WEBVTT - Jokes from the Atlanta Forest 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:15.280 Hello, Welcome to It could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. Recently, 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.720 I just wrapped up a whole five episodes about the 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:23.280 previous week of action to stop cop City in Atlanta, Georgia. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.960 In a somewhat unsuccessful attempt to shorten the running time 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.920 of those episodes, I had to cut out many of 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.959 the funny bits, jokes, gaffs, goofs, bloopers, and related tomfoolery. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.560 But as demonstrated by the police's massive mobilization to shut 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.640 down a canceled comedy event in the woods on March seventh, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.120 the Willani Forest and surrounding area of Atlanta are often 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.760 home to manifestations of absurdist humor. There's been a lot 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.960 of not great news recently. Well, there's kind of always 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.279 a lot of not great news now that we live 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.640 in an ever expanding hyperreality oversaturated with information. But I digress. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.240 I think it's just as important to not overlook the comedic, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.200 lighthearted side of things as it is to keep up 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.320 with all of the doom and gloom that we usually 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:19.440 platform on our show. So, without further ado, I present 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:26.520 to you jokes from the Atlanta Forest. Side note, I 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:32.200 am now invoking Jester's privilege. Legally, everything we say in 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.120 this episode is a joke as a little heads up. Okay, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.920 this episode will probably make more sense if you listened 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.920 to the four part Week of Action series or the 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.360 retrospective episode. But also I will do my best to 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.440 pop in via this narration to help fill in any 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.360 gaps so that listeners will not be completely lost if 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.120 you've not listened to those other episodes. Anyway, we shall 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.920 start by tuning back into my conversation with Matt from 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.560 the Atlanta Community the Press Collective as we discuss the 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:09.200 March fifth police raid of the South River Music Festival. Welcome, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:14.000 it could happen here. Cast I'm Garrison Davis. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.880 In World of Warcraft. You can shield bash. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:21.960 So that there's been this effort from police and media 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.600 to frame these arrests as like these were arrests that 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.200 happened at a crime scene, like these these arrests were 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.320 people who were who were torching equipment, who were involved 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.640 in all these actions, who are doing domestic terrorism. But 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.760 all the rest that happened were at a music festival, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.560 like they were in a completely different section of the forest, like. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.080 At a music festival at the parking lot even away 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.280 from the music festival. And you know, police surveillance may 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.280 be good and they may have been able to pick 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.200 out an individual or two, but for the most part, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.280 like you had something like two hundred people partake in 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.040 this direct action and then disappear into the woods, there's 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.520 really no way too And of course most of them 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.280 were wearing block of some form that there's really no way. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.920 Much of that block, which has now been burnt and 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.720 it's no longer existing in the physical material realm, so 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.040 there's no way to like really tell who was there, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.519 and other than allegedly having mud on your clothes, you 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.960 want to talk about what the warrants were in the 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.959 oddity of how the warrants were formatted. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.000 Once you started to listen to them, you noticed this 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:35.080 very repetitive nature of them. And so about halfway through 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.640 we get to a lawyer who straight up calls out 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:42.120 the fact that these warrants seem like they were just copy. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:46.240 Pasted, like every single person all the way downline. And 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.760 one of the such claims the mud mud. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.360 So I don't know, I don't know how many festivals 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.560 you've attended in your life, but I've been to a few, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.920 and they are never clean affairs. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:07.600 So it it rained like one day before the night 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.360 before the festival started, there was a tornado warning in Atlanta. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.799 I've forgotten about that, and there was rain, which makes 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.159 I don't know if the prosecutors know this, but when 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.920 rain mixes with dirt, it creates something called that we 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.719 that we refer to as mud. My dock martins are 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.960 still caked in mud. Future me cutting back in here 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.080 for a sec So for the record, I have since 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.160 cleaned my dock Martins, but the mud was still on 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.560 there for well over a month until I was forced 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.920 to wash my shoes after I stepped in much much 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.960 more mud while in the Telemac forest as I was 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.360 failing to shoot a Keltech, which yeah, that is that 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.120 was That was probably my bad. These charges don't make 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.360 any sense. There's no evidence these people committed any actual crimes, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.640 so they're just being charged with terrorism. This is like 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.480 a nebul this concept. The judge said that the legal 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.560 basis of these claims will have to be decided on 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.560 another day. Similarly, they said that in regards to like 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.800 actual evidence that these people charged did any crimes, she 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.960 said that she had none of this none of the 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.320 She said that she had none of this evidence in 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.160 front of her, and that evidence is for another day. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:26.200 So it's absolutely I think bonkers it is an appropriate word. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.760 One of those one of those kangaroo court moments. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.560 It really my faith in the legal system was really 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.679 solidified this day. There was also the threat of arrest 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.120 for the New York Times reporter that happened. I forgot 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:47.400 to mention that. So yeah, we'll leave that commentary by itself. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.320 They should have they should have charged Sean Keenan with 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.920 domestic terrorism. Sorry for making fun of noted trans ally 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.760 the New York Times. I promise it won't happen again. Wait. Wait, no, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.840 that's that's a lie. There's at least two more New 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.400 York Times jokes in this script. Fuck, I guess let's 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:12.440 talk about Monday. Monday Monday, So, uh, don't. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.120 It is the editor? No, Daniel, Daniel, I'm sorry, I'm 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:19.599 so sorry. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.720 He's not going to hear any of this shit. Oh 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.160 im because the way these work, as I transcribe them 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.159 and then I copy and paste sections, so they only 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:27.120 move the section over. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:33.320 So when I say ask Garrison about okay, So it 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:34.560 turns out that was a lie. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:40.320 Daniel did need to hear that, So sorry, Daniel, full transparency. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.920 Most of those bleeps were me making horrible, horrible, slurping 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.240 noises into the microphone, as Daniel can probably attest. So 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.080 really all of you should be thanking Daniel for suffering 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.520 through those to bleep them out. Daniel died for your sins. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:59.040 I mean content truly, truly braver than the troops insert joke. Anyway, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.560 back to me from the past. So let's talk about 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.880 Let's talk about Monday. I want to talk about the 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.039 clergy event that happened in from a city hall, so 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.760 City council meeting. You work for the Atlantic Community Press Collective. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.120 You've you've covered a lot of city council meetings in 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.920 Atlanta before. This was my first time covering an Atlanta 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:23.520 City Council meeting. Due to your you know, wisdom in 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.920 this in this field, I would like for you to 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.880 to to discuss what happened at the city council meeting 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.160 and in relation to your to your to your years 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.360 of experience in covering these these uh these meetings. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.120 So I City Council meets every other week on Mondays. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.760 I cover several other committees but uh, you know, the 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.920 big one is always the City Council meeting, and over 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.640 over the course of time, there there's like a cast 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.440 of characters that that you just begin to understand are 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.800 going to appear either every week or or from time 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.239 to time. And you you had the pleasure of actually 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:02.920 getting to see a few of these and I was like, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.360 there were were there were a few of us media 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.480 folks there, and I was actually really happy that like 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.640 people got to experience this with me, because I usually 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.280 have to do it by myself. So you got to 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.480 meet three of the characters. You got to meet Brother Hakim, 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.920 you got to meet Rachel, and you got to be 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.800 your favorite chef doctor. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.040 So this is just somebody who everyone refers to as 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.840 chef doctor. He is dressed up as what you can 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.120 only describe as a chef doctor. I wondering half of 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.360 a chef's outfit, half of a doctor's outfit. He had 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.960 a Freemason pin on his shirt, because of course he did. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.760 And I just like watched him for a while because 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.520 like initially in the City Council meeting, they were just 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.280 like handing out awards to like the proclamation ceremony, the 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.880 proclamations and awards to like various people, including like former 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:55.200 city council members like whatever. And then eventually public comments 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:02.800 started and I guess, let's let's talk about doctor so well, no, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.000 so for the entirety of the city council meeting during 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:11.120 the proclamations in the back in the back of the 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:16.520 back of City Council, there was this large red like 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.160 like heart just sitting sitting in the back. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.360 But it looked like Bob the tomato from Vegetatis. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.360 Look it looked that was exactly what I thought. I 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.640 like this heart, Like, why is there this Bob the 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.320 tomato ass heart mascot just sitting in the back of 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.920 city Council. No one was inside the costume. It was 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.800 just like the heart sitting there next to like another 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.880 massive heart made up of like flowers. I saw. I 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.959 was kind of confused for why that was there. There 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.800 was like a pediatric surgeon that got like one of 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.959 the awards, and like, oh, maybe the heart's there because 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.439 of like because of like heart surgery or something. I 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:49.880 don't know. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.920 No, no, that would make sense. And you have to 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.800 you have to get out of that mindset for public comment. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.440 For the most part, so then chef doctor gets ten 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:01.920 minutes of public comments. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.400 So we should explain that mechanism. Everyone who signs up 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.280 for public comment gets two minutes. You can award your 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.320 time or give over your time to somebody else. So 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.000 there were four other people who gave their time over 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.800 to Chef Doctor to give him ten minutes, and he 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.680 used all ten minutes. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.800 So what was chef doctor trying to get out of 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.760 the city? Why was he giving public heart? So a 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:27.800 shout out to chef doctor. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.440 Okay, like is Chef Doctor wants to create a soul 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.480 food museum in the West side of Atlanta, and she's 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.400 shown up a few times to kind of ask city 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.880 council for money, and as far as I know, that 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.040 has gone nowhere. But that was what he is ostensibly 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:52.120 there for today. However, beyond just the heart, the dancing, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.080 we haven't got there yet. However, beyond just the big 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.160 red heart, and like the paper mache flower heart, he 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.640 he brought a floutest. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.520 A floutest. So a floutest is someone who plays the flute. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.480 If you are like an uncultured person, who's who's who's 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.880 listening to this? And he walked up to the microphone, 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.240 and then for five minutes, he got a floutist to 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.720 play a flute cover of Amazing Grace. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.400 Yes, but but he had backing music from a laptop 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.160 that just kind of appeared up of nowhere, and so 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.440 he played into the microphone. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:33.520 They played this funeral song as as this now Heart 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:38.600 that's been brought to life. It starts dancing, starts dancing. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:44.080 So this person wearing like heart pajama pants changed into 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.319 this hard question at some point. I didn't see them 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.120 change into this. I don't know how this happened. I 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.240 must have missed it. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.679 It's City Council magic. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.160 Nice will be Chef, doctor Kenneth Wolhoyt. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.160 You'll have ten minutes due to yielded time. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.080 Chef, let's go ahead and get started. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:00.839 My name is. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:07.000 A chef, doctor Kenneth Wildhord. I'm the president of the 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:15.520 Soul Food Museum and the Soul Food University. We are 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:21.560 celebrating our twentieth anniversary and we are asking for the 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.600 City Council and an honorable Mayor to get behind us 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:35.679 and support us with donating a museum space, building and 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.440 land with parking in the city of Atlanta for our 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.319 tourists that come here to have a place to come 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:51.200 and experience our hospitality, agriculture service of Atlanta. I'm gonna 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.920 sell quick prayer because I'm spirit lead. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.280 I do things by spirit. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.040 I'm at that age you know it's not about me, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.200 it's about the spirit. Now we'll have a song that 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.480 was selected by the spirit of the ancestors, not by me, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.280 but by the spirit of dancers. I asked God to say, Hey, God, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.959 what song should we introduce today? This is the one 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:15.360 that was. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.000 But this, this guy in the hard costume walks up 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.120 and he starts like kind of dancing to this float 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.240 music for five minutes. Talk about the dancing. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.800 I don't think it was so much dancing as a 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.560 swaying with a little bit of hand motion along with 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:52.480 the swang. But like I, I wasn't expecting it. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.719 I thought someone like dosed me with hallucinogens. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:01.240 I did. Actually, there were some stress ballad I put 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.040 them in your water bottle when you were looking. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.880 This explained so much about what happened on Monday. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.040 No, it would make much more sense if that's what happened. Unfortunately, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.640 Atlanta is a cartoon town and that's not what happened. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:15.560 This was real life. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.880 So this, this this flood cover of amazing Grace played 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.160 for five minutes along with the dancing Heart, and then 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.240 we finally got to public comment for the reason for 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.160 the reason we were for the reason for why we 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.080 were there. Not only were we blessed with that stunning 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:37.240 rendition of amazing grace, the floutist himself was was briefly 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.680 able to address the city Council before President Dave Shipman rudely, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:46.680 very very rudely called time amazing grace. It's such a 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.480 sort that made so much to the world. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:51.120 So that's it. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:15:15.160 Thank you, okay, and we are back. And just as 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:16.720 a note, I have forgot to put this in the script, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.040 so I'm gonna say it now. It turns out that 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.400 that heart costume that was quote unquote dancing to the music, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.920 that's actually rentable. You can rent that in Atlanta. So 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.760 I have some really good ideas for the next for 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.960 the next week of action, since we can rent more 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.120 bouncy castles and also that heart costume, I think there's 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.760 a lot of potential, extremely funny things that could happen. Anyway, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.360 back to my conversation with Matt from the Atlantic Community 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.040 Press Collective. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.600 There are a couple like things to note about how 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.960 city council public comment works. City council doesn't tend to 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.480 pay attention to them. Osensibly the only one who pays 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.400 attention is City Council President Doug Shipman, because it is 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.120 his job to call time and to call up the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.360 next person. But you know, city councilors will like step 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.360 in and out of the room, get something to eat 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.520 during the seventeen hours of public comment for cop city 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.480 like one of them held a press conference like it is. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.640 It is weird, Heathery like legally allowed to not pay 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.480 attention like that is that is bizarre? 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.880 You would you would you would think that if you 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.240 allegedly work for the people, like you. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.000 Would, you have to actually listen to them. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.560 So amongst the city Council, there are two in particular 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.160 that I'm glad you got to see there. There's Mary Norwood, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.240 who represents Buckhead, and then there's Dustin Hillis, who is 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.000 the the committee chair for the Public Safety Legal Administration Committee, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.800 So he's basically in charge of police here. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:51.240 Throwing molotov cocktails at officers and damaging millions of dollars 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.400 of equipment. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.520 And he gives off that vibe, and neither one of 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.200 them will pay attention. They were they were on their 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.240 phone from almost the entire time I was there. The 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.960 the the Buckhead woman gave off ontologically evil vibe. Like 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.280 I I did not know like who she was when 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.600 I went to the city council, but once I saw her, 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.480 I was like, oh, okay, this person is like obviously evil, right, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.560 And I asked people about it afterwards, like oh, yes, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.960 that is a person that represents Bucket. I'm like, okay, yes, 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.400 of course, of course. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.600 Bucket of course being the like primarily white neighborhood in 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.320 North Atlanta, that part of it wants to secede from 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.840 the city. And that's that's a whole. Yes, that is 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.280 a whole another issue. But to kind of give context 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.360 of what Buckhead is redlining. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.840 That's not a question, that's just a observation. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.119 And so sitting directly next to her is Dustin Hillis, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.160 who is known for not paying attention ever. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.520 Except except they did both pay attention after public comment 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.800 when police gave their testimony on what happened to the night, 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.280 and then these two people were very engaged. We will 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.080 hear more from Mary Norwood ontologically evil in a bit, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:19.200 but first I have to saw Jesus Christ fucking fuck Jesus. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.760 My cats are just running amuck. All right, We will 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.120 hear more from Mary Norwood ontologically evil in a bit, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.760 but first I have to include some of councilmen Antonio 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.440 Lewis's response after Police Chief Darren Cherbaum gave his little 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.520 presentation at City Council. Because I don't think I've ever 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.080 heard January sixth, the Atlanta Way, and six Flags all 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.800 get mentioned in the same sentence before it. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.119 Looked like January sixth. I ain't never seen police run 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.680 from a group of people, and so the only thing 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:54.520 I could think about when I saw that video. I 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.719 saw it on Ato Scoop, the videos all out there. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.120 I've been seeing it all over And when I saw 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.600 the police officers run, I mean I was a little nervous. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.080 When I saw the heat map, I saw one hundred 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.399 people I saw, I saw it. I mean, like that 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.760 ain't the Atlanta Wait. I mean, I ain't never seen 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.880 I'm just thinking about the At the same time, at 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.240 six Flags, we had some young men that were fighting, 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.760 some of our teenagers fighting at six Flags. They didn't 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.040 run up on the police. They didn't run up on 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.880 the police with molotail malory tail cocktails throwing to burn 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:28.919 up stuff. What I will say, I thank you so 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.840 much for last night for working. I want to really 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.440 commend the officers because y'all were under some immense pressure 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.959 and to not see a gun fire back because when 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.760 I see the firecrackers, I'm from Cleveland Avenue. If they 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.159 throw firecrackers at me, I don't know those firecrackers. I've 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.680 never seen that. So I appreciate APD for doing that. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:58.040 Truly, truly a stunning admission, just perfect. So I had 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.760 to listen to Atlanta Police Chief Darren Sheerbaum's testimony a 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.879 few times for the five episodes that were released earlier 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.800 this month, so I didn't really feel like fully listening 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.320 through again to find any funny bits to put in 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.240 this episode, so I just kind of like skimmed through 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:19.080 while multitasking, and weirdly enough, I noticed that the chief 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.920 said some pretty shocking things that I somehow just must 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.359 have missed in my previous viewings. So I will play 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.560 those for you now, and I will warn you it is. 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.840 It is pretty disturbing, Like all the subjects we put 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.439 on air. Their statements do not reflect our opinions or 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.800 the official position held by whatever current company owns this podcast. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.960 So yeah, like I said, warning, these are shocking, but 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:43.920 I will let the chief speak for himself. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.960 Take aggressive action against these officers. Move to the front gate, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.560 more accelerant, inflict vitily harm upon them, launch illegal and 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.880 criminal attacks to attack members of law enforcement, bring harm 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:58.159 to our officers. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:20:59.640 These attacks are. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.280 Going to you pretty pretty shocking stuff coming from a 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.800 police chief to Jesus, but that is only the tip 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:12.679 of the iceberg. Because to my surprise, after public COVID 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.400 was over and all the news cameras that left after 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.200 I left, and you know, everyone everyone left the building. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.600 It turns out Darren Sheerbaum gave a second testimony at 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.399 the very end of the city council meeting that I 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:30.000 just completely missed until now. So I will warn you 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.200 it is kind of leude in nature. So if you 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.080 want to skip past lewd police conduct, just fast forward 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.560 like a minute or two. But anyway, without without further ado, 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:44.960 here is the secret recently unearthed second testimony presented by 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.840 Atlanta Police Chief Darren Sheerbamb. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:49.720 Person ship, the members of the Council would like to 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.760 brief you on evincent transpired yesterday. I'm going to let 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.040 the video play here. Why I walked through each of 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.679 the situations. What you see here is of our partners 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.760 at the Decap County Police Department, the Share for Fulton 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.240 County as well as the Georgia State Patrol. We're seeing 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:06.880 changing out of the clothes that they were wearing. They're 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:08.720 going to position themselves when it appears to be an 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.160 attempt to keep pursuing the officers. As the officers see 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.800 these we had a rapid response from our partners as 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.200 well as to change their clothing. Different groups were performing 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:21.960 acts within the manner of their training and their discipline. 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:26.240 At this time. Our officers repositioning themselves inside of our partners. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.040 These officers had been stationary to ensure that they are 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.280 being restrained. The officers are on city property and are 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.879 positioning themselves and reposition themselves to be prepared to go 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.120 back in. Our officers are showing great restraint. They remained 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.240 in a position. It's what you see here is a 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.480 lieutenant that is discharging. We're very fortunate that that was 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.280 the outcome, and I want to commend every man and 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.800 woman on duty yesterday as they stood in the gap 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:00.600 to do their job, those officers entered our partners, and 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:03.000 what you see here, ladies and gentlemen, is as some 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:06.640 of the individuals that had just previously had entered into 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:10.320 those officers, they start changing back into the clothes that 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.840 they were just wearing moments before. Just last night, officers 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:16.080 of this department, as well as the Cab County to 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.879 the Georgia State Patrol and the Sheriff's Department moved in. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.200 And I want to think of the men and women 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.439 again of the Atlanta Police Department, the Georgia State Patrol, 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:26.200 the Sheriff's Department, as well as the Cap County Police 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:30.680 Department for the professionalism that they demonstrated throughout the night 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.360 and to the early hours of this morning while many 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.359 of us were asleep, they continue to work through the night. 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.000 I've never seen that, so I appreciate APD for doing that. 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:42.560 I would have loved for every one of those very 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:45.800 hysterical people that we've been sitting listening to for two 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:50.320 or three hours to have seen an actual video of 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.200 what really did happen. And there may be great reasons 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:55.800 if the administration chose to do it this way, but 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:58.800 our media is gone and all the people that needed 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.920