Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you Besson's radio.
Speaker 2: All right, gonna go back to the phones. I originally
Speaker 2: had intended to do this for an hour. But guess what,
Speaker 2: I'm a little angry at this point. And I'll tell
Speaker 2: you why I'm angry. I'm angry because if this incident
Speaker 2: shouldn't call it an incident, if this horrific tragedy had
Speaker 2: happened anywhere other than a poor community in Boston, people
Speaker 2: would be up in arms. Well I'm gonna I'm up
Speaker 2: in arms. I'm up in arms that the city has
Speaker 2: not kept us up to date as to what this
Speaker 2: investigation is SAWT is finding. Okay, we're seventeen days after
Speaker 2: this child was struck and killed. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 2: It's time now for the city, too uh to let
Speaker 2: us know what's going on. This is a little five
Speaker 2: year old boy. I think everybody knows the story. If
Speaker 2: you're if you don't know the story, I'll give it
Speaker 2: you real quickly. This is a five year old kid
Speaker 2: on a Monday, beautiful Monday, April twenty eight, gets off
Speaker 2: as school bus. Five year old kid. Five year old
Speaker 2: kid gets off the school bus and the very school
Speaker 2: bus that he was riding on somehow kills him. Now
Speaker 2: how that happened, God only knows. We haven't been told.
Speaker 2: But you don't need to be a master investigator to
Speaker 2: figure that one out, particularly when we now have learned
Speaker 2: that this same bus a few minutes before that and
Speaker 2: another part of town had hit a couple of parked cars.
Speaker 2: Think about it. Think about it. Who's driving the bus?
Speaker 2: Did they do toxology reports on the bus driver? Was
Speaker 2: the bus driver qualified? Were the proper checks down on
Speaker 2: the bus driver? Bottom line is as a five year
Speaker 2: old child. Now we have one line open, six seven,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, and if I missed my bed here, I'll
Speaker 2: I will be sorely disappointed in this audience because this
Speaker 2: someone needs to speak for this five year old child.
Speaker 2: We have heard from the police commissioner, we haven't heard
Speaker 2: from the mayor, and we haven't heard from the district attorney,
Speaker 2: Kevin Hayden. So if they're not going to speak for
Speaker 2: the five year old child, I'm going to speak for
Speaker 2: the five year old child, and I hope that some
Speaker 2: of the audience will speak for this five year old child.
Speaker 2: Let's get right to it. We're going to go to Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Karen is in Wisconsin. Karen, I know you grew up
Speaker 2: here in Boston. I thank you for calling in. This
Speaker 2: is an appalling source the cureous.
Speaker 3: I hope you can calm down a little bit so
Speaker 3: I can calm down and talk because I'm a little
Speaker 3: worked up over this.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you worked up. Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: When Steve called, he was saying everything I wanted to say.
Speaker 3: I just I just need a minute to calm down
Speaker 3: before I could die. So I am upset over this,
Speaker 3: but I don't I did you just find out about
Speaker 3: the bus hitting another you know, hitting no, no, no, that.
Speaker 2: That's public That's been public knowledge with newspaper stories. Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But to bring it up, to have this one
Speaker 3: for seventeen days, I think I wonder if there's something
Speaker 3: not that the government, you know, the state is trying
Speaker 3: to cover it up, but something they're trying to cover
Speaker 3: it up. Something is going on that they're trying to do.
Speaker 3: You see what.
Speaker 2: I don't know that, So I'm not going to assert that.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying is that it says to me very
Speaker 2: odd that a story like this, which people are aware
Speaker 2: of in Boston. UH, it has not there's not going
Speaker 2: to follow up. There's not been a UH news conference
Speaker 2: by the mayor, by the mayor which took a report.
Speaker 2: What what they know? Maybe it takes a couple of days. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe it take this week, but it doesn't take seventeen days.
Speaker 2: On this particular.
Speaker 4: Story, there's a parent.
Speaker 2: I don't know that, Karen, and I don't think that's
Speaker 2: any of my business. This child, this child, he could
Speaker 2: have a mom and a dad, or mom and a dad,
Speaker 2: and they could be just shocked. They could Can you
Speaker 2: imagine when it's like to lose a five year old child,
Speaker 2: and to lose the five year old child on a
Speaker 2: school bus that he just got off. I'm not looking
Speaker 2: to blame the parents here that this.
Speaker 3: Has got nothing to do with Yeah, something's not right
Speaker 3: with this the bus.
Speaker 2: And I could have said to myself earlier tonight, why
Speaker 2: do I want to cast any light in this corner?
Speaker 2: We just might find something that's that's that's ugly. You
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 4: I don't need care.
Speaker 5: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't need to talk to the DA I don't
Speaker 2: need to talk to the mayor. I don't need to
Speaker 2: talk to the police. Commissioner. But they need to talk
Speaker 2: to the people of Boston, and I have.
Speaker 3: To say something is going on and we're working on it,
Speaker 3: just that much they.
Speaker 2: Of I think they got to say. I think that
Speaker 2: they haven't even said that, but I think they have
Speaker 2: to say. At this point. There's some questions to be asked.
Speaker 2: Have toxology to be done on the driver? What sort
Speaker 2: of a background check was done on the driver when
Speaker 2: he was hired? When was the driver hired? How long
Speaker 2: had he driven the school bus? How long had he
Speaker 2: been a school bus driver in Boston? Where he had
Speaker 2: been a school bus driver before he was in Boston,
Speaker 2: if he had been a school bus driver elsewhere. The
Speaker 2: questions are all important.
Speaker 3: We don't even know if they for rested anybody.
Speaker 2: No, there's no ice because because there's been no.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're calling on it. I'm glad you're calling
Speaker 3: this out now. Call every night, will I answered, but
Speaker 3: I will, all right, thank you, okay, every night, Thanks Carrod,
Speaker 3: all right, by good night.
Speaker 2: Let me keep rolling here. I want to get everybody in.
Speaker 2: Let me I got one line at six, one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, Wake up people. Joe and Haveril Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: welcome next on Nightside that mister.
Speaker 6: Joe, you're a lawyer, Yes, sir, the family would hire
Speaker 6: you to find out how the child died.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not my job.
Speaker 6: They're keeping everything under cover until the lawyer investigates what happened.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope that they do. I hope that they
Speaker 2: do have a lawyer. And there are plenty of good
Speaker 2: lawyers who could take up this cause I'm a talk
Speaker 2: show host.
Speaker 6: Right now, and that's why I'm talking to you, because
Speaker 6: you're a lawyer.
Speaker 2: No, I unders say that, but I'm just I'm simply
Speaker 2: I know what the questions are, okay, and we've had
Speaker 2: no answers on those questions, Joe, and I would only
Speaker 2: posit this to you, and you're a smart guy. If
Speaker 2: this happened in Wellesley or Winchester or Weston or Whyland
Speaker 2: or any of the beautiful suburbs out there, do you
Speaker 2: think that it would go for seventeen days before we'd
Speaker 2: get any information about it. I don't think so.
Speaker 6: Well, if you was a lawyer, would investigate what happened.
Speaker 6: That's why they keeping quiet. They could be a suit involved.
Speaker 2: Well, of course there could be. Of course, there could
Speaker 2: be a lawsuit involved. But at the same time, the
Speaker 2: facts are the facts, and if the facts are such
Speaker 2: that they tend to implicate the action or the inaction
Speaker 2: of an individual, this child owed what's called a duty
Speaker 2: of care, I'll talk to you like a lawyer. This
Speaker 2: child was old a duty of care. The city of
Speaker 2: Boston owed this child the obligation to get him to
Speaker 2: and from school safely and to keep him safely in school.
Speaker 2: That duty of care was breached. How is it breached?
Speaker 2: I think we know how it was breached. Now the
Speaker 2: question is who caused that duty of care to be breached.
Speaker 2: There are very few people.
Speaker 6: Who caused you Why, you're a lawyer, You're sposed to
Speaker 6: something like that, right.
Speaker 2: But but I'm in my role right now as a
Speaker 2: talk show host. I'm asking questions and I know and
Speaker 2: I can be much more effective tonight trying to share
Speaker 2: the trees and get some answers than if I talk
Speaker 2: I could talk about tonight about any of a variety
Speaker 2: of subjects, but this is the one I focused on
Speaker 2: today because this is the one I feel the most
Speaker 2: strongly about. And again, if it was one day after
Speaker 2: I probably would have been talking. I would have said,
Speaker 2: it's a tragedy. What's the left to say a child died, Well,
Speaker 2: seventeen days later, there's too many unanswered questions, there's too
Speaker 2: much silence and officials.
Speaker 6: Dan Ray, I'm glad that I'm able to talk to
Speaker 6: you because I listened to the program.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 2: Well, Jo, I'm delighted you.
Speaker 7: I want to thank you for your service because you're
Speaker 7: a great person.
Speaker 2: Well, Joe, I appreciate that kindness, and I simply ask
Speaker 2: you to tell your friends about the show. The more
Speaker 2: people who listen, the greater collective voices. It's as simple
Speaker 2: as that.
Speaker 6: And the thing is, I tell my friends that I've
Speaker 6: talked to Dan Ray, and they're all they're overwhelmed. And
Speaker 6: I was able to get in touch with you.
Speaker 2: Well, I want you to call more often.
Speaker 8: Joe.
Speaker 2: I appreciate youciate your kindness.
Speaker 6: It change. I'm Mandy three years old, and I get
Speaker 6: I get kind of confused.
Speaker 4: A lot of times.
Speaker 6: You have to wait a long time before I wanted
Speaker 6: to get on the station, so a lot of times
Speaker 6: I hang up.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I'll try to keep my eye
Speaker 2: out for you and try to move you up. Thanks.
Speaker 8: Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: I have a good one, my friend. Good night, six
Speaker 2: one seven, that's the one line that's open. We're coming
Speaker 2: right back on night Side.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to try to move a little bit
Speaker 2: more quickly. Let me go next to John in New Mexico. Hey, John,
Speaker 2: how are you welcome to night Side? Thanks for checking in, John,
Speaker 2: go right ahead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a little I'm like, I agree with you.
Speaker 7: I'm totally outraged at the lack of anything on this.
Speaker 7: I still read the Held and the Globe online every day.
Speaker 7: I listen to you guys in the morning while I'm
Speaker 7: getting ready to go out, and this is just unaccept boat.
Speaker 7: And you and I both know that if Racelynn or
Speaker 7: Tom Menino was still there, there would be a more
Speaker 7: of a Hue and Clyde. They would have arranged help
Speaker 7: for the family. They would have paid for a funeral
Speaker 7: or gotten some of the charities that they were affiliated
Speaker 7: with to pay for a funeral.
Speaker 2: But by the way, by the way, you could, yeah,
Speaker 2: you could throw Marty Walsh in there into that group
Speaker 2: of Ray Flynn and Tom Ainino and Marty Walsh. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know, there may have been some assistance provided
Speaker 2: by the City of Boston. I do not know the
Speaker 2: circumstances of this child's family life. All I know is
Speaker 2: he's a five year old child and we were told
Speaker 2: that he was in the company of an eleven year
Speaker 2: old cousin. Now, you know, if it was a horrible
Speaker 2: accident and somehow, some way, but the driver, you know,
Speaker 2: did nothing wrong, and that if he hadn't. First of all,
Speaker 2: he should have stopped at that prior accident, if he
Speaker 2: inadvertently hit two cars, should have So why he didn't there,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Now you I got a wonder is
Speaker 2: was he shaken up? You hit two cars with a bus?
Speaker 2: I think you should be pulled off the road, and
Speaker 2: so maybe that child's life would have been would have
Speaker 2: been spared. But we have no opportunity to ask questions,
Speaker 2: We have no answers because it's it looks to me
Speaker 2: like the DA has been unavailable. The police commissioner is
Speaker 2: never available, hardly ever available, and the mayor this is
Speaker 2: not a good news story, so she's not going to
Speaker 2: be available, and.
Speaker 7: She's too busy raising her national profile by fighting with
Speaker 7: Homeland Security and Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I'm not looking to go after on this.
Speaker 2: I want her to feel she's the mayor of Boston.
Speaker 2: Deal with this issue. Deal with Boston issues. It's as
Speaker 2: simple as that. And look what bothers me about this
Speaker 2: is this child lived in as I understand that Hype Park.
Speaker 2: The child was a minority. If this child happened to
Speaker 2: have been born into a different family, living in Wellesley
Speaker 2: or West and this tragically happened, I don't think we'd
Speaker 2: be waiting seventeen days to get any information.
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I mean, the politics out here and lunch
Speaker 7: crusis are terrible, but this would have been all over
Speaker 7: the frontage of every newspaper. They would have taken care
Speaker 7: of it. As a matter of fact, I went back
Speaker 7: and took a part time job working as a playground
Speaker 7: supervisor lunch monitor at one of the public schools down here,
Speaker 7: and I watched from kindergarten to fifth grade. And I
Speaker 7: would be insane if this happened to one of my kiddos,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, and nobody did anything about it.
Speaker 2: Well, we have to look at this little boy, Lenz Joseph,
Speaker 2: even though he might have not been one of our
Speaker 2: offspring or family member, but he was one of our
Speaker 2: children who lost his life an extraordinarily strange set of
Speaker 2: circumstances and the fact now maybe the family has been
Speaker 2: told don't worry, we're looking into this. But I think
Speaker 2: the public needs to be reassured as well. That's that's
Speaker 2: my thought on it. Hey, John, let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Have you pulled down the new WBZ app? I know
Speaker 2: that you listen you you're not listening to us over
Speaker 2: the year. How are you listening to us tonight? On?
Speaker 7: I have radio?
Speaker 5: My wife has you, uh not as a favorite on
Speaker 5: I on her I have Radio excellent.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that means you.
Speaker 5: Every morning so we can hear the per I can
Speaker 5: call my son and say your wether's terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you have the app. That's what you have,
Speaker 2: the dow On Improved Diehard app. And we're the first preset.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about, all right, Jeod. I was
Speaker 2: talking with a couple of friends of mine today about it.
Speaker 2: And it's pretty simple to do, is it not?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's easy. Every morning, I just put the
Speaker 5: phone on the connected to the speaker that we have
Speaker 5: and push the button and I did everything that was
Speaker 5: going on, and I go Yet that sounds like Boston traffic,
Speaker 5: loud of might fitting in man.
Speaker 2: John, thank you so much. Please say hi to everyone
Speaker 2: for me. Okay, have a great night. I will then,
Speaker 2: And thanks for calling in. I wish more people in
Speaker 2: the city of Boston were calling in on this one.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of them are sleeping right now.
Speaker 2: Thanks John, talkshoon talk you soon. Have a great night.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Christine. Christine, you were next on nightside.
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling in, Christine, go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Thank you. Dan.
Speaker 10: I remember when I was wrong. I loved him at
Speaker 10: Poxbrey and I was on a vian or a bus.
Speaker 10: We couldn't get off that Vianna a bus because I
Speaker 10: was I had learning disability going to Boston schools. I
Speaker 10: had to have either parents, an oldest sibling or a grandparent.
Speaker 10: I couldn't get off that bus till somebody came and
Speaker 10: got me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but but even beyond that, what was what
Speaker 2: was this driver doing? And again I don't know who
Speaker 2: this driver was. It might have been the great driver
Speaker 2: in the history of the Boston public school system. But
Speaker 2: if you hit two cars, how come you don't stop
Speaker 2: and put a note on the car? Allow the police
Speaker 2: to show up so that those people don't and end
Speaker 2: the damage is covered by the City of Boston insurance.
Speaker 2: He drove away or I don't know if it's a
Speaker 2: he or she. The driver drove away?
Speaker 10: And then did you do here that he was a
Speaker 10: substitute driver? To do hear that?
Speaker 2: You know what? I had not heard that, And that's
Speaker 2: that's how rumors start. Maybe maybe it's true, But like
Speaker 2: anything else, I want to know how long had he driven?
Speaker 2: Did he have a medical situation? I don't know, you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes people he might have had a stroke thirty minutes beforehand.
Speaker 2: But let's find out. Did they do alcohol test, did
Speaker 2: they do marijuana test on him? Did they do any
Speaker 2: sort of tox solid as you tested? They do blood
Speaker 2: test on him? All of those questions should be answered
Speaker 2: seventeen days out. And if they have come up with
Speaker 2: information that suggested this guy's up in some sort of
Speaker 2: a medical emergency, uh and and didn't re even realize
Speaker 2: what he was doing, which I think is not likely
Speaker 2: to be honest with you because when people had that
Speaker 2: sort of a medical emergency, they they're they're hopeless, but
Speaker 2: are helpless. But but that's why, why have we not
Speaker 2: heard from the DA. Why have we not heard something
Speaker 2: from the mayor? Why have we not heard something from
Speaker 2: the police commissioner?
Speaker 10: And why aren't more of our politicians up and arms?
Speaker 2: And why aren't more of my callers reaching out? That's
Speaker 2: the my calls last hour. We're good calls. The people
Speaker 2: took a time to call, and we have full lines now.
Speaker 2: But these are the sort of things that I view
Speaker 2: myself as as I. All I can do is bring
Speaker 2: issues to people's attention, and.
Speaker 10: This is what to do. Ar Ma, wos new idea
Speaker 10: for what? Rockbrey?
Speaker 2: Have you heard the late more bike lanes?
Speaker 11: I hope no.
Speaker 10: He wants to put he wants to put speeds on
Speaker 10: or more than half the street from the frosty. And
Speaker 10: also she's thinking, shout the street thirteen speed bumps on
Speaker 10: every street?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know, I mean, they're just more reasons
Speaker 2: thirty more reasons for people to put their homes on
Speaker 2: the market and uh and move to places like Denim
Speaker 2: and Westwood and Norwood and Walpole and some lovely summerbs.
Speaker 2: Simple as that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, how can a bike go over seed bumps?
Speaker 2: Very slowly? Very slowly? Thanks Christine, you gave me you
Speaker 2: gave me a nice punchline set up there. Thanks okay,
Speaker 2: good night, bye bye. The only line is six one
Speaker 2: seven thirty coming right back on Night's Side. Love to
Speaker 2: hear from you. I got Dan in Brookline, he's up next,
Speaker 2: Gregory in Dorchester. It's our second call from Boston. You
Speaker 2: folks in Boston to and are not covering yourself in glory?
Speaker 2: David and Lyfe Leicester and Bernie in New Hampshire one
Speaker 2: line six one seven back on Nightside. This is appalling.
Speaker 1: It's Boston's radio.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Let's go to Brookline. Dan is in Brookline, Dan,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Nightside. How are you sure?
Speaker 12: Hey good Dan, thanks for taking the call. I just
Speaker 12: want to say I'm reminded of what I heard you say.
Speaker 12: I think about a week or two ago. My favorite
Speaker 12: legal phrase rais zips a look at her. A bus
Speaker 12: doesn't hit a couple of parked cars and then strike
Speaker 12: and kill a boy without something having gone wrong.
Speaker 8: Yeah right, so yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean simple as that, you know, And and again
Speaker 12: as we growt up.
Speaker 2: The results speaks for itself.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the fact speaks for itself. If a plane drops
Speaker 12: out of the sky, something went wrong, and if a
Speaker 12: bus hits two cars and then kills a boy that
Speaker 12: was in the bus. That's something has gone terribly wrong,
Speaker 12: and they have to I mean, you know, they have
Speaker 12: to report on what happened. If that happened in my town,
Speaker 12: it would there's just no way it would go seventeen
Speaker 12: days without any any update. If it happened where I
Speaker 12: grew up in Natick, same thing. I mean, I can't
Speaker 12: fathom how this could go seventeen days.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I'm drawing attention to it tonight. And Dan,
Speaker 2: I so appreciate your calling me. Again, I don't know
Speaker 2: you well enough to know how old you are, if
Speaker 2: you have kids or whatever. But if anyone has three kids,
Speaker 2: three kids, what ages?
Speaker 8: Yeah? What ages I've got.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I've got a fourteen year old, a seventeen year old,
Speaker 12: and a nineteen year old.
Speaker 2: Okay, so your kids have gone past that period of
Speaker 2: time when kids, you know, just see a dog and
Speaker 2: they run after the dog or whatever. Now, again, this
Speaker 2: this should be fully investigated, clearly, but they should have
Speaker 2: some pretty clear preliminary indications of what has gone on.
Speaker 2: The fact that there's no arrest has been made so far,
Speaker 2: no charge has been filed. It blows my mind.
Speaker 8: To be right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I work in some criminal defense, and
Speaker 12: I mean none of this makes any sense.
Speaker 8: That's the bottom.
Speaker 2: You're a lawyer. You're a lawyer. Okay, fine, good enough,
Speaker 2: I am. Okay, Well that's well, thank you for saying that,
Speaker 2: because I'm thinking, well, maybe I'm missing something here, but no,
Speaker 2: I'm not missing anything here. And I thought about doing
Speaker 2: this last week and then we got into some other things,
Speaker 2: obviously the pope, the election of the pope and all that,
Speaker 2: and I just realized this. It's been seventeen days.
Speaker 1: We do nothing.
Speaker 2: That was the child's name these a five year old kid.
Speaker 2: How does a five year old kid?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Dan, I can't tell you much. I appreciate your call,
Speaker 2: and I really do, and I appreciate you listening to
Speaker 2: Night's Side, And please tell your friends in Brookline and
Speaker 2: elsewhere that we were always looking for new listeners, and
Speaker 2: particularly people who have you know, are married with kids,
Speaker 2: because until you have, I mean, there are a lot
Speaker 2: of twenty somethings who don't understand, you know, how serious
Speaker 2: this is. There's a lot of folks tragic. Yeah, in
Speaker 2: my age, well my age long ago, but but your age,
Speaker 2: you you you represent much more of the future than
Speaker 2: I do. And I appreciate you taking the time. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 8: All right, well, I appreciate your show.
Speaker 11: Thanks man.
Speaker 2: Let's go next to Gregory in Dorchester. Greg, you're the
Speaker 2: second caller from Boston tonight, only the second caller. I'm
Speaker 2: appalled Sandy from West Roxbury and my good friend Gregory
Speaker 2: from Dorchester.
Speaker 13: Go right ahead, Greg, Yeah, the old Shorty is tragic
Speaker 13: and there's no need for her chef. It's election year
Speaker 13: and Josh Craft shagged after ass and say something.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that that we hadn't heard from just Craft
Speaker 2: on this issue, and I got to believe that someone
Speaker 2: of his people are aware of what we're talking about tonight.
Speaker 2: And I just think that that it's a it's a
Speaker 2: missed opportunity to say what he would have done, unless
Speaker 2: he doesn't know what he would have done, and in
Speaker 2: that case then maybe he needs to reconsider it running
Speaker 2: for mayor. I don't know.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he should open he should open up and challenge.
Speaker 2: I mean I would. I would. I would have the
Speaker 2: police commissioner, I would have the if I was running
Speaker 2: for mayor, I would say in this set of circumstances,
Speaker 2: I would have given the police commission in twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: and I would have expected a report every day, every
Speaker 2: day until until this this matter was resolved, okay. Uh.
Speaker 2: And by resolution I mean charges filed, uh and and
Speaker 2: and outreach to the family of the little boy to
Speaker 2: try to comfort them and give them whatever the city
Speaker 2: could possibly provide.
Speaker 13: I tell you, they say the city in the United States.
Speaker 13: I doubt that because I see every night somebody is
Speaker 13: getting hurt downtown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that. I saw that down in the
Speaker 2: you know, in the theater district. Yeah, that's right, that's
Speaker 2: just that's a serious attack. And I guess the man's
Speaker 2: wife was was standing there. Uh. And this all transpired
Speaker 2: in front of it ended up rolling on the ground
Speaker 2: with some guy.
Speaker 8: But like met a couple of times.
Speaker 2: But it might be a.
Speaker 13: Connection, like I said, the selection year or something to
Speaker 13: the people of them not doing their job, right, yep,
Speaker 13: I mean it can be covering stuff up, you know,
Speaker 13: say the truth, come out and explain for what it happens.
Speaker 2: I would also I would also be quick to add,
Speaker 2: and I think you might agree with me. It may
Speaker 2: be a safe city, but it wasn't a safe city
Speaker 2: for this five year old boy, was it?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 8: It was not.
Speaker 2: No, Greg is always I appreciate your loyalty. Thank you
Speaker 2: for listening. Please tell everybody in Dorchester they should be
Speaker 2: listening tonight's side.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that lady from West Rockstrey about speed bumps. I
Speaker 13: agree with the mayor and that we had to have
Speaker 13: them here in the New Pant section of Dorchester because
Speaker 13: people were cutting off Avenue and they were speeding through
Speaker 13: this that we letn't safe to go in the streets,
Speaker 13: so she had to do that. You're gonna give I
Speaker 13: gotta give you credit.
Speaker 2: For That's fine. That's fine. That's that's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 2: But I don't think they that is necessarily the same
Speaker 2: geographic set of circumstances. We'll be that another night. I
Speaker 2: don't want to detract from our Thanks very all right,
Speaker 2: have a good one, Thanks very much. Let's keep rolling.
Speaker 2: You're going to go to David Lester, Leicester, Massachusetts. David,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 14: I'm fine? Thank you? And suddenly the sound the sound
Speaker 14: can you hear can you hear me?
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 2: I can hear you? Fine? Are you on a speakerphone?
Speaker 14: By any chance, David, No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 2: Okay, and let me ask you this, Are you speaking
Speaker 2: directly into the mouthpiece of your phone?
Speaker 14: Yes, I am. I'm an old Click on that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that might explain it as well. Did I
Speaker 2: pronounce Did I pronounce the town, the community from what
Speaker 2: you're calling correctly?
Speaker 14: That's correct. If if you don't hear me, I would
Speaker 14: put it inside my mouth.
Speaker 2: Now don't do that, then we definitely won't hear you.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, your thoughts, go ahead.
Speaker 14: I wanted to salute you. I wanted to salute you
Speaker 14: for one one for speaking up for this five year old,
Speaker 14: you know, human spirit, and two for going to battle
Speaker 14: with him, for him to recruit a battle for him.
Speaker 14: Because because when my mummy told me that when you speak,
Speaker 14: when you speak, when you ask pointed questions, Uh, what
Speaker 14: what was going on with this bus driver, you know,
Speaker 14: run two cars and then and then kill a child
Speaker 14: that's coming off the bus, and what's going on with
Speaker 14: the with the city, and what also what's going on
Speaker 14: with this child?
Speaker 7: Terrence?
Speaker 14: Because a five year old. I'm sorry, I'm trying very
Speaker 14: hard not to cry because one of the biggest owners
Speaker 14: I ever got in this country, was to was asked
Speaker 14: to be the godfather of you know, of a young
Speaker 14: lady who had lost who coming from Score at five
Speaker 14: years old, uh depends had not been there to pick
Speaker 14: her up, and but the driver had had let her
Speaker 14: off the bus only because only because the neighbor whom
Speaker 14: they got back Braver knew could could bring her home.
Speaker 14: When she came home, she found Daddy then on the
Speaker 14: on the kitchen floor where he shouldn't be, and she
Speaker 14: tried to wake Hi up, and he would wake up,
Speaker 14: and then she went she went to tell Money in
Speaker 14: the bathroom and in the bedroom she went Maney that
Speaker 14: year asleep and Money wouldn't wake up because they were overdosing,
Speaker 14: you know. And I'm sorry I didn't meet this young Adia.
Speaker 14: And too she was twenty three where that when i'd
Speaker 14: gotten into real estate, and she said she became one
Speaker 14: of my customers. And then and then unfortunately she lived
Speaker 14: so very well, and then she began to do what
Speaker 14: she hadn't done for years. Yeah, she had she had
Speaker 14: more money, and she began to go onto drugs again.
Speaker 14: And so I won't going to her, but I said,
Speaker 14: thank you for by speaking up for this five year old.
Speaker 14: You know, human spirit. You're fighting for him and we
Speaker 14: all need to fight for him. And you know by
Speaker 14: going for the truth and fighting what it is and
Speaker 14: also saying a prayer that when you get to the
Speaker 14: gate of heaven to ask them for permission to come
Speaker 14: back down.
Speaker 2: And uh, and you know, well, let me let me,
Speaker 2: let me just say this, David. I appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: the time to call. I don't know have you ever
Speaker 2: called my show before? Since your first time?
Speaker 14: Now, you know, I've called you many times, but recently recently,
Speaker 14: I was going to report you to my money because
Speaker 14: every time I talk to you. Uh, it's so interesting.
Speaker 14: I say, if I called now, if I call now,
Speaker 14: it'll be only two minutes, and then I won't be
Speaker 14: able to call it to you next week. So I wait,
Speaker 14: and before I know it calls midnight.
Speaker 2: And then, by the way, I now recognize your voice.
Speaker 2: I didn't. When did you move to lester? H?
Speaker 14: No, No, I'm visiting.
Speaker 8: I'm listening.
Speaker 14: I'm listening because to come and check on that, come
Speaker 14: and check on my adoptive you know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's fine. No no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I've recognized your voice and your speech pattern. But I
Speaker 2: didn't associate it with Lester. David, I've got to run.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your support. Your voice is important.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 14: Uh, you know I want to. I want because my
Speaker 14: money told me to make sure that I do want
Speaker 14: what I'm going to report. I wonder what you money,
Speaker 14: because now that I've called you, I can't call it
Speaker 14: again this week, you know, so you.
Speaker 2: Could always go remember this, there's a hall passed for
Speaker 2: everyone in the twentieth hour on Friday night. Whatever we
Speaker 2: talk about on Friday night, you'll have the opportunity to
Speaker 2: call in.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's better.
Speaker 2: Better, Thanks David, too soon, Thanks to you. All right,
Speaker 2: let me keep rolling here very quickly. Let me get
Speaker 2: Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie, appreciate you checking in your
Speaker 2: next one night side.
Speaker 11: How are you doing tonight, man, I'm.
Speaker 2: A little wound up, Bernie. To be honest with you, this
Speaker 2: is what I feel in my gut, and I feel
Speaker 2: strongly about it.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 11: No, I agree with you one hundred percent. You know
Speaker 11: I remember two things. I remember the chick for anything
Speaker 11: in the mirs like Monty caught him in the h attack.
Speaker 11: And here you have an actual victim and she's not
Speaker 11: like standing up with a victim of one of the
Speaker 11: constituents of we're a city like that's appalling. Number one,
Speaker 11: that's not my mayor. But I did grow up in
Speaker 11: mass and a small town right across the bridge where
Speaker 11: my extar war's wife grew up in. And you know what,
Speaker 11: we have character from that town and and adversity, and
Speaker 11: we learned to live right where it's supposed to be lived.
Speaker 11: And and you know what, we just stand up poet's right.
Speaker 11: And I don't think the mayor stands up poor and
Speaker 11: it's right for one of our constituents. And I find
Speaker 11: a bar at Pauling.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's more than the mayor.
Speaker 2: I think it's where where's the police commissioner, where's some
Speaker 2: status status conference on this? Where's the district attorney? You know,
Speaker 2: where's Kevin Hayden? Uh? He's He's the he's the quietest
Speaker 2: district attorney. We're going to talk next our about the
Speaker 2: craziness out in Worcester. And the US Attorney released a
Speaker 2: really strong statement today that if you interfere with an
Speaker 2: ice officer in the conduct of their duty, you'll be
Speaker 2: prosper set it. So that's the sort of prosecutors we need.
Speaker 2: We a Foley, not not the Kevin Haydens of the world,
Speaker 2: who the only time you hear from them or when
Speaker 2: when when it's election time. So I'm upset with a
Speaker 2: bunch of people here. It's as simple as that. And
Speaker 2: I've decided to take the gloves off tonight.
Speaker 11: And number two, like the company I work for, I
Speaker 11: work we do a lot of you know, a lot
Speaker 11: of Harlem with trucks as the space and uh, anyone
Speaker 11: about drivers getting an accident immediately you call the police.
Speaker 11: Now the bust I'm talking about the first accident he
Speaker 11: at call the police, you take pictures, you document everything, Yeah,
Speaker 11: exchange papers.
Speaker 2: That's a standard operating procedure. That's the appropriate.
Speaker 11: You know, we without a doubt.
Speaker 13: And then like we had a driver that was coming
Speaker 13: out of.
Speaker 11: Heading Square and like someone kind of laughed, they're crazy
Speaker 11: over there driving as well known. And they come home
Speaker 11: and they did a deal to special Law. Everything was fine,
Speaker 11: Everything was fine. But when I got but we have
Speaker 11: we'll have a lot of suthing concerns that we have
Speaker 11: to answer about.
Speaker 2: With Bernie, I got you in before the break, but
Speaker 2: all of a sudden past the break, say, how do
Speaker 2: your son for us? Thanks, Bernie, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Have a great night, Bernie. We'll be back on nightside
Speaker 2: right after this very quick break. Tony will get you
Speaker 2: in Angelo. Bob and there's a cyclist from Attapanna will
Speaker 2: be up next. Back on nightside after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Let's get right back to the call. It's gonna go
Speaker 2: next to Bob and Rhode Island. Bob next on nightside,
Speaker 2: Go right.
Speaker 4: Ahead, Yeah, Dan, I got a few questions for you.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Okay. Are you a Trump supporter? No? I
Speaker 4: I anyway, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's fine. I'm not talking about Trump tonight.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about Michelle and about the kids that run over.
Speaker 2: It's got nothing to do with Donald Trump. This has everything.
Speaker 4: I can't stand Trump, and you nothing to do. You're
Speaker 4: talking about the mayor that she's not doing the job.
Speaker 4: I think she's doing a good job.
Speaker 2: Folk.
Speaker 4: What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: I think that on this particular incident, not only has
Speaker 2: the mayor dropped the ball, but the police commissioner induced
Speaker 2: Oh thank you very much for calling call some night
Speaker 2: when and you want to get on topic, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about it. Okay, have a great night. By the way.
Speaker 2: In terms of the issue, I don't support I learned
Speaker 2: long ago you don't support any candidate per se. Are
Speaker 2: there things that Trump does well, yeah, we close to
Speaker 2: the border. I support that absolutely. If he does a
Speaker 2: deal with Saudi Arabia and he gets them into the
Speaker 2: Abraham accurts, I support that. I'm not like Bob who
Speaker 2: if Trump found a cure for cancer, I h'd have
Speaker 2: a problem with that. Again, we're still looking for the
Speaker 2: name of the cyclist, Rob. You know that, right, I
Speaker 2: hope I've said that now that the third time, Tony
Speaker 2: and Nedick Tony, you next do nights that goright ahead.
Speaker 8: Time.
Speaker 9: Sorry to hear about that. Hey, Dan, if you allow
Speaker 9: me to poss propagate three theories and then my comment
Speaker 9: on it. The first theory is just that everybody's doing
Speaker 9: their due diligence and they're not going any further until
Speaker 9: they have all their ducks in a row.
Speaker 2: Now, this this is a complicated case. I think it's
Speaker 2: a very complicated case. Go ahead.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Second is uh, I think that you have a
Speaker 9: bus to be able to drive a bus, you have
Speaker 9: to have a cd L And this kind of reminds
Speaker 9: me of the CDL driver up in New Hampshire that
Speaker 9: that killed seven motorcyclists. Uh, maybe the R and B
Speaker 9: has dropped the ball again on this driver.
Speaker 2: And if if the R and B dropped the ball
Speaker 2: on the driver, then then let the chips fall what
Speaker 2: they make? Go ahead, what's your next? What's your next idea?
Speaker 9: And and and the third one is really off the
Speaker 9: wall conspiracy theory. But the occurred in a in a
Speaker 9: poorer community, and usually when things like that happen in
Speaker 9: the coorer community, you'll find a lot of core community
Speaker 9: leaders coming out and having their voice be heard. Now,
Speaker 9: in this case, there's nothing to that effect for this
Speaker 9: child and the mayor and everybody else. Possibly, is it
Speaker 9: possible that the family is undocumented and they really want
Speaker 9: to keep it on the low?
Speaker 2: I think I think, yeah, I think you should play
Speaker 2: for the Southeast because you're a very long reach. No,
Speaker 2: the bottom line is, this is not a case that
Speaker 2: needs to be investigated for weeks or months. It's seventeen
Speaker 2: days now. I think this one should have been First
Speaker 2: of all, it's a serious case. It's not a case
Speaker 2: that you say, well, let's let's put that on the
Speaker 2: shelf and let's walk on something else. This is a
Speaker 2: case that cries out for quick, quick, quick, complete and
Speaker 2: thorough resolution. But this is not who else you're going
Speaker 2: to test. You're gonna go. You know, did they do
Speaker 2: the right test on the driver that day? Did they
Speaker 2: did they do a test on the on the breaks
Speaker 2: of the bus. Did they do all to make sure
Speaker 2: that there's no mechanical problems here? Has the bus been?
Speaker 2: There's all sorts of questions that should have been answered
Speaker 2: by now. It's it's seventeen days and we're and we're
Speaker 2: too late. We're getting to it's that's why I'm ringing
Speaker 2: the bell tonight. Simple as that, Tony. I appreciate you calling.
Speaker 2: I gotta keep rolling here, Okay, thank you much, thank you,
Speaker 2: Great night. Let me go to Roy and Mattapan. Roy.
Speaker 2: Are you the bicyclist in Matapan?
Speaker 8: Yes, greetns, good night.
Speaker 2: Well, good evening, go right ahead, you're on the air.
Speaker 8: Yes, foremost God best you. I've been listening to you
Speaker 8: for years.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Hey, Now this topic touches my heart because as a cyclist,
Speaker 8: bicycle from a kid probably six or seven. Let a
Speaker 8: little kid rest in peace. Okay. What transpired that day, sir,
Speaker 8: and the aftermat of it is under a rug thing
Speaker 8: and it will not be. It's almost like chance toward eight. Okay.
Speaker 2: So what you're saying, okay, what I think you're trying
Speaker 2: to say to me that is that this is not
Speaker 2: going to be investigated thoroughly. Is that what you're concerned is.
Speaker 8: Oh, it will be. But the thing is is that
Speaker 8: first and foremost is that the boss driver hit the kid,
Speaker 8: killed the little boy. Okay, never mind the cause that
Speaker 8: he hit fire. No way. I made that remark about undercover.
Speaker 8: It's that when everything happened, it was a quashed Okay.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, thanks Roy. I appreciate you're not no Roy.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I don't know what you're talking about,
Speaker 2: but I appreciate your call. Let me go next to
Speaker 2: Margie and Medford. Margie next on nights. I go ahead.
Speaker 15: Hello. First of all, I want to thank you so
Speaker 15: much for bringing up this topic. I'm still this is
Speaker 15: my theory racism. That's the theory racism. If you and
Speaker 15: I'll just give you a little example. Gabby Patito who
Speaker 15: got killed you may know of her Chase. They talked
Speaker 15: so much about her on TV documentaries and all that
Speaker 15: white blonde and there's so many missing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that's the woman that was killed. I
Speaker 2: believe it was in somewhere like in Utah or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Okay, and now they have everything online about her.
Speaker 15: But there is a sight that will show you how
Speaker 15: many black young women I'm missing today that no one
Speaker 15: ever talks about. It's about racism, you know, I feel
Speaker 15: that way.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing on this one, On this one, Margie, Okay,
Speaker 2: and I only got a minute left in the arm.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you called, and I'm glad you're making the point. However,
Speaker 2: I know that the police officers who were on the
Speaker 2: scene there that day, there were plenty of police officers
Speaker 2: who are a minority, and I'm sure they want to
Speaker 2: get this result. The district attorney is black, the police
Speaker 2: commissioner is black. The mayor of Boston happens to be
Speaker 2: Asian American. Okay. So I don't think that racism is
Speaker 2: going to be a factor in this. I hope to
Speaker 2: god it isn't, and I hope we get to the
Speaker 2: bottom of it and the only thing that I can do,
Speaker 2: the only thing that I can do is to ring
Speaker 2: the bell and to make people think and to realize
Speaker 2: that this is seventeen days and we know nothing much
Speaker 2: more about this tragedy today than we did seventeen days ago.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that by talking about it tonight, by
Speaker 2: you calling in, another's calling in, and me talking about that,
Speaker 2: we're going to get people to think about and say,
Speaker 2: what the hell did happen here? Margie? I got to
Speaker 2: run here because I'm up against it. Please call my
Speaker 2: show more often.
Speaker 15: Okay, sure, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I agree, Thank you. Tonight, here comes the eleven o'clock News.
Speaker 2: I may take a call or two on this, but
Speaker 2: then I do want to talk about Worcester. We'll be
Speaker 2: back on night set after this