KFI AM sixty's later with Mokela were lived everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hopefully
you had a wonderful weekend. I had a wonderful weekend. Met some CAFI
listeners at the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run. It was great being able to
sit out there with you. In fact, I was out there with Kenna
and her fiance and Alaska, their dog. My dog tried to attack Alaska,
even though my dog, Vincent, was only one fifth the size of
Alaska. But you know, that's how we get down. It's okay.
Alaska's friendly to all dogs. Even though no I said my dog was the
aggressor, I admit that I owned it. He embarrassed me in the moments,
like look, don't it bears me dog? And that's the one that's
hyper right. No, No, that's the older, more calm one.
But for some reason, I don't know, maybe Alaska looked at him the
wrong way or something. It's the blue eye maybe, yeah, the singular
blue eye blue eye, like who you looking at. But it was a
good day. Was nice being able to meet all of you. But now
we're back and unfortunately the real world is getting in the way there's a lot
of heavy news which is going on right now. We have to make sure
that you are aware of If you were listening to Tim Conway Junior in the
past hour, you know that he was following and passed to baton to me.
We're following the story of the La County Sheriff's deputy who was shot in
the back today while waiting at a West covinat intersection. The shooting happened at
about two forty five pm and West Covina at the intersection of North Baranka Avenue
and East Garvey Avenue South. The good news is the deputy, a nearly
twenty year veteran of the department, Deputy Acepureau, was treated at a nearby
hospital and he is in stable condition. It looks that everything is going to
be okay at this time. But it was an unprovoked attack. It was
a shot in the back. They are looking for the assailant. A witnesses
told investigators that there is possibly a vehicle of interest, a white sedan with
tinted windows that was last seen driving westbound on the Interstate ten at from Baranka
Street. I know that's not a lot of information, but that is all
which has been released to the general public. Sheriff Luna recently had a press
conference surprising us of this information and also the deputy's status. If there is
more information which should come in, we'll make sure that you do have that,
so do not feel that you are missing any part of that story.
We are continuing to follow it in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom and we
will have consistent updates throughout the evening. But there's also something else. I
was bumping around the internet, as I usually do early in the day,
and I say this with all seriousness. Sometimes I make predictions. Sometimes I
may talk about the things that I'm very concerned about, and I don't want
to be right, but the available information suggests that I'm more likely right than
not. Last week I went on a rant and I said, I've run
out of things to say. I don't know what to say. We've had
three different metro bus attacks within the space of a week, and I was
out of words to say to express the amount of danger I perceived on La
Metro. I wasn't trying to be hyperbolic. I wasn't trying to be sensational.
I wasn't trying to be emotional and over the top. I was trying
to be fact based and dispassionate. I could not, in good conscience recommend
anyone that I cared about, family member, friend, colleague getting on the
Metro because I think that it's fundamentally dangerous. Not dangerous in the sense of,
well, you could be anywhere anytime and get hit by a bus type
dangerous. We're not talking about random acts of bad luck. We're talking about
a place which is more conducive to crime and something bad happening to you.
And then Tim Conway Junior sent me the story. I had already seen it
at that point, but of course by now you know of the woman who
was stabbed early this morning on a Metro subway train in her neck before exiting
in Studio City. She has since died of her injuries at a local hospital.
I've told you more times than not that I rode the Metro. When
I did, I would get on the Blue Line in Long Beach and I'll
get on maybe six thirty in the morning, and it would take me all
the way to the Universal City stop. I know exactly what that stop is
like because I wrote it every single day, and that's where I exited,
and then I'll get off a Universal City and get the one fifty eight bus
and it would take me not too far from Hollywood Way, and I'd walk
the rest of way to my job. I know exactly what that is like.
If you know this story. The woman unfortunately got on in North Hollywood.
North Hollywood is only one station away. She was only on the train
for at most three four minutes, because that's the distance in between the stations.
She was attacked on the train. From publish reports, that means she
was attacked almost instantaneously upon getting on the actual train. I don't know if
the story would have ended differently if there was an actual police presence on the
train. I suspect that it most likely would have. And you have to
wonder at this point. I know that if you listen to the mayor's State
of the City address, she'd made commentary to the fact that the trains are
safe and they're improving. Well, that's factually untrue, and people, not
just me, are beginning to understand that it's genuinely unsafe. Now. The
station is a busy one with commuters and tourists who come here to Universal City,
and it's the Bline trains which run from North Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles
and Union Station. We spoke to people today who are very concerned about safety.
Is what we know is the attack occurred on the train somewhere between the
last stop and here at Universal City Station. She then is able to exit
and the suspect. Suspect exits as well, but the attack does occur on
the train. I'm a little bit afraid, and you're here. It on
the news that something can happen, but it's surprising that it happens on our
first day. The station is closed because of such a thing. I never
feel safe on the chain. You have to stay very vigilant, be aware
of your surroundings because there's always some sort of chaos going on. Three incidents
last week on metro buses. We have one start off this week on a
metro train. This unfortunately ended in the murder of a woman in another unprovoked
attack. Of course, as things happen on Metro, we will make sure
that you're made aware of them, because I think an informed populace is most
important, and also if you're just tuning in, we are continuing to follow
the story of the La County deputy who was shot in the back while waiting
at a West Covina intersection. He is presently in stable condition at a nearby
hospital, and we'll have more. If you have any information about a white
sedan with tinted windows that was last seen driving westbound on it from Baranca Street
in and around that time, please make sure that you inform the local authorities
regarding that. It's later with mo Kelly when we come back, we're going
to talk about the protests going on around the country at various universities, including
USC, just over this past weekend. And like I said, I don't
like to be right about some things. But when we discuss last week,
and we said that at least in defense of the university, the university didn't
necessarily know where the story was going to head, what other variables there were
going to be in the equation, whether the situation was going to escalate in
the Middle East. Well, all of that has happened. Now, all
of that, and now there is a rising element of not only anti Semitism,
but protests and arrests around the country. Wimbo Kelly one six. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And if you just tune in. We are
continuing to follow the story of the La County deputy who was shot in the
back while waiting at a West Covina intersection. He is in stable condition at
a nearby hospital. The search continues for the assailant, who was thought to
be in a white sedan with tinted windows, was last seen driving westbound on
the I ten from Barncas Street earlier today. Obviously that why Sadan probably is
not in that location now, but as updated information comes in, we'll make
sure that you do have that. Just know that the KFI newsroom is on
that story and we are following it. And we recently had a press conference
update from Sheriff Robert Luna that was around six o'clock this evening. We don't
anticipate another press conference, but if there should be one, we will bring
that to you live. And something else which is going on locally of great
interests. We've discussed what's been happening at USC, the protests which have been
ongoing. In fact, they were continuing over the weekend. The protesters were
marching in support of the twenty twenty four valedictorian Osna to Boston. That's just
one of many college protests going on around the country, some of the ones
which have garnered more headlines are the ones at Columbia and Yale, both universities.
Law enforcement has had to intervene, and there have been arrests of students
who are protesting. And let me just make a brief comparison I said long
ago, not in regard to this, but I'll say during the Black Lives
Matter movement, you have to be very careful about who you may allow to
speak on your behalf and who may become part of your protest, because it
makes it very easy for forces outside and I would say people with a minority
view hijack the message of your movement, of your protest, and then your
protest is perceived completely differently from maybe how you originally intended it. Now,
I'm quite sure that the majority of people who are protesting, I don't know
this for a fact, but I believe this. I don't have any data
to support it, but I firmly believe that the majority of people who are
protesting at USC are connected to the Valedictorian issue, and a smaller component of
that is about the wider Israel Palestine issue. But when you go to Colombia
and Yale. I believe the predominant number of protesters are probably in support of
Palestine, not pro Hamas. I think there's a distinction which must be made
and should be made. They're not the same thing. Supporting Palestine in a
two state solution is not the same thing as supporting Hamas and what happened on
October seventh. But there is a rising number of voices that you're hearing in
interviews and then the protests which are blurring that distinction, and it makes it
more difficult for the people who have a legitimate issue to raise to be heard
and be heard clearly. Confrontation at Columbia police removing protesters from campus citing extraordinary
circumstances. Columbia University President Manu Shaffik called in the NYPD to clear an encampment
of pro Palestinian student demonstrators. The encampment set up Wednesday morning, the same
day Shaffique testified on Capitol Hill about anti Semitism on campus. We must uphold
freedom of speech because it's essential to our academic mission, but we cannot and
shouldn't tolerate abuse of this privilege to harass and discriminate. In a letter to
the university community, Schaffique noted protests have a storied history at Columbia, where
anti Vietnam demonstrators took over buildings on campus in nineteen sixty eight, but in
asking for help from the police, she said, the encampment and related disruptions
pose a clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the university. We
are risking, like our academic standing, just to like to show the administrators
that we are not okay with their decisions. Several demonstrators today stomping on an
Israeli flag, some students saying they feel unsafe on campus. I feel as
though people arekind of weaponizing antisemitism. This is where we are in America right
now. And there's something else. I don't know if someone else has said
it, but I'm going to say I know universities are going to bend over
backwards and be very careful about these arrests on campus, because the last thing
any of these universities would want is another Kent State situation. If you don't
know what that is, go back to nineteen seventy, in which some college
students were killed by National guardsmen during anti Vietnam protests. So there's a very
precarious nature of how the protests are going to be conducted, how they're going
to be handled. And even though students may be arrested, universities are super
sensitive to not having an escalation of that nature of that kind. If students
are going to be arrested because they are interfering with classes, the student life,
whe they're threatening other students, that makes perfect sense, but they don't
want it to take the next step, which also goes back to the discussion
of USC and how USC was concerned about what commencement could turn into. Let's
say last week you were firmly on the side of the valedictorian and said she
should be able to speak regardless of what's going on in the world, and
we said, wait a minute, there are other concerns here. There are
other variables in the equation which could impact a smooth graduation. If you are
a trustee member at USC or the university president and you see what's happening at
Yale and you see what's happening at Columbia, can you, and good conscience,
proceed as if nothing is going on? Can you proceed as if it's
business as usual for commencement again, because we are on an escalating trajectory,
we're not on a de escalation trajectory. It is much more agitated today that
it was last week. The Middle East is much more complicated and unstable today
than it was last week. And until there's an indication that is going to
be moving in the other direction of de escalation and calming of tensions, I
would expect all universities, inclusive of USC Columbia and Yale where they had arrests
there today as well as well, I have to assume that they would move
in the direction of anticipating further escalation and also in putting measures to further protect
students and the campus that comes first. That's more important than anything. And
I'm quite sure someone who's on the between the age of eighteen and twenty four
and I remember when I was at Georgetown University, I was much more of
an activist, borderline militant, fight the power all of that. I remember
the person that I was, and I was a little bit too naive to
see the bigger picture of the world. It was just for me. It
was right and wrong, black and white. There was no gray in between.
It was all of this or none of that, no nuance. That's
how I thought as a twenty one year old, twenty year old, and
then you get older and you realize that the world is far more complicated than
that, far more complicated, and about much more than a singular speech by
a singular student at one university. And how you may think that that's the
most important thing in the world, it isn't not when you combine all the
factors involved. It's Later with Moe Kelly kiff I AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. We're continued to follow the story of the sheriff's deputy
who was unfortunately shot in the back in West Covina earlier today. As more
information does come in, we'll make sure that you do have that, But
if you're just tuning in, we want to make sure you know that we
are on that story and we are continuing to follow it. You're listening to
Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six fortying. We're continuing to
follow the ongoing story the La County Deputy motorcycle deputy who was shot in the
back while waiting at a stoplight at a West Covina Intersection. He is in
stable condition at this time, but the Sheriff's department is asking for our collective
assistance. Witnesses told investigators that there is possibly a vehicle of interest, a
white sedan with tinted windows, that was last seen driving westbound on it from
Baranca Street. This was around two forty five pm earlier today, but it
gives us some information to follow. If you should see something, definitely say
something. Contact local law enforcement. If you should see something which you may
feel or know something which may be helpful in helping bring this person to justice.
Also, another continuing theme on this show is the idea or issue of
privacy. I have long said, and embarrassed mentioning again. I believe privacy
is an illusion. It's something that we think we have, It's something we
believe is important. It's something that we would like to tell ourselves that we
have, but I don't actually think we have it, especially when you go
out in public. And I understand that we don't have a constitutional right to
the expectation of privacy in public settings, but at the same time, you
would like to believe or think that private cameras aren't being used in the sense
of law enforcement or surveillance. That has been an ongoing debate as far as
whether law enforcement could and should use private cameras, security cameras, traffic cameras
in the general surveillance of citizens like you and me. But the La City
Council is looking to expand the LAPD Survey Len's program, and the City Council
approved the motion seeking to expand this proposed surveillance program that would give LAPD real
time access to private and business security cameras. Internal and external law enforcement agencies
have created facilities with access to cameras such as automated license plate readers, security
cameras at private businesses and residences. Did you hear all that businesses and residences
as well as existing Department of Transportation cameras installed at large intersections, and they
have put all these facilities and abilities in one particular location. Individuals and business
owners would be required to opt into the program in order to give the LAPD
permission to access their live footage. LAPD officials expect to fund the program using
moneys from the state to address the ORGANI Retail Theft task Force. Obviously,
the belief here is that this type of surveillance will help stop or prevent or
solve smashing grabs, I don't know, But there are two issues here.
One whether it would actually do what it is supposedly designed to do. And
how extensive would that surveillance be. Is it something that would only be used
in the event of a crime in a particular location, or is it just
general surveillance where they'll be able to watch all the time in the event that
something may or might happen. Let me go back to the top. As
far as this illusion of privacy, I assume, especially when I'm in public,
somebody something is always watching, be it a camera, be it a
person, be it someone's ring device. If I'm in my neighborhood, something
somebody is always watching. The question here is whether I'm comfortable with being wah
watched for something that has nothing to do with me. In other words,
am I being watched just because I'm out on the street, or is this
video available at all times to law enforcement? We don't necessarily know where it
begins and ends. It makes me uncomfortable, not because I'm out there doing
something that I shouldn't, but I don't know how comfortable any would anyone would
be if they knew they were just continuously watched all the time. Do you
want to be watched when you're at the bar? Do you want to be
watched when you're on your front lawn sunbathing. I'm just saying hypothetically, if,
if all these cameras are connected. But there are all sorts of examples
in movies where this idea is discussed. There was the movie with Gene Hackman
and Will Smith, Enemy of the State. There was the movie Eagle Eye
with Shilah buff They're all sorts of images. There was a TV show Mark,
remember the TV show Person of Interest? Thank you very much. This
is not a new idea, it's just now real and it's really happening.
And there was a portion in Batman the Dark Knight in which Alfred has access
to every cell phone on the Earth and Batman uses it to track down the
Joker. Oh that was Lucia's Fox. Jesus Fox. He didn't want any
part of that, right, he knew about it, and he walked out
of the room. It's almost as if there is something not so great about
living in a total surveillance police state. Almost almost almost. I'm not necessarily
sure that it will bring about the desired result as far as smash and grabs,
could it help in an overall crime sense. I don't know. I
don't know. I just know that people overestimate the amount of privacy that they
actually have. I think people are not really aware of how all this technology
and its connection could have all sorts of unintended consequences. Remember, they were
just debating I think, reauthorization of the Patriot Act and all of that on
Capitol Hill. FISA, FISA, excuse me, PISA. This is all
connected. This is all absolutely connected. And if FISA makes you uncomfortable,
and the opaque nature of that where you can have these warrantless searches, what
do you think this is. We're not it's not right next door. No,
it's in the same house. Well, I gotta tell you just a
fact check here. Unless you're a foreign spy or working with them, you
really don't need to be worried about PISA. But the fact that every other
thing that you do in the real flesh world and online is monitored, that's
a thing. Well, you don't have to necessarily worry about PISA, but
that information is still being collected and all the like for example, Carter what's
his name? What Carter Page? Carter Page. Yes, I couldn't remember
his last name for some reason. Carter Page was the most i'll say,
public and obvious example of how PISA can impact someone. The whole thing about
PISA is it's not just the person that they're surveilling, it's the person who
they may contact, the person who they come into come in contact with,
the person that they may be around. Like for example, I've met Carter
Page a couple of times. Don't ask it was a politicon. Okay,
it was a politicon. Wow, there's even a picture with him and me
on my site, mister Kelly dot com. Your social circles baffling. It's
hey, true story. You go to mister mo kelly dot com. There's
a picture of me and Carter Page. You and Carter went out after the
comic con and made it rain on some strippers. No, it was politicon
and they were self employed models. Okay, sorry, But my point is,
Mark Ronner, if somewhere down the road, my name were to come
up in a report or a person who interacted with that could be disconcerting,
right, That could be concerning, That could be a problem. Not that
I'm doing anything as far as international espionage. I'm just saying that we never
necessarily know where surveillance begins and ends. That's all. It's Later with mo
Kelly, ca if I AM six forty Live Everywhere True Story Me and Carter
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to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. And I
don't know if you know this, but if you're going to see the cockpit
on a plane, you can do it. If the plane is still at
the gate. You know how. You get on the plane and the door
will be open. You can see the pilots where they sit. You can
see all the controls. When you get on the plane. That's when you'll
likely see a kid or someone be invited to the cockpit and then the pilot
or the co pilot will show them where all the different buttons are. Like
in the movie airplane, but you can't do it while the plane is in
the air, not legally, not for commercial flight, not for a charter
flight. They're both governed by the same FAA rules in that regard. When
I tell you that two pilots were suspended after allowing a passenger in the cockpit
mid flight, you should be shaking your head like I am. The FAA
is investigating this unauthorized in flight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies.
It was on the Colorado Rockies team plane during what's called a United Airlines
charter flight last week from Denver to Toronto. If you didn't know that that
it was dumb to do it, it was even dumber to tape it,
because when you tape anything, the video is going to eventually get out.
The pilots at the very minimum should have known that that pop doing it was
dumb. Taping it was dumber, and then you're putting not only your own
jobs in jeopardy and obviously the safety of everyone in jeopardy. But you should
have known that this is how the story was going to end. Because video
surface earlier this week, I should say late last week that appears to show
Rocky's hitting coach Hensley Mulins, sitting in a pilot's seat while the April tenth
flight was at cruising altitude about thirty five thousand feet. As I said,
it's against FAA regulations for unauthorized people to be on the flight deck. He
could be seen and heard on the video joking with other people in the cockpit,
including a person in a pilots and at least one other person who does
not appear to be an airline employee. So there was like more than one
person hanging out in the cockpit. And just in case you were unclear about
where the law begins and ends regarding FAA procedures, there's this. So we
know this is a clear violation of safety rules. How does something like this
happen? Well, it is a clear violation not only of United Airlives rules,
but of what we call the FAAR Federal Air regulations that prohibit any or
unauthorized person in the cockpit during the flight. In fact, once that cabin
door is closed and the gate pushes back, no one can get up there.
In fact, that door is locked and can't be opened. So bottom
line here is those pilots are in trouble, And basically anybody who wants to
do that can only do that at the permission of the pilot when the plane
is on the ground and nothing is operating. So if you've got your kid
with it and he wants to see the cockpit, if you ask permission,
they'll let you in during the actual boarding process, at the discussion of the
pilot, and maybe after the flight. But once if that main door is
closed, that's off limits until the plane is finished and at the gate.
I want to reiterate to our viewers, this was a charter flight. Airlines
are often hired to operate charter flights for sports, team, celebrities, et
cetera. Do you think there's a spotlighting a possible lacks in regulations that we
don't see in commercial flights. Well, of course there is a looser atmosphere
on a charter flight vieus. The presumption is you're in control of the plane
because you paid for it, right. But you know what, the federal
air regulations don't discriminate between a charter and a regular flight if it's operated by
a commercial carrier. The rules apply to everybody, and that's why those two
pilots have it essentially withheld from service spending this investigation. How do you not
know any better as pilots. I understand that people make mistakes, but this
is not a mistake. You should know in this post nine to eleven world
that you just can't let people into the cockpit mid flight. You can't do
it. And then you're going to let someone or some one sore, maybe
more than one vide there actually tape it, because we all know when they
videotape something, it's going to be sent via a text message, it's going
to be posted on social media, it's going to be shared, it's going
to go beyond just the people involved. We share everything these days. We
can't keep any secrets. Of course, it was going to get out,
and then, of course someone with a reasonable level of common sense would have
realized, you can't do that. It's against the law. You can't do
that. Ever, it's post nine to eleven. You cannot go into the
cockpit in the middle of a flight for shits and giggles and just hang out
and take pictures. And there were a couple of other stories of pilots getting
reprimanded and suspended for letting, like models and Instagram models sit in the cockpit.
It's like, you know, everyone, I'm not even a pilot,
Okay, I've never had a flying lesson in my life, and even I
know that you just can't let people in the cockpit in the middle of the
fight. You can't do it. Can't do it. Can If I Am
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