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your support. So I am now calling our court system
a catch and release court system. That is what we
are witnessing here in Mecklinburg County. But it's not just here.
We've got this happening all over the place, catch and
release criminals. In fact, this week, the Charlotte Mecklimburg Police
Department did a crime stats briefing for the first nine
months of the year, and they highlighted one particular case
of some fifteen year old punk who has like one
hundred and it was it like one hundred and twenty
or one hundred and fifty car thefts or arrests. Rather
for like he apparently stole fifty five cars. It was
averaging like like one a week or something, or one
a day or one every other day, just remarkable numbers.
And those are just the ones that they caught, right,
those are just the ones that he was arrested for stealing.
And you know, I think it was made easier by
the fact that he posted some of the stolen vehicles
on his social media. So obviously a real rocket scientist here.
But it's not just here. Two teenagers you may have
heard this, that were part of the group of utes
that attacked a former staffer for Doge Elon Musk's Department
of Government Efficiency. The DOGE guys, right, were like tech
bros that Elon brought on to you know, run all
sorts of analyzes and such all over the government books
to find you know, poor performance and efficiencies and the like.
And one of these guys had was outed by the
media because how dare you try to find efficiencies in
gov co? And he went by an on screen name
that I will not use. His on screen name. They
were it's two words. I refer to him as large
orbs okay, large orbs. His screen name was big B
but the bee is a synonym for orbs okay, So
I call him large orbs okay. But his actual name
is Edward Korstein, and he along with a female friend
of his. They were I don't know if it's his
girlfriend or just a friend, it doesn't matter, but they
were out in DC. I think it was late at
night and they were jumped by what he described as
a group of ten guys, so some sort of a mob,
and they arrested two individuals of the mob, a boy
and a girl, both aged fifteen from Hyattsville, Maryland. And
you may have heard this week that the two of
them were sentenced as for their roles in the mob
attack on and attempted carjacking. That's what prompted. They tried
to steal the vehicle of the girl and Chorusteine jumped
in to protect her and he was beaten. He ended
up with a concussion and a broken nose. And these
two fifteen year olds were sentenced at a DC court
on Tuesday. The boy was handed a twelve month probation
and allowed to return home under house arrest. So he
got a year of house arrest for an attempted carjacking
and a violent assault that could have killed a person,
maybe two. The girl was given a nine month probation
sentence and remanded to a local youth shelter. The attack
occurred on August third. Right, So, here's the thing that
gets me in this story over at the New York
Post is that the other accomplices, the other members of
this mob, they have not been They've not been found,
they've not been identified, they've not been arrested. Why are
you giving probation to two of the attackers? Why are
you giving them probation if they haven't turned over any
evidence to help catch the others. That's what you get
for not cooperating with an investigation in Washington, DC. Closer
to home here in Charlotte, the Charlotte Meckleberg Police Department
is investigating an assault with a deadly weapon following a
violent family dispute. This occurred on Nobles Avenue on Sunday.
Officers say the altercation left one victim with serious injuries,
including a stab wound that punctured her lung. Police say
the victims provided video evidence showing the assault as it happened. Okay,
so we have video evidence of the attack. According to
an INTI didn't report, Paulette Gibson was seen in the
video swinging a knife multiple times at one of the victims,
aiming for her head and upper body. The report also
states that a golf club was used during the fight
and that Paulette Gibson's ten year old daughter participated in
the assault and her mom, Paulette Gibson, did not intervene
to try to stop her, so welcomed the ten year
old daughter to the fight. Police A. Gibson was arrested
and during questioning, she first claimed that she did not
know who stabbed the victim, before admitting, Okay, yes, the
confrontation was planned. Oh, it was planned. So this was
a premeditated attempted murder, Like that's what that was? Premeditated
attempted murder. This was regarding an ongoing dispute in involving
their children. So what does that tell me? First, first
I read this story from WSOCTV, and I thought, hmmm,
is it like like a lesbian couple. They've got kids
and they're in the middle of like a custody battle
or something. Is that what this was about? But upon
reading it again, she admits the confrontation was planned over
an ongoing dispute involving their children. I could also read
that sentence to mean that the two women involved in
this altercation. They each have their own kids, and the
kids had a beef and the moms then engaged in
the physical violence that arose from the kid's beef, which
would explain why paul Ed Gibson didn't stop her ten
year old daughter from engaging in the physical violence in
the attempted murder, which is what that was. You start
when you plan to fight somebody and you bring a knife,
and then you bust the knife out and start swinging
and around and you stab the person. Yeah, that is
attempted murder and that's premeditated. Matt van Swall posted up
on Twitter that she was released on a twenty thousand
dollars bond and she had fifteen prior arrests, including for
violent offenses, and she is back out on the streets
catch and release courts. That's what we have in Mecklenburg
County and we are all in danger because of it.
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example of our catch and release court system, A teacher
assistant at a Charlotte elementary school was arrested last weekend
after she allegedly cut someone with a knife. Forty four
year old Chantra Prapa Sing was accused of unlawfully, willfully,
feloniously cutting another person's neck Sunday, October twelfth. That's according
to the arrest warrant. It was unclear how bad the
victim was injured, but Sing was charged with one count
of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. And
affidavit said Sing was married to the victim, So it's
her husband. I'm thinking it's her husband. Everybody or wife, okay,
And the alleged assault happened after her husband. Oh no,
her husband. Okay, that makes sense sense. The alleged assault
happened after her husband, said she got frustrated that he
had not cleaned the house. Hmm, well, who among us? Okay.
According to the affidavit, she told investigators she accidentally cut
her husband when she turned around as she was starting
to make breakfast. Okay, well, now wait a minute, Hang
on a second, you're making breakfast. How could he have
had time to clean the house. Then that's like a
if you're you're cleaning the whole house, that's a that's
an all day kind of a thing, unless, of course,
he was supposed to have done it Saturday, right, because
this was a Sunday morning. So she's frustrated, she's mad
he didn't clean the house. She's making breakfast in this
pig sty because he hasn't cleaned it up, and she
just so happens to be using a knife and then
she just she just turned she just like swung around
real fast. Oh, oh my gosh. And I stabbed him
in the neck, which is weird? Is he like very short?
Was he sitting down while you were standing up? How
do you actually cut somebody on the neck without raising
your knife to that level whilst turning around? If I'm
going with your story that it was completely inadvertent and
you were just like you just turned around real fast,
and oh my gosh, I stabbed him in the neck.
I cut his neck while arguing with him about him
not cleaning the house. Uh. Yeah, I'm not buying this
cover story. Not buying it. Her husband called nine to
one one and claimed that his wife, Chandra brah Babah Singh,
was quote frustrated and purposely attacked him with the knifevtly
so he's telling a bit of a different story. Singh
was listed online as a teacher assistant for grades K
through three at end Haven Elementary School in the Valentine area.
And as I understand it, all of those classrooms will
now be very very clean. That's They're all gonna make
sure they clean their classrooms. Court records showed seeing was
initially denied bond. What denied bond? Was this in Mecklinburg County? Yeah,
this was Mecklenburg County. She was denied bond by a magistrate.
Oh no, here we go, and then had it set
at ten thousand dollars during a court appearance. Okay, well
there you go. So she did get denied bond, So
let's give it up. Let's give it up for whoever
that magistrate was, who just momentarily said, hmm, yeah, I'm
not sure that stabbing somebody in the neck over an
argument about cleaning the house probably shouldn't get a bond.
So denied bond first, but then goes to court and
the judge don't know who the judge is. The judge
then gives her a ten thousand dollars bond. She's appointed
a public defender, and a ten thousand dollars bond means
she can walk. I don't know if it was secured.
If it's a secured bond, that's one thousand dollars she
got to come up with. Unsecured, she can walk, but
she has apparently walked. She's back out, don't know if
she's back in the classroom. So if you send your
kids to endh Haven Elementary School in Valentine, you might
want to tell your kids, you know, head on a swivel,
just be on the lookout if she's like making you
snacks or something in the classroom, don't be anywhere nearer
because she has a habit of stabbing people when she
turns around while in the middle of preparing food. Now,
we do have a case of an individual not being
released on bond for serious charges. This is Cecil Brockman,
state lawmaker. He made his first appearance in court this week.
He's been charged with statutory sex crimes. He was arrested
and charged with two counts of statutory rape two counts
of indecent liberties with a minor. He was due to
have a first appearance in court, but then that hearing
was delayed due to a medical emergency, which we don't
know what that was. The DA alleged that Brockman struck
up a relationship with a teenager via an online app
back in May, and that they were living together in
Atlanta before moving to High Point in August. In August,
the victim turned fifteen in June, so he had this
relationship with a fourteen year old. On October fifth, Brockman
allegedly called nine one one asking for help trying to
find his quote friend, the victim, whom he was tracking
on an app called Life three sixty. Davidson County Sheriff's
Office responded and then contacted the High Point Police Department
and open investigation. They then contacted the State Bureau of Investigation. Initially,
the magistrate issued no bond. Well, there you go, that's
on brand. The magistrate issued no bond for Brockman when
he was taken into custody with court documents alleging he
used his status as a lawmaker to try to locate
the victim and make contact with the fifteen year old
while they were in a hospital. The DA said Brockman
attempted to push through locked doors in the emergency department
where the victim was being treated as a patient. The
victim's phone was seized and sexual videos were found on
that phone. Brockman appeared at the hearing via video call
from the hospital. He appeared distraught during the hearing and
asked the judge to let him speak, but after a
recess after he spoke with his lawyer, he decided not
to speak, which is probably for the best. He was
given an updated bond, though of over one million dollars
and told to have no contact with the victim or
ask anybody to contact the victim on his He is
now being called upon to resign his position, which by
the way, the legislature comes back into session. He's a
Democrat and Democrats don't have enough votes otherwise to block
an override of the governor's vetos, so he's not getting
out anytime soon, and so Democrats now are probably going
to lose the vetos override votes, which is why they
wanted to resign immediately. So when I was a kid,
my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my
mom and my dad took care of him as he
got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and
not much support for caregivers and family. But things are
different today because of the work of so many people,
including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great
organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a
supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot
to me. I participate in the annual Walk to end
Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year,
and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign
up and you can join the team and walk with us.
It's on October eighteenth, that truest field. Sign up at
alz dot org slash Walk and then you could search
for my team name Pete's Pack. There's also a link
at thepetepod dot com. There's also a link in the
description of this podcast. Also, I'll be am seeing the
Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so you can make
a team and join that one too, or make a
donation and help me hit my goal of five thousand dollars.
If you do, I really appreciate it. There are a
bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. You can
go to alz dot org slash walk for all the
dates and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's.
Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me?
For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments.
This is why we walk, all right. I want to
take a moment here more than a moment actually, and
thank everybody that has been so generous and have supported
the Alzheimer's Association. You've heard me talk about the walks
that we do, the Walk to End Alzheimers. Last weekend,
I was in Gastonia for that walk. Tomorrow we'll be
I'll be in Charlotte with the team Pete's Pack. By
the way, if you still want to donate or join,
you can do that at alz dot org slash walk
and then do a search for Pete's Pack. You can
make a donation as well. We did hit our goal.
We set a goal of five thousand dollars and I
think we are approaching seven thousand. Thank you. I mean
really it was Zebo because like I couldn't have read
I mean, I couldn't have donated all that money. So
I appreciate everybody's generosity and doing that. And I do
have the list of the donors. I'm only going to
give their first names in order to protect the innocent.
Paul Woodie, Keith, Robert, Christy Bill that his donation was
memory of his mom, Nancy, Angela, Mark, Mike, Mark Hampton, Deborah, Terrence,
Teresa Donald, James, Crystal, Paul Kim, Mandy Willis, Brenda, Michael, Kim, Gary, Helen, Chris, Kelly, Nick,
Thank you Nick. Sorry, oh, I just did vote Mark.
We have a lot of Marks and Douglas and Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Bev, Kathy, Chris, Christopher, Cynthia, Debbie, Diana, Gig, Janey, John, Kate, Cathy,
Linda and Freddie, Lindsay, Laurie, Margot, Marilyn and Marilyn, Maureen, Meghan, Michael, Nancy, Nancy,
Nicky and Alex Norman, Sarah, Shannon, Shay and Chris, Stephen,
Terry and Tracy. Thank you all well very much for
all of your donations to the Alzheimer's Association. It funds research,
it funds resources for caregivers and for family members. These
are like really important programs that like when my family
was taken care of my grandfather with Alzheimer's when I
was back in middle school, these types of resources just
did not exist. But thanks to the work of the
Alzheimer's Association over the last forty years, they have built
up this support system and came across this at NBC News.
With few treatments available to stop or reverse Alzheimer's, disease.
Scientists have turned to cancer drugs as a potential means
of walking back cognitive decline. Alzheimer's case is arising due
to an aging population, but there's no cure. Attempts to
develop new treatments that slow the disease's progress rather than
lessened symptoms, have frequently failed. There are only two drugs
that are currently approved by the FDA. One's called Lakembi,
the other's Cassunla Kissunla, which they hope slows the progression
of early Alzheimer's, but the benefits are somewhat limited at
this point. So some pharmaceutical companies have halted or abandoned
their drug development programs because of unsuccessful trials. Others are
trying to use existing medications, including some of those weight
loss drugs. They're seeing if some of that might have
a positive impact. So researchers in California conducted a broad
search for drugs that could be repurposed to treat the condition,
in theory reducing the time it takes the drugs to
go through the clearance process because they're already on the market.
So they went through a database. They looked at thirteen
hundred drugs various classes and such, and a new study
in the journal called Sell identified two cancer drugs as
the best candidates to lower Alzheimer's risk in patients. When combined,
the drugs seemed to slow or reverse Alzheimer's symptoms in mice.
One of the drugs is normally used to treat breast cancer,
while the other is effective against colon and lung cancer,
so obviously they have a whole bunch more studying to do.
The issue is that if you try to develop a
new drug, it takes hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe
even billions of dollars, and it takes more than a
decade on average. If you repurpose a drug, it just
takes usually around two to three years, and then you
can go to clinical trials and the cost is way lower.
Part of the difficulty in developing drugs for Alzheimer's is
the complexity of the disease. Its exact cause is largely unknown. However,
there was another recent study that was done including people
from North Carolina that found eating healthy, being active keeps
the Alzheimer's at bay. They have lower risks, the lower prevalence.
So we are making strides, which is good and thank
you again to everybody that donated. Up next, we've got
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and make memories that'll last a lifetime. Here's a little
segment we do every Friday to close out the week
with my good friend Brett Winterbol. You can hear them
three to six here on News Talk eleven, ten ninety
nine three WBT Brett how Art thou sir.
Speaker 2: I am wonderful. It's good to be with you on
this momentous Friday.
Speaker 1: I've got something to play for you, sir. I think
this is going to turn the tide. Okay, in broad
View outside of the broad View Ice facility. Yes, broad
is that the Chicago one? Yes, I believe. Okay, So
I think this might do it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Are you ready? And it then just continues like that
for a while. So are you now willing to abandon
immigration enforcement? Because according to the banner here, yeah, with
the the clerics wearing the UH like the Roman Catholic
black with the white collar. Uh and a CAFEA. I
guess that's now part of the garb of priests.
Speaker 2: That's that's new. That's new on me.
Speaker 1: You're all wearing cafeas and it says God's Love knows
no borders. Well, okay, I agree with that. Yeah, God's
Love knows no boarders. I agree with that as well.
So then that must mean you agree. Also, no, no, no,
tell let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: When you start singing, yeah, and you're doing the singing thing, yeah,
you're transporting us all back to a very unfortunate time,
the late sixties early seventies, when people were just.
Speaker 1: But that's how they that's how they changed the world.
Speaker 3: That No, they didn't change the world. Are you sure
has the world been changed?
Speaker 1: I well, I mean I they I mean I feel
like they tell me it changed.
Speaker 2: They can tell you a lot of things they told
us that.
Speaker 1: When we were growing up, it was like everything, Well,
you're a gen xer, you remember all the shows and movies.
Everything was about the sixties and how they changed.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, but but but there was certain movies
that were way better than other movies.
Speaker 2: When you're doing that, like for example The Outsider. Yeah,
amazing movie, West Side Story, Platoon, West Side Story not
about not about the sixties, No, no, not the sixties.
Speaker 1: That's the fifties, the fifties. So you're telling me that,
like a song like this wouldn't move the needle.
Speaker 2: What's the name?
Speaker 1: Which side are you?
Speaker 2: Oh? Gosh, which side are you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you something I would that will be.
I know you were a big fan. Were you a
big fan of that?
Speaker 2: What was that musical that they were doing about Alexander Hamilton?
Speaker 1: I think it was called Hamilton.
Speaker 2: Was that what it was called?
Speaker 1: No, yeah it was. It's called Alexander, Alex Alex Alex
for a moment to never saw it? I didn't either,
I have never seen it. I didn't either.
Speaker 3: But the fact of the matter is, I think those
I want those people. I want those people at every event.
I want them singing at the World Series. I want them.
Speaker 2: Get rid of a dirty bunny. What's his name?
Speaker 1: The guy who's going to be in the in the
super Bowl? You know the guy that why is his name?
Bad bunny? If he only sings in Spanish? Because I
think it's I shouldn't been mallow Elbanio or whatever. The
word for rabbit is mallow mallow RABBITO.
Speaker 2: That's really look at that.
Speaker 3: Please, I'll talk and then I want you to get
that that what do you call it?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 2: That domain? Go okay, just just go ahead register that
domain right now?
Speaker 1: Which side are you on? Why don't they tell you?
Speaker 2: Why don't they tell you which side you're supposed to
be on?
Speaker 1: They might, you want to hear more, they may tell
us which side to be on? Which side are you on?
Somebody fight against Joe Landscap within our walls, will fight
from dong to dust.
Speaker 2: You know how many children are crying in the car
right now.
Speaker 1: That's kind of ambivalent. I mean it's kind of not ambivalent,
but uh ambiguous.
Speaker 2: And it's very well.
Speaker 1: It's they're gonna fight against This was from This is
from the doge era, but.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's interesting, it's interchangeable.
Speaker 1: These people, the green Granny's who then rebranded as the
raging they were now they're the Raging grannies. These elderly
women who sing, you know, like they're like weird Al Yankovic.
You know, they like take real songs and then like
rewrite the lyrics of them I'm not Look, I'm not
knocking that sort of endeavor. But I did that too
when I was in elementary school. Yes, I rewrote the
lyrics for uh for the Longest Time by Billy Joel,
and I rewrote the lyrics for our Retiring Principle, and
the chorus sang the lyrics as an homage to him
on his way.
Speaker 3: So that's a progressive sort of a thing that you
could do.
Speaker 2: That's decent. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was about mister Simonton was his name,
and so we you know, we sang a song for
mister Simonton's last you know, fall concert or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: Have you kept up with them?
Speaker 1: No, No, that was a definite. I left New York
for a reason, you know, many reasons, actually, but I
left New York. Yeah, no, that's that's one reason not
to return. It's one of the long list of reasons
not to return to New York. True. But yeah, so yeah,
so these these songs, Yeah, I just I don't understand
why they keep doing that.
Speaker 3: We used to have hoot Nannies once upon a time.
Do you remember hoot Nannies? Are you old enough to
remember hoot Nanny's we would go to hoot Nanni's.
Speaker 2: I don't think you did, Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: You went to an actual hoot Nanny.
Speaker 3: It was at the school, but we were forced to
listen to it and they would play things like, you know,
different songs, Joe.
Speaker 2: No, that was no, no, they were we were lucky
to get like.
Speaker 1: We danced in one of our gym classes. We had
to learn how to square dance in elementary school.
Speaker 2: I hated square dance.
Speaker 1: It was the worst. And then they were mister Reeves,
the gym teacher made us square dance too.
Speaker 2: Centerfold No, yep, square dancing to centerfold?
Speaker 1: Head, good beat, there you go. All right, that'll do
it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.
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