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your support. So I just heard during the top of

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the hour newscast and got the information as well from

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Charlotte Mecklenberg Police that they have now identified a victim

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in a shooting that occurred yesterday afternoon, as well as

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they have identified the suspect in that shooting, who is

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also now deceased because cops shot him. So the story

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is as such from the Charlotte as well as WBTV

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and WSOC, So I'm pulling information from all of these

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different sources. So officers responded yesterday afternoon to a call

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about a shooting near the intersection of Hoskins Road and

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Black Avenue. This is northwest Charlotte near Brookshire Boulevard. Okay,

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one person was found dead at the scene and according

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to unclear if there were two victims here that have died.

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They have identified one victim and that is thirty eight

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year old justin Westbrook Carlton. There was another victim, another

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shooting victim who was taken to the hospital. But I

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don't know if that person, if that second person has

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I don't see an identification of that second person or

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whether or not they survived. I see conflicting reports. But

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these were from earlier this morning. So that's the first

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call that goes out that there is a shooting near

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Brookshire Boulevard. Police respond to that scene, find one person

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dead at the scene. Shortly thereafter, according to Charlotte Mecklenburg

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Police Chief Johnny Jennings, police get another call in the

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same general area where the first shooting occurred, and this

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call is about a home invasion and kidnapping and that

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the suspect was driving a stolen vehicle so from that

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woman's home. So apparently the suspect, who has now been

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identified as twenty eight year old Joseph Andrade a and

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Drade and Raid Andrade and Dre andreid whatever uh, he

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is dead now. Also, he is apparently the one he

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went to this woman's home. He uh, I guess, you know,

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forced his way into her home, kidnapped her h and

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you know, put her into her vehicle. He then, you know,

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with him driving, steals her vehicle as well, so they

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get this report. Don't know who called it in of

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a kidnapping and home invasion. Officers then spot the vehicle

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with the suspect driving and the kidnapped woman in the

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passenger seat. By the way, I'm reminded, in these types

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of situations, you can't outrun a radio. Okay, just cannot

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run a radio. Officers chase the vehicle while the suspect

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starts then firing at cars at their police cars. The

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suspect then crashes his vehicle right outside of our studios,

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right like a block away if you know where Freedom

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and More head that intersection where Pinky's restaurant is. That's

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like at the bottom of the hill there. It's like,

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I mean, I can see it from out the window.

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This happened yesterday at about four o'clock. You know, like

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I just I just was out there two weeks ago,

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not even two weeks ago, after I got off Arrow

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was over there at one of the restaurants across the

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street from from Pinkies, there's Town Brewing that's over there,

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Rhino Market and Delhi Broad Daylight. The guy crashes the

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at that intersection. He gets out and he starts running away.

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Police pursue him on foot, and according to the police chief,

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as they are running, the suspect continued to fire rounds

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at officers, so as he's running away, he's just shooting

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at the police. Again. Like that corner there, like there's

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a dunkin Donuts on one corner. There's Pinky's restaurant that

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believe they've got outdoor seating as well on that corner

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lot I think they do. Across the street with the

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other corner, you've got a little Town Brewing and they've

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got outdoor seating, and the Rhino Deli they've got outdoor seating.

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There's the other restaurant I'm drawing a blank on the

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name they've got outdoor seating. And then across the street

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from there, so all four of the corners, the other

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corner has well, it used to be a Wakovia bank,

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but that's closed now, so there's nothing on the other corner.

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But this is a populated area, right broad Daylight start

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a rush hour, you know, people leaving from work, people

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hanging out, walking their dogs and stuff all over the place.

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And this guy's shooting out the car and then running

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through the street, just shooting at cops. And like, this

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is what do they call this Freemore West? I think

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it's what they're calling this area Freedom Drive Morehead And

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I don't know what the west is, maybe just Westside,

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but they're calling it Freemore or Freemore West because they

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you know, they label all of the different areas now.

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And I got to tell you, somebody who has worked

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in this building for I guess it would be like

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seventeen of the last twenty five years I have worked

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in this building. I remember what this area was like

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twenty five years ago, and that kind of stuff was

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pretty prevalent twenty five years ago in this part of town.

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We're on the west side and you go up Freedom Drive.

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There was a lot of violence, a lot of crime

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occurring on Freedom Drive up Moriedge Street. There was a

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place like right across the street from US I believe

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it was called the Toll House, and they were constantly

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getting raided for like prostitution and stuff. All of the

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property around the radio station here was undeveloped, and the

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joke in the building was always that that's where you know,

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they threw all of the bodies. There was, you know,

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prostitution all up and down the road here. And then

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you go up to the end of Morehead and you're

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on Wilkinson Boulevard and or Highway seventy four, which you

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know goes all the way to the mountains, all the

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way to the coast, but through that little stretch to

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the airport also a lot of crime and a lot

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of violence. And over the years, when I came back

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to Charlotte, I was astounded at how much development had

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occurred in this little area, and it has taken twenty

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years for that to happen. And this is why I

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keep focusing on this crime issue in Charlotte, because if

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people do not feel safe, they are not going to

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live here. They are not going to invest in a

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project here. They're not going to build new homes or

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apartment buildings or new commercial and retail space. Restaurants will

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not be able to serve anybody because nobody wants to

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come if they're going to get shot in the middle

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of the day at an outdoor dining area. This is

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why this stuff matters, and it's not just a person

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reception of crime. And by the way, anybody want to

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place some bets and not like not like the Chauncy

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Billups and Terry Roser types of bets. I'm talking like bets, legitimate,

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not rigged bets. Anybody want to place bets on whether

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or not this twenty eight year old Joseph Vondrotti. Anybody

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want to take bets on whether he's got a rap

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sheet or do you think this was the very first

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time he has engaged in criminal activity? Murdering two people

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in the street, kicking in a door, kidnapping a woman,

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stealing her car, firing at cops and then being gunned

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down in the street. What do you think first time

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with an interaction with law enforcement? I would bet no.

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I would bet he has had some run ins. See,

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this is why this stuff matters. You will lose the city.

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dot com. All right, let me go over here and

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get ed on the program. Hello, Ed, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, prey, enjoy the show, Thanks sir, Yes, you

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are as Ed McMahon would say, you are correct, set,

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I'm correct. There is a bit there's a bit of

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a presence in the online database in the North Carolina

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Administrative Offices of the Courts with said, gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: So oh really so so my bet would have paid off,

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probably not very well.

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Speaker 2: Should have you know that heavy?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So Joseph Androtti, did you happen to you already

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pulled it up? Do you did you see like, like

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how long of a rap sheet? This guy happens?

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Speaker 2: Good? There was a good scattering about civil and criminal things. Uh,

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he had not gone into the probation system, so maybe

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he's been dismissed like all these other people have. You know,

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it's amazing some of these people. You google them and

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you look on the court site which is now all online. Yes,

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the lawyers and our judges are not telling us about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we I think we are. We became like

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the first state, I think the first state to have

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gone completely to courts the e court system. And it's

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been bumpy and it's over. I mean, we've spent more

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than expected. But my wife works in as a paralegal

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and so like I listened to like some of the

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stories she was telling when they were rolling this out

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in Mecklinberg County. But I think Gaston County they just

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went to it as well. But yeah, the whole point

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is so everybody can have access and they can file

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stuff and it streamlines all of the court filings throughout

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all of the counties which had this sort of mishmash

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hodgepodge approach. So yeah, so you can get this stuff now.

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And I was told also, I think last week, that

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our Mecklinberg County Sheriff's office database, the inmate inquiry system,

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does not keep anything past about two or three years prior,

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so you can't go to our Mecklinberg County sheriff website

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to get that info anymore. So you got to go

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through what the state court system.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Sheriff's Unfortunately I had to, I had to

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you utilize that and it was very the was very inconsistent. Yes,

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and like unfortunately in my neighborhood it didn't get covered

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by the media, but we had a Friday afternoon at

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three o'clock about three weeks four or maybe a month ago,

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a guy you know started shooting and they did get him.

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But I think he's now on a ankle bracelet.

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Speaker 1: Oh that that should make you feel very safe because

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you can't fire him time.

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Speaker 2: Ray, I just uh ay to call and see if

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they're gonna geofence them and get him out. Of my

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uh my neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: I doubt that. I doubt they'll do that. But yeah, so,

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I mean because I think once you have the ankle

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monitor on, then you cannot then you cannot like fire

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a gun. I think that's how that works.

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Speaker 2: Well that's interesting, right, Well, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: No, thank you, Joe, all right, but I appreciate it. No,

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I'm just kidding. Obviously, an ankle monitor does not prevent

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somebody from engaging in further criminal activity. It just alerts

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law enforcement in the court system that you know, somebody

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has either cut the ankle bracelet off, or they've gone

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someplace they're not supposed to go, or they have let

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the monitor run out of battery juice. That's about it, right.

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It doesn't prevent any crime. It just monitors and then

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after the fact, if they violate the terms of the

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probation in some way with the abuse of the monitor,

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then you can throw another charge or so at them,

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which will also then get dropped. Okay, just over clear

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on the efficacy of the ankle monitoring. Alan says, yes,

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these crime stories matter to the people of Charlotte. They

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also matter for people like me who live forty miles

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northwest of the city, who might decide not to shop

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and dine there. Y, yes, And can you imagine what

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would happen if people from the surrounding areas no longer

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want to come to Charlotte or Mecklenburg County and spend

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their disposable discretionary income or funding. They don't want to

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spend their money in Mecklinberg County, And imagine the impact

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that would have on Let's say, a sales tax that

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is being promoted to fund trained Actually, no, I take

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that back. It's not being promoted to fund the trains.

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It's being promoted to fund the roads. So yeah, Charlotte

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leaders are trying to get voters to approve a one

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cent sales tax increase to fund quote unquote transportation. And

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none of the mailing material that I have received, I've

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gotten about I don't know. If you're like me, you've

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probably pulled in about seven or eight of these mailers

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by now, and none of them mentioned trains. It's all

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about the roads. That's the pitch they want to tell everybody,

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vote for this sales tax increase you can, so we

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can fund all of the roads. But that's only forty

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percent of the of the plan, roads only make up

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forty percent. Another forty percent is for the train. Oh

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and the road component. Yeah, that actually has bike lanes, sidewalks,

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traffic lights, signalization, intersection improvements, that kind of stuff too. Yeah,

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so it's kind of for roads. Yeah. Yeah, this is

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going to be tough. It's going to be a tough sell.

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I mean, maybe voters will pull it off. Maybe they'll

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vote for their own tax increase. Yeah, that's possible. We'll

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see what happens. Early voting is underway right now. But

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if people that live outside of Charlotte don't want to

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come in spend their money here. And by the way,

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as the areas around Charlotte get developed, when people move

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away from Charlotte and they move into these other areas,

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and those areas build more housing, and then they build

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more retail, people don't need to come here anymore for

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that stuff. As the surrounding area improves and gets developed,

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people are less likely to come in. See and if

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you allow criminals to run wild through the streets, you've

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just created yet another incentive, a life or death one

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that will convince people not to come in. All right,

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if you're listening to this, show. You know I try

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as they make the media landscape more transparent. Daniel Horowitz,

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writing at the Blaze dot com headline, make mandatory minimums.

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Great again. Oh hang on, let me read. This is

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a message on the text line from a random seven

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oh four number. I used to work second ship on

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a Tondo Avenue and that's in Charlotte, and we used

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to play a game at night called fireworks or gunshots. Yes, uh,

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I believe we probably played something like that as well

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here back in the day. Do uh oh, there was

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a message here also regarding the uh, the event yesterday

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in Charlotte, in West Charlotte that culminated in the police

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shooting the murderer, kidnapper, carjacker home invader just a block

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from the studio here, John says, the biggest part of

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the story you just read about the shooting and kidnapping yesterday,

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police Chief Johnny Jennings actually made an appearance. Apparently. I

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was certain that he just went ahead and moved on

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to wherever he was going to sit around and count

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as hurt feelings bonus money from the mayor. Yeah. Yeah,

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he did put out of he did put out a video,

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so Daniel Horowitz says, and this is at the Blaze

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dot com when victim's advocates push for mandatory minimum sentences,

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the leniency lobby instantly howls about judicial discretion. In theory,

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that's right. In a just society, judges should have the

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freedom to weigh every case, tailoring sentences to fit the crimes. Right,

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And this is what I was talking about. I guess

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it was yesterday or day before that there needs to

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be some guidelines now constructed for magistrates and judges to

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take this out of their hands. And what I struggle

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with is that, I, well, all things being equal, right,

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absent any kind of just wacky ideology, right that I

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would want judges to have that discretion. But as a

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resident of Realville, I know that a lot of these

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judges and magistrates are employing a MacArthur Foundation funded type

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of ideology that is reflected in cashless bail or, as

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Horowitz calls it, the leniency lobby, you know, And I

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don't know what to do about that. I would prefer

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that judges have this discretion, but I don't trust you anymore.

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I don't trust your judgment, which is a pretty crappy

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way to view a judge. You know, it's literally your

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job to judge, and I don't trust your judgment. I

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don't believe that the things that you are doing, and

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how you're behaving, and the rulings you're issuing, or the

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pre trial terms of probation, whether the whole somebody or not.

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I don't trust your judgment. Your judgment has been found

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to be crap. So I guess this is what we

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have to do. He says, America does not live in

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that society. He says, in a just society, judges should

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have the freedom to weigh every case and tailor the

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sentences to fit the crimes. But we don't live in

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that society anymore. We live in an era when violent

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crime floods major cities and leftist judges treat predators like

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misunderstood poets. As a great line, this is like the

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how have we failed this person? Line of thinking in

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this environment, he says, mandatory minimums are not cruel. They

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are the only remaining safeguard for victims and the public.

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And I think this is where I'm at now too.

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He says it's not enough to share viral videos of

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street mayhem. Lawmakers must change laws. And then he goes

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about listing a number of examples, and in six out

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of the six examples he lists, Charlotte is three of them.

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As we do every Friday at this time, the host

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of the Brett Winterboll Show joins us every Friday for

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a little thing we like to call pregaming with Brett.

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And his name coincidentally is Brett Winterble. Brett, how are

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you today?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: I got two teas? I'm good. You got two teas.

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Speaker 3: I got two te's.

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Speaker 1: I see one and a sweater. Well there you go,

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one T one sweater. Very nice. There is a tea

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in sweater, there is and a T under your Look

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at that. That's how it goes the magic of life.

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So have you you got any big plans for mugshot Monday?

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Speaker 3: Mugshot Monday?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I wish I did.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna maybe think about it over the weekend.

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I might do something very special. But you are on

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a first name basis with Michael Wattley. I am and

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he is the purveyor of the mugshot Monday events. So

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you could get him on your show in celebration of

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Mugshot Monday. I could do that, Yeah, I could. I'm

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just throwing it out there.

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Speaker 3: I will, I will take it, no pressure, I'm taking

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under advisement.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your attention to this matter. Yeah, so

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this is uh. I think this is actually a very

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good idea very savvy campaign move by the Wattley campaign.

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Ya Wattley running for US Senate Republican primary and the

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Wattley war Room say that five times fast. That's hard

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to do. Wattley war Room, Wattley war war Room, you

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got to think about it. Well done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chield trip up.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you'll end up sounding like Elmer Fudd. But Wattley

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war Room, their Twitter account formerly known as x doing

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the Mugshot Monday a digital series campaign.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: They first shared it not with us for some reason, right,

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but with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Speaker 3: Well, in the DCNF.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty good. I like them. I'm with you, and

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it's going to highlight the repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat offenders

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who get released from detention and then go on to

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commit new crimes in North Carolina. Yes, and this is

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obviously a slam on Roy Cooper, my good friend Ray,

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Ray Cooper. Yeah, huh with a revolving door. And people

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sometimes ask Pete his name isn't Ray, why do you

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call him Ray? Explain so well to his good friends,

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he is Ray Cooper. That's what I've been told by

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Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 3: That's what she How did you get close enough with

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Hillary Clinton to find out that.

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Speaker 1: She was on TV at a Roy Cooper campaign event?

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This would have been way back in what twenty sixteen,

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I guess it was when he ran against Pat McCrory

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and she introduced him at one of her rallies. Cooper,

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my good friend, Ray Cooper. It's fantastic. I mean, it's

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really fantastic. So I just assume that that's what he

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goes by with his good friends.

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Speaker 3: Well, you have to you have to respect your elders.

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Speaker 1: True, I mean, that's it'd straight up. God, it's in

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a commandment, I think, I really it sure is right,

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absolutely right?

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So the mugshot Monday and the first one he already

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had a mug shot Monday this week, and the first

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one mentioned highlighted was Sanchez Nicholson. Oh, by the way,

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they've ideed the the purp in yesterday's thing that apparently

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impacted you. You couldn't leave, you know, I got right out.

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I hit the seam perfectly. Actually, you just showed them

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like I'm Brett Winterable, don't you know who I am?

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And they're like, let this guy through. No, I went down.

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I went down. I went and then I went all the.

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Speaker 3: Way down to uh to Donald Ross Road, nice, and

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then cut straight down onto the seventies.

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Speaker 1: There you go south surprised to learn that the guy

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from yesterday, yeah has a rap sheet?

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Speaker 3: Does he really?

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Speaker 1: Not?

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Speaker 3: A first time or not a.

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Speaker 1: First time, which would be pretty impressive if you take

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like a murder and attempted murder, a kidnapping, a home invasion,

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a carjacking, and then firing at police officers fleeing the

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scene car accident well as a first defense, like your

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very first interaction with law enforcement.

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Speaker 3: Look, let's and let's salute law enforcement for having the

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diligency of a square round right, just like you didn't.

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Nobody else got hurt, nobody, I mean, forget about it.

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It was that was really that was really a horrible thing.

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Speaker 1: And bonus, I don't have to pay Yeah, absolutely, the

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bonus here we don't have to pay to try this

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guy who.

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Speaker 3: Would have just been released on his own recognaissance with

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no bail.

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Speaker 1: But maybe an ankle monitor.

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Speaker 3: Doubtful without that doesn't work, Yeah, it's just gonna be

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like a fake one.

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Speaker 1: All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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