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Speaker 3: oh boy, oh boy, is it a shang Tel update

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Speaker 3: of a day? Right?

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: We get so many requests to do shang taw updates,

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Speaker 2: but we can't do it unless there's new news. But

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Speaker 2: running a classic rock station and everyone wants to hear

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Speaker 2: the Beatles, but you can't play the Beatles every minute

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Speaker 2: of it every day otherwise it's not special. Well, we

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Speaker 2: waited until there was news, and oh boy, is their

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Speaker 2: news today.

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Speaker 1: There is a brand.

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Speaker 3: New report from the San Jose Mercury News detailing all

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Speaker 3: kinds of new allegations from federal prosecutors in court filings

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Speaker 3: to the upcoming corruption trial of.

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Speaker 1: Shang Tale absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Her crooked boyfriend Andre Jones, and the Dong family. And

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Speaker 3: it is a big one.

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Speaker 2: And Randy, you called me earlier today when this story broke,

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Speaker 2: listeners were emailing it into us. We were pre recording

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Speaker 2: tonight or tomorrow. And it hit me like a ton

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Speaker 2: of bricks all at once. And this is a juicy

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Speaker 3: We want to give a huge shout out to the

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Speaker 3: Mercury News and there are reporters on this piece, including

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Speaker 3: at some point. It is there is so much more

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Speaker 3: There is so much more to all of this being

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Speaker 1: So here's the first thing that you need to know.

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Speaker 3: The dealings between Sheng Tao and the Dong family go

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Speaker 2: Here's something else you need to know about the Dongs.

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Speaker 2: According to the article, San Leandro councilman Brian Assevedo allegedly

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Speaker 3: According to prosecutors, there is a video of Andy Dong

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Speaker 2: And not only were they apparently providing drugs and prostitutes,

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Speaker 3: And you remember when Brian Assevito was asked about his

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Speaker 3: Another interesting wrinkle to the story is in light of

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Speaker 3: Now the story is out, we know all of the

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Speaker 2: because if you go back to the original whistleblower who

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Speaker 3: That was Mario Juarez, who, oh boy, there is so

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Speaker 3: the co founder of Evolutionary Homes, the shipping container to

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Speaker 2: All right. Over the weekend, there were a bunch of

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Speaker 2: street takeovers that happen right here in the state of California.

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Speaker 3: Specifically, they happened in my neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

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Speaker 3: I gotta get out, Okay. These street takeovers are getting

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Speaker 1: Somebody got hit.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna warn you the video that she's going to play,

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Speaker 3: it's a little disturbing. They blur out anything that's too graphic,

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Speaker 3: and our friends at Fox eleven.

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Speaker 6: Takeover that happened at this intersection of Plumber in North Hills.

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Speaker 6: It was just so violent that it could have been

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Speaker 7: We had to blur some of it because it's just

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Speaker 2: Who goodness, he went down like a bowling pin.

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Speaker 3: This is why, even if you're not the people doing

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Speaker 2: I mean, imagine knowing that there's gonna be dangerous donuts

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Speaker 2: you go, hmm, that sounds like a wonderful activity to

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Speaker 2: take my girlfriend too. Why don't I show up and

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Speaker 6: A street takeover in broad daylight in North Hills, all

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Speaker 3: Pull your pants up. I feel like I'm getting older

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Speaker 2: You know what they called that when they hit that

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Speaker 1: What do they call that?

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Speaker 2: They called that a three ten split.

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Speaker 6: The chaos quickly turned violent when two spectators were injured,

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Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why are they blurring that out?

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Speaker 3: They're blurring out the gruesome thing that happened to her

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's just a lot of blood.

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Speaker 2: But you're sure that's not a basic instinct crossing of

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Speaker 1: They are not blurring out anything like that, as far

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Speaker 7: He is so graphic we can't show it.

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Speaker 8: It's stomach turning. When I saw the injuries of the

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Speaker 3: It was very chaotic.

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Speaker 6: There was a lot of cars doing donuts and just

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Speaker 3: John Lee, what the hell, what are you doing if

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Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, here comes the three ten split again.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy. I mean, when you have a video like this,

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Speaker 7: Usually happen.

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Speaker 2: Look how high in the air he went. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: him a coke and some peanuts, and they told him

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Speaker 2: to put his trade tables up.

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Speaker 8: There's no consequences when they do get caught.

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Speaker 2: It's a minor offense.

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Speaker 3: How is these incredibly dangerous events a minor offense? I mean,

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Speaker 3: I know why because California is gonna Cali and a

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Speaker 3: lot of these dumbasses are juveniles who we don't want

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Speaker 2: And usually there's looting that happens at the end. To celebrate.

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Speaker 1: If there's an AutoZone nearby, good luck, people are getting ready. Actually,

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Speaker 7: Uh oh, not far away.

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Speaker 6: At Wilbur and Parthenia in Northridge, another street takeover ended

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Speaker 6: in a crash that left five people injured. Some with

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Speaker 3: The drivers, all right, whenever you hear all of our

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Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, go back to

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe after these idiots got hit by one of

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Speaker 2: these cars doing donuts, they're gonna walk away being able

442
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Speaker 2: to put Rubik's cubes together and do advanced calculus. Maybe

443
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: that's what it takes to knock the jackass out of them.

444
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Speaker 1: Probably not let the scene.

445
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Speaker 8: I would ideally love for them to get drone footage

446
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Speaker 8: and get all of the license plates involved, because.

447
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Speaker 3: Oh, we can't do that. LAPED just ended their contract

448
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Speaker 3: with Flock.

449
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Speaker 1: Oh good yep.

450
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Speaker 3: We're so worried about privacy concerns that we don't care

451
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Speaker 3: about stolen cars and nonsense like this.

452
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Speaker 8: This other wise empty street turns into a mall parking lot,

453
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Speaker 8: and it is full in a reason.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I know that she doesn't want to

455
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Speaker 2: show her face on camera, but pointing the camera at

456
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Speaker 2: that woman's gut is not doing her any favors.

457
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's got to be a better way to do that.

458
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Speaker 3: But I understand why she doesn't want to show her face.

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Speaker 3: As McDonald's about to explain here on his recent interview

460
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Speaker 3: on Good Day LA, a lot of these are now

461
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Speaker 3: run by the gangs.

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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, And I understand why the news is trying

463
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Speaker 2: to protect this woman's identity, but you're not supposed to

464
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Speaker 2: put the camera on her spare tire.

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Speaker 1: Well, it is a car story.

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Speaker 6: Good DLA LAPD chief Jim McDonald weight in on the

467
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Speaker 6: persistent problem of street takeovers.

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Speaker 4: We've seen time and time again, you know, like you're

469
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Speaker 4: showing their fires and shootings and innocent people getting hurt unnecessarily.

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Speaker 3: I got to move. I am so sick of this crap.

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00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 3: Might be one of those breaks where as soon as

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00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 3: we go to commercial, I'm gonna go look on Zilla listings.

473
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Speaker 3: There has to be a better way.

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Speaker 4: Because they showed up at one of these things. They

475
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 4: think it's fun, but we see much more gang involvement

476
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 4: now than we've seen in the past, and again with

477
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Speaker 4: that it brings the potential for violence.

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Speaker 8: Also, they will only continue to escalate until there's loss

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Speaker 8: of life. And from what I think third time, I'm

480
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Speaker 8: fill in that video boom and the rockets red glare,

481
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 8: there's loss of limbs perhaps going on already, and that

482
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Speaker 8: is just terrible, especially in someone so young.

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Speaker 1: It's poor girl's gonna have to change your name to peg.

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Speaker 6: You might absolutely that injury was just horrific. Now today

485
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Speaker 6: we learned that the Street Takeover task Force has been decentralized.

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Speaker 3: Yah okay, now this is very important what she's about

487
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Speaker 3: to talk about, because you're about to hear a whole

488
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Speaker 3: lot of insane baracacy speak.

489
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Speaker 1: The baracracy is real.

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Speaker 3: So back in twenty twenty four, a task force was

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Speaker 3: put together by the LAPD to start cracking down on

492
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Speaker 3: this nonsense. And whether it's due to budget cuts or

493
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Speaker 3: pressure from other members of the city council, what have you.

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Speaker 3: There no longer is a task force in the City

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Speaker 3: of Los Angeles to go after this, but they don't

496
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Speaker 3: want to say that, So get ready for some verbal gymnastics.

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00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: Via our friend Gina Silva. Well, you know what they

498
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 3: could do. They could just monitor the street takeovers from

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Speaker 3: the sky, and I know how to do that without

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Speaker 3: even having to rent a helicopter or a plane. Are

501
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Speaker 3: you with me on this one?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 1: What are we doing?

504
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Speaker 2: That guy that got knocked into the air, you just

505
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Speaker 2: give him a video camera.

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Speaker 6: I was told by our LAPED sources dismantled. But the

507
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 6: word that the LAPD is using is decentralized, which means

508
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Speaker 6: that the officers who were in this unit are no

509
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Speaker 6: longer part of this. They're going back to their bureaus

510
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Speaker 6: and they will be responding to these struts.

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Speaker 3: And this is the LAPED under pro police Karen Bass Yeah, right.

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Speaker 6: Takeovers along with other calls that they have at the bureaus.

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Speaker 6: The mayor's office did issue a statement saying that it's

514
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Speaker 6: not being dismantled, that it's being decentralized and in fact,

515
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Speaker 6: they will continue to try to stop.

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Speaker 1: These What does decentralized mean.

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Speaker 3: Means that they're no longer is a unit specifically dedicated

518
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Speaker 3: to shutting this stuff down, but they use bureaucratise to

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Speaker 3: explain it.

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Speaker 6: YEP takeovers And she mentioned that over seven hundred and

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Speaker 6: seventy five.

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Speaker 3: So you need to ask yourself is why the City

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Speaker 3: of Los Angeles no longer has a task force on

524
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Speaker 3: something that is plaguing our streets every single week? Why,

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Speaker 3: oh why who made that decision. Was it because the

526
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 3: LAPD is that severely understaffed or was there political pressure

527
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Speaker 3: from the Mayor's office and the city council to not

528
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: go after the jackass kids?

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Speaker 2: Well, if the order is not to arrest anyone, then

530
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Speaker 2: why bother with it?

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Speaker 3: There is that There are plenty of other counties in

532
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Speaker 3: the state of California where they figured out how to

533
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 3: shut this thing down. In San Joaquin County they towe

534
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: every single car of every single participant and nobody gets

535
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 3: their car back until the case is adjudicated. And guess what,

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00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 3: they don't go there anymore.

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Speaker 6: Auditions have already been issued and more than three hundred

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Speaker 6: cars have already been impounded.

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Speaker 3: Do you know how many cars are in the City

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Speaker 3: of Los Angeles? Three hundred cars in two years. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're doing great.

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Speaker 8: It sounds like from the neighbors that that intersection right

543
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Speaker 8: there has been a problem before.

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Speaker 7: Did LAPD say they knew about that intersection? Being of concern.

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Speaker 7: This is one of the intersections that.

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Speaker 2: How could you not know? Look at all the tire

547
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 2: marks in that intersection. There's more donuts going on there

548
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: than it Wigels.

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Speaker 3: And this is supposed to be a straight up suburban

550
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: neighborhood in what some would say, I wouldn't say it,

551
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 3: but some would say the good part of the valley concerned.

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Speaker 6: But there are so many christine As you know in

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Speaker 6: the valley, there are just it seems like every intersection,

554
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 6: especially this one, you can go, you know, for a

555
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 6: very long time before there is a light, and so

556
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 6: they pick up speed. And I don't know if we

557
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 6: can actually pick.

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Speaker 3: It up, but support our advertisers so I can afford

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Speaker 3: a condo in San Francisco and get the hell out

560
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Speaker 3: of here.

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00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 6: See it right over there, You can see that wall.

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Speaker 6: They have hit that wall, according to the neighbors, several times.

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Speaker 1: Look at that. It looks like it came in like

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Speaker 1: a wrecking ball.

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00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it looks like a grill. In West Virginia.

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Speaker 6: Because people are always speeding and not necessarily, not necessarily

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Speaker 6: just the street take.

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Speaker 7: It's just people going.

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Speaker 3: So fast these how would you like to wake up

570
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 3: one morning and part of your brick wall is gone.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it just didn't happen once.

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Speaker 7: Oh, and they've hit that wall.

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Speaker 6: But when it comes to this street takeovers, I mean,

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00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 6: they get so out of control, and you know by

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Speaker 6: the time the officers get here. And one of the

576
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Speaker 6: complaints from the neighbors was that when they are arriving,

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Speaker 6: they arrived with lights and sirens, so as soon as

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Speaker 6: people start hearing that, they immediately take off.

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Speaker 7: And then by the time the officers are actually here.

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Speaker 3: The directive is do not arrest anybody, and that's what happens. Oh,

581
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Speaker 3: we'll get them to knock it off, and then they

582
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Speaker 3: go to another street and they start over again. The

583
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: response is pathetic, and you're never gonna hear McDonald criticize

584
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Speaker 3: the mayor because if he did, he get fired.

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Speaker 7: Everybody that should be arrested is gone.

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Speaker 9: Jini. You also mentioned dismantling that task force just last week.

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Speaker 9: The chief also said that we're way behind. We have

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Speaker 9: a big shortage of police officers in this town. So

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Speaker 9: I can kind of understand why.

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Speaker 1: They may have had to do that, But no, I

591
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Speaker 1: think we need this.

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Speaker 2: No, but I understand the point that he's making because

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Speaker 2: if you're gonna send the cops into a situation like this,

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Speaker 2: you don't want them to be out numbered one hundred

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00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: to one. So it's not like you can send five

596
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 2: people or ten people, and you have to send overwhelming

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Speaker 2: force in which is going to tie up a lot

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Speaker 2: of your personnel. And if you're told not to arrest anyone,

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00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: what's the point of sending all of your personnel just

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Speaker 2: to show them away.

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Speaker 9: It makes that situation a lot of others much worse.

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Speaker 1: And again the LB, no, we need to do.

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00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 3: We need to do what happened in Oakland where the

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Speaker 3: CHP takes over these kinds of investigations and they join

605
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Speaker 3: in and they add to the numbers. But no one's

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00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 3: going to do that right now because Karen Bass doesn't

607
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 3: want to highlight this problem, and neither it's Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 6: Nope, he says it wasn't dismanted, it was decentralized. So

609
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 6: you know, our sources say the unit is not there,

610
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 6: will still continue to try to stop these but they'll

611
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Speaker 6: be doing it from the bureaus, not from a specific unit.

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Speaker 7: Yes, studio, Jeniff, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: Just a completely wild story in the same, Fernando Valley

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Speaker 3: as we aren't doing a damn thing to crack down

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Speaker 3: on these very violent street takeovers.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Carti in Lancaster, Cardi, Hello, Hey.

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Speaker 5: John, Hey, Randy Hi, guys, doing good well the mayor buffoon.

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Speaker 5: This is built by design. They're not gonna do anything

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Speaker 5: about it. They don't care. They'd rather put money instead

638
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 5: of where it needs to be in the crime. This

639
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 5: is a crime thirty or forty years old. Go in

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Speaker 5: the valley. If you did anything like this, you would

641
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Speaker 5: be arrested. Your car should be I pounded and end

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Speaker 5: the story till you go to trial. This is ridiculous.

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Speaker 5: When are people going to wake up and say, Ma,

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Speaker 5: voting blue is not true?

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Speaker 1: Hey, that rhymed. You could be mayor.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 2: Well. Mother Goose has some competition.

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Speaker 1: Karen, do you have a response.

649
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Speaker 2: If you're feeling down.

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Speaker 7: If you're feeling blue, let's get help for you.

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Speaker 3: One of the additions to cashiers Dummy dot com that

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Speaker 3: was requested last night was that we add doctor.

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Speaker 2: Well. The caller made an excellent point. If you're willing

654
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Speaker 2: to put up with something, you get more of it.

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Speaker 2: And Karen Bass and the city council and the current

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Speaker 2: Chief of Police McDonald are willing to put up with it.

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Speaker 2: I think that if the Chief of Police had it

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Speaker 2: his way, he would make arrests and he would use

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Speaker 2: a heavier hand but ultimately he works for the mayor,

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Speaker 2: and the mayor doesn't want that to happen. The fish

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Speaker 2: rots from the head, and the head is Karen Bass.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was only two months ago where you

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Speaker 3: had that street takeover in downtown LA where the high

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Speaker 3: rise fancy apartment got looted, and Karen Bass and McDonald said,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna start cracking down on this.

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Speaker 1: No, they're not all right.

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Speaker 2: If you're watching us on YouTube, hit that like button.

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Speaker 2: We have two more hours to go. The fixed California

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Speaker 2: hour is next. Jennifer van Laar joins us, don't you

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Speaker 2: go anywhere