1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,719 your support. And as we do on Mondays at two o'clock, 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,119 we chat with ap Dylan. She is a reporter for 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,000 the North State Journal. You can read her work at 12 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:39,240 nsjonline dot com, and she is also the publisher of 13 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:42,439 More to the Story newsletter. It's on the substack. You 14 00:00:42,439 --> 00:00:45,479 can subscribe over there. Ap. How are you welcome back? 15 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:48,119 Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Happy New Year. 16 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I haven't spoken to you since 17 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,320 last year. Sorry, sorry, I got true. I can only 18 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:57,280 use that joke so many times and it's not even fun. Yes, 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,960 so all righty, So I have to say, I know 20 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,000 I got two stories here to cover with you, But 21 00:01:04,719 --> 00:01:07,120 did you hear the good news about our sheriff? 22 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,159 Speaker 2: Actually yes, I got the press release and I got 23 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,719 that thing shotgunned down onto X with the documentation post haste. 24 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,359 In fact, I think I got it out there first. 25 00:01:18,439 --> 00:01:22,599 Speaker 1: But I am so happy today, so happy we got 26 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:26,280 rid of three comies, we got Maduro, Tim Walls, and 27 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,159 now McFadden, Like this is a great day. Twenty twenty 28 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,319 six is awesome. So far, it's. 29 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 2: Definitely batting a valid at this point. It's quite the petition. 30 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:41,280 It's over thirty few pages long and basically it's a 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:46,079 house about Carla Cunningham d Mecklenburg has filed a petition 32 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,920 along with three or four former members of the Mecklenburg 33 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:56,640 County Sheriff's Office against Sheriff Macbedden, basically demanding his removal 34 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:57,400 from office. 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,799 Speaker 1: Right this, Yeah, this is the only way to do it, 36 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,319 sort of, you know, arresting him for something criminal in nature. 37 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 2: But the press release said it was for attended extortion, corruption, 38 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:13,439 wilful misconduct, and maladministration office, as well as wilful and 39 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,199 habitual refusal to perform the duties of his office. 40 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is like what they lay out. So 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,639 we knew from the four member there, the prior employees, right, 42 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,000 the four other members besides Carla Cunningham, we knew about 43 00:02:29,039 --> 00:02:31,879 these types of issues and some of these accusations that 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,240 had been going on for several years since McFadden first 45 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:36,680 was elected eight years ago. 46 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and he did that video last fall about 47 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,759 all the staff departures, so you finally had to address 48 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,400 it right, normally right. 49 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: And then remember he gave some bizarre speech at the 50 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:51,599 graduation ceremony for new deputies. You know, he made the 51 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,560 whole event about him and how he's being attacked and 52 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,159 all of a studden, like the guy is a raging, 53 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:02,879 narcissistic sociopath, in my opinion, non clinical. But I was 54 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,319 not aware, and I don't think anybody had heard the 55 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:10,759 about the phone call with Carla Cunningham and how he 56 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,080 tried to what she says was to intimidate her, threaten 57 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,000 her with physical harm or not providing security to her 58 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:22,120 during the fight over House Built three eighteen, which was 59 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:24,360 you know where she jumped over to vote with the 60 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,280 Republicans to make him make McFadden cooperate with Ice, and 61 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:31,840 he called her up and you know, made these z 62 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:33,680 would be a shame if anything happened to your nice 63 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,800 little business there kind of comments, and she hung up 64 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,280 on him and took it as a threat. That's yeah, 65 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,520 she did. Serious. 66 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: I've got a story working right now at North State 67 00:03:43,199 --> 00:03:45,759 Journal and hopefully it'll drop here in the next thirty minutes. 68 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:48,159 My editors are going over right now. But I wrote 69 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:49,199 that thing up real fast. 70 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: About this. 71 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,479 Speaker 2: Basically, she basically says he threatened her for her vote 72 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,000 on that and that if she didn't vote her way 73 00:03:57,039 --> 00:03:58,879 that it was she was going to have a rough 74 00:03:58,919 --> 00:04:00,960 time and he wasn't going to protect her because she 75 00:04:01,039 --> 00:04:03,439 was getting death threats even from her own party for 76 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:06,639 going along with Republicans. She was the one vote needed 77 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,120 to override the veto. 78 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: Right, and all credit to her, she held firm, she 79 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:13,080 held the line. 80 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 2: It did. 81 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:14,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh. 82 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:18,079 Speaker 2: I mean, and there's nothing in that bill that's you know, outrageous, 83 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,800 to be honest, I mean, it's it's just closing loopholes 84 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,240 that McFadden himself was using to not do his job 85 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:26,360 when it came to Ice. 86 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: Right, And that tells you, well, he kept saying, oh, 87 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,560 I you know, I will cooperate with Ice and I'm 88 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,759 not the hold up. I'm not the impediment. That's why 89 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,879 I call him not my fault McFadden. It's because nothing 90 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:41,120 is ever his fault. There's always somebody else to blame 91 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,319 for whatever problems are occurring at the jail, including the 92 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:47,079 number of deaths that occurred at the jail, which was 93 00:04:47,079 --> 00:04:49,360 a that was an issue for Cunningham. She was not 94 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,879 She was very concerned about all of the deaths and 95 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:56,199 wanted more inspections. And then he would attack the inspectors 96 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,399 and oh, they're just targeting me, and it's not my 97 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:01,560 fault and all of this. But during the debate on 98 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:04,560 House Bill three eighteen, you know, he kept making it 99 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,319 sound like, oh, I'm doing I'm doing everything that I 100 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,439 can do, and this bill won't really do anything, and 101 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,480 I'm not already doing and all this. But that phone 102 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,399 call that sort of gives away the game. He knew 103 00:05:16,759 --> 00:05:19,199 that they were closing down the last loophole that he 104 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:21,199 was exploiting. That's what that tells me. 105 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,199 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean that kind of telegraph. 106 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:24,959 Speaker 1: Yeah. 107 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 2: Some of the other items, and here from some of 108 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,439 the former employees were pretty pretty damning as well. Basically, 109 00:05:31,519 --> 00:05:36,279 the detention officers are being assaulted by inmates apparently regularly, 110 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:40,120 and instead of reducing their privileges or writing them up 111 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:44,040 or pressing charges. McFadden is not doing anything and in 112 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,639 fact would go after the officer instead of the inmates. 113 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: That we don't call them inmates here. Gary wants them 114 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,480 to be called residents, of which their residence. 115 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: The inmates were any need to acts. I'm not gonna 116 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,720 I'm not going to do that. Yeah, that's that's that 117 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,000 reminds me of the whole you know, calling homeless people unhoused. 118 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, experiencing unhousedness, or some staff experience. 119 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,639 Speaker 2: Experiencing no no lodging or why it's just okay, so. 120 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,319 Speaker 1: One of the yeah, so one of the things that 121 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:21,759 McFadden this is like the problem is that you know, 122 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,800 the people that get released, you get the magistrates rolling 123 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,040 all of this stuff too. You had a story I 124 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,639 read this is over on your sub Stack newsletter. More 125 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,439 to the story, this awful story about a thirty two 126 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,480 year old teacher named Zoe Welsh, a science teacher at 127 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,279 Ravenscroft School. Apparently, what two days ago, six thirty in 128 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,199 the morning, somebody breaks into her house and beats her 129 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:45,800 to death. 130 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:48,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, while she was on the phone with nine one 131 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,600 one guy break it in. He sees her on the 132 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,360 phone and he beat her and she didn't die immediately. 133 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:58,600 She was transported to the hospital, but she succumbed to 134 00:06:58,639 --> 00:06:59,439 her injuries after. 135 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: So they did catch the guy. 136 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, they looked around and they finally found him. That 137 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:08,879 he was He hadn't gone far. Yes, a guy named 138 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,759 Ryan Vincent Camacho. And yeah, he's got a record, and yeah, 139 00:07:12,839 --> 00:07:21,040 he's released pretty recently on similar charges and the the 140 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:27,079 the involuntary commitment evaluation was rejected, so he was released 141 00:07:27,399 --> 00:07:31,160 and it was a dismissal without leave with no plea agreement. 142 00:07:32,079 --> 00:07:34,439 Speaker 1: All right, so he has a You write in your 143 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,720 piece here that he's got a long criminal history going 144 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:41,160 back over two decades, including charges for burglary, theft, trespassing, 145 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:44,759 breaking and entering, discharge of the firearment occupied property, assault 146 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,600 with the deadly weapon, misdemeanor, stalking, misdemeanor, larceny, injury to 147 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:53,800 personal property, and violating parole. So what is the timeline here? 148 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,800 What that he it's what he had? What a court 149 00:07:57,879 --> 00:07:59,839 date or something on December fourth? 150 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:05,279 Speaker 2: Is that the Well in August it looks like he 151 00:08:05,319 --> 00:08:07,959 had been arrested for breaking and entering, an injury du 152 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:14,839 real property and miscellaneous misdemean larceny in Raleigh, but near 153 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,439 the end of July twenty twenty five, court records show 154 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,480 that he was taking a plea deal in Durham for breaking, entering, 155 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:25,000 larcity and pearl valations. So he had multiple things going 156 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,079 on over the summer, and those court records show that 157 00:08:29,279 --> 00:08:34,000 he in December fourth, we'll see December fourth, twenty twenty five, 158 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:37,639 that was the last note on the Wait County larceny, 159 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:42,799 breaking and entering injury duil property case. The final note 160 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,000 on that was on December fourth, and it read order 161 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:51,039 to commit defendant for examination and capacity to proceed. And 162 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,720 there's no there's nothing after that except for the case 163 00:08:53,759 --> 00:08:58,840 dismissal without leave, no plea agreement, so that committal examination 164 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:00,759 apparently never right. 165 00:09:00,799 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: So this is the involuntary commitment proceedings, much like the 166 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,360 Arena Zarutska murderer. 167 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,159 Speaker 2: Uhh yeah, an arena's law if they have a history 168 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,559 of this kind of violent activity over a three year period, 169 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:17,200 recent three year period that that has he has to 170 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,360 have that mandatory examination. But you know they're gonna they're 171 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,960 gonna basically split hairs here and say that you know 172 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,360 this guy, you know who was just larcy and breaking 173 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,200 and entering the you know, the the violent activities were 174 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,480 several years back, four or five years back, so that 175 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,200 that wouldn't have applied here. But you know the spirit 176 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,279 of the laws people from repeat offenders from going back 177 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:42,080 out there. 178 00:09:42,279 --> 00:09:45,399 Speaker 1: Right and and just simple you know, you know, a burgler, 179 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:49,159 a burglar, you know, somebody who's breaking into places, stealing 180 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:52,639 stuff whatever. Like, there has to be something other than 181 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,559 that that would have prompted that order to to commit sright, 182 00:09:58,879 --> 00:10:02,159 something something ha happened there, right, because otherwise, okay, you 183 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,440 got this, you know, professional burglar. But that that doesn't 184 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,399 it doesn't seem to me like that would be enough 185 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,679 to order an involuntary commitment unless that was an effort 186 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,799 to keep him off the streets for some reason. I 187 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,120 suspect that they, like the public defender or the DA 188 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,600 or somebody in the court proceeding in dealing with him, 189 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,879 probably figured something's not right with this guy. He needs 190 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:26,639 to go in for a psych event. 191 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 2: I think there was something wrong with him because the 192 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,840 original charge for the Durham case from July, the original 193 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,559 charge was was pleed down to a lesser charge. The 194 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:42,440 original charge five was break enter terrorized injurer so, and 195 00:10:42,519 --> 00:10:44,279 he was given credit for one hundred and thirteen days 196 00:10:44,279 --> 00:10:47,600 in jail for time served against a one hundred and 197 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,679 twenty the day sentence. So he served a week. 198 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just one extra week after something. 199 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: You know. I mean, Arena's law was effective December first. 200 00:10:54,879 --> 00:10:58,759 This note on his Way County case was from December fourth, 201 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,480 So Arena's law was in effect, right, And that Durham case, 202 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,960 the original charge, had it not been put down, that 203 00:11:06,879 --> 00:11:08,440 charge would have shown up and he would have had 204 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,320 to have been required to have that examination. 205 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,919 Speaker 1: And maybe that's maybe they saw the prior charge and 206 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,799 maybe that's why they they wanted to get him in 207 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,039 for a psyche val. I don't know, I mean, yeah, 208 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,799 there's just a lot of questions here. I don't know 209 00:11:19,799 --> 00:11:22,519 if I don't know if something fell through the cracks 210 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,399 or somebody wasn't sure, or if this. 211 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 2: Was intentionally a messy case. 212 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:26,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. 213 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 2: Fact those charges were dismissed without leave, with no plea 214 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,799 agreement in place, and they just you know, gave him 215 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:38,519 basically time served while he was waiting to have his 216 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,399 court date. You know it just given his history, Yeah, 217 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,600 it seemed a little bit light. 218 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,279 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and now a woman is dead because of that. 219 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:51,320 So yep, all right, we'll leave it there. AP. I 220 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,240 appreciate your work as always. That's AP Dylan. 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Subscribe 241 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:58,159 through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. 242 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,039 I use the Vantage plan to unlimited access to every feature. 243 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,000 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 244 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:08,200 also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape 245 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,080 more transparent. All right, so I have to acknowledge what 246 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,120 is evident to all who have been listening. I'm very 247 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,679 happy today. I did not start off the day very happy, 248 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,120 but I have become very happy. Why For almost three 249 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:29,320 years I have been highlighting the course of action that 250 00:13:29,399 --> 00:13:37,000 can be taken to remove the toxic sheriff of Mecklmer County, Gary. 251 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,440 Not my fault, macfadden. There is a provision in state 252 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,320 law that allows for the removal of a sheriff and 253 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,360 it outlines you know what specifically they can be removed 254 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:53,639 for and what process, what the process looks like. It 255 00:13:53,759 --> 00:14:00,639 only takes five what are called qualified electors. Those are 256 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:07,519 just voters, So five voters registered voters in Mecklimburg County. 257 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,879 That's all it requires. The problem is is that if 258 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:14,320 it was just me, right, if I were to just 259 00:14:14,639 --> 00:14:17,399 be on the petition along with you four other just 260 00:14:17,519 --> 00:14:21,879 randoms from the county. We couldn't make the kinds of 261 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:28,879 serious allegations that would then trigger this court proceeding. The 262 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,320 court proceeding would be tried either by the district attorney 263 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:38,360 or the Mecklimberg County attorney. We'll see where it goes 264 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,919 and who tries it. I don't know. It's going to 265 00:14:40,919 --> 00:14:47,000 be tried in the district court, so we'll see what 266 00:14:47,159 --> 00:14:49,240 judge gets it, and may be the chief judge, I 267 00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:53,279 don't know. But this is going to be a test 268 00:14:53,639 --> 00:15:01,399 for the local Democrat party because the accusation are legitimate, 269 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:04,919 and we've known about this stuff. I've been, you know, 270 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:08,360 beating this drum for three years saying this is how 271 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,240 you have to try to get him out because he's 272 00:15:11,279 --> 00:15:15,559 running for reelection again. And now that he announced that 273 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,519 he does intend to seek reelection for a third term, 274 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,960 like Democrats could put him back into office and they 275 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,799 look they still very very well might Like we could 276 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:31,960 see how this could go is he gets ousted and 277 00:15:32,039 --> 00:15:36,799 then he gets re elected. That could happen. There was 278 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,840 a sheriff, I forget where it was, down east someplace. 279 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:44,039 He got ousted through this same mechanism about a year ago. 280 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:49,679 I want to say, and then they held a special 281 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,679 election and he ran for reelection and he won. So 282 00:15:53,759 --> 00:15:59,919 that could still happen here with McFadden, But the name 283 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:06,000 fature of the allegations again particularly from what appeared to 284 00:16:06,039 --> 00:16:09,240 be for and I haven't gone through the entire petition 285 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,120 to confirm that all four of the other petitioners besides 286 00:16:13,279 --> 00:16:18,279 State Representative Carla Cunningham, that they are all former employees. 287 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:23,360 It appears they are all former employees. And according to 288 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:26,200 the petition filed with the court by a law firm 289 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:32,919 located in Raleigh representing the petitioners here, since assuming the 290 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,000 office of sheriff, McFadden committed a wide range of misconduct 291 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,679 in office that warrants his removal, and the petition concerns 292 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:48,440 the following general categories of misconduct. A misconduct relating to 293 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:53,519 conditions at the Mecklimer County Detention Center and jail administration. 294 00:16:54,879 --> 00:17:00,440 B Retaliation against crime victims and good faith whistleblowers. C 295 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:06,480 misuse of office resources, including violations of the Federal Hatch Act. 296 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:13,680 D misconduct relating to staffing and promotion practices. E. Weaponizing 297 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,920 the machinery of the Mecklemburg County Sheriff's Office Internal Affairs 298 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,319 Unit against perceived enemies while squelching internal investigations into perceived 299 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:29,440 allies and f threats against a state legislator, which which 300 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,599 amount to attempted extortion and bribery. And in the last 301 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,880 hour I went through that component with Carla Cunningham. So 302 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,079 if you miss that, get the podcast. It's available on 303 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,960 all the podcasting platforms, on the WBT app and at 304 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:51,559 the peatpod dot com. Okay, so from the petition misconduct 305 00:17:51,559 --> 00:17:59,640 relating to jail conditions, will use the term inmates to 306 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,200 refer to all persons here. Okay, Oh, that's good because 307 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,440 he you know, McFadden doesn't call them inmates, he calls 308 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,960 them residents. McFadden has cultivated a reputation for ruthlessness and 309 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:15,599 retaliation against any subordinate who raised concerns about his management 310 00:18:16,039 --> 00:18:19,759 of the Sheriff's Office or the jail, his ethics, or 311 00:18:19,799 --> 00:18:23,839 about the safety of correctional staff, detention officers, and inmates there. 312 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:29,440 McFadden appears to view inmates, including certain violent criminals with 313 00:18:29,519 --> 00:18:33,640 whom he has a personal connection. He appears to view 314 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:43,279 inmates and their families and friends as his most important constituents. Correct, correct, 315 00:18:44,519 --> 00:18:47,559 That's why you end up building a recording studio and 316 00:18:47,599 --> 00:18:51,759 bringing some accused murderer in there for a photo op 317 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:55,599 with the local media and never tell the victim's family 318 00:18:56,079 --> 00:19:01,319 that that you're gonna highlight this guy and his rap career. 319 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,920 McFadden prides himself on his personal connections with inmates, including 320 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,960 some of the most violent felons in Mecklimber County. In 321 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:14,599 an unusual move for a sheriff, McFadden gives out his 322 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,119 personal cell phone number to inmates and their families. That's 323 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:24,119 not misconduct per se. Maintaining personal connections with witnesses in 324 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,319 high crime areas was undoubtedly an effective source of information 325 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:33,519 when McFadden was a homicide detective, I Am Homicide. That 326 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,880 was his TV show that he got where he used 327 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:41,240 his old detective files, probably unethically so, but he used 328 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,240 those old files to turn into a TV show and 329 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:47,200 talked about how he cracked cases and the name of 330 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,440 the show was I Am Homicide. So while that probably 331 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,359 was an effective source of information before becoming sheriff and 332 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,720 obtaining such information was part of his job. Rather, McFadden's 333 00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:00,839 practice of giving inmates and their families personal access to 334 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,880 him is emblematic of the culture that McFadden has created, 335 00:20:05,319 --> 00:20:10,119 in which demonstrations of personal loyalty to McFadden lead him 336 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:16,119 to intervene in favor of supplicants, directing subordinates to ignore 337 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:22,200 otherwise applicable rules and policies. What is what is he? 338 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:30,720 What is this describing He's he's buddying up to criminals 339 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,160 and the criminals families and then he gives them privileges 340 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,240 via the staff. Yeah, this isn't good. The more I 341 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:45,839 read the well, the worse it is, and the happier 342 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,680 I get. You know, Stories are powerful. 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Been 361 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,000 reading through the petition that has been filed now seeking 362 00:21:55,039 --> 00:21:59,759 the removal by court ruling of Mecklimber County Sheriff Gary 363 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:06,079 my Fault McFadden on a slew of allegations related to 364 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:15,119 maladministration as well as threats, bribery and extortion that were 365 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,839 communicated by him to State Representative Carla Cunningham in a 366 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,599 phone call where he was trying to convince her to 367 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:27,680 change her vote and block the House Bill three eighteen, 368 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:32,240 bill that would force him to cooperate with Ice. Right, 369 00:22:32,319 --> 00:22:34,400 and remember he said that the bill wasn't needed, it 370 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,920 wouldn't really do anything, there's all these problems with it 371 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,079 and whatever, and he kept minimizing it while that bill 372 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,079 was making its way through the legislature, and the reason 373 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,039 it was going through the legislature was because he was 374 00:22:46,079 --> 00:22:50,559 once again using loopholes to avoid cooperating with Ice, while 375 00:22:50,559 --> 00:22:54,119 claiming he really wants to cooperate with Ice. But that 376 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,279 phone call that he made in July to Carla Cunningham 377 00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:03,799 is proof that he's been lying. He wanted that bill defeated, 378 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:10,279 and he pressured her to flip her vote and credit 379 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,920 to her and her intestinal fortitude, her bravery and standing 380 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:19,160 up to a literally a violent mob. She had to 381 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:25,200 have police security, she had to hire private security. These 382 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,079 were leftists that were mad at her because she was 383 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,440 voting with the Republicans on this bill that she supported. 384 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:40,480 She supported working with Ice. She's been consistent on that 385 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:46,319 position too, and she bucked her party and voted with 386 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,880 Republicans to override Governor Stein's veto, and so it became law. 387 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,079 House Bill three eighteen became law. And it was a 388 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:59,160 very tumultuous summer for her. She was targeted and then 389 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,720 she gets this call from him, who basically he says like, oh, 390 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:06,839 you know, be ashamed something happened to you. I don't 391 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:08,240 want any harm to come from you know, the people 392 00:24:08,279 --> 00:24:09,640 are gonna come after you, and I don't want to 393 00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:11,880 see you harmed. You know, you live in my county, 394 00:24:12,039 --> 00:24:18,240 like my county, it's not your county. So that's the like, 395 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,880 that's the probably the more newsworthy, but like in a 396 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,359 way it's not because the record here of McFadden's maladministration, 397 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:34,279 his wilful neglect overseeing the detention center and staff. This 398 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:36,799 has been well known. We've talked about this for years. 399 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:39,440 We had one of his chief deputies in here after 400 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,039 he quit, and he wrote a big letter public letter. 401 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,400 Kevin Canty, who is one of the people on this petition, 402 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:52,839 goes on to state McFadden's policy of providing personal direct 403 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,640 access to him for the inmates and the inmates' families, 404 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,200 giving them his personal cell phone number you call me. 405 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,799 Its side steps the usual chain of command, and it 406 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:08,839 encouraged inmates to take their complaints about jail discipline or 407 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:14,200 conditions directly to him. But inmates generally don't complain when 408 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,720 rules are not enforced, only when they are. When inmates 409 00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:23,079 or their families complain about the enforcement of rules, McFadden 410 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,920 usually gives them what they want. He doesn't change policy. 411 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:33,119 He simply makes ad hoc decisions or exceptions or orders 412 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:39,000 non enforcement of the rules. In so doing, McFadden undermines 413 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:43,319 the authority of his detention officers and staff. McFadden is 414 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,359 frequently heard to say that there is no chain of 415 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,400 command and disparaging the concept of a chain of command. 416 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,400 His stated desire is that line employees and inmates with 417 00:25:55,519 --> 00:26:00,079 complaints should all come directly to him. But by undermining 418 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:03,640 his employees and managers, and by creating ad hoc exceptions 419 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,359 to policies rather than just changing the policy, he ultimately 420 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:14,599 creates unsafe conditions at the jail. McFadden has removed and 421 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,799 or intentionally under enforced jail policies and safety measures that 422 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,160 existed to minimize the flow of contraband into the jail 423 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,599 and sure that correctional staff could maintain physical control, segregate 424 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,720 the most violent inmates from other portions of the jail population, 425 00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:37,480 and limit the most violent inmates access to certain portions 426 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,359 of the facility. These rules existed to promote innate and 427 00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:46,759 staff safety. On information and belief, McFadden knows that his 428 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,519 decisions have increased the prevalence of assaults and contraband within 429 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:57,160 the jail. The jail is dramatically understaffed and requires correctional 430 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,039 employees to work mandatory over time. It takes eighty one 431 00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:05,119 deputies to staff a shift, but during the last few years, 432 00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:09,240 shifts are frequently assigned to just thirty or forty officers, 433 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:15,200 sometimes even fewer. It's half staffing. Some assigned officers are 434 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,440 on medical leave at any given time, so shifts are 435 00:27:17,599 --> 00:27:22,440 staffed even more leanly in practice. When McFadden took office, 436 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,599 the Sheriff's Office employed thirteen hundred people. Within three years, 437 00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:33,079 that figure dropped to around eight hundred. It is now 438 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:39,039 at about seven seventy. He's lost half of the staff. 439 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:44,240 This is why I call him. Not my fault. McFadden like, oh, 440 00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:47,279 we can't open jail North. It's not my fault. I 441 00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:50,240 can't hire people. We're all fishing from the same pier 442 00:27:50,319 --> 00:27:53,480 into the same pool of applicants, and nobody wants to 443 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,559 work at the Sheriff's Office. And it's not my fault. Yeah, yeah, 444 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,559 it is. It absolutely is. How do you go from 445 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:06,119 thirteen hundred employees down to seven hundred and seventy that's you, man. 446 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,279 Many officers left because of the intolerable work environment created 447 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:14,759 by McFadden, and many of those who left did not 448 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,240 retire or change careers, but instead went to work for 449 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:23,559 other law enforcement agencies in the area. Understaffing leads to 450 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:31,240 unsafe conditions. It was a state policy or county policy, 451 00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:35,759 and state policy require four to five officers per hallway. 452 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,759 This is also required for American Correctional Association and accreditation, 453 00:28:39,799 --> 00:28:42,839 but Mecklenburg County has recently been staffing one to two 454 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,640 officers per hallway, or sometimes no hallway personnel at all. 455 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,519 That makes officers more vulnerable to assault. Understaffing is the 456 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:56,079 predictable result of McFadden's decision to create a culture that 457 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:01,039 intentionally undermines the authority of the detention officers by encouraging 458 00:29:01,079 --> 00:29:05,680 inmates to complain directly to the sheriff whenever the officers 459 00:29:05,759 --> 00:29:12,720 try to enforce jail rules. In short, the relaxation and 460 00:29:12,839 --> 00:29:17,000 lax enforcement of rules in conjunction with a culture that 461 00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:21,359 intentionally undermines the authority of the officers has predictably led 462 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,519 to a greater prevalence of weapons, drugs, and other contraband 463 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,200 in the jail than was the case prior to his tenure. 464 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:36,359 It also leads to unsafe conditions for inmates and detention officers. 465 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,400 And then there are the threats and the retaliation against 466 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:50,240 whistleblowers and crime victims and others. Deputies and other office 467 00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:53,160 employees are at will employees who served the pleasure of 468 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,279 the sheriff. They have limited protection against demotion, termination, or 469 00:29:56,279 --> 00:30:00,039 other retaliation if they speak up against his abuses and 470 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,279 frequently reminds his subordinates that they serve at his pleasure, 471 00:30:03,519 --> 00:30:07,519 and uses expressed or implied threats of retaliation to deter 472 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:12,960 employees from speaking up about assaults and unsafe conditions at 473 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,960 the jail or other abuses. Working as a detention officer 474 00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:20,759 or unsworn staff in a jail or prison involves some 475 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,319 unavoidable risk of assault. In practice, a lot of minor 476 00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:26,839 scuffles that might result in assault charges if they happen 477 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,960 in the civilian world end up overlooked or result in 478 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:34,519 internal prison discipline, but no new charges. 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Yeah, I don't know. 508 00:32:09,559 --> 00:32:13,559 I don't know if they Yeah, I mean theoretically you 509 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:20,839 could bring criminal charges for the the extortion, the attempted bribery, 510 00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:25,599 you know, like, but this is just a petition to 511 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,880 have him removed. And so now that process is underway, 512 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:34,160 and the petitioners are asking that McFadden be suspended pending 513 00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:39,039 the adjudication of the petition. So we'll see, we'll see 514 00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:41,240 how that goes. And we'll see. First I guess we're 515 00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:43,680 gonna we got to find out who's going to who's 516 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,799 going to prosecute the petition. Is it the Mecklimber County 517 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:53,799 District Attorney or is it the Mecklimberg County Attorney. So 518 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:01,839 we'll see, let's see, Richard, I'm curious if anyone other 519 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,279 than Carla Cunningham was present for that call. Did they 520 00:33:05,319 --> 00:33:10,240 record it otherwise, it's her word versus his true that 521 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:17,000 is true. I somewhat doubt that she recorded it, but 522 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,119 maybe she did. And the petition makes no mention of 523 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,000 somebody else that was there on the or on the 524 00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:26,759 call with her and mcfaddott, So we don't know if 525 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:30,359 there's another witness to this. That would be awesome if 526 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,599 there was a witness to confirm her account. And then 527 00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:38,920 they spring that on him in the trial. Right, It's 528 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,480 like he doesn't know if somebody was on the until 529 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,599 he lies and says I didn't say those things, and 530 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,720 then aha, well we have this witness. She was on 531 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:50,000 the call too, she heard you say it. That would 532 00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:53,759 be awesome. Look, I look, okay, I know there are 533 00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:56,440 a lot of black pilled people in the audience and 534 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,880 they're like, nothing's gonna happen to this guy, right, And 535 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:03,440 I get that feeling. But look, just let me have 536 00:34:03,599 --> 00:34:08,079 this moment today, Okay, Please just let me enjoy this 537 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,440 for now. We'll see what happens. We'll see, you know, 538 00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:20,239 all right, back to the petition, McFadden. This seems problematic, 539 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,880 and this is also why that North Carolina House Oversight 540 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:30,440 Committee has summoned McFadden to appear at a hearing in 541 00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:38,360 Raleigh on January twenty second. McFadden discourages detention officers from 542 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,960 reporting use of force incidents involving inmates and staff within 543 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:52,039 the jail, and has admonished staff from documenting such incidents. Right, 544 00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:55,119 so that's one way to get better stats. Say, oh, 545 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,760 we run a safe jail here. Yeah, well it's safe 546 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,119 if you don't report all the violence by the stats 547 00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:06,360 at least in fact on information and believe McFadden has 548 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:12,840 threatened retaliation against detention officers who report assaults by inmates. 549 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,639 McFadden's threat to retaliate against crime victims and whistleblowers on 550 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,440 his staff has been conveyed through the chain of command 551 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:27,199 two supervisors, who then convey it two line employees. Well 552 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:32,960 that's not smart. So McFadden is telling the supervisors to 553 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:39,559 tell their staff that he will retaliate against the staff 554 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,880 if they file these complaints or if they file reports 555 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:53,440 of violence or assaults. And I guess that's the mention 556 00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:57,320 of the crime victims. He's talking about staff and detention 557 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,920 officers that are victimized by inmates or inmates that are 558 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:08,159 victimized by other inmates, And so he's threatening retaliation against them. 559 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,800 You were victimized by an inmate, you were beaten up, 560 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,800 you were attacked, or whatever you want to enforce jail 561 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:21,199 rules against that inmate. And McFadden gets a phone call 562 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,119 from the inmate's mother who says, oh, you know, he 563 00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:28,000 didn't mean it, and oh please don't punish him, please 564 00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:30,360 please please, And then McFadden says, I'm going to retaliate 565 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,800 against that detention officer if they file a report on 566 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:40,960 this incident. Is that what's happening. McFadden has downplayed injuries 567 00:36:41,039 --> 00:36:44,960 sustained by deputies who were assaulted at the jail. McFadden 568 00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:49,559 also inevitably blamed jail deputies who were assaulted, including assaults 569 00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:54,920 that resulted in serious injury, regardless of the facts. McFadden's 570 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,320 threats are not limited to his subordinates. And then it 571 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:04,000 talks about the the phone call with Carla Cunningham. Okay, 572 00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,480 And then there's this on the misuse of official resources 573 00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:11,639 in or around September and October of this past year. 574 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,920 So what three months ago McFadden directed that official resources, 575 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:20,440 specifically the work time of information technology staff at the 576 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:26,719 Sheriff's Office, be used to work on his campaign website. Dude, 577 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,119 that's a really bright line in the law. How do 578 00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:30,920 you not know that you're not supposed to do that? 579 00:37:33,639 --> 00:37:37,199 The campaign website not his official business. Obviously, McFadden's misuse 580 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,599 of official resources to support his campaign violates the Hatch Act, 581 00:37:41,639 --> 00:37:47,159 which prohibits McFadden from directly or indirectly coercing, attempting to coerce, 582 00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:51,159 or commanding a state or local officer or employee to 583 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,519 contribute anything of value to a political campaign committee. It 584 00:37:54,599 --> 00:38:03,039 also violated the Hatch Acts implementing regulations so misused official 585 00:38:03,079 --> 00:38:07,519 resources in his treatment of reserve deputies. Sheriffs are allowed 586 00:38:07,559 --> 00:38:11,400 to employ reserve deputies on volunteer or unpaid basis if 587 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:16,079 they are otherwise qualified. Often, reserve deputies are retired law 588 00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:19,280 enforcement officers from other agencies who wish to keep their 589 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:24,400 law enforcement certification and work private duty security engagements. Law 590 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,440 enforcement officers typically must complete a certain amount of active 591 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,119 duty time per year to maintain their qualifications. In practice, 592 00:38:32,159 --> 00:38:35,719 reserve officers are frequently volunteers for the number of hours 593 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:41,119 required to maintain that certification. Mecklimber County policy specifies that 594 00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:45,000 reserve officers are unpaid when called into action up to 595 00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:47,599 a certain number of hours per month, but should be 596 00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:52,320 paid for work above that number of hours. On information 597 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:57,719 and belief, McFadden has repeatedly directed that reserve deputies work 598 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,079 security at certain collegiate sports, ving events and parades at 599 00:39:02,159 --> 00:39:07,960 Johnson C. Smith University, which McFadden attended on information and belief. 600 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,480 At times, McFadden was informed that this would put certain 601 00:39:10,519 --> 00:39:13,039 reserve deputies over the amount of time where they could 602 00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:17,320 be asked to work unpaid. On information and belief, McFadden 603 00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:23,519 ordered that these reserve deputies work the JCSU events without pay. Anyway, 604 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,119 he did not similarly direct that reserve deputies work without 605 00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:33,159 pay to benefit any other Mecklenburg County institution. It basically 606 00:39:33,199 --> 00:39:37,039 compelled deputies to donate their time to a cause McFadden 607 00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:41,559 cares about. It's because he's an alum of Johnson C. 608 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,599 Smith and because of his reputation for retaliation against anybody 609 00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:48,559 who crossed him or who were not viewed as personally 610 00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:52,159 loyal to him. Reserve deputies knew they would have to 611 00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:55,039 work without the pay they were entitled to, or potentially 612 00:39:55,119 --> 00:40:03,679 risk losing future hours and thus their certification. Everything we 613 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,679 thought we knew about this guy was true. That's what 614 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:13,599 this petition lays out. It's all been true. Petty, narcissistic, sociopathic, 615 00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:19,159 terrible manager. 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