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Speaker 1: nine coming down the home stretch. Dan Carolyn for Scott Sloan,

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Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, The Great American is coming up at twelve noon,

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Speaker 1: so you want to be here for that. When I

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Speaker 1: to pay out to people who were rioting in the

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Speaker 1: do no time, where punks and agitators can riot and

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Speaker 1: we couldn't let this story pass without having our buddy

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Speaker 1: Chris Smithman, the one time Vice mayor of the City

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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, the head of the Law and Public Safety Committee,

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Speaker 1: weigh in on this as well. Chris Smitheman, great to

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Speaker 1: have you here. Is that a fair statement that I

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, when you think about this and

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Speaker 2: I and I and I and I said this publicly,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to present evidence, and I'm going to allow

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Speaker 2: a jury to make the decision. Right. They knew before

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Speaker 2: the election that we just had, which is another problem,

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Speaker 2: that they were moving or had probably already dissettled this case.

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Speaker 2: So this is all gamesmanship from the elected officials downtown.

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Speaker 2: You know, I heard the beginning, which I just think

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Speaker 2: who was viciously attacked in downtown, who city call a

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Speaker 2: what he's saying here is that a city you are

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Speaker 2: better be prepared to come into a court and explain

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Speaker 2: your actions, not just from the public, but specifically the

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Speaker 2: you know what's going to happen, Dan Carroll. At the

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Speaker 2: end of that trial, they're going to say this man

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Speaker 2: He now knows that he didn't start to fight. And

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Speaker 2: so we know that the city's going to have to

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Speaker 2: settle the case. Now, if we just gave this these

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Speaker 2: group of people eight or ten million, because the lawyers

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Speaker 2: couple of years. For this case that we're talking about,

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Speaker 2: where at the at the music festival, we had a

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Speaker 2: group of people that were viciously attacked and ambushed and

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Speaker 2: clearly we can see that they didn't start the fight.

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Speaker 2: We also have Chief Washington, this administration fired him wrongly.

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Speaker 2: A judge has already said you all fired him wrongly.

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Speaker 2: It was appealed. They lost. They're in settlements, Kate, they're

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Speaker 2: in settlement talks right now. But there was a trial.

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Speaker 2: At least there was there was discussion, and ultimately the

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Speaker 2: So this isn't just the ten million that I believe.

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Speaker 2: It is the two million to the lawyers in eight

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Speaker 2: You're gonna You're gonna pay out eight point one million dollars.

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Speaker 1: So part of this settlement includes the creation of a

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Speaker 1: guidebook that established his former stand formal standards for dealing

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Speaker 1: We are you know, they they talk about how well

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Speaker 1: But now we have to go back and say our

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Speaker 1: police officers need additional training. Is IRIS really going to

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Speaker 1: Are we going to say that the mayor is powerless

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Speaker 1: And then, Chris Smitheman, what if you're one of the

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't think you reconcile it, Dan Carroll.

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Speaker 2: But at the heart of it is the problem here

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Speaker 1: Go to court.

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Speaker 2: That's the whole part. Court, that's the whole that. Let's

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Speaker 1: Come on, al gaer Arthstein, how committed are you to

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Speaker 2: Let's go, let's rock and roll. I'm gonna I'm going

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Speaker 2: control of the the strong mayor to make decisions like

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Speaker 2: do these kinds of things. This is a horrific decision

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Speaker 2: say that John Cranley, if he's listening, if his father

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Speaker 2: You made the right decision at the right time. You

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Speaker 2: is this is where you have the blue dog Democrats

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Speaker 2: who really don't exist anymore. They've been marginalized by this

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Speaker 2: because our mayor, our city manager, nor the city solicitor

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Speaker 2: if they had moved venue, they wouldn't have found anybody

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Speaker 2: the peaceful protesters, you and I aren't discussing. I don't

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Speaker 2: you know. I can engage in a peaceful protest. That's

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Speaker 2: There's no issue with that. Visu here is that every

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Speaker 2: take this thing to court. I'm not gonna settle. We're

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Speaker 1: Well, Chris Smitheman. When I look back and I remember

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Speaker 1: I'm going to turn the riots on. There are riots

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Speaker 1: then these individuals tried to bring the same thing to

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Speaker 1: I had my differences with John Cranley over the years,

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Speaker 1: he said that curfew in our police department saved our

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Speaker 1: of the utmost professionalism and restraint, and their actions saved

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Speaker 1: did a great job. And so now we have to

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Speaker 1: for all these protesters who were out there and claimed

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Speaker 1: about that. You know, they they might have been a

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Speaker 1: point one million dollars to satisfy them and make this

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Speaker 1: to do the exact same thing. To me, is just

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Speaker 1: despicable and there's no way this should be happening.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something that happened to me.

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Speaker 2: I parked when I was parking at City Hall. Parking

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Speaker 2: lot is across from Plumb and I walked across the

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Speaker 2: the street demanded that I kneel to him. Hear what

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Speaker 2: I said. I demanded that I kneel. I'm going into

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Speaker 2: City Hall. This is doing these riots during this craziness.

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Speaker 2: I looked at this young white dude and I said, dude,

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Speaker 2: have you lost your mind? If you think that I'm

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Speaker 2: going to be somebody that's gonna kneel to you, you

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Speaker 2: have lost your total mind. Now. My problem was, unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: and this needs to change, I had to leave my

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at this craziness happening around City Hall. Because

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Speaker 2: we had our swat team in the basement. They're all

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Speaker 2: we're going in, right, I'm saying, when I got into

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Speaker 2: that basement, from the door all the way down that hallway,

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Speaker 2: we had to have our swat teams out there. These

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Speaker 2: dudes that are big as big as elephants now they're

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Speaker 2: just bative dudes like linemen, and they're down there in

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Speaker 2: all of that. I shook everybody's hands as I went

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Speaker 2: as I'm walking in tell me that I needed to kneel.

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Speaker 2: And I'm an African American. This is a white dude

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Speaker 2: telling me I need to kneel. Kneel for what? Brother,

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Speaker 2: what the heck are you talking about? That is how

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Speaker 2: crazy it was down there during that period of time,

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Speaker 2: It is unbelievable. And I'm going to emphasize here John

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Speaker 2: Cranley did a great job if he had not made

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Speaker 2: so John Cranley and I don't want to detach from

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Speaker 2: the mayor here. He was making very good decisions, and

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Speaker 2: I was doing the very best I could as his

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Speaker 2: his decisions to make, and I am glad he made them.

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Speaker 2: If he hadn't done it, as you indicated, Dan, here,

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Speaker 2: downtown would have been on fire.

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Speaker 1: Well, Chris Smitheman. Tomorrow, Tuesday, December ninth, the City of

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati's Public Council or I'm sorry, Public Safety and Governance

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Speaker 1: Committee is expected to look at this settlement, review it,

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Speaker 1: and approve it. I would urge the members of that

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Speaker 1: that committee to say, we need to take this to court.

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Speaker 1: We need to stand up as a city for what's

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Speaker 1: right and send the message that you cannot come into

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Speaker 1: lawful orders of the Mayor of the City of Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati Police and not expect to be paid for

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Speaker 1: We've got one minute, let's.

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Speaker 2: Right, And all I will say is that you and

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Speaker 2: I agree that peaceful protests in this country are fine

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Speaker 2: all day. Maybe you're coming here and it's all days.

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Speaker 2: It's what makes the United States the United States. We

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Speaker 2: are the greatest experiment on the globe. It's when you

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Speaker 2: come and you start destroying things that you and I

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Speaker 2: are talking about. And by the way, I'm very sympathetic

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Speaker 2: to what happened to George Floyd. In my opinion, it

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Speaker 2: shouldn't have happened. It was bad policing, but it had

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Speaker 2: nothing to do with the city of Cincinnati. That's the

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Speaker 2: most important part of here. We've gone through the collaborative agreement,

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Speaker 2: we've had, federal oversight, saw Green has given us the

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Speaker 2: green light. This is the greatest Cincinnati Police Department. People

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Speaker 2: come from all over the world to see how we

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Speaker 2: do policing in the city of Cincinnati. This is a

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Speaker 2: flap in the face. Obviously, counsel will rubber stamp this tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I don't have anything that they'll do anything different. Cheryl,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Brother. All Right, you're the best press we got to run,

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Speaker 1: and thank you so much for that. Bill Cunningham is

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