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Speaker 5: two two. Will Eric Swalwell might be trading in MSNBC
Speaker 5: for Court TV. He will be replaced in the House
Speaker 5: of Representatives for his Dublin based seat in Congress, and
Speaker 5: Randy it looks like he's going to be replaced by
Speaker 5: a member of the DSA at.
Speaker 3: Least temporarily for the next couple of months, because yep,
Speaker 3: there's another election in November. But for more on the
Speaker 3: special election to replace Eric Swalwell and the final results,
Speaker 3: here's a report from kpix me raised to.
Speaker 6: Replace former Congressman Eric Swalwell seat in the US House.
Speaker 6: CBS News Bay Area is projecting State Senator Aishawa hobb
Speaker 6: the winner of the District fourteen special election over former
Speaker 6: Dublin Mayor Melissa Hernandez Hobbs Lee expanding to about six
Speaker 6: thousand votes, which is a few hundred yet to be counted.
Speaker 3: So far, what less than one hundred thousand people voted
Speaker 3: in that election. I mean, it is the summertime, and
Speaker 3: it sticks with the theme of what we've been seeing
Speaker 3: where the DSA is just rolling up victory after victory
Speaker 3: after victory after victory. And what's interesting about this race though, specifically,
Speaker 3: is all of the money was on Hernandez's side, all
Speaker 3: of the money and what hobbs still won. There is
Speaker 3: a real energy with the DSA young people that money
Speaker 3: is not going to halt the progress of I mean,
Speaker 3: that guy, I'll say it in Michigan. He was outspent
Speaker 3: one like sixteen to one.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and that's been common in many of these races.
Speaker 3: See Tom Steyer, money is in everything.
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Steyer.
Speaker 7: I'm about to ride.
Speaker 3: The d That's a funny one because Tom Steyer ran
Speaker 3: as a DSA style candidate, as a billionaire, spent a
Speaker 3: order of a billion dollars and still came in third.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well that's an odd cell. The communist billionaire. That's what
Speaker 5: he tried to sell to when he went on Hassan's show.
Speaker 6: Kara Saint Cyr has been following this race and has
Speaker 6: reaction from the candidates.
Speaker 4: Kara Jules, it's the election that keeps on going because
Speaker 4: these same two Democrats will face off yet again in
Speaker 4: November in the race.
Speaker 3: Melissa, I hope you didn't spend all of your money
Speaker 3: in the August race.
Speaker 1: What is this baseball where it's a three game series.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a it's a special election, but the seat
Speaker 3: is still up in November because that's how Congress works.
Speaker 3: So you run in the special race, and it's like
Speaker 3: sometimes you remember how whenever we'd have someone like you know,
Speaker 3: when Kamala Harris became Vice president, there was the race
Speaker 3: to replace her in the Senate where you voted for
Speaker 3: them twice. You voted for them to do the entire term,
Speaker 3: but also to fill out the remainder of the first term,
Speaker 3: which was like January, it's for a full two.
Speaker 4: Year term in Congress. Now, this special runoff race featured
Speaker 4: plenty of spending by outside groups, mostly favoring Melissa Hernandez.
Speaker 4: You might not have seen the last of those ads.
Speaker 4: Congress Member elect Wahabb tells us she's glad her district
Speaker 4: saw through them though, and still came out to support what.
Speaker 3: Was in that ad.
Speaker 5: Well, this was one of these races where Apak played
Speaker 5: a real heavy role, and she ran hard against supporting Israel.
Speaker 4: Despite it being a lower turnout special election in the
Speaker 4: middle of summer.
Speaker 2: The amount of money was obscene and grotesque, right, And
Speaker 2: you know my opponent didn't diny.
Speaker 3: Typically in that district, when someone says obscene and grotesque,
Speaker 3: you think they're talking about Eric Swalwell.
Speaker 1: Well, it's usually a safe bet bounce.
Speaker 2: The money did not denounce. You know the fact that
Speaker 2: outside DC influence was coming in so hard in this district,
Speaker 2: and so I knew that it was going to be close. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I'm not the biggest fan of like how close it was,
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm very proud because I
Speaker 2: knew that, you know, we would get more and more
Speaker 2: voters that saw through it.
Speaker 5: Now, this is going to be a weird one because
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party did not want her. They did not
Speaker 5: want her to run in this race. They came out
Speaker 5: heavily against her, including the chair of the California Democratic Caucus,
Speaker 5: Joe Lofgren, and she put a video out attacking this
Speaker 5: woman at the last minute. And now she's going to
Speaker 5: be a voting member of Congress, and she's going to
Speaker 5: be part of the Democratic Caucus, not only the overall
Speaker 5: Democratic Caucus, but the California Democratic Caucus. It'll be interesting
Speaker 5: to see if they try to make nice with her
Speaker 5: right away or they just go all in this woman
Speaker 5: who lost to her in the general election.
Speaker 3: I mean, the takeover is happening this seat. Maybe they
Speaker 3: can change it back in November, maybe not, but already
Speaker 3: so many members of Congress that were regular blue dog
Speaker 3: Democrats are flipping to DSA good luck with all that
Speaker 3: or We spoke.
Speaker 4: With runner up Melissa Hernandez. She says she's looking forward
Speaker 4: to the rematch in November. She says the new Prop
Speaker 4: fifty district lines will include twenty six thousand more voters.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is interesting. So the race to replace Swallowell
Speaker 3: in the special election was before they drew the lines
Speaker 3: all crazy with Prop fifty. The November election will have
Speaker 3: the new lines. Maybe that changes the map.
Speaker 5: And one of the reasons that they don't like this woman,
Speaker 5: the woman that won the election, is because they did
Speaker 5: not want this to go to a runoff. They wanted
Speaker 5: someone to get fifty plus one the first time around,
Speaker 5: because it's a heavily democratic seat, so some Democrat is
Speaker 5: going to represent that district, whether it's her or someone else.
Speaker 5: And what they didn't want to happen is they didn't
Speaker 5: want two Democrats to go to a runoff. Why because
Speaker 5: it keeps that seat vacant for a longer period of time.
Speaker 5: The House is so closely divided, having this seat empty
Speaker 5: hurts the Democrats and they've lost some votes by one vote.
Speaker 5: Had they filled this seat, they wouldn't have lost those
Speaker 5: votes by one vote. So they blame this woman, this
Speaker 5: Ayisha Wahab, for losing any number of votes between when
Speaker 5: the seat became vacant and now, and that's why they
Speaker 5: don't like her. It's not that they have a problem
Speaker 5: with her politics. They just think that she got in
Speaker 5: the way and she prevented a Democrat from being a
Speaker 5: voting member sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4: In a city she's very familiar with.
Speaker 8: I will gain Dublin back, the city that I was
Speaker 8: mayor in and seeing that I will be able to
Speaker 8: gain you know, thousands of more voters there. The district's change,
Speaker 8: remember the district's change a lot. We will have a
Speaker 8: triple size of the election in November. Our team has
Speaker 8: done an amazing, amazing job to be able to close
Speaker 8: a gap by twenty points you lost.
Speaker 3: That's one way to put lipstick on a pig.
Speaker 8: I think folks need to remember that.
Speaker 4: Now all eyes turned to November for the race that
Speaker 4: will see these two candidates face each other for a
Speaker 4: fourth time. Wahab will finish out her term in the state.
Speaker 3: How about that, four different elections with these people in
Speaker 3: the span of a year.
Speaker 5: All because Eric Swalwell could not behave himself senate.
Speaker 4: Next week, she says she's eager to get to work
Speaker 4: helping set up her congressional office in Washington.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been race in all of this, Thank you, Kiara,
Speaker 6: because of disgraced former Bay Area Congressman Eric Swawoll.
Speaker 3: You gotta love that his first name has become disgraced.
Speaker 5: No one deserves it more than him, no one.
Speaker 3: He was so smug about it too.
Speaker 6: Now the target of FBI search warrants in the section.
Speaker 3: I mean, this guy attracted so much attention on himself.
Speaker 3: Remember when he announced he was running for governor. He
Speaker 3: did it on the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
Speaker 5: He did, and he got a ton of boldface named
Speaker 5: Democrats to get behind his campaign almost immediately, a lot
Speaker 5: of celebrities too.
Speaker 6: Yeek's conduct probe against him, we've learned FBI agents sees swat.
Speaker 3: How about uh? You remember Ian Calderon who also ran
Speaker 3: for governor, and he was the one person that took
Speaker 3: upon the letter that the lower polling candidates should drop out.
Speaker 3: So he drops out endorses Swallowell. Oh yeah, talk about
Speaker 3: betting on the loop losing horse. Not only did he
Speaker 3: bet on the losing horse, he bet on the horse
Speaker 3: it's going to end up becoming Salisbury Steak.
Speaker 6: Oh Well's electronic devices at San Francisco International airport right
Speaker 6: after he landed there over the weekend, and on Sunday,
Speaker 6: agents raided his home in Washington, d C News.
Speaker 5: I love that they got him when he landed, and
Speaker 5: I hope they got to him before he had a
Speaker 5: chance to go to the bathroom, because after a long flight,
Speaker 5: that's the first thing that everyone does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you got to make sure you go to
Speaker 3: the gate that didn't just deplane, because there'll be a
Speaker 3: lot smaller of a line.
Speaker 6: Just comes months after the former lawmaker resigned from Congress
Speaker 6: and ended his bid for governor over multiple allegations of
Speaker 6: sexual assault and other misconduct from several women. I spoke
Speaker 6: with CBS legal analyst Jessica Levinson earlier about why the
Speaker 6: federal government is getting involved in the case.
Speaker 9: We're not looking at an allegation that somebody who happens
Speaker 9: to be a member of Congress perpetrated an alleged sexual assault.
Speaker 9: If there's a federal crime, it would have to be
Speaker 9: based on the idea that Swallow, as a member of Congress,
Speaker 9: use the trappings of that office in order to perpetrate
Speaker 9: the alleged crimes.
Speaker 3: Well, we know he did that. We allegedly from all
Speaker 3: of the evidence that we have from his former staffers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was a massive celebrity within the resistance. All
Speaker 5: of those people looked at him like he was an
Speaker 5: A list movie star. He enjoyed being that celebrity, and
Speaker 5: as you correctly pointed out, he used that celebrity not
Speaker 5: just to get bookings on CNN and MSNBC, where he lived,
Speaker 5: but he also did Kimmel, he did the late night shows.
Speaker 5: He was a regular on the entertainment circuit.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to keep a straight face and be a
Speaker 3: professional broadcaster, and you commenters make it really difficult when
Speaker 3: you write things in the chat like he bang Bang Fang.
Speaker 6: Earlier this week, the White House also released declassified documents
Speaker 6: on the FBI's investigation into Swalwell's romantic relationship with a
Speaker 6: suspected Chinese spy.
Speaker 3: It's unclear they lied about that one. That's what we know.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, though, is she still alleged to be
Speaker 5: a spy?
Speaker 3: I thought we confirmed that now she's a spy at
Speaker 3: this point, or she was a spy.
Speaker 6: If the search warrants are related to that. Swalwell's team
Speaker 6: has not yet responded to requests for comment. He has
Speaker 6: denied the sexual assault allegations.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that.
Speaker 5: Just think about this for a second in an alternate world.
Speaker 5: In an alternate world before this scandal broke, had everything
Speaker 5: just continued at the same pace that it was on,
Speaker 5: he would have finished first in the governor's race. Hilton
Speaker 5: would have finished second. They would both be on the
Speaker 5: November ballot. Swalwell would be the heavy favorite to be
Speaker 5: the next governor of the state of California. Jimmy Gomez
Speaker 5: would be one of the leading voices within the California
Speaker 5: Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives on the fast
Speaker 5: crack to leadership. The DSA would be taking over his
Speaker 5: congressional seed. Could you imagine living in that world.
Speaker 3: Well, here's a fascinating hypothetical to think about. Because this
Speaker 3: all dropped just a few weeks before the June primary.
Speaker 3: He still got like twenty thousand votes, which is fascinating.
Speaker 3: But what if you had a situation where the story
Speaker 3: didn't drop in April and Swawell gets that top spot,
Speaker 3: Hilton gets the second spot. Scandal drops in the summertime,
Speaker 3: and vote have to decide to either go on full
Speaker 3: tribalism and defend this guy or throw him under the
Speaker 3: bus what happens, well.
Speaker 5: I think what would have happened differently under those circumstances
Speaker 5: is that instead of believing the women, the Democrats would
Speaker 5: call them lying whores. I think that's what would have happened,
Speaker 5: because the timing was key. They could defend the women
Speaker 5: and get behind another viable Democrat because they still had time.
Speaker 5: The absentee ballots had not gone out in the mail yet.
Speaker 5: If it happened later on where their only option was
Speaker 5: to abandon him and give the seat to Steve Hilton,
Speaker 5: I don't think they would have done that because that's
Speaker 5: four years of union contracts, that's four years of state budgets.
Speaker 5: That's four years of money to the homeless industrial complex.
Speaker 5: That's four years of appointing judges who won't look the
Speaker 5: other way.
Speaker 1: That's four years.
Speaker 5: Of appointing people to the California Energy Commission, the Public
Speaker 5: Utilities Commission, the UC Board of Regents, the cal State Trustees,
Speaker 5: the parole boards, all of those things. So much of
Speaker 5: the power in state government is not within that office itself.
Speaker 1: That office has the power.
Speaker 5: To appoint people to positions where they can then exercise
Speaker 5: the power that they have to determine how we live
Speaker 5: our lives. Don't forget this big decision by the California
Speaker 5: Energy Commission. It was not something that Gavin signed into law.
Speaker 5: It was not something that the legislature voted on. It
Speaker 5: was power delegated to this board by the Electeds. But
Speaker 5: it was the board and Nancy Skinner that decided to
Speaker 5: ban seventy percent of the tires. You think for one
Speaker 5: moment they'd give that to Steve Hilton just to punish
Speaker 5: a rapist.
Speaker 1: I don't buy it.
Speaker 5: I think they would have turned on these women like
Speaker 5: you wouldn't believe. That's what I think would have happened.
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Speaker 5: All right, Randy, it's time to open up the California
Speaker 5: crime blodder.
Speaker 3: It's happened yet again. Nice see. Time for the California
Speaker 3: crime blodder.
Speaker 5: As if these people haven't suffered enough, this edition of
Speaker 5: the Blotter takes us to Pacific Palisades. People who are
Speaker 5: trying to rebuild their burned down line in the Pacific
Speaker 5: Palisades are having things stolen from the construction sites.
Speaker 3: Come on for more on this. We got a KTLA
Speaker 3: five now.
Speaker 10: At ten thirty. Residents in the fire ravage Pacific Palisades
Speaker 10: are facing security and construction challenges tonight, as they try
Speaker 10: to rebuild their homes and their lives, they are taking
Speaker 10: security into their own hands by blocking streets with barricades
Speaker 10: and hiring private security to protect their property.
Speaker 3: They're bringing down the barricades. What is this lame? Is?
Speaker 1: You know what it reminds me of.
Speaker 5: In the days of old Egypt, people would break into
Speaker 5: the pyramids and steal all the jewels from the dead.
Speaker 6: Ktl Is Carlos San Sandel joins us Live for the
Speaker 6: Palisades with more on the ongoing looting problem hampering the
Speaker 6: reconstruction effort.
Speaker 3: Carlos, there really are truly people that are definitely going
Speaker 3: to hell out there, including the people that looted these
Speaker 3: homes while they were on fire and the people looting
Speaker 3: these homes while they're trying to be rebuilt.
Speaker 11: Be can share residents here the Palisades have been through
Speaker 11: so much, and with rebuilding now underway, they're having to
Speaker 11: deal with thieves targeting construction sites. With city resources stretched thin,
Speaker 11: some say they're being forced out to take matters into
Speaker 11: their own hands.
Speaker 3: What does that mean, little vigilante justice.
Speaker 5: Maybe they're going to send in some muscle. How about
Speaker 5: our guy from Sacramento.
Speaker 12: This is the people and the neighbors coming together to
Speaker 12: solve the problem, saying, hey, do you want your brand
Speaker 12: new pipes stolen again after they burned out?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 12: I don't been.
Speaker 3: How is the city not trying to protect these people?
Speaker 11: Poor lady heading together to keep crooks out. Palisades resident
Speaker 11: Morgan Goldberg posted this video on her Instagram after thieves
Speaker 11: orreeted several properties under construction in her burned out neighborhood.
Speaker 12: I have about ten homes on my street. There have
Speaker 12: been over a half a dozen break ins. They've taken
Speaker 12: everything from tools, equipment, copper wire. They've broken into canisters
Speaker 12: multiple times like something like that, and it doesn't stop them.
Speaker 12: They come back two or three times.
Speaker 3: You know exactly where they're going to strike. LAPD.
Speaker 5: What the hell, well, meth heads, they don't care about
Speaker 5: the fires or the fire victims. They just know that
Speaker 5: there's copper wire up there and things of value.
Speaker 11: Like many who lost everything during the Palisades fire, She's
Speaker 11: trying to rebuild, but there's been setbacks along the way,
Speaker 11: crime being one of them. LAPD recorded eight burglaries in
Speaker 11: the area in June alone.
Speaker 5: Crime is down though, right, Oh yeah, you see we're
Speaker 5: too dumb to understand statistics. But if we understood what
Speaker 5: the words that were coming out of our bass's mouth,
Speaker 5: we would know that crime is really low.
Speaker 3: She was just on that debate stage in Sherman, Oh
Speaker 3: talking about how we're at sixty year historic lows.
Speaker 11: It has amounted to thousands of dollars in stolen tools
Speaker 11: and equipment from storage containers. Frustrated residents are taking matters
Speaker 11: into their own hands, and.
Speaker 12: The neighbors have put together a pretty active neighborhood watch
Speaker 12: in some instances where they create a blockade or just
Speaker 12: some kind of presence to thwart any activity criminals coming
Speaker 12: down the streets.
Speaker 11: Aside from hiring.
Speaker 3: They catch one of these guys. Do you think they
Speaker 3: bring the baseball bets?
Speaker 5: I think the people of the Pacific Palisades are just
Speaker 5: about on their last nerve, and I wouldn't want to
Speaker 5: be the person that pisses them off. After they've been
Speaker 5: dealing with the fire, the insurance company, the permits, dealing
Speaker 5: with contractors, and then they finally get their hands on supplies,
Speaker 5: and then some crackhead comes and steals them.
Speaker 11: Private security which can be costly given the already high
Speaker 11: price tag of rebuilding. One neighbor created an app using
Speaker 11: AI to sync up surveillance cameras, alerting of any activity
Speaker 11: in the area.
Speaker 3: But that's like straight up Batman level.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, sendents want more police patrols, especially at night.
Speaker 11: Last month, councilwoman Tracy Park sent this letter to LPED
Speaker 11: leaders requesting additional resources to enhance public safety. Per office says,
Speaker 11: they are so lucky.
Speaker 5: The one thing they have going for them is the
Speaker 5: Tracy Park is their member on the council, because if
Speaker 5: they had any of those other idiots, they'd probably be
Speaker 5: lobbying the mayor to send in more bums.
Speaker 11: Since allocated four more officers. But is that enough.
Speaker 13: No, it's not need to address these issues.
Speaker 12: We need to create a police force that is present,
Speaker 12: that's funded and supported.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not getting that. This is the city of
Speaker 3: Los Angele. You're better off incorporating the Palisades into its
Speaker 3: own city.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 11: Residents say they will continue to speak out demanding enhance
Speaker 11: public safety while watching out after one another. We're live
Speaker 11: in the Palisades, Carlos Salceto kt L five News.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what they do. Maybe the Palisades needs to
Speaker 3: go ahead and start the process of incorporating into its
Speaker 3: own city like Calabasas, like Burbank, what have you, and
Speaker 3: then they can make Spencer prat their mayor.
Speaker 5: Well, there have been movements within the City of Los
Speaker 5: Angeles to do just that, including in the port area
Speaker 5: of San Pedro. Hollywood tried it, and most famously, the
Speaker 5: San Fernando Valley tried it.
Speaker 3: It just didn't work. Yeah, if you know what, can't
Speaker 3: blame me for that one. I wasn't old enough to vote.
Speaker 3: But the valley secession movement going away in exchange for
Speaker 3: neighborhood councils that mean nothing was a terrible, terrible, terrible move.
Speaker 3: The valley should have split from the City of Los
Speaker 3: Angeles a long time ago.
Speaker 5: So that's what's going on in Pacific Palisades. But Randy,
Speaker 5: there's more crime to talk about. So let's reopen the
Speaker 5: Blotter's dummy.
Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 3: I said, hell no, baby boy, let me get up
Speaker 3: one out of here. It's the California Crime Bloater.
Speaker 5: And this edition of the Blotter takes us to South
Speaker 5: LA where a big chase happened yesterday where someone was
Speaker 5: driving around in a stolen motorcycle.
Speaker 3: For more, here's NBCLA.
Speaker 13: This is really scary considering what this guy's wanted for.
Speaker 14: In a chase full of dangerous moments, this might have
Speaker 14: been the most frightening. A man on a dirt bike
Speaker 14: speeding through a busy park in South La. The driver
Speaker 14: at one point filling up at a gas station.
Speaker 3: Okay, explain to me how when we've got to chase
Speaker 3: all the news cameras are on it. You have lines
Speaker 3: and lines of cop cars and the ghetto birds following
Speaker 3: this guy, he has time to fill up at the pump.
Speaker 5: Whenever I'm in a hurry, I can't ever get the
Speaker 5: gas pump to read my credit card correctly.
Speaker 14: And driving off with a hose attached to the bike.
Speaker 1: NBC four Right, that's rude.
Speaker 14: He is Chase live during the news tonight at six
Speaker 14: and it ended shortly after he ditched the bike and
Speaker 14: then tried to hide right there. You saw it in
Speaker 14: that blue recycling bin in someone's driveway, and.
Speaker 1: Well, time to take out the trash.
Speaker 3: You know, there are some days where the crime stories
Speaker 3: in southern California seem like they are straight out of
Speaker 3: looney Tunes. This is one of these days.
Speaker 14: BCO. Tracy Long live at LAPD headquarters with new information
Speaker 14: for us.
Speaker 13: Tracy, Yeah, Carolyn, I'm actually live in South LA at
Speaker 13: the gas station where that rider made a stop at
Speaker 13: during his pursuit. Now, the entire chase.
Speaker 3: Last, how do you let him stop at a gas
Speaker 3: station and fill up?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think it's like the old days where
Speaker 5: they're in hot pursuit and they're right behind him the
Speaker 5: entire time. Don't they follow him with drones or a helicopter.
Speaker 3: Now, if they were falling with drones, they could have
Speaker 3: used a drone to take him out.
Speaker 13: Sid about an hour and it ended when he ran
Speaker 13: out of gas and tried to run, but was ultimately arrested.
Speaker 13: Take a look as the dirtbike rider makes a pit
Speaker 13: stop with police still chasing him, trying to refuel. He
Speaker 13: takes off with the pumpose still attached on Alameda Street
Speaker 13: in Huntington Park.
Speaker 3: That's not a massive fire hazard or anything.
Speaker 5: Nope, he's dripping Chevron with tech run all over the place.
Speaker 13: Around six twenty Wednesday evening. At this point, LAPD officers
Speaker 13: had been chasing him for nearly thirty minutes. It began
Speaker 13: near Dodger Stadium around five point forty five after police
Speaker 13: received report that the writer may have been armed.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's at lexing here for the officers.
Speaker 13: News Chopper four was overhead as he continued on surface streets.
Speaker 3: Oh great, this jackass was doing stunts on the motorcycle
Speaker 3: while running from the cops.
Speaker 1: He struck a pose.
Speaker 13: Through Compton, appearing to stand up on the dirt bike
Speaker 13: and pull out a cell phone.
Speaker 3: You can see a lot of folks out. I gotta
Speaker 3: get this for TikTok.
Speaker 5: It was a ravishing rick Rude superposed down about.
Speaker 13: The rider then cuts through several busy parks in the
Speaker 13: Willowbrook area, where one is full of young football players
Speaker 13: practicing parkoers describing what they saw.
Speaker 15: Like I really thought that they were just riding by
Speaker 15: on their bikes and just playing around, so it didn't
Speaker 15: come across as danger until the helicopters and police cars
Speaker 15: started closing in. And then that's when we noticed that
Speaker 15: it was like danger.
Speaker 3: That's when you realize I'm playing football in the middle
Speaker 3: of a crime scene.
Speaker 5: Well, usually if you combine football with criminal activity, it's
Speaker 5: a Raiders game.
Speaker 13: Eventually, the rider ends up back on surface streets in
Speaker 13: the Harbor Gateway area for several other dirt bikes.
Speaker 3: I will never understand how, in a city that is
Speaker 3: famous for having the worst traffic imaginable, where major thoroughfares
Speaker 3: and freeways are jammed at all hours of the day,
Speaker 3: whenever one of these chases happens, the roads are wide open.
Speaker 13: Riders appear to join him during this dangerous pursuit, and
Speaker 13: you can see LAPD officers wait.
Speaker 1: People joined in.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, because we live in the idiot capital
Speaker 3: of the world, and I think it's time for my
Speaker 3: first mention of the day. I've got to get out
Speaker 3: of Los Angeles behind.
Speaker 8: I got him.
Speaker 13: The rider eventually ditches his bike and is seen running
Speaker 13: through several backyards before trying to hide in a blue recycling.
Speaker 3: And by the way. Whenever the chase gets to this point,
Speaker 3: they found him fairly quickly. Sometimes they don't find them quickly.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they don't find them at all. And what happens,
Speaker 3: Because this has happened in my neighborhood several times, you'll
Speaker 3: hear the ghetto bird, the police helicopter circling your neighborhood
Speaker 3: over and over and over and over again, and when
Speaker 3: that's happening at two o'clock in the morning, it scares
Speaker 3: the living daylights out of you.
Speaker 5: It's too bad it wasn't trash day, because I'd like
Speaker 5: to see this guy get crushed like a can of
Speaker 5: cactus cooler.
Speaker 13: When officers pull up, the man is seen walking towards
Speaker 13: them with his hands up where he's thet arrested and
Speaker 13: taken into custody around six forty five PM near one
Speaker 13: hundred and twelfth Street and Broadway in the Westmont area
Speaker 13: of South LA.
Speaker 5: I think you'll get a ticket for this. Oh, it's
Speaker 5: going to be a slap on the wrist. He'll probably
Speaker 5: get in more trouble for dripping all the gasoline all
Speaker 5: over town and the environmental hazard that that caused, then
Speaker 5: all the other stuff.
Speaker 13: Police say the rider is in his early twenties and
Speaker 13: the bike was reported stolen. Officers also believe that the
Speaker 13: rider may have thrown out his firearm during the pursuit.
Speaker 13: So far, they've been unable to locate it right now.
Speaker 13: He is facing charges felony charges of evading officers and
Speaker 13: possession of a stolen vehicle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but neither of those are violent crimes. So even
Speaker 3: if convicted, he wouldn't go to prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I wonder who picked up the gun,
Speaker 5: because wasn't it when school was out when he threw
Speaker 5: the gun off the motorcycle?
Speaker 13: Yep, Reporting live in South LA Tracy Lingong, NBC four News.
Speaker 14: Tracy, thank you there.
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Speaker 5: All right, with all the problems in this state, our
Speaker 5: dearly elected leaders are now dealing with the pressing issue
Speaker 5: of whether or not school mascots are offensive.
Speaker 3: A few years ago, it was a state law that
Speaker 3: was passed that said, any high school that happens to
Speaker 3: have a school mascot that depicts some kind of Native American,
Speaker 3: the stereotype has got to go unless they get the
Speaker 3: specific approval from a local tribe that they have no
Speaker 3: problem with it. My high school, Heart High and New
Speaker 3: Hall had to drop their mascot the Indians. Now they're
Speaker 3: the Heart High Hawks, and just wait till the animal
Speaker 3: rights activists say that that's offensive.
Speaker 5: What mascot name would make Sacramento happy? The San Diego
Speaker 5: State Nick Shirley's penises.
Speaker 3: For more on one high school that said we're keeping
Speaker 3: our Indian mascot. Here is CBS News in Sacramento say.
Speaker 16: Moves to get schools to drop native mascots. One local
Speaker 16: school is bucking the trend, saying they will keep the
Speaker 16: Indian as their emblem with the support from a local tribe.
Speaker 16: So far, it's one of only two California high schools
Speaker 16: to keep the name. The other is in Palm Springs.
Speaker 16: Here's Ashley Williams joining us now with Rippin High School
Speaker 16: announcement of keeping the name.
Speaker 2: Yeah Tellny.
Speaker 17: The school district made the announcement just yesterday, saying they
Speaker 17: got authorization to keep the name from the California Valley
Speaker 17: Miwok tribe. But the tribe says they do not find
Speaker 17: the mascot name offensive.
Speaker 3: When all of this was going on, I mean, did
Speaker 3: they ask the actual Native Americans if they found names
Speaker 3: like Indian that offensive.
Speaker 17: This is the one step any school can actually take
Speaker 17: to keep their mascot. The Saint Law took effect back
Speaker 17: on July first. It requires public schools to drop certain
Speaker 17: Native American terms from being used as school mascots. That is,
Speaker 17: unless they get consent from a tribe. Rippinhei has had
Speaker 17: the Indian mascot for more than one hundred years. We
Speaker 17: did speak with the school's Social studies department head today,
Speaker 17: who helped lead the push in keeping the name. He
Speaker 17: believes this is a way to build a relationship with
Speaker 17: local tribes. He's also been in contact with the tribe's
Speaker 17: chairman to strengthen that.
Speaker 7: I've encouraged her to come on to campus to look around.
Speaker 3: I got to imagine a lot of the tribes don't
Speaker 3: care about the imagery that we're talking about, because I've
Speaker 3: seen some of the commercials for these tribal casinos.
Speaker 5: No, so what you're supposed to cut a deal with
Speaker 5: them and turn the mascot and the ultimate textas hold them.
Speaker 7: To see if there's any kind of images or any
Speaker 7: of the media that we send out that's inappropriate, and
Speaker 7: we would love to change anything that would be deemed
Speaker 7: inappropriate in there.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you how stupid this is. And my school
Speaker 3: district longtime rivalry for many many years between the Hard
Speaker 3: High Indians and the Canyon Country Cowboys, so it was
Speaker 3: Cowboys versus Indians. Those were the school rivalries in football
Speaker 3: for years and years and years, and now it's the
Speaker 3: Cowboys versus the Hawks.
Speaker 5: By the way, after taking one look at that social
Speaker 5: studies teacher, I can tell you that every single student
Speaker 5: in his class who cheats gets away with it.
Speaker 17: Email of support the Tribes CHEERPERSONVI Burley said the tribe
Speaker 17: has a rich culture in the area, adding they are
Speaker 17: proud to know the high school is continuing to honor
Speaker 17: Indigenous people by respectfully using the Indian mascot, and it
Speaker 17: was earlier this year Marysville High School dropped their Indian
Speaker 17: mascot after they could not get consent from a local tribe. Instead,
Speaker 17: they will remain Tony without a mascot, all right.
Speaker 3: Just no mascot. That's where we're going to end.
Speaker 16: Up approval of the local tribes to get it.
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 16: Actually, thank you.
Speaker 1: This is new at.
Speaker 3: Five, So there you go. One high school said, now
Speaker 3: we're keeping our mascot. It says Indians and the people
Speaker 3: who are the Native Americans in the local area, they're
Speaker 3: not offended by it.
Speaker 5: So what are we going to be left with? Animals, colors,
Speaker 5: weather systems.
Speaker 3: Well, whatever the hell the a's are supposed to be.
Speaker 17: And we still got our Oakland a's baby.
Speaker 3: Now you don't.
Speaker 5: All right, We've got one more hour coming up on
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Speaker 1: We're going to get more into this.
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