Speaker 1: All right, let's get the eight o'clock hours started. It
Speaker 1: is Kentucky and this morning News with Coffee and Company,
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee here with you on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas as you could expect. When one of the national
Speaker 1: stories this morning is is from right here in our
Speaker 1: backyard of Louisville, that of course means it's going to
Speaker 1: be a big story to us. And that is the
Speaker 1: sentencing yesterday for Brett Hankerson, who was sentenced to thirty
Speaker 1: three months in prison. This comes just one week or
Speaker 1: I guess less than a week after the DJ recommended
Speaker 1: just one day in jail. And I think there were
Speaker 1: probably folks hope are fearful that that was going to
Speaker 1: be the sentence that he got, which would really result
Speaker 1: in nothing. And then there are some and they're entitled
Speaker 1: to their opinion, that think that Brett Hankerson shouldn't be
Speaker 1: serving any jail time. And I'm not here to try
Speaker 1: to change your mind. What I've been trying to do
Speaker 1: this morning is just if you look at his actions specifically,
Speaker 1: just as far as how he handled himself that night,
Speaker 1: and again, there's so much more to it than that,
Speaker 1: and I know that, but he already had a previous
Speaker 1: issue where he was. I mean, he'd been reprimanded by
Speaker 1: his superiors for reckless conduct, reckless conduct involving his firearm
Speaker 1: multiple times on other police incidents. At least one earlier case,
Speaker 1: he fired his weapon during a pursuit that led to
Speaker 1: some concern from his superiors. So firing ten shots, and yes,
Speaker 1: he didn't fire the first shot, and I wouldn't. I'd
Speaker 1: be a fool to try to act like I have
Speaker 1: any idea as far as what protocol is in that situation.
Speaker 1: And most people, in fact, a lot of law enforcement
Speaker 1: officers don't really know how they would handle that situation
Speaker 1: because a lot of them who serve in law enforcement
Speaker 1: thankfully for many, many years, because we need people to
Speaker 1: do that. We need people who you know, are willing
Speaker 1: to put their life on the line and work in
Speaker 1: that field. And it can be a thankless job for sure,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them do it, and thankfully for them,
Speaker 1: they never even have to draw their weapon. So nobody
Speaker 1: knows how you'd react until you're in that situation, law
Speaker 1: enforcement or not. But firing ten shots recklessly and nearly
Speaker 1: hitting others that were not involved at all, I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable in saying that can't be protocol. Now, again, if
Speaker 1: you're in that situation and you're just you're you're firing
Speaker 1: shots because you're trying to save yourself, that's different. But clearly,
Speaker 1: if they were to investigate just that shooting alone, I mean,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a shock that he was found to
Speaker 1: have handled that situation incorrectly. And again, there's no nobody
Speaker 1: knows how you'd handle it, and I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: what the perfect way of handling that would be as
Speaker 1: far as just avoiding danger for yourself but also making
Speaker 1: sure nobody else was injured and you were able to
Speaker 1: apprehend who you were there to get and nobody actually
Speaker 1: got shot. So thirty three months was the sentence, and
Speaker 1: it does sound as if there were there was some love.
Speaker 1: And again I feel clearly if you can't tell, I'm
Speaker 1: uncomfortable trying to act as if I can speak for
Speaker 1: any but anybody but myself when it comes to this,
Speaker 1: to this current situation here. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's because they were fearful that he would have no
Speaker 1: prison time, or if they genuinely just feel as if
Speaker 1: the thirty three months in federal prison is justified. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it was Breonna Taylor's mother who later said
Speaker 1: that she understands what the judge was able to do,
Speaker 1: and she was able to, you know, basically saying the
Speaker 1: judge did the best they could with what they had
Speaker 1: to work with. But it was Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings,
Speaker 1: who was a Trump appointed judge. By the way, thank
Speaker 1: you to John Channon for letting me know that. But
Speaker 1: she clearly denied a motion for a new trial right
Speaker 1: out of the gate yesterday and then made it clear
Speaker 1: that she did not agree with what the DJ recommended
Speaker 1: for that sentence. So there were four arrest yesterday prior
Speaker 1: to the sentencing in downtown Louisville. One of those was
Speaker 1: Breonna Taylor's aunt, Bianca Austin, who was charged with disorderly
Speaker 1: conduct and obstructing a highway. Three others were arrested in
Speaker 1: one of those jumped on the hood of a Louisville
Speaker 1: water truck. And they did confirm that their employee was
Speaker 1: caught in that protest and was able to safely exit
Speaker 1: the area. And I have no clue what type of
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's anything else that comes of this
Speaker 1: from the Louis of Water Company. I've now seen that
Speaker 1: clip many times just on my TV in front of me.
Speaker 1: Wlky of course, has been sharing that on their newscast
Speaker 1: this morning, and that clip of the person jumping on
Speaker 1: the vehicle is probably has millions of views online. And
Speaker 1: I mean if I was a lot of times when
Speaker 1: somebody is not as I mean, let me think of
Speaker 1: the right way to describe this. When you are somebody
Speaker 1: that ends up driving into an area where people are protesting,
Speaker 1: and maybe they're claiming they're peaceful, but they're yelling, they're angry,
Speaker 1: they're putting their hands on your car making it clear
Speaker 1: you're not getting by because they're protesting. When you see
Speaker 1: somebody try to quickly get out of there, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of folks just assume, well, hey, they're trying
Speaker 1: to run those people over. But I think what you
Speaker 1: need to consider some people may just be very fearful
Speaker 1: and not have a clue what those people are going
Speaker 1: to do. And I don't know what the situation was
Speaker 1: with the employee for the Louis of Water company, but
Speaker 1: I mean it might. I mean, I think you are
Speaker 1: justified if you are. I mean, you never know what
Speaker 1: somebody's doing whenever they approach your car like that. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think that most would just run somebody over
Speaker 1: and that didn't happen, but clearly they were trying to
Speaker 1: get out of there. And I think the tone of
Speaker 1: the message from the Lois of Water company, as far
Speaker 1: as their statement, I don't think it's a coincidence that
Speaker 1: they went on to say that their employee was caught
Speaker 1: in the protest but was safely, but safely exited the area.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not saying we're going to revisit it
Speaker 1: and look at it. Because you're going to work. You're
Speaker 1: out there doing your job and you run into that.
Speaker 1: And again I can't speak for that individual, but if
Speaker 1: they were scared, I totally understand. All Right, let's get
Speaker 1: a quick update of traffic and whether Bobby Ellis will
Speaker 1: get us caught up on the roadways out there. We'll
Speaker 1: get the latest forecast from Matt Mollosa, and we'll keep
Speaker 1: this thing rolling along. If you're somebody that is hoping
Speaker 1: and praying, one day we might get a four day
Speaker 1: work week like that could be the new norm. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to happen, but there's some
Speaker 1: good data that can only help. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: in more. Right here it's Kentucky has morning News with
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whas. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I don't know if we'll ever
Speaker 1: see the four day work week be the new norm
Speaker 1: in my lifetime, but I would certainly be I'd be
Speaker 1: up for it, although I will say when it comes
Speaker 1: to which day we get off, it has to be
Speaker 1: Friday not Monday, right, I mean, in fact, I guess
Speaker 1: they could be really weird where you have a four
Speaker 1: day work week and like we would get Wednesday off.
Speaker 1: But it's probably not even worth looking at the options
Speaker 1: because I would imagine the five day work week is
Speaker 1: probably here to stay. But if you want to throw
Speaker 1: some data at your employer to maybe get them to
Speaker 1: consider adjusting the work week from Monday through Friday to
Speaker 1: some version of a four day work week, there is
Speaker 1: a study that was at Boston College that does given
Speaker 1: some fresh momentum to the idea of working less without
Speaker 1: making any sacrifices to productivity or pay. So researchers followed
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one businesses that made the switch
Speaker 1: from a five day to a four day work week
Speaker 1: with no pay cuts. Nearly three thousand workers were studied
Speaker 1: over a six month period and the results show this
Speaker 1: that the workers on the four day schedule reported greater
Speaker 1: job satisfaction, less burnout and fatigue, improve sleep, higher productivity
Speaker 1: compared to their five day counterparts. So researchers did acknowledge
Speaker 1: the studies centered on employee outcomes, not as much employer outcomes,
Speaker 1: But with that it could lead to I mean, if
Speaker 1: your employees are not burned out, there's no fatigue, and
Speaker 1: there's better job satisfaction, and of course the productivity is higher.
Speaker 1: Isn't that good for the employer as well. Maybe So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we'll ever see it, but I
Speaker 1: would certainly be be all for it. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are some companies that just have, you know, have
Speaker 1: their own way of doing it. They don't fall in
Speaker 1: with the norm and and you know, just do whatever
Speaker 1: everybody else has done. And I guess, more than I
Speaker 1: think about it, not everybody has the normal five day
Speaker 1: work weeks. I mean, everybody's schedule can be different. But yeah,
Speaker 1: four day work week, I'm all for it, But Monday
Speaker 1: off would just feel like I'm prolonging to get back
Speaker 1: to work, if that makes sense, right. The Sunday scaries
Speaker 1: of a real thing, That anxiety that kicks in when
Speaker 1: you're about to wrap up the weekend and start a
Speaker 1: new work week. I mean, that's a real thing. That's
Speaker 1: why Sunday is an appreciated day for me when it
Speaker 1: comes to being off of work. But it's not as
Speaker 1: easy to enjoy as a Saturday or even a Friday,
Speaker 1: because again it's the state of mind for me. Fridays
Speaker 1: it's a workday for a lot of people. If you
Speaker 1: have a Monday through Friday nine to five type of job,
Speaker 1: you still get up, you still go to work. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing that you did Monday through Thursday that
Speaker 1: you're working towards. But when you get to Friday, you now,
Speaker 1: at least from a mental standpoint, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about getting up early on a Saturday
Speaker 1: morning or even a Sunday morning. So adding an extra
Speaker 1: day off it being a Friday, it just feels like
Speaker 1: we're getting there early. But it's all how you see it,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure everybody sees it differently, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: now I guess roughly, gosh, am I six seven weeks
Speaker 1: into this new this new role, this new shift for me,
Speaker 1: And yes, it is a big it is a big
Speaker 1: adjustment and a big change. But I do feel, you know,
Speaker 1: knock on wood, I'm starting to it's well two things.
Speaker 1: Getting up has not been nearly as difficult as I
Speaker 1: thought it would be, just because I you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: my guess is that I'm not I don't sleep that
Speaker 1: much overnight, probably five hours, so maybe I'm not in
Speaker 1: a deep enough sleep. But the wake up call has
Speaker 1: not been brutal. Maybe it's just because I expected it
Speaker 1: to be insanely difficult, but it really hasn't been. But
Speaker 1: what I've learned in my schedule is that the second
Speaker 1: I feel like, oh no, I'm good, I don't need
Speaker 1: to I don't need to rest, I don't need to
Speaker 1: get a quick nap in because I'm not even tired.
Speaker 1: That will eventually catch up with me, and I have.
Speaker 1: I've been defeated on a few days where I just
Speaker 1: assume that I don't need to make some time just
Speaker 1: to rest. That way, I'm not a zombie either later
Speaker 1: in that day or even the next day. So I'm adjusting.
Speaker 1: But yeah, four day workweek, sign me up. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to another update of traffic and weather. We'll
Speaker 1: also get another sports update from Scott coming up here
Speaker 1: in about four minutes, and then Rory O'Neil BINBC News
Speaker 1: set to join us at eight thirty, so stick around
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