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So some local. 10 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:35,399 Speaker 2: Kind of sort of tenC ween Sea little bit violent 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:42,759 leftist activists are pretty upset that law enforcement is keeping 12 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:46,079 an eye on them in case they start engaging in 13 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:49,280 any of any of the violence that they may have 14 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:51,200 kind of sort of been involved within the past. 15 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: They're very very upset. There's a lawsuit now, yeah, yeah, 16 00:00:56,399 --> 00:00:59,280 I mean it's not about the violence or the police 17 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:03,640 monic during their social media feeds or anything. It's about 18 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:13,000 open meetings law and whether Central Piedmont Community College violated 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,319 the state's open meetings law when it was discussing like 20 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:21,640 land swaps and purchases and the development of the police 21 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,680 medic fire training center that they're looking to build down 22 00:01:25,719 --> 00:01:30,120 in Matthews And this is now well, I mean they 23 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:37,120 look the ANTIFA part time temporary LARPing anarchist types, like 24 00:01:37,159 --> 00:01:40,159 they really haven't had a whole lot to do since 25 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:46,040 Atlanta kicked their tails at Cop City Atlanta, and so 26 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,120 now they're you know, they're looking for a sequel, and 27 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:52,400 they really want Cop City CLT to be a thing. 28 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,920 They just basically oppose training law enforcement. They don't want 29 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:00,640 law enforcement to be trained, while also by the lack 30 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,920 of training that law enforcement has that leads to the 31 00:02:03,959 --> 00:02:08,520 deaths of people who are simply merely you know, waving 32 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:16,199 a firearm at uniformed police Central Piedmont Community College. According 33 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:23,000 to the Charlotte Observers, Ryan Orley CPCC asked the Charlotte 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Mecklenburg Police to quote flag any growing movement against a 35 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,039 first responder training facility being built in Matthews, according to 36 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,080 emails that were included in a lawsuit. So this is 37 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,479 the story published at the Observer yesterday, but it's the 38 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:50,680 second story that actually, yeah, that is rooted in this 39 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,960 lawsuit against CPCC. The first story that Ryan Orley did 40 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,520 was back on April twenty fifth, okay, so days ago. 41 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,800 First story about the lawsuit yesterday a follow up story 42 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:09,000 based on some of the exhibits that were in the lawsuit. 43 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:17,280 But here's the key according to the Observer's headline, that 44 00:03:17,319 --> 00:03:24,719 the emails show that CMPD gathered social media intel on 45 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:35,199 police abolitionist group. I'm supposed to be mad at this. 46 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,159 Why would I be mad at this? You're posting stuff 47 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:40,680 on social media and they can look at your stuff. 48 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:43,960 You posted it, it's up there, and you're anti cop. 49 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:49,080 So we're not anti police. We just don't want them, 50 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,360 you know, to have a training facility, and then we 51 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:54,719 want to use their lack of training as a way 52 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:59,560 to defund the police. See. Police agreed to keep an 53 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:05,039 eye on the activist group called Charlotte Uprising and shared 54 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,319 with college officials some social media posts that were critical 55 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:15,159 of the plan. The Charlotte Uprising. This is the leftist 56 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:18,600 activist group, and they got a bit of a record here, 57 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,160 and some of them have a bit of a police record. 58 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,639 And the Uprising crowd were the anti cop City Atlanta 59 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,920 protesters too. They were part of that crowd. So of 60 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,360 course Charlotte Mecklenburg Police is going to be keeping tabs 61 00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:41,120 on them and their social media posts, particularly when they 62 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:48,519 are organizing collectivist action against the construction of this training 63 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,360 facility because they have a bit of a reputation of 64 00:04:52,399 --> 00:04:54,839 getting kind of sort of a little bit teensy weensy 65 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,199 bit violent, particularly when it comes to these types of 66 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:05,199 training facilities. Charlotte Uprising describes itself as a police and 67 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:14,319 prison abolition organization, a police abolition organization and prisons. They 68 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:20,399 want no cops and they want no prisons. Like that 69 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,759 is the stupidest thing in the world. Okay, once again, 70 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,639 foundational pillars of any functioning society. Number one. Security. If 71 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,879 you do not have security, then you don't have a 72 00:05:32,959 --> 00:05:37,519 society because without security, nothing else can occur. You cannot 73 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,360 engage in commerce. Right, you can't go to your little concerts. 74 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,519 You can't hit your favorite food trucks because gangs will 75 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,839 hit your food trucks and they will rob the food truck, 76 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:52,920 and then you will have no food at the food truck, 77 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,240 maybe not even somebody who is running the food truck, 78 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,040 as they may kill that person and take all of 79 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,120 their stuff. See, that's what you get when you do 80 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,920 not have security. First thing got to have some security, 81 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,279 the ability to defend yourself. And in our society we 82 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:17,120 have turned this responsibility over to police departments, police departments 83 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:22,199 that are controlled by our elected representatives. This is not 84 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,199 to say that there are no abuses by cops. Of 85 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:30,519 course there are. Like a long time ago, I read 86 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:33,040 a line and it's I feel like it is a 87 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,399 really good encapsulation of the issue, which is conservatives have 88 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,279 to understand that not every cop is good, and leftists 89 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:47,399 have to understand that not every cop is bad. Right, 90 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,480 there are going to be abuses, but not all cops 91 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,639 commit them, like this should be obvious. So they are 92 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:00,000 a police in prison abolition organization, so you might image 93 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,519 and completely illogical. A message sent to the group's Instagram 94 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,680 page was not returned in time for this The publication 95 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:11,600 of this story at the Charlotte Observer asked about police 96 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,519 keeping watch on a political group. Well, it's okay, now 97 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,600 hang on a second, Ryan Orley, the reporter here, It's 98 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,839 not just a political group, Okay. It's not simply a 99 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:29,560 political group. This is an This is a left wing 100 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:36,279 activist organization that has a history of being on site 101 00:07:36,959 --> 00:07:43,040 during violent interactions with law enforcement. So it's not simply 102 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,120 it's not like it's the local Democrat party. Although there 103 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,639 are a lot of crossover you know members, I'm sure. 104 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,839 Catherine Butler, a spokesperson for CPCC, said that quote, this 105 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:59,399 activist group and others have targeted the college, our leaders, 106 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,959 college personnel, and the project's partners. I have not heard this. 107 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,959 By the way, listen to this next sentence. Over the 108 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:14,079 last several months, our design firm working on the facility 109 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:22,639 has had its offices vandalized, broken into, and ransacked. Do 110 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,560 you know of another kind of an architectural firm or 111 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,720 design firm that would where this would happen? Of course not. 112 00:08:31,199 --> 00:08:33,799 Am I to believe this has nothing to do with 113 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:38,080 their work on this project? Of course it does. Again, 114 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,519 what do I always say, don't whiz on my boots 115 00:08:40,519 --> 00:08:43,639 and tell me it's raining, stop the gas lighting. We 116 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,559 all understand why a design firm working on this project 117 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:53,360 would all of a sudden have their offices attacked. She 118 00:08:53,399 --> 00:08:56,440 went on to say, it's important for any organization, including 119 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:00,440 Central Piedmont Community College and agencies involved in the project, 120 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:04,840 to maintain the safety and security of its facilities, its people, 121 00:09:04,879 --> 00:09:08,039 and partners. So we are attentive to information shared by 122 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,600 law enforcement as well as public information on social media. 123 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:17,080 Precisely they would be derelict, negligent if they were not 124 00:09:17,799 --> 00:09:25,399 keeping tabs on this organization and their public statements. Indeed, 125 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,320 I would submit that local law enforcement would be negligent 126 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,600 and derelict in their duty if they were not keeping 127 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,720 tabs on this organization from the inside. Like, this is 128 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,200 the kind of organization that you would put somebody into. 129 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,120 You would want somebody on the inside. So this way, 130 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:51,519 if they start planning mayhem, vandalism, murders, attacks, whatever you 131 00:09:51,519 --> 00:09:53,559 would get, you would get a heads up. 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He emerged as a key activist after the 162 00:11:44,039 --> 00:11:48,200 shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by CMPD, leading to widespread 163 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:51,480 Keith Lamont Scott, who had a gun, refused to drop 164 00:11:51,519 --> 00:11:54,320 it and then raised it up and then was shot 165 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,360 and killed, and they turned it into a, you know, 166 00:11:57,399 --> 00:12:01,480 a racial thing because Keith Lamont Scott was black, although 167 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,320 the officer that shot him was also black, but that 168 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,440 didn't matter because he was wearing the blue and so 169 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,120 that's the only thing that matters. Of course, that led 170 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:16,919 to the widespread protests in the city in twenty seventeen. 171 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,639 And of course Braxton Winston had his shirt off because 172 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,879 it was hot out and he's in the streets and 173 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,960 raising his fist in the air, and somebody takes a 174 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,279 picture of him and it goes viral, and then he 175 00:12:27,399 --> 00:12:29,759 parlays that into a run for the Charlotte City Council 176 00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:34,000 and so, yeah, I don't know if he was like 177 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,440 a I don't know if there was like an organizational 178 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:41,559 structure at that time, but yeah, that's what launched his 179 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:48,039 career in politics, I should say, And that's the group 180 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:53,159 that now CMPD, is you know, following on social media 181 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,639 making sure that as they're posting all of these calls 182 00:12:56,639 --> 00:13:01,279 to action against CPCC and identifying people by name, and 183 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:06,879 you know, posting meetups and stuff and addresses to go 184 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,799 protest in front of that, that if they're going to 185 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,919 get a little violent and they post that stuff on 186 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,240 social media, CMPD wants to know about it, as they should, 187 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:20,879 by the way, as they should. Evan White, public affairs 188 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,799 manager at CMPD, did not respond to questions from The 189 00:13:23,879 --> 00:13:28,000 Charlotte Observer about whether CMPD was still collecting intelligence on 190 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,200 Charlotte Uprising and what the department's policy is on monitoring 191 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:36,000 activist groups. Well, I hope they are. I hope they're 192 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,480 still monitoring, and I don't think they should tell you that. 193 00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:44,679 So that's that's part of an investigation. 194 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 2: Right. 195 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: I have made a request. This is from a cp 196 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,240 the Central Piedmont Community College Public Safety dean Luke Sell 197 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,360 is his name, Luke Sell, And he said, I've made 198 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,960 a request to cmpd's intel team to flag anything regarding 199 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,200 this facility and help us determine if any movement gains traction. Right, Okay, 200 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:13,000 perfectly appropriate, good to be prepared and He went on 201 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:16,080 to say that the group's posts were not overly concerning, 202 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,320 but definitely something to watch and so they can plan accordingly. 203 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:23,720 The one hundred eighteen million dollar project set to be 204 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:28,759 completed sometime around twenty twenty eight. And these emails that 205 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:32,799 were obtained by the Charlotte Observer were obtained because they 206 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:36,879 were exhibits in a lawsuit that was filed against CPCC 207 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:44,559 by these activists who claim that CPCC violated the state's 208 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,320 open meeting law by discussing the details of this land 209 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:54,279 acquisition inclosed session, which, by the way, that is actually 210 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,840 something you are allowed to talk about in closed session, 211 00:14:57,399 --> 00:15:00,320 land acquisition, real estate deals. They do it all time. 212 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,600 Local governments do this all the time. And the reason 213 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,120 why is because if word gets out that they are 214 00:15:06,399 --> 00:15:11,120 trying to negotiate for some particular parcel of land and 215 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,840 somebody is adjacent, a landowner is adjacent, they could then 216 00:15:15,919 --> 00:15:18,279 try to squeeze more money. They could use it in 217 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,879 the negotiations against the government, because the government's got deep pockets, right, 218 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,559 That's why you're allowed to do these things in closed session, 219 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:30,039 and then after the deal is done, then you release 220 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:34,440 the information. So the emails were included as exhibits in 221 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,799 a lawsuit filed in Mecklenburg last week. Five plaintiffs alleged 222 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:43,720 that CPCC broke open meeting law when they discussed when 223 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,159 they were discussing and planning this facility one of the 224 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,759 So there are two bits from this article that I 225 00:15:52,799 --> 00:15:59,759 find interesting. One is as follows that a CMPD detective 226 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,639 in one of these emails references an activist arrested during 227 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:11,720 Charlotte's twenty twenty protests over the killing of Saint George Floyd, 228 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:15,799 and then again in Atlanta. They were the same activist 229 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,279 was arrested then again in Atlanta for that Copcity protest. 230 00:16:20,799 --> 00:16:24,720 The detective called the activist quote one of the main 231 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:31,039 agitators in the twenty twenty riots in Charlotte. Now I 232 00:16:31,039 --> 00:16:38,759 thought this was interesting, Who is this activist? Why, like, 233 00:16:38,799 --> 00:16:41,240 why wouldn't you name this person in the in the 234 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:48,240 news article. Well, they did post the lawsuit, all two 235 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,200 hundred and sixty pages of it, and I went through 236 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,480 the two hundred and sixty pages this morning and I 237 00:16:54,559 --> 00:16:56,799 found the email that was in the exhibit. And here's 238 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:03,320 what the email says from a CMPD detective to Luke 239 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,680 Sell at Central Piedmont. You are probably already aware, but 240 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:12,160 Charlotte Uprising is posting about the new CPCC law enforcement 241 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,839 training facility, trying to compare it to Atlanta's Cop City. 242 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:22,119 If you remember, James Marsicano from Charlotte Uprising was arrested 243 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,160 in Georgia as part of the Cop City protests. Marsicano 244 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:29,240 was also one of the main agitators in the twenty 245 00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:32,799 twenty riots in Charlotte and was arrested then as well. 246 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,440 Take care let us know if you need anything. Why 247 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:43,960 wouldn't you identify James Marsicano in the article. It doesn't 248 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,519 save you any word count, so that that can't be it. 249 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,559 I have some theories, well really one, but it's also 250 00:17:54,599 --> 00:18:00,200 connected to this other tidbit that I thought was of note. 251 00:18:00,519 --> 00:18:02,200 At the very end of the story, there is a 252 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,720 disclaimer and credit to the Charlotte Observer for pointing this 253 00:18:06,799 --> 00:18:10,599 out to their readers. It says Ryan Orley covers criminal 254 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,440 justice in the Charlotte region for the Charlotte Observer. His 255 00:18:13,599 --> 00:18:18,519 work is produced with financial support from the nonprofit the 256 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:25,599 Just Trust. The Observer maintains full editorial control of its journalism. Okay, 257 00:18:25,799 --> 00:18:30,039 so the Observer is taking money from a nonprofit called 258 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,519 the Just Trust, and they claim that just because we're 259 00:18:34,519 --> 00:18:39,160 getting this money to fund the salary of a reporter, 260 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,559 at least in part. I don't know how much the 261 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:44,640 Observer is taking in from this nonprofit, but I'm supposed 262 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:50,720 to believe that all editorial control ignores the revenue stream 263 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,680 that funds the creation of the content that you are 264 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,359 now selling. You want me to believe that there's zero impact, 265 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,960 zero influence whatsoever. I don't believe you. I don't believe that, 266 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:07,319 particularly when this nonprofit is the Just Trust. Do you 267 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,839 want to take a guess what the Just Trust is 268 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:15,279 all about? Well, if you guessed prison and police abolition, 269 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,599 you'd be correct. The very thing that Charlotte Uprising is 270 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,200 all about is they also the very thing that the 271 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,720 Just Trust is about. I mean, they dress it all 272 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:33,119 up in you know, corporate NGO gobblygook on their website. 273 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,799 You got to sift through it, but you understand what 274 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:38,119 it is that they're arguing for when they talk about 275 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:44,200 reforms and a more humane system in all of this, Yeah, 276 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:49,039 these are prison abolitionists. They want to get rid of that, 277 00:19:49,079 --> 00:19:52,240 they want to tear down the system as it exists, 278 00:19:52,799 --> 00:19:55,920 the Just Trust. That's what they're funding, and they do 279 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,160 it all over the place. They also fund the ACLU. 280 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,200 So I don't know, Like, maybe you guys should do 281 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,640 a bit of a story about the impact that this 282 00:20:07,799 --> 00:20:11,839 nonprofit funding may be having on news in your newsroom 283 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:15,160 if any. All right? So, spring is here a time 284 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:20,039 of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and 285 00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:22,640 the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making 286 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,680 memories that are going to last a lifetime. 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James Marsicano, thirty years old, was among twenty 308 00:21:43,279 --> 00:21:46,960 three people arrested after police say a group of demonstrators 309 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,000 used the cover of a peaceful protest and the South 310 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:57,759 River Music Festival to attack construction equipment and police officers. 311 00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:59,960 Kind of feel like the police officers should get TI 312 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:05,519 billing there, you know, over the equipment. But anyway, police 313 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:08,839 say thirty five people were detained, twenty three charged by 314 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:13,920 the Georgia Bureau of Investigation or the GBI. They changed 315 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,240 into black clothing and entered the construction area and began 316 00:22:18,319 --> 00:22:21,720 to throw large rocks and bricks and molotov cocktails and 317 00:22:21,759 --> 00:22:29,440 fireworks at police officers. According to Atlanta PD SO, James Marsicano, 318 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:38,599 also known as Jamie Marsicano, she her pronouns, is the 319 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,319 son of Michael Marsicano. And when I was a reporter 320 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,839 here in Charlotte for almost a decade, I had many 321 00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:54,400 occasions to interview and attend meetings with and hear presentations 322 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,480 by Michael Marsicano, who was the CEO of the Foundation 323 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,640 of the Carolinas Foundation for the Carolinas I believe, And 324 00:23:05,599 --> 00:23:11,200 they were involved in like every major project that the 325 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,759 city council, County Commission, even the school board. They were 326 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:19,839 super in depth, involved in bringing together public private partnerships 327 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:29,160 to create you know, events, venues and initiatives you know, 328 00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:33,200 aimed at improving the society and the city and all 329 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,000 sorts of stuff they were involved in, like everything. Michael 330 00:23:36,039 --> 00:23:42,599 Marsicano led that organization. This is his kid, his thirty 331 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:47,200 year old son, who's now probably thirty two, I guess. 332 00:23:47,839 --> 00:23:54,759 Michael Marsicano retired in January of twenty twenty three. He 333 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,400 was also a governing board member at Duke University and 334 00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:00,279 Duke University Health System. He was named to the top 335 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,759 spot of the most Powerful in Charlotte in twenty seventeen. 336 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,880 He and his wife have remained influential in the Charlotte area, 337 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,640 leading Charlotte Mayor Vye Lyles is racial the Mayor's racial 338 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,519 equity initiative, the two hundred and fifty million dollar thing. 339 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:19,359 Remember that the mayor announced I think using I think 340 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:23,519 it was like COVID money or something. But he's he's 341 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:26,960 a he's a big name, and like this has got 342 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,960 to be terrible for him. Like I'm not trying to 343 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,680 like drag him in or you know, besmirch him or anything. 344 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:38,559 But I have to wonder if his son had any 345 00:24:38,599 --> 00:24:42,480 other father, an unknown guy that you know, worked at 346 00:24:42,519 --> 00:24:47,240 a bank or something. I just I wonder if he 347 00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:52,559 would be named in this Charlotte Observer story. James Marsicano 348 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:58,480 goes by the alias Jamie Marsica or Marsicanna, identifies as 349 00:24:58,519 --> 00:25:03,000 a white trans fem organizer in Charlotte. This is his 350 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:06,279 own words on his profile, who is fiercely committed to 351 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:13,559 supporting black transfems, prison abolition, and destabilizing all forms of oppression. 352 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,680 She they was a core organizer during the Charlotte Uprising. 353 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:29,440 Marccano's arrests include anti police demonstrations dating back to twenty sixteen. 354 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,839 Let's see if we go backwards from the cop City protest, 355 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:39,039 where he was charged with domestic terrorism June of twenty twenty, 356 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:42,960 charged with assault on a government official, resisting a police officer, 357 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,200 and disorderly conduct in an altercation with a police officer 358 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:50,839 during the George Floyd fiery but mostly peaceful Summer of 359 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:55,720 Love protests in uptown Charlotte. Prior to that, in twenty seventeen, 360 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,319 he was arrested at Charlotte Douglas Airport in a Charlotte 361 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,160 Uprising Black Lives Matter skirmish with police when a protest 362 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,680 against then President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees and 363 00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:11,559 citizens from seven Muslim majority countries got physical. The year 364 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:15,440 before that, twenty sixteen, Marsicana was also arrested and charged 365 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,839 with disorderly conduct and protests after the Maclammer County DA's 366 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,160 office decided not to file charges against the officer who 367 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,000 shot and killed Keith Lamon Scott. And then, of course, 368 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:30,160 most recently was the domestic terrorism charges filed by the 369 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:33,359 Georgia Bureau of investigation, which then led to him getting 370 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,920 banned from the UNC Chapel Hill campus, where he was 371 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,839 a second year law student, which then prompted students at 372 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,799 UNC to walk out of class to protest that decision. 373 00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:51,960 Marsicano's attorney, Aaron King, at the time this was April 374 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:55,559 twenty twenty three. Aaron King said that the charge against 375 00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:59,799 her client is baseless, noting that by prosecutor's own admission 376 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:02,720 of already do not have any evidence directly tying Marsicano 377 00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:06,759 to the scene. They said there was no video. The 378 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,000 arrests occurred near a music festival about three quarters of 379 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:13,359 a mile away, more than two hours after the attack 380 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,359 took place. According to the lawyer, Marsicano was arrested near 381 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,759 a food truck while eating dinner at the festival. But 382 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,359 prosecutors wanted no bond for Marsicano because they said he 383 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:31,240 he saying he is an anarchist who was wearing muddy 384 00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:35,359 black clothing and had been arrested in connection with protests 385 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,400 to North Carolina in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. Right, 386 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,200 so he's got a rap sheet. This is kind of 387 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,960 what he does. Right, He goes and he protests, and 388 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:49,839 he gets violent with law enforcement. The officers who stormed 389 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,640 the festival following the attack on Cop City Atlanta were 390 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,559 looking for people who had money, muddy clothing. Why well, 391 00:27:59,559 --> 00:28:05,519 because the the people who stormed the construction site, they 392 00:28:05,599 --> 00:28:09,119 had to cross a stream a creek in order to 393 00:28:09,279 --> 00:28:11,960 get to the music festival, where they blended in with 394 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:15,799 the crowd. So they when the cops show up, they're like, 395 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,480 look for people dressed in all black because that's the 396 00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:23,000 uniform of the temporary anarchist LARPers. And they're going to 397 00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:27,079 be covered in mud because they crossed this creek, So 398 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:29,400 they're going to be muddy and lo and behold this 399 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,839 guy with muddy black clothes and a rap sheet for 400 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,440 doing this exact kind of violence happens to be standing 401 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,039 next to a food truck eating. Some chow activists say 402 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:48,559 that the evidence in question is not adequate because it 403 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,880 rained two days before the festival and so there were 404 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,519 patches of mud on the festival grounds that apparently I 405 00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:57,319 guess he what they rolled in or something like. That's 406 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:03,839 just Megan Rankin, a friend and classmate, said Marccano challenges 407 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,519 us to think in class and is a resource for 408 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,039 many who are facing struggles both inside and outside the classroom, 409 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,720 especially when it comes to supporting those struggling with mental health. 410 00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:18,559 Jamie is just this glowing, bubbly, wonderful personality when he's 411 00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:21,359 not attacking police. Okay, I edded that last part. 412 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: All right. 413 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 414 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:25,519 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 415 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:27,640 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 416 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,880 say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because 417 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,599 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 418 00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:37,960 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and 419 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,079 it's a website and it combines news from around the 420 00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:43,799 world in one place so you can compare coverage and 421 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,720 verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, 422 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:51,039 dot news slash pete. I put the link in the 423 00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:54,319 podcast description too. I started using ground News a few 424 00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:57,039 months ago and more recently chose to work with them 425 00:29:57,079 --> 00:29:59,799 as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how 426 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:03,359 stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature 427 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,079 shows you which stories get ignored by the left and 428 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:10,200 the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news 429 00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:13,680 slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen 430 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,799 percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to 431 00:30:16,799 --> 00:30:20,240 get unlimited access to every feature your subscription then not 432 00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:23,279 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 433 00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:27,720 as they make the media landscape more transparent. Ryan Ortley 434 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,880 at the Charlotte Observer did a story about the lawsuit 435 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,559 filed against CPCC about six days ago. A Central Piedmont 436 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,960 Community College student alleged in a lawsuit that security guards 437 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,839 followed her and barred her from returning to campus after 438 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,720 she went to a Board of trustees meeting. Okay, but 439 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,200 that's not why they followed her and barred her. There 440 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:53,160 was they alleged certain behavior that occurred inside the meeting. 441 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,920 She is one of five plaintiffs alleging that school officials 442 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,880 broke open meetings law when discussing a plan and first 443 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,599 responder training facility that is being built on twenty three 444 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,680 acres at the college's Matthews campus. The college calls the 445 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,640 plan community Lifeline. Opponents have called it a cop city, 446 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,440 like the one that drew protests in Atlanta. The plaintiffs 447 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:20,559 are being represented by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, 448 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,759 a Durham based nonprofit that provides legal advice and representation 449 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,240 to poor people and minority communities. Ryan It is a 450 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:36,920 left wing activist organization. These are leftists. The Southern Coalition 451 00:31:37,119 --> 00:31:41,880 for Social Justice is a leftist law firm, okay, and 452 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:48,559 they have successfully put two of their CEOs presidents leaders 453 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:52,960 on the State Supreme Court, Alison Riggs, who's in the 454 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:58,319 fight with Jefferson Griffin, and Anita Earls. Anit Earls was 455 00:31:58,359 --> 00:32:02,160 the founder of this organization. See, the left loves their 456 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,240 activist lawyers when they are of the left. They have 457 00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:09,000 no problem putting somebody like a Ruth Bader Ginsburg and 458 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:13,480 Anita Earls onto the courts. No problem. But you know, 459 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:18,079 God forbid you mentioned anything of a conservative persuasion and 460 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,279 you want to be put onto the courts, then it's like, oh, 461 00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:23,279 we can't have you. You're an idea loogue in all 462 00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:27,039 of this anyway. The lawsuit alleges the college board violated 463 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:30,920 open meetings law by not keeping adequate minutes, not recording 464 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,400 the meetings, not issuing proper public notice of meetings, requiring 465 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,119 photo id for the public to attend a meeting, failing 466 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,599 to provide copies of an agenda, and unlawfully discussing the 467 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,200 plan in closed session. Again, you're allowed to talk about 468 00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:53,039 real estate development deals in closed session, So the college says, quote, 469 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:55,599 our commitment to the residents of Mecklelberg County and the 470 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:59,319 first responders who serve them will not waiver. Central Piedmont 471 00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:02,839 strongly dis degrees with the allegations outlined, which are based 472 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:09,559 on inaccurate claims. The complaint said that a visiting student 473 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,319 named ibonei xus oh, actually that might be ebony but 474 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,720 spelled with an e ebony exeus of Charlotte left a 475 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:23,119 March twelfth board meeting before it went into closed session. 476 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,079 School officials cited a statute that allowed meetings to be 477 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:31,000 closed to the public for anti terrorism planning, which makes 478 00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:34,279 sense considering what I just told you about Marsacano. The 479 00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:37,039 lawsuit alleged that a security guard followed her, took a 480 00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:40,920 picture of her license plate as she drove off, and 481 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:48,279 then Mecklenberg County's assistant public defender Mina as it kippie, 482 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,799 I don't know how to pronounce it easy, I kpe 483 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,400 I don't know. She then left the meeting around the 484 00:33:53,440 --> 00:34:00,240 same time. Security also followed her, and the students said 485 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,039 she was told that she was banned from campus and 486 00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:05,319 would be arrested if she didn't leave, and then the 487 00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:08,199 public defender's boss got a call and learned that she 488 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:15,360 was also banned from the campus. CMPD officer claimed that 489 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:19,239 she was swearing in a disrespectful and abusive manner toward 490 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:25,280 the board members and CPCC security, but no one watching 491 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,599 the meeting was allowed to speak at all. According to 492 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:32,239 the lawsuit, well, just because you didn't get a carve 493 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,679 out to go in front of the board and speak 494 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,039 like two minutes to make your case on something. Just 495 00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:38,760 because they didn't let you speak at the board meeting 496 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,239 doesn't mean that you didn't like scream and yell and 497 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,719 cuss out people. The plaintiffs say that they did not 498 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:51,199 swear at staff or campus security, and another attorney, Xavier 499 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,239 Torrez de Genon of Charlotte, alleged that he asked a 500 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,960 school representative for an agenda and given the repeated rept 501 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,639 references to a non public agenda having been circulated to 502 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,920 members of the board, but was told that no such 503 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,159 agenda existed in the exhibits of the lawsuit. By the way, 504 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,920 he's apparently been swapping emails with Mecklenburg County Commissioner Laura 505 00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:16,239 Meyer on this. The plaintiffs want a judge to order 506 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,519 the March twelfth meeting nullified, along with any other meetings 507 00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:21,559 where the board allegedly broke state laws. So what are 508 00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:25,320 they trying to do. They're trying to stop the project, right, 509 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,920 They're trying to stop the project. 510 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:27,119 Speaker 2: Now. 511 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: What's interesting also is that the term leftist is never 512 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,800 used in this article, which is paid for in part 513 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:42,119 by the Just Trust nonprofit that's a leftist organization. But 514 00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:44,800 let me real quick, just go over who the parties are, 515 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:50,400 who these plaintiffs are. I mentioned Mina Azgipe whatever, she's 516 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,840 a public defender, and in the complaint it says it 517 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,960 lists who she is, where she went to school in 518 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,360 all of this. This is in the lawsuit labeling her 519 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,360 as one of the parties. And he says Ms. Ezekepe 520 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:06,519 is black. And then plaintiff A Bony Xius employed by 521 00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:11,119 Atrium Health Sartis Oakes tells some of her background and 522 00:36:11,119 --> 00:36:17,760 then says Exius is black. Xavier Tourus Dejonon, attorney employed 523 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,239 as Director of Mass Defense at the National Lawyers Guild. 524 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:25,639 His legal work includes supporting community responses to state repression 525 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,400 and researching publicly funded development of police training centers referred 526 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,480 to as cop cities and the potential for increased police militarization, 527 00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:36,840 environmental destruction and harm to marginalize communities nationally. Mister Dejanon 528 00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:42,079 is a brown immigrant from South America you're talking about. 529 00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:44,599 By the way, why are you listing everybody's race in 530 00:36:44,639 --> 00:36:49,840 your lawsuit? Also, what is the National Lawyer's Guild. Well, 531 00:36:51,039 --> 00:36:56,760 it's a leftist alternative to the American Bar Association. In fact, 532 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,480 the original early members of the National Lawyer's Guild back 533 00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:06,880 in the thirties there were Commis. They were literally communists, 534 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:12,239 and the National Lawyer's Guild allied itself with the Communist Party. 535 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:20,519 Another plaintiff Julianne Libengoth Lebnguth. She lives in Durham. She's 536 00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:23,239 an assistant professor of political science and public policy at 537 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,880 Elon University. She studies power dynamics that shape global environmental issues. 538 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,639 And she is white. Not capitalized there, folks. All of 539 00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:35,199 the other races are capitalized, but white is not. Because 540 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,599 that's how you level the the millennia of oppression. And 541 00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:43,639 then finally, William Donovan Stanley. He lives in Charlotte. He 542 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,920 graduated from cox Mill High School. He has experienced harassment 543 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,519 from the police and wants to learn more about the facility. 544 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:55,679 Mister Stanley is black, so he's just like an interested party. 545 00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:01,320 Like so he's you get into lawsuit? Okay, all right, 546 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,760 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 547 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,840 for listening. 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