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Speaker 1: I'm a bounct Yes, you are a Don't.

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Speaker 2: That Charlotte mantain is true?

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Speaker 1: In May fourteenth, goes to the Ozark Police Department in Alabama. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't heard about this story, gather around. There's

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Speaker 1: a man named Reginald Burkes who is currently faced with

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Speaker 1: a decision. He must either write an apology letter to

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Speaker 1: a police officer because he cursed at the officer, and

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Speaker 1: if he does it, he must serve up the thirty

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Speaker 1: days in jail. Let's go to News four for the report.

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Speaker 3: Police Judge Nicholas Bull ordered Burkes to apologize to the

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Speaker 3: officer who gave him a speeding ticket last December. That's

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Speaker 3: in addition to the two hundred dollars fine Burke Shell

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Speaker 3: doubt this week. He believes that making Burke say I'm

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Speaker 3: sorry to the officer and Burkes admits he used one

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Speaker 3: bad word violates his right to free speech.

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Speaker 4: According to a federal cases, what has to happen is

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Speaker 4: those words that he uses, or if someone uses has

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Speaker 4: to incite violence.

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Speaker 1: That's not the case in this situation.

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Speaker 3: Harrison adds that Supreme Court case to support his interpretation

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Speaker 3: of the law. Profanity lace language does not violate the law.

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Speaker 3: As for Burkes, he stands firm in the belief that

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Speaker 3: he was not wrong for what he said.

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Speaker 2: But I told my mom, I probably just gonna go

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Speaker 2: up there and see what they're gonna actually give me

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Speaker 2: some time for not ten days or thirty days whatever

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Speaker 2: they want to give me for not writing out a

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Speaker 2: policy letter, because I'm not writing on a policy latter.

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Speaker 2: I don't think now it was really I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's necessary.

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Speaker 1: All right, when the judge talks like this, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: go to jail if you don't do what the judge

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Speaker 1: tell you to do. Now, Look, it's tough being a

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Speaker 1: black man in America and having to deal with law

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Speaker 1: enforcement because the reality is in our minds every encounter

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Speaker 1: with police officers were just trying to survive, and in

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Speaker 1: the case of reginal Burks is in the case of

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Speaker 1: Reginald Burks, personally, I'm not cursing at the police officer.

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Speaker 1: I totally understand and respect the power dynamics in that situation.

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Speaker 1: We out in the field, out in the streets. As

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Speaker 1: much as we want to say these officers work for us,

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Speaker 1: they don't. Okay, they technically do, because we are tax

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Speaker 1: paying citizens, but a lot of them don't act like it.

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Speaker 1: And I am fully away that I am dealing with

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Speaker 1: a human who has the same pride and oftentimes wounded

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Speaker 1: ego as anyone else. All Right, these police officers are human,

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Speaker 1: and some of them with narcissists, high conflict personalities, kids

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Speaker 1: who were bullied in school and now they got a

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Speaker 1: badge and they want to do the bullying. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying this is all police officers. I'm just simply

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Speaker 1: saying that I know there are plenty of people like

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Speaker 1: the ones I'm describing in those uniforms. And guess what,

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Speaker 1: I don't have time to determine who is who and

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Speaker 1: what is what. I just want to get home. So

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Speaker 1: if I'm Reginald Burke when the cop gets in front

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Speaker 1: of my car and doesn't move, and the cop tells

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Speaker 1: me to go around, I'm gonna probably just go around

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Speaker 1: if I move it all because, once again, in my mind,

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Speaker 1: the way my anxiety set up, he stands in front

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Speaker 1: of my car telling me to go around, But what

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Speaker 1: if he decides to stay. Nope, he tried to hit

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Speaker 1: me with his car and then he pulls out his

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Speaker 1: gun and lights my ass up. That's the type of

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Speaker 1: stuff we gotta think about. One thing I'm not doing

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Speaker 1: is insulting our agatate, antagonizing somebody with a gun, especially

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Speaker 1: someone who is authorized to use that weapon, if they

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Speaker 1: simply feel threatened. So easither I would have took my

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Speaker 1: chances and just around like the officer told me to do. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I would have just sat there and told the officer

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Speaker 1: straight up, look, I'm a little scared right now because

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Speaker 1: of the way you are acting. So I would rather

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Speaker 1: sit here until you decide to move out the way.

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Speaker 1: But one thing I would not do is tell the

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Speaker 1: police officer. And this is what Reginald said, allegedly, get

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Speaker 1: your ass out the way so I can take my

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Speaker 1: kid to school. That's why y'all underpaid, because y'all act

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Speaker 1: dumb that right there is gonna do anything for anyone

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Speaker 1: because problems. But Reginald did what he was supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: He went the court last months prepared to plete guilty,

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Speaker 1: paid the fine, which was two hundred and eleven dollars

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Speaker 1: twenty two cents, but the judge told him he should

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Speaker 1: ride an apology to the officer for allegedly having cursed

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Speaker 1: at him. Write the letter, served thirty days in jail.

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Speaker 1: This is all lego. If you asked me, and this

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Speaker 1: is exactly why you don't play with the law enforcement

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Speaker 1: in the first place. Okay, you want me to stand

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Speaker 1: at a chalkboard like Bot Simpson and write out repeatedly,

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Speaker 1: I will not curse the officer. I will not curse

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Speaker 1: the officer. I will not curse the officers. Now we

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Speaker 1: all know judges have discretion and sentencing and can include

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Speaker 1: things like requiring ad in to apologize. What does this

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Speaker 1: punishment fit the crime? I would say, no, thirty days

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Speaker 1: in jail if I don't write a letter apologizing to

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Speaker 1: this officer for telling him move his ass out the way,

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Speaker 1: you gotta charge me with this sorderly conduct is something

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Speaker 1: you can't go from a two hundred dollar fine to

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Speaker 1: me having to serve thirty days in jail if I

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Speaker 1: don't write a letter of an apology. Ugh, one of

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Speaker 1: the roots of all evil is abusive power. Please understand that.

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Speaker 1: Please give the Ozark Police Department in Alabama the biggest

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Speaker 1: he hull. I think this is abusive power. All right,

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Speaker 1: we should go to breakfast court again.

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Speaker 4: My part you want to talk about you want to

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Speaker 4: talk about the fact that he said he's not writing letter.

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Speaker 1: It's disabusive power power. Well, I mean it's all the same.

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Speaker 1: So I'd like to hear from the people. If it

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Speaker 1: was you in this situation, would you write the letter

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Speaker 1: apologizing to the police officer? Our goal potentially do thirty

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Speaker 1: days in jail.

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Speaker 5: If it Where is this in Alabama? No, I'm I'm saying,

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Let me take you to dinner, like I

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Speaker 5: don't know. I'm not going to joe that if it

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Speaker 5: was in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I'm not going I write that letter. I

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Speaker 1: ain't going to jail for thirty days. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to their jail from southern jails. Yeah, they're gonna set

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Speaker 1: me up in there jail.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna be mad I didn't write the letter.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to go to jail anywhere for thirty

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Speaker 1: days for something like this.

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Speaker 4: But think about it. Let's say you don't write the letter.

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Speaker 4: Not they mad you didn't write the letter. Now you're

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Speaker 4: going in the jail. Now, I gotta make it now

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Speaker 4: they got making the dample up.

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Speaker 3: Boy.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna listen, boy, that's right, all right, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: learn you your kind gonna learn to listen. Boy, that's right, okay.

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Speaker 4: Next thing, you know, you in the shower, taking the shower,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: Then what why why?

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Speaker 5: Why?

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Speaker 1: Tell me? Tell me more? All right, in the shower

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Speaker 1: you get there?

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