September 20, 2023 • 30 mins
Steve Gregory – Deputy Killer Pleads Insanity
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, well, the big story this afternoon, and there's
going to be a news conference in at three o'clock
hour from the well liked and well respected Eli County
District Attorney George Gaskollen. John. If you saw the new poll,
he's really on top of things anyway. Oh, he's beloved.
I feel like the horses for the carts before the
horse are because we've already had an appearance in court
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today of the man that killed the La County Sheriff's deputy.
He's already played guilty or not guilty by reason of
insanity in the fatal shooting of La County Deputy Ryan
Clinton Boomer. The news conference is supposed to be about
the charges, so I just feel like that should have
come first. I don't really anyway, Let's go to Steve
Gregory and talk more about what happened. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Why is it backwards?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, you know, I think it's because they wanted to
wait for the plea. I'm sure they wanted to see
where the plea was going to take him. I can't
say for certain but what was interesting about it? And
then I'm at holl of Justice now and I'm glad
I got here what I did, because I mean, it's
just already packed with trucks, and so this is going
to be a pretty big press conference. There's only the
singular charge that we know of, the single charge of murder.
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We haven't been told about any special enhancements yet. I
can't get a sense yet or gauge that. Presumably we'll
get all those details at three point thirty when Gascon
will come out and talk about it. We're not sure
if he'll answer a lot of questions because one of
the big questions on everyone's mind is how did a
guy who was diagnosed, according to family, five years ago,
with paranoid schizophrenia get a gun, and not just one,
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but multiple weapons according to the Sheriff's department. Now, he
did enter that plea earlier. It's been about two hours now,
a little over two hours ago.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
He pleaded dual.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It was what they call a dual plea. He pleaded
not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Now,
there's an interesting distinction here because he's sort of, if
you will, it's sort of a plea insurance policy, because
they'll go through the criminal phase and they'll determine whether
or not he was guilty of the crime of murder
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as he's been charged. If he's guilty of the crime,
then the not reason or by reason of insanity phase
kicks in right after that immediately. So if he had
just pled not guilty and it would be done and
over with in the story. But if he had pleaded
not guilty by reason of insanity singularly, then he would
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have been admitting to the crime, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But I thought he already confessed, didn't we hear that yesterday?
He confessed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, but that confession has not yet been entered into
the court record, you know what I mean. So those
are things that we're gonna hopefully.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wait, let me follow us. So they're going to enter
his confession into the court record, and the judge are
going to say, well, you're guilty, and then he's going
to say, well, no, I'm not, because I'm insane.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, here's the thing. His defense attorney, Now he had
an attorney with him today. It's not clear whether he
was a public defender or families paying for it. But uh,
you know that defense attorney has not had a chance
to challenge that confession yet. So those are the things
that will come out in the preliminary hearing, which is
scheduled in November.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do we know if he had a previous criminal record.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's nothing that we can tell. Yet no one is
saying anything. This is one of those cases again, like
I told you three years ago, and here's the irony
or the coincidence, if you will. Just yesterday there were
closing arguments in the case or the trial of Deonta
was charged with shooting the two deputies in Compton train
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station three years ago this month, and so his closing
arguments were yesterday, and when that had happened, we could
not get any information ahead of time. And they don't
want to do anything that could jeopardize or prejudice, you know,
do some sort of prejudicial tainting of the jury pool,
if you will. They don't want to get anything out
there prematurely that'll screw up the case.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So the public doesn't have a right to know about
this guy's criminal history.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They do, they just don't have a right to know
it right now. Apparently that's kind of their view, well, Steve.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Multiple media outlets are reporting he has no criminal record,
telling you that well including kalso Gundo times no criminal.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Record, that's very possible, but doesn't mean he doesn't have
any encounters of law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, the police recalled over his mother's mental health problems, right,
mental health funds, because that's what they're trying to examine
here to figure out how he got the gun.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But they're saying as far as a criminal record to
purchase the gun, that wasn't there to stop them. Now,
the mental healthhold issue is what everyone's focusing on, and
how did this guy slip through the cracks and get
his hands on guns and guns?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And is the family complicit if they knew all along
he had weaponry. That's that's another part of this too.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But can they be held culpable here?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's a question that I'm hoping we'll be able to
bring up. But you know, we get very limited time
with the district attorney because he's not a big fan
of questions, so we're going to have very limited time
with him. I'm serious, I'm absolutely serious. I'm not I know.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, he's a jerk when it comes to dealing with
the public and the press. Absolutely, he's got he's got
a huge and he's not going to be questioned about anything.
You just one.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, so when we try to push him on stuff
that his PR person just says, last question, and then
he answered, they asher him away.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Last question. We're paying that guy's salary. Last question. Get
at it here. I don't know how you put up
with this. Steve.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, you know, I'm afraid to do anything now. After
the governor Hawaii got mad at me, I'm afraid to
ask anything now. I mean, you know it's that they
what is it? There's one agency in Talents is every
time I show up, they they all go over in
the huddle in the corner and figure out who's going
to take the question. So I don't know, But well,
here's the thing though, you know Phil Schumann's here from
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Fox eleven. I know Phil's gonna he's on. You know,
feel's great at this stuff too, and and so I
know Phil's here. We can tag team this thing. We're
going to ask a lot of questions and and you know,
whether we get the answers or not is a different
issue altogether.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All right, Steve, Well, we'll maybe talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You got it, guys, Because Steve.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Is going to cover this three o'clock news conference by
La County District Attorney George Gascone, where he's going to
talk about the case from his prosecutor's office against the
man who we understand confessed to killing La County Shore's
Deputy Ryan clinkin Breuer. But you know that was probably
before he got himself an attorney who will, of course
say why did you do that? We're pleading not guilty
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to everything. Now the Elsa Gunda Times is reporting that
it is one count of murder with special circumstances of
lying in wait, firing from a car, and the personal
use of a firearm, a twenty two caliber revolver used
in the shooting. So of course the story goes on
to say this probably will not lead to a death
pedally pursuit because that's not what and assassinated cops. That doesn't,
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said Gascone that much, But he is holding a news
conferen because he knows he bet to do that rather
than just you know, oh, it's just another shooting in
La What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We're an election season now, it kind of slips up
on people, but in less than six months there's going
to be a primary, and there's nine challengers to take
on George Gascon and so everything he does now is
you have to look through the lens of he's up
for reelection and he's got to finish in the top
two in March or he doesn't get to run in
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the general election in November, only the top two candidates,
assuming that nobody clears fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And I don't think anyone's going to do that. There's
ten people running now. Well, when we come back, we'll
talk about that. West Side Current ran a story about
Gascone's reelection bid and there's a couple of nuggets in
there worth talking about. And as John mentioned, there's plenty
of challengers to replace this buffoon, beginning with the primary
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next March. But that doesn't happen, I'll have to be
the election next November.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I got to talk about going to this candidate's
forum last night Manhattan Beach. Yeah, number of the.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Candidates spoke to a a in a very very packed room.
All right, are a lot of people who are pissed
at Gascne and can't wait. They were frothing, they can't wait, No,
they kick him out like frothing. There was frothing. I
got some froth on me.
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Urmit the Frog and who has a kind of a weird,
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high strange voice with his Cuban accent. He'll come out
and he's really dull, but you know, he'll lay out
and detail the case that they have put together against
the man that's accused and apparently is confessed to shooting
the La County Sheriff's deputy in Palmdale the other day. Now,
the other thing that's going on, and John attended a
forum last night of people that would like to replace
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George Gascoon as La County DA west Side currents reporting
that he has hired himself a political consulting firm called
Maker's strategies, and they have represented such luminaries as Mike Bonnan,
the man that tried to replace him.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Aaron Darling.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Fortunately Tracy Park won that election. Also in the on
the list unices hernandez U, Go Sodo Martinez, and Nythia Rahman.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The Democrat socialists, Yeah, actually communists. That's the modern term
for communists here in Los Angeles. Democratic socialists. And they're
all destructive, terrible, terrible politicians, terrible people for what they
are doing and planned to do further to Los Angeles.
They're why we have so much homelessness, they are why
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we have so much crime, and they are why the
city Council is just completely unresponsive to what everyone is
begging for, which is relief from the homelessness and the crime.
And it's their fault that list. So this particular PR
group is in debt with a bunch of filthy, awful
public servants.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So we're, you know, barely six months away from the primary.
There was a poll that came out in April from
UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. Gascon had the lowest
approval rating among elected county officials twenty seven percent, healing
him favorably forty percent unfavorably. And it makes sense when
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you consider what's been going on. Even people don't follow
what he does closely with his whatever they were called
that he put out those reforms. Yeah, anyway, they can
see what's going on with the smashing grabs, all the
coverage of all the crime and the homelessness. Now he's
not responsible and this issari for the homelessness, but it
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comes to the crime like it or not. You know,
you're at the top of the food chain there and responsibility.
So that's probably a good reason why people do not
approve of him being the DA.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Two hundred prosecutors have quit Gascone's office two hundred. There
are ten thousand cases backlogged, ten thousand. He simply refuses
to prosecute crimes. There is no excuse. That's never happened.
I've never heard of that happening in any city in
the history of the universe. Ta a thousand. It means
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you don't believe in prosecuting criminals.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I take it. Then with no bail policies, you get
charged with a crime and it's backlogged in his office
for years, then you're just free to go about, you know,
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And then eventually the chargers don't get arrested again. Right,
The charges in many cases end up getting dismissed. And
that's why I've got no patience for the way the
news is being reported. Well, he was arrested. It rounded
it up, you know, he was, he was charged. It's like,
stop it. There's not even bail anymore like October first.
You know, most ordinary thefts no bail. Oh, so they're good.
(12:02):
People are going to go out and steal again and
again and again and you'll see you just wait, like
in two months, the stories we're going to tell you
about some guy who's caught eleven times in a day
for stealing and each time he was let go without bail.
That really happens in New York City. It'll happen here.
The word I was looking for is directives. The directives, yes, right,
list of directives since he took office.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We remember quite well. December twenty twenty is when he
took over. So you said last night there was a
pretty good showing of people to listen to his opponents.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, Manhattan Beach, there is a former prosecutor named Joseph Marcus.
He was worked as a LA County prosecutor for thirty
three years. He's in private practice now and I talked
with him and he said he set up this this
a meet the candidates night because a lot of people
generally don't pay attention to the race. And even when
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they do, you know, there's nine candidates, they don't know
how to tell them apart. I mean, we know some
of them because we've had them on the air and
there's been a lot of high profile cases in controversy
the last few years, but most of the public doesn't.
So this was he thought. Eighty he got, he got,
(13:16):
He rented a space for like eighty people turned out,
hundreds and hundreds responded to an RSVP. There was nowhere
to put anybody. And when we showed up last night, Yeah,
the place was packed, jammed. This is the tightest crowd
I've been in in over three years since the COVID lockdown.
And and people were really quiet and very respectful when
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the candidates spoke, but they were very animated when you
talk to them. Outside of that, everybody is on the
same page in that room just went this hack out. Yeah,
And Manhattan Beach is a fairly laid back genteel area,
and yeah, they were wound up and I got I
met John Tommy. It was kind of it was interesting
for me because you know, we've had these guys on
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the show so many times and yet most cases never
met them. So I met John Hotomomy, John McKinney, Nate
Hoffman was there, and they're impressive guys and they were
all very cordial to each other. They said, look, any
of us will be a huge improvement over Gascar. It
has to be that way. But they all made a
pitch why their resume, their unique experience, their value system
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would work the best right now. So there's some really
good choices there and we'll continue to have them on
between now now in March because the primary is very important.
What would be great as if two of these challengers
get the top two spots.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And Got's going to shut out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's also another wild card and this guy just got
in the race, Jeffrey cher Minsky. Now I didn't see
him last night. I didn't attend the entire event. First
of all, it took like an hour and a half
to get from the West Side to the Manhattan Beach,
but you know how that goes. But you know I
saw a number of the candidates. Jeffrey Sharreminsky is the
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son of Erwin Sharreminsky, the famed left wing progressive looney tone.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh yeah, mister constitutional scholar who's just way out there
with his opinions.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh my god, he was an a cl you guy.
He's now the dean of the Berkeley of the UC Berkeley, yeah,
School of law up there. So and and what I'm
what I was told by people last night is watch
Jeffrey Scherminsky because if Gascone really is clear as going
to go splat, the powers that be in the county
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are going to push Shara Minsky as their candidate rather
than Gascon. Shara Minsky might edge out Gascone for the
endorsements from that wing of the party. And Shara Minsky's
danger is he's very gentle sounding like he is like
an attractive candidate. He's not frightening and what to do
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right now? But his you know, I had his bio
up the other day. I'll go look for you. No,
he he was a prosecutor. He was he was a prosecutor. Yeah,
but he's got very left wing views on how to
change the system. I mean gas gun came from law enforcement. Two.
All right, these guys, I don't know. They work in
law Enforcetman and they work as a prosecutor, and then
I know they get hit in the head and they
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wake up and they're they're they're insane. So we got
to watch scher Minsky to see if he gains any ground,
because apparently from what I'm told, you know, he's got
some charisma and he's likable and all that, and those
guys are the most dangerous. Gascon is clearly wildly unlikable,
and I don't think he's gonna come back from this mess.
I think he's snuck in because nobody was paying attention
in the middle of the George Floyd twenty twenty Hysteria.
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, it's sort of like Mental Illness Week. We'll be
talking to the Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer after
two o'clock. It is possible that a man that killed
a woman back in nineteen ninety four and is in
one of those situations where they put him in the
mental hospitals he may get released. His name is Leonard
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Patten and he came to California from Minnesota in nineteen
ninety four and he got into some sort of fender
bender with a woman that he just turned around and killed,
almost immediately killed her. It's a horrible, horrible story. We'll
go through it. Coming up after to a clock with
Todd Spitzer, and he, of course does not think it
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is safe to release this man from any facility, let
alone a mental hospital. So we'll get you all the
news on that. And then speaking of really really bad
story you may have heard about this, two teenagers have
been arrested and faced murder charges in Las Vegas. They
apparently went on quite a joy ride the morning of
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August fourteenth. I think one is seventeen. I'm not sure
the age of the other one. They started to run
people down with the car that they had, and there
was at least three hit and run incidents on that morning,
and one of them resulted in the death of a
sixty four year old man by the name of Andreas
rene Propst, who was the police chief in bell bell
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As in bell La County after he retired I think
in two thousand and nine he moved to Las Vegas.
There's graphic video that shows these two in the front
seat of their car approaching him from behind while he
was riding near the curb on a traffic free road
pretty much, and they started laughing and making comments basically
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that look at this will be a nice target to
run over. And he was out there on his bicycle
wearing a red shirt and dark shorts, struck from behind
and thrown against the windshield.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Had they done this before that day?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
They did. Apparently they hit another guy who was not
badly hurt. Well, I don't know if they've done this
before that day, but that day, well, they decided to
really go nuts and run people over.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What was this some kind of game they played every
once in a while, or is this some drug they
were on or are there more psychotics now running around?
And I've never actually never heard of this. People said, hey,
you know, let's just run them over for the hell
of it. I just can't remember a story like that now.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
What happened is the seventeen year old driver was arrested
the day of the crashes. However, they did not become
aware until weeks later. That there was a video these
two made. A school resource officer of the school cop
eventually provided it to investigators, and that has led to
the murder charge because showing off what they did, they
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must have been showing off at school what they did
with other kids. Yes, and they got to the attention
of the school cop who eventually was able to get
a hold of the.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Video send to him. Wow, so there was one decent
person who ratted the kids out. Yes, So they eventually
are rented just today. In fact, I think they event
to her yesterday. The second teenager was arrested, but the
driver of the seventeen year old is clearly in the
most trouble. The crime stream began just before dawn when
they struck a seventy two year old bicyclist and drove
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off and crashed into a Toyota Corolla. The driver wasn't
injured in the crash, and police said they're not sure
of how severely injured the bicyclist was. But eventually they
came upon the former police and just.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Ran him down.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Where does this come from? I'm sure they took off laughing.
I'm sure these kids don't have fathers. I mean, I'll
bet a thousand dollars. They don't have fathers.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's almost because they're underage. Although the Clark County DA
says he can charged him as an adult and that's
what he plans to do.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, yeah, they don't do guess going nonsense in other
cities and counties. Oh my god, that's really awful. They
should be They should be locked up forever because that
is such a psycho act. I know it said you
can't fix that brain that they do it, and they
laugh about it, and then they show video of it.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Whoa, yeah, they shared it with other kids at school.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Of that's evil. They should be executed.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They left this poor guy to die. They just drove off,
but I guess they decided if they hit him, they
weren't going to do any more of this. But by
then later in the day, the police caught up with them,
but they did not know about this video. So, I mean,
originally the murder case wasn't there because they thought, well,
it could have been a terrible accident. But now you
see the video and they're laughing. They're like, let's get
this guy. Well, now we got a good case.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Increasingly, you see that from the generation that has recorded
everything they do. They even record their murders and they
show it off to people's that's how sick and warpd.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And that scares me is who would enjoy seeing that?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
At school?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I realized they're just immature sixteen year old boys. But honestly, oh,
you see that video, You've got to be haunted by it.
You can't be going, oh.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, pretty cool. Guys.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Look you did there. It's like a video game. Oh
it's not your sixteen it's it's that you're you're psychotic. No,
I mean clearly somebody didn't like it because they turned
them in.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah. What wow, that's that's pure evil. All right.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Again, Coming up after two o'clock will be with the
We have the Orange County DA coming out at two
on our show. At at three o'clock, the La County DA,
we'll talk about the murder case against the man accused
of killing the La County Sheriff's deputy.
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The categories you can't keep a good man down, John
Kevin Dillon is running for reelection to the Los Angele
City Council. The story that was big news about a
year ago. The recordings of Kevin de Leone and Gil
Sedillo and Nori Martinez talking about Mike Bonnen and other
political people in Los Angeles at a labor office.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Of course, racially charged comments.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, racially charged comments about Bonnon's adopted black son, of course,
and also about what would it be called more native.
The Hockins think Hawkins was the was the category of
people that they were talking about. And basically what he
did was he just decided, I'll ignore it, and then
he tried to come back to city council. And eventually
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he did return to city council. But there were protests
for weeks and weeks when I wondered when that was
finally going to end and I guess it did, and
then he just kind of I guess it was in
December he got into that little brawl with that guy.
I remember that story, right.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know what, de Leon is a bozo and he
was involved in passing some really bad laws when he
was in the legislature. He's a complete fool of bozo.
But I'm glad he's running because only his constituents get
to decide whether he stays in office or not, not
not a bunch of idiot activists or whiney La Times writers.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's not your call. It's Joe Biden said he should resent.
It's not Joe Biden's call. Joe Biden has no jurisdiction.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Neither does the La Times Wieners, and neither does these
these crackpot activists. It's it's the public that gets to choose.
And I, you know what, he did the right thing,
which is what everyone should do when you when you
get targeted because who you said something? Right, Oh, you're
caught on tape saying so it's like, just tough it out,
tell him to suck eggs.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
His position was that he did not say the really
offensive things. Nurie Martinez clearly led the way in most
of the conversation. You know, though he made a joke
that Mike Bonnen's black son was like a fashion accompaniment,
like some sort of fashion. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, they were not the warm, friendly comments. But everybody
makes obnoxious comments in private, everybody. I don't know a
single person who doesn't do that. These are private comments.
Some jackass inside that union made a recording. That's illegal.
That's the illegal part. De Leone did something distasteful, maybe
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when it's publicized, but it you know, when you when
you have friends sitting around and relaxed, people will say
all kinds of rude things just to get a laugh.
And I can't stand the hypocrisy of that. I don't
know anybody who doesn't say rude things to get a
laugh when they're with their friends privately. And so this
(25:45):
is a whole load of nonsense and to be driven
out by the whole You tell me the El Segundo times,
all those wieners don't make off color comments in the newsroom,
of course they do.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Now he faces quite a few opponents, at least three,
two of which are in the state legislature. Another one,
I think is some sort of labor activist. So he
is going to stand against a number of people in
the primary and that will determine the top two for
the race in November if he survives that, because he
is the incumbent, that's clearly on his side here. Yeah,
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a huge name record. Look, he's a bozo. He shouldn't
be anywhere near government. But if he gets kicked out,
it shouldn't be because what he said privately at a meeting.
The last time he ran for city council in twenty twenty,
he won outright in the primary with fifty two percent
of the vote. I don't know that he had that
many challengers as he has this time. It's Democratic Assembly
members Miguel Santiago and Wendy carill a prime challenger.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The local people don't don't like him. They've got the
right to vote Aim out of office. They don't like
his personality or what he said. That's their right. They
don't get pushed around by outsiders. Well, we don't like
his speech. We think it's hate speech. Not your call, buddy.
You know you police the speech in your house.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Now. By the way, we like him the most because
he didn't know the pledge of allegiance that's one of
our favorite pieces of audio. Yeah, we constantly play on
the John and Kill Show. They called upon him to
recite the pledge of allegiance. Then he got lost after
one or two lines. Yeah, no, I don't what to do.
He's dumb as a rock and went at the end like, wow,
(27:19):
did I screw that up?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah? And then there was there was another case where
he was on zoom in the city council meetings and
he's talking with a mouthful of cereal. Oh really, yeah
he was. He was doing the zoom from his breakfast
table and he was like spitting out a cereal. And
we remember him years ago where he was part of
some really stupid, damaging global warning bill and he came
(27:44):
to LA and stood in the hot sun giving his speech.
I remember Eric Leonard was covering it, and Eric hung
back and watched his big suv, right the taxpayer paid suv.
He had that big car and a driver, and the
driver kept the suv and the air conditioning running for
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three hours, spewing global warming gases into the atmosphere for
three hours while he was standing at the podium taking
credit for whatever Kakamami bill he had just passed. And
let's not forget what that conversation was that those boobs
were having that was recorded. It was about trying to
get more Latino representation in the LA City Council. Was
(28:27):
where it broke off into the racist re marks. And
I saw this in the story. I mean, Latino's of
forty eight percent of the LA population, Black residents only
eight percent. But there's only five Latino members on the
fifteen member council and three black members. So that's kind
of what they were bickering, not bickering or discussing how
we can do better disproportionate representation.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right, And that was something else delely Owned touched on,
and it's not mentioned in these current articles.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
God forbid, people vote for intelligent council people. Everything is
about skin color, everything's about ethnicity. Meanwhile, they've driven Los Angeles,
all of them, the whole council has driven Los Angeles
into the shore. And they sit and they argue about
the color of skin and the ethnicity. It's like, no,
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that's not the point. It's all the vagrance and mental
patients and criminals running around.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Oh yeah, right, they just care about their power, all right,
coming up next to the orange County District Attorney Todd
Spitzer will be on the show to talk about this
case where judge in Orange County will determine whether or
not the mentally ill killer is going to get released
to an outpatient facility, and we will tell you the
story of what this man did back in nineteen ninety
four to a woman he encountered. Johnny KENKFI AM six
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, well, the big story this afternoon, and there's
going to be a news conference in at three o'clock
hour from the well liked and well respected Eli County
District Attorney George Gaskollen. John. If you saw the new poll,
he's really on top of things anyway. Oh, he's beloved.
I feel like the horses for the carts before the
horse are because we've already had an appearance in court
(00:28):
today of the man that killed the La County Sheriff's deputy.
He's already played guilty or not guilty by reason of
insanity in the fatal shooting of La County Deputy Ryan
Clinton Boomer. The news conference is supposed to be about
the charges, so I just feel like that should have
come first. I don't really anyway, Let's go to Steve
Gregory and talk more about what happened. Now.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Why is it backwards?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, you know, I think it's because they wanted to
wait for the plea. I'm sure they wanted to see
where the plea was going to take him. I can't
say for certain but what was interesting about it? And
then I'm at holl of Justice now and I'm glad
I got here what I did, because I mean, it's
just already packed with trucks, and so this is going
to be a pretty big press conference. There's only the
singular charge that we know of, the single charge of murder.
(01:10):
We haven't been told about any special enhancements yet. I
can't get a sense yet or gauge that. Presumably we'll
get all those details at three point thirty when Gascon
will come out and talk about it. We're not sure
if he'll answer a lot of questions because one of
the big questions on everyone's mind is how did a
guy who was diagnosed, according to family, five years ago,
with paranoid schizophrenia get a gun, and not just one,
(01:34):
but multiple weapons according to the Sheriff's department. Now, he
did enter that plea earlier. It's been about two hours now,
a little over two hours ago.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
He pleaded dual.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It was what they call a dual plea. He pleaded
not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Now,
there's an interesting distinction here because he's sort of, if
you will, it's sort of a plea insurance policy, because
they'll go through the criminal phase and they'll determine whether
or not he was guilty of the crime of murder
(02:04):
as he's been charged. If he's guilty of the crime,
then the not reason or by reason of insanity phase
kicks in right after that immediately. So if he had
just pled not guilty and it would be done and
over with in the story. But if he had pleaded
not guilty by reason of insanity singularly, then he would
(02:26):
have been admitting to the crime, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But I thought he already confessed, didn't we hear that yesterday?
He confessed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, but that confession has not yet been entered into
the court record, you know what I mean. So those
are things that we're gonna hopefully.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wait, let me follow us. So they're going to enter
his confession into the court record, and the judge are
going to say, well, you're guilty, and then he's going
to say, well, no, I'm not, because I'm insane.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, here's the thing. His defense attorney, Now he had
an attorney with him today. It's not clear whether he
was a public defender or families paying for it. But uh,
you know that defense attorney has not had a chance
to challenge that confession yet. So those are the things
that will come out in the preliminary hearing, which is
scheduled in November.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do we know if he had a previous criminal record.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's nothing that we can tell. Yet no one is
saying anything. This is one of those cases again, like
I told you three years ago, and here's the irony
or the coincidence, if you will. Just yesterday there were
closing arguments in the case or the trial of Deonta
was charged with shooting the two deputies in Compton train
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station three years ago this month, and so his closing
arguments were yesterday, and when that had happened, we could
not get any information ahead of time. And they don't
want to do anything that could jeopardize or prejudice, you know,
do some sort of prejudicial tainting of the jury pool,
if you will. They don't want to get anything out
there prematurely that'll screw up the case.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So the public doesn't have a right to know about
this guy's criminal history.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They do, they just don't have a right to know
it right now. Apparently that's kind of their view, well, Steve.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Multiple media outlets are reporting he has no criminal record,
telling you that well including kalso Gundo times no criminal.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Record, that's very possible, but doesn't mean he doesn't have
any encounters of law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, the police recalled over his mother's mental health problems, right,
mental health funds, because that's what they're trying to examine
here to figure out how he got the gun.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But they're saying as far as a criminal record to
purchase the gun, that wasn't there to stop them. Now,
the mental healthhold issue is what everyone's focusing on, and
how did this guy slip through the cracks and get
his hands on guns and guns?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And is the family complicit if they knew all along
he had weaponry. That's that's another part of this too.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But can they be held culpable here?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's a question that I'm hoping we'll be able to
bring up. But you know, we get very limited time
with the district attorney because he's not a big fan
of questions, so we're going to have very limited time
with him. I'm serious, I'm absolutely serious. I'm not I know.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, he's a jerk when it comes to dealing with
the public and the press. Absolutely, he's got he's got
a huge and he's not going to be questioned about anything.
You just one.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, so when we try to push him on stuff
that his PR person just says, last question, and then
he answered, they asher him away.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Last question. We're paying that guy's salary. Last question. Get
at it here. I don't know how you put up
with this. Steve.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, you know, I'm afraid to do anything now. After
the governor Hawaii got mad at me, I'm afraid to
ask anything now. I mean, you know it's that they
what is it? There's one agency in Talents is every
time I show up, they they all go over in
the huddle in the corner and figure out who's going
to take the question. So I don't know, But well,
here's the thing though, you know Phil Schumann's here from
(05:45):
Fox eleven. I know Phil's gonna he's on. You know,
feel's great at this stuff too, and and so I
know Phil's here. We can tag team this thing. We're
going to ask a lot of questions and and you know,
whether we get the answers or not is a different
issue altogether.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All right, Steve, Well, we'll maybe talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You got it, guys, Because Steve.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Is going to cover this three o'clock news conference by
La County District Attorney George Gascone, where he's going to
talk about the case from his prosecutor's office against the
man who we understand confessed to killing La County Shore's
Deputy Ryan clinkin Breuer. But you know that was probably
before he got himself an attorney who will, of course
say why did you do that? We're pleading not guilty
(06:24):
to everything. Now the Elsa Gunda Times is reporting that
it is one count of murder with special circumstances of
lying in wait, firing from a car, and the personal
use of a firearm, a twenty two caliber revolver used
in the shooting. So of course the story goes on
to say this probably will not lead to a death
pedally pursuit because that's not what and assassinated cops. That doesn't,
(06:50):
said Gascone that much, But he is holding a news
conferen because he knows he bet to do that rather
than just you know, oh, it's just another shooting in
La What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
We're an election season now, it kind of slips up
on people, but in less than six months there's going
to be a primary, and there's nine challengers to take
on George Gascon and so everything he does now is
you have to look through the lens of he's up
for reelection and he's got to finish in the top
two in March or he doesn't get to run in
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the general election in November, only the top two candidates,
assuming that nobody clears fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And I don't think anyone's going to do that. There's
ten people running now. Well, when we come back, we'll
talk about that. West Side Current ran a story about
Gascone's reelection bid and there's a couple of nuggets in
there worth talking about. And as John mentioned, there's plenty
of challengers to replace this buffoon, beginning with the primary
(07:50):
next March. But that doesn't happen, I'll have to be
the election next November.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I got to talk about going to this candidate's
forum last night Manhattan Beach. Yeah, number of the.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Candidates spoke to a a in a very very packed room.
All right, are a lot of people who are pissed
at Gascne and can't wait. They were frothing, they can't wait, No,
they kick him out like frothing. There was frothing. I
got some froth on me.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
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Will be rolling back the moistline in just two days.
It will be the first time in a couple of weeks.
So we grab your messages using that iHeartRadio app, the
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one eight seven seven Moist eighty six. In the three
o'clock hour. Kermit the Frog is coming out. Kind of
an insult to Kermit the Frog. I know, I like
Urmit the Frog and who has a kind of a weird,
(08:44):
high strange voice with his Cuban accent. He'll come out
and he's really dull, but you know, he'll lay out
and detail the case that they have put together against
the man that's accused and apparently is confessed to shooting
the La County Sheriff's deputy in Palmdale the other day. Now,
the other thing that's going on, and John attended a
forum last night of people that would like to replace
(09:07):
George Gascoon as La County DA west Side currents reporting
that he has hired himself a political consulting firm called
Maker's strategies, and they have represented such luminaries as Mike Bonnan,
the man that tried to replace him.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Aaron Darling.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Fortunately Tracy Park won that election. Also in the on
the list unices hernandez U, Go Sodo Martinez, and Nythia Rahman.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The Democrat socialists, Yeah, actually communists. That's the modern term
for communists here in Los Angeles. Democratic socialists. And they're
all destructive, terrible, terrible politicians, terrible people for what they
are doing and planned to do further to Los Angeles.
They're why we have so much homelessness, they are why
(09:53):
we have so much crime, and they are why the
city Council is just completely unresponsive to what everyone is
begging for, which is relief from the homelessness and the crime.
And it's their fault that list. So this particular PR
group is in debt with a bunch of filthy, awful
public servants.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So we're, you know, barely six months away from the primary.
There was a poll that came out in April from
UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. Gascon had the lowest
approval rating among elected county officials twenty seven percent, healing
him favorably forty percent unfavorably. And it makes sense when
(10:35):
you consider what's been going on. Even people don't follow
what he does closely with his whatever they were called
that he put out those reforms. Yeah, anyway, they can
see what's going on with the smashing grabs, all the
coverage of all the crime and the homelessness. Now he's
not responsible and this issari for the homelessness, but it
(10:56):
comes to the crime like it or not. You know,
you're at the top of the food chain there and responsibility.
So that's probably a good reason why people do not
approve of him being the DA.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Two hundred prosecutors have quit Gascone's office two hundred. There
are ten thousand cases backlogged, ten thousand. He simply refuses
to prosecute crimes. There is no excuse. That's never happened.
I've never heard of that happening in any city in
the history of the universe. Ta a thousand. It means
(11:29):
you don't believe in prosecuting criminals.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I take it. Then with no bail policies, you get
charged with a crime and it's backlogged in his office
for years, then you're just free to go about, you know,
doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And then eventually the chargers don't get arrested again. Right,
The charges in many cases end up getting dismissed. And
that's why I've got no patience for the way the
news is being reported. Well, he was arrested. It rounded
it up, you know, he was, he was charged. It's like,
stop it. There's not even bail anymore like October first.
You know, most ordinary thefts no bail. Oh, so they're good.
(12:02):
People are going to go out and steal again and
again and again and you'll see you just wait, like
in two months, the stories we're going to tell you
about some guy who's caught eleven times in a day
for stealing and each time he was let go without bail.
That really happens in New York City. It'll happen here.
The word I was looking for is directives. The directives, yes, right,
list of directives since he took office.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
We remember quite well. December twenty twenty is when he
took over. So you said last night there was a
pretty good showing of people to listen to his opponents.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, Manhattan Beach, there is a former prosecutor named Joseph Marcus.
He was worked as a LA County prosecutor for thirty
three years. He's in private practice now and I talked
with him and he said he set up this this
a meet the candidates night because a lot of people
generally don't pay attention to the race. And even when
(12:55):
they do, you know, there's nine candidates, they don't know
how to tell them apart. I mean, we know some
of them because we've had them on the air and
there's been a lot of high profile cases in controversy
the last few years, but most of the public doesn't.
So this was he thought. Eighty he got, he got,
(13:16):
He rented a space for like eighty people turned out,
hundreds and hundreds responded to an RSVP. There was nowhere
to put anybody. And when we showed up last night, Yeah,
the place was packed, jammed. This is the tightest crowd
I've been in in over three years since the COVID lockdown.
And and people were really quiet and very respectful when
(13:38):
the candidates spoke, but they were very animated when you
talk to them. Outside of that, everybody is on the
same page in that room just went this hack out. Yeah,
And Manhattan Beach is a fairly laid back genteel area,
and yeah, they were wound up and I got I
met John Tommy. It was kind of it was interesting
for me because you know, we've had these guys on
(14:00):
the show so many times and yet most cases never
met them. So I met John Hotomomy, John McKinney, Nate
Hoffman was there, and they're impressive guys and they were
all very cordial to each other. They said, look, any
of us will be a huge improvement over Gascar. It
has to be that way. But they all made a
pitch why their resume, their unique experience, their value system
(14:25):
would work the best right now. So there's some really
good choices there and we'll continue to have them on
between now now in March because the primary is very important.
What would be great as if two of these challengers
get the top two spots.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And Got's going to shut out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's also another wild card and this guy just got
in the race, Jeffrey cher Minsky. Now I didn't see
him last night. I didn't attend the entire event. First
of all, it took like an hour and a half
to get from the West Side to the Manhattan Beach,
but you know how that goes. But you know I
saw a number of the candidates. Jeffrey Sharreminsky is the
(15:01):
son of Erwin Sharreminsky, the famed left wing progressive looney tone.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh yeah, mister constitutional scholar who's just way out there
with his opinions.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh my god, he was an a cl you guy.
He's now the dean of the Berkeley of the UC Berkeley, yeah,
School of law up there. So and and what I'm
what I was told by people last night is watch
Jeffrey Scherminsky because if Gascone really is clear as going
to go splat, the powers that be in the county
(15:33):
are going to push Shara Minsky as their candidate rather
than Gascon. Shara Minsky might edge out Gascone for the
endorsements from that wing of the party. And Shara Minsky's
danger is he's very gentle sounding like he is like
an attractive candidate. He's not frightening and what to do
(15:54):
right now? But his you know, I had his bio
up the other day. I'll go look for you. No,
he he was a prosecutor. He was he was a prosecutor. Yeah,
but he's got very left wing views on how to
change the system. I mean gas gun came from law enforcement. Two.
All right, these guys, I don't know. They work in
law Enforcetman and they work as a prosecutor, and then
I know they get hit in the head and they
(16:15):
wake up and they're they're they're insane. So we got
to watch scher Minsky to see if he gains any ground,
because apparently from what I'm told, you know, he's got
some charisma and he's likable and all that, and those
guys are the most dangerous. Gascon is clearly wildly unlikable,
and I don't think he's gonna come back from this mess.
I think he's snuck in because nobody was paying attention
in the middle of the George Floyd twenty twenty Hysteria.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
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Speaker 1 (16:43):
On the radio one four. After four o'clock John and
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, it's sort of like Mental Illness Week. We'll be
talking to the Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer after
two o'clock. It is possible that a man that killed
a woman back in nineteen ninety four and is in
one of those situations where they put him in the
mental hospitals he may get released. His name is Leonard
(17:08):
Patten and he came to California from Minnesota in nineteen
ninety four and he got into some sort of fender
bender with a woman that he just turned around and killed,
almost immediately killed her. It's a horrible, horrible story. We'll
go through it. Coming up after to a clock with
Todd Spitzer, and he, of course does not think it
(17:30):
is safe to release this man from any facility, let
alone a mental hospital. So we'll get you all the
news on that. And then speaking of really really bad
story you may have heard about this, two teenagers have
been arrested and faced murder charges in Las Vegas. They
apparently went on quite a joy ride the morning of
(17:51):
August fourteenth. I think one is seventeen. I'm not sure
the age of the other one. They started to run
people down with the car that they had, and there
was at least three hit and run incidents on that morning,
and one of them resulted in the death of a
sixty four year old man by the name of Andreas
rene Propst, who was the police chief in bell bell
(18:14):
As in bell La County after he retired I think
in two thousand and nine he moved to Las Vegas.
There's graphic video that shows these two in the front
seat of their car approaching him from behind while he
was riding near the curb on a traffic free road
pretty much, and they started laughing and making comments basically
(18:37):
that look at this will be a nice target to
run over. And he was out there on his bicycle
wearing a red shirt and dark shorts, struck from behind
and thrown against the windshield.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Had they done this before that day?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
They did. Apparently they hit another guy who was not
badly hurt. Well, I don't know if they've done this
before that day, but that day, well, they decided to
really go nuts and run people over.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What was this some kind of game they played every
once in a while, or is this some drug they
were on or are there more psychotics now running around?
And I've never actually never heard of this. People said, hey,
you know, let's just run them over for the hell
of it. I just can't remember a story like that now.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
What happened is the seventeen year old driver was arrested
the day of the crashes. However, they did not become
aware until weeks later. That there was a video these
two made. A school resource officer of the school cop
eventually provided it to investigators, and that has led to
the murder charge because showing off what they did, they
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must have been showing off at school what they did
with other kids. Yes, and they got to the attention
of the school cop who eventually was able to get
a hold of the.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Video send to him. Wow, so there was one decent
person who ratted the kids out. Yes, So they eventually
are rented just today. In fact, I think they event
to her yesterday. The second teenager was arrested, but the
driver of the seventeen year old is clearly in the
most trouble. The crime stream began just before dawn when
they struck a seventy two year old bicyclist and drove
(20:15):
off and crashed into a Toyota Corolla. The driver wasn't
injured in the crash, and police said they're not sure
of how severely injured the bicyclist was. But eventually they
came upon the former police and just.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Ran him down.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Where does this come from? I'm sure they took off laughing.
I'm sure these kids don't have fathers. I mean, I'll
bet a thousand dollars. They don't have fathers.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's almost because they're underage. Although the Clark County DA
says he can charged him as an adult and that's
what he plans to do.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, yeah, they don't do guess going nonsense in other
cities and counties. Oh my god, that's really awful. They
should be They should be locked up forever because that
is such a psycho act. I know it said you
can't fix that brain that they do it, and they
laugh about it, and then they show video of it.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Whoa, yeah, they shared it with other kids at school.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Of that's evil. They should be executed.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They left this poor guy to die. They just drove off,
but I guess they decided if they hit him, they
weren't going to do any more of this. But by
then later in the day, the police caught up with them,
but they did not know about this video. So, I mean,
originally the murder case wasn't there because they thought, well,
it could have been a terrible accident. But now you
see the video and they're laughing. They're like, let's get
this guy. Well, now we got a good case.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Increasingly, you see that from the generation that has recorded
everything they do. They even record their murders and they
show it off to people's that's how sick and warpd.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And that scares me is who would enjoy seeing that?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
At school?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I realized they're just immature sixteen year old boys. But honestly, oh,
you see that video, You've got to be haunted by it.
You can't be going, oh.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, pretty cool. Guys.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Look you did there. It's like a video game. Oh
it's not your sixteen it's it's that you're you're psychotic. No,
I mean clearly somebody didn't like it because they turned
them in.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah. What wow, that's that's pure evil. All right.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Again, Coming up after two o'clock will be with the
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(22:54):
The categories you can't keep a good man down, John
Kevin Dillon is running for reelection to the Los Angele
City Council. The story that was big news about a
year ago. The recordings of Kevin de Leone and Gil
Sedillo and Nori Martinez talking about Mike Bonnen and other
political people in Los Angeles at a labor office.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Of course, racially charged comments.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, racially charged comments about Bonnon's adopted black son, of course,
and also about what would it be called more native.
The Hockins think Hawkins was the was the category of
people that they were talking about. And basically what he
did was he just decided, I'll ignore it, and then
he tried to come back to city council. And eventually
(23:41):
he did return to city council. But there were protests
for weeks and weeks when I wondered when that was
finally going to end and I guess it did, and
then he just kind of I guess it was in
December he got into that little brawl with that guy.
I remember that story, right.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You know what, de Leon is a bozo and he
was involved in passing some really bad laws when he
was in the legislature. He's a complete fool of bozo.
But I'm glad he's running because only his constituents get
to decide whether he stays in office or not, not
not a bunch of idiot activists or whiney La Times writers.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's not your call. It's Joe Biden said he should resent.
It's not Joe Biden's call. Joe Biden has no jurisdiction.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Neither does the La Times Wieners, and neither does these
these crackpot activists. It's it's the public that gets to choose.
And I, you know what, he did the right thing,
which is what everyone should do when you when you
get targeted because who you said something? Right, Oh, you're
caught on tape saying so it's like, just tough it out,
tell him to suck eggs.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
His position was that he did not say the really
offensive things. Nurie Martinez clearly led the way in most
of the conversation. You know, though he made a joke
that Mike Bonnen's black son was like a fashion accompaniment,
like some sort of fashion. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, they were not the warm, friendly comments. But everybody
makes obnoxious comments in private, everybody. I don't know a
single person who doesn't do that. These are private comments.
Some jackass inside that union made a recording. That's illegal.
That's the illegal part. De Leone did something distasteful, maybe
(25:24):
when it's publicized, but it you know, when you when
you have friends sitting around and relaxed, people will say
all kinds of rude things just to get a laugh.
And I can't stand the hypocrisy of that. I don't
know anybody who doesn't say rude things to get a
laugh when they're with their friends privately. And so this
(25:45):
is a whole load of nonsense and to be driven
out by the whole You tell me the El Segundo times,
all those wieners don't make off color comments in the newsroom,
of course they do.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Now he faces quite a few opponents, at least three,
two of which are in the state legislature. Another one,
I think is some sort of labor activist. So he
is going to stand against a number of people in
the primary and that will determine the top two for
the race in November if he survives that, because he
is the incumbent, that's clearly on his side here. Yeah,
(26:17):
a huge name record. Look, he's a bozo. He shouldn't
be anywhere near government. But if he gets kicked out,
it shouldn't be because what he said privately at a meeting.
The last time he ran for city council in twenty twenty,
he won outright in the primary with fifty two percent
of the vote. I don't know that he had that
many challengers as he has this time. It's Democratic Assembly
members Miguel Santiago and Wendy carill a prime challenger.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The local people don't don't like him. They've got the
right to vote Aim out of office. They don't like
his personality or what he said. That's their right. They
don't get pushed around by outsiders. Well, we don't like
his speech. We think it's hate speech. Not your call, buddy.
You know you police the speech in your house.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Now. By the way, we like him the most because
he didn't know the pledge of allegiance that's one of
our favorite pieces of audio. Yeah, we constantly play on
the John and Kill Show. They called upon him to
recite the pledge of allegiance. Then he got lost after
one or two lines. Yeah, no, I don't what to do.
He's dumb as a rock and went at the end like, wow,
(27:19):
did I screw that up?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah? And then there was there was another case where
he was on zoom in the city council meetings and
he's talking with a mouthful of cereal. Oh really, yeah
he was. He was doing the zoom from his breakfast
table and he was like spitting out a cereal. And
we remember him years ago where he was part of
some really stupid, damaging global warning bill and he came
(27:44):
to LA and stood in the hot sun giving his speech.
I remember Eric Leonard was covering it, and Eric hung
back and watched his big suv, right the taxpayer paid suv.
He had that big car and a driver, and the
driver kept the suv and the air conditioning running for
(28:04):
three hours, spewing global warming gases into the atmosphere for
three hours while he was standing at the podium taking
credit for whatever Kakamami bill he had just passed. And
let's not forget what that conversation was that those boobs
were having that was recorded. It was about trying to
get more Latino representation in the LA City Council. Was
(28:27):
where it broke off into the racist re marks. And
I saw this in the story. I mean, Latino's of
forty eight percent of the LA population, Black residents only
eight percent. But there's only five Latino members on the
fifteen member council and three black members. So that's kind
of what they were bickering, not bickering or discussing how
we can do better disproportionate representation.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Right, And that was something else delely Owned touched on,
and it's not mentioned in these current articles.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
God forbid, people vote for intelligent council people. Everything is
about skin color, everything's about ethnicity. Meanwhile, they've driven Los Angeles,
all of them, the whole council has driven Los Angeles
into the shore. And they sit and they argue about
the color of skin and the ethnicity. It's like, no,
(29:12):
that's not the point. It's all the vagrance and mental
patients and criminals running around.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Oh yeah, right, they just care about their power, all right,
coming up next to the orange County District Attorney Todd
Spitzer will be on the show to talk about this
case where judge in Orange County will determine whether or
not the mentally ill killer is going to get released
to an outpatient facility, and we will tell you the
story of what this man did back in nineteen ninety
four to a woman he encountered. Johnny KENKFI AM six
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