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Speaker 1: dot Com. On the show today, two very special guests.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to the first guy first because

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Speaker 1: we've known him longer. Send it. Devin Mont's a k A.

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Speaker 1: Mr Checkpoints check. I mean, he's a legend around these lands. Folks.

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Speaker 1: You already heard me say Mr check Mr Checkpoint. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: Mr Checkpoints. You know when he was coming into that,

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Speaker 1: I got a little excited to myself, went wow, Mr

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Speaker 1: Checkpoints coming in. And not only that, I actually gave

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Speaker 1: a description of who you are to some people earlier,

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Speaker 1: and I described you just before I even read this

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Speaker 1: because it had nothing to do with nothing right, because

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Speaker 1: And I go, before I read you, guys about the

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Speaker 1: introduction that I have on these two gentlemen. I go,

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Speaker 1: this dude, Mr Checkpoint is a real g is what

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Speaker 1: he is in my book? And they go really and

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Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I go, and this is how I

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Speaker 1: the first interview and everything I remember you, I go,

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Speaker 1: this guy is so dope that I will never forget

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Speaker 1: his name, being Mr Checkpoint and Senate. And he told

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Speaker 1: me that he's used his privilege because he's a Jewish

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Speaker 1: old not older, tall gentleman whose films the police and

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Speaker 1: goes these guys can't do it, but I can. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna show cops who are good and bad, and

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Speaker 1: And I feel like there's black and Mexicans in the

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Speaker 1: no one else. I go. So that's what I love

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Speaker 1: But that's not the professional way to talk about this man.

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Speaker 1: Since two thousand eleven, Mr Checkpoint has been helping deterred

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Speaker 1: twenty five states nationwide. Mr Checkpoint has received prey. He's

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Speaker 1: not only from me right now and countless other millions

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Speaker 1: as well as discounts to local sponsors that include shuttle

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Speaker 1: I mean, and just finding other drivers, affordable auto insurance, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: Mr Checkpoint is creating safer communities throughout education, transparency, and accountability.

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Speaker 1: He also acts as a consultant reminder to always film

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Speaker 1: Mr Jonathan Hernandez, Santa Ana City council member. Now he

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately this story takes a turn. His cousin is Brandon Lopez.

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Speaker 1: and I can't wait to hear how Jonathan Hernandez you

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Speaker 1: they are having a concert, you guys, for all ages,

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Speaker 1: which is a beautiful thing. And this is for impacted

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Speaker 1: you guys for this platform which is helping remove stick

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Speaker 1: guys for helping promote this medicine that is making people's

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Speaker 1: Cannabis is something that is greatly effective in increasing you know,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Know what, I don't get the clap for us,

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Speaker 1: be a gangster till it's time to do gangster stuff, right, Senate.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of I know, I mean, gangster

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Speaker 1: And I know how tires tiresome. We can be in

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Speaker 1: this many years, bro, I just want to pay you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do it again. I just want to say

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Hernandez, Sir, you are amazing hearing you talk about

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Speaker 1: You're just going was what city wasn't sorry that was

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Speaker 1: And for her to say, people kill people every day.

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00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: If you're so concerned about your neighbors, tell them to

430
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: go inside so they don't get traumatized. And I said,

431
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: what are you telling me it's going to happen. And

432
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,439
Speaker 1: I told you before. This is hours before he got

433
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 1: spooky and I and I say it to them, this

434
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: is I I say to the office, I say, if

435
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: you kill my cousin, you'll get away with it. That's

436
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: the difference between people killing people every day. And I

437
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: pointed at it and said you'll get away with it.

438
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: And she goes, you're getting aggressive. And another officer comes

439
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm just trying to know how we

440
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: can help so that my cousin doesn't get killed. And

441
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: at that point those officers were no help. I go

442
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: to a different precinct and this is over several hours.

443
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: I go to a different area and let me ask

444
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: you this, How does it escalate to this point? Though? Right? So?

445
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: And I only have to ask because it's it's one

446
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: of those things. It's it's journalism, and we have to

447
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: figure out why are they sitting there? How does this happen?

448
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: Because we jumped right into the crime scene, right, not

449
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: to the crime scene, but I guess to the to

450
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: the to the scene. But how is how does like

451
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: he's sitting block away from his house, which I mean,

452
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: all of us has done, right, But they said there's

453
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: a crime scene so are they using that as the excuse?

454
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: What and and let me ask you this, you know,

455
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: and this may be you know something you know very

456
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: difficult to answer. Was your cousin in the right state

457
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: of mind? My cousin, like most people during a time

458
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: of crisis, needed professional help. And and what that means

459
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: is if you have somebody sitting in a vehicle and

460
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: this is coming from somebody, I might need professional help.

461
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: You got anybody, I've definitely been there, like, okay, this

462
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: is We've been stressed. Yeah, stressing man. And it's crazy

463
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: because I say that to a lot of my friends

464
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: or people that I know. I'm like and they look

465
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: at me like you're crazy. I'm like, no, I used

466
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: to be a ball hispanic, you know, living in Los

467
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: Angeles on Imperial Highway, and I religiously was get out

468
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: of my car by gunpoint, like you know, growing up

469
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: as a kid, Like religiously, like it'd be like step

470
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: out of the vehicle, put your left hand or your

471
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: right hand out the window, drop the keys, you know,

472
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: with your left hand grab the keys and dropping out

473
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: the window. And I'm like, boom. I mean it was

474
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: a religious act. This happens to me, like it was

475
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: normal to get rolled up on, just like pull over.

476
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: You know. I just got reminded the other day a

477
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: girl I was with, I remember rolling with you, we

478
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: got pulled over. The girls got every girl got questioned

479
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 1: with me because a ballheaded Mexican big group. Yeah, are

480
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 1: you here on your own wheel? Like it happened all

481
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: the time, Like it just happened all the saying I'm

482
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: having flashbacks right to understand, like you know and now,

483
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: But I also want to dig into it because you know,

484
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 1: there was a time where I, you know, I was

485
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: I was still young and you know, a little ching

486
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: going and like all right, you know what I mean,

487
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: like with some of these fools while they hitting on me.

488
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: You know, I had that mindset, right, but I still

489
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: sound like I did it. I did it, and I

490
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: did it really well, you know. But but but I

491
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: just I got to a point where I was like,

492
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, I was that guy that was stepping out

493
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: of the vehicle. But I also knew that that I was,

494
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: you know, impossibly that's possibly I'm done that day, you know,

495
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: because I did have weapons on me. I did forcefully

496
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: get a grass from you know, slam to the ground.

497
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 1: I've been you know, so unfortunately, you know, you you

498
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: you have to see and live through something that's much

499
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: more worse than my small incident. Right, but my small

500
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: incident happens so many times that I thoroughly understand it.

501
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to the to that little, that

502
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: little part where it's like, okay, maybe he was he was,

503
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: you know, using drugs and he was like, screw these guys,

504
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out of the car. Did he reach

505
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: for a weapon? Did it feel like he was reaching

506
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: and he had no weapon? You know what I mean?

507
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: And maybe you probably are and you probably knew this,

508
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: and have the cops said, hey, you know, you know,

509
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: sign this waiver, walk up there and goes to talk

510
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: to your cousin. You probably could have gave him a

511
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: hug and fucking you know way with them right there,

512
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: and and and maybe we you know, there is a

513
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: waiver that we can you know, put into you know,

514
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: some kind of an act like that where it's like hey,

515
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,719
Speaker 1: family men, the mom's like, you know, I'll go out

516
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: there and sign this paper right now on my own

517
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: right and get my my son right now and hug him,

518
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: and we'll lay down if they have to kill us both.

519
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: You have to kill us both. Yeah, you know what

520
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Like there's there's a way to to try

521
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: and you know the scenarios and know. The interesting thing

522
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: is for me, professionally, I work in a field where

523
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: I am that person you call to those sios. So

524
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: I've dealt with um everything from youth to adults dealing

525
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: with suicidal idea and um you know you who have

526
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: run away from home for weeks on end um to

527
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: working with people who have served thirty years sentences and

528
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: UH and struggle with socializing. UM. So I have a

529
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: professional background and UM and accreditation to be able to

530
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: respond to these types of things. Now you add the

531
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: layer of that's my cousin. I understand this trauma, I

532
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: know where it starts. I understand how to get him

533
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: to feel safe. And so what's officer? Can you please

534
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: listen to me? But that's what I'm saying, Like I

535
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: think there's a you know, there's probably protocol that says

536
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: they can't do that, right of course, maybe there is

537
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: something that you can we How can they believe you?

538
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: How can I believe that this is this cousin walking up,

539
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: not another gang member so to speak? And the interesting

540
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: The interesting thing is, um, I'm a council member in

541
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: my own district, and that's my family member, and I

542
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: also have the professional experience. That's my field. So if

543
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: they don't stop to take the time, even you're literally handcuffed.

544
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: The reason why is that the reason why is that

545
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: that system was not designed to even know how to

546
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: acknowledge what that looks like. Because the field, the field

547
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: that I come from, we are attentive to adverse childhood experiences.

548
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: We document, We make sure to learn what did these

549
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: individuals go through, because they're not they're diagnosis. And so

550
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: as he was refusing to get out of the car,

551
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself what was happening? Why why

552
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: he was driving his girlfriend's car that was not in

553
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: his name, that was reported stolen. And at that point,

554
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: because of the fact that they think this is a

555
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: stolen vehicle, we don't know what's in the car. But

556
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: they had a swat truck pressed against his car for

557
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: hours in broad daylight. Those trucks have cameras that can

558
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: move in different directions, so they were seeing in the

559
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: vehicle for hours. This man cried, as this man looked around,

560
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: as this man prayed, in his vehicle, as this man

561
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: smoked a cigarette in his vehicle, as this man played

562
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: music until his phone died. And then the solution was

563
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: at ten or three pm, have seventy cops on the street,

564
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: have every cop dog out on leash, is ready to go,

565
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: break the windows, throw a tear gas grenade in the vehicle,

566
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: Throw a tear gas grenade in the vehicle. And mind you,

567
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: he's sleeping in the back seat. It's been almost four

568
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,959
Speaker 1: hours at this point. He's in the back seat sleeping

569
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: and his head is pressed against the window, and they

570
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: break the window, throw the tear gas in, and they

571
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: throw a concussion grenade on top of the hood of

572
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: the car. So imagine you're sleeping and you wake up

573
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: to tear gas and a concussion grenade. But that means

574
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: is you can't see, you can't hear, and you and

575
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: you're also concussed. You're rocked. It's like you just and

576
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: so he gets out of the car within seconds of

577
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: them breaking the window. He got out of himself, like

578
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: he got out of himself within less than two seconds.

579
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: The officers yelled gun and four officers shot him twenty

580
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: two times. One of the officers Caitlin Panov has no

581
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Panof is a different officer. This is her third

582
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: fatal police shooting. Unless this is I believe that was

583
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: a different officer. But before he could even find his

584
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: footing from getting out of the car, the term gun

585
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,719
Speaker 1: was yelled. Now what's scary is that hours before I

586
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: was sent an email by my own department saying that

587
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: the suspect and vehicle has a gun. My question is

588
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: what did what did that gun look like? What type

589
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: of gun was it? Who said he had a gun?

590
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: You and you asked that question. That's the question I'm

591
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: going to be asking and guess what what happened to

592
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: that gun? And where did the information come from? Who

593
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 1: alleged that he had a gun? Because I promised you this.

594
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: If I wasn't a council member, they probably would have

595
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: found a gun. You feel me because you were there, though,

596
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: did you stay and watch and make sure they knew

597
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: at that point dealing with this council member, I was

598
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: not going to protect a killer cop. I was not

599
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: going to protect a criminal. I was not going to

600
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: protect somebody who abuses that badge, a badge that is

601
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: supposed to be designed to serve and protect, turned my

602
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: neighborhood into a war zone, shot my loved one twenty

603
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: two times and then knuckle bumped each other and left

604
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: literally literally, and my family we watched, we watched our

605
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: family member go through this, and um, seven days later,

606
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: so sorry for your lost man, thank you, And seven

607
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: days later, I'm dearly. I really it's um, it's fucked up,

608
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And I'm so sorry that

609
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: you had to one witness that I mean, um two

610
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: is uh, it's it's like I said, it's very difficult

611
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: that I'm sorry, dude, you know, I mean, I'm truly

612
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: amp dude. It's horrible. It's it's it's so sad that

613
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: this happens every day to our our youth. And again,

614
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: like I said, it brings me flashbacks of being you know, young,

615
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: because again I was that guy you know what I mean,

616
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: that that didn't know how to communicate with cops and

617
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: was just the neighborhood I grew up in, we you know,

618
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: and they didn't know how to communicate with us, to

619
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: be honest with you, and being told gun all the time.

620
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: And then when you look at these other names of

621
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: these people that are speaking at your event. It's the

622
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: same fucking thing. Who sees a gun, who says gun?

623
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: How is that just okay? How could a cop get

624
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: away with it three times? How can we have that

625
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: many shots and that many holes into your cousin dog?

626
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: Forty some that's okay? What about they knew that man

627
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: had a gun in there and waited forty minutes before

628
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: they were about that action. But we get killed for

629
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: lesser the white man. There's coming out there, dude, there's

630
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: carrying the shotgun. They're all white thought. Look at the

631
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: people who marched the state capital with intent to kill.

632
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: But you look like Jonathan and they killed a police officer,

633
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: they killed a police look just like me. And that's

634
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: why I love said it, because he knows, you know.

635
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: I mean, those protesters should be charged with felony murder

636
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: role because someone died. They were doing a felony by

637
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: breaking into the capital. And it actually there's people spending

638
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: time in prison for nearly life for for something like

639
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: felony murder role and it wasn't even an instance like

640
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: that ready for that's also terrorist threats. Look what they're doing,

641
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: you could call it terrorist. That's coming with a mob

642
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: like that at a place like that on federal ground,

643
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: come out there with weapons like that, that's becoming federal

644
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: you know, with intent to kill. Yeah, so you know,

645
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: and so let's you know, it's it's this is one

646
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: of those stories that we can, you know, go into

647
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,919
Speaker 1: deep detail for for years and days, and I would

648
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: love to continue adding light to it and sure ensure

649
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: as how I want to figure out, you know, and

650
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: and when once because I'm sure it's still going through

651
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: court and everything else. Not even a year. No, I know,

652
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: this is this is so recent. Like I said, it

653
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: bothers my stomach so bad because the way that you're

654
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, explaining it, it's like any you know, I

655
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: would have to look at myself. I'm not a police officer,

656
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: nor you know, have I been in their shoes? Right,

657
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: So I could be the guy they could sit here

658
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: and go, well, I've been in their shoes, but from

659
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: the other side of their shoes, right. But I mean,

660
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: you know, so I get the point of like, hey,

661
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: protect yourself, right, you know, you're going into something you

662
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: gotta protect yourself, you know, But at what point, like

663
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: don't don't we just say hey, look, let's just plumbs,

664
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: just do with twenty two shots with the non lethal

665
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: weapon and watch as as hit the floor and see

666
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: if we can keep them alive. I'm saying, like many

667
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: answers to question to this, you know what I mean?

668
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: Like I said, like, you know, you're walking up and saying, sir,

669
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: you know Kate's cool, do you care the same last name?

670
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: And you know you know you're a family member. Okay,

671
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: let's see if we can speak to somebody to diffuse

672
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: this or you know what, my my officer that's in

673
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: charge of that is right over there, Go speak to

674
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: him and diffuse you from you know, maybe you're talking

675
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: to the wrong officers. She's like, I can't focus right now,

676
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: I've got a gun on somebody, Please go to this

677
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: guy over here. And having somebody stays there for these

678
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: kind of events so that when someone from the family

679
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: does come up, he says, hey, I'm here. We've got

680
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: officers so and so on the side that's they're saying, hey, look,

681
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: I'm in the the head officer that's dealing with family

682
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: members and people that are you know, city officials or

683
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: anybody else coming forward to stop these things. How do

684
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 1: we get to these you see what I'm saying like

685
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: something that's simple, right, Like I think of ship like

686
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: that's an easy solution. You know, I have an interesting

687
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: sponse I want to share and I know Senate knows

688
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: a lot about this topic. To um. You know, when

689
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: we're talking about using the lethal rounds versus non lethal rounds,

690
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: what is um, something the public is not aware of

691
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: that they need to know is that, you know, they

692
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: shot him twenty two times. Then after his body light

693
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: on the ground, they shot him with one non lethal

694
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: round to make sure he was dead. That's just to

695
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: check him. That's just to check in case he's alive

696
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: and has a weapon. Shoot him once with not with

697
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: one non lethal And you know what what makes this situation?

698
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: What makes the situation? Are they all still free right now?

699
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: I'm sorry they are, but I think their days are counting. Um,

700
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: we're pursuing justice, you know, we're not interested in the settle.

701
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: What does justice look like? I mean, how does it

702
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sit here exactly, That's what I'm sitting

703
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: here going. What is justice even? And don't say, don't

704
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: know settlement you gotta give up? Yeah, of course I's

705
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: got to be everybody. But but but again, the bigger

706
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: picture isn't the award of the right. But you know,

707
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: I think justice is something that is actively being defined. UM.

708
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: Senate and I are working on our community justice first,

709
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: and UM, he and I are working together on a

710
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: very powerful action. And I think that for families impacted

711
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: by police violence, the first step of justice is building

712
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: a community. And Senate can tell you all about that. UM.

713
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,959
Speaker 1: And Senate, if you could tell tell us a little

714
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: bit about the network that you've been building over the

715
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: last couple of years, UM, because I think justice starts

716
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: with people like Senate. You need those community based UM

717
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: partners who are willing to unconditionally work for these families

718
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: and help them throughout the time that I mean, history

719
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: does not have a response on how do you help

720
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: these people? Well, instead of speaking for the people that

721
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: don't often get to speak, do you know what I mean?

722
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: Represents using his own platform and again his own you know,

723
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: his own life to to make sure that his life's work.

724
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: You know when I hear this man is to help others,

725
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: especially of color, you know what I mean? And that

726
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: goes for mark and community in communities around the country,

727
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: not just in his own around the country. I've seen

728
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: this man in different states, you know, different cities. I've

729
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: seen him marching down the freaking street people. I've seen

730
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: him out there, you know, you know, literally in the

731
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: middle of you know, of of what they would call, uh,

732
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: you know, a a riot when it's really a protest.

733
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: And I'm like, look, there's freaking sentate right there, Mr. Checkpoint,

734
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: and I know his character, and they're calling it a

735
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: riot or something, and I'm like, dude, they're not right,

736
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: and there's no way this dude's on a skateboard chilling

737
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: like you know, I know, you get it twisted if

738
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: you if you shoot something, madam, he might feel like, whoa,

739
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: what's going on? But welcome back, you know, thank you

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00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 1: for your service, dude. No, of course, I think cops

741
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: typically I mean in instances where they kill people, then

742
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: they make the families or they try to make the

743
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: person they kill look like a criminal, right, or they

744
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: it's the realities that cops kill more than three people

745
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: a day on average in our country. That's significantly more

746
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: than any other country that exists. We have a serious problem,

747
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: and there's no roadmap. When the cops kill your loved one,

748
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: it's not a situation where it's a random person and

749
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: then you can maybe move from that area. You don't

750
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: have a choice when the cops get behind you. You

751
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: don't have a choice when you have perceived unsafety, and

752
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: then we're taught for decades that the cops are gonna

753
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: be there to keep us safer. That's all destroyed, and

754
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: I think for families of from oldrin to grandmothers and

755
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: everything in between, you're forever affected. And we've had decades

756
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: of seeing police and shows like Cops right where they're

757
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: constantly chasing around brown and black people in random, low

758
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: income cities, and then you're never finally such a big show,

759
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: people love it. I'm gonna run the longest lasting reality

760
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: show that's ever existed, and I think it showed it

761
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: did a really bad depiction of what police are and

762
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: what people are in communities. All of those people are

763
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: innocent and guilty. Every person who's arrested or having interactions

764
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: with police, they're innocent until proven guilty, nless they had

765
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: a warrant unless uh they were wanted. And I think

766
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: that we like really forget that, and so he just

767
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: started to that's that's like kind of why I respect

768
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: even John when he's saying like you know these alleged officers,

769
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, like, you know, he's not saying, hey,

770
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: they were guilty of this. He The way he's saying

771
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: is we're yet to see you know, whereas a lot

772
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: of times I think, you know, when officer has come

773
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: to um, to the door or to your vehicle, you're

774
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: guilty in their mind until proven innocent. And and that's

775
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: how I feel our whole judicial system is because they're

776
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: taking me to jail and you know, because I'm guilty

777
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: of whatever they charge me with. But yet they don't

778
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: have those facts all the times, and more often than

779
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: not with minorities. Correct. And and the reason Jonathan is

780
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: so brilliant with the way he words things is because

781
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: we're people and we get held accountable. The lack of

782
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: accountability is why you can have an officer kill three

783
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:35,479
Speaker 1: people and and and still be employed. Correct. So there's

784
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: a problem with no accountability. And absolutely there's a problem.

785
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: And I think if people didn't like the idea of

786
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: defunding the police or anything like that, what we certainly

787
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: need to realize that cops today, in this manner, many

788
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: of them are cowards and it's not brave to go

789
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: around killing people. They can't be acting as judge, jury

790
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: and executioner for people who for what reason, you know?

791
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: And we see a time and time more and more. Right,

792
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: the more people that are filming, the more footage we see.

793
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: And that's that's a sad reality. And I want to

794
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: be because as people hear you send it, Mr. Checkpoint

795
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: and here you council member, nobody up here is saying

796
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: we hate cops, all cops are bad. Keep an eye

797
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: on all cops because there's a lot of great cops

798
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: out there, and like you feel me the police and

799
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: I've seen you praise cops consistently, which I love when

800
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: you do. But as we're on this cop bash right now,

801
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: I don't want people to hear this and get it twisted. Folks.

802
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: This is not what it is and we're not bashing

803
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: police officers, these officers in Santa and this is what

804
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: they did. What excuse me, what do you guys doing

805
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: to go after those ones that pulled the trigger and

806
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: those that watched, because in my opinion, just like we

807
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: counted all those people that walk the store are just

808
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: as if you did the capitol and watch watch that

809
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: those who watched that you had a gun out to well,

810
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: hold that thought real quick. Let's go to break. When

811
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: we come back, it's Cannabis Talk one on one. We'll

812
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: get that answer. We'll be right back with Cannabis Hawk

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Speaker 1: to have you here. City council Member Jonathan uh Jonathan Hernandez,

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Speaker 1: and of course Mr Checkpoint. We just went and said,

819
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: what's going on with these guys? I mean to hear

820
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: and think that these people that pulled the trigger twentysome shots,

821
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: forty shots, It's just it just fucking turns my gut

822
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: so bad. You what is your guys process sen it?

823
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: How are you guys gonna do? Pick? Like, what's what

824
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: can we get to help? How do we tell our

825
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: listeners this is what we're doing about this? You know

826
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, what are we doing? How do

827
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,959
Speaker 1: we tell people to help and support? So the way

828
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: that we're approaching this is the fight looks very different

829
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: for us because my cousin was killed in Santa Anna

830
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: by an agency outside of our own city, Anaheim. It's

831
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: very rare, very rare, very very strange. We were one

832
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: of the first cases in California history UM to have

833
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: Assembly Bill fIF six applied to us UM, and that

834
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: Assembly Bill UM takes police investigations away from them and

835
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:30,720
Speaker 1: has them independently investigated by the state Attorney General, who

836
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: oversees all of the district attorneys throughout the state of California.

837
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: That's the individual who is going to be investigating my

838
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: cousin's murder. Um Within his first year of being an

839
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: attorney general, he's already prosecuted an officer and UM. Our

840
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: approach is very different because we could take it to

841
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: the streets. We could have, but why would we sit

842
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: in front of Anaheim's police department after seeing what they

843
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: did to my family member? Why would I want to

844
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: put people in that position? And you know what our

845
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: protest is at the diets now, it's it's behind the

846
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: seats because all that information that we didn't have access

847
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: to as members of the public elected officials like me

848
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: exists now and that means that information belongs to the people.

849
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: My job is to make sure that I am creating

850
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: policies that are going to protect our residents. And so

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00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: one of the first things that I did, and this

852
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: is what what kind of It was very heartbreaking, and

853
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: I had this on my agenda prior to my cousin

854
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: getting killed, was we diverted um mental health calls in

855
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: Santa Anna from police to mental health specialists. This was

856
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: seven days after my cousin was killed that we voted

857
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: yes on that. I had that on my agenda prior

858
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: to my own cousin getting killed, and um, we were

859
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: one of the first cities in Orange County to do that.

860
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: And so our approach to justice was we need to

861
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: bring people together, and we need to humanize these people

862
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: whose lives were stolen, and we need to educate the

863
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: public that when your loved one dies, you have forty

864
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: five days to put out your truth, because the police

865
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: in forty five days will put out a video describing

866
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: in detailing how they killed your family member, and they

867
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: will criminalize him down to the core and whether it

868
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with who they killed, if he

869
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: did something at sixteen years old, they will talk about it.

870
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: And my family put out a video first. Thanks to

871
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: send it, Send It, put a video video out that

872
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: helped us tell my cousin's story that detailed his video

873
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: was the first video to say the names of the

874
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: police officers that killed him, Brett Hitman, Caitlin Panav Officer Weber,

875
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: and Paul Delgado. And he put out the video showing

876
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: the murder of my cousin, showing the different an angle

877
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: where after he was killed, you can hear my family's screams.

878
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: He was the person who who put the video out

879
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: and educated the public the names of the officers. And

880
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: in that video, it also detailed the other instances of

881
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: violence and murder that they've committed. So when you look

882
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: at how much money, can I ask one think to

883
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: real quick, do any of them also have other murders

884
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: under their belt in the same department? Well but derogatory,

885
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like like imagine this, but

886
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: but hold on, but let me just learn this real

887
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: quick that that don't have weapons also in that story

888
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: because now now we're getting into like you know, you know,

889
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: and I almost you know, I almost thank you, Jo,

890
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: I almost got to get into it, like because if

891
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: that even if now we're showing record of you know

892
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: what I mean, or you know, in the answers us,

893
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: oh my god, and this is this is and here's

894
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 1: the scary part. Had we addressed that first fatal shooting

895
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: by saying, you know what, we gotta get you and

896
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: that victims family mental health support. We need you to

897
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: not be able to work here, but we will get

898
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: you all the help that you need. And the reason

899
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: I bring this up is because the city of Anaheim,

900
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: how they dealt with this officer is they pay out

901
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: settlements and the next thing you know, you have to

902
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: fatal killings. Now my cousins, your third At what point

903
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: do we say, well, you're paying them. They're they're paying

904
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: the officers there. That officer still works, all of them

905
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: and they all get settlements, they get money. They Anaheim

906
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: has to pay out family. What point do we say, wait,

907
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: that's it. That's serial killer. Correct, you've killed many people.

908
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: This is a major problem because imagine specifically with these

909
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 1: officers like like like again, accidental death should never come

910
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: from a professional that's you know, in an officer. Right,

911
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: this is not this is not we're not playing you know, um,

912
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 1: that's what that's what you know. Idiots on the street

913
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: to right cannabis. This shouldn't be a Let me give

914
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: you a cannabis reference. If we're cannabis owners and uh

915
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: an employee, you know, happens to damage dollars of goods? Yeah,

916
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: they just lost. Do you keep them? No? You just

917
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: take the Now let's say we do it. Now, let's

918
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 1: say that same employee does it three times. It's my fault,

919
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: exactly what we just so, So here's the thing, as

920
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 1: we we just lost you know, a hundred and whatever

921
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: fifty dollars with this you know stuff you know, at

922
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: at an event. We got dah blah blah. There was

923
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: mistakes made, right, there's some equipment lost. There was all

924
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: kinds of mistakes made, you know, and we owned up

925
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: to it. We had the conversation about it, we went

926
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: through you know whatever. I'll be damn it actually happens

927
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: two more times, you know what I mean? Like this,

928
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: This is not a this is not a game. You know,

929
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: we can't afford it to you know, and and and

930
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: again you know, um, but but unfortunately, we're talking about

931
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: life in your in your in your you know real

932
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 1: today dream and vision and world of what you're living through.

933
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: You're dealing with and we're all dealing with it right

934
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: at this moment and and again when I see that,

935
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: That's why I asked that powerful question. I think it

936
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: was a powerful question. Was you know, is there this

937
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: officer have is this a multiple times they've had this

938
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: and and the answer, you know, if you're you're saying

939
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: yes is is pretty like almost. It should be an automatic.

940
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: It should be automatic like hey, like you are completely

941
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, done with this lifestyle. You should definitely not

942
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: be on the force. You should definitely not be If

943
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: there's two times where you know, you catch somebody, you

944
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: kill somebody with and they don't have weapons. You made

945
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,879
Speaker 1: a mistake with someone's death twice and their names were

946
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: David Abrams in two thousand and eight, two thousand and fourteen,

947
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: Steen Parker, and in two thousand and twenty one Brandon Lopez.

948
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: This is just one of the four officers, Caitlin Panov.

949
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 1: You can find her record at l e O Ratings

950
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: dot com. Google c A T A l I N

951
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: p A n l V Panav. You can actually have

952
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: access to this website. Type in an officer's name and

953
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: you'll see their record. Holy Ship, we need to educate

954
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: the public as to who works for us. I worked

955
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: for my community and that's why I ran on truth. Well,

956
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 1: that's why why I asked you these hard questions because

957
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: to me, you know, it doesn't matter to me, you know,

958
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean what matters to me is that you've lost

959
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,959
Speaker 1: a loved one, right, and and that one happened. But

960
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: but but it doesn't in the eyes of a lot

961
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 1: of people, They're going, well, did did they all have guns?

962
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: And did they you know, so their mind start asking

963
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: all those questions. I'm like, you're killed somebody, period one. Done.

964
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: You know, this man didn't have a weapon. You dropped

965
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: the tear gas on him, you dropped to this on them,

966
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 1: you dropped to that, you know. But then now you're

967
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: talking about now we have a multiple case right within

968
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: the same city, right or the you know, the same person.

969
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's a damn there. I mean,

970
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: it's there has to be a protocol that puts things

971
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: in place to stop that. And you know who is

972
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:29,959
Speaker 1: putting things in place to stop that? Do? People like Senate? Yeah? Yeah,

973
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: I agree, I totally agree. I think Senence movement has

974
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,280
Speaker 1: changed the face of of the world right now because

975
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,720
Speaker 1: what's happening is is that it started a whole trend

976
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: of people going around filming the police. Always filmed the police,

977
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: right and and and then you know, now you have

978
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: people not afraid to film police. You know, you have

979
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: people that are you know, speaking up about their rights.

980
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: They're starting to share other people's actions that need to

981
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: be addressed. Like some people are just crazy out there

982
00:53:57,719 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: and they do stupid stuff, and it's like, oh, like

983
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 1: at you you know what I mean, And it's it's

984
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: more than police. But but I think it starts with

985
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: the law enforcement. Right, how do we get the guys

986
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: that are, you know, enforcing the law to enforce the

987
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: law on themselves first of all, And and then you know,

988
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: I always go back to this and send it if

989
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: I and if I. Senate and I have been on

990
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: the show together and we've talked about, like, you know,

991
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 1: one of the things that we we need to work

992
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: on is how we we label police officers. Like they

993
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: call themselves sergeants lieutenants, which is our all military terms.

994
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: You know, they should maybe just be called managers and

995
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: and and you know, um, you know officers, but you know,

996
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: but but there there may be a different way to

997
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: label them so that they don't feel so militant. Also

998
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: the training I think, you know, for for you know,

999
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: police officers is very old. You know, the actual training

1000
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: of what they're you know, they're they're going off of.

1001
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: They haven't updated their their real training models, and maybe

1002
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: they're starting to now. I'm sure they are because of

1003
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: everything that's happened. Um. And then I really think that

1004
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: they should all be accountable. And I know that there's

1005
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: laws set in place to make sure that if if

1006
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's actions that we're taking that sometimes

1007
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: they're not charged for it, right, And I've heard those

1008
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: things too. I don't know enough about him. You guys

1009
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: probably are much more well around it. Um, But I

1010
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:18,879
Speaker 1: just think that, you know, how do we get into

1011
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: a position you know where how how old was your cousin?

1012
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: Thirty three years old? I mean thirty three year old?

1013
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: You know kid? You know, let's be honest. At thirty

1014
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: three years old, you're not you're not a you're not

1015
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: a grown mass man. You're you're about to be a man.

1016
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 1: Um and and a lot of us don't you know

1017
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: understand how to get in that position. But how do

1018
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: we help? Um? You know, stop this. I guess you

1019
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: guys are doing it, So send it, you know, tell

1020
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: us what you're doing to to to to do things

1021
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: like that, because I know you're actually helping that well.

1022
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: I think, you know, running for office, like jon Jonathan

1023
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: Hernandez is huge, right, like taking the role fitting filling

1024
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: the positions that makes such a difference. Do you plan

1025
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,760
Speaker 1: on running for office? No, no, not at the moment,

1026
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: but we will continue to encourage people to you know,

1027
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: always film the police, right, That's one way of transparency.

1028
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: I think another way is, you know, representation. A lot

1029
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: of people get you know, these random charges for something

1030
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: they don't have a lawyer, they let it go to

1031
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 1: a warrant, and with just simple representation, they would actually,

1032
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: uh you know, get these cases dismissed. Right. A lot

1033
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: of cops are just writing tickets for things they shouldn't

1034
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 1: I know, I've been spent the night in jail for

1035
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: something I shouldn't have done. Right, So this is just

1036
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: a reality that many of us are facing. And without representation,

1037
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: we're actually then get given a record because you're taking

1038
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: a plea deal or something like that. And and I

1039
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: think something that we're really talking about is, uh, you

1040
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: know again this concert on October. In September, I'm sorry, September.

1041
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: We're we're raising awareness to end qualified immunity. That's why

1042
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: these cops can keep doing wrong, keep killing people, and

1043
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 1: keep staying on the force to do it again. But

1044
00:56:57,719 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: but the other thing I want to really touch on

1045
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: his jury duty. You know, at some point, as this

1046
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: case progressed, as it would be amazing to see this

1047
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: officer have to take the stand and have to be

1048
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: charged for the murder that they've committed. Right, And I

1049
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: think if we all I think of an idea of

1050
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: jury duty, and in my opinion, it's been how to

1051
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: get out of it, it's a pain in the ass,

1052
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: how to avoid it, you know, etcetera. But really it's

1053
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: the most impactful thing we can do in our communities

1054
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: to serve one another. It's why people are in jail.

1055
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: First things they shouldn't be in jail for in our community.

1056
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: And that's why I when an officer gets charged, I'm sorry.

1057
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: When when an officer goes to court, we can be

1058
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: on the dream be like, actually, no, they should go

1059
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: to jail. We can be mindful, we can be conscious aware,

1060
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, juries across our nation aren't representing the communities

1061
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: of the people that are facing court inside, and so

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00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: I want to just have that convo and rethink the

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00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: way we we talked about jury duty as well. That's huge, yeah,

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00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, and listen, guys, I am um again, you

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00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: know your cousin's name Brandon Lopez. I like giving people names,

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00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 1: especially you know. I'm sorry I forgot it, but Brandon Lopez,

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00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 1: you know, maybe rest in peace and your family, uh,

1068
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: find peace you know, through through this this time, you know.

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00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: And and I pray that you find the justice that

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00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: is deserved, you know. And I, like I said, it's

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00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: hard to say what is justice, right, you know, financial

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00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: settlements ain't gonna do anything. Um, you know, the the

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00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're they're uh, they're great to have,

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00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but at the same time, it's almost sad

1075
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: to have, right. It's like, here's some money for the

1076
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: loss of your son. You know, I don't know that

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00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: that that does anything special, um for for the for

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00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: the parents, or or you for that matter. And um,

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00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: so I understand, and and I think, you know, I

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00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: don't know if you pray, but you know you gotta

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00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: pray for these people. Absolutely. I say. This work we

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00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: do in the community is its church for the unchurched,

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00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: you know. UM, it's education for those that don't get

1084
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: us hit in the classroom. That's why we do it

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00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: on the streets. UM. And so for me, with the

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00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 1: work that one I'm doing with Senate, we're honoring those

1087
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: roots and we're now using these you know, my my tragedy.

1088
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: I'm speaking for myself. UM. I I used this opportunity

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00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: to shed light and humanize these people who have been killed. UM.

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00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: Because this event that we have coming up on septemb

1091
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: I wish I would didn't have to host it, or

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00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: be part of it, or even have to attend it, um,

1093
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: because the actuality is I just want to I don't

1094
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: want to be seen. You want to tuck your head

1095
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: under a pillow and you want to forget about it,

1096
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: and you want to sleep it off. And no matter

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00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: how many hours you sleep, you can't get enough sleep.

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00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: And uh. And that's just grief. Grief is just all

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00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: the unexpressed love. UM. And you know, like Kendrick Lamar says,

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00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: we grieve different. So this event on September we are

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00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: hosting in Santa Anna, Always Filmed The Police, Always for

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01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: the People Foundation is hosting this event and they are

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01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: bringing together one of the largest groups of police impacted

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01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: families that we've had in Santa Ana, and to honor

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01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: those roots, it was only right that we pay respects

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01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: to the Black liberation movement because Santa Anna is a

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01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: community that is as black as it is brown. And

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01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 1: the reason I share that is because the very community

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01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: where my cousin was killed was where we were raised.

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01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: But that's also where our Santana Black Panther Chapter existed.

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01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: And opening us in prayer is the founder of that

1112
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: Black Panther Chapter who was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder

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01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: of an officer in the city of Santa Anna. Uh.

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01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: May he rest in peace. His name was Nelson sasser

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01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: Um and a gentleman named Daniel Michael Lyonum who was

1116
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: the president of the Santa Anna Black Panther Chapter. UH.

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01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: He was appointed by Geronimo Pratt himself who was one

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01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: of the leaders of the Panther Party and Um. This

1119
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: officer was was shot and killed June seven nine. May

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01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: he rest in peace. And the chief at the time

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01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: um through a book that is called Badge of Color,

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01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: which is a book written by Harlan Lambert, the first

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01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: black police officer in Orange County, was hired in Santa Anna.

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01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: He was tasked to work with his partner in arresting

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01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: Daniel Michael Linum, an innocent man, and that this innocent

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01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: man was child within forty eight hours and found guilty

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01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: of murder and became a political prisoner thirty one days after.

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01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: He eventually was released and exonerated of all charges. He

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01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: his life was ruined though he could never escape being

1130
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: called a cop killer even though he was innocent, and

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01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: he became a pastor. Eventually he will be opening our

1132
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: event in prayer. And Fred Hampton, who was the chairman

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01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 1: of the Black Panther Party, who was regarded in the

1134
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: same light and respect as Dr Martin Luther King, Rosa

1135
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: Parks and Malcolm X. The reason we don't learn about

1136
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: him in the school bucks is because of what his

1137
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: foundation of his liberation work was and his true solution

1138
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: and liberation was you gotta bring you gotta build a

1139
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: rainbow coalition. He went out to the white community in

1140
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: the sixties when people were getting brutalized by the cops.

1141
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: KKK members, he went out and talked to them. He

1142
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: went out to the Puerto Rican community when they were

1143
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: getting killed by the police, and he went to their

1144
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: territory and he met with them. He went to the

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01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: territory that were occupied by black gangs and he met

1146
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: with them, and they said, nobody's bigger than that one.

1147
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: And he built the Rainbow Coalition. He eventually was assassinated

1148
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: and it was one of the longest trials in American history.

1149
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: His family fought again east our country to prove that

1150
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: he was assassinated and they won, and they made a

1151
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: movie about him last year called Judas in the Black Messiah.

1152
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: And his son, Fred Hampton Jr. Will be present at

1153
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: this event. And I ac credit Fred Hampton for a

1154
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: lot of my beliefs, a lot of my fight, and

1155
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: a lot of my tenacity I learned from those great

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01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 1: black leaders. Uh. He'll be part of this event. And

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01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: we have artists, very big artists who are performing and

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01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: send it if you could tell us a little bit

1159
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: more about this event and how it came together. Uh,

1160
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: this is the man who put put everything together. And

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01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: I think if there's anyone who could speak on on

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01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: what's happening, it is going to be him. Yeah, we

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01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: have I mean, it's a it's gonna be a meaningful,

1164
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: purposeful day night it's free, it's for all ages. It

1165
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: starts at noon, right, it goes to eleven pm. And uh, again,

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01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: the overall theme is to raise awareness. We want to

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01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: end qualified immunity, and we want to create a safe

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01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: space for all of those impacted families nationwide. Uh. Some

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01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: of the uh speakers, I know we're having the father

1170
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: of Jacob Blake, which is Jacob Blake Sr. Bianca Austin

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01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: is the aunt of Brianna Taylor. Uh Leilah steinberg Um,

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01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 1: who was tupac's first mentor and manager. Her son was

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01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: tragically killed by Oakland police. She will be there with

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01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: her amazing nonprofit Mike Sessions, and I know Cannabis Talk

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01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: one oh one is supporting and going to be there

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01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: and helping out. So we uh, we're really excited. And

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01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: it's it's an unfortunate uh, the reason to have to

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01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:48,760
Speaker 1: come together, but nonetheless it's it's needed, right, it's mandatory,

1179
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 1: and I think it's the first of many. Yes, And

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01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: where is this located again, Blue Lot in Santana, And

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01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: I know Senate has a lot of amazing artists on

1182
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: part of this event. Um. The speakers, like you mentioned,

1183
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: there's a lot of important people throughout American history that

1184
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: are going to be together in the same room for

1185
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 1: the first time. And UM, the family of you know,

1186
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: David Sullivan was killed by Buona Park pet family of

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01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 1: Leonel Chavez who was killed by Elie Sheriff's Hey. His

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01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: family member, Leonel Chavez died the same day my cousin

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01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: died hours apart. Three people died the day that my

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01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: cousin was killed within a thirty mile radius of each other.

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01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: Within twelve hours. Three people were killed by a sheriff

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01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 1: by local and two local police departments. And UM, the

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01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: Leonel Chavis family will be there, UM family of Firm

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01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: and Vincent Vealezuela will be there, the family of UM,

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01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: the family of the Valentina Oriana Parraulta. She was the

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01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: fourteen year old girl that was killed in the Burlington

1197
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 1: Cote factory by l A. P d the day before Christmas.

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01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:07,919
Speaker 1: Even my own sorry, and I get teared up, dude,

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01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: and it just it ruins me, man, because you know,

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01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: it's just like you start to identify, right like I

1201
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: like I follow Senate and I see a lot of it.

1202
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: I see a lot of the different um, you know, activists,

1203
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: or I don't know the word for you guys other

1204
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: than you know, the the yeah yeah dude on the

1205
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: streets doing it right, you know. And it's just like

1206
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, I, I and I and I'm always like damn,

1207
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:33,439
Speaker 1: you know, and it always hits me, you know, and

1208
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: and and now and right now I'm sitting here just

1209
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: because it bothers me a lot, because again, like I said,

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01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: I can only understand it from the glimpse of myself

1211
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: being a child, saying like, you know, sixteen years old.

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01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 1: You know, the first time I ever I've ever had

1213
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 1: a gun point I mean, it was my police officers,

1214
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, you know, so I

1215
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: know it. You know, I'm like, oh ship, you know,

1216
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm backing up. You know, I've got guns on me

1217
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: and I'm getting out of the car looking at them.

1218
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: They've all got guns on me, you know. And I'm sixteen,

1219
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 1: you know what what I mean, I'm going, you know whatever,

1220
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: and did I have a gun and have a fucking

1221
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 1: gun in my car? Um? But you know, so it

1222
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: really touches me, man, what you guys are doing. And

1223
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 1: I freaking love it. Um. I can only share with

1224
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 1: you guys that you know, you guys are doing the

1225
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: right thing. You're on the right path. Um. There's fortune

1226
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: for for those that that sacrifice you know, their time

1227
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: to reveal um things in time that weren't meant to

1228
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: be placed there. You know, this is this is something

1229
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 1: that that can be um you know, recognized through prayer

1230
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: or through beliefs in life. And I'm just you know,

1231
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 1: honored to be here with you guys. And I love

1232
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: what you guys are doing for the communities of the world.

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01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: Like I said, I know that it just it doesn't

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01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,919
Speaker 1: just happen in Santa Anna or Annaheim, or or or

1235
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:50,280
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills or whatever cities that you guys are because

1236
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: I've seen you guys, like you said, you went across

1237
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: the state to sit you know on um uh George

1238
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 1: Floyd's family on on on the block you know where

1239
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 1: it all happened. This is before my family member was killed, correct, right,

1240
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: this is and that's what I'm saying. It's something from within.

1241
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: And again there's something about exposing you know, what's facts.

1242
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: And I appreciate you guys so much for for all

1243
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: these actions that you take and for spending your life's

1244
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:20,760
Speaker 1: work on something like this because this is not um

1245
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: just to you know, uh, you know, it's not like

1246
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: your average job. How about that. You know, there there's

1247
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: a lot more purpose to it. And so many of

1248
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: those families that were affected. Man, I look at at what,

1249
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: you know, the names that you guys rolled off. I'm

1250
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: sitting here going to Jesus, I've seen all of those

1251
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: and until I hear them, and when I hear them all,

1252
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: I can almost feel their spirits, you know, just going fuck,

1253
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 1: thank you for for bringing my my name up into

1254
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 1: light for something that I don't think they all knew

1255
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 1: what they were getting into. A few well, yeah, and

1256
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: to the credit of what Always for the People Foundation

1257
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 1: is doing. You know, in Santana, we don't have a

1258
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: response for this yet. We don't have the organizations or

1259
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:06,839
Speaker 1: the structure to be able to even respond to police violence.

1260
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 1: And so to have Always for the People Foundation come

1261
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: to Santa Anna and bring Fred Hampton, bring all these

1262
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:19,600
Speaker 1: families together, and you know what, it really speaks volumes

1263
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: of how your work is in inserting hope into communities

1264
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:29,559
Speaker 1: that are very much lacking it. And I'll tell you

1265
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:32,840
Speaker 1: I met him at the lowest point of my entire life.

1266
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 1: And I'm somebody who's been through a lot, and I

1267
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: met him at the lowest point in my life, and

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Speaker 1: every month of working alongside of my life has slowly

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Speaker 1: started to feel more hopeful. And the event that he's

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Speaker 1: putting on has artists that are performing that we're taken

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Speaker 1: straight from Brandon's playlist on Spotify. And uh, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you so, Always for Them for the People Foundation

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Speaker 1: put a special event together and the performances that they

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Speaker 1: were able to book will announce here today area. Cool

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Speaker 1: with that. So with Santen's permission, you can if I

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Speaker 1: share the names that you got, would love for you

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Speaker 1: to do that, all right, Cool? So we have uh

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Speaker 1: and this is big thank you to Always for the

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Speaker 1: People Foundation. So I gotta before I can can even

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Speaker 1: say the names, we gotta give them around applause. So

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Speaker 1: let's let's love yeah hashtag. So what Always for the

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Speaker 1: People Foundation are bringing to the Santana community is an

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Speaker 1: event that is all ages um that is going to

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Speaker 1: have free food, free free music, free concert performance, and

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Speaker 1: more importantly, it's going to be educational. UM. People are

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Speaker 1: not going to leave here feeling depressed or sad about

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Speaker 1: seeing this tragedy. People are gonna leave here empowered. Educated, informed,

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Speaker 1: and stronger because they're going to know who their neighbors

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Speaker 1: are and they're gonna know that the trauma that's happening

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Speaker 1: in these communities isn't defining who we are. We're taking

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Speaker 1: this trauma and we're rewriting these stories for these family

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Speaker 1: members and helping us with that is always for the people.

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Speaker 1: Foundation has a concert and it will be headlined by Dubs. Um.

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Speaker 1: It will be co headlined by Planet Asia, UM PJ

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Speaker 1: Vega with Redbone come and get your performing. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: also have a lighter shade of brown rocking and then

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Speaker 1: the Funk Freaks were very close to Brandon. Brandon actually

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Speaker 1: did a lot of the logos for Funk Freaks. Back

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Speaker 1: in the day. He was a tattoo artist, which is

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Speaker 1: why he's covered in tattoos. Um. You know, police thought

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Speaker 1: he was a gangmanga, but he was a tattoo artists.

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Speaker 1: He loved art art and so Funk Freaks will be performing. Um.

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Speaker 1: They will have an hour set. They will be performing

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Speaker 1: with Diamond Ortiz and they have very very special guests

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Speaker 1: that I can't I don't even want to say who.

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Speaker 1: You have to be there to see it, um, but

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Speaker 1: they're huge funk artists. Um, we also have the Philharmonic,

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Speaker 1: We have Doe Boy, Tony, Jamal Jones, Sam Nathaniel Brown, Mosaic,

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Speaker 1: D Mar with Message, and then we have DJ sets

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Speaker 1: by DJ Pepsi, Ricky Baby and the one and only

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Speaker 1: DJ Lala and DJ Unique and DJ Deebo from the

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Speaker 1: world famous Funk Freaks Crew. Wow, you guys got a

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Speaker 1: full festival going. Let's go. Man, that sounds hot. That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: You put that lot up together. A little help from

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Speaker 1: your friends always for the people. Yeah, you don't see

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Speaker 1: that a lot, no man, you know, and I know

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Speaker 1: you know, first of all, I mean you guys have

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Speaker 1: got a lineup just with the artist is great. That's

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I mean, but you know, the

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Speaker 1: families are the true celebrities here, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, I love how you you explained

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Speaker 1: it too, because it made me feel a little better too.

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, it's gonna be educational. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be the celebration of life, you know, for for those

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Speaker 1: that we've lost right in in our communities and and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I really am just excited to one follow

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Speaker 1: your your your your cousin's uh you know, uh case

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Speaker 1: you know as something that I want to bring you

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Speaker 1: guys back on and help follow you guys with anything

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Speaker 1: that you guys are doing here at Cannabis Talk on one.

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Speaker 1: We we want to support you guys in any way,

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Speaker 1: UM that we can, because the facts is that we're

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Speaker 1: an outlet, you know, and we're just like you guys

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Speaker 1: were putting message out and I thoroughly believe in your

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Speaker 1: guys message, you know, and I think it's it just

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Speaker 1: needs to be highlighted everywhere. So UM, I look forward

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Speaker 1: to to getting involved more with you guys on all

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Speaker 1: these projects that you guys are doing as well. So

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for having us. Really, it's been

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Speaker 1: monumental at that Cannabis Talk one on one involved in

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Speaker 1: that day, being able to be here talk to you

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Speaker 1: and and it's it's super appreciated. Is there anything else

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Speaker 1: that we forgot before we let you guys get on

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Speaker 1: out of here. So Santa Anna was the first city

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Speaker 1: to legalize cannabis, and Orange Council and other cities are

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Speaker 1: now catching on City of Coasta mesa Um and City

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Speaker 1: of Huntington Beach. But the ogs in the game is

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Speaker 1: Santa Anna and so Santa Anna, we have legislation coming

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Speaker 1: back to us on September, and this legislation will be

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Speaker 1: related to the cannabis ordinance that we have UM. I

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Speaker 1: can't speak from my colleagues in the Council, but I

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Speaker 1: can speak as to what I am looking to advocate

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Speaker 1: for UM, and I think that removing the stigma of

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Speaker 1: cannaba is cannabis is extremely important. There are people serving

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Speaker 1: life sentences right now who are black and brown for

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Speaker 1: half an ounce, while there are people benefiting millions of

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Speaker 1: dollars that people of color would never have access to

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Speaker 1: even apply. Most people don't even nderstand that to be

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Speaker 1: in ownership of cannabis you have to pass a background check.

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Speaker 1: You want to hire employees, they have to pass a

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Speaker 1: background check. So how are people of color going to

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Speaker 1: have a seat at the table. For me as a policymaker,

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that there's social equity in

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Speaker 1: cannabis so that people that look like us can also

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Speaker 1: not only you know, benefit from you know, being consumers,

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Speaker 1: but so that we can hire people who are justice impacted,

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Speaker 1: so that we can start having stronger local higher components UM,

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Speaker 1: stronger community benefit agreements where I believe for us as

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Speaker 1: a city, we need to prioritize the cannabis dollars that

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Speaker 1: we do make and program them for parts recreational seminars

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Speaker 1: and youth services. I don't think that this money should

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Speaker 1: be paying for police services UM. I think that this

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Speaker 1: money should be used for early childhood education because the

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Speaker 1: first five years of education preparis for the next eight

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Speaker 1: years of our life. So so for me as a policymaker,

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Speaker 1: UM supporting UM having good sound legislation for cannabis UM.

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Speaker 1: Some of the things I'm looking to do on the

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Speaker 1: is I think that the distribution rate UM of taxes

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Speaker 1: is too high in Santa Anna. I'm going to advocate

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Speaker 1: to see it get to one percent. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: that Santa Anna has to be the leading city in

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Speaker 1: Orange County. And one of the things that I'll say

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Speaker 1: here on Cannabis Talk UM, if you want to see more,

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Speaker 1: you gotta tune into the council meeting. But what I

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Speaker 1: can say is that I'm looking to make sure that

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Speaker 1: Santa Anna is the first city in Orange County to

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Speaker 1: host its own for twenty festival. L with that, and

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Speaker 1: if you want more details, you gotta tune in a

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Speaker 1: partner with us will help you blow that up for sure. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to get behind that. Well. Listen, guys, where

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Speaker 1: where's that event? One more time? Give us the location

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Speaker 1: and the dates and times with absolutely That location is

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Speaker 1: one North bus Street, Santa Anna, California, one at the

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Speaker 1: Blue Lot, hosted by Always for the People Foundation. Big

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Speaker 1: shout out to Senate and his crew are Always from

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Speaker 1: the Police and all for Always for the People Foundation. Man,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate both of you. Guys. Man, make sure you

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Speaker 1: guys go check that out. It's Cannabis Talk one on

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