1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Well I waited for you. You weren't there chatting amiably 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: with Steve Gregory. Yeah, stage is empty, so I gotta 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: take over. Can you? Can you both say? Though I 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: don't want anybody to hear this, Can you guys go 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: both the takeover? Though, I'm trying to get Taylor Swift 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: tickets and this is really compl No, really, I mean 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: it's it's inundated. The ticket match your side. I can't 8 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: it's gonna come. I'm in the queue, five thousand million, 9 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: five million people ahead of me. It's gonna crash. Oh 10 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. Wow. All right, Well, Steve's in the studio 11 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: because of obviously the overwhelming you story this morning, what 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: happened in Whittier when twenty five Sheriff's recruits were hit 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: by an SUVs, some of them seriously injured. They were 14 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: out on a training run. So Steve can fill us 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,639 Speaker 1: in on all the details and clearly we have questions, 16 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: but get started. Yeah you bet so. This having around 17 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 1: six thirty this morning, the sheriff says around seventy five 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: recruits from the La County Sheriffs Department and that those 19 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: stet group of recruits, by the way, also includes other 20 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: police departments that were training in the academy to become 21 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: peace officers. So I don't want to neglect the fact 22 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: that there were some other agencies involved in this. But 23 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: they were training at the La County Sheriff's Academy, it's 24 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: the Stars Training Center down in South Whittier, and they 25 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: were out on a run. I want to play for 26 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: you this clip real quick. This is Captain Pat McDonald 27 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: and he's over the training for the La County Sheriff's Department, 28 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: and he's talking about how this group of recruits. Every 29 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: new Academy class has to go through these daily physical 30 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: training routines, and one of them is doing a jog 31 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: in the morning. They were going to be doing around 32 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: three and a half mile run, and they were about 33 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: one and a half miles into the run this morning 34 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: on Mill Avenue near Trumbull Street, when all of a sudden, 35 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: this Honda small SUV came out of nowhere on the 36 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: wrong side of the street plowed into the crowd of recruits. 37 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: Now I'll explain a little bit of the detail on 38 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: what that looks like, but here's a Captain Pat McDonald. 39 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: Once the running formation turned northbound, the vehicle careened into 40 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: the platoon. Now, there was a light pule on the 41 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: east side of the street, and the one thing that 42 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: was relayed to me was thank God for that light pule, 43 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: because the vehicle ultimately hit it and stopped, as opposed 44 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,399 Speaker 1: to possibly hitting more recruits. So there's seventy five recruits. 45 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: Of those seventy five recruits is broken into four columns 46 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: smallest to tallest, and it was described as like an 47 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: airplane crash site with bodies everywhere. And fortunately, about five 48 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: hundred feet or so away from the crash site, La 49 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: County fire Station ninety six, and some of the deputies 50 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: were able to run down there, knock on the door, 51 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: pound on the door, and they were able to mobilize 52 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: immediately and get a triage set up done, which really 53 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: helped save lives. And then some of the other more 54 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: critically injured recruits were put into sheriff's vehicles and taken away. 55 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: Because that seventy five that run in a block like that, 56 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: there's a vehicle in the front of the crowd and 57 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: behind the crowd, and then on the outside edges of 58 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: this block of recruits, well I believe there were six, 59 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: so I think three on either side had these bright 60 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 1: reflective vests on and they were running early in the morning, 61 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: as they always do, but they observe this kind of 62 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: safety protocol that they've done for many years. And the 63 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: recruits themselves were wearing bright white tshirts with the recruit 64 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 1: green shorts the color of the department, so they were 65 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: all pretty bright. It was all pretty obvious, and this 66 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out, now the motive behind this. 67 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: I did speak to someone in the Homicide Bureau the 68 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: Ala County Sheriffs Department, because the CHP is now the 69 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: lead investigating agency on this because it happened in unincorporated 70 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: La County, So they're looking at this sort of the 71 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: driving part of this and whether or not there's a crime. 72 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: But the homicide Bureau now is a sitting because there's 73 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: so many people they have to interview. But I first 74 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: my red flags went up because I first thought maybe 75 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: they were investigating a crime per se, because it was 76 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: homicide Bureau. Well, one of the things they ruled out 77 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: right away is whether or not this guy might have 78 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: been a recruit that failed out. That was something they 79 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: were looking at right away. But this was a targeted attack. 80 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: This is it's a twenty two year old man. I 81 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: heard yeah, out of Diamond Bar Diamond, But don't know 82 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: his name yet, but they're not releasing the name. But 83 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: they also did a roadside sobriety test and they ruled 84 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: out alcohol. He blew a zero point zero, but they 85 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: won't talk about whether or not he was high. I 86 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: heard one word, Steve, sleepy. I heard sleepy also, but um, 87 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: but they need a warrant to draw blood or his consent, 88 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's happened yet or it could. 89 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: He made a warrant, I guess drawing. You do remember 90 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: that thing happened with Tiger Woods also, yeah, yes, yeah, 91 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: remember they had to get a warrant or his consent 92 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: to pull blood to check whatever substances were in a system. 93 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: Same thing exactly. He was sleepy when he came out 94 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 1: of the car. Well that's that's that shock would wake 95 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: you up if you rejest. There was a report Steve 96 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 1: that they had to try to get his foot off 97 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: the gas pedal or something of that fanned out later, 98 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: But that's what I heard this morning. It's no official, 99 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: this is all hearsay, it's all conjecture at this point 100 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: until investigators and quick love conjecture, I know, you do 101 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: including this HP until they can get in there. Now, 102 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: what they're gonna do is they're going to pull the 103 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: black box again. There's a very interesting parallel to the 104 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods investigation. Yeah, but he didn't hit anybody, nobody, 105 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: he had property damage, so they but they still have 106 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: to go through the same procedures like there. Then then 107 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: they do. Now they'll pull the black box from this vehicle. 108 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: They'll go through and they'll be able to determine whether 109 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: he was wearing a seatbelt, how fast he was going, 110 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: at what direction the steering wheel was at the vehicle, 111 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: the you know, the basic you know, all the mechanics 112 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: of what the car was going through at the point 113 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: of impact and moments leading up to So they'll be 114 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: able to take that piece of together with witness testimony. 115 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: And as you know, a bunch of witnesses like that 116 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: are all going to see a bunch of different things, 117 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: and a lot of them are in a traumatic state 118 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: or in shock, and then they're gonna have to take 119 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: all of that and sort of distill it down into 120 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: what they think is a good timeline. All right, my 121 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: hand is not to have many questions. Sure are they 122 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk or on the street or on the street. 123 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: They aren't running in the stand out all this escort 124 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: you described, So that's why they have a What good 125 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: did they do? Well, here's the thing. The car. The 126 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: car went around into the opposite lane, and then as 127 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: they were turning, as when I was told the way 128 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: that the Captain McDonald explained it is, as they were 129 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: turning northbound on Mill Avenue. So like if you imagine 130 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: a coin of snake moving, because you got seventy five 131 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 1: people and they're going very slow, and they're moving around, 132 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: and at one point this guy came in the opposite 133 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: direction and plowed into it, presumably into the center mass 134 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: of that group. Oh, I was going to say, yeah, 135 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: we heard that the first people got out of the way. 136 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: The people in the front were able to jump out 137 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: of the way, so the car was hitting them from 138 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: the front of the riding. Yeah, and then then as 139 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 1: it kept going, apparently that's when it went up on 140 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: the sidewalk and hit that pole and that stopped it 141 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: from stopped him blowing down more people in the back. 142 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 1: And see, we don't know whether this guy didn't have 143 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: a medical emergency. You know, we can't rule that out 144 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: as well. I mean, we don't know what his condition 145 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: was like to and you know, there have been stories 146 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: like this where someone's had a seizure or passed out. 147 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: There was also talk about him driving into the sun 148 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: and he was visibly you know, incapacitated because of the 149 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: bright sun that time of the morning, right six thirty 150 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: would be just after sunrise. Yeah, so be really low 151 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: on the horizon and in less you know, until we 152 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: get from the HP. Because I don't think the Sheriff's 153 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: Department's going to release anything now, and if they do, 154 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: they'll have to wait for the report from the HP. 155 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: They might this might be a very simple case because 156 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: they might be able to speak with the driver and 157 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: they'll be able to lay it out for him and 158 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: then the witnesses and then whatever the black box tells him. 159 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: They might be able to piece this thing together pretty quickly. 160 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: Or they found no connection between this driver and anybody 161 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: at the academy or the well, that's what they're doing 162 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: now now. Just because he wasn't a recruit or had 163 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,239 Speaker 1: failed out of the academy or anything like that doesn't 164 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: mean he doesn't have a connection with someone in sure, 165 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: there could be any number of reasons he's got a grudge. 166 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: The one thing if that's sticking in my head, if 167 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: it turns out to be true, that if he exited 168 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: the car sleepy, then and there's something in his system, 169 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: because all the adrenaline would strike you up if you 170 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: were just fatigued and falling asleep at the wheel. You 171 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: you hit a pole after running down all those people, 172 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: now you're wide away. Yeah, but now he could he 173 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: could have also been in shock and it was characterized 174 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: characterized as being sleepy, but he may have been disoriented 175 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: from after the impact. So is this known as a 176 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: dangerous street to be driving on himself? Some stories that 177 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: people say they're drive too fast in that respect, too 178 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: out that you meant by design. But no, the speed 179 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: limit there's twenty five miles an hour, so it's a 180 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: regular residential area. Plus there's an elementary school nearby as well, 181 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: so you know there's got to be some sort of 182 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: speed regulation there. But as witnesses have said on the 183 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: scene there that that that's just like a raceway down there. 184 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: And then but they also say that that that group 185 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: of recruits, like every academy that has a group of 186 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: recruits like that. They jogged that same route constantly, almost 187 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: every other day. They're out there jogging, so it's not 188 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: it's not a new thing to see this group. And 189 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: he came from the other side of the road. Yeah, 190 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 1: so that's that's sorts. So I don't know whether he 191 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: was trying to pass somebody, you know, like somebody else 192 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: was going too slow and when he passed, he went 193 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: into the OMPs direction and then this group was coming 194 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: around the corner. Don't know again were they were They 195 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: in the traffic lane or they were off to the 196 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: side and the shoulder. No, they were in the traffic 197 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: lane because of the way that that that road is structure. 198 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: There's cars parked on the on the curve, so they 199 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: were in the they were in the road proper, or 200 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 1: they were actually in the road proper, Yeah, because what 201 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: they do is to come out and then they would 202 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: turn on another road and then go down another side street. 203 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: I see, Well, I'm a runner. When you run in 204 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: the road, you run facing traffic. You do not run 205 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: with traffic behind. You don't run with the traffic that's 206 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: driving the same direction you are. You run facing it, 207 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: so you can see what's coming at you. That's just 208 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: the well, here's the thing, though, you don't have the 209 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: benefit of a patrol car in the front and back 210 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: of you. That's true. And I'm going out run with 211 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: seventy five people either, yeah, so and so they were 212 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: running with the traffic, but this sky was from it 213 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: came the opposite way at the side. Again, it's going 214 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: to go one or two directions. It's either an accident 215 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: or it was intentional. That's really what it boils down 216 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: to it. Right now, can you tell us who's in 217 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: the worst condition here? How many people and what kind 218 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: of conditions you want to wait? Yeah, let's take a break. Okay, 219 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: all right, hold on, and we got Steve grand a keyword. Yeah, 220 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: Steve Gregory's on the and the keyword, the keyword is 221 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: coming up next. Steve, of course, has got all the 222 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: coverage of this horrible situation in Whittier or seventy five 223 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: police recruits out in the morning run were hit by 224 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: a guy in an f SUV going the wrong way 225 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: on the road, and twenty five of them were hit. 226 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: Some of them were going to find out how badly injured. 227 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: The keyword is next. Johnny Ken kf I AM six 228 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app All right, now 229 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: back to of course, he's coming what happened and whittier 230 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: to these police recruits. And you know these seventy five 231 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: recruits that were out on this morning jog, They were 232 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: just in their eighth week of a twenty two week 233 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: academy session when this accident happened this morning. And if 234 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: you're just joining us, they were mowed down by a 235 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: driver who careened from the opposite lane on Mill Avenue 236 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: near Trumbull Street. And fortunately they were just about five 237 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: hundred feet or so from La County fire Station ninety six, 238 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: so they were able to respond very quickly and get 239 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: when I heard twenty five were hit, I just one suv, 240 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: not a huge suv either, but still that's well. See 241 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: they were tightly formed, right, tight formation, right. And the 242 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,599 Speaker 1: other thing that is coming out too that there was witness, 243 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: a witness saying that they heard acceleration, and that's going 244 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: to be something else they're going to be able to 245 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: tell from this black box. Ye. Some reports that he 246 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: was only doing thirty or forty miles an hour, but 247 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: we don't know for sure. No, we don't know yet. 248 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: That was a guess on the part of the sheriff. 249 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 1: But what was the extent of the injuries? A lot 250 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: of head trauma, a lot of people hit hard. The 251 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: sheriff said that some people lost their limbs. Oh no, yeah, 252 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: so I'm so young. Yeah, and there's at least one 253 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: person on a ventilator at Saint Francis Medical Center. I 254 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: see here. You were right. It looks like at least 255 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: some of those injured work for either Bell Police or 256 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: Glendale or Passage. Yeah. So what happens? And I don't 257 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: know if people know how this works. So when they 258 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: have an opening, because the La County Sheriff's Department's Academy 259 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: is an accredited academy for peace officers for across the 260 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: state of California, they meet the Peace Officers Standards in 261 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: training requirements to give them peace officer status. So when 262 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: other departments in the state, anyone in the state, but 263 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: here in La County, if you have a department that's 264 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: ready to hire somebody, like the city of Bell, they 265 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: can't afford to have their own academy. So what they 266 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: do is they pay for that person to go to 267 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy and then when they graduate, 268 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: they graduate as a peace officer and an employee of 269 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: the Bell Police Department. That's how that works. So the 270 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department is the training facility for a lot of 271 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: smaller agencies around southern California. LAPD has its own training academy, 272 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: but others will also go to the LAPD Academy as 273 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: well as the Ly County Sheriff's Academy, so it acts. 274 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: Those two act as some major training hubs for smaller agencies. 275 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: So there's five that are critically injured. Out of the 276 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: five critically injured, four with moderate injuries and sixteen had 277 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: minor injuries. Some of them were treated on scene, and 278 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: then there were some taken. I believe there was three 279 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: that were airlifted to the trauma center at Level one 280 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: Trauma Center you see Irvine. I guess those are the 281 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: ones with the head injuries. Head injuries. And then but 282 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: the UC Irvine doctor there that spoke said that no one, 283 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: no amputees were at his location, so presumably there are 284 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: the other locations. Yikes, that's really it's just horrific. Yeah, 285 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,599 Speaker 1: especially is recruiting difficult these days in terms of the 286 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: police departments, all the whole to fund the police nonsense 287 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: that we had. Yeah, Ken, that's it's interesting you say that, 288 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: because people were just talking about you know, it's it's 289 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: hard to get people to come join the department and 290 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: for something like this to happen. But they don't, you know, 291 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: they don't want people to be discouraged because this is 292 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: certainly the exception, no freak occurrence. Yeah. Now again, if 293 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: this turns out to be an intentional act of some kind, 294 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: and that changes the game a bit. You know, at 295 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 1: the height of the George Floyd protests, my wife and 296 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: I were driving up to Berkeley. One of our sons 297 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: went to Berkeley and we were going to see him, 298 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: and it was late May, I think we were helping 299 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: him to move out at the end of the semester, 300 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: and we were running out of gas. We'd rented a 301 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: van so we could fill up the van with the stuff, 302 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: and my wife was driving. Either one of us was 303 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: paying attention, and we run out of gas and she 304 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: turned the car up a ramp I think around Richmond, 305 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: coming off whatever freeway was there at two eighty Memories 306 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: a little hazy anyway, some local cops came to help us, 307 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: and Triple A brought the gas and the cops waited 308 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: with us, and eventually they pushed our van down the 309 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: ramp across the street and get us to a gas 310 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: station because we needed a full tank. While they were 311 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: waiting with us, a car came by and we saw 312 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: this swerved right at them. This is when we were 313 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: at the height of the anti police fever. Came really 314 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: close to mowing them down. And I said to them, 315 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: I go, does this happen often? And they go these 316 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: days all the time if they're standing on the side 317 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: of a freeway or the side of a ramp like that, 318 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: there's a crazy person wants to make a political point 319 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: and they pretend that they're going to run them over. 320 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: So it's it's not out of the realm of possibility. No, 321 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: it's not. And you know, it's funny you bring that up, 322 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: because I mean, I've been on many ride alongs and 323 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: in a lot of times in the last couple of years, 324 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: they'll get the you know, someone will flip them off, 325 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: call them names, cuss at them, you know, and dare him. 326 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: They bait them, you know, And a lot of people 327 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: bait these cops because they want to catch them doing 328 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: something and get them in trouble. But acts like this 329 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: now are happening literally all the time. Now they're they're 330 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: they're under siege, I mean, cops everywhere under seas and 331 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: this is why. That's what those cops told us, he says, No, 332 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: this this stuff goes on all the time. Yeah, it's 333 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: and it you know, and the ones that are being ambushed. 334 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: You know, we've had a here in LA where cops 335 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: have been ambushed. They're trying to get into back to 336 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: the station or back home or something and they get 337 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: ambushed and killed. I mean in Lynnwood where they're deputing. 338 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: You know, somebody now these recruits. That's the same location 339 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: that the two deputies that were shot point blank a 340 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: few years ago at the Compton train station where people 341 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: were outside chanting, Die pigs, Die pigs. Yeah, I remember 342 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: that story covering that. So, I mean, it's it is 343 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: and people have absolutely no idea. I mean, it's just 344 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: it's pretty sad. It's a sad state of affairs all round. 345 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: Can we expect any more updates today to you? Um, 346 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: that's a great question. We've not been given any kind 347 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: of heads up. I suspect we'll get something else by 348 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: the end of this afternoon. If nothing else, I'm hoping 349 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: from medical update, just to give us an idea were 350 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: if the person on the ventilators out of danger, kind 351 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: of what the status is. I don't think we'll get 352 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: anything on the investigation today, but I think I'm hoping 353 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: we'll get something on the status of the medical updates. 354 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: All right, Steve, thank you very much, ste Gregory. All 355 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: over the story of these police recruits who were hit 356 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,959 Speaker 1: by a Honda CRV that was driving the wrong way 357 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: in an area of Whittier early this morning, sometime before 358 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: six thirty even They were members of the Star Center Academy. 359 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 1: More coming up, Johnny ken Chow KF I Am six 360 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, more throughout 361 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: the afternoon on what happened in Whittier this morning when 362 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: those police recruits were mowed down by some twenty two 363 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: year old from Diamond Bard an suv. Hopefully we'll learn 364 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,360 Speaker 1: more about how that could have happened to twenty five 365 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: of them hit, a number of them in serious condition. 366 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: Will also keep you updated on their medical conditions. We're 367 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: going to talk to the mayor of Whittier, Joe Vinatieri 368 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,959 Speaker 1: in the four o'clock hour, and anything that comes up 369 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 1: between them, we'll certainly. The logical suspicion is he got 370 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: a twenty two year old and maybe he was high 371 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: or stoned or some kind of drug and he was 372 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 1: he was asleep or half zonked and he lost control 373 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: of the car. I mean, so they found some marijuana 374 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: in the car. Yeah, but at the time they have 375 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: no there's it was a zero on the drunk scale. 376 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: So yeah, but no. The now the big thing is 377 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: being stoned on pot. That's a big percentage of the 378 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,959 Speaker 1: country at any given moment. People are in fact. I 379 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: read that they're having trouble getting military recruits and the 380 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: biggest thing is they failed their drug tests. I was 381 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: listening to a military official the other day recruiting his 382 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: way down because they have to reject so many people. 383 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: Number one reason drug tests. I mean, casual use of 384 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: drugs is off the charts because and a lot of 385 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: stuff has been legalized or tolerated. Well, the smell of 386 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: marijuana is everywhere. Yeah, we call it skunk. Whenever we 387 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: go it sounds like skunk. It means somebody's got to 388 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: joint somewhere in the area and at a twenty two 389 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: year old up at six thirty in the morning. It 390 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: was on its way to work. No, we'll see, I 391 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 1: don't know. Well, somebody said they raced down that street 392 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: to get to the five Freeway. They might be late 393 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 1: for work. That's what one resident said. Can happen, all right, Well, 394 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: that particular area around that curve, it must lead to 395 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 1: the five freeway somewhere. Yeah, we'll seal this pans out 396 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: as far as a motive or just a goofball that 397 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: was high and fell asleep behind the wheel and driving 398 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: the wrong way and plot into these poor recruits just 399 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: out of a morning run. Well, it happened again when 400 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: vagrants attack last night six twenty pm at a Target 401 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: store downtown Los Angeles, seventh and Figueroa. A vagrant apparently, 402 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: from what I understand, he pulled the knife off the 403 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: shelves of Target. He found himself a nine year old 404 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: boy who apparently, it says here, was separated from his 405 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: mother at the time in the store, and that can happen, 406 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: and said I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna stab you, 407 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: And he sure enough did that. That is the child 408 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: tried to run, but he was stabbed in the back, 409 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: got a laceration in his right shoulder. That is at 410 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: the level of a horror movie, isn't it rans The vagrant, 411 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: pulling a knife off the shelf, walks up to a nine. 412 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: He rolled and says, I'm going to stab you. Yeah. 413 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: What's Karen bast gonna do about this? Does she think 414 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: this guy are to be forcibly taken off the street. 415 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: If you go into any business in downtown LA, you're 416 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 1: taking your life into your hands, because that's got a 417 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: higher percentage of dangerous vagrants than most other places in 418 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: the city, or usually has a certainly some places with 419 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 1: too many vagrants, but that's a particularly nasty area. So 420 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: he heads. The vagrant heads down an aisle where he 421 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: comes across a group of women and he stabs a 422 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: twenty five year old woman in the chest. At this point, 423 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: a security guard recognizes the commotion, comes over and shoots 424 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: this man dead. Thank god, the security officer had a gun. 425 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: We ought to have a parade for that guy. Oh no, 426 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: where the activists to say, why did you have to 427 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: shoot him? Couldn't you have negotiated and talk to him. 428 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: He's probably mentally ill and he's hungry. Sure, one of 429 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: those mental health rescue teams circle is what they're called, 430 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: the Circle, the Circle team. Sure, they can circle people. 431 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: They can show up with blankets and comfort and comfort 432 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: and smile, maybe some lemonade for the guy and sage 433 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: thanks to Deborah Mark. Yeah, I look at I look 434 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: at those guys, and I assume they're capable of stabbing 435 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: me in the chest with a knife. I really do. 436 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: I'm totally past this idea that these guys are benign. 437 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: They're just looking for food and you know, they're just 438 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 1: down on their locket. It's like, no, every one of 439 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: these is a potential psycho. And if Carabast becomes there, 440 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: if she, if she had a brain in her head, 441 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: she would treat that would be the policy. We treat 442 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: all these people as if they're capable of stabbing your 443 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: little nine year old with a knife. Yeah, these two 444 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: are in critical condition too. Oh yeah, this was horrible, 445 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: And I'm going to stick to what I always say. 446 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 1: Most vagrants are not violent. However, we have increased the 447 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: number so greatly that you have a much better chance 448 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: today of encountering a violent homeless. But if they're on 449 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,479 Speaker 1: bad drugs, anything can happen. He could be the nicest 450 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: vagrant in the world and he takes the wrong kind 451 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: of drug, then his brain goes haywire and unleashes some 452 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: kind of violent impulse that he can't control. Nope, described 453 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: as a forty year old man that did this. That's 454 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: all we have where you're affect. It's a homeless guy 455 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: and so he's been probably been on the streets for 456 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: many years and nothing's been done. You know, I'm looking 457 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: at the hold in a minute. Oh yeah. The Times 458 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 1: does admit he appeared to be homeless. Police said appeared 459 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 1: to be homeless. They only wanted to quote the police 460 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: description sure that he appeared to be homeless. The updating 461 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: the story came out this morning at six is that 462 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: he definitely was a vagrant. And I don't know whether 463 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: or not he'd been in that store before or any 464 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: of the stories about him, but that was the assessment. Well, 465 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: he probably wasn't working as as a lawyer, and he 466 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: just wandered over to target a lawyer to do sarans. 467 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: You're forty years old, you're wandering around, you grab a 468 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: knife and stab a nine year old. Yeah, yeah, odds 469 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: are you're a vagrant? Now it's the time to ask. 470 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 1: You're locking everything else up in the stores, now, why 471 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: aren't you locking the knives up? Yeah, that's weird. It's 472 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: not in the story, but I heard it on a 473 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: different newscast this morning that he did take a knife 474 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: from the shelves of the store. Doesn't say it in 475 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: this time story. I mean, he could have walked into 476 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: the store with the knife, but I had read or 477 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: heard that he got the knife from the store. Well, 478 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: it's nice that target leaves weapons out on the shelves 479 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: for the homeless to grab. Well, did you notice the 480 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: security guards armed? I mean a lot of stores I 481 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: go to their security people, but not armed that I 482 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: can see anyway. I don't know how common that is, 483 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,959 Speaker 1: if you're running a store and down to n LA, 484 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 1: it's probably pretty common. And the guy was willing to 485 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: go for it too, willing to shoot to kill, which 486 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: which is really impressive because even cops are getting timid 487 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: down and I would imagine the security officers said drop 488 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: that knife. When you don't do it, well, somebody else 489 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: could get stabbed, and that that that that's all legal, right, 490 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: because he was the vagrant was stabbed people inventing your 491 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: Lives already stabbed two people. Any danger. Yeah, so this 492 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: is I hope the security guard doesn't get in any trouble. 493 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: I don't know that we have a would be the 494 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,239 Speaker 1: city of la Well, actually this would be would end 495 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: up with gascone. If that's what they're going to investigate. 496 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: It not unreasonable to question, though not see. Yes, we 497 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 1: won't be prosecuting the vagrant. He was shot dead. All right. 498 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: We'll continue to keep an eye on the story out 499 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: of Whitty or where the police recruits were run over 500 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: by a man driving the wrong way early this morning. 501 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 1: We got more coming up on the John and Ken 502 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: Show kf I Am six forty live everywhere on the 503 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. All right, the Moist line is coming 504 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: back the day after tomorrows, So another head's up for calls. 505 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: Leave us messages through the iHeart Radio app. That's the 506 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: little microphone icon that you find there directed to John 507 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: and Ken, or call the toll free number. Its is 508 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: always there for you. Twenty four seven one eight seven 509 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven six sixty four 510 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: seven eight eight six coming up after three o'clock. Well, 511 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: you know the old rule on the John and ken stroll, 512 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: wait three days. Some stories change. In this case, it 513 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: was wait a few hours. And that, of course is 514 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: the tragedy that happened in Poland yesterday when there was 515 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: a missile strike that killed two people in a small 516 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: village on the border between Poland and Ukraine, very close 517 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: to the border. We'll tell you what that update is 518 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: and if true, well we're not going to war yet, 519 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: So that's the that's the headline. Also, we'll talk about, well, 520 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: our long time Senator Diane finds time appears to have 521 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: had another lapse. Tell you what that's about. She had 522 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: a chance for a very powerful position in the United 523 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: States Senate and it's declined, but apparently didn't remember that. 524 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: They'll tell you what that is in the three o'clock hour. 525 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: Anything I said a few months ago necessarily hold true today. 526 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: Crypto FDx story just keeps on given, doesn't it. FDx, 527 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: of course is the company. It's a cryptocurrency exchange company 528 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: which has gone into bankruptcy. And there's a great quote 529 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 1: here early in one of the stories that I'm reading. 530 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: Adam Levitton, a Georgetown University law professor and a principle 531 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: at some firm that provides advice regarding crypto bankruptcies, he said, 532 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: at some level the fall of FTX, it's not a 533 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: crypto story at all. People invested billions in an unregulated 534 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: financial institution based in the Caribbean island. How could this end? Well? 535 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: That is that is exactly where I am on this. 536 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,719 Speaker 1: I keep reading these stories about people have invested their 537 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: life savings. People have lost so much money. This is 538 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: hurt small investors. I'm sorry. You deserve to lose it. 539 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: You invest your life savings in fake money. Cryptocurrency is 540 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: fake money. There's no real value to it. Which changes 541 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: are unregulated. That's going to be the next thing that 542 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: comes out of this. So they can pretty much do 543 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: whatever they want. And now actually the Bahamas is fighting 544 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: with the US over who takes over the bankruptcy because 545 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,159 Speaker 1: they also have they're in Delaware to incorporated too. We 546 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: always joke about this. If you're really wealthy and you 547 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: want to hide money, or you've got some sketchy financial business, 548 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: which the real business is bilking people, you go to 549 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 1: some unregulated island out in the Atlantic Ocean where they 550 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,959 Speaker 1: have no laws. That's where that's where tax evaders always 551 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: go as starkly was the Cayman Islands or here you 552 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: go to the Bahamas. We have at least a billion 553 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: dollars worth the customer fund that have vanished from FTX. 554 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: And again basically what this is is that they're holding 555 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: crypto for customers, but what they do with it in 556 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: terms of quote investing it. And that's where everything went south, 557 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: along with the fact that the crypto markets have dropped 558 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: quite a bit in the last six months to year. 559 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: That also hurt this company. Basically, this is run it 560 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: was I said it was ten people in this wealthy 561 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: penthouse apartment in the Bahamas. That's where they ran the 562 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: company out of. And these ten people were involved in 563 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: a polycuele right where they were having sex with one another. 564 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,400 Speaker 1: And this is a real story, So that's a salacious rumor. 565 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: These guys were sexually involved with one another in addition 566 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: to running this scam where they were taking billions of 567 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: dollars and then looting it through the back door. This 568 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: guy Sam what's his name, Sam Bank, name been freed. 569 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: He would go on these public relations missions. He had 570 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: this new phrase, catchy phrase called effective altruism, where rich 571 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: people take their money to do something tangibly good in 572 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: the world with it right, and the suckers out there 573 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: were wowed by this. It's like, oh wow, not only 574 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: this is cool crypto, this is all I'm going to 575 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: be part of this new movement man, where wealthy people 576 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: do good things with their money and be altruistic. And 577 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: then he was going around talking He was the number 578 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: two bribe guys for the Democratic Party, I think, right 579 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: behind George Soros in terms of donating money, and what 580 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: he wanted to get was regulations that he would write, 581 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: his lobbyists would write and benefit from. Right, and the 582 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: other people in the crypto world were pissed at him. 583 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: It's like, no, no, we don't want any regulation. We 584 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: certainly don't. Aren't regulations that are going to be written 585 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: by you to benefit you and not us. So but 586 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: so this this guy admitted, because I just found a 587 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: story written I guess today in vox dot com and 588 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: a writer oh he did an interview with him, Well, yes, 589 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: he just did through text messaging. She was working on 590 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: a profile last summer and so had a contact with 591 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: him and just sent out of text to see what happens, 592 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: and he started writing back. Now, I remember this guy 593 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: is also on a lot of drugs, and he starts 594 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: writing backs and admitted, admitted in these text messages that 595 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: all that regulation that he was lobbying for, it was 596 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: just public relations. He said, I'd look at at the 597 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: quote right now from the text message. Yeah, it was 598 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: just pr. Well, another aspect of this has come up 599 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: in the news today. One of the other things that 600 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: mister Bankman Freed did was he went heavy with advertising 601 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: and he used celebrities. We now have a class action 602 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: lawsuit which was filed today alleging that Sam Bankman Freed 603 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: violated Florida law, misled customers, and cost investors billions of 604 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: dollars in damages. The lawsuit also named some prominent celebrities. 605 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is ex wife soon 606 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: to be ex wife, Jazelle buncchen, the Golden State Warriors guards, 607 00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: Steph Curry, businessman Kevin O'Leary, Larry David of Curb Your Enthusiasm, 608 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: and Seinfeld fame. And to remind you what we're talking about, 609 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: apparently people are passing this one around today. Here is 610 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: the commercial for fd X by Tom Brady and Giselle 611 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: can't talk to you about something. Yeah, we talked about it. 612 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: I got another ten years left, maybe fifteen? Not dad, 613 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: this is big. What do you think? Are you in? 614 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: You know what? I'm in? Butts call everyone? Hang on, 615 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm in. How dare you call this number? Okay, I'm in. 616 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: Whatever it was that was my mom. They don't I 617 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: don't eat that. Yeah, yeah, sounds good. I'm in. I'm in, Arthur, 618 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: I quit, I'm in, t bone, sit downstairs toilet again? Hello, 619 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: Tom dogo coin so Mark, all right, this last might 620 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: be tough. He loves you, this guy first, even if 621 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: you want to come back or wouldn't take you, Yeah 622 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,479 Speaker 1: you would, Yeah, we would. You're right, we would. What's up? 623 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: I'm getting into crypto with FTX. You're in. We're providing 624 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: gift three hundred and sixty three access to the crypto 625 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: markets with ability to trade everything from ALLSTA defy believe 626 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: I'm in, but still hate you? Understood? Take best the family? 627 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: Is he in? Yep? Did he say he hates you? 628 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: Even on the phone. That guy sounds handsome. All right, 629 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: we can stop it. There's somebody's commercials ran during the 630 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: Super Bowl too, where they really r David a lot 631 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: of what you might call unsophisticated viewers who just thought, wow, 632 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: how cool. I mean, they got they got the music 633 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: going there, they got the celebrities. They have a catchy 634 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: little phrase, I'm in. Do you know how complicated it 635 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: is to try to explain crypto and nobody still understands it. 636 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: People in the crypto industry don't understand it because it's all. 637 00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: It's all a racket and a scamp. It's all you 638 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: have to take. It's in. Hey, look at us, cool people. 639 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: It's in. It's in. We're in. We're in. You in, 640 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: We're in. I mean, it's it's just, yeah, you know what, 641 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: you deserve to lose your money. You deserve to go 642 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,959 Speaker 1: bankrupt and lose your house and your car, and your 643 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: family should leave you. You do this, you're asking for it. 644 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: You heard that bankman freeds trying to raise money. I 645 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: don't know how through through what capital and entrepreneurs and stuff. 646 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't really understand. They were always conning these venture 647 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: capitalists because the venture capitalists they don't know, they don't 648 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: know crap, right. They're guys who had their own oil 649 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: like oil well that they hit and they got a 650 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: gusher of money. They don't know what to do with it. 651 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: They're really greedy, so they'll fund anything. These guys listen 652 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: to like fifteen minute pitches and they'll give you millions 653 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: of dollars. There's planting seeds. They know most of them 654 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: are gonna be failures, but they don't care because maybe 655 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: you'll hit upon an eBay for example. We're concerned that 656 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: some of us is starting to spread to other companies 657 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,719 Speaker 1: now that people are having trouble with drawing funds. Oh, 658 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: it's it's going to In fact, I remember when Staplesenter 659 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 1: became Crypto dot com. Yeah, Crypto is one of the 660 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: ones under the microscope today. One of my sons, big 661 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: Lakers fan, and he goes, he goes, oh, I hate 662 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: that name, Crypto dot com. And I said, don't worry. 663 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: Two years it'll be gone, all right. We got more 664 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: coming up. 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