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Join our community at soft rep dot com. 19 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: That's s o f r EP dot com. Ah beat force. 20 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're 21 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: listening to software radio, special operations, military news and straight 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: talk with the guys and the community. In this episode, 23 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: we sit down with he had sold Don Brandley. Don 24 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: is a former Special Forces operator and c I a 25 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: paramilitary contractor with over twenty five combat deployment. His life, however, 26 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: was forever changed when he was sold in the head 27 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: during a road rage incident back in two thousand and 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: eighteen in Georgia. Having barely escaped with his life, Don 29 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: is now fighting to clear his name. Can you please 30 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: go over your military career and then your service with 31 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: with a c I, A. Yeah, absolutely. I started way 32 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: back in the eighties in the Air Force, where I 33 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: was offered the opportunity and basic training to go into 34 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: the survival instructor career field. So I thought that sounded 35 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: pretty interesting, and I went to their their meetings and 36 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: they had like many tryouts, and UH ended up deciding 37 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: I wanted to do that, went to the six month 38 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: instructor training course, which I graduated, and then went into 39 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: another six months of o j T. During the time 40 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: that I was going through the training and o j T, however, 41 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: even though I was in the Air Force, we worked 42 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: with Navy Seals and we also worked with Army special 43 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: Forces and I very quickly caught onto the thought and 44 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: belief that that was far more interesting and exciting than 45 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: what I was doing in the Air Force. So at 46 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: the end of my career in the Air Force, I 47 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: literally got out, joined the Army with the intention and 48 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: eventually got into special Forces and Special Forces. I was 49 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: at four Bragg the Third Special Forces Group as it 50 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: was being stood back up. I was a junior engineer. 51 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: I held the positions of junior engineer, senior engineer, and 52 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: then operations and intelligence. The career path for that's a 53 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: little different these days, but that's how it was then. 54 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: And that was right before the first good for correct, 55 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: the reactivation of Third Special Yeah, I was actually in 56 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: the Q course while the Gulf War happened. I can 57 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: imagine the first stration. They kept talking the whole time 58 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: about how they were going to an abbreviated course so 59 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: that we could get out there and be you know, 60 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: get into the fight. And of course the fight was over, 61 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: so damn cock. We were still in the key course 62 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: when it was over with. And then how many years 63 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: do did you remain with the Third Special Force Group? 64 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: So I was with them from nine nine until nine eight, 65 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: when I got out they actually because of the drawdowns 66 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: in the military and budget, I was detailed to become 67 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: a recruiter and sent to Atlanta, which is where we 68 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: got out. That was in We were sent to Atlanta, 69 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: and then the end of that tour, we chose to 70 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: get out of the military. My wife and I and 71 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 1: let our kids go all the way through school in 72 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: the same school district, which they did. They even went 73 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: to college in Atlanta, grad school in Atlanta. So we 74 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: we made Atlanta our home for twenty five years. And 75 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: then the towers go down. Yes, so the towers went 76 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: down September eleven. That was a civilian work in a 77 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: civilian job, had just become uh, gotten promoted into management, 78 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: and of course that happened. Everything kind of changed. Due 79 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: to the place I was working. I had interaction with 80 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people from a lot of walks of life. 81 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: And one of the people I had gotten to know 82 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: worked for Glock because clocks in Atlanta. He came into 83 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: the business that I worked at regularly, and he came 84 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: up to me one day around two thousand three, I 85 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: think it was, and handed me a business card that 86 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 1: literally had a name and a phone number on it 87 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: and just started telling me, don trust me. You want 88 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: to contact the people, and his name was Jim. I 89 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: was like, Jim, what is it, what's it about? He said, 90 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: I can't tell you. It's all classified. Just contact these people. 91 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: You won't be disappointed. So curiosity got the better of 92 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: me and I did, and sure enough it was for 93 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: what was then called the Select program. They were looking 94 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: for former special operations people so that they could go 95 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: do something that they wouldn't tell us about at the time, 96 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: and uh I decided to roll the dice and went 97 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: ahead and went to their tryouts, got selected, and was 98 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: told once I was there that we were essentially going 99 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: to be bodyguards, if you will, for case officers primarily 100 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: who were working with life assets in the field. And 101 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,119 Speaker 1: I thought that sounded thrilling in a great next step 102 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: to my crazy career, and uh I went for it. 103 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: And today that's the g R s R. Yes, yes, 104 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: that is It did in fact turn out to be 105 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: g RS. So my my brothers and arms were the 106 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: guys in Benghazi, the guys in coast and other places 107 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: that haven't made it into the news. How many tours, 108 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: if I may, we call them trips because we didn't 109 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: we were no longer in the military, so we we 110 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: didn't want to use the military terminology for whatever reason, 111 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: and everybody referred to them as trips, probably because the 112 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: deployment was at that time six months to nine months long. 113 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: In our trips, if you will, we're only about two 114 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: three months in a whack. They wouldn't let you stay 115 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: there more than three and a half months before they 116 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: required you to go back home, take a break, and 117 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: then you could go back again. So I did that 118 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: twenty one times. Twenty one times. Damn, that's a lot, 119 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: it was. Looking back on it, it was at the 120 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: time it felt just like another day in the dusk bowl. 121 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: And when did you get out of the agency? So 122 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: I stopped deploying all together. In two thousand thirteen, literally 123 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: turned fifty, and Swart and myself and my wife that 124 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: I was not going to do this forever, and uh, 125 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: fifties seemed like a pretty realistic benchmark to say it's 126 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: time to hang up the guns and try to do 127 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: something in the normal world, if you will. And then 128 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: you began You started a business in Georgia, correct, I did. Actually, 129 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: I started a painting business. I started a company where 130 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: we repainted existing houses and did that for a couple 131 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: of years when I was contacted by Sean who now 132 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: we worked together back then and he now owns Vigilance Elite, 133 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: which I think is where you saw the original podcast. 134 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: He was telling me that he had a guy that 135 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: he was training who was an investment banker and ran 136 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: a hedge fund, who was very interested in starting a 137 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: business with syracoating, and he asked me if I knew 138 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: what it was. I said, no, I actually know nothing 139 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: about it, but I'll be happy to look into it 140 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: for you. He said that the reason he was asking 141 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: me was because he was looking for an artistic application 142 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: of it. And while I was working overseas on my brakes, 143 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: I built a paint shop in my backyard, whole building 144 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: with a paint booth and all the equipment. And I 145 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 1: had learned through training, trial and error and just practice 146 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: how to do a lot of air brushing and stuff. 147 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: So I had a little experience in that and he 148 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: thought I'd be a good fit. So one thing led 149 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: to another, and I ended up shutting down the painting 150 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: business and opening up Circo Nation And that was your 151 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: business until the correct it was Yes, I had obviously 152 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: a couple of partners in that business, but I was 153 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: the operator and operations manager and part owner of it 154 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: as well. So what happened on that on that day, Well, 155 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: as you know, I can't get into a lot of 156 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,239 Speaker 1: the specifics because they have to wait to be revealed 157 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: at the actual trial, but I will say that I 158 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: was literally two days after Christmas, just driving home from work. 159 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: Was not stressed out, was not aggravated in any way. 160 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: I literally just came across some people who were driving 161 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: kind of slowly. Um and since it took me an 162 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: hour to get each way, I made the mistake of 163 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: passing a man who, for whatever reason, felt like he 164 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: should be in control of the cars on the road 165 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: that day, and it seemed to apparently make him extraordinarily 166 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: angry that I had escaped his attempts to control the 167 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: other cars. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the guy 168 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: had a pretty significant anger control issue which turned into 169 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: a pretty major confrontation which she ended with me being 170 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: shot in the head. Then the head who so he 171 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: he should you in the head and what happens next? 172 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 1: So obviously I was unconscious and bleeding from the head, 173 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: but I can tell you that the first officer on 174 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: the scene recorded that I was unconscious and unresponsive and 175 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: bleeding from the head, and they called in an investigator. 176 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: Apparently a lot of this stuff I got from hearing 177 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: it from the investigator as well as from the Discovery 178 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: is the term that they use, So we've had discovery 179 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: in the case, and in there the investigator claims that 180 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: I was awakened, alert and gave him statements at the scene, 181 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: which doesn't really fit with what was really happening at 182 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: the scene, but it also set the stage for what 183 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 1: came afterwards, because apparently he claimed he pulled my background 184 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: and got the background of a career felon. And I'm 185 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: quoting him here because he told this to my wife, 186 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: my son, and my wife's boss, who's an attorney. He 187 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: said that I have a rap sheet as long as 188 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: his arm full of felonies, including drug convictions, and that 189 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: I had no legal right to be in possession of 190 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: a firearm. So he basically was setting the stage for 191 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: blaming me for what a very aggressive driver on the 192 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: road had done. And he made that statement on car plates, 193 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: your drivers license, and in your role of correct that 194 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: is correct. I do remember hearing someone asked me where 195 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: where my wallet was when I was pretty out of 196 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 1: it after being shot, to which I did respond it 197 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: was in the center council of the truck. I was 198 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: driving a pickup truck, so obviously they got that. They 199 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: had the driver's license, They had the license plate as 200 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: well as the then of the pickup truck, which was 201 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: registered in my name, So there's no logical path that 202 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: would have led him to believing that I was a 203 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: career felon, which, by the way, just in case your 204 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: viewers don't know this, I had a top secret security clearance. 205 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: You don't get a top secret security clearance if you 206 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: got a list of felonies even and will disqualify you 207 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: from being even considered for that level of of trust. 208 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: They thank you to the hospital, But your wife doesn't 209 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: know anything, correct. This all happened somewhere approximately four thirty 210 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: in the afternoon on a Thursday afternoon, and it was 211 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: about to start raining when it happened, so you know, 212 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: time's going by, and I normally would beat her home 213 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: just by a couple of minutes, and I didn't. And 214 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: you know, obviously she conveyed all this to me after 215 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: the fact, but she said that her and my son. 216 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: My son, by the way, is a grown man. He 217 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: was living with this while his house was under construction, 218 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: so you know, he's not a little kid. When I 219 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: say that I want people to have a clear understanding. 220 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: This was a grown man who heard this and talked 221 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: to this police officer. He actually went to the police 222 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: station days later to collect my cell phone from them 223 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: and to pick up my pickup truck once they released 224 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: it from their impound. But yeah, they she and my 225 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: son were searching around trying to find out where I was, 226 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: and I wasn't answering my phone. So eventually, around some 227 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: time after midnight, they remembered, you know, a dawn on 228 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: them that they could use they find my iPhone app. 229 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: So they went into that app figured out what my 230 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: password was. Because I'm you know, I'm not a real 231 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: sneaky person from my own family. I've been married for 232 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: thirty five years. They figured out the password, found the phone, 233 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: and then called a fire department where it was parked behind, 234 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: who told them that that was the lock up for 235 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: Monroe County Sheriff's Department. So that's when they started contacting 236 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: them and started finding out what was going on. So 237 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: and you're essentially fighting for your life in the hospital 238 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: at this time. Yes, I was. I'm still looking to 239 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: get some information from the hospital as to things like 240 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: how many pints of blood they had to put in 241 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: me to keep me alive. But yeah, I was. I 242 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: had a bullet in my skull that it had shattered 243 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: upon impact with my skull and broke a large hole 244 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: in my skull. The pieces, some were stuck in my skull, 245 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: others were many, many more inside of my skull. To 246 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: this day, these tiny little sharp shards, if you will, 247 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: of bullet fragment, which are laying all over the artery 248 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: inconveniently that feeds the whole right hemisphere of my brain 249 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: and your wife. At that point, I assumed to contact 250 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: the Moral County Service Department. How did they tweat her? 251 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: So that's that's one of the many interesting things about 252 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: this whole cases. When she contacted them, they told her 253 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: first of all that she would need to talk to 254 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: a lieutenant or a detective, and she was given the 255 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: names to both of them. But the deputy that answered 256 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: the phone I believe was a jailer. She said that 257 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: he was polite, but you know he was also like, well, 258 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: you know, because she's like, why hasn't somebody called me 259 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: when she finally found out I was in the hospital 260 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: at all, and he said, well, it was shift change 261 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: and these things happened, so you know, they're just complacency 262 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: and lethargic attitude towards the public became evident at that 263 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: point and became more evident as we went on, because 264 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: when she called the next morning and actually got the 265 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: detective on the phone. Allen Henderson is the name of 266 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: the detective, he told her that I was in the 267 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: hospital and that if she went there or my son 268 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: went there, or anybody went there to see how I 269 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: was doing or to be with me to come from me, 270 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: they would arrest them on the spot. Did she give 271 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: a reason for that? No? No, brother. I'm not an attorney, 272 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: so I don't know if that's legal. But I can 273 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: tell you that from some of the responses we've gotten 274 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: in contacts we've had with people who are attorneys and 275 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: from law enforcement, they all say, yeah, that's completely out 276 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: of bounds. So I don't know. It doesn't seem like 277 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: it's very logical, considering the fact that this was literally 278 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: the next morning after it happened. In that very evening, 279 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: within hours, if not moments, of the actual incident, the sheriff, 280 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: who had just been sworn in because they had a 281 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: runoff election there, went straight to the news cameras. So 282 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: he's been shaff for one week to the day. He 283 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: went straight to the news cameras and gave a press 284 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: interview talking about everything that I, by name, had done wrong, 285 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: and then went on to say that Mr Hinman, the 286 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: guy who shot me, was merely protecting his family, which 287 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: you know, in anybody's mind would exonerate this man. But 288 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: the fact is they didn't have real they didn't have 289 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: facts from the case. They hadn't done a complete investigation. 290 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: They barely even done a partial investigation. The only person 291 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: they talked to was the guy that shot me, who, 292 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: if he told the truth, Yeah, I was road raging, 293 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: which the investigator told me later he did admit to 294 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: that and then talked about what actually went down on 295 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: the scene. He would have been arrested for attempted murder 296 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: or if I died, he would have been arrested for 297 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: manslaughter or murder. They took his word for everything, and 298 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,239 Speaker 1: the seriph made the statement still believing that you were 299 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: a career felon. Correct, Oh, that is correct. He had 300 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: my correct name, but a completely fictitious background of who 301 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: I was, you know, And he obviously got his information 302 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: from the investigator Henderson, who told him I was career 303 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: felon with a rap sheet as long as your arm, 304 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: all these felony charges, drug convictions, blah, blah, fucking blah, 305 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: because it was all wrong. Every bit of it was wrong, 306 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: including his conclusion of what had happened at the scene, 307 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: which fortunately for us we've got eyewitnesses. Because I was 308 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: thinking up to the moment I was shot in the head, 309 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: and I did make sure that something's happened before we 310 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: ever actually met me and the guy who shot me, 311 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: so that there would be other people around to try 312 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: to calm him down in limit any sort of extreme 313 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: response just didn't work out that way. I'm Brandon Webb, 314 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: former Navy Seal and founder of the Craig Club. Tired 315 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: of the same old gift ideas. Want military grade survival 316 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: gear delivered to your doorstep, then get create club. 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Honestly, Stroll, 326 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 1: that's a great question, because they will talk about how 327 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: they got the wrong background. They won't talk about when 328 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: they realized they had the wrong background. And once they 329 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: did in fact realize they had the wrong background, nothing changed. 330 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: They just continue moving forward because now they're, as they 331 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: say in Poker, their pot committed because he'd gone on 332 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: TV to tell everybody I was a bad guy, and 333 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: that the bad guy was a good guy. They will 334 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: have to eventually in the trial. Oh yeah, well trust me, 335 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: I've I've got a great team. You know, we've got 336 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: We unfortunately had to liquidate pretty much everything of any 337 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: value that we own so that we could afford to 338 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: hire our own investigator, who did a much more thorough 339 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: investigation and came up with everything that we needed to 340 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: prove that they literally had the results one and eighty 341 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: degrees off. I've got an outstanding legal team who makes 342 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: their living taking these people apart because they're obviously not 343 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: proficient at doing basic law enforcement activities. And we feel 344 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: extraordinarily confident about our case going to trial. And I 345 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: understand that the Monroe County Policy Self Department has a 346 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: history of, let's say, ineptitude, Why do they ever it's 347 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: I can't understand how they're not embarrassed by this stuff. Honestly, 348 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: because a year almost to the day before I was 349 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: shot on New Year's Eve. That previous year, they had 350 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: pulled a woman and a man over in for scythe Georgia, 351 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: which is where the heart of Monroe County is and 352 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: where their sheriff's departments located. They pulled a woman and 353 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: a man over for allegedly having too dark of tint 354 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: in their car. So they pull them over and go figure, 355 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: the tints really not too dark. It was quite possibly 356 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: just a reason to get them pulled over. So then 357 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: since they're there, they start searching their car. I don't 358 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: know all the specifics. I'm guessing that they had permission. 359 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: I don't know though they found nothing. So they pull 360 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: a bag of partially eating cotton candy out of the car, 361 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: which they say, this looks like methamphetamine, and they test 362 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: it with their little on the go test kit, which 363 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: turns out to be very flawed, gives a positive result 364 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: for meth amphetamine, and they lock the woman only up 365 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: and again. I don't know the specifics of why, just her, 366 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: but she spent the next three months in jail until 367 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: the Georgia Bureau of Investigations did a backup test and 368 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: called them and said, yeah, guys, this is cotton candy. 369 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: And three and once. Once they found out that it 370 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: was cotton candy, they still held her for three more 371 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: days in jail before they let her go. I'm pretty 372 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: sure they didn't even apologize. No. In fact, she has 373 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: an attorney and she's suing that county um which, of course, 374 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: due to an issue called uh implied immunity, which is 375 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: apparently interpreted differently per state, and in the state of Georgia, 376 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: it has the shortest possible statute of limitations, which is 377 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: one year. And I learned that because at the one 378 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: year mark, that's when they finally decided to move forward 379 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: with my case. Because in order to Again, I'm not 380 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: a lawyer. I'm only going by what have been told 381 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: by attorneys. But apparently you need the discovery from a 382 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: case in order to move forward with suing them, or 383 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: you have to do your own investigation find all the information. Anyways, 384 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of stuff that I don't know 385 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: enough about to speak intelligently to give all the answers 386 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,199 Speaker 1: to But they tried to throw her case out on 387 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: implied immunity, and they waited exactly a year before they 388 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: even put my case forward to a grand jury for indictment. 389 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: Did you have any other altercations with them previously? I 390 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: had never had. I had never been pulled over by them. 391 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: I honestly had not even heard of the Cotton Candy lady. 392 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: Four months before I was shot, one of their deputies 393 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: was fired and arrested because one of the people that 394 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: he had personally arrested. He called them back a couple 395 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: of days later. It was a woman, and he offered 396 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: to help her out with her case. So he picks 397 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: her up in his personally owned vehicle or p o 398 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,239 Speaker 1: V as we called it in the military, drives her 399 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: out into the woods where she's savvy enough to take 400 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: her smartphone and turn it on record and recorded everything 401 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: he said, because he basically told her he would help 402 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: her with her case if she would give him a 403 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 1: blow job. High standards, high standards, quality people. And then 404 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: we had, after my case, probably about I think it 405 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: was seven or eight months after my case, another one 406 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: of their deputies was fired because he was a arrested 407 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: in a neighboring county on a drug sting, buying drugs 408 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: that they don't like giving out a lot of information 409 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: about that stuff. And quite frankly, the guy hasn't gone 410 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: to court yet, so in all fairness, we don't know 411 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: what happened. But yeah, another one of their deputies, who, 412 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Department Facebook page, was 413 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: wearing insignia identifying him as a Monroe County sheriff, was 414 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: arrested buying drugs in a drug sting. And where's the 415 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: case right now? You're going on try on at Yes, 416 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: we have a court date starting the twenty second of June. However, 417 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: I've been informed that that's a tentative date because things 418 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: can change. People can get sick from corona for example, 419 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: anything can happen, and it could possibly be delayed or postponed. 420 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: I know that I've got two years for the Statute 421 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: of limitations in order to get civil compensate aation for 422 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: being shot by this guy and some other things as well. 423 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: So we're not going to let it go much past 424 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: that if we have any control over it. If they 425 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,479 Speaker 1: try to go beyond, you know, into even close to 426 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: the two year mark, we will be filing that stuff regardless. 427 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: Oh okay, has any state or federal official contact contacted 428 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: you regarding the case. No. And that's actually an interesting 429 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: question because, as you would imagine, because of my background 430 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: who I used to work for, I got a lot 431 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: of connections I mean literally all over the country, and 432 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: quite frankly, I know people in other countries as well. 433 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 1: So I activated my network and had a buddy connect 434 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: me with somebody fairly high up at the Georgia Bureau 435 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: of Investigations so that I could talk one on one, offline, 436 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: off the record and let them know, Hey, this is 437 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: what's going on. Here's a real serious heads up. If 438 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: you guys want me to come in and do a form, 439 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: I can do that, but this is what's happening. You 440 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: guys should probably pay attention because this is going to 441 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: blow up in the media at some point. Well, everything 442 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: was going good. It was all set up. We were 443 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: supposed to have this one on one phone call, and 444 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: the day of we had a day and time for 445 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: the phone call. The day of, I just had to 446 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: pass my name and phone number, which I did, and 447 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: as soon as he got it, he went ghost. Any 448 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: idea why, I don't know if that's because he was 449 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: aware of the case. I don't know if it's because 450 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: he didn't want to get involved because of what he 451 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: had heard about me, because, believe me, they put out 452 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: some significant disinformation through that media. In fact, I've even 453 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: got well text messages from people who are deputies at 454 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: the Manor County Sheriff's Department quoting what the shooters said 455 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: in his statement as though it's factual. So they they 456 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: hook line and Sinker swallowed his story, and in an 457 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: effort to save face, they're all pushing it from within. 458 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: The most important question right now, how can people help 459 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: you and your family? You know? Brother? The big thing 460 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: now for me is healing. Uh. Honestly, you caught me 461 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: on a good day. I'm pretty mentally on it. Right 462 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 1: now today. There are other days where I think fine, 463 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 1: but I can't, for whatever reason, get the words to 464 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: form and come out of my mouth. So there's not 465 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: much people can do with that. I've gotten a ton 466 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: of information about traumatic brain injuries from other people that 467 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: have them, other veterans, civilians. The National Traumatic Brain Injury 468 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: Association has been just fantastic about feeding me information about 469 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: things that they're finding that they're having success with. We 470 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: did start a go fund me page, I think as 471 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: you're aware of, because we we literally no ship I sold. 472 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: You know, I've made fairly decent money as a contractor 473 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: and didn't spend it because I was working so much. 474 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: So I had a nineteen six seven Chevel and we 475 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: sold my wife's paid for pickup truck. I sold my motorcycle, 476 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: we sold our house. You know, anything tangible that we 477 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: had that we could sell, we sold so that we 478 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: could get the money together, because we're over six figures 479 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: into what it's cost in order to do a real 480 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: investigation to get the actual facts and hire a competent 481 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: legal team that's going to just tear these people apart 482 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: in court. So, you know, people have been very very 483 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: generous in stepping up and contributing to that. We're up 484 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: to almost a thousand people have donated on that, so 485 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: it's just so humbling. Man. That's that's just amazing. So 486 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: you are listening and you want to support down in 487 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: his family, please go to their go fund with link 488 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: in the podcast descript and sell them your support. Thank 489 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: you for that very much and all sincerity. Thank you 490 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: for that. Besides that, you know, we've had some people 491 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: who are attorneys, like I mentioned, people who are in 492 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: federal law enforcement, people who are in state law enforcement, 493 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: people who are in local law enforcement. As a matter 494 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: of fact, to be very candid, we've had an outpouring 495 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: of support from people who are in law enforcement who 496 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: are quite frankly embarrassed by what they're seeing out of 497 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: Monroe County Sheriff's Department, who just want people to know, hey, look, 498 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: we're not all that way, you know, honestly, Stavros, think 499 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: about that right now. There's a lot of anti cops 500 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: sentiment in the country, so something like what they did 501 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: to me doesn't really look good, and it's hard to 502 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: get people to back them when they're doing crazy ship 503 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,959 Speaker 1: like this too. People who have served their country honorably, 504 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: who have integrity, who uphold the standards of law in 505 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: our country, you know, who went on and just was 506 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: starting a business, trying to move on with life, which 507 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: is all of the veterans dreams that I know. Yeah, 508 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: the ideal transition precisely so mine was stopped. Then here 509 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: I am, you know, just waiting to go on trial 510 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: and clear my name, regain of my freedom, put this 511 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: ship behind us, and then start moving forward on prosecuting 512 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: a man who quite possibly has a mental illness that's 513 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: going unaddressed. Who's out there in public with a gun. 514 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: Do you have any idea how long the trial it's 515 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: gonna take. We can only speculate, however, based on the 516 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,719 Speaker 1: forty years of experience my my lead attorney has, she 517 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: seems to think it will be anywhere between three and 518 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: five days. She said, there's a possibility to go into 519 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: the second week, but she's so confident in our case 520 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: she feels that it will be over in three to 521 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: five days and hopefully we will be here too to 522 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: post the good news. Yea, hopefully hopefully, Corona. It doesn't 523 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: limit us so severely that we're able to even if 524 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: we have social distancing, we can still get together, and 525 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: i'd i'd love to talk to you after it's over 526 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: with because there's so many things that we won't talk 527 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: about right now that we'll just blow your mind you 528 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: if you think what you've heard so far about the 529 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: cotton candy lady, the blow job cop, the arrested buying 530 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: drugs wearing uniform. Oh and by the way, the day 531 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: before my raiment, the afternoon before they had arrested a guy, 532 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: brought him into the jail, and while the processing processing 533 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: him into jail, there was some sort of altercation in 534 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: which he ended up dying. And again they don't like 535 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: talking about that too much either. So there's a lot 536 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: of shit, quite frankly, that's been going on with this 537 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: department in particular that needs to be brought to light. 538 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: So for sure, for sure you can't wait to talk 539 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: about more, can either? Here? Is there anything else you 540 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: would like to add? Man, I just asked for the 541 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: continued support of people from everywhere, your viewers, people like 542 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: you that have a platform where they can help spread 543 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: the word because the only thing that's going to stop 544 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: a dirty sheriff's department like these guys is exposure. The 545 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: more exposure that I can get and more light I 546 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: can bring into this place, the less likely it is 547 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: that they'll be able to get away with doing this 548 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: to somebody else. Because think about this. If I wasn't 549 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: a former Green Beret who had worked for the agency, 550 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: had a top secret security clearance, and all this ship 551 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: went down where I was the person being assaulted and 552 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: ended up taking the hit, there'd be nothing to prove 553 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,959 Speaker 1: that they're full of ship. Yeah, that's heavy. Again, if 554 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: you're listening, please go and so you're supported doing his 555 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: family in their co found me page and spread the word. 556 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: I mean, that's equally important. Don Thanks thanks for joining 557 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 1: us for the podcast and hope for the best. Sir, 558 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: thank you so so very much for having me on, 559 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,720 Speaker 1: because again that getting the word out is the most 560 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: positive thing we can do at this point, and you know, 561 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 1: just bring light into a very dark corner of Georgia. 562 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: You've been listening to Self Rep Radio. New episodes up 563 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: every Wednesday and Friday. Follow the show on Instagram and 564 00:34:39,200 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: Twitter at self Rep Radio.