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is when Ap Dylan joins us. She is a reporter

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How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Pete, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm super excited. Democrats

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have secured a victory in getting the Maryland Man returned

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to America. They have fought so hard for Maryland Man

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to get back into America and now it's going to happen.

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Total and complete victory and vindication for Democrats. That's how

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I read it.

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Speaker 2: Well, one would think so, except that he's been charged

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with human smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling, as

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well as firearms charges and other launder list of issues.

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And the Trump DJ has basically said, once he faces

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these charges and sentences he sentenced, he's going to go

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back twelve Salvador.

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Speaker 1: So other than that, but other than the federal indictment

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and all of that, total victory for Democrats.

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Speaker 2: Of course, because the process or something right right.

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Speaker 1: Do process right. So we're talking about kill mar again

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with these Dickenzian names. Kill Maar Garcia. The Maryland man.

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This is the guy that we were told is just

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the I think he first started as a Maryland father

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or Maryland dad, and then they just went Maryland man.

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And so anyway, the Maryland man that was like the

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poster child for you know, Donald Trump, the evil you know,

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orange hitler man deporting just this Marylynd man. He's just

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a dad. He's just you know, regular guy who happened

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to you know, sneak into the country like what twelve

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years ago or something like that, and so he got

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deported back to his native country of El Salvador, but

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he wasn't supposed to be deported to El Salvador. He

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was supposed to be deported two different immigration courts ruled

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him to be deported, but he wasn't supposed to go

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back to El Salvador. So they messed up. And so

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I was saying, like from the beginning, well, just bring

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him back and then fly him someplace else. Problem solved,

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But apparently.

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Speaker 2: We were some confusion with the L. Salvador thing too.

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And the finally is that Trump administration put forth. Basically

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it said that yeah, he is from El Salvador, it

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should go back there. His family had moved to a

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different country at one point, but he didn't go with them.

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He went to the border instead, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also the imminent threat that he said he

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couldn't go back to L Salvador because to this Eighteenth

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Street gang would whack him because of his mom's business,

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that she was running out of her house or something.

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But yeah, turns out.

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Speaker 2: That more about the fact he was MS thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Well that's a little bit of a detail, yes, And

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also the mom's business is no longer operating, so that's

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off the table. Oh, and also the Eighteenth Street gang

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has been completely crushed by the President of l Salvador

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that came in on this get tough on crime platform

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that the people voted for. And so there really wasn't

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a threat there either. And now I'm going to go

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out on a limb, but I read through the indictments

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that came down from the grand jury out of Tennessee

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for this guy Garcia, now, and there's a there's a

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refers in there to the murder of an Eighteenth Street

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gang member's mother that Garcia may have been, may have

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been a part of or something. And that might actually

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be why the Eighteenth Street gang bangers wanted to whack him,

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was because he may have whacked somebody else's mother.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And the indictment also alleges that he was part

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of the same smuggling ring that was responsible over the

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death of over fifty migrants in twenty twenty one. I

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think we all remember that tractor trailer that overturned, yep,

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and there were a bunch of it killed a bunch

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of migrants in there. Yeah, fifty people country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lost their lives as part of their smuggling operation.

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Which this federal indictment goes through. They've got I think

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it was, was it six different co conspirators. They were

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just listed like CC one, two, three, four, five, six, whatever,

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a federal it's a grand jury, so we have to

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always you know, the caveat and indicting a ham sandwich

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and all of that. The defense doesn't get to be there.

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those caveats said, they outline how Garcia has been involved

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in this human trafficking ring for nine years. Nine years

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he has made more than one hundred trips from the

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border from the Mexican border throughout the entire camerl and yeah.

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Speaker 2: To other places. And the indictment also talks about how

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he solicited nude photographs and videos of a minor and

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that he would sexually abuse the female that he was smuggling,

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which they used giant SUVs. They would rip out the

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back floorboards and put their drugs or guns. You know,

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he was also drug and gun trafficking charges were in there.

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guns in there and then put the floorboards back and

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then till they were smuggling them in these SUVs, they.

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Speaker 1: Ripped out the back seats or whatever. They added a

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row of seats. Remember we saw this when the there

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was I think a foyer request from a Tennessee newspaper.

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They got somehow or another, they got a tip that

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this guy had been popped by Tennessee Highway patrol and

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there was bodycam footage still on file from the law

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enforcement officers that pulled him over, and they were interviewing Garcia,

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and they were talking about how they had this extra

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row of seats so he was able in this Chevy suburban.

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He was able to transport like nine people at a time.

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And the cops were a little suspicious because he said

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he was bringing them up to work in like Saint

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Louis or something for construction work. But they had no luggage.

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It was very odd, no luggage in the car, yet

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you are bringing them to Saint Louis for a construction job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that video a video is available on YouTube. It's

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a simple search for it. All you have to do

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is put you know, Kilmar Garcia, Tennessee cops and boom,

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it pops right up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is Okay, so it's not okay, maybe

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it's not quite the total win for Democrats here that

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they were hoping for. You have a quote here or

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you're yeah, you were talking about in your piece. Maryland

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Democrats like Senator Chris van Holland are calling Garcia's return

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a due process win. So I'm curious how they go

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about separating Now this indictment has outlined these allegations, how

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do they go about separating themselves from just the due

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process argument that they were making for Oh, now we

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do have this guy and he is pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, this is a pattern that we've been seeing

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for months now where they're defending criminal aliens who, you know,

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a lot of them have commenced sparely said crimes, and

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they're all they're all crying about, you know, due process

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for these folks. Well, these folks were here illegally in

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the first place. Okay, they a lot of them already

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had deportation sort around. That's due process.

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Speaker 1: That is due process.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, you know, I'm not sure how how defending

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these folks is a win for them, considering the polling

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has the majority of Americans saying they want not only

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the criminals gone, but they want everyone gone right, So

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we'll see where that plays out. But I mean we're

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seeing a win play out right now in California with

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Governor Knews. Yeah, I mean, he's got out of control

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riots which are being orchestrated by a group that's tied

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to a Mexican National Marxist group. From what I'm reading.

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The New York Post had an article about this, about

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this organization that's, you know, pumping up these these riots

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there and how there's actually a connection to former Vice

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President Kamala Harris, who apparently patted this group on the

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back several years ago. Is doing good work.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, has she started a fund to bail out

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the rioters?

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Speaker 2: Yet?

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Speaker 1: That's the that's the real key, all right. So let

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me shift gears real quick, because here's a story that

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I had told and I had not gotten to yet.

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So I was happy to see that you wrote about

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it over at North State Journal. The Buncombe County Jail

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apparently not too good with the bookkeeping when it comes

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to the inmates funds. Like when you get arrested, if

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you have a bunch of money on you, they take

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that money from you and you they write it down

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or whatever, and apparently what they they hadn't been returning

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all of the money to everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the State Owner's office didn't investigate about audit after

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they received a tip. And what they found was that

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the Buncomee County sheriffs Office had quote, did not return

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nineteen two and seventy two dollars to nineteen hundred and

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fourteen individuals that were released from custody. In some cases,

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those inmates were ote thousands of dollars, and the audit

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found that no one in the Sheriff's office was a

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sureing the funds were returned during the inmate release process.

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For one example, an inmate was released in April twenty

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twenty three and they were old over forty eight hundred dollars,

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so you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so show me the money. So they did.

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So the audit found they also were not reconciling what's

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called the inmate fund bank account. And this is where

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like if I got locked up and you wanted to

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give me money so I can buy cigarettes or I

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could buy food or whatever, in the.

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Speaker 2: Commissary the commentsary account.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you could put money into those accounts whatever,

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and so that was all out of whack too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, three hundred and fifty four thousand, eight hundred and

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four dollars of unsupported balance, so not a lot bank fund.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's not a lot. There's this is three

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hundred and fifty thousand, you know, give or take. So

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all right, so they so the auditor does this audit,

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and from what I read in your piece, the sheriff,

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Quentin Miller up there the Sheriff's office is like, yeah, yeah,

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we'll fix this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So they're just basically he didn't disagree, and he

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said that, you know, we need to get a different

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way of doing our ledger. There was some turnover and

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you know, some of it didn't some of the duties

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didn't transfer over the way they should have. And so

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they're they're going to do internal reimbursement process, you know,

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a way to get things you know, put through when

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when they're released during their release process. But also you

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know tracking the commissary problem. So that was that was

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a nice chunk of change, you know, similar to an

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audit that they just did it on the Swanna Noah

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Care facility where they were finding that you know, hundreds

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of thousands of dollars were spent millions of dollars actually

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were spent on this care facility in Swanna Noah after

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Hurricane Heleen, which you know, it had laundries and showers

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and this kind of stuff, and that's great, folks needed

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that kind of stuff, But did they really need to

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be Did we really need to be paying over two

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hundred and twenty dollars per load of laundry is what

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the auditor found. So that was kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So the auditor already doing some pretty good work

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in rooting some of this stuff out and hopefully we

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can you know, rain some of this in. Now, I

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know there's a bit of a running contest between Wait County,

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Buncom County, and Mecklimer County as to who has the

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worst sheriff. So I would put this audit of the

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Buncome County jail clearly in Buncome County's score column, you know,

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for worst sheriff, for the running for the worst sheriff.

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So I feel like I have to make a note

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of it because you know, I mean, now, look, nobody,

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he doesn't have employees stabbing each other like we have

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in Mecklimer County. But still, this is this goes on

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the ledger for him.

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Speaker 2: So yes, yes, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Ap Dylon. You could read her work at North State

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Journal NSG online. Also subscribe to her newsletter. More to

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the story on substack. Thanks ap We'll talk to you

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next week.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Pete.

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I said there before that we're in this running for

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worst sheriff in North Carolina, you know. And I do

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give credit where it's due to the Bunkham County Sheriff

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and keeping all of the inmates money and such. But

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they're totally going to fix it now. But still that's

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a bit of a that's a negative or positive in

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the contest for worse shriff. But you just got to

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give it about forty eight hours and sheriff not my fault.

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McFadden here in Mecklenburg. He will come through. He'll pull

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ahead again. And he did, he absolutely did. So I

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get a press release. This did not contain a photo

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of him the top third of the piece of paper.

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It's usually like his big picture, like one third of

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the press releases have his picture on it, but this

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one didn't. I thought that was odd. Why doesn't he

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have his photo on this one? Well, here it is

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the Mecklimberk County Sheriff's office extends its deepest sympathy to

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the Zeller's family. We recognize the profound grief you continue

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to carry after the tragic loss of your son, and

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we are truly sorry for the additional pain caused by

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seeing the accused in recent media coverage promoting a detention

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center program. Yeah, the Sheriff's office they refurbished a room

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in the in the jail and they made it into

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a recording studio, and so it gives the inmates a

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chance to you know, do their rapping skills and such. Yeah,

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they built a music studio for the inmates. And the

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media coverage that they obviously coordinated with the Sheriff's office,

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they like did a big reveal. You know, here's the studio.

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Let's look at some inmates and the you know, the

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camera crews in there getting video of people playing music

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and singing or working the board or whatever. And the

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guy that's that's there that they brought in is an

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accused murderer. From November, this was the story from Queens

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City News at the time. One person has died after

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a shooting at an apartment complex in northeast Charlotte. This

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was November nineteenth, West arrowhead drive. One person pronounced dead

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at the scene. Well, they apparently picked up somebody suspected

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in the murder. He's been at the jail and he

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enrolled in the music program. And that's the guy. Think

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about that, your loved one has been murdered and the

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accused murderer is now on TV with the sheriff spinning

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all the hits. Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office does not typically

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notify families when residents are involved in media coverage. Inmates

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are involved, he calls them residents inmates are involved in

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media coverage. However, in this case, we acknowledge that given

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the circumstances, this should not have warrant or this should

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have warranted greater sensitivity. While outreach is not standard procedure,

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we sincerely apologize for failing to understand how this would

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affect the Zellers. Yeah, see, kind of a blind spot there,

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kind of a big blind spot, never thinking about the

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inmates as accused of doing a horrible thing to somebody else.

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All programs are voluntary in the center. We understand there

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may be concerns when families see if someone accused of

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a serious crime participating in a rehabilitative program. However, we

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help all residents with healing and rehabilitation. The purpose of

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our programs is not to determine guilt or innocence, but

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to offer support and structure for those willing to engage

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in change. The program in questions part of a broader

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initiative to provide voluntary rehabilitative opportunities to residence in our care.

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As mentioned, these programs are not based on the nature

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of an individual's charging, but rather on their conduct while

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in custody and their willingness to reflect on the circumstances

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that brought them to the detention center, confront addictions, address

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mental health challenges, and work towards becoming better citizens. This

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guy hasn't even stood trial, so we're back in the

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lead for worst Sheriff. I knew, I knew he would

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tax dollars are being used for a music studio in

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the jail. That's yeah, I cannot defend that, but that's

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what our sheriff has done. Gary not my fault. McFadden

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built a studio in the in the jail so the inmates,

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or as he calls them, the residents, can can rehabilitate

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themselves through music. And when they did the big press reveal,

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you know, they invited media in and they had an

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inmate in there to show them like, this is what

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he's working on, this is how you use the thing,

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and isn't this awesome? And turns out that inmate is

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an accused murderer, and the sheriff's office never reached out

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to the victim's family to let them know, Hey, we're

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going to use your son's killer in this promotional video

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for our music studio. So if you want to use

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the music studio, just commit some crimes and then get

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yourself arrested and then you can get access to the studio.

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It's like promotion, you know, it's like advertising. This is

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what we call in the biz earned media. You know,

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where you do something in the media comes to cover it,

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so you don't have to pay for the advertising and marketing.

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You just get coverage. So it's earned media, and they

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never called the parents. They never called the family. They

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never told the Zeller's family that this accused murderer is

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going to be splashed across all of the newscasts. And

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so think about it, like they're sitting around and all

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of a sudden, you know, they're watching a newscast and

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then they see their loved one's murderer being portrayed in

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this way of a guy who's on the path to rehabilitation.

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He hasn't even stood trial for the murder yet. But

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the Sheriff's office did put out a press release and

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it said to the Zeller's family, your voice matters, your

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loss matters. We are committed to learning from this and

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doing better moving forward. Yeah, just think about the victims.

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That's all that's really, That's like the first thing you

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need to do is just don't think first about the

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inmate in that press availability. Maybe think of somebody else first.

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I'm just kidding, No, it's the sheriff, he can't do that,

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but uh, you know, maybe somebody on staff think of

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the victims. Because everybody that's in that jail, virtually everybody

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in the jail. I'm trying to think of a circumstance

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or situation where somebody's in the jail that has not

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victimized somebody else. Chances are if you're in the jail,

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you have victimized somebody else, right, So maybe think of

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every single resident of your jail as also a victim

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and that victim's family, even if the victim isn't dead,

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like in this case, you've got other people that were

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still victimized but they survived and their family and all

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of the trauma surrounding that. Think about them, you know,

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maybe put that front and center in every thing that

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you do. That every one of the people that come through.

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I'm not saying you treat them badly or anything like that.

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I'm saying maybe think first that everybody you see, there

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is another person that's not there in front of you,

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and those are the victims, and then there are other

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people attached to them, the victims' families. But they did

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say we are committed to learning from this and doing

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better moving forward. You have our continued respect, our sympathy,

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and our sincere apologies. So credit where it's due. At

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least he apologized, or whoever it was that wrote the

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press release did so. At least somebody at the sheriff's

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office apologized for that. Chris says, wait a minute, Pete,

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So Bunkhom County mishandled nineteen thousand dollars and then another

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three hundred and fifty thousand that they weren't reconciling. What

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did the Mecklenberg ought to find? Surely we have higher

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numbers than Charlotte. If it's higher than Buncom, we will

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have to detract one point from Sheriff Gary not my

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fault macfadden. However, if it's less than Bunkom or zero,

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we will have to award Gary not my fault McFadden

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plus three points for successfully cleaning out their books. Right,

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So there was not an audit done of the Mecklenburg

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Sheriff's office and the jail accounts, so we don't know.

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I'm not alleging anything because I don't know. The Buncom

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County audit was done after tips were given to the

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state auditor, and that's how the auditor's office gets wind

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of these things to investigate. So if you are aware

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of something, or you have suspicions about something, you should

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call or go online and file a complaint or give

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a tip to the State Auditor's Office, and that's how

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they they identify things to investigate. Again, I have no

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knowledge or any evidence or I've never even heard of

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anything like what happened and bunk them happening here. So

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all right, if you're listening to this show, you know

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I try to keep up with all sorts of current events,

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Got a tweet from Big b it's a pet tweet,

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who says fyi the Youth Development Center and Concord has

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also built a music studio for the offenders, and they

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have the latest in video game technology. See that all

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you have to do is engage in criminal behavior and

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you too can access these music studios. Let me circle back,

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as Jen Pisaki might say, to the La riots real quick.

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We covered this in the first two hours of the program.

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So if you're listening on the podcast, thank you very much,

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by the way, but you can go back and listen

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because we post three podcasts per day, one for each

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of the hours. And what's interesting and the media reaction

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to the riots is this new found or maybe I

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should say a rediscovered sense of the complexities and nuances

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when trying to cover riots. And we are hearing a

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lot of things like you know, there were peaceful protesters

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and then some bad actors engaged in the violence, right

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and we heard this also during the Black Lives Matter,

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fiery but mostly peaceful protests as well. And yes there

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is another apparently the teachers' unions organizing some massive nationwide

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protest against ICE on June fourteenth. They've got cities apparently

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Asheville has already given a permit for this anti ice demonstration.

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So these days of action, this is you know, Marxism.

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But also keep in mind that, as Corey DeAngelis points out,

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the K twelve government schools rely on head counts for funding.

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So if you deport people and they take their kids

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with them, then you lower the school enrollment numbers, and

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then that means you lower the money that the teachers'

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unions get a chunk of. So just keep that in mind.

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But regarding the complexities and the nuances of you know,

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good people on both sides. Oh no, no, sorry, that's

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the wrong. Sorry, that's the wrong protest. But you know,

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not everybody was rioting. And I'm hearing this from various

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media people and Derek Hunter over at town hall dot com.

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He points out the difference in the way this is

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being approached now and it was during BLM versus j six.

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He says, remember how nuanced guys like Brian Stelter at CNN,

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who was a Potato, was about how new Brian was

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about j six in differentiating between people who were fighting

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with the cops and then the others who just walked

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in the doors that were held open by police. No,

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they didn't. They gave no distinction to those different types

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of people that were at the Capitol that day. It

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did not matter to them if you were escorted into

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the building, if a cop held a door for you

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and allowed you to walk in. They wanted you tried

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for trees and just like the guys who were busting

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windows and you know, dressed up like Vikings. Michael Schellenberger,

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former liberal, wrote the book San Francisco, and he's on

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Twitter also, he's got a sub stack as well. He says,

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a lot of people are upset about these images of

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violent protesters in Los Angeles waving the Mexican flag. If

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they loved Mexico so much, why are they so upset

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at enforcing our laws against illegal entry. To fully appreciate

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their significance, it's important to understand that over the last

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several decades, the people who run California and its major

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cities came to a new consensus a large number of

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our laws were racist and oppressive. Democrats increasingly viewed laws

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against illegal camping, open air drug dealing, shoplifting, burglary, arson,

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and unlawful border crossing not as tools for protecting neighborhoods

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and preserving public space, but rather as tools for putting

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poor people and racial minorities in prison. This idea took

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root that order itself was a facade, simply a way

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for the rich and comfortable to criminalize the marginalized. So

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one by one, democrats stopped enforcing and weakened laws against

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drug dealing, illegal camping, prostitution, defecation, drug use on sidewalks.

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Cities stopped enforcing anti camping ordinances. State leaders directed prosecutors

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not to charge certain drug crimes. Federal immigration laws were

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nullified by city policy in the name of compassion, Progressives

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dismantled the foundations of public order. Over the last few days,

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we have seen the consequences of this ideology erupt in

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the streets of Los Angeles. Protesters attacked federal agents during

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ice operations, hurled bricks and fireworks at them, torched vehicles,

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defaced public buildings. All of it was filmed and cheered

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and amplified on social media. These were not quiet acts

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of nonviolent protest. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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you so much for listening, and don't break anything while

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