Speaker 1: It is seven oh five here Kentucky. It's morning news
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty whas and we are now joined.
Speaker 1: But he's I'm the new guy. He's a regulars Dwight
Speaker 1: Mitchell w of l MPD who joins us. How are
Speaker 1: we doing, Dwight?
Speaker 2: Very good, Nick, And you know it's gonna take me
Speaker 2: away to get used to that new name. Yeah, I said, Tony,
Speaker 2: but works for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm happy to chat with you. Look forward to
Speaker 1: having conversations throughout. And I'm not Tony Kruz. If I could,
Speaker 1: I would certainly try to be, but nobody can. And
Speaker 1: we'll we'll miss him around here. But now you've got me,
Speaker 1: and again I'm looking forward to to our continued conversations
Speaker 1: and I'll continue to I guess I'll start with when
Speaker 1: it comes to LMPD in the plans for this weekend,
Speaker 1: obviously there's gonna be some demonstrations that are scheduled really
Speaker 1: across the country. Certainly Louisville is one of those cities
Speaker 1: that will see that as well. What is in place
Speaker 1: as of now to as best have things from getting
Speaker 1: to the point where it does sort of cross the
Speaker 1: line from being peaceful to maybe becoming not peaceful.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I'm main going it's always public
Speaker 2: safety when it comes to these issues, So that's what
Speaker 2: LMPD will be concentrated on and monitoring that public safety
Speaker 2: and the rights of folks their constitutional right to protest.
Speaker 2: That's what's great about this country. The moment it gets
Speaker 2: into something other than that is when we will intervene
Speaker 2: at that point. But otherwise we hopefully that it's peaceful
Speaker 2: protests and one that people get their points across, they
Speaker 2: want to do, and they can work with us. We
Speaker 2: can ensure that that happens to make sure those demonstrations
Speaker 2: go peacefully and smooth as we all want them to go,
Speaker 2: and everybody has public safety at the front part and
Speaker 2: also get to exercise your constitutional right. So as long
Speaker 2: as we're able to do those things, that's our goal.
Speaker 1: So there's obviously training that goes into place when it
Speaker 1: comes to being on hand to keep things as peaceful
Speaker 1: as possible. But I feel like that would be a
Speaker 1: real challenge to kind of balance. I mean, certainly you
Speaker 1: can see, okay, this is certainly something that one is
Speaker 1: against the law, or it's some thing that is trending
Speaker 1: towards crossing that line? How do you, guys balance that
Speaker 1: you how do you how do you know, truly know
Speaker 1: exactly where where that line is.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the whole reason why there's a line,
Speaker 2: and it's an invisible one and one that through training
Speaker 2: that you hope that you can detect early and hopefully
Speaker 2: promote that to say, hey, if you cross this line,
Speaker 2: this is going to happen. The one thing that's very
Speaker 2: difficult in law enforcement, no matter what the situation is,
Speaker 2: human behavior is not an exact science. We don't know
Speaker 2: why people do what they do, even though there's rules
Speaker 2: and laws in place of what they do that in fact,
Speaker 2: if we knew the answer to that, they would need
Speaker 2: the US. So it is a challenge, as you have said,
Speaker 2: but one that we meet and sometimes we get it
Speaker 2: right real good, and sometimes we don't, and we learn
Speaker 2: through those lessons and we try to do the best
Speaker 2: we can.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to the officers that'll be on hand.
Speaker 1: Is there any specific I'm trying to think of the
Speaker 1: right way to word this, because you want people to
Speaker 1: be able to rest the rights and they have the
Speaker 1: right to do that, but I just I feel like
Speaker 1: if you were being antagonized as an officer, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you're trained to just deal with it, I suppose,
Speaker 1: But that's got to be a lot more difficult than
Speaker 1: people probably realize.
Speaker 3: Well, it is because we're not robots.
Speaker 1: Sure, humans human beings, but the human element is real, right.
Speaker 3: But the call.
Speaker 2: Into law enforcements, just like it is in any call
Speaker 2: in any profession, there has to be a special it
Speaker 2: factor that you have to have to be able to
Speaker 2: handle those things that comes through experience. No matter how
Speaker 2: much we may train on it in a training situation,
Speaker 2: when it's happening for real, human instincts take a place.
Speaker 2: But for the number of interactions we have in law enforcement,
Speaker 2: no matter what the situation is, excuse me, most of
Speaker 2: the time we come out on top and doing the
Speaker 2: right thing. And the men and women who put that
Speaker 2: uniform on every day exemplify that, and that's what we
Speaker 2: continue to encourage.
Speaker 1: Dwight Mitchell, OLLMPD spokesman joins us here our news Radiate
Speaker 1: forty whas. One of the big stories last week and
Speaker 1: my first week on the job was trying to keep
Speaker 1: the situation in the Highlands on Bargetown Road for trying
Speaker 1: to prevent a third straight weekend of just chaos. To
Speaker 1: put it bluntly, it seems as if there was some
Speaker 1: real progress this past weekend with with with what went on.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, we learned from the first weekend we
Speaker 2: had increased patrol in that area and there's no doubt
Speaker 2: that the weather helped us too, because.
Speaker 3: It did start.
Speaker 2: Mother nature helped out, yes, and that's what's good about
Speaker 2: mother nature. Every now and then she does what a
Speaker 2: mother does, Yes, comes and brings some peace and some
Speaker 2: tranquility to things. But we are prepared in case anything happens. Well,
Speaker 2: you'll see more increased walking patrols in that area as
Speaker 2: well as our horse patrol of being that area just
Speaker 2: to let people know that we're there and we want
Speaker 2: people to have a good time.
Speaker 3: We wanted them to do that.
Speaker 2: But again, it's crossing that line that we're all talking
Speaker 2: about when.
Speaker 1: It comes to I guess long term plans and order
Speaker 1: to improve that overall situation. What kind of things could
Speaker 1: could go in place to you know down the line here.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not all a police issue.
Speaker 2: Sure, you know, we have the bar businesses in the
Speaker 2: area that staying open that time.
Speaker 3: They're being very cooperative with us and doing that.
Speaker 2: They have a place of business, they're trying to have
Speaker 2: have people to have a good time with that. But
Speaker 2: as far as the police department is going to start again,
Speaker 2: it comes down to public safety and what's problem and
Speaker 2: nobody's breaking laws. I think last weekend, I think we
Speaker 2: only had the I think Friday night there was really
Speaker 2: nothing that went on, and we may have told maybe
Speaker 2: five cars and then a couple of unrelated.
Speaker 1: Over Yeah, it didn't really tie into what had happened previously, right.
Speaker 2: Correct, correct, And I think people got the message. But
Speaker 2: I know it's kind of a cat and mouse game too.
Speaker 2: It's Bardstown when week it could be somewhere else. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: but we're prepared.
Speaker 1: So there was some unfortunate, really some sad news this
Speaker 1: week as former LMPD detective Michelle Rush passed away after
Speaker 1: a fierce battle cancer. Obviously, she made quite an impact
Speaker 1: on this community and quite an impact on the department.
Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about that. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of her colleagues and friends, family have really
Speaker 1: just talked about how special she was.
Speaker 2: She was very special and you know, only thirty five
Speaker 2: years old. But when I say that she didn't live long,
Speaker 2: but she lived strong, and she did her job very
Speaker 2: very well from all of what I'm hearing and what
Speaker 2: I've heard over the years, and her deep passion she
Speaker 2: had for children and working in that unit, which takes
Speaker 2: a very special individual to do that, because you find
Speaker 2: them in the worst situations many times, and you're trying
Speaker 2: to bring them some kind of comfort and closure and
Speaker 2: those type of things, and she did that very well
Speaker 2: in dealing with that. Certainly, our prayers go out to
Speaker 2: her husband, who's a detective own the department, as well
Speaker 2: as her three children, and you know, we just asked
Speaker 2: God's grace and mercy upon him as he has to
Speaker 2: raise those children, not totally alone, sure, but it's not
Speaker 2: the same as if your wife's not there in their mother.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and clearly a very sad, sad situation. However, it
Speaker 1: did really from my perspective, just give me a reminder
Speaker 1: of the camaraderie that is there within law enforcement and
Speaker 1: just seeing so many go out of their way to
Speaker 1: make sure people knew the impact that she had on
Speaker 1: them and had on the community.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know the thing about it is, you
Speaker 2: know you're in law enforcement, police officer, but you're a
Speaker 2: human being, and she was somebody's wife, somebody's parent, somebody's daughter,
Speaker 2: somebody's cousin.
Speaker 3: So it's no different than you and your family, Nick.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately her time came quick, but I feel that
Speaker 2: she's in a much better place where there's no more sickness,
Speaker 2: no more pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thoughts and prayers to the entire family and all
Speaker 1: those that were close with Michelle Rush very sad. Well, Dwight.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming in, looking forward to having these
Speaker 1: weekly conversations, and hope you have a good week and
Speaker 1: best of luck with everything. I know it's going to
Speaker 1: be a busy weekend for you and the team.
Speaker 2: Yes, and happy Father's Day, dolt, that's right, coming up.
Speaker 2: I get the big piece of chicken on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Nice would be great. Nice, Happy Father's Dead everybody. And
Speaker 1: thanks that's bit Mitchell, Cardinal Power hour right here, you know,
Speaker 1: right between you two.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, and I'm not ashamed. And I'll add
Speaker 2: to say did that before I.
Speaker 1: Take it.
Speaker 3: That way?
Speaker 1: Thank you? All right, We've got an update of traffic
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Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Thank you, John. It is seven thirty
Speaker 1: five here Kentucky had his morning news with Nick Coffee
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty w h as it is
Speaker 1: unbelievable that in that plane crash that took place yesterday
Speaker 1: in the western part of India, that two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty one people that were on board that plane are
Speaker 1: are dead. And there's not only I mean, there's one survivor.
Speaker 1: That alone, is is insane that that, given what happened,
Speaker 1: given what took place, that's that that one person was
Speaker 1: able to survive. But to hear that once they ended
Speaker 1: up getting him to the hospital, the doctor that was
Speaker 1: with with the survivor just said he was disoriented, had
Speaker 1: some injuries on his body, but overall out of danger.
Speaker 1: I mean, I cannot imagine I mean, in any way
Speaker 1: anything that comes with that entire situation, top to bottom,
Speaker 1: meaning being the survivor, being a family member, somebody who
Speaker 1: knew one of the many that passed away. Two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty one people were dead. But talk about survivor's guild.
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with what that is, it's a
Speaker 1: real thing. And this may be one of the most
Speaker 1: extreme and best examples that I can think of, because
Speaker 1: you'd have to wonder why me, Why did I get
Speaker 1: so lucky? You're balancing the uncontrollable. I guess, praise to
Speaker 1: God that you're alive, right, And I was stumbling there
Speaker 1: spinning my wheels because I didn't really know how to order.
Speaker 1: But you're just so grateful and you will forever. You'll
Speaker 1: probably right now think for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: There won't be three to five seconds that go by
Speaker 1: where you don't think. Man, I'm so lucky, I'm so thankful,
Speaker 1: I'm so blessed, Thank you God. But then you wonder, well, man,
Speaker 1: there were two hundred and forty one people that didn't live.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm alive. Wow, thank you. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful. But also again the guilt of others
Speaker 1: that were on the plane with you, that you know,
Speaker 1: you probably have memories of going right before it happened
Speaker 1: and seeing a family that was in the aisle next
Speaker 1: to you or whatnot.
Speaker 4: I just I mean not to mention the trauma that
Speaker 4: this man's gonna he's gonna wake up in the middle
Speaker 4: of the night, he's gonna have to re live this
Speaker 4: over and over and over, and then to your point,
Speaker 4: at the same time, he's probably going to turn this
Speaker 4: around and go, Okay, what good can I was put again,
Speaker 4: I'm a firm believer.
Speaker 1: We're all here for a reason.
Speaker 4: People cross our paths for a reason, we're introduced to
Speaker 4: people for a reason.
Speaker 1: This guy survived for a reason. He's got work left.
Speaker 4: To do, and it'll be interesting to follow his storyline
Speaker 4: and see what happened.
Speaker 1: So again, there's I think most just the reaction is
Speaker 1: how lucky is this guy? Who would have ever believed
Speaker 1: somebody would not only survive but seemingly be okay. But
Speaker 1: I don't think enough This is just my perception of it,
Speaker 1: that people like, he's a victim here, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: he has had a traumatic experience. So yes, that is wow,
Speaker 1: how lucky is he? He survived, but his life will be
Speaker 1: forever changed, and there's so much that comes with that
Speaker 1: kind of trauma that it'll like again, I'm sure, And
Speaker 1: that's the balancing Now, you're lucky to be alive, your
Speaker 1: life has forever changed, and I can't imagine that's something
Speaker 1: that you just eventually ever get over. You just have
Speaker 1: to hopefully learn how to how to deal with it.
Speaker 4: They said he got up to get out of the aircraft,
Speaker 4: and he said he just remembers bodies being all around
Speaker 4: him and those are images that will never ever escape
Speaker 4: him and take him with him wherever he goes. There's
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot of therapy that's going to be
Speaker 4: involved here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he heard a loud noise seconds after takeoff,
Speaker 1: and then the next thing he remembers is just seeing
Speaker 1: the botoman. It just it's awful, just awful, awful stuff.
Speaker 1: And so before we get to our next update on
Speaker 1: traffic and weather, the cicadas are real issue around here
Speaker 1: and I haven't noticed is much like just getting in
Speaker 1: my way to where they're they're they're near me and
Speaker 1: I got to shoe them away. But they're loud, dude,
Speaker 1: They're so loud. So have you guys seen this story
Speaker 1: out of Cincinnati. There's somebody who got into a serious
Speaker 1: car crash yesterday and they're blaming the cicada. Oh no,
Speaker 1: So police are searching for the suspect who who fled
Speaker 1: or flew the suspect as a cicada. Another bad joke,
Speaker 1: second one of the day for me. I'll take I'll
Speaker 1: put it Joe going ahead and spotting to white a
Speaker 1: couple of bucks before this show start starts so he
Speaker 1: can get some Friday bad jokes out of the way.
Speaker 1: But anyways, there was a crash in Cincinnati and the
Speaker 1: driver claims that they were startled and tried to shoe
Speaker 1: away the noisy cicada. They ended up flying into the
Speaker 1: vehicle and when doing that, they veered off the road,
Speaker 1: hitting a pole, overturning the vehicle and luckily nobody was
Speaker 1: hurt on an overturned vehicle crash, which is a pretty
Speaker 1: rare thing. But the police they're locally, note that cicadas
Speaker 1: don't respect personal space and recommend that all drivers keep
Speaker 1: their windows rolled up at least for the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: So I don't know why what you would get out
Speaker 1: of making this up, But there's no way to know
Speaker 1: for sure, Like there's no there's gonna be any proof
Speaker 1: that a cicada caused it. It's a little bit believable
Speaker 1: just because we know, especially Cincinnati's not far from us
Speaker 1: at all, and around here they're everywhere.
Speaker 4: I've I've seen the stories where people have used this
Speaker 4: defense a bee and that actually happened to us. Okay,
Speaker 4: bee flew into the car and it drives you crazy.
Speaker 4: I've almost been caught in a couple times with that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not talking like your carpenter bees that
Speaker 4: don't harm anybody. These are those nasty little yellow jacket
Speaker 4: things that are just been there. Yeah, and I've almost
Speaker 4: swerved a couple of times, but the same token, I
Speaker 4: knew I had to keep my hands on the road.
Speaker 1: Or bees believed to be smart. Yeah, you know, they're
Speaker 1: pretty smart. When it's happened to me, I feel like
Speaker 1: they know they've got me in a vulnerable spot, right,
Speaker 1: jacky jackets do, dude, they're coming for you.
Speaker 4: The carpenter's bee is kind of kind of an eres
Speaker 4: kind of thing. And that's why I said, but if
Speaker 4: you I had a yellow jacket in the car and
Speaker 4: then just remember swerving all over and even when when
Speaker 4: I was telling you last weekend when I was cutting
Speaker 4: the grass and cicadas were landing on me because I
Speaker 4: think they're blind. I mean, they just the boom and
Speaker 4: then and they're stuck. They're they don't are not gonna
Speaker 4: hurt you, but they just don't look pleasant.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's and they don't sound pleasant either. They
Speaker 1: don't You could be out trying to enjoy a nice
Speaker 1: you know, late spring, early summer evening and trying to
Speaker 1: get some peace and quiet, maybe just hear nature and there. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and the good the good thing to your point
Speaker 4: is they're probably going to leave us at the end
Speaker 4: of this month.
Speaker 1: That's the case. This that was my CCADA impression.
Speaker 3: Pretty good.
Speaker 1: That was good. That was really good.
Speaker 4: My math teacher.
Speaker 1: No, I can't speak. I'm outa shove. I goa threw
Speaker 1: my voice out there. All right. An update of trafficking
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Speaker 1: friends coming up here in the eight o'clock hour. So
Speaker 1: one of the things that that we've been discussing throughout
Speaker 1: the morning here, as you could expect, is the the
Speaker 1: the plans this weekend across the country really for the
Speaker 1: the protests, and I don't I mean, let me make
Speaker 1: sure I word it correctly here because I don't want to,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to get it wrong. But
Speaker 1: there's the Kings what is it called the King's Thing?
Speaker 1: Where's it at here? I just had it pulled up
Speaker 1: in front of me. No Kings, Yeah, the no Kings
Speaker 1: pro So those are going to take place just about everywhere.
Speaker 1: As we discussed earlier, they are, there's plans for them
Speaker 1: to take place, and I believe every I mean every
Speaker 1: at least at least one city within every state, we'll
Speaker 1: have one of these protests. And sorry for being pessimistic.
Speaker 1: I just think it's hard to expect there not to
Speaker 1: be multiple instances of I guess, just examples of when
Speaker 1: it does cross the line. And what I'm dying to
Speaker 1: know but will never be able to know, is Okay,
Speaker 1: how much did that truly represent of what's going on?
Speaker 1: Because this is something I think we're all aware of,
Speaker 1: but maybe we don't keep it in mind as much
Speaker 1: as we as we should. And that is that what
Speaker 1: you see in an isolated incident, I guess what you
Speaker 1: see could just be an isolated incident, and you know,
Speaker 1: really knowing just you know, an extreme example, how common
Speaker 1: is that type of thing to happen where it does
Speaker 1: cross the line to where it's no longer peaceful. But
Speaker 1: there's just you know, I think what we all want
Speaker 1: is to know the true temperature of how people feel
Speaker 1: about this stuff, and there's just really no way to
Speaker 1: know that at any specific level. And you've got extreme
Speaker 1: examples on certain sides, and that's all that gets thrown
Speaker 1: in our face. And I'm just somebody that's like just
Speaker 1: wanting to Okay, I can clearly tell you feel this way, right,
Speaker 1: and I could clearly tell that you feel that way,
Speaker 1: And I just I've always believed that the majority does
Speaker 1: lie in the middle. But maybe that's just a lie
Speaker 1: that I tell myself. Maybe it doesn't true, it does it.
Speaker 4: It's like in this business, I mentioned this to you,
Speaker 4: and I mentioned this cruise, that that there was one
Speaker 4: somebody who I respect in the media that told me,
Speaker 4: in this business, twenty percent love you, twenty percent hate you.
Speaker 4: The rest of the middle just don't care. And I
Speaker 4: think to your point, when it comes to the political
Speaker 4: outcries on one side and the political cries on the outside.
Speaker 4: There's that massive swath in the middle that looks at
Speaker 4: it realistically. And I find this out more and more
Speaker 4: of I've been in this business, that those outer fringes
Speaker 4: they're there, they're loud, they'll be heard, but they're not
Speaker 4: as big as the folks in the middle.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is planned also on the same day
Speaker 1: of Flag Day, and it's also President Trump's birthday. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they plan nearly two thousand no Kings protests across all
Speaker 1: fifty states. The flagship march is going to be in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and of course in DC there's not one schedule because
Speaker 1: in DC they're going to have the giant parade with
Speaker 1: tanks jets to celebrate the Armies two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm the only one, am I the only
Speaker 4: one here thinking of school House Rock, No More Kings
Speaker 4: when I hear the if you've ever seen maybe that
Speaker 4: was a little before your time, was a little bit
Speaker 4: before my time, school House Rock.
Speaker 3: More Kings.
Speaker 4: I keep thinking of that one now every time you
Speaker 4: say no kid.
Speaker 1: So if you are interested in I guess either maybe
Speaker 1: participating or maybe just knowing where to avoid if you
Speaker 1: go to no kings dot org. They've got a map
Speaker 1: that'll show you where these are expected to take place.
Speaker 1: So there's info out there and you can do with
Speaker 1: that how whatever, you can do whatever you want with that.
Speaker 1: It's the best way to put it all right. We've
Speaker 1: got another update to traffic and weather coming your way,
Speaker 1: another update of sports as well. Stick around right here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas