Speaker 1: KFI. It's later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. We have a huge show for you tonight.
Speaker 1: So much going on. You've probably heard by now, the
Speaker 1: pending charges and the impending announcement of those charges regarding
Speaker 1: New York City Mayor Eric Adams. When we have more
Speaker 1: information about that, obviously we will forward it to you.
Speaker 1: I'm eagerly interested to see what has been uncovered and
Speaker 1: what they will eventually charge him with. I find it
Speaker 1: very curious, you know, the Biden DOJ in the weeks
Speaker 1: before a major election, a presidential election, are going to
Speaker 1: charge Democratic Bob an Indez says, hello, just seems like
Speaker 1: it's weird. It's just strange timing. Why would the Biden
Speaker 1: DOJ do that. Anyhow, we'll talk about that later if
Speaker 1: we get more information or worse tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's also wellness Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Claudine Cooper will join us with her thoughts about whether
Speaker 1: couples who work out together stay together. And you might
Speaker 1: have seen the video by now. It came down a
Speaker 1: little late yesterday. We didn't have time to talk about it.
Speaker 1: But Tom and Lee's wife, Britney Furlan, well, she rescued
Speaker 1: her dog from a coyote attack. There was video of that,
Speaker 1: and you know, I have a lot to say about
Speaker 1: these gosh darn coyotes everywhere between them and bees.
Speaker 2: Kill them all, kill them all, kill them dead. We
Speaker 2: got the viral load with Tiffany Hobbs tonight. She'd joined
Speaker 2: us in the studio.
Speaker 1: And you know you've taken method acting way too far
Speaker 1: when you're playing a crackhead and you actually go to
Speaker 1: a cracked in and experiment with crack I have a
Speaker 1: completely different view of halle Berry now. That is to tease,
Speaker 1: and we'll tell you about it before the show is over,
Speaker 1: but of course I have to start with this. In
Speaker 1: the next segment, we'll be joined by Blake Trolley, kfi's
Speaker 1: own Blake Trolley, and he'll give us his information the
Speaker 1: late us on that metro bus hijacking, and then Michael
Speaker 1: Monks will join us at the bottom of the hour
Speaker 1: and tell us what he gleaned and what he heard
Speaker 1: and what he learned at the press conference earlier today
Speaker 1: where you had a supervisor Han and also Mayor Bass
Speaker 1: speaking and others. We can find out if we can
Speaker 1: get some sense out of all this nonsense which has
Speaker 1: been happening on Metro. And I want to be clear,
Speaker 1: I have long said that Metro needs to have its
Speaker 1: own police force. But I would never try to tell
Speaker 1: you that that is the solution, that if you were
Speaker 1: to just put an officer on every bus and every
Speaker 1: train in every platform, these problems would disappear. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I would never say that, but I would think that's
Speaker 1: the best solution which is available to us, which would
Speaker 1: give us the best chance of protecting people. And here's
Speaker 1: the uncomfortable truth about crime in our city or around
Speaker 1: the country. We live in a free society, which is
Speaker 1: an understood social contract. It's a contract that you, with
Speaker 1: that freedom, are going to use it responsibly, that you
Speaker 1: are not going to engage in crime. The understanding is
Speaker 1: that you and fifty of your friends are not going
Speaker 1: to ride up on your bikes and then try to
Speaker 1: ransack a seven to eleven because you know that if
Speaker 1: the fifty of you run into that store that there
Speaker 1: probably won't be anyone to stop you. It's a social contract,
Speaker 1: it's an understanding, it's an implicit agreement that this thin
Speaker 1: v near of civility and lawful behavior can easily be
Speaker 1: torn away if enough people decide to not abide by
Speaker 1: that contract. Now, statistically, we can make the argument, and
Speaker 1: I've said overall violent crime is down, but I also
Speaker 1: said that if you look between the numbers and you
Speaker 1: use the eyeball test, the type of crime has changed.
Speaker 1: We can say that, hey, bus hijackings were not a
Speaker 1: thing two or three years ago. We can say that
Speaker 1: the type of crime of smashing grabs that we've seen
Speaker 1: was not a thing two or three years ago. Statistically,
Speaker 1: how that plays out, I don't know, but I think
Speaker 1: all of us can acknowledge that this what we're experiencing
Speaker 1: is something different.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the catalyst is. I don't presume
Speaker 2: to have all the answers.
Speaker 1: I just know that, regardless of the numbers, the number
Speaker 1: of people who no longer or who are no longer
Speaker 1: abiding by the social contract of lawful behavior has increased.
Speaker 1: And maybe they're not doing that type of crime that
Speaker 1: they used to do. They're doing this type of crime.
Speaker 1: And maybe this type of crime is not happening as
Speaker 1: often as that type of crime, going back to the numbers,
Speaker 1: but this type of crime is markedly different, and that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to be talking about when we talk
Speaker 1: to Blake Trolley about this metro hijacking.
Speaker 2: And there's one other thing.
Speaker 1: Remember how I would talk about how safety personal safety
Speaker 1: begins with personal decisions. I say that I don't go
Speaker 1: to gas stations at night, I do not go to
Speaker 1: ATMs at night. I feel that I am putting myself
Speaker 1: in danger or making myself more susceptible to becoming a victim.
Speaker 1: But when I think about this metrobus hijacking, what we're
Speaker 1: getting ready to get into. If you're riding the bus
Speaker 1: at twelve thirty five am in the morning, there's a likelihood,
Speaker 1: a likelihood that you're not doing so by choice. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're working a late shift. Maybe you don't have a car,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have the money for an uber, maybe
Speaker 1: you don't have any other type of transportation.
Speaker 2: There is a likelihood, a good.
Speaker 1: Chance, that you are on that bus because that's your
Speaker 1: only form of transportation. And being on that bus at
Speaker 1: twelve forty five am on a Wednesday morning, through no
Speaker 1: fault of your own, put you in greater danger, made
Speaker 1: you more susceptible to becoming a victim of violence. Given
Speaker 1: what we are experiencing here in Southern California, Visa VI,
Speaker 1: the La Metro.
Speaker 2: So I don't have any jokes tonight. I don't have
Speaker 2: anything witty to say.
Speaker 1: I don't have any jokes about Keanu Reeves and speed.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make any comparisons. I just know
Speaker 1: that we're at a point where enough of the talk,
Speaker 1: enough about being outraised or or being surprised at oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, can't continue in our city. This can't continue
Speaker 1: on our metro. We need to just go ahead and
Speaker 1: solve the problem, or make sure that we're doing everything
Speaker 1: that we can with the tools which are available to
Speaker 1: us to address the problem. Because other than that, I
Speaker 1: don't feel like hearing it. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1: Blake Trolley joins us.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: It's Later with mo Kelly and now Blake Trolley as
Speaker 1: we're both live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. By now,
Speaker 1: you should know that one person was fatally shot when
Speaker 1: a metro bus was hijacked with passengers on board and
Speaker 1: then pursued by police from South LA to Downtown LA
Speaker 1: early this morning, and Blake trolly, you have been all
Speaker 1: over this story.
Speaker 2: First, let me say good evening.
Speaker 1: But do we know anymore now about what happened and
Speaker 1: why it happened.
Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that we're learning is exactly
Speaker 4: how police were actually alerted to this. In just the
Speaker 4: last few minutes, mo I was reached out to by
Speaker 4: the union that represents bus drivers saying that this driver
Speaker 4: actually activated his emergency alarm system and that is what
Speaker 4: alerted this large law enforcement presence that chased this bus.
Speaker 4: Video and images have been posted of this bush. When
Speaker 4: this activation was set off, the bus actually the screen,
Speaker 4: the screen that you know sits above the windshield if
Speaker 4: you will, of a bus was flashing nine one one
Speaker 4: or call nine one one, please call police, you know,
Speaker 4: alerting that there was an emergency. So we now know,
Speaker 4: you know a little bit more on how police were
Speaker 4: actually alerted to this bus. But we're trying to figure
Speaker 4: out is exactly how this situation escalated. What we do
Speaker 4: know is that down in South La on Figaro, a
Speaker 4: guy did get on a bus. He was armed with
Speaker 4: a gun. We're told that he would not let the
Speaker 4: driver leave and that he had the driver continue driving
Speaker 4: from South La at one point he was down by
Speaker 4: the one oh five all the way back to downtown.
Speaker 4: What's unclear is where on this journey did this guy
Speaker 4: fire and kill one of the passengers that was on
Speaker 4: this bus. Keep in mind that part of the timeline
Speaker 4: that we're trying to figure out is did this shooting
Speaker 4: happen and then the bus was hijacked? Did the shooting
Speaker 4: happen as the bus was hijacked? And one of the
Speaker 4: key details that may give us some hints as to
Speaker 4: what happened here is that we're told there were several
Speaker 4: people actually on the bus, and LAPD had confirmed with
Speaker 4: us this morning that as the bus was heading through
Speaker 4: South La, several people were actually seen getting off the bus.
Speaker 4: And keep in mind this pursuit, it pushes from South
Speaker 4: LA back to about skid Row, of all places, and
Speaker 4: that's where spike strips are finally effective on this bus.
Speaker 4: LAPD Deputy Chief Graham told us SWAT teams they were
Speaker 4: ready to go. They knew that this could end up
Speaker 4: being a very serious situation.
Speaker 5: They had made the determination to go in release the
Speaker 5: pressure on the bus, allow the doors to open, make
Speaker 5: entry to the bus, and do what they call a
Speaker 5: dynamic entry, which is you know, everybody all in it
Speaker 5: once instead of parceling it all out because of there
Speaker 5: was a man with a gun there and potential access
Speaker 5: to other victims, so that was a rescue operation.
Speaker 2: So they deployed on the bus.
Speaker 5: They used distraction techniques, made their way onto the bus.
Speaker 5: My understanding is that the suspect immediately surrendered as soon
Speaker 5: as SWAT assets entered the bus, so there was no altercation.
Speaker 4: When he says those distraction techniques, we were told by
Speaker 4: some reporters that were on seeing that that was flashbangs
Speaker 4: and the light that were used to distract that hijacker
Speaker 4: and take him into custody. There was one other person
Speaker 4: on board that those SWAP members were able to save.
Speaker 4: That person was actually hiding in the back of the bus.
Speaker 1: Do we know going back to the panic button which
Speaker 1: displays called nine one one on the bus, Marque, is
Speaker 1: that new?
Speaker 2: I've never heard about that before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't heard this using keep in mind, this
Speaker 4: is not the first time that we've heard of a
Speaker 4: bus being hijacked in LA This year alone. There was
Speaker 4: the hijacking in downtown LA where the bus had craft
Speaker 4: into the RITZ. I do not remember hearing any similar
Speaker 4: reports at that time, and I had responded to that story.
Speaker 4: I know that bus safety this is something that Metro
Speaker 4: has been focusing on mo. If you'll remember back in
Speaker 4: the spring, Metro had actually ordered new barriers to be
Speaker 4: put around these bus operators. This was because of a
Speaker 4: concerting rise and assaults on operators. I was told that
Speaker 4: this bus actually had one of those new barriers, and
Speaker 4: to my knowledge, these are bulletproof barriers. So I'm really
Speaker 4: trying to figure out the dynamics at play that had
Speaker 4: a guy with a gun ordering a driver to drive
Speaker 4: despite that driver being behind a barrier. Metro did release
Speaker 4: in Metro's latest crime stat release, they did show an
Speaker 4: uptick in operator assaults from May to July.
Speaker 2: July is the latest.
Speaker 4: Numbers that we have. There were eleven operator assaults in
Speaker 4: May twenty three in July, and in this same report
Speaker 4: they said that some of these tactics that people are
Speaker 4: using to assault these operators are punching, slapping, spitting, brandishing
Speaker 4: a gun and using objects. So you know, this attack
Speaker 4: on operators is obviously something that Metro is grappling with
Speaker 4: as they see these rising numbers. The chair of Metro
Speaker 4: janisn She put out a statement say we need to
Speaker 4: prevent find solutions to prevent similar attacks, and she seems
Speaker 4: to be now taking aim at ways the system can
Speaker 4: prevent people from bringing weapons onto the system.
Speaker 1: Blake, I don't expect you to know the answers to
Speaker 1: these questions, but I feel I need to ask them
Speaker 1: for the benefit of our audience. You said that one
Speaker 1: person obviously was shot and killed. Unfortunately one person was
Speaker 1: able to hide. Do we know how many people were
Speaker 1: on the bus at any given time during this hijacking?
Speaker 4: Passengers wise, No, and that's something I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 4: We know was more than just those people. There were
Speaker 4: four people in total involved by the time that SWAT
Speaker 4: officers had made it on. There was the alleged hijacker,
Speaker 4: there was the driver, there was the person who was
Speaker 4: shot and killed, and there was the person that was
Speaker 4: hiding on the bus.
Speaker 2: So the latest official number we have is four.
Speaker 4: But as we heard from officials this morning on the ground,
Speaker 4: was that there were other passengers in the beginning of this,
Speaker 4: especially as police initially began to respond to this, that
Speaker 4: we're seen getting off the bus, and when you think
Speaker 4: about the way that this chase started. We're trying to
Speaker 4: get a timeline of when these people hopped off the bus.
Speaker 4: It could have very well been this kind of buffer
Speaker 4: moment where police were trying to communicate with the hijacker
Speaker 4: using PA systems, and at one point the bus just
Speaker 4: kind of slowly takes off and that's where we see
Speaker 4: this slow pursuit. Video of this pursuit was posted online.
Speaker 4: Street People of LA's got a great clip. You see
Speaker 4: this bus just kind of slow rolling from South LA
Speaker 4: into downtown and a just parade of police cars just
Speaker 4: kind of slowly following behind.
Speaker 1: You make mention of the previous bus hijacking, And I
Speaker 1: know that you may not have specifically interviewed metro bus operators,
Speaker 1: but I wonder if there will be a willingness for
Speaker 1: metro bus operators to speak out going forward and give
Speaker 1: their thoughts about safety or lack thereof while operating these buses.
Speaker 1: Because to your point, the assaults have increased by Metro's
Speaker 1: own internal data, I would have to assume that they
Speaker 1: are more concerned than ever before about their own safety.
Speaker 1: Have you had any discussions with metro bus operators up
Speaker 1: until this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I spoke with the union about this, And
Speaker 4: keep in mind that when that original hijacking came out
Speaker 4: in the spring, the union had put out a statement
Speaker 4: essentially calling on Metro for more action. The statement that
Speaker 4: I got from the union today, and a lot of
Speaker 4: what they had told me, was that this really reiterates
Speaker 4: the need for some of the action that they've called
Speaker 4: on Metro to take. I didn't see any specific new
Speaker 4: demands in with the union, at least at my first
Speaker 4: glance at this email, But here we go. I'm going
Speaker 4: to go through it right now again. This same email
Speaker 4: is where we find out that the driver used that
Speaker 4: emergency system. We did not know that as of this
Speaker 4: earlier this morning through police. It says this grave incident
Speaker 4: emphasizes the continuing safety concerns that our members have raised
Speaker 4: and that we your General Committee, have vehemently expressed to
Speaker 4: Metro management. The protection of our members remains the very
Speaker 4: top priority of your union and this regard. We have
Speaker 4: been the thriving force in Metro's decision to install protective
Speaker 4: driver barriers aboard the buses. It should be noted that
Speaker 4: Metro promised us they would complete installation of bears by
Speaker 4: the end of the year. In addition, we recently strongly
Speaker 4: supported a Metro board motion to entirely revamp Metro's police
Speaker 4: protection to better safeguard our members. This process has begun,
Speaker 4: so again, when you look at this statement, it doesn't
Speaker 4: call in any new action. What I'm going to be
Speaker 4: curious to CIMO is, Okay, we've kind of heard this
Speaker 4: initial statement from the union. Are the drivers going to
Speaker 4: reach around their union and maybe hold one of their
Speaker 4: own events where they'll speak to the media and try
Speaker 4: to get some of this out as we hear not
Speaker 4: only about this report, not only about the last II jacking,
Speaker 4: but then you know the numbers that we provided there
Speaker 4: through that Metro report.
Speaker 1: Thank you Blake for staying up on this story. It's
Speaker 1: later with Mo Kelly Cafi AM six forty. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. But we're not done with
Speaker 1: this story. On the other side, I'll be joined by
Speaker 1: Michael Monks, who is at the Karen Bass presser earlier
Speaker 1: today on this incident, and Michael Monks will give us
Speaker 1: his assessment of what information was divulged and whether we
Speaker 1: have a clear sense of whether Metro knows how to
Speaker 1: handle this going forward.
Speaker 3: You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: And joining us right now from the iHeartRadio Studios downtown
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is none other than kfi's own Michael Monks.
Speaker 1: And you've been very busy following this Metro generally and
Speaker 1: specifically the press conference earlier today.
Speaker 2: Who was in attendance and who do we get to
Speaker 2: hear from? Today?
Speaker 6: We got to hear from all the heavy hitters related
Speaker 6: to city and county governance and the governance of Metro.
Speaker 6: We had La Mayor Bass, we had County Supervisor Janis Hahn,
Speaker 6: who was the chair of the Metro board. We had
Speaker 6: an assistant police chief, and we also had the CEO
Speaker 6: of Metro, Stephanie Wiggins. So we expected a pretty significant
Speaker 6: statement or announcement about what transpired, the tragedy and crime
Speaker 6: that occurred this morning. Didn't really get the sense that
Speaker 6: that's what happened. Though.
Speaker 2: You didn't get the sense that that's what happened.
Speaker 1: They didn't give a strong enough statement, or they didn't
Speaker 1: give a statement that addressed the heart of the issues.
Speaker 2: It really wasn't much.
Speaker 6: New that was said. And you know, you and I
Speaker 6: have talked about this. You've talked about it a lot
Speaker 6: on your show, We've talked about it throughout the programming
Speaker 6: in the news on KFI. That I mean, there have
Speaker 6: been tragedies and there have been other crimes associated with
Speaker 6: drivers and writers on this metro system, and there's been
Speaker 6: a so called surge and law ence presence across the system.
Speaker 6: And when you have something like this happen, it does
Speaker 6: make folks question whether any of this has worked, whether
Speaker 6: any of it was worth it, And so to expect
Speaker 6: a stronger statement from these local leaders who govern this
Speaker 6: transit system probably was appropriate, but again it was mostly
Speaker 6: a rehash of the efforts that are ongoing, and even
Speaker 6: bold enough to recite statistics that had already been reported
Speaker 6: about indications that their surge is in fact working.
Speaker 1: I have a question, and this is somewhat philosophical, somewhat rhetorical,
Speaker 1: but hear me out. If they have a stronger statement,
Speaker 1: who is the intended audience? Who are they asking for
Speaker 1: help from? Who are they mad at as far as
Speaker 1: not getting things done? If you have the mayor, you
Speaker 1: have the CEO of Metro, you have the chair of
Speaker 1: the Metro board, and they're saying and I would say,
Speaker 1: in so many words paraphrase, we need to do more.
Speaker 1: This is unacceptable. We can't have this happen on public transit.
Speaker 1: And we all agree, But who are they telling that too?
Speaker 1: Because they are the leaders who are responsible, in charge
Speaker 1: and empowered to do something.
Speaker 6: I asked that very question I got called on in
Speaker 6: the presser this afternoon at Union Station, even when as
Speaker 6: far as what you just did, identifying them by their
Speaker 6: titles and the role that they play in the governance
Speaker 6: of Metro, and noting the fact that there is a
Speaker 6: Metro board meeting tomorrow, and I asked, what will you
Speaker 6: do tomorrow that's not currently on the agenda related to
Speaker 6: the incident today and in an attempt to further prevent
Speaker 6: similar incidents from occurring, And none of the elected officials
Speaker 6: or the CEO of Metro took the question. Instead, they
Speaker 6: brought up one of the security officials with Metro, who's
Speaker 6: a good guy, always willing to talk and explain their
Speaker 6: strategies and their results, and was a focus of my
Speaker 6: interview last week about the statistics related to the surge,
Speaker 6: but that ended up just being a recitation of the
Speaker 6: statistics related to the surge, highlighting that there have been successes,
Speaker 6: and there have been based on the data, but one
Speaker 6: key point of that data MO is that the attack,
Speaker 6: the number of attacks against bus operators has actually gone
Speaker 6: up since that surge started. This surge where they're supposed
Speaker 6: to be more law enforcement people present, more security officials present,
Speaker 6: more ambassadors present, more bus drivers have been victims of
Speaker 6: crimes while working than they were before that started.
Speaker 1: Let me go back to the actual hijacking that took
Speaker 1: place early this morning. We know that the bus in
Speaker 1: question had the new protection, the bulletproof divider, which is
Speaker 1: supposed to separate the bus driver from any would be assailant.
Speaker 1: Do we know whether the bus driver was trying to
Speaker 1: protect passengers by a going along with the hijackers demands
Speaker 1: to keep the bus going forward.
Speaker 2: Some of those questions were shouted out.
Speaker 6: We did not get a lot of specific details about
Speaker 6: what transpired on that bus from the time that this
Speaker 6: alleged hijacker got aboard in South LA and even during
Speaker 6: the hour long slow speed chase that led to the
Speaker 6: Arts District here in downtown LA. The police are holding
Speaker 6: that still close to the vest. They did identify the
Speaker 6: suspect as Lamont Campbell, a fifty one year old guy
Speaker 6: from here in LA But beyond that, nothing about why
Speaker 6: he did it, nothing about what might have precipitated the
Speaker 6: actual shooting that took place. We don't want to lose
Speaker 6: sight of the fact that this was another deadly tragedy
Speaker 6: that took place on metro passenger shot and killed. We
Speaker 6: don't know the circumstances of that. What we know about
Speaker 6: that barrier, and I heard Blake talk about this too,
Speaker 6: is that these are supposed to be in all the
Speaker 6: buses by the end of the year. And today at
Speaker 6: the press conference, the local officials noted that that barrier
Speaker 6: is what kept that driver in control of the vehicle.
Speaker 6: But as far as any dialogue that was taking place
Speaker 6: on the bus, they haven't released that to us publicly yet.
Speaker 1: Speaking of releasing information or evidence, has there been any
Speaker 1: discussion about whether the video of what transpired would be
Speaker 1: made available to the public and press at any later date.
Speaker 6: It's public property, So the answer is that, yes, that
Speaker 6: should be accessible at some point. A lot of times
Speaker 6: when these investigations are ongoing, it takes a little bit
Speaker 6: longer to get those things, but you can bet the
Speaker 6: our request out there already to obtain those things.
Speaker 1: Let me be very cynical, sarcastic and a smartest for
Speaker 1: a moment. So is it fair to say that if
Speaker 1: someone is shot and killed tonight on a bus, there
Speaker 1: will be another press conference in which we won't get
Speaker 1: any specific information, nor will we get any clarity on
Speaker 1: what will be done to prevent the next one.
Speaker 6: It's a fair question. And I think you know, if
Speaker 6: I put on my analyst hat, as a as a journalist,
Speaker 6: as a resident of Los Angeles, and as a customer
Speaker 6: of Metro, I think what you're seeing are these agencies.
Speaker 6: This agency, it's governed by representatives from other agencies, the city,
Speaker 6: the county, other cities, and Metro itself. And these are
Speaker 6: all organizations that have taken positions on a variety of
Speaker 6: societal problems in our region, whether it be homelessness, drug addiction, housing,
Speaker 6: insecurity and other criminal activity, mental health issues. And because
Speaker 6: of that, when they come out and say, look, we've
Speaker 6: got problems in this society that's impacting Metro, well, they
Speaker 6: are also the ones charged with addressing those issues in
Speaker 6: their other capacities as well. So it's a lot of
Speaker 6: circular finger pointing that's polite. They can't come out and
Speaker 6: say we're kind of not being successful in our efforts
Speaker 6: on this initiative and that initiative, and it's hurting this initiative.
Speaker 6: So the failures of addressing homelessness quickly enough, the failures
Speaker 6: of addressing mental health crises fast enough, the failures of
Speaker 6: addressing criminal active activity at large across the community is
Speaker 6: certainly impacting Metro. And then the failures to address those
Speaker 6: in any suitable way for the satisfaction of consumers and
Speaker 6: just the general population that pays for this system that's
Speaker 6: also not working. So they have a steady stream of
Speaker 6: problems at every level of government, and then every level
Speaker 6: of government is also charged with governing Metro.
Speaker 1: One more question before I let you go. Michael Monk,
Speaker 1: thank you for staying up late. I know it's been
Speaker 1: a very long day for you covering this. I was
Speaker 1: encouraged by the fact that there was a panic button
Speaker 1: system already in place which helped the driver of the bus,
Speaker 1: the operator get a police involvement. Do we know what
Speaker 1: was the lag time in between when that panic button
Speaker 1: was pushed as we hear sirens in the background the
Speaker 1: downtown bureaus, right, do we know the lag time been
Speaker 1: between hitting that panic button when officers arrived on scene.
Speaker 6: That pan button gives an immediate notice to the police department.
Speaker 6: And the other key thing that it did was it
Speaker 6: changed the signage on the bus to say call nine
Speaker 6: one one emergency, which I've never seen. Hopefully this is
Speaker 6: something that continues to be a rarity. But people did
Speaker 6: see it, and I do apologize for those sirens here
Speaker 6: downtown that are pretty steady. People called, people called nine
Speaker 6: to one one that late. People saw it, and some
Speaker 6: of it may have been passengers that left the bus
Speaker 6: before before it got real hairy on there, so that
Speaker 6: that may have been part of it. We don't know specifically,
Speaker 6: but there were a lot. We were told today that
Speaker 6: a lot of nine one one calls came in because
Speaker 6: of people on the street who saw that sign on
Speaker 6: the bus.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you for clarifying so it does. The paddic
Speaker 1: button does contact police immediately, in addition asking other people, okyes,
Speaker 1: Michael Monks, thank you for going to that presser and
Speaker 1: getting as much information as you could get from them.
Speaker 1: We know that we can't get all the answers, but
Speaker 1: hopeful league we can get some of the answers some
Speaker 1: of the time, and unfortunately, there will be another metro
Speaker 1: incident in the future, probably near future, so we'll be
Speaker 1: talking again soon.
Speaker 6: We'll continue to Prime Man.
Speaker 2: It's Later with Mo Kelly k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: If you find yourself agreeing with everything we.
Speaker 2: Say, we're doing it wrong.
Speaker 4: K F I'm m KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County,
Speaker 4: Live everywhere on the Heart Radio