WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.520 K BLA Talk fifteen eighty. Good morning, Good morning, and 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.320 God bless I'm Dominiqua Prima. 3 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:07.320 The show us called. 4 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:11.000 First Things First, and my first thing every day is prayer, giving, thanksgiving, 5 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:13.519 praises and asking for blessings from God, asking for the 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.399 blessings of the ancestors and the elders. 7 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:17.839 And let's go. 8 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.120 Man. It's a busy season. And I'm glad we're here together. 9 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:27.519 I'm glad we can do this. And this today is 10 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:29.199 a talking point Tuesday. 11 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:30.160 This is when we. 12 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:37.079 Try to debunk, deflate, or flip around the talking points 13 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:39.640 that don't serve us, don't serve our community, and sometimes 14 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:43.159 we don't even know where they came from. I will 15 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.320 ask you to help out in that project. You're always 16 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:49.880 invited in at eight hundred nine to fifteen eighty eight 17 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:52.039 hundred nine, two oh fifteen eighty. 18 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:53.479 It also happens to be a. 19 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:57.880 Primary day in Florida and Alaska, like every week is 20 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.159 a primary day. But of course we are in that 21 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:05.599 season all the way up and through November. So the 22 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:07.799 way we do things on a Tuesday hour one, we 23 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.079 look left, left coast, what's going on around here as 24 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.439 it connects to the world. Hour two we go national, 25 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.640 international and beyond, and in the third hour we do 26 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.840 a deep dive on a hot topic person or persons 27 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.239 of interest. We are on point with that today. Right now, 28 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.920 it's me you the microphone, telephone, your Twitter fingers, your 29 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:33.879 Instagram thumbs, whatever you got going on, and you can 30 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.000 call me on the old fashioned landline. 31 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:37.120 At eight hundred and nine. 32 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.280 To fifteen eighty hour two, I'll be joined by my 33 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.200 colleague doctor Ni Cordlai Corte, who can give us a 34 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.120 clearer picture of all these various primaries, not just the 35 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.200 two today, but the last couple and where they leave 36 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.719 us ahead of November, and of course you're invited in 37 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:58.280 to that conversation as well. In our three we will 38 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:03.400 look at what is the real story behind the La 39 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:12.360 Jazz Festivals collapse, demise, postponement, what is it really what 40 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:17.039 actually happened. As you probably know, I am on the 41 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:21.879 board of the La Jazz Festival Foundation, which is the 42 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:27.520 charitable arm of that enterprise, and I will be joined 43 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:33.919 by Martin Ludlow, the visionary behind that, and he's going 44 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.159 to do a deep dive on what really happened, what's 45 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.639 really happening as it's still in motion and I'll be 46 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.240 taking your questions and your phone calls as per usual. 47 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.360 So we got a lot to get to today, and 48 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:52.039 I'm glad that we can do it together. My my mind. 49 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.240 Did you see the story yesterday? 50 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.039 There was a poll that. 51 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.520 Came out I think I'm going to say end of 52 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:09.919 last week that showed Mayor Karen Bass ahead in the 53 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.199 race to be for her reelection by like twelve points. 54 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:18.960 It was a double digit lead. It was a big story. 55 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:25.879 And now the company behind that pole is saying that 56 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:30.560 it wasn't true, that it was a fake poll, and 57 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:37.360 I'd smell a rat. You know, there's so much to 58 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.759 unbox here if you really look at it. This company 59 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:47.159 claims that the poll they did the poll knowing it 60 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:52.080 was fake because they were trying to show that how 61 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:57.879 quickly information can get into the public sphere and how 62 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:06.159 quickly it can be spread around the internet. And why, 63 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:10.960 I mean, first of all, why now they're called Median Strategies. 64 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.680 Now they say they're getting out of the polling business 65 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.600 and that all of their polls past or present are 66 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:24.399 just to be ignored. They said that their polling project 67 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:32.600 will not publish additional polls. Hmmm, I smell a rat. 68 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:37.879 Why would you your little social experiment, Why would you 69 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.600 target the LA mayor's race just in particular? 70 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.319 Why would you decide, out. 71 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.480 Of all the primaries in all the country and all 72 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.800 the world, you just thought you'd do a fake poll 73 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:55.040 about a black woman running for reelection and then pull 74 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:58.560 it so that she could look bad. Really, that's what 75 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:00.959 you decided. Even so, she had nothing to do with 76 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.399 that poll. It wasn't her poll. She didn't pay for it, 77 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:10.160 she didn't commission it. But of course she's gonna talk 78 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.959 about it. Anyone would talk about polling that shows that 79 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:22.160 they're doing well. That's the nature of politics, radio, corporate culture, anything, right, 80 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:26.399 That's just what people do. The Roman campaign is jumping 81 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.720 on it, saying they published the poll without setting it. Okay, 82 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:37.160 So what you're telling me is that your campaign independently 83 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.839 verifies and audits every single poll, no matter any poll, 84 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.800 before you tout it. I seriously doubt that I've worked 85 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:50.480 on enough campaigns. I'm not a campaign strategist, but I've 86 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.879 worked on, been around, been behind the scenes of enough 87 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.040 campaigns to know that they don't say, oh, let's independently 88 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:10.079 they're a by this poll, not favorable polls. They now 89 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.639 say it wasn't even a poll. Can we get an investigation? 90 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.120 Let me tell you if I had the means, I 91 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.360 would be investigating who's behind this median strategies? 92 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.000 Who who's who. 93 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:24.399 The owners of this company, who are they friends of? 94 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.920 And who do they back in the in the race 95 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:31.959 for La mayor. It's just a little too convenient. Of course, 96 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.560 the Maya deleted her posts where she had put it 97 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:41.759 up there, and her campaign spokesperson said any bad faith 98 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.839 attempts to influence elections should be investigated and prosecuted to 99 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:54.240 the fullest extent of the law. I do agree, I yeah, 100 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:54.920 I just. 101 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:55.759 I don't know. 102 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:02.839 Why would it seems really fishy to me anyway this 103 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.439 to if this is what we're doing, If this is 104 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:12.199 what we are doing in this campaign cycle, fasten your 105 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:15.000 seat belts. It's gonna be a bumpy ride. I don't 106 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.240 see how it cannot be if that's the direction that 107 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:22.600 we are going here in La And it appears that 108 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:24.839 we are just based on some of the posts and 109 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.920 back and forth that I have seen so far, and 110 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:32.279 we haven't even it's not even after Labor Day yet, 111 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:38.439 when This stuff really starts in earnest. It's not just politics, 112 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:44.920 it's arts, culture, it's relationships, it's how doggone hot. It's 113 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.839 gonna be today, tomorrow and the next day. All of 114 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:50.399 that is on the table. That's what we do around here. 115 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.399 First things first, whatever your first thing is, I'd love 116 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.519 to hear from you always at eight hundred and nine 117 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:00.920 two fifteen eighty, Part two or maybe part five of 118 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:06.160 an possibly infinite heat wave is upon us today. 119 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:09.839 So hydrate, you know. 120 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.920 Where, find a cooling station, where itty bitty clothes, whatever 121 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.439 you got to do to feel comfortable. 122 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:17.439 It's about to be. 123 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:22.240 Hot today, tomorrow and the next day. And yeah, don't 124 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:28.399 play with matches. I mean, it's weird hot. It's humid hot. 125 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.199 I don't know if that's al Nino, you know, I 126 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:35.159 don't know what that is, but it is hot. Reminds 127 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.120 me of New Jersey when I would go home to 128 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.600 visit my dad. So you know, you'd all be sleeping 129 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.360 in the basement because it was so humid and hot 130 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.720 and muggy. This is not La hot. 131 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:47.399 This is some. 132 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:53.759 Climate emergency kind of weather. In any case, you know 133 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.320 the cooling stations you can call three one one you 134 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.000 can get a list and go to libraries. They welcome 135 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.519 you in on hot days like this might maybe you'll 136 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:03.399 read a book, get a little smarter. But even if 137 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.159 you don't, there's air conditioning and Wi Fi. 138 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.919 Okay, yeah, we're in the. 139 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:15.960 Middle of another midweek blaze, so get ready, and we 140 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:19.799 do have a lot to talk about. The District Attorney 141 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:25.159 had a press conference yesterday. I'm regarding Keith Porter. We'll 142 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.000 look at that and more when we come forward on 143 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.360 KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Right now, we're back to me 144 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.519 and we're back to you at eight hundred and nine 145 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:38.240 to two oh, fifteen eighty. So after months, literally months, 146 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:45.039 because this happened on New Year's Eve, when a person 147 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:49.960 who lived in the same building as Keith Porter murdered him. 148 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:57.919 That person happened to be an off duty ice agent. Yesterday, 149 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.559 the District Attorney's off met with the family and met 150 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:06.240 with Keith Porter's mom. Keith Porter is a black American. 151 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:08.840 Born and raised. 152 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:15.039 No kind of immigration anything, not that that should make 153 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.960 you more or less eligible to be murdered by law enforcement. 154 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.519 But just for the record, he was allegedly shooting into 155 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:30.039 the air in his apartment complex, and this guy Pelasio's, 156 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.799 who also lived in the complex, allegedly told him to stop. 157 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.240 He then called it in saying the guy was an 158 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.360 active shooter. But he goes back into his apartment, puts 159 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:47.919 on his ice gear, comes back out and shoots Keith 160 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:54.000 Porter dead. Porter was allegedly at the time reportedly done. 161 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.600 He had been shooting off in a parking lot where 162 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.759 people weren't around. He was walking back towards his apartment 163 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:07.039 and he was killed. Now, the community is the one 164 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:15.200 that outed this Plasios guy, Brian Plasios. They because he 165 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:21.600 had his own problems with his own baby's mother, and 166 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:27.639 he had been accused of I don't know, child abuse, 167 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:32.559 I think yeah, child abuse. That they actually were the 168 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.440 ones that outed him. And then people including various news 169 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:41.759 agencies and community activists organizations like Black Lives Matter, Grassroots, 170 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:47.639 bl MLA, you know, put the word out and then 171 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.639 the press reported, after they did their own whatever they did, 172 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:54.320 that it was this guy, Brian Plasio's and the community 173 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.840 and the family have been calling for this guy Pelasios 174 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:03.320 to be arrested, charged, fired, anything, and we've heard nothing. Well, yesterday, 175 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:08.919 the DA's office did meet with the family Hawkman's office said, 176 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.480 you know, they don't usually meet with victims' families this 177 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.279 early in an investigation. He didn't call them victims, those 178 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:19.120 are my words, but that given how high profile this 179 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:25.720 case is, and given the request, the repeated request of. 180 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:26.919 The attorney. 181 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:33.480 In the case, Jamal Tewson, that they decided to go 182 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.879 ahead and meet with the family. What's interesting is they 183 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:40.600 have not committed to bringing charges. The family is asking 184 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:45.279 for a grand jury here, and Hawkman said they haven't 185 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.799 made that determination yet. They're still trying to claim that 186 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:56.399 Keith Porter shot at this guy. But I'm quite convinced 187 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.120 that if there was evidence that that had happened, and 188 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.840 the LAPD would have trumpeted it all over the world. 189 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:10.639 You know how they love to talk about the victims 190 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:15.360 of law enforcement violence and smear their own their characters. 191 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:19.279 So I seriously doubt that is the case. Especially you know, 192 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.360 firing into the air to celebrate on New Year's is 193 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.840 not an active shooter. You might not like it, it 194 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.799 might be illegal, but it happens all the time, and 195 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:35.120 those people are not considered active shooters. So they're saying that, 196 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.840 and that was you know, Homeland Security, which every single 197 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:44.519 case of them killing people citizens and not. They always 198 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:46.799 say the officer feared for their life and the person 199 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.360 was trying to kill the officer, either the ice person, 200 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:55.080 either with a vehicle or a gun or you know, 201 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.480 I don't know, magic spell, I don't know. They're always 202 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:07.440 justified it, so that is not convincing. It's interesting that 203 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.480 the La Times says a law enforcement official had told 204 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:14.000 them that detectives found evidence of two bullets behind where 205 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.720 Pelasio's was standing, but we have never heard that claim again, 206 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.799 and they don't say in this latest article. They don't 207 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.960 say what law enforcement agency told them that. Was it 208 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:31.480 the LAPD, was it Homeland Security? Was it the Sheriff's department? 209 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.720 Who wasn't And why have we never heard about that again? 210 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:40.399 The attorney says, you know that presenting the case of 211 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.440 the grand jury would mean would be the best case forward, 212 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:52.600 And the district attorney hasn't said no. He hasn't said yes, 213 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.080 but he hasn't said no. And I think that this 214 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.960 is an indication, in my opinion, that the protesting, the 215 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.919 fact that we keep saying his name, the fact that 216 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:06.279 Angelinos and others who protest ice, you know, once they 217 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.799 started finding out about this case, continue to ask for answers, 218 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:13.360 continue to say his name. Are not letting this just 219 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.679 go under the carpet. And so the DA's saying he 220 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.440 hasn't ruled out a grand jury. He's calling on more 221 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:25.240 witnesses to come forward if they, you know, if they 222 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:28.639 haven't come forward yet. And he met with a family. 223 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.799 So this is a good at least a good sign. 224 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:36.919 Their attorney says, there were no eyewitnesses. Now, I was there, 225 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:43.799 not at the shooting, obviously, right, I'm not what's his name, 226 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:47.799 Scott Jennings, who claims he was talking to Mitch McConnell. 227 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:48.919 I wasn't there at the shooting. 228 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.360 I was there at the vigil that they did for 229 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:58.200 Keith Porter shortly after he was murdered. And one of 230 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.200 the remarkable things about it is that it was packed 231 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:05.120 with people. There were a lot of black people, there 232 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.720 were a lot of Latinos, there were some white folks. 233 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.759 This guy, Keith Porter, was very popular in his building 234 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.960 and at his job. A lot of the Latino folks 235 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.720 that were there who got there early, who were there 236 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.600 with flowers, who were crying mourning. This guy worked with 237 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:29.000 him at the home depot. And then the white folks 238 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.120 that were there, were people from the building that knew him, 239 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:36.600 and a couple that didn't know him that were just 240 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:41.799 very distressed at what had happened. And then of course, 241 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:46.720 his family is extended family Black Lives Matter, LA. His 242 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:56.320 cousin is a member of that organization, and. 243 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.919 A lot of the people in the building were. 244 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.679 Really skeptical about what happened because they were saying that, 245 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:06.039 you know, they they didn't hear anything, and it didn't 246 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:12.720 make any sense. And people, you know, talking about his 247 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.799 character and what a wonderful person he was, what a 248 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.759 you know, the kind of guy that just helped anyone 249 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.720 that needed help. And that was the thing that struck 250 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:27.160 me from his people, his coworkers at the job, his family, 251 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:32.799 and the people from the building that did know him. So, 252 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:39.000 you know, I think that I don't know, the LAPDS 253 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.799 completed their investigation, which means that the DA could bring 254 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:46.720 charges if he wanted to. And I don't know what eyewitness, 255 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.400 what witnesses, you know, he's he's talked to him who 256 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.160 he hasn't if he's talked to all of those folks 257 00:17:53.200 --> 00:18:02.240 that were there at that vigil or not, But they 258 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:04.319 need to charge this guy. It's you know what it's 259 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:07.440 reminding me of. It's reminding me of George Simmerman, because 260 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:12.359 if you look back to the Trayvon Martin case, there 261 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:16.279 Zimmerman was running around for a long time with no 262 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:20.359 charges being filed. He was not arrested until we the 263 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:24.200 people started talking about it, right, I mean, if you 264 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.160 think back at the now, you know, it seems like, 265 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:29.440 oh yeah, of course there was a trial and everyone 266 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:33.039 was talking about it. Even the President weighed in. But 267 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.599 it was the activists on the ground. There are the 268 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:41.920 dream Keepers there and in Florida, the family and others 269 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:47.960 who wouldn't let it go, who kept protesting, who kept 270 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.799 calling for the arrest of this guy, And even though 271 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.880 he got off, there never would have been a trial, 272 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.799 There never would have been a conversation. Even you know, 273 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:02.160 the founding of Black Lives Matter was largely was largely 274 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:06.799 inspired by the activism in the wake of his murder. 275 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:11.160 So it's reminding me of that because if it wasn't 276 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:16.240 for the community and Black Lives Matter LA and the 277 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:22.240 family and the attorney just not giving up and refusing 278 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:25.440 to stop saying Keith Porter, Keith Porter, Keith Porter, then 279 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:29.839 this would have been already swept under the carpet. There 280 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:32.160 would be no conversation about it. We would not be 281 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:35.400 having a press conference with the DA yesterday saying he's 282 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:40.039 thinking about convening a grand jury. And so I say 283 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.799 all of that to say that we have to keep 284 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:47.160 it up. We have to keep you know, look commenting 285 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:52.240 under every post about ice murders, Keith Porter, say his name, 286 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:58.000 commenting you know, to the DA, who has a very 287 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:02.400 robust social media presence, or writing emails to them, or 288 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:11.920 writing to you know, your council members that heck the 289 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:16.279 police chief that they conducted an investigation. Why aren't they 290 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:17.440 pressing for charges? 291 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.720 Like all of these folks are. 292 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:27.359 Worth reaching out to, because we still need justice for 293 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:28.480 Keith Borter, News. 294 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:29.599 Traffic and Sports then more. 295 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.640 I'm Dominique, the Primia for KVLA Talk fifteen eighty. Yeah. 296 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:35.240 I do appreciate you. 297 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:37.920 I appreciate you waking up with me. 298 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:41.359 Yeah. 299 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.920 The uh, the trial they call it the trial of 300 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:50.400 Tupac shakor the murder trial, it's really the trial of 301 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:54.720 Duayne Davis. I mean, because Tupac is no longer with us, 302 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:59.759 rest in peace. This happened thirty years ago. They did 303 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:06.960 opening statements on yesterday, prosecutors say it was all about, 304 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:12.880 you know, a gang rivalry, and. 305 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:15.640 I guess you know. 306 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:20.640 Again you wonder, okay, if you know all this, why 307 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:26.160 why is it coming now? Why is it all? Why 308 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:33.480 is this coming out now? They're saying that mister Davis 309 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:42.400 ordered the murder of Tupac. They're also saying that Pak 310 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:45.319 was conscious after he was shot when he was on 311 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:50.000 his way to the hospital, but that he wasn't cooperating. 312 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:51.440 That's what they're claiming. 313 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:52.599 It. 314 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:53.440 According to. 315 00:21:55.640 --> 00:22:00.799 Their first witness, Gary Dale, who is from your home town, Miles, 316 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:12.599 Las Vegas Metro police officer who wrote in the ambulance 317 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:17.359 with him. At least that's what he says. 318 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:18.240 And that. 319 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.920 He says that when he asked Tupac who shot him, 320 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:26.200 and Pac said no, we'll take care of it. 321 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:28.640 And that he would refuse to speak any further. 322 00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:34.920 You know, I I know that there are a lot 323 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:42.640 of documentaries and books and speculations about Po's murder, and 324 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:46.440 I've had my own private conversations with people that knew 325 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:50.000 him really well, people from Vegas, people from here. But 326 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:54.160 I can't say that I've read every do you read 327 00:22:54.240 --> 00:23:00.359 every every book? And watch every documentary about Tupac's murder. 328 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:07.359 Have never will why it's water day. I mean, I 329 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:07.880 don't want to. 330 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.440 I don't want to sound insensitive because you know you're 331 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.319 doing more than I'm doing. But it feels insensitive and genuine, 332 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:18.240 and I don't need to get into the weeds and 333 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:21.680 everything to, you know, to to feel how I feel 334 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:22.440 about the situation. 335 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.359 Didn't change anything about me at this point. 336 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:26.920 Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I don't, 337 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.440 because you know, I knew him and I. 338 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:31.839 Was really really sad. 339 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:35.160 I think it's because I don't trust it too. It 340 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:37.759 just seems like a bunch of blah blah blah blah, 341 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.119 Like if you really were going to tell the truth 342 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:44.039 about what happened to Tupac, why did it take thirty 343 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:47.400 years and even the ones that you know, there's been 344 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:53.079 documentaries and there's been articles and books in between those 345 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:57.920 thirty years, But I just it's it's kind of I 346 00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:59.839 just don't feel like we're getting the truth, the whole, 347 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:03.480 even of what they actually know. And maybe that makes 348 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.319 me a conspiracy theorist, but my gut says, nah, it's 349 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:08.640 fishy as hell. 350 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:10.960 I'm right there with you. I'm not. 351 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:13.799 I'm said, I'm not following this trial. I haven't been 352 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:16.480 following the trial step by step like that. So and 353 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:20.599 I don't plan on, uh if, I don't plan on 354 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:22.559 watching this whole episode to the very end, you know. 355 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:24.559 I mean, I'm I guess. 356 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:26.799 We'll see the results of it for sure, but I'm 357 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:28.279 not attached to it at all. 358 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:32.960 Yeah, and you know, to his brother's point, none of 359 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:36.599 it is going to bring Pop back, right, So. 360 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:39.400 I don't know, I feel like I. 361 00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:44.759 Need to let you guys know this is happening and 362 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:50.559 follow it to the extent of, you know, anything that 363 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:55.119 seems to come out that feels relevant. But basically they're 364 00:24:55.200 --> 00:25:02.920 saying the you know, two rival gangs in LA and 365 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:07.160 that's what led to it, you know, kind of the 366 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:09.720 stuff we already have heard. I mean, I guess from 367 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:17.640 Duayne Keefe d himself, from various people speculating. I remember 368 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:26.640 after my auntie Kimako Jones, who was also aka Sandra 369 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:31.359 Elaine Jones, who was an you know, a Broadway actress 370 00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:35.359 and a dancer, my dad's sister, when she was murdered, 371 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:43.160 you know, and then again when my sister, my younger sister, 372 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:48.440 Shawnee was murdered. My dad would challenge, you know, law enforcement, 373 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.720 why is it taking you so long? Isn't this what 374 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.039 you do? And so again thirty years later. It just 375 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:05.240 it doesn't sound credible. But perhaps I'll follow a little 376 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:11.720 closer this time, since they're since they've taken it to 377 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:19.359 actual court. Yeah. I also think about this in terms of, 378 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:22.119 you know, people's lyrics now being used against them, and 379 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.200 that's really popular in Georgia, but it's it's something we'll 380 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.160 probably be seeing more and more of. And then in 381 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.720 this case, this guy's book and all of his podcasts 382 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.920 and radio interviews and TV being used against him and 383 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:44.680 now he's denying that. I yeah, I don't think that works. 384 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.200 And I don't know does this change the record? Does 385 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:52.799 this change the official record? 386 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:53.640 Is it? 387 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:55.759 What will it take for us to really know what 388 00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:57.960 happened to Tupac or Biggie. 389 00:26:57.640 --> 00:26:58.319 For that matter. 390 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:09.519 You know, why are these two crimes still largely unsolved? 391 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:11.240 I don't know. 392 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:15.200 It doesn't sit right with me, but FYI, the trial 393 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:23.000 is well underway and Selena says, I don't like stories 394 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:27.440 with violent endings. Well, yeah, and we don't. And any 395 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:30.680 c Courton calls it fabricated narratives and the exploitation of 396 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.920 another black man. And of course, you know, it would 397 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:36.920 be great if we could bring him back or bring 398 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.519 some measure of relief onto his family. But from what 399 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:44.279 I'm hearing from them, they don't find that to be 400 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:46.519 of comfort. 401 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.640