WEBVTT - 11-25-25 Bill Cunningham Show 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.639 All right, now, Billy Cunningham, the Great America, Welcome to 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.920 father a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the Tri State, getting 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.200 ready for Thanksgiving and so much more. But until then, 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.560 of course, what happened at the Privy the Privy Bar 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.560 continues to percolate throughout the Tri State. That is an 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.919 Elm Street on the more or less the north end 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.400 of Elm Street, OTR. And it was a lead story 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.600 last night on All the News, which is seven people 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.480 have been shot, seven this month so far, a few 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.520 days remain at the Privy Bar. And Scott Sloan had 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.480 on Michael, a developer from OTR, about three weeks ago. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.840 I had Michael on about two weeks ago. He's back 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.919 again because he lives Breeze and invest in OTR. He's 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.880 a big time developer with apartments and condos, et cetera. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.960 And Michael, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.400 first of all, describe what happened the other night when 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.160 three more people got shot outside the Privy Bar, which 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.120 is across the tree from your home and from your businesses. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.880 Tell the American people what happened. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.039 Yeah, So I've been coordinating with one of the detectives. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.400 We have video of everything. It appears that around one 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.360 in the morning, three black mails lead Privy. They walk 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.480 north one block to their black Dodge Charger that has 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:24.160 parked directly across the street from kind of where I live, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.800 and they drive one block north on Elm Street. They 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.199 do a U turn of mcmickon, come back the wrong 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.880 way down Elm Street, speeding, and then they do a 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.000 drive by shooting pretty much directly in front of Privy, and. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.280 They hit three people. And I guess the three. And 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.360 I've been on Elm Street many times. It goes from 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.840 it goes north on Elm Street. In other words, you 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.840 go one direction on and so this car had the 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.280 wherewithal to stop, turn around and come back the wrong 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.160 way to do a drive by in front of the 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:57.720 Privy bar. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.200 Yeah. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.320 I mean, it's normal people drive northbound, but people that 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.960 are doing drive by shootings outside Privy they drive southbound. Yeah, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.720 I mean, it's this is so so far gone at 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.840 this point, Bill, I've been on I've been on every 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.880 major news channel in the last twenty four hours. I'm 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.600 actually just leaving a meeting right now. Our whole entire 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.119 neighborhood is meeting we just met with. I mean, besides 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.639 the I guess the so it's all the highest UPCPD 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.160 officers we just met with actually had to leave the 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:29.520 meeting early to come to this call. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:31.400 I guess. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.400 I just have so many questions for them. You know. Actually, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.400 just past Friday, I met with you know, I don't 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.640 want to name them individually out of respect for them 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.440 and give them opportunity to do their job. But one 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.960 of the highest leading city officials that assured us that 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:53.040 a plan was in place to close Privy. But I 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.920 told him, you know, I feel like Notre damis. I 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.720 told him in the meeting. I told him in the meeting, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.360 you know, Friday morning, I said, hey, like, somebody's going 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.720 to die. Even one day is too much. And Saturday night, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.320 three more people got shot twenty four hours later. It 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.400 is so far gone at this point that there is 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.480 really no solution with Privy. This isn't Hey they have 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.639 to hire private detail, and hey, we have to train 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.640 staff not to overserve people. It's there's one solution, and 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.360 it's just the city has to close Privy. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:25.200 Well. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.520 The idea of a civil nuisance is available, which is 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.959 the court system can determine to be a civil nuisance 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.840 and shut it down by court order, or the city 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.600 can start the process of getting rid of the liquor license. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.960 Are those the two areas that you're investigating. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.520 Yeah, so that's the city official told us that there's 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.760 multiple avenues for them to shut this location down, and 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.640 the revocation of their liquor license was one of them 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 that they discussed. You know, for me, I guess my 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.520 question is is how is Privy not already labeled a 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.120 public news you know what I'm saying, like, what what 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.640 do they have to do? You know, after seven people 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.960 shot in twenty one days, is that not enough? You know, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.560 we're not talking people loitering outside. We're talking this is 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.880 a full blown safety issue for our community. Yeah, it's 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.400 it's it's this is the most insane thing I've been 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.920 a part of since I've been over the Rhine. It's 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.720 so far out of control. And but yeah, I mean 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.680 you should see this. I actually I think I sent 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:30.240 it to you. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.679 I have any once, but I'm looking at it. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.360 It's insane. Like it's one thing to hear the story, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.280 but it's another thing to see these guys walk to 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.920 their car, drive north down to do a U turn, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.920 drive the wrong way down the street, you know, and 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:48.120 then you know, just do a drive by. So we're 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:49.840 we're all in fear, honestly. I mean, I'm doing a 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.440 lot of these interviews anonymously or as anonymously as I can. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.559 I want to continue to apply pressure on the city. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.680 But I'll be honest. I I I'm fearful of the owner. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.080 You know, I can't share too many details, but you know, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.360 the meeting with the city official and made a he 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.599 was insinuating that the owner of Privy is under investigation 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.119 for other crime as well, some of which is violent crime. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.719 And I just I'm just confused why we are letting 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:26.080 people like this, you know, own and operate liquor license 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.760 businesses in our city. You know, a liquor license should 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.080 be a privilege, right it is. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.680 And I watched an interview briefly, it might have been 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.120 Channel nine. A reporter had the owner of Privy in 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.159 the doorway a brief conversation. I think he said, look, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.119 I'm not responsible for this. This didn't happen inside Privy 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.920 because we have guards out in front. We frisk people 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.200 that come in. Our guards have weapons on them. Our 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.920 guards have kevlar our guards look like ninja turtles standing 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.240 out in front. We make sure it doesn't happen. He said, 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.080 what happens outside is not my business. So how would 0:05:59.120 --> 0:05:59.839 you respond to that's the. 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.600 Whole that's the whole problem. So he thinks that it 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.479 he guards twenty square square feet in front of his bar, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.719 So that's his only responsibility, and that is insane. Okay, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.719 if you're going to attract if your if your bar 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.279 is a beacon of light for thugs all over the city. Okay, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.320 these these thugs don't teleport to your front door, right, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.200 they park all over our block. And then when we 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.919 got the call, I will send you. Uh what my 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.360 house outside my house looks like on Thursday night. Thursday night, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.880 I called the police three times. There was a full 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:37.400 blown block party outside my house. Everybody's drinking, smoking, they're twerking, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:38.479 making tiktoks. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:39.560 Uh. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.599 It's insane. But yeah, that's that's the whole point exactly. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.720 He thinks that if he be yeah, he thinks to 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.520 be guards this front door, that's that's his only responsibility. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.359 But that is that's not the case. If you're going 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.640 to attract them to the neighborhood. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.120 Go ahead, look, let's stay on the TikTok party. So 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.400 this happens in many urban areas. I look at Chicago 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.440 and social there were hundreds of kids showing up at 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.800 the Loop. I think eight were shot, one was killed. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.840 Police officers were wounded, stores were looted in downtown Chicago 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.000 using social media and so so if there's a group 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.880 of young folks who want to get together and truque 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.960 and smoke and use drugs and get drunk on social media, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.040 say let's meet up in front of the Privy, We'll 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.400 shut down Elm Street for a while and let's get 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:24.760 it on. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.040 Is that what you're talking about? 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.720 Yeah, I mean it's really what's happening is that before 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.560 they come down to Privy, so I say they're going 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.920 to get there at one thirty, which is this is 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.320 a late crowd. Okay, I've noticed that they come very late. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.400 So what they'll do is they all have to kuie 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.320 a bottles and they all out their blunts rolled and 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.960 they come down and before they go into Privy for 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.560 the next twenty to thirty minutes, they just open their 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.760 car doors, turn on their stereos Blair music, and then 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.960 they just party on the sidewalk, then they go into Privy, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.080 and then after they leave Privy, they party on the 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.600 sidewalk again with their bottles and their blunts that are 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.560 in their car. I'll send you I'll send you foot 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:10.200 you can put this out, yeah, every night and then yeah, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:15.080 that loitering is what is escalating, you know. And I'll 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.240 send you footage from this past Thursday, so you can 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.080 kind of show the public what it looks like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.680 and Sunday on the sidewalk within blocks of Privy. But 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.880 it's it's it's completely completely insane, completely out of control, 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.199 and it's completely unsafe for anyone to live. My bedroom 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.720 is ten feet from this and and uh, you know, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.080 drive by Like if one of my neighbors, one of 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.679 my innocent neighbors, gets killed, that's going to be devastatingly 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.119 embarrassed for the city of Cincinnati. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.160 But the police have got to know. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.720 When you're patrol ot, you've got to know exactly what's 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:55.200 going on. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.319 Why don't they stop it? 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.640 That's the whole point, you know. So I'm looking at 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.400 some of these notes I have from this meeting we 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.560 just had with the police and My question is is, hey, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.880 why is this place not already declared a nuisance? 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:07.080 Right? 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.439 Why why are we even having this conversation at this point? 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:16.319 And then b you know, I don't know. It's it's like, well, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.640 you got to see they've got a h they've got 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.560 a press release or not a press release, Privy put 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.040 out a on the twenty ninth, they have a blackout party. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:30.240 Oh yeah, I mean it's if they are able now, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:31.520 they're able to operate. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.520 Okay, Well, now we're going to have a party the 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.559 twenty ninth. Yeah, we're gonna what was that Saturday? We're 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.320 gonna Now we're gonna let the hair. Now we're gonna 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.920 party right down the twenty ninth. It's a blackout. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.320 Yeah, I'll send you. I'll send you this flyer as well. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.480 I don't I don't know if anybody from the city 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.760 of Cincinnati is listening. The person that I met with 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.959 this past Friday, this is an elected official that is 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.800 extremely high in the city of Cincinnati. I will bet 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.400 them one thousand dollars that if they let them have 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.880 this blackout party on the twenty ninth, I will bet 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.240 them a thousand dollars if someone gets shot I'll shake 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.640 their hand and I'll bet them. It's like, I'm not know. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:16.360 Tradamis like, we know it's going to happen, and I 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.520 just it's for the life of me. With intelligent people 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:24.719 operating the city, with police forces and judges and attorneys 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.959 that work for the city, how is this still even 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:28.560 an option. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:34.640 Well, let's talk for a second about the attitude of individuals, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.120 the freedom with which they operate. That in this climate 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.880 where the city allegedly is really cracking down on this stuff, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.520 that they feel they're entitled to come out of the 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.280 Privy Bar smoked up and drunk. I would imagine something 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.840 happened inside the Privy They wanted to send a message. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.280 God knows what that is. They walk to their car, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.720 go up Elm Street the right way, turn around. They're 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.120 so privileged they can drive the wrong way on Elm 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.480 Street and let go a couple dozen shots and shoot 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.120 the Privy outside. They feel entitled, and no one's been 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.120 arrested yet for this. Three people are wounded. They made 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.440 their way to University Hospital. Fortunately none of them are dead. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.000 They must have intended something happened at the Privy Bar inside, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.600 maybe with the ninja warriors out in front. They wanted 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.000 to send a message who we are, they feel and 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.920 on video they feel as if I can do what 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.720 I want to do because nothing's gonna happen to me. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.480 And that attitude is disgusting. Is that what's going on. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.160 Nothing's gonna Nobody can attack me, no one can arrest me. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.280 I'm a warrior. I'm a warrior. Nobody can is gonna 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:40.520 I'll do what I want to do. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:40.920 Is that the. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:47.840 Attitude, Yeah, Privy caters to the most dangerous crowd in 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.800 the city. Okay, Like when you're in over there Iron 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.440 and you walk past a homeless person, that person is 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:58.120 not who I fear right the privy they are. They're young, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.600 they're urban, they have money to buy weapons. They they're 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.000 short tempered. Like Privy is the perfect storm for violence, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.199 and that is what we're seeing here. But yeah, the 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.640 privilege to think if you just share it words, you 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.280 go out to your car, do a U turn, drive 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.200 the wrong way down the street, and do a drive 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.040 by shooting. I mean, that's full blown insane behavior. And 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.920 but I mean, I don't know. I woke up after 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.560 I saw the news, after I met with the city 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.360 official the day before and I just kind of like smiled. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.200 I was just not because I was happy, but I 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.600 was just like I literally just told them, I told 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.280 them yesterday morning that this was going to happen again, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.160 and and you know the next day there's another mass shooting. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.559 And then like we're still having the conversation as if 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.160 like they still need to do more. It sounds like 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.280 it sounds like their ownership hired an attorney, Will Willie. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.520 It sounds like they hired a guy in town that 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.840 he's a liquor license guy, and they're going to fight 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.200 this and and it's it's a total mess. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.400 If it's a liquor license file, it will take months 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.360 for that to be pulled. And then if it's a 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.000 civil nuisance, if you have the right judge in common 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.880 Police Court, and god knows we don't have too many 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.480 right judges yet, they could walk in this afternoon with 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.800 a t r O to shut it down, and the 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.120 judge this afternoon could shut it down. Now they know 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.440 who the judges are in Hamilton County, and they're not 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.160 going to shut it down. Not not not that that's 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.319 my judges. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.360 That's my whole question, not to not to butt in, 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.400 but My whole question is Cheryl Long was kind of 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:36.199 suggesting that, Uh, somebody in city Council needs to propose 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.680 a legislation so that they can have this legislation on 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:46.160 the books to step in and and temporarily close a 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.920 location that is a nuisance to the neighborhood. I'm just 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.600 in here thinking, how is this not already? How does 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:52.920 this not already exist? 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.800 What is If this isn't a nuisance? What is a nuisance? 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:58.680 What else do they have to do? 0:13:59.040 --> 0:13:59.240 What? 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:00.120 What's the next thing? 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.760 I mean, yeah, I know that they could go into court. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.679 If you had to judge Ruleman, if you had to 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.720 judge Needle and you present this on an emergency basis 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.920 at tro it would be shut down at three o'clock today, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.319 and that's it. Then you get into the court system, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.960 it may take months. Then you got the preliminary in junction, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.000 then you got the permanent junction. And if you go 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.440 through legislation or go through the liquor license if they 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.360 started four months ago, yes, but you can't start now. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.120 We get the blackout party happening on Saturday, and you 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.520 better have the National Guard called out. What's it like 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.640 sleeping in your home at one thirty two o'clock. What's 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.280 it like? Do you sleep behind bricks? How do you sleep? 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:40.720 Yeah? 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.360 I mean it's uncomfortable. I mean, and again, I've been 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.280 down here fifteen years, okay, and I've been sleeping in 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.920 this bedroom for fifteen years, and this is the most 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.560 untape I've ever felt. Right Like, I always was aware 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.120 of where I lived, Okay, I'm aware that I live 0:14:55.200 --> 0:15:03.240 in a generationally you know, violent or crime. But one neighbor, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:09.360 one neighbor privy has changed blocks of over the rhine forever, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.520 you know. And that's why this is embarrassing. Like I 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.960 homostly feel bad with the city official I met with 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.640 the other day. It's embarrassing for them. This one location 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.920 continues to embarrass them every single weekend, you know. And 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.000 I don't know the legal stuff that has to take 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.880 place behind closed doors, but you know, I woke up 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.720 and I honestly felt bad for them the following morning because, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:37.520 like man, again, this location embarrasses them every single weekend. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.320 But the problem for me, and the problem for all 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.480 our neighbors, and the problem for everybody that has money 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:47.080 invests in this neighborhood is this one location continues to 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.880 fuel the story that over the Rhine is unsafe and 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.120 that you know you can't go down there. You can't 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.720 buy homes down there, you can't put apartments down there, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:00.360 and it's one location is you know, jeopardizing millions and 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.000 millions of my dollars that I haven't play in the neighborhood. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.520 All right, we gotta run, Michael, and uh, I feel 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.080 for you. I think something's going to happen at some point, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.520 but there'll be another mass shooting, There'll be mass mayhem. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.480 The three people that did this can't be located. The 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.840 police do the best they can, the judges don't do 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 their job, the city doesn't do its job, civilly, and 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.600 away we go, Michael. Let's keep the lines of communication 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.960 open and maybe on the twenty ninth, during the blockout, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.320 you might find yourself in vers Sales, Indiana somewhere. Get 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.280 the hell out of Dodge if they don't shut it down. Michael, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.080 we got to run, but thank you, thank you for 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:34.880 coming out on this. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:35.320 Go ahead. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.120 Please, yeah, I'll send I'll see you that video of 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.720 what it looks like on the sidewalks. And then the 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.480 other question is is you don't want to meet me 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.080 there on the twenty ninth for the blackout. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:53.400 WILLI no, Michael, thank you very much. No, no, I'm 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.160 not I'm not coming. No, no, thank you, thank you, No, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.120 I'll anybody, thank you. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.560 For thinking well. Well. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:10.520 Cincinnati meets Chicago. Bill Cunningham seven hundred WW by Billy Cunningham, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.639 the Great American, and may you and yours have a 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.480 glorious Thanksgiving coming up. But the reality of what's happening 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.800 in Cincinnati is now visited upon us, all of us, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.840 by the failure of city officials to maintain law and order. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.359 The first order of government is to protect innocent citizens, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:29.199 would you agree? 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:29.800 Number one? 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.119 Even more important than fixing the potholes or cleaning up 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.000 the streets after a bad snow, which city government doesn't 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:40.359 do that anyway. But what's happening with the Privy is 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.080 typical of what's happening in many parts of urban America, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.439 not just Cincinnati. Were about five or ten years behind 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.480 Chicago or Charlotte, or New York or Los Angeles. But 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.200 I'm not so shure we're five to ten years behind. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.359 We might be there right now. And the problem is 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.520 the police department has been castraighted. The chief of Police 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.199 has been fired and regular law and order is not 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.959 being maintained. And whether I can have on Jeff Birding 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:13.080 or John Barrett, or Brittany Ruby or everyone to put on, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.520 they all sing out of the same book, and that 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.200 is that this is kind of different and new in Cincinnati. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.680 It's not the way it's been until about four or 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.680 five years ago. And it should not be political. Would 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.919 you agree that Democrats. I've had Democrats on with me 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.560 all the time over the last forty three years, and 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.760 the Democrats felt the same about law and order as Republicans, 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.119 until this suave of Marxism and progressivism has washed the 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.680 shores on top of the Democratic Party that controls politics 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.080 in every major American city outside in Miami, Florida. Take Miami, 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.040 Florida out of the mix. The top fifteen cities in 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.680 America all controlled by left wing radical Democrats who believe 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.840 in restorative justice, do not believe in law and order, 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.679 do not believe in tough sentencing, does don't believe in 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.600 regular sentencing, and do not believe the police should be 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.200 fully funded. And Cincinnati has been known now for years 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.920 coppers need at least two hundred more, especially younger men 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.439 and women that want to grapple and run down streets 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.560 and things of the character. Be active, and they're and 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:20.399 they're policing. There's a message sent to CPD that I'm okay, 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.000 You're okay. Don't get involved in something, don't chase someone 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.359 down an alley, and don't get a pick up a 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.760 handful of warrants at the start of a shift and 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.960 go find some of these knuckleheads. That doesn't happen anymore. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.040 Get in your car, wait for a nine to one 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.800 one call and then respond to it. And do not 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.680 be aggressive. Do not go hands on with anybody. God knows. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.960 Don't pull somebody over for speeding or reckless operation something 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.119 like that, because you may find out you have to 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.520 arrest that person and may not get out of the car. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.320 It's going to be hands on. Don't want to do that. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.240 So we fire the police chief. We fire the police 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.240 The police and fire chief are both gone. Two assistant 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:03.359 chiefs is gone. So we pay millions of dollars in settlements, 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.639 and then the city continues on as if it's no 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:11.400 problem whatsoever. What happened to Patrick Herringer several months back, 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:16.600 because AE and Mordecai Black is instructive indicative of what 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.600 law enforcement is like in Cincinnati. It's hard to get arrested. 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.720 And if you are arrested and get in front of 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.520 one of the sixty percent of the judges in amNY 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.119 County that are liberal progressives who believe in restorative justice, 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.240 not much is going to happen to you. Imagine the 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:36.480 mentality of these gang bangers at the Privy who come 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.840 out of the Privy. There was something happened inside the 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.480 Privy bar of one type or another, some dispute, and 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.320 come out, walk down the street, get in your black 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.520 Dodge Charter charger, go the correct way on m Street, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.080 which is south and north, and then all of a sudden, 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.560 turned back around, go the wrong way in a one 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:01.960 way and spray bullets into at the privy outside the bar, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.399 and then speed off as three people are wounded. Seven 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.840 people have been shot in front of this bar and 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.919 so far this month. And then wait till Saturday night 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.840