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Speaker 1: and now I'm adding to that illustrious list the name

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Speaker 1: Mario Edwards Junior. All pro athletes, all accused of horrible

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Speaker 1: them walking free after horrible crime, including violent crimes, even

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Speaker 1: caught on video. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Today we

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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Does everybody recall the most recent incident.

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Speaker 1: been charged in connection with this lawsuit. It has not

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Speaker 1: gone to twial, and Edwards has not been found guilty.

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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace Jody Blakeney. I know you

430
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: don't like retelling this, but I need to understand exactly

431
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: what happened. When you say belittling or demanding, what exactly

432
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: did he say? He called me a bitch, my daughter

433
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: a horror. He said that the apple did not fall

434
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: fur from the tree and that my daughter was going

435
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: to be a horror. He stated to me that I

436
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: would never be his number one. I would always be

437
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: someone that he came to whenever I was a last resort,

438
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: and he'd never said that to me before. I always

439
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: thought that me and him would end up together. I've

440
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: been patient with him for this amount of time, So

441
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: he knew saying that and knowing how I was with him,

442
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: and knowing how our relationship was and what the goal

443
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: was between us, he knew that he could get me

444
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: to break all the way down. So okay, wait, let

445
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: me understand what you're saying. First of all, how old

446
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: is your daughter two? So he called your two year

447
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: old daughter a whore? Yes? Okay. Then he let me

448
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: understand that you think you guys were you thought you

449
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: guys were going to get married eventually, with patient, with time?

450
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: Yes I did. Did he ever taught you about marriage?

451
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: From us, our initial us being together und beginning I

452
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: fell in love with the potential of Mario. When you

453
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: say he trashed your family, other than calling your two

454
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: year old little girl a whoreor what else did he

455
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: say about your family? He called my family broken, He

456
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: stated that we were trash. He called me all types

457
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: of horrors, He called us broke, he called us poverty stricken,

458
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: all different types of names. I can't recall all of

459
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: the names that he called my family and myself. But

460
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: it was just the helping of insults just thrown off

461
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,239
Speaker 1: at me. And when I got to the point of

462
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: my daughter, Now, wait, a minute. Let me understand. This

463
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: is after you've given him oral sex and he tries

464
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 1: to rape you and you get away and pull your

465
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: pants out. Now, this is what he's saying. Do I

466
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: have the chronology the sequence of events correct? Yes, When

467
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: he started telling you you'll never be my number one,

468
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: you're the woman I seek out as a last resort.

469
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: You're now saying that he knew that would break your

470
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: heart because you thought y'all were getting married. Absolutely, he

471
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: knew that he would break me down. Why would you

472
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: want to marry him? I think, as I said before,

473
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the with what he was before,

474
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: in love with the potential, the things that he promised

475
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: and said to me before, the version of him before

476
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: the NFL is what I fell in love with, you know,

477
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: dactor Sherry Schwartz see to us on the outside looking in,

478
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying, why would you even want him? But this

479
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: is the pattern Archancela Mazzarello, John Guard. We all know

480
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: in battered women they fall in love with the man

481
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: at the beginning. And yes, it's typically the man meeting

482
00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: the woman when he was loving and romantic and fun

483
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: to be with and caring and throughout the relationship. They

484
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: continue to think about that version, not the version that

485
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: rips your pants down and calls you a horn a

486
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: bitch when you won't have sex. Dotor Sherry Schwartz, it's

487
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: no I was going to say that, go aheadly correct.

488
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: That is the cycle of domestic violence. And what it

489
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: sounds like to me is there's a possibility that this

490
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: is narcissistic rage. Right. This is somebody who's got this

491
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: inflated sense of self importance. Everyone's always telling him how

492
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: wonderful is he. Obviously is a very talented athlete. He

493
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: made it to the prose, and so no one's ever

494
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: really good enough for those individuals, by the way, but

495
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: what they do to lure women in is they do

496
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: something we call love bombing. In the beginning, it happens

497
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: really fast and you're perfect for me and we're soulmates

498
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: and we're going to get married, but that they never comes.

499
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: And then in between the love of bombing, there's this

500
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: devaluation phase where you say things to the person when

501
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: you're not getting your way, like your families trash, you're

502
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: two year old daughters a whore, and this back and forth,

503
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: this up and down, It is actually somewhat of an

504
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: addiction for the victim, right, and they keep thinking, but

505
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: when it's good, it's really good. Yeah, you know, doctor Sherry,

506
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: I've tried to say that before when I would be

507
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: counseling people at the Battered Women's Center, that I guess

508
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: your mind and you can jump in, John Guard. The

509
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: victim's mind, their psyche is so used to the adrenaline

510
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: of the highs and the love and the flowers and

511
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: then let's get married, and then followed by a beating

512
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: and then the relationship recuperation, and you're up and you're down,

513
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: and it starts over again, and it gets addicting. And

514
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: then when you're with a regular nice guy, you're a

515
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 1: board because you don't well have that rollercoaster of events.

516
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: You get used to that. Yeah. I think what Miss

517
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: Blakeney's the story really points out when we're looking at

518
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: this issue and and intimate partner violence shouldn't be as

519
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: complex as we make it out to be. I mean,

520
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: first of all, only the faces and names change, the

521
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: behavior of the offenders are absolutely the same. The dynamics

522
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: she's speaking about about going after someone's self confidence self esteem,

523
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: we see isolation and things like that. And you hear

524
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 1: people say when they talk about offenders of intimate partner violence,

525
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: when it's good, it's really good. But when it's bad,

526
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: it can be really bad. You when you point out

527
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 1: the no, the offender being told no. This is all

528
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: about power and control, and what miss Blakeney has done

529
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: is basically revated the power and control from him. So

530
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: when we look at say, domestic violence homicides across the country,

531
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: and I'll speak directly to North Carolina, in twenty twenty,

532
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: there was over a twenty four percent increase in the

533
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: number of individuals that were killed in the state by

534
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: domestic violence. So it is it is an epidemic, and

535
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: it's you know, throughout society, and it's the thing we

536
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: needs to drill. Well, there's another issue, John Garden, Sherry,

537
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: Doctor Schwartz, and Archangela. What is Jody Blakeney think? What

538
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: will she think is going to happen when she reports

539
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: a crime? Take a listen. I'm sure you're on the

540
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: LT Lawrence Taylor, the NFL pro went on to start

541
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: on Dancing with the Stars. Take a listen to Brian

542
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: Thomas ap R. Cut eighteen. Grand jury has indicted Pro

543
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor on charges of thirty

544
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: gree rape and patronizing on prostitute. The indictment follows his

545
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: May six the rest when prosecutors say he paid a

546
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: sixteen year old girl three hundred dollars to have sex

547
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: with him. The former linebacker was also indicted on charges

548
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: of endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse

549
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: in criminal Sexual Act in the third degree. If convicted,

550
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 1: he faces up to four years in prison. First of all,

551
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 1: she's not a prostitute. She's a sixteen year old girl

552
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: that's two years, twenty four months older than my daughter.

553
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: He paid not her but the guy that beat her

554
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: and delivered her like a pizza to Lawrence Taylor's hotel room.

555
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: That's who got the money. And when this little girl

556
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: wouldn't have sex with Lawrence Taylor, she got beaten two

557
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: and the four years behind bars that never happened. He

558
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: walked and went on to star on Dancing with the Stars.

559
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: So what are women think? What do they think it's

560
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: going to happen if they report a beating by an

561
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: NFL or Joe and Jody Blakeney is with me. She

562
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: describes a violent assault by NFL Star Chicago Bear, Mario Edwards, Junior, So,

563
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: joe An, Jody Blakeney. He's trashing you. You're trying to

564
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: get your pants back on. What happened then? So after

565
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: the humiliation, he I said, well, you know, I would

566
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: love for people to know the type of person that

567
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: you really are. And he kept questioning me, saying, what

568
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Bitch,

569
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 1: You're gonna shoot me? And I'm like, no, I'm not.

570
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: I want people to know who they're actually dealing with

571
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: the stuff that you're saying, the things that you're doing.

572
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: So I pull out my phone to record and as

573
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: soon as I read from my phone, he hits me

574
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: in the face. And then after he hits me in

575
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: the face, I fall backwards. He snatched me off the

576
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: bed by my arm and just start to rip it

577
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: my fingernails, try us to take my phone out my hand,

578
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: and then he dragged me to the door. All of

579
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: this is while my belly that is very very noticeable,

580
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: is pressed up against him. So I'm just trying to

581
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: fight my way free and he's just let the phone go, bitch,

582
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: let the phone go, and dragging me to the door

583
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: and once to get to the door and let's go

584
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: the recording. That recording stopped. How pregnant were you at

585
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 1: that time? I was eighteen going on nineteen weeks pregnant.

586
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: What happened next? Once we get in the hallway, I'm

587
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: still recording at this point, just showing us outsitching what

588
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: he's wearing, so that when I do report this, because

589
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: I did tell him, if you ever put your hands

590
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 1: on me again, I am going to tell the police.

591
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: So I did just I was gonna do just that recording.

592
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: We're talking in the hallway and he gets on the

593
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: elevator to leave, and he steps off the elevator again

594
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: and he hits me again and gets back on the elevator,

595
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: and from there my visions blurry in the left eye.

596
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: So I go back into the room. I send the

597
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: video as I'm walking. I'm going back into the room

598
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: because I can't see, and my things are in the room.

599
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: So I get grabbed my things, find my contact, puts

600
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: them back in and I'm headed downstairs. I'm on the

601
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: phone with the friend of mine and immediately, because I

602
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: knew SAMPD was in the building, I said, let me

603
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: go downstairs and speak with someone let me see if

604
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: I can find someone help me. And I did just that.

605
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: I went to go find the security that was there

606
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: for help. And what happened when you get down there?

607
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: So once I got down there, I encountered police officer

608
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: by the name of Burton, I think it's their names Jeffrey.

609
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: I encounter him and he was very chip or very

610
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: nice to me, and he told me and I let

611
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: him know what was going on, and he said, oh, okay,

612
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: well I'll get you some help, and then he says

613
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: he has to go to the bathroom. So I just

614
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: kind of step up to the side because at this

615
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: point I'm like, okay, well I got police with me,

616
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: so I'm okay, I don't need to make any other

617
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: move their decisions at this point because I have the

618
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: police coming. Took him about fifteen minutes to come back,

619
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: and once he came back, I had four Chicago Bears

620
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: personnel at the time, had no idea who they were

621
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: standing in front of me, and I just kind of

622
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: look at him kind of puzzled, like, Hey, are they

623
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: the police? And he's like nope, but it's the best

624
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: help that you're gonna get. And so it kind of

625
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: caught me off guard because I'm like, okay, well, if

626
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: you're the police and the police can't help me, and

627
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: this is the best police, so what's better than the

628
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: actual police who serve and protect this community every day.

629
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: So I wanted reassurance that I was in good hands

630
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: because I knew before that. I had a conversation with

631
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: Mario and he stated to me that they had people

632
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: to take care of situations that happened in hotels. So

633
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: I didn't want it to be a situation like that one.

634
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: So I was very very I was against talking to

635
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: the Bears. I did not want to talk to them

636
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: at all. So once they made me comfortable and sayd

637
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: that they were not with the Bears and that they

638
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: were privately contracted, I agreed to speak with them. And

639
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: so once I started speaking with the Bears, well at

640
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: the time, I didn't know the Bears. I asked him.

641
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I privately contracted. Okay, well, we're gonna

642
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: make sure that everything's taken care of. If you need

643
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: to call, the police will definitely take care of that

644
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: for you as well. As we're talking, one of the

645
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: gentlemen asked me who the player was. Found his name,

646
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: and he disappears from me, and then there's another personnel.

647
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: He comes over and he's very very kind. He talked

648
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: to me about what's going on, asked me my relationship

649
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: with them, how long I had known them, what I

650
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,919
Speaker 1: was doing in the hotel? Was I from the area?

651
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: And then he starts asking me, is there anything that

652
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: the Bears can do to make this right? Can they

653
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: bring them downstairs so he can apologize? And all I

654
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: wanted to do, well, wait, so wait, they tell you

655
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: they're not with the Bears. They are with the Bears

656
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: according to you and your lawyer, archangelum Azzarello. And they

657
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: offer up to bring Mario Edwards Junior downstairs to apologize. Yes, yes,

658
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: this was after I explained to him my relationship with Mario,

659
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: and they kept asking was there anything they could do?

660
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: And I said, well, you can call the police, because

661
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: that's who I need to handle the situation. I'm gonna

662
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: call the police. Archangel um Azzarello. Don't you know if

663
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: she gets said, yeah, you can pay me twenty grand

664
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: I'll be quiet, go away. Don't you know that would

665
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: have been the first thing on the headline on every

666
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,240
Speaker 1: page on every newspaper. Well, that's what they're still trying

667
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: to do, Nancy. That's what they're still from. I'm telling you.

668
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: But your client didn't do that. Did they bring him

669
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: down for an apology? Jody? They bought him down for

670
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: an apology, and as soon as I saw him, I

671
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: immediately told him I did not want him near me.

672
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: To call the police. That was the theme. Was called

673
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 1: the police, you know to John guard I've seen this before,

674
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: and I think it's horrible where judges have actually ordered

675
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: a rape victim, or a child abuse victim, or any

676
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: type of salt victim to talk to the perp for

677
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: an apology, and they ordered that to happen. Nobody wants

678
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: to see the perp, No, they don't. It just goes

679
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: to prove the manipulation that has occurred out there of

680
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: how we are deficient in our knowledge of how intimate

681
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: partner violence occurs and what's going on behind closed doors.

682
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: O Nancy, Okay, something jump in. So here's one of

683
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: the things that I learned when I first came to

684
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Assault on a female versus assault. I said,

685
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: that's a fourteenth amen, an equal protections issue. How is

686
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: it that women have more protection than men? Assault on

687
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: a female. I called my constitutional law professor and she said,

688
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: arcs stand down. The women in North Carolina need more protection.

689
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: Look at the statistics of how many women are beaten

690
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: in North Carolina daily in North Carolina. So we actually

691
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: are aware of domestic violence. We are aware that men

692
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: beat women here because we actually gave them their own

693
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: crime and a higher penalty than assault. Assault on a

694
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: female and in this case, on a pregnant female. To

695
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: Juddie Blakeney, who says she was beaten and assaulted by

696
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: an NFL star, Mary Edwards Junior, twenty seven years old,

697
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: she targa bears, so he comes down. Did he apologize? No,

698
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: So he actually did not apologize. They didn't really allow

699
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: him to speak until after one of the other security

700
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,479
Speaker 1: that was there finished watching the video that I had.

701
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: They asked him what They asked me a bunch of

702
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: questions after and said, hey, it doesn't look like he

703
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: did anything, could mean anything. It's just you two in

704
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: the room. And then at this time I'm hearing people

705
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: in the background saying that I'm a prostitute, and I'm like,

706
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 1: wait a minute. So a lot of people are in Charlotte,

707
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: I'm from here, so a lot of people are hearing

708
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: that my name is associated with something that is frowned upon.

709
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: So I immediately start to just yell like, hey, do

710
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: you hear this Mary? Like Mario, do you hear them

711
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: saying that I'm a prostitute? And he just stood there

712
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: and shook his head. It wasn't until I said. And

713
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: this is when one of the bears security got upset

714
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: with me because he asked me what I plan to

715
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: do after him and I spoke and I told him, well,

716
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: I'm going to call the police. And he immediately gets

717
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: mad and he storms off, and then Mario starts yelling

718
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: and he becomes ird and he's back into a corner.

719
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: And then this is when they're, oh, well I have something.

720
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: You have something on her and she has something on you.

721
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: It'll be okay, don't worry. And he's talking about the thing.

722
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: I don't even know what they're talking about yet. At

723
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: this point. Have I do crime stories with Nancy Grace? Guys,

724
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: we are talking about Mary of Edwards. Junior has signed

725
00:47:51,360 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: a three year, eleven million dollar contract eleven million plus

726
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: more like eleven million, seven hundred thousand dollar contract plus

727
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: a three million dollars signing bonus. I mean, this guy

728
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: is in the lobby calling a longtime sweetheart on and

729
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 1: off against sweetheart, pregnant woman, calling her a prostitute within

730
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: the hearing shot. I mean, well, it wasn't marry over No,

731
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine that happening. Mary didn't accutely that Nancy,

732
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: one of the other people around said that, and he

733
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: just stood there and didn't somebody say, oh, this was

734
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: just a booty call, Jody. They stated that it was

735
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: a booty call, and it was a paid call, is

736
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: what it was? A paid call. Archangela Mazzarello, does your client,

737
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: Jody Blakeney have any criminal history whatsoever, not before this? Okay,

738
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: what do you mean by that that somehow, out of

739
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: this she gets charged arched yep, explained in a nutshell.

740
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: In a nutshell, when she was on her way to

741
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: the emergency room, the police officer that got tickets to

742
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: the game got paraphernalia. We don't know what, but all

743
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: of a sudden that officer took out assault charges against Jody.

744
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: When she went to get her charges pressed against mister Edwards,

745
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: they said to her, there's a warrant for your arrest.

746
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: She said, excuse me a warrant for your arrest, Miss Blakeney,

747
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: And when she explained what happened, they let her, well, here,

748
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: they just give you a piece of paper. And she

749
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: immediately called to the MPD and said, are you kidding me?

750
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: That officer went to her house hat in hand that

751
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: night and amended his report allowing Kurt to take our

752
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: of full charges. Yet yet the charges against her remains

753
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: and continue to remain. So let me understand this. What's

754
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: the claim against her? Archangela? Are you ready for this? She?

755
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there forehead. She poked him in the forehead

756
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: with his finger, with her finger. That's the charge against her.

757
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: She posed on an nfl or in the forehead with

758
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: her finger. That's the charge. That's it. Because if they

759
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: were coming from anybody else but you, Archangela Mazzarella, I

760
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't believe it. But knowing you and your legal track record,

761
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: I know you're telling me the truth. So that's the

762
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: charge against her. And what were your client's injuries? What

763
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: were JODI's injuries? Oh? Well, I don't even know how

764
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 1: you describe what happened to her eye. It's some sort

765
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: of detached retina thing. Again, there are medical records that

766
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: can do this better than I. Plus, she had a

767
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: concussion to her head. Complications with the pregnancy were huge,

768
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, a year later, she's still

769
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: treating oh Nancy. Just for fun, I pulled the warrant

770
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: and Officer Tye wrote that there was probable costs to

771
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: believe that Jody Blakeney poking the victim and the forehead

772
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: with her finger. Let me understand something aren't out and

773
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: good Jody sustained a concussion? Yeah? And is that verified

774
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 1: by medical records that she had a concussion? Everything? And

775
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: a detached retina. It's not a detached retina, Jodey. Can

776
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: you explain it? So what they stated it was it

777
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: was a optic eye nerve injury from being hit in

778
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: the eye. I guess the immediate impact was directly to

779
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: the eyeball and not to the actual goal itself. But impact,

780
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: John Guard, do you ever feel completely overwhelmed with domestic violence?

781
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you're the chief Jeff the Pitt County Sheriff's

782
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: Office specializing in domestic violence. Because it's like here, we've

783
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: got this famous guy eleven million dollars. You know, when

784
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: I prosecuted I had two night jobs to make my

785
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: car payment. I never I've never known anybody eleven million

786
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 1: dollars and he has actually brought a complaint against her

787
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: that she touched him in the forehead with her finger.

788
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: I mean, do you ever get overwhelmed? It's like it

789
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: never ends and the NFL is letting it happen. Well,

790
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly get frustrated at times, and I

791
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: own a lot of folks in this profession do as well,

792
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: especially when we talk about this topic. But you know,

793
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate, but sometimes folks around the country see

794
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: maybe deficiencies our profession may have. You know, when I

795
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: went through the academy back in the early nineties, there

796
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: was no training specific to domestic violence. And you're talking

797
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: the second most committed crime. Second only say well, I

798
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: gotta tell you something, John, I just sometimes I don't

799
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: even want to say anymore. And he's being rewarded with

800
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: a new contract, a three year deal for eleven million

801
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: dollars and trying to claim she was the aggressor. Jody,

802
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: how tall are you four? And how much do you weigh?

803
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty seven pens? Okay, r? What is

804
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 1: the status of the criminal charges and what's the status

805
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: of the lawsuit you've just filed. Well, the status of

806
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: the criminal charges are that Miss Blakeney's charge against her,

807
00:53:55,400 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: brought by mister Edwards, has been continued to make the

808
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: end of May of twenty twenty two. Thank you COVID

809
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: his charges her charges against him. He has not come

810
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: back to North Carolina to be served. And the complaint

811
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: was filed on October fourteenth at ten o'clock in the

812
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: morning as in a few days ago. Yes, ma'am, Jody,

813
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,760
Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to our friends

814
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:31,959
Speaker 1: over at TMZ, and I'm talking about an NFL star

815
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: named Jim Dunaway. Listen. Jim Dunaway's wife murder case is

816
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: not highly publicized. Before her death, Miss Dunaway had wanted

817
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: a divorce settlement that gave her eight hundred acres. The

818
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: couple owned eighteen hundred dollars a month in alimony payments

819
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: and half of Dunaway's NFL pension. In nineteen ninety eight, nine,

820
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: Yelled Dunaway, Jim's wife was found dead in a half

821
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: empty swimming pool. Although Jim wasn't indicted for the charges,

822
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: the children followed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging their father

823
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: was responsible for their mother's death. In twenty twelve, Jim

824
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: was liable and forced to pay five hundred and seventy

825
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars to achild to his own children. But

826
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: she's dead. Dunaway's wife is dead. Jody. I don't want

827
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: you to be just another victim at the hands of

828
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: an enraged nfler. I want your case to count for something,

829
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: But I thank god you didn't end up like Jim

830
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 1: Dunaway's life. We wait as just as unfalls. We reached

831
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: out to the NFL. That's right, Nancy. We did reach

832
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: out to the NFL to find out how the organization

833
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: is reacting and handling domestic violence cases. In twenty fourteen,

834
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced a new league policy which states,

835
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: effective immediately, violations of the Personal Conduct Policy regarding assault, battery,

836
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: domestic violence, or sexual assault that in physical force will

837
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: be subject to a suspension without pay of six games

838
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: for the first defense, with consideration given to mitigating factors,

839
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: such as a longer suspension when circumstances warrant. According to

840
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: this policy, a player did not have to be charged

841
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: to be suspended and for an independent investigation to be launched.

842
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,760
Speaker 1: According to the policy, as second defense for domestic violence

843
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: would result in a lifetime ban, Commissioner Goodell said this

844
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: was an issue of respect. Since then, the NFL has

845
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: suspended high profile players for domestic violence and developed the

846
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: NFL's No More campaign, airing anti domestic violence ads. The

847
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: league says it has devoted fifty million dollars worth of

848
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: airtime to anti domestic violence ads. Mario Edwards Junior has

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Speaker 1: not been charged in connection with this lawsuit. It has

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Speaker 1: not gone to twial, and Edwards has not been found guilty.

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Speaker 1: We wait. Goodbye friend,