Speaker 1: Seven o five here Kentucky and it's Morning News with
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty WHAS. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: it's Friday, we are once again joined by L and
Speaker 1: PD spokesman Dwight Mitchell. And also we've got Scott Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: in the saddle with us as well. Dwight, how are
Speaker 1: we doing. Happy Friday, sir.
Speaker 2: Well, Happy Friday to the both of you all. It's
Speaker 2: always a pleasure to see you all. And it's a
Speaker 2: new way, new day. I'm coming in the studio.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like the I like interviews where I get a
Speaker 1: chance to, you know, have some face to FaceTime. It's
Speaker 1: it's better for the product that is radio and I'm
Speaker 1: not as used to it. So I thank you for
Speaker 1: giving us some of your time, man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you back. How about it?
Speaker 1: So we'll start with the pride parade that is that
Speaker 1: is planned this weekend. Obviously that'll lead to some road closures.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about what's expected this weekend.
Speaker 2: Well, what I'm going to do is not tell you
Speaker 2: a whole lot about it other than to go to
Speaker 2: our social media page.
Speaker 3: Okay, and all of those that's easy, all the road.
Speaker 2: Closures that will be in the air area, and that's
Speaker 2: the best way to do that. And that, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're participating in parade or I want to be
Speaker 2: a spectator, certainly you want to know all the routes
Speaker 2: that are taking place so you won't be delayed.
Speaker 1: You've you've been doing this a long time. I don't
Speaker 1: want to make you sound like an old guy, but
Speaker 1: you but a lot of things have changed in life
Speaker 1: during your time with LMPD, and technology is certainly one
Speaker 1: of it. One of those things. I'm assuming that that
Speaker 1: social media just the Internet, but really social media, because
Speaker 1: everybody's active on one of the platforms. You guys are
Speaker 1: on all the social media platforms. That's a really good
Speaker 1: resource for you.
Speaker 3: Guys, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's another way for us to reach and get
Speaker 2: our message out. You know, for many years we had
Speaker 2: to do that through the traditional media, which which still
Speaker 2: do but obviously most people get their news now through
Speaker 2: social media. I think I heard you say that.
Speaker 1: Kind of a scary thing to think about.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yes, but it's a fact.
Speaker 2: And I subscribed to the philosophy that you either got
Speaker 2: to adapt to advance.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Reason why we don't have dinosaurs today because they never
Speaker 2: adapted to the vegetation.
Speaker 3: So I don't want to be a dinosaur.
Speaker 4: So does social media help you in policing as well
Speaker 4: when you have events like this or what we saw
Speaker 4: with maybe the riots that I want to say riots,
Speaker 4: but the protests that we had, do you guys get
Speaker 4: in in learn a lot from social media.
Speaker 2: You know, we're trying to bob like everyone else and
Speaker 2: trying to figure out this whole thing. And yes, we
Speaker 2: use social media quite a bit again to get our
Speaker 2: message out, to get more out to people again, because
Speaker 2: that's the way people are receiving news. No longer do
Speaker 2: you have to wait until six o'clock in the evening.
Speaker 3: Or o'clock and night to get the constant thing this
Speaker 3: twenty four hours a day. You can thank Ted Turner
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 5: But you you could probably if you have folks that
Speaker 5: are trained to do this, that maybe follow some folks
Speaker 5: that don't have such good intentions and maybe start connecting.
Speaker 5: Then you guys use it for an investigative.
Speaker 1: Purpose, yes, certainly, yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, yes, I
Speaker 1: mean I would I would imagine that that. There's been
Speaker 1: many investigations where social media played a big role in
Speaker 1: determining what happened. So it's useful in ever ways, and
Speaker 1: it can be obviously, it could be something used against
Speaker 1: folks who are out here doing things they shouldn't do
Speaker 1: and not being mindful of the receipts they leave in
Speaker 1: the digital world.
Speaker 2: Right absolutely, and it never goes it's always on the clouds.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's all good, no doubt about it. All right,
Speaker 1: So I understand you guys have a detective that is
Speaker 1: looking into a thirty nine year old cold case that
Speaker 1: was a rape that took place. Thirty nine years is
Speaker 1: a long time. Tell us a little bit about sort
Speaker 1: of where you guys are with that.
Speaker 2: Well, actually, last Friday, which was June the thirteenth, and
Speaker 2: was Friday thirteenth, and thirty nine years ago last Friday
Speaker 2: that was also June the thirteenth. This is the reason
Speaker 2: why we did that. The rape occurred here in Louisville.
Speaker 2: What happened was there was a lady who was out
Speaker 2: with some of her friends over in Jeffersonville, Indiana. They
Speaker 2: had been out she was going home. She was stopping
Speaker 2: at a Save a Step store to get a drink
Speaker 2: for a husband or something to that before she went home.
Speaker 2: The store was closed, and as she was exiting the
Speaker 2: parking lot of that place, two black males came up
Speaker 2: to her. She said she felt a gun barrel on
Speaker 2: the left side of her head. They forced her back
Speaker 2: into a car and they drove over to Louisville across
Speaker 2: the Big Ward. She was raped multiple times in different
Speaker 2: locations throughout Louisville, and we believe some of them may
Speaker 2: have taken over with the old Codder Home Southwick area
Speaker 2: around thirty second and Young at that time was a
Speaker 2: very notorious corner for that type of activity or drugs
Speaker 2: and things of that nature. She had the word with
Speaker 2: them at that point to.
Speaker 3: Get some very good information that she gave to.
Speaker 2: The detectors back then with the Louisville Police Department, who
Speaker 2: those detectives worked their case very well that I'm told
Speaker 2: even for that time, rape Kipt was done over in
Speaker 2: Clarksville because she.
Speaker 3: Had the world with her to get back over.
Speaker 2: The bridge over through the Germon Minton Bridge and was
Speaker 2: able to contact authorities over there and we worked the
Speaker 2: case together for a couple of years and then the
Speaker 2: Louisville Police Department at that time took the case over. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: the lady about a year ago was hearing about technology
Speaker 2: that now has with red cases and she called our
Speaker 2: Office of Sexual and Physical Investigations Unit, which was called
Speaker 2: ASPIE and Detective Wendy Atkins who works for us. She's
Speaker 2: a civilian, but she does is an investigator in cold
Speaker 2: cases along with the state trooper who is a retired
Speaker 2: State troopers come back to work cold rapes specifically to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: So after thirty nine years, this woman who's lived a
Speaker 3: good life but.
Speaker 2: Lives with a horror every course of these two individuals
Speaker 2: who still may be walking in the streets now that
Speaker 2: was thirty nine years ago. They may still be alive,
Speaker 2: and they may not be. But the point of the
Speaker 2: matter is, even though she's gone on with her life,
Speaker 2: it's still that lingering thing there where you want these
Speaker 2: people to pay up for what they did.
Speaker 3: And that's where we are today.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it wouldn't have been a shock if
Speaker 1: this individual or maybe others that had something like this
Speaker 1: happen that, of course they live with probably every day.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're a victim. It's not something you just
Speaker 1: ever get over. You learn to deal with it as
Speaker 1: best you can. Easier said than done. Had she been
Speaker 1: aware of technology and just decided I don't want to
Speaker 1: go down this path again, I'm in a good place.
Speaker 1: I don't want to revisit something that was so traumatic
Speaker 1: that wouldn't really be a surprise. But I'm happy to
Speaker 1: hear that. You know, despite living a good life now,
Speaker 1: they still want justice and want to know, even if
Speaker 1: it is somebody that may not be with us anymore,
Speaker 1: or maybe incarcerat or whatever it may be. I can
Speaker 1: certainly not relate to that situation at all, but I
Speaker 1: do understand wanting to just least have some aspect of closure.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because here's the thing where, even if we don't
Speaker 2: catch these people, the fact that she's come forward, it
Speaker 2: may help someone else who has happened to more. Currently,
Speaker 2: you know, I think we have about three thousand code
Speaker 2: cases of rate that we have just with the little
Speaker 2: Metro Police department. Those are just the ones that report it.
Speaker 2: Because it's one of the most unreported crimes.
Speaker 3: That we have that braks should take place.
Speaker 2: So we're hoping that getting the message out also brings
Speaker 2: some people for what that this has happened to that
Speaker 2: we can get on it and hopefully, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't like to necessarily use the term bring justice, but
Speaker 2: just to get the right thing done, sure, and for
Speaker 2: people to pay for the crimes that they.
Speaker 1: And know that your you know, law enforcement, your team,
Speaker 1: You're here to help in every way you can. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are some that may never get the
Speaker 1: closure or the justice that they want, but the role
Speaker 1: that law enforcement plays throughout, I mean, it's a strong thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's many that have worked tirelessly to help
Speaker 1: someone get something they weren't able to get, which is closure,
Speaker 1: justice whatever that maybe both, But yet they've developed a
Speaker 1: relationship with somebody who's working tirelessly to help them, and
Speaker 1: that alone can be a big step and being better
Speaker 1: to being better able to deal with something that's so traumatic.
Speaker 2: You hit it right on the head because detective Vatricans
Speaker 2: and the victim actually have stuck struck up a friendship.
Speaker 3: As a result of them all. And you know, and
Speaker 3: that's great too.
Speaker 2: In this bridge and a gap with the community that
Speaker 2: we all are trying to do. You know, I look
Speaker 2: at it all the time and I think what our
Speaker 2: goal is. It's just to protect people and protect their
Speaker 2: constitutional rights. We're going to make this real simple. That's
Speaker 2: what law Enforce Sure is. Ultimately, it's not all the
Speaker 2: other flowery things we like to put in it. Uh,
Speaker 2: but that's what we're here to do. And you know,
Speaker 2: we all live and work in this community, have families,
Speaker 2: you know, have children, have mothers and fathers, and sisters
Speaker 2: and brothers, aunties and uncles, Lottie, Dottie and everybody.
Speaker 3: We've got all of that.
Speaker 2: And so you know that's our ultimate goal is to
Speaker 2: do that and to make Louisville a much safer place.
Speaker 3: Every day we try to do that. Good stuff.
Speaker 1: Thank you as always for stopping in Dwight, hope to
Speaker 1: hope to do it every week.
Speaker 3: That's good stuff. With the creek don't rise and Lord,
Speaker 3: don't call me, well said.
Speaker 1: It's Mike Mitchell, LLMPD spokesmen joining us here on news
Speaker 1: radio eight forty whas. We'll get a check of Travick
Speaker 1: in weather coming up right here right now on news
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Speaker 3: Thank you John.
Speaker 1: It is seven thirty five here Kentucky, his morning news
Speaker 1: with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us here on a Friday morning. However you're
Speaker 1: listening wherever you're listening, We certainly do appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: mean I appreciate it. I can't speak for John Alden.
Speaker 1: I think he appreciates it too, right, Oh, absolutely good,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to hear. All Right, So here's
Speaker 1: the latest on the ongoing I guess situation.
Speaker 3: That's the best way to put it.
Speaker 1: So, the Iran and Israel situation is there really hadn't
Speaker 1: been a whole lot of change as far as those
Speaker 1: two sides of it. But America's involvement, meaning Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: what is he going to decide to do. Here's what
Speaker 1: we now know that when it comes to a decision
Speaker 1: on attacking Iran or not, we've got roughly two weeks
Speaker 1: until we will I guess within the next two weeks
Speaker 1: is when we're going to find out if action will
Speaker 1: be taken place by America or not.
Speaker 6: I have a message directly from the President and I quote,
Speaker 6: based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of
Speaker 6: negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran
Speaker 6: in the near future. I will make my decision whether
Speaker 6: or not to go within the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: So again, from I guess yesterday until two weeks from then,
Speaker 1: that's the timeline. Maybe I am basing this a little
Speaker 1: bit off of Donald Trump and just sort of his style,
Speaker 1: his brand, his personality. I mean, we all know who
Speaker 1: I'm talking about here, Donald Trump. I would if I
Speaker 1: had to wager, I would say that there's a better
Speaker 1: chance we get a decision closer to yesterday than two
Speaker 1: weeks from then. But we shall see. Coming up at
Speaker 1: eight thirty, we'll talk to Rory O'Neil of NBC News
Speaker 1: and get his thoughts on the latest here. Because when
Speaker 1: it comes to a peaceful resolution here, yesterday I think
Speaker 1: was in my opinion, just mine, I took it as
Speaker 1: a real big step in the direction of this thing
Speaker 1: ending in a more peaceful in a more peaceful situation.
Speaker 1: Then of course the other side of that, which is
Speaker 1: not peaceful and a potential, you know, world War three
Speaker 1: type of situation. So again, if you are somebody that
Speaker 1: wants to avoid that, which I am, and I'm assuming
Speaker 1: a lot of people are, I think yesterday was a
Speaker 1: good step in that direction. Also, Trump did, I guess,
Speaker 1: kind of contradict himself slightly yesterday because there was a
Speaker 1: report that the Wall Street Journals report that Trump had
Speaker 1: signed off on the plans but hadn't given the full
Speaker 1: green light.
Speaker 3: That was disputed.
Speaker 1: But then as the day moved forward, it does seem
Speaker 1: as if they do decide to take action in the
Speaker 1: next two weeks, they certainly know what it is that
Speaker 1: they're going to do. So again, we'll talk to Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neil coming up here at about eight thirty to get
Speaker 1: more on that. Something else to monitor that is a
Speaker 1: potential cyber attack that could involve more Americans maybe than
Speaker 1: we've ever seen when it comes to that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: There's a CIA hacker that has warned the United States
Speaker 1: that there's going to be a massive cyber attack from Iran. Iran, Iran.
Speaker 1: I'll get it right one point within the next thirty days.
Speaker 1: And just given the current situation, right the temperature between
Speaker 1: the two sides here Iran and of course the United
Speaker 1: States really just Donald Trump mostly, this wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: if this does happen. It ended up being one that
Speaker 1: will be remembered for a long time, just because it's
Speaker 1: a contentious situation right now. Also, something that is worth
Speaker 1: mentioned when it comes to the ice raids that are
Speaker 1: still taking place across the country, there is the Appeals
Speaker 1: Court judge did let Trump keep control over the National
Speaker 1: Guard troops that have been deployed to Los Angeles. So
Speaker 1: that has been a back and forth battle state control,
Speaker 1: government control at the top from the national level, and
Speaker 1: the Appeals Court does still give that give that control
Speaker 1: to Trump. Maybe it's just because of how how much
Speaker 1: the Iran Israel situation has been in the news. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem as if there has been It hasn't been
Speaker 1: as I guess contentious with the with the ice rates. However,
Speaker 1: let's be real with ourselves. It's still happening every day
Speaker 1: across the country. And there was a a I guess
Speaker 1: he said, she said situation because the La Dodgers did
Speaker 1: put out a tweet yesterday claiming that Ice was wanting
Speaker 1: to show up and and and I guess just hang
Speaker 1: out in the parking lot and try to catch people
Speaker 1: who are there illegally, and and and do what they've
Speaker 1: been doing, right finding illegals regardless of their situation, whether
Speaker 1: it be criminals or not. They want to get people
Speaker 1: out of this country that are not here, that are
Speaker 1: not here in a legal way, so they declined to
Speaker 1: let them do that, according to the Dodgers. Well then
Speaker 1: ICE then responded saying that basically fake news. That's that's
Speaker 1: not the case, and that you know they weren't they
Speaker 1: weren't there. In fact, yeah, this is the Dodger Street says.
Speaker 1: This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium in requested
Speaker 1: permission to access the parking lots. They were to not
Speaker 1: entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight's game will
Speaker 1: be played as scheduled. That was yesterday afternoon. And then
Speaker 1: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Twitter account ICE gov
Speaker 1: is what they're at on x they responded with false
Speaker 1: we were never there, So it's a he said, she said,
Speaker 1: that's that's just we had a lot more of that
Speaker 1: going on than we've ever had. It seems like, all right,
Speaker 1: we've got traffick and weather coming your way in just
Speaker 1: a moment. Also, I want to get to this story
Speaker 1: about the special needs child that was sexually assaulted on
Speaker 1: a school bus. That lawsuit that's out there.
Speaker 3: I've got some.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on that. Not something that you know, I would
Speaker 1: want to talk about as a special needs parent, but
Speaker 1: certainly something we need to get to. So stick with
Speaker 1: us right here on Kentucky and it's morning news on
Speaker 1: News ready to eight forty whas. So, there's now a
Speaker 1: second child, a seven year old special needs student that
Speaker 1: has alleged sexual abuse by an eighth grade student, also
Speaker 1: a special needs on a Greater Clark County school bus.
Speaker 1: This took place last spring. Again, it's the second incident,
Speaker 1: and it was the New Washington Schools the school system,
Speaker 1: and the incident was captured on surveillance video and obviously
Speaker 1: that's an awful story and situation all the way around.
Speaker 1: And the attorney that is representing the family here the
Speaker 1: victims claimed that a distracted bus monitor failed to intervene.
Speaker 1: So this is and for those who don't know this
Speaker 1: about me, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spend
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time on it because I don't
Speaker 1: want to and probably wouldn't be able to. So I
Speaker 1: have a my daughter is special needs. She's autistic, and
Speaker 1: she is she is intellectually disabled. That's probably the best
Speaker 1: way to describe it. So for those who don't really
Speaker 1: know exactly what that looks like. And again, everybody's situation
Speaker 1: is different. Imagine a nine year old who from an
Speaker 1: intellectual standpoint, is closer to three years old. That's sort
Speaker 1: of the situation. So this story, of course, has been
Speaker 1: in the news everywhere locally for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3: It's news.
Speaker 1: But any time it's been on the television or it's
Speaker 1: been on my feed online, I either quickly scroll away
Speaker 1: from it, or put my phone down or I change
Speaker 1: the station, just because these kind of things just I
Speaker 1: can't describe and probably would never be able to describe,
Speaker 1: like the feeling in my stomach whenever I just hear
Speaker 1: of these kind of things that take place, and when
Speaker 1: when these kind of despicable things happen, like a terrible
Speaker 1: crime being perpetrated by somebody who is a child, not
Speaker 1: a grown adult, and also a child that I believe
Speaker 1: is special needs as well, there's I believe, from society,
Speaker 1: this desperation to find out like who ultimately needs to
Speaker 1: be blamed for this, who can we point the finger at?
Speaker 1: And sometimes that's not fair. Obviously, parents are responsible for
Speaker 1: their children, but there may be situations that they can
Speaker 1: simply not avoid It's just tough to know. But in
Speaker 1: situations like this, I'll just be honest with you, right
Speaker 1: or wrong. My first instinct, without really giving it much thought,
Speaker 1: just instinctually, my thought is to blame the school system
Speaker 1: for not monitoring, not keeping an eye on those who
Speaker 1: are helpless and vulnerable and end up in situations like that.
Speaker 1: And clearly there's a lawsuit here for a reason, and
Speaker 1: if this lawsuit ends up being successful from these victims,
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised by any means or if there's
Speaker 1: some type of settlement. But when it comes to the
Speaker 1: school system, it's also unfair of me because I don't
Speaker 1: have enough information to really know how this happened, what
Speaker 1: preventative measures should should have been in place to prevent it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll admit, like you know, clearly I
Speaker 1: want to point the finger at the school, and most
Speaker 1: are doing it, and certainly they are responsible for keeping
Speaker 1: your children safe and having things in place to where
Speaker 1: this doesn't happen. But it does sometimes and it's awful,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe there are other factors that you
Speaker 1: know we should be pointing the finger at, or maybe
Speaker 1: this is just the latest reminder that you know, despite
Speaker 1: not reaching uh the legal age of being an adult,
Speaker 1: you know you can still you can still know right
Speaker 1: from wrong and and do awful things. And again with
Speaker 1: this situation, if in fact, the the the I guess
Speaker 1: perpetrator here is also special needs, that's just a different
Speaker 1: element of that's a different element of unknown. As far
Speaker 1: as gosh, this is so bad, I just I and
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not speaking for myself here, but I
Speaker 1: just know there's there's there's many that just want so
Speaker 1: desperately to know who we can hold accountable and and
Speaker 1: you know, make sure it never happens again. And you
Speaker 1: always want to find ways to prevent these things from happening,
Speaker 1: but sometimes they do, and it's awful. And as somebody
Speaker 1: who I cannot imagine, cannot imagine being the parents of
Speaker 1: these children, I mean, I it, I can't, so I can't.
Speaker 1: I won't try to put myself in their shoes. But maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe there's this, Maybe you can find some peace
Speaker 1: knowing that you know somebody will be held accountable and
Speaker 1: you will be compensated for all the pain and suffering
Speaker 1: that everybody went through. But I just I learned long
Speaker 1: ago that sometimes awful things happen, and yes there are
Speaker 1: people responsible, but sometimes it's not easy to just know
Speaker 1: what the root causes of things like this. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll find out more as this lawsuit proceeds. Maybe
Speaker 1: there'll be a settlement, maybe not. But yeah, just a
Speaker 1: tragic situation. And again from my perspective personally, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll ever see those stories and whatnot and not
Speaker 1: have this again, undescribable feeling of just again I can't
Speaker 1: describe it. I was about to try to describe it.
Speaker 1: I can't, so anyhow. Larry Wilder, by the way, is
Speaker 1: the attorney that is representing the victim here, the second victim.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get an update on trafficking weather. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll get another update on sports coming up here in
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