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to one. Okay, you guys remember the swastika cops. Yes, a
little bit back the summer to South Lake police officers they got fired. One
of them drew a swastka and the whiteboard the conference room and then a picture
surface where one of them actually texted the image to a civilian. A big
article came out over the weekend the Dallas Morning News with some more details on
that because these cops did an interview exclusively with the Dallas Morning News. Uh.
They said that the room of office SARS erupted in laughter after Sergeant Jonathan
Macheka drew a swastika on the whiteboard. Captain James Logan is the guy who
snapped the picture just for fun, you know. Well, then minutes later,
Logan accidentally texted the photo to a random Arlington man who was included in
a group chat with fellow officers. So he's gonna send it off to all
these cops cop buddies, and he put in a wrong number on one of
them and it went to a random Arlington man. Was there anyone in the
photo? Uh? Yes, okay, yes it was Macheka is in it?
Like next to laughing? Yeah, okay, because I thought it was
just a swashtika on a whiteboard. I mean it was on what friend group?
Is that not even just the fact that it's a swashtaka, just that
to send that picture. I think that I've questions about is what was the
context of the hilarity that ensued, Because simply drawing that insignia on a whiteboard
shouldn't just elicit it unbridled guffawing. Look what he did. Oh my god,
that is the funniest thing I've seen Mitch Edburgh Live. That is funny.
I mean there had to be right that, there had to been some
context for this to be the punchline that everybody just couldn't contain themselves. Sometimes
you asked me questions and I'm like, man, I don't mind doing that,
man, Kevin did they It's more of the money wants of the comedy.
It's more of a rhetorical question. Today. I'm glad you did because
I have the answer for great, because that's the one reason we're doing this,
because there's, you know, new things to this. Kevin has answers
so again exclusively to the Dallas Morning News. They met in January. It
just got published over the weekend. Macheka said. The drawing was done in
jest. Macheka called another officer quote ticket Nazi, because he was writing too
many citations and this cop that he was that was getting promoted to like a
school or something, and he was like making a joke like, Oh,
you're gonna be writing tickets to all the moms in the carpool line, you
know, stuff like that. Just a little friendly humor there, not indifferent
from the soup Nazi or being a you're being a grammar Nazi. It's very
which is a commonly acceptable comedic way to describe somebody that is, you know,
over zealous, over zealous. Their actions were taken out of content context.
They say they were not meant to support hateful beliefs, although they did
have a couple of white supremacy type signs on there, including an SS and
lightning bolts. Oh, those are all written on the whiteboard. Those were
also in the picture. Yeah, they emptied the bag. Yeah, so
Macheka said the photo was taken without his consent. He said he was not
posing for the photo. Captain Logan, he's your guy, Captain Paul Logan,
No, James Logan, h all right, that's enough. He called
this case the quickest internal affairs investigation he'd seen in his eleven years at the
department. He said they had made up their mind real quickly or firing you
guys. Now. Neither officer had a major disciplinary history, but their appeals
to get their job back was denied. Captain Logan said, if someone in
that room had been was being hurtful, that would not be funny. I
really wish that the city administrators in the chief of Police would have objectively taken
a look at this for what it was. Macheka said, the joke was
regretful, but first responders can have dark humor because of the trauma they see,
and they've had seven eight months to get this story straight. Yeah,
I mean, look that that sounds like, contextually speaking, like a reasonable
explanation for that. There's no reason why they would just draw a swastika and
then just stand there and laugh at it. Yeah, right, I kind
of agree, but it's still it's still stupid pop and you're still dumb,
and you still should get fired. But you get fired for stupidity more than
anything. People make shocking jokes, yes, all the time amongst their friends.
So I told you why I ticket Nazi all that stuff, right,
that's what they were going for, Okay whatever. They told the Dallas Boarding
News that there were several South Lake employees in the room, including a deputy
HR director who laughed. He was laughing too. The HR directors, they're
kind of now they're calling people out. Now, this is good. Logan
said he overheard the joke, picked up his phone to snap a photo,
said the people. Some people told him to send that photo because they found
it hilarious. He made a group chat to send it out. Minutes later,
he received a text back saying who is this? From the from the
city to the civilian, then row after who is this? And no response
who's this? And why is a racist cop sending me pictures? That's when
Captain Logan realized he had sent the photo to someone who wasn't a part of
the joke. So then Logan said, the deputy HR director told him they
did not violate any city policies because it was just a funny joke. The
deputy HR director did not respond to multiple requests from the Dallas Morning News.
Now they this is a little less to wait. If you're caught doing something
like this, you can just kind of go, okay, we made a
boo boo here, man, I sent it to us. That's not great,
that's not good. But I think there's reason to believe here that if
they didn't tell on themselves, that they would have been saved here, because
the officer said they immediately called the chief of police to alert him that a
photo was sent to an unknown number without context. But Checka said some of
the other officers tried to talk them out of calling the chief, but they've
called him anyway to report themselves. So is that the lesson don't tell on
yourself because if they don't tell the police, the chief of police. Because
they actually got a comment from Mark Blankenship, the civilian from Marlington who received
the text, and he said he believed it was a spam. He was
unaware of the firings, had not heard this news story. Clearly, even
after it came out. He didn't even think about it. He didn't even
know, he said, I thought somebody had the wrong number. I kind
of thought, what is this. I don't understand, and I thought it
was some type of virus type thing. I was like, what the hell,
That's all he said. So he wasn't going on some crusade to find
out who's sending in me this whistle blower. He wasn't gonna do anything.
So dude, they would have probably been safe if they didn't tell on themselves.
So dude snaps the photo. He's got everybody but one dude in his
contacts and go, okay, you want that too, Bill, Well,
I don't have your number. What is it? He just types in the
wrong number. Yeah, and this guy, random guy just gets it and
he writes back what is this? Who are these people? And then they
went and you know, fest up, they got nervous and wouldn't fest up.
You said, haven't said? They said. Other officers were tell you
you don't have to, don't don't just wait, and they called the chief
to report themselves, which that's admirable. I mean, I don't think none
of this is funny. Biken Chip said he didn't report jectively, right or
no, that it came from officers. He did not know. As many
times as we've all gotten pulled over, I think we can all attest that
a sense of humor probably isn't a requirement to be the police officer. They're
not in the mood for jokes when they pull me over. Geez, i've
seen your record. I know my record. You're gonna tell me that.
Damn, dude, you're reenacting conversation. I haven't had one in a while,
thank god. But I'm gonna streak a four straight warnings, really dating
back a long time. I've not been pulled over, and damn there a
decade. Whoa, but before that, four straight warnings. Because I kill
him with kindness, you kill him with lies, don't you. I had
a big charity sticker on the back of his car. Yeah, back to
the blue Yep Police Athletic League by a couple of de Marini bats. Watch
the warnings come. I used to have a back the blue sticker on the
old Plymouth Valley and I used to drive it. Never worked, really,
no, they knew that I was look they looked at the car, and
they looked at me. In nineteen eighty eight, this guy's actively supporting.
Yeah, this guy has never written a check. It looks like all he
cares about is pizza. Uh huh, pizza and cigarette sharvel guitars and Marboro
Reds. Make it for you, mister ballas the check and logan still looking
for jobs, haven't had a job none? Now their defense attorney's kind of
funny, because what do you do if you're the defense attorney who's got to
defend swastika drawings? Okay, ken, he said. He argued that,
hey man, they were asked to take part in some social media skits for
the police department because everyone has well not everyone, but a lot of companies
have a social media person who are always like trying to get engagement going on,
and some of them are actually really good and really funny, so they
were asked to take part in social media skits, including parodies of a Laddin
Stranger things. He said the department has a long history of joking around and
the administration fostered this humorous environment. He also said Nazi signs are not taboo
for comedy, referencing snl Key and Peel and Seinfeld. I mean kind of
right, right, it's a I guess this suit that's a well known popular
character on one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. Yeah, and
that is a Nazi joke right now. The guy serving soup wasn't wearing an
armband or anything, and there was no visible there was no branding. I
think suspended and not fired had it been in a different town. But you
can't be messing around with that in south Lake because South Lake has got a
bad history and that's why but Cheka Officer Macheka, who allegedly drew it,
said he said he thinks the climate in the area, along with the issues
in the local school district and they've had like six federal investigations for racist stuff.
He think that's contributed to how it was handled. Captain Logan said this
this is kind of a good old fashioned thing to say. Though if it
had been a hateful thing, there definitely would have been a funny picture taken
because it would have been a hey, man, what the hell are you
doing? Get that crap out of here. That's what he said. It
would have been like that if someone was if someone was offended, get that
crap out of here, erase it. I'll kick your ass. I don't
think it would have gone down like that. But interesting. That's probably a
wrap on that story because I mean it's tough because those guys, like they
really don't have employment for almost nine months now, and because they reported themselves.
I don't think anything happens if they don't report themselves. Probably not.
Is there any honor in them saying, look, we did this, it's
out there. There could be some blowback letting you know. I don't know,
I mean, why would they do they do that in interview six months
after? You know? Maybe so yeah, which they just said. It
was like, I don't know. Man. Where I struggle with is like
what about the SS double lightning bolts? Right that sign for white supremacy?
That's one upsmanship. One guy draws a swastika and other guy's got it.
Well, I know things about Nazis too. Let me add one who know
too much about Nazis, the Iron Eagle or whatever the other one is.
You know, yeah, oh, let me draw this guy. It's Hitler,
you know like that. It just doesn't There's a beautiful portrait of Joseph
Mingly. I mean I I draw a penis on this paper almost every day
and hold it up to you, guys, kind of wondering where that's been.
So here it comes, here, it comes. It's not even really
a good penis. It doesn't draw your exact size penis on there. Oh
no, you got it? What are you doing, Misshapen? He always
makes a mistake of holding this up and then showing JJ, hey look,
oh, I just maybe you should call hr and get out in front of
it. Yeah, I'm not telling myself. Me too. Me and Danny
are on your side. Have I ever drawn a penos and that you've seen?
No? No, what do you mean. I'm just trying to think
back to the time you did. I can't even draw a penus. I've
seen your notebooks, doodling. Let me see your pictures, Kevin. It's
all just penus shaped foods in the next notebook. Let me see your art,
Kevin, I haven't drawn anything. Um, that's a nice banana you
have their. Danny, thanks, I have an update on the coyote guest.
Oh great, he says that this is the uh. He's putting a
bow on the coyote story. I told you the final report. I doubt
it. I told Danny before you got here this morning, Mike. I
said, look, I know Mike's tired of the coyote story, but I
think it's the last update and it's an important one. The cootie that been
three children at Parkway Central Park in Arlington last week has been tested for rape.
Drum roll please? He negative no rabies. Rabies. That means the
kids don't have rabies. But they didn't have wildlife services out to the park
to survey the area. They saw no parks, no coyotes in the park,
but did spot two others in the surrounding area, so leading me to
question, did you get the right one? Yeah, exactly, they got
the wrong damn coyote. So that's the answer. Kill all three coyotes and
see if they have rabies. I mean, did they kill this one?
Yeah? They distroyed well, they didn't kill it. They destroyed it.
Yeah, they they tested his brain. That's what you have to do to
them coats, kill it and his brain. Okay, that kite is really
cute. The one they got, I know it looked well fed too.
Yeah. Okay, here's what they said, Mike, you're gonna like this.
They the staffs did say that they saw multiple overflowing trash containers in the
area, which can't attract coyotes. Heck yeah, man, it looks so
much healthier than the coyotes that live in my neighborhood, which you're feeding off
of broken glass and syringe plastic whatever washes up in my creek trash overflows on
what a burger bag? Watch you McCall it wrappers. Still hungry, I'll
have a human so hungry, too full to heaven. I'm starving, too
full to get daddy. I'll take the kid, an unattended toddler delicious veal,
human veal. No, there's your coyote updates, all right, hopefully,
nor promise that's the last one we'll see man. All right, what
if they find one with baby human blood all over its mouth and they're like,
we got the right one. You're not gonna report on that. No,
we're gonna do it tomorrow. Yeah, report on whether you're sick of
it or no, you know what, Or there's gonna be another damn coyote.
Yeah, other snake on the loose place. You know what coyote is.
Coyote is the new plane. Yeah it is. It's Kevin's plane.
So for a month every day plane stories. You know, opened a Google
doc. Today Kevin adds a damn plane story to the page. Hey,
Danny, look another plane story. I haven't even looked at it, but
I will. I don't even click on it. You should. You should
check it out. Coming up next on this President's Day. I spent some
time this weekend diving deep into the past of each of our nation's leaders,
and what I found was shocking and pressure. Coworkers and friends with knowledge you
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