Enter it now, Bill cunning in the Great America of Glorious Wednesday afternoon has
come. We're better temperatures while you hadn't told by Steve Rowley the Power of
nine. And coming up later is Austin Wipuma, a good friend of Brian
Hamry, and we're going to break down the Gene Carroll Donald Trump fiasco.
What's going on? I know that last night of the night before you had
the specter on MSNBC of Jean Carroll with Rachel Maddow talking about how they're going
to spend Donald Trump's eighty three million dollars with fancy trips, drinking fancy wine,
eating fancy food, and going on a shopping spree and maybe buying condos
all over New York City. So you see how serious the left takes that
issue. But until then, of course, we've had in Cincinnati a couple
of terrible incidents in which mobs of young teenagers are beating the crap out of
people. And this morning, Dan Carroll and Judge Hartman talked about how was
this done well. Judge Harry Bloom is the administrative chief judge in Hamlet County
Juvenile Court, and she's the one a couple of years ago that gave a
seventeen year old rapist a book report to do for annally raping a fourteen year
old boy, and instead of binding him over to felony court, which should
have happened, she didn't do that. She issued a book report and tell
him to write about it and talk about how bad rape is. And I
can only imagine what that seventeen year old is doing now, but until then,
Brian Hambrick the Power five, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
And Brian, how are you? Oh good? Thanks again mister Cunningham.
Couruse you've been here forever along with Shari Pulolo and John London. Some of
the legends and news. You've covered it all. You know where the bodies
are buried all over Hambleton County. It's kind of like the and they show
Yellowstone. You take him to the train station down the hill they go.
Brian hambric knows every body down there in Wyoming instead of Montana, so kind
of give it, give us your perspective. And I know Shari Polo has
done some investigation on this too, about the impact. And you said to
me, something off the air is that. Now, when you have a
story downtown, which you often do, you go through gymnastics to make sure
you're parking the right location, get your head on a swivel, see what's
going on, and give me your reaction to what's going on in the mean
streets of Cincinnati right now. Well, man, I think it's maybe a
little different than what we've seen. I mean when they talk about crime,
and we had the mayor on last night that you know, crime's actually actually
down, but it's sort of what kind of crime are we talking about here?
Because what we have here or what appear to be random attacks that one
appears to be a man walking along sixth Street and all of a sudden,
here comes this whole group of about eight people and a full on attack on
this guy. He's got no chance, eight people wailing on him, he
goes down, he's call him for help, and they just continue to kick
him and beat him. And then a couple days later, and we're not
sure exactly what the relationship of time. They haven't released a lot of information
on when these happened, what the proximity, time and space and all that
was, but just released and yesterday it was more video of another person that
was being beat This looked like a teenager who was maybe near the bus transit
system over there. And again, a whole group of people. Once they
get him on the ground, they're beating and can he fight him back.
He's trying to do his best, but you can see there's there's too many
of them. It's like Hyena's attacking a lion. There's only so much the
lion can do, even though he may be more powerful than he given Hyena.
When there's ten or twelve of them, it's a lost cause. They
get this kid on the ground and he appears to be unconscious by the time
they're done kicking him in the head and in the ribs and stomping on his
face. It's unbelievable to watch. And again the difference is as difficult as
that only is to watch. What makes it even more I think concerning for
people here in town, for businesses and especially in the suburbs, is that
this appears to be a random attack. This isn't one drug dealer shooting another,
or somebody's got a beef with this group of guys and that group of
guys and they're going to get each other. There's a lot of that going
along, and you can get caught up in that. That's a concern,
but this seems to be at least it appears to be something different. And
this is the kind of crime that really gets people's attention and out in the
suburbs, people are very concerned about coming downtown. I can't tell you how
many people I have to talk to you is that it is not doing this.
This becomes a point where it's not worth it. And you know,
Brian Hemric, the city of Cincinnati, especially downtown Government Square, Fountain Square,
that is the heart that beats the Tri State. We have about two
point two million citizens who live in the Tri State, which is like about
six counties in Kentucky about twelve, in Ohio about three, and Innana two
point two million. And of the two point two million, about three hundred
thousand live in the city of Cincinnati. So one point nine of two point
two do not live do not live in the city of Cincinnati. So if
you live in Sharonville or Western Hills. I talked to Sheriff Richard K.
Jones in Butler County. I'm gonna get him on Thursday and Friday. He
says, my guys, don't go downtown. I don't go downtown. I
don't go to OTR. You talk to Warren County, there's no question Warren
County, they're not coming. You live in northern Kentucky. Tony Bender lives
there, Rob Sanders lives there. They all tell me the same thing.
You tell me that I have so many choices. Whatever's in downtown Cincinnati other
than the Reds, the Bengals and FC. Other than those three, I
can get everything that I want without risking my personal safety in my life.
And I can't tell you how many parents have told their teenage sons and daughters
or young folks, don't go downtown, don't go to Clifton, don't go
to UC because there's shootings taking place all over the banks. There's all kind
of vicious break ins in Clifton. Cars are being broken into all over the
place, plus personal assaults. And Brian Hemmert when you say crime is down
and statistically it is, the problem is city police don't pull over anybody anymore,
and that is a pretext to arrest somebody for drugs in the car,
guns in the car, warrants out for their arrest, and cops are told
don't chase any knuckleheads down alleys anymore. After Steven Road shot Timothy Thomas,
the message went out, Look, we'll catch them later. Don't be proactive.
So when proactive police stop, they don't do that anymore. Of course,
crime is down because crimes aren't being arrested and prosecuted. That's the that's
the answer. Well, what happens, I think for people who live out
out in the outlying areas is you kind of have a meter, you know.
On that meter it's your Hansle meter, you know, and so you
know, first of all, if you're outside, you got to drive downtown.
Okay, all right, Well I was just working downtown, but now
I've got to drive downtown. So I'm driving downtown on my spare time.
So you're paying that, you're paying for the extra. Now you've got to
find a place of park, and that can be a hassle, depend on
where you are. So there you go, you got your parking. Now
you've got to worry on top of that. We've had all these car break
ins, We've had people, you know, so now you got to worry
about is your car going to get broken into? Is it going to get
stolen? If you park it in a certain place downtown or anywhere. I
mean, because it could be anywhere. And so now you're worrying about that.
And now on top of that, it's basically, do I want to
buy this lottery ticket for violence? And that's what people are concerned about.
Am I buying a lottery ticket for violence? And maybe my time doesn't come
up, Maybe you get downtown. Nothing happened. It only happens to a
very few people. But so does the lottery. And at some point,
somebody's going to get attacked. Somebody's going to get and I don't want it
to be me. You know, I think this is what people are saying.
And you know I've heard this. I have heard this from people in
Northern Kentuck. I'm the last one. I come downtown. I still come
downtown. I may come downtown this weekend. So you know, I'm the
last guy on the bandwagon. But I can tell you there are many many
people that I know out in Northern Kentucky who are saying, will we go
downtown? The answer is not no, it's hell no, we're not going.
And so this is the this is the concern that city council. This
is what they have to be concerned about, because the folks out there are
helping this city to survive. They're helping the city to thrive, and they're
a big part of it. A lot of people live downtown. They say,
hey, look, we're used to the you know, whatever kind of
concerns there are, we live with them every day, so kind of get
over it. But there are people will say, I don't have to Why
will I. I'm going to just stay out here, and so there's no
need to to. You know, have folks from It's it's Mason, it's
Westchester, it's all all these places outline who have to come in, and
you want them to come in, They're now given one more reason to say,
do I really want to do that? Yeah? And that's not a
position we want to be in as a city. And Brian Hemry, there's
a murder trail happening as we speak. And my good friend James Bogan is
one of the criminal defense attorneys in which a fourteen year old boy. When
I was fourteen, I was a senior at s I'm sorry, I was
an eighth grader at Saint Savior Grade School in Deer Park, and I was
concerned about little Penny Cunningham and Penny Ashbrock. I was concerned about about Sandy
Gittinger. I was concerned about playing football, basketball and baseball. I wasn't
concerned about shooting someone. Can you tell the American people basically what's happening in
that trial before Judge Louver's as I speak, Well, that trial, this
is a it's such a convoluted You have five guys, two are all involved
in a series of four murders that took place in nineteen days last February.
And a lot of people didn't even hear about this because it took police a
while to put it together. And that's the other thing. Look, the
police are doing a good job of catching people sometimes you know, in this
case, they ran down all of these I mean, this was it was
really convoluted, and it's sort of like you know, the Beatles would put
out an album and sometimes they have Billy Preston involved and sometimes George wouldn't be
there. Sometimes Bringo didn't show up and they but they put the album out.
Well, this is sort of way these guys did their killing. There
were five of them, and sometimes there were three of them there sometimes there
were two of them there. Sometimes they brought in another guy. But the
guy that's on trial now is on trial for two of the killings, and
he was involved in two different killings, a couple of them were they were
basically he put himself out as a contract killer. That's what he wanted to
be. So a guy's going to contract him to kill somebody. Then he
sub lets his contract killing to some content. So he takes three guys and
they go and they try and kill the first guy, according to prosecutors,
and they shoot up everybody because these guys can't hit anything. They killed every
well, they shot everybody, and they killed the wrong guy. The guy
they were supposed to kill. He lived. Well, now he's really mad
and some of his buddies are. And so there's a retaliation against this guy
named Godfrey, who's a guy on trial. He gets shot. Well,
now he's super mad because he's been shot. He didn't get the guy killed
that was supposed to get killed. It thought were prosecutors laid this out in
their opening statements and they could go to the closing arguments today. But and
James is going to do that. James Bothan is going to do those closings
today, So you know, it's a long and sort of tail and this
and in the middle of all that is a fourteen year old who was apparently
trying to put himself out there as a contract killer. He's one of those
five guys that was involved in this killing over nineteen days, fourteen and fourteen
years old. It's unbelievable. Well, and been just over in Covington.
We had a fourteen year old shot by a seventeen year old. We got
the eleven year old who was shot down there in the West End. I
don't think they ever did figure out who the killer was in that case yet.
I mean, we've had a lot of these young kids, and fourteen
seems to be the new you know, seventeen coming of age, coming out
and younger and younger. Yeah, coming of age and I'm gonna be a
tough guy on campus. Fourteen and seventeen year olds are killing in Covington.
The fourteen year old is dead. The seventeen year old I understand is there
may have been a shootout like gun smoke. Everyone's got guns, and what's
gonna happen in one of these one of these mass marauding gang attacks in downtown
Cincinnati. Somebody's gonna pull out a gun and it might be the victim,
but then you're gonna have six or seven around him, also with guns and
with steel Toad's shoes, and then all hell's gonna break loose. Now what's
gonna go on is gonna be a shootout on Fountain Square or in governments where
with these bus passes. I think it was Channel five pointed out that I
think Ted Pirival wants to change the bus system, and that's somehow all if
you're at CPS, you have a golden ticket to take a metro anywhere,
anytime, any place, but the all headquarter down in Government Square. So
the problem is Government Square and the bus ticket is not the behavior of the
person. Explain that system right, well, you know, I mean that's
we've we've talked about this in the past, and I know there's the advocates
like Mitch Morris and Pastor Mingo, Pastor Kate. You know, those are
the guys that are out there every time, you know, there's shooting and
somebody gets killed, and these guys are saying, you know what a lot
of us said. Look at Scottie Johnson as well as talked about this a
lot this this begins at home. This is where folks are going to have
to There has to be a change in the way and then the attitude very
young because as we're seeing what happens, these kids are left to their own
devices. The folks that want to raise them are the ones that want to
raise them into crime. And and they'll take them when they're fourteen, because
you know, these these kids are singing and there and there, you know
a lot of things in their culture, their songs, their music. Listen
to this rap music. It's all about beating women and shooting cops and and
uh and and get money and and and drugs and all this. That's what
it's about, the whole central theme. And it glorifies this, this lifestyle
of of being a killer and of being you know, a tough guy and
all this. But you know the reality of that life is not what is
cracked up to be and song and dance, you know, I mean,
the reality is people are getting killed, people are getting maimed. Here you
get paralyzed for life and uh and go to jail and all this, you
know, but and it's but it's glorified to the point that these young kids
they don't understand that this is not what is cracked up to be. I
mean, sounds good when you're listening to a song and you're digging to be
to that tune, but it is the reality of living that and and it's
it's it's you know, it's a lot like nom people thought, you know,
going to war with you, We're going to the glory of war,
you know. And then eventually people got the idea war is not what you
you know, you don't want to be caught up in there. There's no
glory in it. It's it's it's it's death, it's destruction, it's it's
disease, it's it's it's decisions people don't want to make. It's it's it's
every awful thing you can think of. And and and I think people finally
started getting that message during Vietnam that you know, this is not a thing
to be glorified. And I don't think we're I don't think you see people
quite as you know, bought into the romanticism of war. But the kids
here haven't got that message yet. It's just as violent. It's it's basically
like they're getting drafted into a war and they see the romantic side of it
all, the glory of it all, and how tough they might be,
and how you know, I might get a big caller, might head of
a water cash or whatever. Yeah, that's it. And when you have
a traditional system very different. You know, right now in Hamlety County,
we're teetering. We could have become Detroit in the next one to five years.
When you have judges like Judge Carrie Bloom in juvenile court who does not
believe that young folks should be held penally accountable for their serious criminal misbehavior.
If you rape somebody, if you shoot somebody and kick somebody in the head
repeatedly and get out on bond immediately. These two kids got a one got
a ten thousand dollars bond. Then what she did was dismiss the assault.
She dismissed the cases, the two kids that got out on bond. I
was told by a prosecutor that the cases have now been dismissed and that they
don't exist anymore. Because of she wants counseling, she wants to know restorative
justice, and so the cops. The cops are done. The cops have
told me, why do I arrest these jack rabbits running around when when we
have a juvenile court system completely broken, and uh, that's what's happening.
Well, Brian, we got to run. We got more comments. I
wanted, well, what are you going to cover this afternoon? If anything?
Well, there's that other all kinds of things going on here, I
think with somebody going down to city Hall where they're talking about this again,
I'm going down to I'm on my way down to uh uh Williamstown right now
where they had a firefighter. It was involved in a fire down there and
it was a flash over. Two firefighters. They had to drag him out
of the building. We're on fire. The one guy had third degree burns.
So I'm going down there to check it out, to kind of cover
that story. Well, when you go there, you enough to worry about
your car getting break. You know, it is rather popular in Detroit.
You're breaking the news cars and steal stuff. So I think down there you're
eating It's Grand County, you're in good shape, but Hamilton County not so
good. All right, Brian, Yeah, go ahead, you did well.
You reminded me, you know what, the police bringing these guys back
in. You know, I used to do stand up comedy. I did
that. I tell people I got in the news because of two of the
similar But but it reminds me of this joke that I had where it's Batman
and Robin and they're going uh and Batman answers the phone he's I guess,
Commissioner, what the Riddler again? But we just call him last week.
Come on, Commissioner, we're doing our job. You know, it's kind
of the same thing that same guys are committing the same crimes all the time.
You know, where's the riddler. Let's catch the riddler. Get the
riddler now. Yeah, Brian, thank you again for coming on the Bill
Cunningham Show. Thanks again, mister Cunningham. Brian Hemrick standup comedian. That's
the best. He's the best there is. Let's continue with more. My
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