040 gonna be war movies, military movies, and espionage, movies, war, 17 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:32.920 military and espionage. We're gonna have some fun in the meantime. And let 18 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:38.719 me just start where I usually start. Crime, crime, crime. You 19 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:44.920 know how we've been talking about Metro and I have been really really laser focused 20 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:52.079 on increasing law enforcement presence on Metro trains, buses, and platforms, all 21 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:57.120 three. You need to have all three and somewhere on the Lake three like 22 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.200 Ellie County for to supervisor. Some were really really on the late freight, 23 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:08.479 like the La Metro Board of Directors. But they've all come around to my 24 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:14.199 position. Now, did you know that recent attacks on Metro writers and operators 25 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:19.520 some fatal. We've covered them. They've included shootings, stabbings, assaults, 26 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:24.000 robberies, hijacks and more. In the first three months of twenty twenty four. 27 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:30.120 You may not know this, Metro has seen a sixty five percent increase 28 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:36.199 in total crime. And it wasn't until that press conference they had back on 29 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:43.280 May sixteenth that the Mayor Karen Bass La Mayor Karen Bass and also a head 30 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.599 of the Board of Directors from Metro came to the same conclusion that you and 31 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:53.360 I already had that Metro was unsafe. So finally they have come home to 32 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.520 Jesus, as they say, and they're going to put more law enforcement on 33 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:01.159 buses, trains, and plata. And I was looking just looking around social 34 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:07.439 media, and I noticed Cafi's on Michael Monks, who takes Metro every single 35 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:12.000 day to work. God bless him, pray for him every single day. 36 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:16.599 He said that he did notice an increased presence of law enforcements and law enforcement. 37 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:21.159 This is what I try to tell people is it's not that more law 38 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:28.120 enforcement stops all crime. It's that law enforcement. The visual presence of law 39 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:34.960 enforcement serves two specific purposes. One it's a deterrent. We all know that. 40 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:40.680 And number two, you're not waiting for help if needed help is already 41 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:46.240 there. The way it was set up before was that you had law enforcement 42 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:53.840 maybe close by because it was shared responsibility between LAPD Long Beach PD and also 43 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:59.879 LA County Sheriff. And when they were patrolling, you would occasionally see them 44 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.719 on the trains, or they would be parked in a cruiser near the platform 45 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:11.800 somewhat nearby, but they weren't there if something was actually happening on a train 46 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.120 or on a platform, and definitely not on the bus. So there are 47 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.839 two things. It's therefore a visual deterrent and also so you have immediate help. 48 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.639 I shudder to think when this turns out and people start realizing, Wow, 49 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:31.160 increase law enforcement presence does have a positive effect on the crime quotient on 50 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.920 our platforms, trains and buses. It's not going to end all crime, 51 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.519 and I don't want people to think that it has to be perfect. Don't 52 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:45.720 let perfect become the enemy of the good here. It doesn't need to be 53 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.800 perfect. It's not going to stop all crime, but it will have an 54 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:55.879 impact, a positive impact, and help decrease crime. So we're gonna watch 55 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.839 that from day to day, week to week, month to month, and 56 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:00.759 I bet after few months people gonna say, wow, MO was right. 57 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:03.360 Yes, I know I was right. I don't need you to tell me 58 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:08.120 that. In spite of Mark Ronald trying to say that I'm rarely right or 59 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.560 he never wants to agree with me, never never. I take everything you 60 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.240 say with complete seriousness. No, you mean a complete grain of everything. 61 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.879 I respect your opinions on all matters. You are not a good actor, 62 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:20.680 and you're not even half way believable. Well, I just want to let 63 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.680 you know I'll try it again later. No, no, no, no, 64 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.279 no, let's try it again right now, this time with sincerity. 65 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.879 I trust nobody more than you. Mo. I don't know, Robin. 66 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.920 Does it sound believable. It doesn't quite sound believable to me. It sounds 67 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:40.439 like he's almost mocking me. I wouldn't dream of that. I don't know. 68 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.199 He sounds serious. Oh okay, so you believe him? Yeah, 69 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.800 oh yeah, all right, But I don't believe him. So maybe I'm 70 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.439 just a little jaded. That hurts my feelings. Now, you don't have 71 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:55.360 feelings, you're not a traumaton. Oh wait, that's right. So we 72 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.920 have a lot of good stuff for you tonight. In fact, when we 73 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:04.000 come back, kfi's on Chris Adler. She was researching a story, and 74 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.639 what they do is here at KFI, they'll send out the list of the 75 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:12.639 reporters and the stories that they're covering. And I saw that Chris Adler was 76 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:20.480 covering crime and how women specifically were taking martial arts lessons and self defense classes 77 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:26.240 to not only deal with the increase in crime, but also deal with the 78 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:31.680 increase in crime on Metro Metro. So I wanted to talk with her since 79 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.959 yesterday, we couldn't get it together. Yesterday she had other things going on 80 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:41.079 at UCLA because they had that encampment issue once again at UCLA, so she 81 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.639 was there covering that. But today she was able to find time for me. 82 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.639 So when we come back, I'll talk to Chris Adler about martial arts 83 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:55.279 and the Metro and you you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from 84 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:59.959 KFI AM six forty. Last segment I told you about some of the change 85 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.399 is that Metro was going to make as far as bringing more law enforcement officers 86 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:10.839 onto trains, onto buses, onto platforms. Some two hundred and sixty officers 87 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:15.120 will see whether that makes a difference. But also I'm being told that people, 88 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.600 in a general sense, in response to the increase in crime in Los 89 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:26.800 Angeles County and beyond and specifically on the Metro, are now choosing martial arts. 90 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.439 Joining me right now is kfi's own Chris Adler. Chris, you may 91 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.800 not know this. I have taken martial arts and taught martial arts for the 92 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.839 better part of thirty five years, so this speaks to me very personally. 93 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.120 But what did you find out? What did you learn today? Well, 94 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.279 Mo I have to say that finding out about your martial arts skills when I 95 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:50.000 first started at KFI was such a surprise. I was it was a pleasant 96 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.399 surprise. I was like, wow, I can't that's amazing, you know, 97 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.879 So I didn't I didn't know that. When I learned about it, 98 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:01.240 I was impressed, very impressed with you. You know what's happened on the 99 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:07.560 Metro. There have been at least seventeen attacks on the Metro since January of 100 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.439 this year, and that's just what we know of. So it's actually really 101 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:18.319 fascinating to see people out here being proactive, wanting to take self defense courses. 102 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.639 And you know, I talked to one woman in Redondo Beach. She's 103 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.720 taking a women's empowerment course in Torrance at the Gracie Jiu Jitsu Academy. This 104 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.800 is run by Hennah Gracie with the Gracie family, and they offer a women's 105 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.840 empowerment course where they teach women how to defend themselves in situations where they can 106 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.559 be vulnerable if a man grabs them by the neck or a man grabs them 107 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.559 by their ponytails. And so I spoke with her. She said she was 108 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:48.159 on the Metro train on her way to Universal City and she got assaulted on 109 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:54.519 the train and said she never felt more unprepared for a situation, and that's 110 00:08:54.559 --> 00:09:00.600 what's driving her now to take these martial arts courses or these jiu jitsu classes 111 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:05.600 in Torrance. And also spoke earlier this morning with an instructor at a Kraftma 112 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.480 God studio in La He said he started seeing a surge in people wanting to 113 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:16.080 take Krafma God classes after Hamas attacked Israel on October seventh, but even more 114 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.440 so now he's seeing people coming in, people trickling in saying they want to 115 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.879 be able to protect their families. They don't want to be caught in a 116 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.039 situation with all of the crime going on in La County, where they can't 117 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:30.600 protect themselves or their families. Well, I think that is good, and 118 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.200 I hope I can't speak for the level of instruction that they're receiving or the 119 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:39.799 type of instruction, but I hope that part of their training is also training 120 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:48.120 their minds to deal with identifying potential threats in advance of an actual situation unfolding. 121 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:54.240 I talked extensively about part of self defense is not putting yourself in situations 122 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.559 where you might be more vulnerable, or being exceptionally aware of your surroundings and 123 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:03.679 people who are around you where potential exits may be. Things of that sort. 124 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:09.360 Have you, in talking to people or in the news that you report 125 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.000 taking a different sense of what you may need to do as a woman and 126 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:18.879 someone who's in sometimes dangerous situations just reporting the news. Well, you make 127 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.039 an excellent point. And I will say the expert instructor at krovmagav Worldwide, 128 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.200 Ross Cashio, he said exactly what you said. He said, not only 129 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:30.799 do we teach you to defend yourselves, but we teach you to anticipate, 130 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:35.480 be aware of your surroundings. Today I was in a homeless row in Santa 131 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.879 Monica. There were homeless walking all around me. I was interviewing a homeless 132 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.320 man. And as I'm doing that, I'm watching and I'm looking around. 133 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.600 I'm making sure that I'm standing in a position where somebody can't come up behind 134 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.000 me. As I'm doing the interview, you never know what can happen, 135 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.519 especially being a female out there. I'm in the trenches, I'm down on 136 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.679 skid row, I'm in places that are pretty seedy, just like today, 137 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.399 it makes me really have to be conscious. And you know, I have 138 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.240 two children most so I got to make sure that I get home every day. 139 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.399 So I'm very conscious about my surroundings. I'm very aware of my surroundings. 140 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.480 But seeing all of this crime and having been a reporter, it has 141 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.080 changed my perspective. I think I would be more willing to go out on 142 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.720 the buses and the trains and kind of put myself in a position where it 143 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:22.519 may not be as safe. I do that as a reporter, but I 144 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.919 do carry my pepper spray. But I am very aware of my surroundings. 145 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.600 Now. I don't take martial art courses, but seeing the women out in 146 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.840 the field and seeing them being willing to take those courses and take that stuff, 147 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.759 it has inspired me to now to look into that because I think as 148 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.960 a female, it is so crucial for me to have that training. I 149 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.799 hope this moment is not a fad. What I mean by that is we 150 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.360 care about something for fifteen minutes and then we move on. I hope that 151 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:58.559 if and when the crime statistics get better or we're not as focused on it, 152 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.679 that we don't change our life level of vigilance and diligence in protecting ourselves. 153 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.639 It's not just now, it's not just for the next six months. 154 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.600 Hopefully, people if they start taking these classes, they will continue to take 155 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:16.600 them for years and years and years. It's something that I've done and I 156 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.240 continue to hone my own skills and senses as I get older. You know, 157 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.000 I'm not doing all the things that I did ten fifteen years ago. 158 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.799 But the world is still a very dangerous place. And if there's anyone listening 159 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:31.320 right now, I say, take a self defense class, take a martial 160 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.360 arts class. Learn how you can, on just a very small level, 161 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.120 just protect yourself or be a little bit more aware of your surroundings, and 162 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.879 that may be the difference in a serious situation. Now from here, Chris, 163 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:50.000 let me just ask you. Did you get the sense that these people 164 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.480 who are taking these classes were doing so because of the moment or something that 165 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.480 you think that they wanted to be more dedicated to long term? Well, 166 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.840 they were very dedicated. Some of the people that I spoke with in Rodondo 167 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.000 Beach, they've been taking these courses for a while. It was you know, 168 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.720 we've been seeing an uptick in the crime on the Metro a lot of 169 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.519 crime in the last few months. Some people are new doing it just in 170 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.720 the last couple of months, but there's people you can tell that have been 171 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:18.919 doing it for at least a year. The woman I spoke with has been 172 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.200 doing the women's Empowerment class at the Gracie Academy for at least a year, 173 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.799 and she says she's dedicated. It's changed her life. Not only is she 174 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.440 just she feel more confident to protect herself, but she's in shape. She 175 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:37.120 says it's helped her life, discipline in her life. She's become more organized 176 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:39.320 and so she said there are a lot of benefits to joining martial arts. 177 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.720 It wasn't just the safety aspect there is, there's so much more. And 178 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.480 it says she just became more organized and more more present in the moment and 179 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.679 in order to appreciate life more. And so I thought that was very interesting, 180 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.639 and I was like, you know what, I think she's onto something. 181 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:58.480 I really need to do this. You know, my kids, my 182 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:03.919 kids go to martial arts if you jujitsu, and the discipline that they get 183 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.600 is unmatched. And I will keep them in martial arts until, you know, 184 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:16.120 they become adults because the training that they get the discipline and the teachings 185 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.480 I think is so valuable. Mo I agree, That's all I can say. 186 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.480 It's applicable to every facet of life. Chris Adler, I contacted you 187 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.480 yesterday saying that I got to have you on to talk about this because this 188 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.519 speaks to me personally. Thank you so much for doing this, and thank 189 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.840 you for staying on top of this. Yeah, and thank you for teaching 190 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.360 the young ones to do with thee do. I mean, it's incredible what 191 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.080 you do, so thank you. Mo. I'm way too humbled. And 192 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.960 also, if you heard something in this conversation that speaks to you, come 193 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.240 see me. And also my studio, my Dojohn with the song sob Keto 194 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:56.720 four three five four Supulvido Boulevard in Culver City, would love to see you. 195 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:01.960 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. 196 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:07.320 We often talk about movies, science fiction, we talk about tech, 197 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.840 the future, all regular subjects on this show. But then every once in 198 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:20.360 a while, reality catches up to those conversations. The science fiction becomes science 199 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:28.000 fact, the future becomes the President Hawthorne, the city of Hawthorne is expected 200 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.080 to dispatch drones to nine to one one calls before the end of this year. 201 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:39.159 We're only talking six months, and this is to help make police and 202 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.960 fire efforts safer and more efficient. It would be like an advance information reconnaissance 203 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.720 where they would get information and send it back to first responders. Hawthorne has 204 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:54.279 enlisted the Seattle based company called Brink b r I NC, and they will 205 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.919 have a drone nest system. It's going to be integrated with the city's nine 206 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.639 to one one operations and these nests will be like hubs at different portions of 207 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:14.080 the city to better canvas the totality of the area when nine one one calls 208 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:18.919 come in. Quote it's the world's first purpose built nine one one response drone 209 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.879 and this is Brink's founder and CEO, Blake Resident. They would fly it 210 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:30.879 to respond to all all nine to one one calls, police, fire ems, 211 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.399 all the above. So if you were to call for a smash and 212 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.759 grab or domestic violence, or if there was a cat in a tree or 213 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.039 there was a car accident, any time you would call nine one one in 214 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:48.080 the city of Hawthorn. In the near future, the drones would be deployed 215 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:55.200 in advance of first responders, and the drone responses are supposed to be within 216 00:16:55.519 --> 00:17:00.639 seventy seconds, a minute and ten seconds, and of course to equipped with 217 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.599 all sorts of cameras to give responding officers a better idea of what to expect. 218 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:11.440 This is straight out of the future and science fiction. And I know 219 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:12.880 you're busy, Mark Ronner, but I'd love to get your thoughts on this 220 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:19.440 as someone who had a police blogger crime beat, how do you think this 221 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:26.279 changes anything? Without being too cynical. I have to learn more about it. 222 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.039 I think that's the safest thing that I can say without what's the term 223 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.119 getting out over my skis. I think I need to study this a little 224 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.319 bit more. But color me skeptical. Okay, Well, I think it 225 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:44.799 has unintended consequences with privacy issues, of course, because I wonder what type 226 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:52.200 of retention of video. How long like you deploy a drone to a supposed 227 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.039 crime scene or a nine to one one call scene and it's going to record 228 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.079 everything it sees in and around that space. I don't know what type of 229 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:07.319 technology is using, probably facial recognition. There's some concerns there. I don't 230 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.480 know how long they'll hold on to these things. Even though let's say I 231 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:17.720 am down the street from the nine to one to one call and I am 232 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:22.079 identified in that, and it might have just been just a car crash having 233 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.519 nothing to do with actual crime behavior, my question would be, well, 234 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:32.759 am I then put into the system because I was identified in a nine to 235 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:37.160 one one call completely unrelated to it? Or is it dumped out? Those 236 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.599 are the things that I want to know. Yeah, if you're concerned about 237 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.640 living in a total surveillance police state, I think that ship's already sailed. 238 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.119 Mom. No, No, I don't worry about that. I would want 239 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.640 them to be explicit as far as what is being done, how it's being 240 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:55.759 done, and where the supposed line is between legal and illegal behavior is. 241 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:59.079 Yeah, good luck with that. I think our Fourth Amendment has effectively been 242 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:03.000 erased. You really have been paying attention over the last several years. Oh, 243 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.240 I have been paying attention. But I also want it on record as 244 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.319 far as what is And we had this conversation with the i'll say, the 245 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.359 robot dogs that they were sending in to various locations. Now, those were 246 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.640 terrifying, by the way, Yeah they are, but I could see how 247 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:22.559 they can be used the right way, but I always always want oversight and 248 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.759 parameters. They have the robot dogs with flamethrowers on them. Now have you 249 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.880 seen this, Yes, I have. It took a lot of willpower not 250 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.680 to swear when I said that. Just now, by the way, they've 251 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:38.680 got them with blank flamethrowers, the robot dogs. That's that's dystopian. We 252 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.880 can haul out the word dystopian for this kind of stuff right here. Well, 253 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.759 didn't I say, you know, we've gone from science fiction to science 254 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:51.200 fact. We've seen I would say, variations of this in all sorts of 255 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:56.279 movies which were set in the future. Oh yeah, I mean that particular 256 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.279 one was in a Black Mirror episode, which it's like a documentary. Now 257 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.759 there's no fiction left to it. No, And all we can do is, 258 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:11.079 since Hawthorne is a small enough city where you get a good sense of 259 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.400 how it's going to work, I want to see the fine print. I 260 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.599 want to know what is going to be done with the video, which is 261 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.559 unrelated to the nine to one to one call. I mean, you've had 262 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:27.279 Marcia Collier on here enough to talk about how essentially our privacy is a myth. 263 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:32.519 At this point, But in my experience as a crime beat reporter, 264 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:38.519 there's always a back and forth between police and civilians and police and the press, 265 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.559 and it's a tough needle for them to thread because they're expected to be 266 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:48.920 effective without going too far. At the same time, they'll go exactly as 267 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.640 far as as you can until you stop them, right. But also, 268 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:57.000 if the safeguards aren't there in the beginning, they won't be there at the 269 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:03.279 end. My point is, let's be explicit, let's be clear about what 270 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.920 that's safeguard or safeguards are going to be, what oversight there will be. 271 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.480 And I think there should always be civilian oversight to any of these activities, 272 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.200 in any of this technology. Oh, there's no question about that. Civilian 273 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:22.279 oversight is non negotiable. In my experience, police who are left to police 274 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:27.759 themselves have a mysterious ability to exonerate themselves every time about everything. Well, 275 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:32.440 I mean, I think think of this as the extension of the body camera. 276 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:36.680 You need to have the civilian oversight to make sure that the technology is 277 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.279 being used in a way that it's supposed to be used and it is not 278 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.960 used against the general public in an unlawful way. Yeah, and they need 279 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.839 to be fail safes as well, because cops can turn off their body cams. 280 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:53.599 That's right, and same with this type of video. So I like 281 00:21:53.720 --> 00:22:00.920 the idea, but I want to see the proposed implementation. There's gonna be 282 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.119 a sort of a period of, you know, taking the training wheels off 283 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.839 of stuff like this to find out how it works, if it works well, 284 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:15.079 which and if rights it tramples on and you and I are lucky enough 285 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:17.759 to get to live through that before it's hashed out completely. Yeah, and 286 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:22.200 I'm just spitballing here. I wonder if the drone is dispatched to a nine 287 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:27.680 to one one location and it sees something that which may be a crime or 288 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:32.559 probable cause for a search, warn or something, I wonder how that plays 289 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.200 out. I wonder then always the unintended consequences of what this was designed for 290 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:41.640 and what it also ends up leading to. Yeah, we we I feel 291 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.480 like we're getting a little bit closer. What's that Tom Cruise movie Minority Report? 292 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.599 Minority Report? Oh No, that's exactly what I was thinking about. 293 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.720 Yeah, we're right there. Crime, it's almost a pre crime. I 294 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:53.720 feel like you are guilty of some pre crimes and I'm not going to name 295 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.759 them on the air. Oh thank you. I appreciate that because I would 296 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.640 hate to embarrass you. You wouldn't name on the air, but you'll put 297 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.640 him on social media. I'm sure, what at, mister Kelly? Where 298 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:10.200 where exactly? You're such an ass? What was it I said yesterday? 299 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.000 Mister mo Kelly at gasbag dot com? I forget what the what the address 300 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:15.799 was. I'm just trying to get it correct because I'll get it right later 301 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:21.119 with Kelly. We strive for accuracy. Kelly at Later with Mo Kelly. 302 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:23.160 Oh yeah, that's right there. We go on Instagram. You're listening to 303 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:30.000 Later with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI Am six forty. And we told 304 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.920 you earlier this week, we said that there will be more accusers. We 305 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:37.200 said there will be more allegations, more accusations, probably even more videos. 306 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:45.599 Well, the sixth accuser has come forward and she's suing Sean Diddy Coombs for 307 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:51.680 sexual assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress after allegend he had 308 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:55.960 dragged, excuse me, drugged and raped her multiple times while she was a 309 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.079 student. Her name is April Lampros and she's followed a lawsuit against Diddy, 310 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:06.000 and she claims that he showered her with gifts flowers after they met in New 311 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.279 York, but then they met up in a bar at nineteen ninety five and 312 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:14.000 ended up back in this hotel room. She's a former Fashion Institute of Technology 313 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.640 student, and she says did he plied her with alcohol and when they returned 314 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:22.440 to his room at the Blydiam Hotel, she began to feel ill, according 315 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:27.359 to the lawsuit, and did he allegedly started to force himself on her. 316 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:32.559 She was unable to defend herself when he began raping her. According to the 317 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:37.319 lawsuit. April woke up the following day nude, sore and confused. According 318 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.640 to TMZ, her lawyer wrote, quote, she was a hopeful yet naive 319 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:47.000 college student and took mister Combs at his word and believed that the first rape 320 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:51.079 was a possible Mulligan and decided to give him a second chance. I don't 321 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:53.640 know about that, but that's what her lawyer had to say, Mulligan, 322 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:00.720 that's what he actually put out on Credle. Wow. Yeah, like that 323 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:04.440 at all. I don't know who her attorney is, but I assume as 324 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:10.559 he he needs to be fired and me fired. He's not the spokesperson for 325 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:15.359 her, And I'm not blaming the victim. I'm saying she needs better representation. 326 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:19.880 Yeah, anyone that sums up what happened to her, even hazarding the 327 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:25.799 term mulligan is no, that's already a no. A mulligan is when you 328 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.759 miss a pott. Oh, yes, that's That's what I'm saying like this. 329 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:37.279 April also claimed she started turning down Ditty's subsequent invitations, which prompted him 330 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.880 to develop a monster persona as he grew angry, calling her repeatedly and threatening 331 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.920 to blacklist her in the industry. Back in nineteen ninety six, April was 332 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:52.160 ordered in quotation marks to Ditty's apartment and on arrival was introduced to his land 333 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:53.799 partner, the late Kim Porter. I'll get back to her in just a 334 00:25:53.799 --> 00:26:00.039 moment. Lamposa claimed that the musician forced ecstasy down her throat, then demanded 335 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:07.400 she have sex with Kim while he pleasured himself before he allegedly raped her again. 336 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:15.880 There's a lot and it's Lewde. It's vile, it's explicit, but 337 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:23.359 it's not unlike what other accusers, including Cassie, have alleged when kim Porter 338 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:29.319 was mentioned. Kim Porter is deceased. According to the autopsy report, she 339 00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:33.359 died of a form of pneumonia, but one of Diddy's bodyguards, I don't 340 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:37.160 know if we've talked about this, had come forward and said that he had 341 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.880 seen kim Porter physically abused by Ditty as well. All of these stories are 342 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:48.440 similar and overlap, and it's coming together. And it's what we were telling 343 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:52.839 you, that there were more accusers out there, and I would say this 344 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.240 for everyone that we know about. I would say there one or two that 345 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.279 we don't know about. Don't think that the only people coming forward other people 346 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:06.079 that this might have happened to. It cannot be lost on any one listening. 347 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:11.519 That. Literally last night, at the close of the conversation regarding Ditty, 348 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:18.920 you said, I guarantee you this, there will be at least two 349 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.559 or three more accusers before the week is through. Pretty much. Well, 350 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.799 we got one right here, yeah, you know, and maybe because it's 351 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.319 a holiday weekend, the courts will be open. Yeah, the courts will 352 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.279 be open on Tuesday, and we'll get some more then. But this is 353 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.720 gaining momentum. There are more people. When I say people. You know. 354 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.000 It could be men or women. You don't know who will come forward. 355 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:48.839 And I'm saying that because there are there are other insinuations and allegations regarding 356 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:53.359 Ditty which have not been put in a lawsuit as of yet, and I'm 357 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:56.599 not going to get out in front of that. But there will be more 358 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:03.079 people coming forward because this is just the beginning. And as more people come 359 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:10.319 forward, others who were possibly unsure themselves or unsure that they would be protected 360 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.960 by larger society, will feel strong enough to come forward and tell their stories. 361 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:21.680 And yes, Diddy is presumed innocent until he is found guilty in a 362 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:26.319 court of law in the sense of criminal charges. Yes, there is still 363 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:33.279 a federal investigation going on in the background because he had multiple residences rated, 364 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.160 and we don't know where that is going to lead. But all these things 365 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.880 are tied together because if you didn't know, all these accusers are talking to 366 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.480 the Feds. It's interesting to me that I saw and I saw this on 367 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:52.000 social media today. One individual guy, of course, wanted to put it 368 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:59.160 out there that because he had not been formally charged, because he was not 369 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:02.799 in jail, that this was a whole lot of nothing, and in the 370 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:06.079 end. In the end, he said, even with the video out there, 371 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:11.799 we as in individuals assessing this situation are going too far. We need 372 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:17.319 to move on because this is a whole lot of nothing, that sentiment, 373 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:22.759 And every time I see some guy saying that, it reminds me of exactly 374 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:27.359 the type of pushback we saw when you first launched the Cosby files. And 375 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:32.119 if you think about it, a lot of the behavior here, even though 376 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:37.680 it may be more physically violent than what was reported on in the beginnings with 377 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.359 Bill Cosby, a lot of what's happening is the exact same. Let's be 378 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.880 honest here, we live in a society where there I can't quantify it, 379 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:55.079 but there's a measurable portion of society which is okay with the abuse of women, 380 00:29:55.839 --> 00:30:00.359 the sexual assault of women. They don't see it as actually criminal in 381 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.440 nature because it keep making excuses for it. They keep saying that, well, 382 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.480 it must be something else other than what the woman is saying. It 383 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.559 has to be something else, And this does not believe all women. I'm 384 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:18.000 saying, after a while, there's a preponderance of evidence against this individual better 385 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:25.640 known as Sean P. Diddy Combs. I tend to believe the multitude of 386 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:30.920 women and the video more so than I believe the random denials of Diddy. 387 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.720 They're going to be more accusers and there will be more apologists. Unfortunately, 388 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:44.680 because we live in a society where there's a measurable portion they're okay with the 389 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.400 abuse of women. It didn't start a few years ago, and it's not 390 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:52.240 going to go away in a few years. This has been that way for 391 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:57.759 quite some time. The only thing which has changed is that women feel powerful 392 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:03.279 enough or safe enough to tell their story. And also that comes from social 393 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:11.440 media. I think social media and the ability to come forward and maintain some 394 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.039 level of anonymity. I think that has helped. I think because once it 395 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.599 gets out there, you have more people willing to instantly share it, believe 396 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.119 it, and I think that has helped this moment, which of course was 397 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:32.519 sparked by the Me Too movement, which was started on social media. And 398 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:36.920 get ready, there's some other music moguls, names that you know, maybe 399 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:42.720 names you don't know, very very powerful, very successful, famous, who 400 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:48.200 are also going to be touched by this. Maybe not directly in relation to 401 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.440 Diddy, but there's some other names who have their own skeletons in the business 402 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:57.920 that they're going to have to deal with because their victims quote unquote just haven't 403 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:01.440 come forward yet. I'm not gonna call any names. I'm just saying I 404 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:07.240 know for a fact there will be other high profile people who will be implicated 405 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.519 just because of their own histories, and until that time, just nobody told 406 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:17.119 you there will be more accusers coming forward regarding Diddy. You're listening to Later 407 00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:22.799 with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty