1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: I just wanted to know how you came up with 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: the donkey of. 3 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: The day, because you mean today there's a bunch of donkeys. 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: That is why Charlemagne to remember life where we light 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 2: our tongue based on COOLi layer thing we never was 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: saying on the breakfast club. I'm the words of CHARLEMAGNEA god, 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 2: he's a donkey. Ah Man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey the 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: day to who Now, happy born day Bus to bus. 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: Donkey of today for Tuesday made twentieth goes to the 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,319 Speaker 2: Harrison and Ross Mortuary in California. Now, first of all, 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: I want to send condolences to Amantha Hunt and the 12 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 2: family of eighty year old Oldest Atkinson. Okay, you know 13 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: I'm not a funeral guy. Okay, I'm not going to 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 2: my own funeral if I can help it, But I 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: understand the process of the service. It is very important 16 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: to lay your people to rest with class in dignity. 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 2: But in order to do that, you need a mortuary 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 2: that moves with class in dignity. That's the scary thing, right, 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: you know how you know how I talk to you 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 2: all about schools and how we drop our kids off 21 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: the schools and trust these teachers with our precious seeds, 22 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 2: our souls, outside of our bodies, our kids. It's the 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 2: same thing with the mortuary. Okay, I know the spirit 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 2: has left the body, but the body is still precious 25 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: that your love doing. You want to make sure they 26 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: are being treated correctly. 27 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 3: Well. 28 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: The family of oldest Atkinson, they weren't treated correctly at all. 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: They weren't treated with any respect by the Harrison Mortuary. 30 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 2: Let's go to CBS three for the report. Police, I 31 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 2: don't look the rangement there to see the wrong body. 32 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: When to meet the Hunts eighty year old uncle passed away. 33 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: She chose Harrison Ross Mortuary to prepare him for burial, 34 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: but when she went in to view his body, she says, 35 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't him. It was a guy laying there and 36 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: my uncle soup. 37 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: But it wasn't my uncle. 38 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 3: What did you take? 39 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: I just kept looking at him. 40 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: I didn't know. 41 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: I was just kept looking at him and kept looking 42 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: him like what men He couldn't have got that dark. 43 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: Hunt says she knew something was wrong and asked a 44 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: worker at the mortuary for help. 45 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: She was like, oh, yes, that's your ouklass. 46 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 2: That's not my uncle. 47 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: My uncle wouldn't have got that dark. 48 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: And I said, here's a picture of him, and I'll 49 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: show her a picture, and she was like, you're right, 50 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 2: give us one minute. One minute. 51 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: Hun says she and her family waited three hours while 52 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: the mortuary fixed the mix up so they could finally 53 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: bury her uncle. She still doesn't know whose body was 54 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: dressed in his suit and has FOIULD a lawsuit against 55 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: the mortuary over the whole ordeal. Her attorney calls the 56 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: mortuary's actions outrageous for. 57 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 3: Them to come in and see the wrong corpse and 58 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 3: then for the mortuary to deny that it's the wrong corpse, 59 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 3: and they need proof that it's in fact the right person. 60 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 3: So we think it's really just the basic standard of 61 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 3: care that they messed up on. 62 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: Ain't nobody came to see you Otis? First of all, 63 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: that's not even Otis, okay, And we did come to 64 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 2: see him, but once again, that's not him. I don't 65 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 2: know the race of the people who run this funeral home, 66 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: but clearly they believe all black people look alike. And 67 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: what really grinds my giars about this story is the 68 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: fact that when I'm telling you it's not my uncle, 69 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 2: do you try to tell me it is. Okay, I 70 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: asked the simple I ask a simple question often. Okay, 71 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: this is my question that I ask. What do people 72 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 2: hate more in this era reading our accountability? I want 73 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 2: you all to think about that for a second. What 74 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: do people hate more reading our accountability? When the family 75 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 2: asked the mortuary worker for help, the employee insisted that 76 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: the stranger in the casket was indeed their uncle. And 77 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: this is why sometimes you have to keep a lawyer 78 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 2: on retainer, because every now and then violence is justified. Okay, 79 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 2: I'm trying to explain to you this is in my uncle, 80 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: but you insisting that it is, and you have the 81 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: nerve to put this person I don't know in my 82 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 2: uncle's suit. Now I gotta make you explain to me 83 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: why we shouldn't squabble. Okay. I'm glad we already at 84 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: the morgue because this was going to be your next 85 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 2: stop anyway. All right, this level of gas lighting, people 86 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: not being able to admit when they wrong, making two 87 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: plus two equal five. You walk into the mortuary, see 88 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 2: a strange man in the casket wearing your uncle suit. 89 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 2: You tell the guy working at the morgue that's not 90 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: my uncle, and they basically tell you, well, he's also dead, 91 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: so it's essentially the same thing. That is the era 92 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 2: we are in, folks. Okay, people just make false equivalencies 93 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 2: all the time. The funeral Holmes response was basically, who 94 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 2: are you gonna believe us? Are your own eyes? That 95 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: is truly our corporate media landscape too. That's what they 96 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 2: do to us every day. They tell the people believe us, 97 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: not your own eyes. Imagine being in a funeral home 98 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 2: and they say to you, we can't find your relative, 99 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: but we do have someone about the same vibe. I 100 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 2: guarantee you. They tried to blame this on death swelling. 101 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: Death swelling will have you looking a little different. But 102 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 2: we all know our people. Okay, how you gonna tell 103 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: me that's not my uncle? The man was eighty. We 104 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 2: know them our whole life. Sunday Dinners, fish fries, Dan CALLI. 105 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 2: So they was playing Domino's. I know home team when 106 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 2: I see it. This man in the casket looks like 107 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 2: he plays for a rival team in a different sport. 108 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 2: You can't just put a whole stranger in my uncle 109 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: Steve Harvey suit and think we won't notice what in 110 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 2: the Freaky Friday. Listen tomorrow of the story is in life, 111 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: personal and business. You should be humble enough to see 112 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: your mistakes, courageous enough to admit your mistakes, and wise 113 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 2: enough to correct them. Harrison Ross Mortuary in California was 114 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 2: none of those things. So please give them the sweet 115 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: sounds of the Hamiltons. Oh no, you are the dog 116 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: of the day, the dog all the day. Ye. And 117 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 2: does the stranger that they had in Uncle Otis's suit? 118 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 2: What about his family? Does his family know that they 119 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 2: just had him in a whole other suit. That's what 120 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 2: I'm saying. Who's looking for him? That's what I mean. 121 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 2: Come on, man, it's the Yes, this is your uncle, 122 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 2: this is him, that's him. 123 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,559 Speaker 3: And then she pulled the bitchalities on a one minute, 124 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 3: one minute. 125 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: Hold on, you figure this out, Jesus. All right, well, 126 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 2: thank you for that. Donkey Today. Now, when we come back, 127 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 2: the mayor of Newark, Ross Baraka, will be joining us, 128 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk to him next. 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