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smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for

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your support. Some may say that I give Mecklenburg County

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Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden a bit of a

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hard time. No, it's true. Some people say that, and

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it's true, it is absolutely true. But he deserves it. Okay.

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That's why I'm hard on him, is because he deserves it.

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And I have documented over the years why he deserves it,

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all of the various issues that he has been involved

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in and has created, which is why I was super

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excited to see that there is a candidate running against him.

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His campaign has been launched in the Democrat primary. His

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name is Ricky Robbins. I believe race car driver retired

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race car driver from Talladega Knights. Ricky. Oh no, sorry,

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this is a longtime sheriff Mecklenburg Police sergeant Ricky Robbins.

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Ricky Robbins, what's the name? Sorry, No, I'm very like

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I don't know who else is in I'm going to

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get to this story here. But the Charlotte Observer had

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the rite up the other day. The primary is on

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March third, and as you know, we were talking with

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Andrew Dunn yesterday from long Leaf Politics. You know, people

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may think that's a long time away, but if you

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are running a campaign, it like you're like filing is

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underway right now for the upcoming November election. For these

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are the local races, but the primary is for the

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twenty twenty six races is in March, and so people

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have to be lining up their campaign staff, their you know,

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endorsements and stuff. They got to be fundraising. They're already

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out there doing the work for twenty twenty six. The

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municipal races they're up this year, so the candidate filing

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is open for the twenty twenty five city races. So

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Ricky Robbins hosted a kickoff event for his campaign at

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the Mint Museum Randolph. He put out a press release

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and in the press release he said that he is

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endorsed by he's being backed by retired CMPD chief Rodney Monroe,

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which doesn't like, I don't. That does not persuade me,

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just because I was a reporter here at the time

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when Romo was the Rodney rod Moo Romo anyway, when

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he was the chief, and I don't remember him being

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at least in my estimation, not terribly impressive as a

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police chief. But I don't know. I don't know if

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he got a three hundred thousand dollars payoff. I don't

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know if he got one of those two, but I

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don't believe so. So that's one of the endorsements that

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he picked up. But here here are a couple endorsements

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that I actually think will matter more. Carolina Panther Cuba

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Hubbard endorsing him along with another Carolina Panther, Derek Brown,

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along with another former Carolina Panther, Luke Keikley. The fact

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that he knows three Carolina Panthers, Like, automatically, I'm intrigued, like,

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how do you know these three guys? Maybe he did

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security for the Panthers and he got to meet the

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players and stuff. I remember, so little sidebar here let's

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take a quick side trip. I used to work for

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the Charlotte Hornets for a season. This would have been

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the nineteen ninety nine two thousand season, and I was

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I did the pregame segments for like scores from around

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the league and news from around the league. It was

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basically an opportunity for Bob Licked, the play by play guy,

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and Jerry v the color guy, to go and get

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interviews in the locker room from the coaches and the

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players and give them a break, go get some you know,

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hot tea with honey. That's what Bob always like anyway.

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So I would do just these segments in the pregame,

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the postgame, and the halftime segments of the broadcast. And

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I did that for one season. At the time, I

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was part time in the WBT newsroom, So I did

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this as a side hustle, and I went by a

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different name. But everybody who listened to bt knew who

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I was. They told me I had to have the Hornets,

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didn't The old program director told me, like, you need

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to have a different name, Like why do I need

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to have a different name, Like so this way people

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won't won't hear the same name it'll be confusing to

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the listener if they hear you doing WBT news stuff

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and then doing Charlotte Hornet stuff. I'm like, but they're

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going to recognize my voice. And what I realized years later,

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not being wise to the ways of radio management at

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the time, I learned years later that he wasn't worried

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about WBT listeners being confused. He was worried that people

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in the network, the affiliates around the Carolinas that were

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broadcasting the games, that they may know who I was

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and maybe try to poach me, and so he didn't

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want that to happen, so which I guess is flattering

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now that I think about it, but at any rate,

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because so every home game I sat court side, which

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is also that also led to my disaffiliation and disaffection

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with the NBA, by the way, after watching every single

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home game court side being an NBA fan for you know,

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my childhood, and then seeing the game up close and

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seeing the way the officiating was done, and then the

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next season seeing the playoffs and the egregiousness of the

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calls and stuff, and I was like, I'm done, Like

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this is completely arbitrary. I feel like it's rigged and anyway,

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so I quit following it. And but while I was

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their court side, I recognized there was always this one

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CMPD officer. He ran security in uniform for every Hornets game,

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every home game. I don't know his name. He was

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always on like the other side, so I never I

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never met him. So maybe that's what Sergeant Ricky Robbins

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used to do. Maybe he did that with the Panthers.

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But the fact that he's got three Carolina Panthers to

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endorse him to the point where they let him obviously

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put their names in a press release supporting him. First off,

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they've got to have I gotta think they have a

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personal relationship with him. They probably are not following I mean,

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I don't know why I would. Maybe they are following

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the you know, the local sheriff's race. Maybe they do

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know about all of the problems at the jail. Maybe

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they do know all of the problems in Gary not

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my fault, McFadden's administration. Maybe they do know all of this.

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I suspect though, that these endorsements are simply personal relationships, right,

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But that's big for local races. You get three Carolina Panthers,

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and if they have a decent season. I mean, like

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that's gonna be like, if they have a good season,

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this could be game changer, you know. So he okay,

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So Robbins is one of at least two candidates who

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want to unsee McFadden. You have another guy named an

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Twain or Antoine Nance, a former detention officer, also running,

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So that's not great. I think you should probably clear

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the field if you guys really want McFadden out. I

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think Democrats need to clear the field for a candidate

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to make it easier for that candidate to beat McFadden,

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because when you start splintering the anti McFadden votes, then

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McFadden has an easier time getting into the general election

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getting through the primary. And if he gets through the

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primary again, chances are voters are going to put him

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back into office because we are a Democrat controlled county

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and Democrats are not going to look past the D

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in his name or the other D. Right. Well, he's

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got two d's in his last name, so they're not

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going to look past his party affiliation. They're going to

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vote for the Democrat. In the press release, Robin's campaign

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said he's running in part to establish an ethical workplace

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culture sorely needed. Meanwhile, antoine Nance's campaign website says he

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wants to restore public trust in the sheriff's office, which

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if they can hammer those messages against McFadden, I think

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that's going to that'll do some damage. You get these

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two guys hammer in a way, and my hope would

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be that if one of them in the polling realizes

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that they can't win, they should drop out, throw their

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support behind the other challenger and consolidate that anti McFadden sentiment.

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Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Hey Jerry, Hey, thanks Pete.

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Speaker 1: Sir.

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Speaker 2: I'm a retire police officer. Ricky Robbins has been in

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charge of head Coach Security AH since the beginning of

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the Anthers.

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Speaker 1: Since the beginning, Yes, sir, wow, I'm the very first coach.

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Speaker 2: Up until today, Ricky Robbins has been attached to the

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Carolina Panthers for head coach Security. He's also a SWAT officer,

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very good trainer and a very good man.

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Speaker 1: So you endorse him.

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Speaker 2: Most definitely. I would endorse Sergeant Ricky Robins.

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Speaker 1: So and you worked did you ever, like work with

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him on the force?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, well yeah, we kind of worked together, not directly,

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but I worked for the Sheriff's office. He was our

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trainer when we put together our SWAT team. We got

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to know Ricky very well. But yeah, he is a

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very confident man, and he's been attached to the panthersince

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stay one.

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Speaker 1: I knew it. I knew those Panther players weren't following

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the Sheriff's race that closely. I knew it had to

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be a personal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Pete. He's a good man. He's a

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very good man.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, hey, Jerry, I appreciate that. Thank you, Yes, sir,

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all right, take care and thank you for your service

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as well. We appreciate it, Jerry. I did get Let

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me see a couple of texts on the Liberty buiou

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GMC text line. Here. Kirk wants to know what name

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I used when I was with the Hornets. So there's

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a question I could open up for like a like

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a contest. No, I'll just tell you, yes, it was. Well,

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he just sent me a follow up saying I believe

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it was Peter O'Donnell. Yes, indeed, it was Peter O'Donnell.

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I was very yeah, nobody could nobody knew it was me.

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It's because here I'm Pete Callaner, but on the Hornets broadcast,

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I was Peter O'Donnell. See nobody knew. This is from

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Sean who says, you were thinking about Ricky Bobby and

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he's too busy, shaken and bacon to be any part

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of sheriff. And that's Sean did get the joke. Ad job.

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Here's another. This is from a seven oh four number.

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He worked security for the Panthers for years. He was

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always behind the bench with the coaches. Yeah, and so

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like that's why I said, like he had to have

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been assigned to the detail. I did not know this,

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uh what Jerry just said about assigned to the coaching,

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to the head coaches or whatever. But that explains why

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he would have these Panthers, uh giving their endorsements. And

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I think, like in a local race, I don't think

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they're going to go out and do campaign stops for him.

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Maybe they will, I don't know, but like that's that's

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a high profile kind of a deal. That's you know,

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you get the endorsement of you know, some local elected

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official or something. And Okay, I don't know anybody that

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relies on like the editorial board of the Charlotte Observer

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to direct their votes. I mean, if anything, I look

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at who they endorse and I vote the opposite way.

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But I don't rely on endorsements. I don't think they

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move the needle very much, unless, like, for example, you've

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got a guy like Elon Musk coming in to say

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to his two hundred million followers on Twitter, you know,

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vote for Donald Trump. People who follow Elon Musk and

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don't follow politics, they now may do so because the

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guy that they like is telling them this is who

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you should vote for. I endorse this guy. And that's

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the same dynamic I think I play with the with

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these panthers, Will they take that kind of an active role,

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I don't know. Maybe they just lend their name to

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the endorsement list, maybe make a donation of you know,

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hundred bucks, five hundred bucks, thousand dollars whatever for the campaign,

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and that's the extent of it. We'll see, But like

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that would be I think that would be a very

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goo good, a very good thing for the candidacy. And

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as far as the other guy goes, this former detention officer,

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which if I recall correctly, last time, there was another

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detention officer who ran and split the anti McFadden vote

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with what was her name, Gina Hicks, one of the

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first people that McFadden fired who ran the jail. She

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ran the jail, But McFadden fired a whole bunch of

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the people that he perceived to be part of the

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good old boy network. Gena Hicks being a black woman,

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of course she's part of the good old boy network, right,

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and so he fired her, and then of course she

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started seeing all of these people dying at the jail.

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She would have been a far superior sheriff than what

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we have now. But all right, so that's Ricky Robbins. Meanwhile,

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Charlotte Mecklenberg FOP, the Fraternal Order of Police, uh they

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The president of the FOP, Daniel Redford, made some statements

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in the wake of the latest shooting. I've seen it

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described as a mass shooting, which I saw. Then CMPD

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is pushing back on this term. Was it a mass

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shooting because one man was killed and like five others injured.

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I think it was five. There may be six total

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that were you know, shot at on the streets of

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uptown Charlotte the other night. And CMPD is like, that's

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not really a mass shooting, and there's discrepancy in the definitions,

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and what do you classify as a mass shooting and

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blah blah blah blah blah. It's like to me, that's

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that's not the point here, right, The point is that

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you had you had a shooting occur left one innocent guy,

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seemingly innocent bystander, left him dead, and a bunch of

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others injured, and we're still looking for the shooter. Apparently,

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Tijuana Brown filed for reelection show prep secured. Um No,

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I mean I wish we're all the best. In her

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federal indictment. That's for a Charlotte City Council seat filed

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for reelection. My pal CaCO day up in Raleigh. Uh

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just tagged me in the tweet and he said, I

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love this for you. Pete. I am blessed. I am

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blessed beyond measure. Cohen says, Pete, I fully concur with

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your assessment of not my fault, McFadden. I hope Pam

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Bondi finds out what he's doing and files a lawsuit.

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Uh yeah, same same here, and uh I tagged Tom

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Holman and Ice and DHS on various press releases that

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McFadden has put out. I mean you do have to

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scroll past like his big head that takes up like

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most of the press release when he sends them out.

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But I tag them, and you know, hopefully he's on

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their radar. But I don't know. So two men are

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now facing charges in connection with a mass shooting in

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Uptown early Sunday morning. Damian Evans Junior and Sean Cannon

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are in jail facing weapons charges for the shooting that

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left one dead and several others injured. According to court documents,

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Evans and Cannon fled with a suspected shooter, later leading

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police on a chase after refusing to pull over during

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an attempted traffic stop. This is according to Queen City

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News QC news dot Com by Andy Weber. Police did

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not identify the shooter. This was from yesterday. Maybe they've

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already picked up the shooter. Maybe they know who it is.

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I don't know, but they haven't identified them. Also a

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little unclear as to what happened during the traffic stop

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and why they didn't get the shooter at that point

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but or after a chase. But I have another story

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that gives some details on that. In fact, uh, I'll

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come back to the FOP president's comments. So we had Cannon,

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one of the suspects here, denied bond, charged with denied bond.

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Wait a minute, four felonies, possession of firearm by a felon,

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possession of a stolen firearm, flee eluding arrest, and accessory

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after the fact, and he got denied bond in Mecklenburg County.

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I thought we just left just let felons with stolen firearms,

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We just let them walk. Maybe give him an ankle

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bracelet or something. I didn't realize we were actually keeping

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people incarcerated. So what I mean, look, hey, that's an improvement, right,

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Let's let's take the victory here, let's take the win.

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You got a felon with a stolen gun, fleeing arrest,

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and accessory after the fact to a homicide. Yeah, that's

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a good deal. That he's still in jail. He seems

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like he might be a threat to the community. You know,

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that's a reason to detain him. Evans was issued with

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I don't know what that's I don't know what that means.

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Was issued with two counts of possession of a firearm

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by a felon and possession of a stolen firearm. Now

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I don't know if it's the same firearm. Maybe they

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just both got the charge and there was one gun

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in the car, or maybe they both had stolen firearms

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in their possession. Either way, and they don't say what happened,

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if if Evans was denied bond or not, I don't know.

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Maybe he was too so. An off duty officer was

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working at an area nightclub when the shooting happened. According

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to an affidavit, the off duty officer saw Evans holding

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a gun with an extended magazine, but was able to

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take it from Evans. Good on the cop, Good job,

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off duty officer.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: A total of six people were shot, including Arley Brian Junior,

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who died from his wounds at the site of the shooting,

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which was outside of the Encore nightclub. The nightclub has

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confirmed that Arley Brian Junior was an employee who was

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working when he was killed. I saw a report that

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he was a bartender there, and he may have been

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standing outside on a smoke break when police arrived. A

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security guard flagged one of the officers and pointed out

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a silver BMW and said the alleged shooter had gotten

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into that car and was leaving. An officer caught up

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to the car as it was in traffic. The front

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seat passenger was identified as Evans. Allegedly, the driver rolled

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up the window and left. So so you stopped the

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car with an alleged mass shooter in the car, and

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apparently in order to evade the arrest. I did not

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know this, but you simply roll up the window and

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drive away. I was unaware that that was the cheat code.

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Charlotte Meckleberg Police's Real Time Crime Center then tracked the

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WB sorry the WBT. BMW tracked the car using the

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street cameras the traffic cams. Another officer catches up to

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the car, a chase started when the BMW refused to stop,

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and then it doesn't say what happened after that, except

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that the car was found a couple of minutes later,

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having been abandoned. So did this guy implement evasive measures?

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And he ditched the cops for a couple of minutes

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or was he driving too fast? And then the cops

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per their policy they can't like, they don't chase, and

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so he was able to get away ditch the car.

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He's found a couple minutes later, taken by police. Stolen

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gun found in the vehicle. A total of seven guns

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: The president of the Charlotte Meckelberg Fraternal Order of Police,

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Daniel Redford, in a quote to qcnews dot Com, he said,

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it is frustrating when you know officers get injured or

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they get cut, they get hurt, and they're having a

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fight with these people and the next thing you know,

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they find out six months later the charges have been

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dropped or the person's been out of jail. Redford said

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the only solution to deter and reduce the violence in

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Charlotte is to make changes within the city council. He

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is correct, he made a direct appeal to voters. Quote.

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I think that it's time that we have a fresh reset,

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that we get city council members in there who will

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actually speak out when criminals victimize our citizens instead of

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only coming out and commenting when it's an officer that

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does something wrong. Yeah, I mean it starts at the top.

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It really does. The police. Any police chief is going

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to do what the Charlotte City Council wants him to do.

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He's going to take his direction from the politicians at

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the top. Let me see here. Oh, I got one

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more item related. The DA's office put out a press release.

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Man pleads guilty in vehicular death of Charlotte woman. This

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was a press release from yesterday, so I guess the

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day before. So on Monday yesterday, after being called for

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trial for the twenty twenty vehicular death of fifty four

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year old Rosslyn Michelle Torrance, fifty four year old woman

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killed in a twenty twenty car crash by Christian Barboza.

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Christian Barbosa pled guilty to all charges. The Mecklmburg County

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Die's Office Homicide Team prosecuted the case. The proceedings were

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held in Quarterroom fifty three seventy before the Honorable George C. Bell,

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Superior Court judge. When he was called for trial Barboza

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twenty four now twenty four, because this is four or

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five years later he finally went to trial. It took

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four years to go to trial and he pleaded guilty

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as charged with no concessions from the state. He pleaded

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guilty to involuntary manslaughter felony death by vehicle, two charges.

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In his discretion, Judge Bell sentenced Barboza to fifty one

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to seventy four months in prison, which is about what

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five years or so roughly in that range. That sentence

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was suspended pending his successful completion of thirty six months

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of supervised probation. As a condition of the probation, Barbosa

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must serve a split sentence of one hundred eighty days

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in jail. So this guy back on March twenty fifth,

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twenty twenty, just before nine pm, he rams his car.

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He runs a stoplight or a red light. He runs

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through the red light, plows into the victim, Rosalind Torrents

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sends her car into the side of an overpass like

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a big barrier pins here in there for half an hour.

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He was doing sixty seven in a thirty five mile

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an hour zone. Running the red light at the intersection

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of North Trion Street and University City Boulevard. He broadsides

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Torrens his car, forcing her car into the wall of

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the overpass, and because of the location and the extensive

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damage to her car, it took Charlotte Fire Department half

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an hour to extricate her from the vehicle. During that time,

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Barbosa tried to leave the scene. He fought the deputies

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who were attempting to detain him because there were two

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deputies that were right there and saw the whole thing.

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Once they restrain him, the defendant was transported to the hospital,

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where he admitted to both medic personnel in the presence

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of officers as well as the hospital staff, that he

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had consumed THHC metabolites or sorry he had consumed marijuana

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and acid LSD, but he says he did it the

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night before. That does not drop an acid doesn't make

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you go sixty seven miles an hour in a thirty

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five zone. A night later, she suffered severe injuries from

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the crash. She was in the hospital and eventually died.

477
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It took like four men. She was in the hospital,

478
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just awful, and this judge gave him a suspended sentence

479
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three years probation. You get the government you deserve people,

480
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and you know, until people decide they've had enough of

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this crap by voting out these judges, Like I don't

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know what else to tell you, all right, that'll do

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it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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I could not do the show without your support and

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the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast,

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

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while I'm gone.