1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: until four, then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: demand also on the iHeart app. And you know we're 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: only a week away from taking the show down, appearing 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: live at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Not on stage, 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: We're gonna be in the parking lot, but it's gonna 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: be the best parking lot show. We're going to be 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: collecting signatures on the referendum that will fix Prop forty seven, 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: that will do a massive rewrite on it, and we 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: are going to be in Lot four of the Honda 12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: Center from one to four o'clock a week from today, 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: February twenty second. Right, you got that. You can sign 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: the petitions anytime from one until six, and it doesn't 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: matter if you're in Orange County, La County, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, 16 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:00,639 Speaker 1: San Diego County. You want to take a nice ride 17 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,959 Speaker 1: to come see us, we'll be there and we'll have 18 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: the appropriate petition for your county. And we're asking everybody 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: to take the Ball Road exit, go east to Phoenix 20 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: Club Road and turn towards the Honda Center and the 21 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: entrance is from Ball Road. All right, Ball Road entrance. 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: That's the only way to access the Honda Center parking 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: lot that day lot for We're going to do the 24 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: show live. We'll talk to you if you're interested. Can't 25 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: talk to everybody on the air, but we'll talk to 26 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: talk to some people. But the signature gathering is the 27 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: biggest thing. And Todds Pitcher is going to come on 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: at three o'clock to explain all that weird thing happened 29 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: today in Wilmington and nine nine firefighters got hurt too 30 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: critically and a natural gas cylinder exploded on a semi 31 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: truck in Wilmington. Chris Adler is on the case there. 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 2: Chris, Hey, John, can you hear me? 33 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: Yes? 34 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, John, it was pretty crazy. There were 35 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: ten firefighters that responded, and as they were working to 36 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 3: put that fire out on that semi, one of the 37 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 3: one hundred gallon tanks. This semi had two one hundred 38 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 3: gallon tanks fixed on the side of this big rig. 39 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: One of them exploded. 40 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 3: As the firefighters were responding, blowing some of them back. Now, 41 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: two of them have been critically injured. Two of them 42 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 3: were rushed to Harbor UCLA Medical Center, five others being treated. 43 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 3: We just wrapped up a press conference with LA Fire 44 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 3: Mayor Karen Bass, the doctor who treated the firefighters and 45 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: the trauma center, and LA Fire Chief Christin Crowley was 46 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 3: very somber. She says, this is the kind of call 47 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 3: that firefighters never want to receive. 48 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 4: Again, I'm reminded of their professionalism and what they do 49 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 4: every single day. Now, this incident is an opportunity for 50 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 4: all all of us to remember the commitment of our 51 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 4: firefighters and other public safety workers who make that sacrifice 52 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 4: each and every day, as well as put others before them. 53 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 3: So and John, We're told that it was a female driver, 54 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 3: female adult driver of this big rig. 55 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: She said she noticed something was wrong. She called nine 56 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: to one one. That's when the fire crews came out. 57 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 3: We were also told by LA Fire that that second 58 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: tank that we spoke about is still leaking gas. I 59 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 3: spoke with LA Fire Captain Eric Scott. He says that 60 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 3: gas will continue to leak, it will come out. There's 61 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 3: no threat to the public, there's no threat to people 62 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 3: living nearby, but that tank will have to run its 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 3: course and they are monitoring it and standing by just 64 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 3: in case anything happens with that. 65 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: John, how close were the firefighters to the truck when 66 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: it exploded. 67 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 3: They were right on scene, right on top of right 68 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 3: on top of it. Yeah, right on top of it. 69 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 3: And so the burns are so severe that one of 70 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 3: the firefighters had to be lifted to La General Hospital for. 71 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: Further treatment, continued treatment. 72 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: As Kristin Crowley said, she took a look at their 73 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 3: face and she said, it's something that she will never 74 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: forget seeing. Yeah, And so it was, you know, and 75 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 3: our will Cole Streiber actually posted a video that was 76 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 3: caught on a Reen camera in live in real time 77 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 3: where you can see that explosion. 78 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: It was very big. 79 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 3: And so these firefighters, you know, these two that are 80 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 3: critically injured. They have been stabilized, but there's no doubt 81 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: that these injuries are very severe. 82 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: Did they know there were natural gas canisters on board? 83 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 2: That's not clear if they. 84 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: Were that close to get that badly burned, right. I 85 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: wondered that the normal protocol to approach a situation. 86 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 3: Like that, Well, when we were told that when the 87 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 3: firefighters responded, they were coming out to what they thought 88 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 3: was a routine truck fire. So it's unclear whether they 89 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: knew exactly what they were walking into, but the explosion 90 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: happened so fast that there was no time for them 91 00:04:59,080 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 3: to back up. 92 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 2: They have had no idea that that was going to explode. 93 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wonder if they realized how much natural 94 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: gas was was on board that thing, right. 95 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 3: And La City Fire says that they, you know, they 96 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 3: had to they had to quarter off the area. They 97 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 3: had to keep the public about five hundred feet away 98 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 3: in case that second tank blue, you know, with that 99 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 3: other one exploding catching fire, there's it wasn't clear why 100 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: it caught fire, but they are still monitoring that second one, 101 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 3: keeping the public out of the area in case that 102 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: second one decided to blow as well. 103 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 2: But again it's it's not clear what caused that fire. 104 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 3: But what was interesting, John, was that, you know, these 105 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: these big rigs, a lot of them operate on diesel fuel, 106 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 3: but this one, being in the harbor and operating in 107 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: the harbor and being a green harbor as it's you know, 108 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 3: been coined, this one. 109 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: Was pressurized natural gas. 110 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 3: So it's you know, normally they do have diesel fuel, right, 111 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 3: all right. 112 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: So the truck was running on the natural gas. 113 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was actually part of its fuel system. 114 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: I see, So wasn't just carrying the natural gas. It 115 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: actually it was running. 116 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 2: Yeah. 117 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 3: You know, these trucks that run in the Harbor is 118 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: part of the Harbor's green approach, you know, green emissions. 119 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: I just wonder if if they if they knew what 120 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: they were getting into. Uh, you know, did they did 121 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: the truck driver did she tell, you know, anybody, what 122 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: do you know what what this truck was was carrying? 123 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 3: Well, I'm assuming that she did because when she called, 124 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 3: she called nine to one, she told him that something 125 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 3: was off, something was happening. She was able to escape 126 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: the truck before anything happened, so she did not get 127 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 3: injured herself. So you know, but again in that video there, 128 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 3: even if they did know, there was no time for 129 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 3: them to react. 130 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: All right, Chris, thanks very much, Thanks Sean, Chris Adler 131 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: can't find news. Uh and you had nine firefighters injured, 132 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: two of them critically apparently severely when this gas carrying 133 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: natural gas cylinders and the truck was running on natural 134 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: gas blew up, big explosion and two really badly injured firefighters. 135 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: Really really sad case. We come back, We're gonna give 136 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: away one thousand dollars. And you remember that defund the 137 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: police era. You remember the era when Eric Garcetti and 138 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: the police Chief Michael Moore were taking a knee in 139 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: front of the protesters, the people who are terrorizing that 140 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: Jewish neighborhood on Fairfax during the George Floyd protest. Remember 141 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: that whole era, and everybody wanted to dismantle the police department. Well, 142 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: you know, they did a lot of permanent damage because 143 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: Karen Bass can't find men and women who want to 144 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: be LAPD officers very much, and LAPD is way short 145 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: of band power. We'll tell you all about this fiasco 146 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: entirely self inflicted by the idiots that run the city. 147 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: Coming up. 148 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 149 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 150 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: All right, coming up in in about fifteen minutes after 151 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: Deborah's news. This story just makes me crazy. Here the 152 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: La Grand Hotels has been given Well, there's an Academy 153 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: of Media Arts that is running a school inside the 154 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: La Grand Hotel and it's an important school. It's a 155 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: private one and it's about fifty ninth through twelfth graders, 156 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: most of them from poor black and Latino families and 157 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: they study media arts. And now the school's closed. It's 158 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: closed because the homeless took over the La Grand hotel. 159 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: This is from the city. This is Karen Bass's Los 160 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: Angeles here, and it's like, so behavior of the homeless, 161 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: you know, and these are mental patients and drug addicts, 162 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: is so outrageous that the owner, the founder of the school, 163 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: Dana Hammond, has to uh has to close the school down. 164 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 1: So the kids, the kids are out of luck. I 165 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: don't know where they're going to go to school or 166 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: what Dana Hammond's going to do. But this, this is 167 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: what it's. This is what it's why when they prattle 168 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: on about, uh, the inequities, the racial disparity, the inequities 169 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: between the poor and the wealthy, this is what the 170 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: city does. It. It's it sends vagrants into a hotel 171 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: where a private school is located. And because the drug 172 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: addicts and the mental patients act badly, it's the students 173 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: who have to leave, like they haven't had a difficult 174 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: enough life so far. Get to him coming up. Uh, 175 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: here here's a here's a there's a lot still a 176 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: lot of fallout from from twenty twenty you know, which 177 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: was the COVID era that that's and was also defund 178 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: the police and George Floyd. It was just mass insanity 179 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: in so many different ways, and somehow it got to 180 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: the heads of the idiots who run government that we 181 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: didn't need police departments anymore, and we could denigrate and 182 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: insult and destroy the morale of the existing police, and 183 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: a lot of police just left. In twenty nineteen, which 184 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: was the last full year before the insanity, LAPD had 185 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: ten thousand officers. Now it's got well, now they're hoping 186 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: to get to eighty nine hundred. They don't know that's 187 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: a projection. So many officers have quit because they were 188 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: treated so badly. 189 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 6: You know. 190 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: It started with being ordered to allow the rioting to 191 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:55,119 Speaker 1: go on, especially in the Fairfax district. All those businesses, 192 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: Jewish businesses not coincidentally were burned. They were eighty eight 193 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: businesses vandalized or destroyed or burned, eighty eight in a 194 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: Jewish neighborhood. And Garcetti and the police chief, if you remember, 195 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: Michael Moore watched and the police were under orders to 196 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: stand back, hands off, And then we watched Garcetti and 197 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: Michael Moore take and knee and genuflect towards the protesters, 198 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: offering a worshipful stance to indicate what side they were on. 199 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: They weren't on the side of the police. More importantly, 200 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,199 Speaker 1: they weren't on the side of the business owners and 201 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: the residents in the neighborhood. They were on the side 202 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: of the terrorists and the vandals. And ever since then, 203 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: a lot of cops have just gotten the hell out 204 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: and you don't blame them. And they thought they could 205 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: get up, you know, to hire enough officers that by 206 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: the end of this budget year they'd be at ninety 207 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: five hundred, but they would have to hire almost a thousand, 208 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: and shockingly, men and women aren't showing up. The recruitment 209 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: classes are pretty small because who wants to deal with this. 210 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: There's a whole undercurrent of if we have any problems 211 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: with you, you're going to get disciplined, you might get fired, 212 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: you might get charged with a crime, you might have 213 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: your life turned inside out. You'll be the subject of 214 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:40,479 Speaker 1: endless vitriol from all the progressives and left wing lunatic groups. 215 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: Who wants to sign up for that. There are plenty 216 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: of jobs in the world. You don't have to be 217 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: a police officer. It used to be a prestigious thing 218 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: that you were protecting the public. You were potentially sacrificing 219 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: your life, putting yourself in danger. But everybody found out 220 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: there was something worse than being put physically in danger, 221 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: is you would have your life destroyed. You wouldn't be 222 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: able to function in society anymore. After all, the left 223 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: wing politicians and activist groups got done with you, and 224 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: that was the reason that a lot of them quit retired, 225 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: don't want to apply for the job to begin with, 226 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: and now they don't think they're going to get anywhere 227 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: near their goals. Again. In the El Segundo Socialist times, 228 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: only the Socialist Communist Council members are being quoted Hugo 229 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 1: Sodo Martinez, who would like to destroy the entire police 230 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: department if he could with his bare hands. And now 231 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: he's saying, I don't think ninety five hundred is realistic. 232 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: We can't be in denial about this. It is not 233 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: realistic and it's not realistic because people are entering the 234 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: workforce do not want to be police officers. Right because 235 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: Sodo Martinez in his crowd did everything they could to 236 00:13:54,840 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: demonize the police and make him the objects of scorn 237 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: and derision. So mission accomplished. Mission accomplished, Hugo Soda Martinez. 238 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: Good work on that, Nthia Rahman. It's the same crowd 239 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: over and over. These are people who belong to the DSA, 240 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America. This is becoming rapidly a 241 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: powerful political party in Los Angeles. These aren't Democrats. They 242 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: call themselves Democratic Socialists. They're really communists, and they're anti police, 243 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: anti prison, anti the whole justice system. And they're the 244 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: ones who the La Times writer here, David Zandheuiser, can't 245 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: wait to quote at length. She was against the police 246 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: contract because they started offering more money and more benefits 247 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: to try to get more people to sign. But there's 248 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: still not that many takers. And they say, no, no, no, 249 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: we shouldn't spend this money. It's going to bust the budget. 250 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: These are the same people who do nothing to clean 251 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: up the homelessness in their neighborhoods. I mean, we told 252 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: you what. In fact, we'll get to that story later. 253 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: In Hugo Soda Martinez district, there's a recording studio that 254 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: make clothes famous. One sunse it sounds because all the 255 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: homeless there makes doing business impossible. In fact, there's a 256 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: story today that somebody came in and defecated on a 257 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: drum set, and that's one of the reasons the owner 258 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: wants to get out. And Nathia Rahman, well, she's famous 259 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: for allowing a homeless encampment, complete with gang members selling 260 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: drugs and guns out of the tents in front of 261 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: a school, right in front of the school, not one 262 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: hundred feet away, right in front of the school. And 263 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: this is who's governing la And then they're going, wow, gee, 264 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: it looks like nobody wants to be a cop. Hey, 265 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: let's not pay them anyway. All right, we come back. 266 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: Latest atrocity in the La Grand Hotel, housed up until 267 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: this moment the Academy of Media Arts, and instead the 268 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: city let in lots of homeless people into the La 269 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: Grand Hotel and now the homeless behavior is driving the 270 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: school into closing. And we'll have the founder, Dana Hammond 271 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: on to talk about this situation. It's really it's fifty 272 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: ninth through twelfth grader's, low income Black and Latino families. 273 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: This is what happened. This is Karen Bass's Los Angeles, right, 274 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: can't find any cops to hire driving a private school 275 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: for poor children at a business and homeless people rule. 276 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: They take a dump on the drum set at Sunset 277 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: Sounds and they help close down this school. 278 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM 279 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 5: six forty. 280 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: We're on the radio from one until four and then 281 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand here on 282 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. Coming up after two o'clock we're gonna 283 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: talk Brad Garrett MAYBC News what caused the mass shooting 284 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: in Kansas City, who did it and why not? A 285 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: whole lot of details have come out in the last 286 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: twenty four hours on how that shooting developed and what 287 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: was the motivation. Here, we will talk with Brad Garrett 288 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: to see what the latest information and theories are. But 289 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: first I want to talk You've got it. You've got 290 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: to hear this story because this says everything about the 291 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: La City government and it includes more corruption involving those 292 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: Chinese real estate companies too. That'll be on the back 293 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: end of the story. But on the front end here 294 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: is Dana Hammond. He is the founder of the Academy 295 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: of Media Arts and he had fifty nine through twelfth graders, 296 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: mostly from low income Black and Latino families. He was 297 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: having he had private high school teaching media arts and 298 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: this this school's now closed. He'd gotten space at the 299 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: La Grand Hotel. Unfortunately, Karen Vass's Inside Safe program for 300 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: the vagrants, well, that took precedent. The homeless took over 301 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: the hotel in all their glory, all their drug addiction 302 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: and mental illness, and there was so much bizarre behavior 303 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: that Hammond had to had to close the school down 304 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: and get out of there so that nobody was going 305 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: to get killed. Let's talk to Dana Hammond now about 306 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: the situation. 307 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 6: Dana, welcome, good afternoon, Thank you so much. We're speaking 308 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 6: so candidly, and you know this is not anything sensationalized. 309 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 6: This is the reality of what we've been dealing with 310 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 6: for two years. And the reality is we're not an 311 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 6: enemy of the homeless community. We understand the challenges in 312 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 6: La However, you know we can't put a home shelter 313 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 6: in the same building as a school. So the question 314 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 6: we've been trying to synthesize is how is mayor Baths 315 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 6: continuing to pay a wanted fugitive of the US over 316 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 6: a million dollars a month to house the homeless with 317 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 6: taxpayers money at the La Grand And it took me 318 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 6: twenty years to build the school. And we have a 319 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 6: state of the art facility. And the previous school that 320 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 6: was here was an international Chinese boarding school. So we 321 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 6: have black and brown kids who were able to experience. 322 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 6: They spent ten million dollars a bill out. We have 323 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 6: to stay of the art, kitchen, culinary program. It looks 324 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 6: like a college in here, a sound stage and this 325 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 6: is what the Chinese students were experiencing in COVID. They 326 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 6: had to leave because of the pandemic. They went back 327 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 6: to their countries and we were able to find this 328 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 6: space because we outgrew our six room church. And it's 329 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 6: don't I cannot synthesize come from Foster Care. I'm from 330 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 6: South LA. You know you have Jimmy I Bean and 331 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 6: doctor Dre. People are building schools and you know everyone 332 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 6: has a school now and that's that's great, But this 333 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 6: is home grown in the city of La that I'm from. 334 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 6: Foster Care. Music saved my life and I designed the 335 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 6: project based laring curriculum that will provide pathways into the future. 336 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 6: Work industries and we have an amazing facility that we 337 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 6: were able to deliver our innovative project basedlaring curriculum, and 338 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 6: it just got taken away from us because of the 339 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 6: homeless epidemic here, pandemic, epidemic series, whatever you want to 340 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 6: call it here in Los Angeles, and it's hurtful. It's hurtful, 341 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 6: all right. 342 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: I want to reference something you said early on. The 343 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: hotel is owned by a Chinese billionaire WAYH Wang, and 344 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: his real estate company is shen Jen New World One 345 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: and Wang was found guilty of fraud and bribery in 346 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: connection with councilman Jose Wiza, who's going to federal prison 347 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: over these charges. Shen Jen was fined four million dollars. Wang, 348 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: the billionaire left the country. He fled the country and 349 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: is considered a fugitive. And I guess Karen Bass and 350 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: the Inside Safe program was paying him a lot of 351 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: money to take aless in. 352 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 6: It's not just a lot of money. He's anung siege 353 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 6: of this. When we signed our lease, this backet up 354 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 6: project room key was existence. We were told by Russ Cox, 355 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 6: who is the representative for the ownership of the hotel 356 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 6: that project room key would be leaving. We told our 357 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 6: parents that when we got here it was some of 358 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 6: everything going on, but we signed the leaf with the 359 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 6: understanding it would be gone when our lease commenced August one, 360 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 6: twenty two. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Continued extensions and russ 361 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 6: Coop we have emails. He stated that he preferred a 362 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 6: shelter to stay because of the money. One point five 363 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 6: million a months, over a million a month, and that 364 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 6: totally killed our enrollment over time. That left us with 365 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 6: fifty kids. You know, to enter a deal like this, 366 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 6: you have to have the revenue to afford it, and 367 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 6: we did based on our growth. We outruistics from church. 368 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 6: And it's just the question of what is the City 369 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 6: of Maribath sending that crime does pay like you paying 370 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 6: a fusitive. Yes, you had criminals. 371 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: You had two hundred and fifty kids and now you're 372 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: down to fifty just because the conditions were so intolerable 373 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: at the hotel, I. 374 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 6: Mean one hundred like on Johnny, I mean we've had 375 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 6: several intruders. And so this is what is a David 376 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 6: and good life story. So what the city has done 377 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 6: is they we had weekly meetings and none of the 378 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 6: solution work. They said, oh, we'll give you a walkie 379 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 6: talkie to talk with our security. Oh, we had paid 380 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 6: for a gate, so they paid for half of the 381 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 6: gate for us, which is in a mission that there's 382 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 6: a problem with the safety issues. They saw the urine bottles, 383 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 6: They saw the needles on our campus, the crack pipes 384 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 6: on our campus, the residents opening the hotel doors and 385 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 6: throwing out bottles, and and and the drug care of familiar. 386 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 6: There's nudity in the back of our school and during 387 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 6: the school day, individuals just exposing themselves, making threats to 388 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 6: our security guards, attacking our security guards. And you know, 389 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 6: it was just a weekly meeting to check the box. 390 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 6: And we we played, you know, we tried, and we 391 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 6: we had we consistently asked for a meeting with the 392 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 6: mayor and what and we didn't get it except we 393 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 6: were talking to interns. 394 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: Oh oh wait, wait and tarn Bash never met with you, huh, 395 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: you talked with interns, never met with that's. 396 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 6: Respectful meeting with interns. So I just refused myself from 397 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 6: the meeting. We became, you know, like the problem because 398 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 6: we were just reporting albums. So what you saw on 399 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 6: La Times. We gave La Times. We have a police 400 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 6: report from January to an intruder. Another of the twelve 401 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 6: to fifteen intruder came in our campus high on LSD drugs. 402 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 6: You know, as the founder of the CEO of the school, 403 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 6: I cannot allow these types of things to happen, knowing 404 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 6: that the solutions that we tried. I tried to find 405 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 6: solutions that didn't work. So I had to get our 406 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 6: kids out of here. So the message is what is 407 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 6: the city send it to black and brown students. If 408 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 6: these are the Chinese students that was here, this would 409 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 6: not be happening. And I echo council member Kevin DeLeon 410 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 6: who's been support of that. He's very clear that black 411 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 6: and brown student from wats Inglewood in South la if 412 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 6: this was any other ethnicity group, we would not be 413 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 6: having to cold our school, which is twenty years of work. 414 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 6: And let me just add this, there is a solution. 415 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 6: Kevin de Leon has a solution for tiny homes. There's 416 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 6: a tiny home solution spearheaded his admit by his office 417 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 6: at a fraction of the costs that has proven success. 418 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 6: And you know, but yet you continue to say fugitive 419 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 6: and it's it's a David and the Life story. 420 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: I know they've they've given this convicted fugitives company twenty 421 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: five million dollars to house the homeless. Since you opened 422 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 1: the academy at the hotel, that criminal got twenty five 423 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: million dollars. You got to bust a business. And the 424 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: kids can't go to school. 425 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 6: Listen, We've just had kids come to our campus, So 426 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 6: minds you. I have a twenty year leaf. So I'm 427 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 6: coming to work every day in this fifty two thousand 428 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 6: gird field of space by myself because we have to go. 429 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 6: If everything's in litigation, we haven't scholars come to our 430 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 6: campus after school to get help with college admissions. Our 431 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 6: scholars did not want to leave our campus. The fifty 432 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,160 Speaker 6: that we did have, they did not want to leave. 433 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 6: And it's just heartbreaking. This is no political play. This 434 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 6: is real, real world, real life experience of the small 435 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 6: organization being bullied by the city of Los Angeles in 436 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 6: the Chinese billionaire and I'm not scared, you know it's 437 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 6: it's I'm from South LA. I was in and out 438 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 6: of foster care. Music saved my life. I went to college. 439 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 6: I worked as an industry professional in high school, doing sessions, 440 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 6: playing drums, playing piano, and we built a career development 441 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 6: focused school to ensure and be prevented us so our 442 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 6: students won't be parents, homelesses. 443 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: You're the kind of person and you're running the kind 444 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: of program that all these politicians would claim is to 445 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: be applauded and you should be warded, and they would 446 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: stand behind you. I'm sure they do a press conference 447 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: praising you, but when it came down to giving you 448 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: a safe home for your students, they completely failed. And 449 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: they were rewarded the homeless people and they were awarded 450 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: this this fugitive, criminal billionaire. 451 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 6: And it sounds like a movie. And I'm telling you, 452 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 6: if any when even our donors, when they come and 453 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 6: see our space, it looks exactly like a college. This 454 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 6: is a movement that we started that literally got it 455 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 6: snatched away from us. We were planning to expand into 456 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 6: more than one school. We were spending We're planning to 457 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 6: build a boarding school for black and brown kids and 458 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 6: introducing them to mixing with international students. Since from New York, 459 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 6: imagine as a boarding school in the heart of a 460 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 6: third and Figarore in the heart of La providing exposure 461 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 6: for our students that they could compete at the global level. 462 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 6: I mean we're seeing in the paper of how they're 463 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 6: rewriting the laws and making the corrections on redlining for 464 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 6: real estate. This was an educational equity. We've seen what's 465 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 6: going on with LAUSD and removing Prop thirty nine from 466 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 6: all of the other charter schools, removing our family from 467 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 6: having choice. I'm no politician. I am a passionate visionary 468 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 6: CEO that have that we've accomplished it as a community, 469 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 6: but we see the inequities and you're one hundred percent right. 470 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 6: What I was told was the reason why we need diversity, 471 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 6: equity inclusion is because I'm a black man that serves 472 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 6: black and brown students, that has a state of our 473 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 6: facility and was told to be quiet and shut up 474 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 6: as we pay the units. 475 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: Dana, I have to go. We've got to do the news. 476 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on and keep in touch with 477 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: us as things continue. All right, because this is not 478 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: the last chapter here, Uh it's not all right. 479 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 6: Thank you, and thank you and thank you for sists 480 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,719 Speaker 6: breading the word on what we're dealing with. 481 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: Sure thing, Danna, Dana Hammond, and he's the founder of 482 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: the Academy of Media Arts. We've got more to say 483 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: about this because you wouldn't believe the details as to 484 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: what's been going on in the La Grand Hotel and 485 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: how much money this This criminal Chinese billionaire who is 486 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: convicted of bribing an La City councilman. This is who 487 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: the city's involved with. This is who Karen Bass is rewarded. 488 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: She's rewarding the crazy homeless people in drug addicts, and 489 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: she's rewarding the convicted Chinese billionaire in his company. And 490 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: these kids are out in the street, they don't have 491 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: a school to go to. What I mean, what a 492 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: bunch of phonies? What a bunch of phonies? Everybody in 493 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: La City government. Huh, that's what he said. You're always 494 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: preaching about diversity, equity and inclusion. Here's something that addresses 495 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: all those issues. And what are they doing. 496 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am 497 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 498 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: My head is still spinning. My head is you know, 499 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: sometimes you think you've seen it all, you've read it off, 500 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: you've heard it all. And Dana Hammond we just finished 501 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: speaking with. He's a black man who is trying to 502 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: run the Academy of Media Arts and he's got fifty students. 503 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: He had two hundred and fifty, but it was down 504 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: to fifty because he had taken space the former La 505 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: Grand Hotel, and then the city moved in a large 506 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: number of homeless people. And the thing is about this inside, stupid, 507 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: inside safe program that Karen Bass is promoting and that 508 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: everybody praises her for. Oh, it's not wonderful. They're inside 509 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: and they're safe. They're inside, but everybody else is in safe. 510 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: In fact, the homeless aren't safe in there. If you 511 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: heard data. Well, anyway, the homeless totally took over the 512 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: hotel and Dana had to close his school and it's 513 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: all black and Hispanic students and ninth through twelfth grade, 514 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: fifty students they're going to study media arts. You heard 515 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: how extensive the program was and the resources they had. 516 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: It seems like a great thing, right, This is what 517 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: all these idiot politicians preach about. Here are some of 518 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: the incidents in reports compiled by school security that the 519 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: El Segundo Times looked at involving hotels, the hotel residents 520 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: because in El Segundo Times speak, you can't call them 521 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: drug addicted mental patient vagrants. They're the hotel residents. A 522 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: man threatening to fight the security guard outside the gate. 523 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: A woman exposing herself to students at nine thirty in 524 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: the morning. Another woman lying completely naked behind the school, 525 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: and then she threatened to shoot and established security officer 526 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: when when she was confronted. Then a man who broke 527 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: into the school through the back of it, and Dana 528 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: Hammond said, students are lives are in danger here because 529 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: you know these lunatics, God knows what they're on, LSD, meth, PCP, fentanyl, heroin. 530 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: And the really galling part is and this is like 531 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: second day in a row, we're discussing this again. Jose Weizar, 532 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: the corrupt councilman who's going to federal prison over his 533 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: bribery crimes. Well, his partner in this was a Chinese 534 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: billionaire name Wei Wong. Wi Wong was also convicted of 535 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: bribery and fraud in the Weizar case. Weezar went to prison, 536 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: Wang fled the country and he's considered a fugitive, but 537 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: no one's going to see him again. The thing is 538 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: he's still running his real estate company, shen Zen and 539 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: Shenzen owns the La Grand Hotel, and Karen Bass is 540 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: giving him millions and millions of dollars to take in 541 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: the vagrants. Karen Bass is paying the guy who is 542 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: involved in the bribery scandal with Jose Weezar and fled 543 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: the country to avoid prison, but our tax money is 544 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: going to him. In fact, you live in La City. 545 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: Twenty five million dollars of our tax money went to 546 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: Shenzen twenty five million to take in the homeless people 547 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: who are insane. They found drug paraphernalia on campus. They 548 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: found tenants inside the trash bins. The tenants were living 549 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: in the trash bins. Human poop on the sidewalk, smell 550 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: of urine across campus, outburst from inside safe tenants. This 551 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: is the inside Safe program the Bass is constantly promoting 552 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: and given and given applause from the idiots and the media. Holy, 553 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: this is Project Room Key. It's connected to that. So 554 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: this poor guy, this poor guy is screwed over Dana Hammon, 555 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: who's trying to help the poor black and Hispanic kids. Meantime, 556 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: the Chinese billionaire who is bribing Jose Weezar, He's back 557 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: in China taking in tens of millions of dollars in 558 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: our tax money, and the vagrants are running loose inside 559 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: the La Grand Hotel, high whacked out in every kind 560 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: of drug imaginable, throwing their liquor bottles around. Go ahead, 561 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 1: tell me how it would become more insane and tell 562 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: me why Karen Bass doesn't get any flak for this. 563 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: Why isn't she held responsible for this? Because she you know, 564 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: she's really sweet looking and she smiles a lot. Yeah, 565 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 1: doesn't Jim and I smile. 566 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 6: Wow. 567 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let that story go. We're gonna keep 568 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: on top of that. I'll tell you all right. Coming 569 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,720 Speaker 1: up after two o'clock a Brad Garrett, what caused this 570 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: this shooting in Kansas City? Who did it, why they 571 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: did it? It's not been easy to get many details 572 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours. And we'll talk to 573 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: Brad Garrett form ABC News Debra Mark live in the 574 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to 575 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: the John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the 576 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: show live on KFI Am six forty from one to 577 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime 578 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.