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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Greeting salutations.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome, my friends to another edition of The Power Hour
on six ten WTV and on Chuck Douglas, you know
who you are.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We take it from there.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We get one hour together, which means I talk really
fast and you must do using even faster.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
My number eight two one.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Nine eight eighty six eight two one WTV in or
eight hundred sixty ten WTV in. The animals are running
the zoo. I seriously, man, I'm I'm I am. So
as soon as I got out of here last night,
you know, the news hits and I felt kind of hopeless,
kind of helpless, kind of I was off the air.
I needed my microphone so badly. As reports were coming
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in about first of all club's police officer involved in
an accident, and I thought, oh, well, that's it's sad.
You know, they up in the London area. But apparently
they were involved in an accent because they were responding
to a call from two Mifflin police officers who were
in trouble, under fire, trying to serve a ward. As
I understand it, it was a stupid child support warrant and
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caused this domestic car or whatever. Oh my gosh, we've
had We've had a deputy Moral County just killed a
few days ago responding to domestic violence thing. And we
had we had a deputy run down, just blatantly run down,
murdered by some psychotic in the state of Ohio here
just what two and a half three weeks ago, uh
special duty retired.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And he was just out doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Man, and and I prevailed upon you at the end
of the show last night to be a better group
of humans. We have a problem. People say it's a
war on cops, it's a it's a hatred of cops.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, it's it's not just it's authority. We've got a
problem with anybody anywhere having any power over us to
tell us, hey, you're doing the wrong thing, because too
many people are walking around in this's like thinking they
can do whatever they want to whoever they want, whenever
they want, and there should be no repercussions. And unfortunately,
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when they get caught and they go into our court system,
there seem to be no repercussions. As was the case
once again, we're finding out that you know, at least
one of the dirt balls could have been behind bars,
but was instead released by our Franklin County Court system.
I'm just I'm yeah, I'm mad. I'm mad because you know,
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we're talking about officers right now. Those who serve and
protect put on the badge every day, go out there
to take care of you from whatever's coming at you.
But around the corner. Trust me, if they don't give
a damn about the cops, they give less than the
damn about you. And this is the basis of this
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prediction I've been making for a few months now.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's going to get worse in the streets for us.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's a good thing. I like this guy because I
have to talk to him far too often. President of
FOP Lodge Number nine, Brian Steeles on the Legacy Retirement
Group dot gom phone lines. Brian, First of all, damn it.
I'm sorry for what's going on, and let's start with
the important stuff. Two officers shot last night. How are
they today?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, brother, thanks for having me on. Thanks for always
you advocate for the police, and I appreciate it. One
officer has been released. One officer is still in bad shape.
He is stable, which is great. He's still alive on
this world, but he's got surgeries long row to cover.
He's not out of the woods yet, so keep praying
for him.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Traffic stop in the Smifflin case incident, the guy takes
off running from a traffic stop. He was a passenger
in the vehicle, as I understand it, and in midstride
just turns and opens fire. There was no altercation, no,
just his own paranoia and fear and probably worry about
getting caught for whatever he had in his pockets.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, well, listen, we know he's a violent offender, and
he had a gun and he ran from the officer
he felt. The officer pulled out his taser and the
individual pulled out a firearm and shot our officer. What's
so worrisome about this video? There's no excuse for ever shooting,
but we can make these ecuse. Well, he shot to
get away, which is not a good excuse, But if
you watch this video, he was not shooting to get
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away from the officer. He was he turned out of
stand and advanced to the officer while discharging his weapons.
He was trying to murder that officer.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So for everyone who always you know, there's always that contentment, why.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Can't they distase him?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Why did they have to That's why that right there
is why the officer reached for a taser took a
bullet instead.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That is why when.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You've got a bad guy out there, armed, dangerous and stupid,
a taser isn't always the option. Deputy, You're absolutely right, Deputy,
Moro County. A beautiful tribute. All of those red and
blue lights in procession yesterday, beautiful tribute.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Have you had any contact?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I know Morro County's kind of outside of the FOP
nine area, but have you have you talked to the family?
Are they holding up okay? Anything that people need to
know or could do for them.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I reached out to local officials out there. I reached
out to the local U out there, as the local
union president. Just offered our thoughts, our support, whatever they need,
will send members to the funeral. And I said, I
said today, and yes, you're on the news. I don't
have to know the cop. I am the cop. The
cop is me. I don't care if you're in California,
New Jersey, what jurisdiction. We all chew the same dirt
out here. We're all the same family.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What do we do, Brian? I mean, is there anything
you know? Thoughts and prayers are wonderful things, but they're
not getting the job done. We get, you know, especially
here in Columbus where boy our mayor has decided he
wants to see get another term. Is there anything can
we mobilize in any way? Can we can we be somewhere?
Can we meet so? Can we rally somewhere? Can we
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write something to somebody? Is there anything that people can do.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
To back up?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Because I heard what you said. You said we're tired
of it. Guess what, Brian? So are we What can
we do to make your voice louder?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
So? I want everybody to know this. I want your
listen to sisters, to know. Public safety is at risk
in our city, in our county. When violence phones are
granted leniency, good officers at innocent citizens are going to
pay this price. I want to say that this is
a wake up call and have a raw Ross speech,
But this is twilight zone, Chuck. This is the first
conversation we've had. This happens on and on and on.
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I had many elected officials. They reached out to me
and they offered support and said what can I do?
Elected officials from both sides of the aisle, And I
told them the same I've told them all the same thing.
Be vocal, start working on a solution. The FOP cannot
just carry the water by themselves. We need every elected official,
every police chief, every pastor, every business owner to get
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in a room and say enough is enough. If this
is just the start of a summer, this is going
to be another long, hot, violent summer.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And that's something, honestly, as trade as it sounds, we
got to consider that, Well, it's not hot, it's not humid,
it's you know that people aren't out drinking late at
night in them summer barbecues and getting dumb. It's only
going to get worse from here. I mean, that's not
a threat. That's just logic based on experience and what
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we've seen over time. Is anybody aside from the people
wearing badges think in that direction.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
If they are, I'm not being a well, I'm not
aware of it. I'm not hearing it. We talk about guns.
Everybody you hear is anti gun, gun, gun gun. These
individuals are not supposed to have the guns. We have
gun laws on the books. We need prosecutors to prosecute vigorously.
We need we need violent offenders illegally owning guns to
be incarcerated, and that's what we're not seeing. This individual
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had an F one aggravated burgerly charge. He had a
switch weapon, a switch for a block which we've talked about,
which makes it into almost a machine gun or in
effective machine gun. And he also was not supposed to
possess a weapon. Yet instead of incarcerating him, he got
kicked right back out in the street with a piece
of paper that pretty much just says, hey, pretty please,
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with sugar on top, don't do this again. And this
is the individuals our officers had to.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Deal with yesterday that unfortunately is uh, that's far too often.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I said, that's far too often that that kind of
thing comes down community control or or probation or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Have you ever had a serious conversation with any of
these judges in criminal court and ask them just why
why are you so hesitant to lock up bad guys?
Is it a philosophy? Is it a political thing? Why
won't you lock them up? Because I would love to
hear them in a face to face answer to that question.
It's it's a very simple question.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I have never got a good answer to anything anybody
I have talked. I remember, I've said this a thousand times.
I don't pay everybody at a broad brush. We do
have some fine judges, but if you look up some
of these names, there are some repeat judges that can
continuously allow this for citicism, and those individuals I don't
think would ever sit down a room with me because
they're not going to get lip service. It's going to
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be a hard conversation and I just don't think they
want it. But they keep getting elected. So really, the
citizens are the one who's gonna totally who's gonna, you know,
pilot this plane and make the decision. Elections matter. Who
you vote for matters.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I put it out there on Facebook earlier, and I
know a lot of people think, Ah, you're just ranting,
You're just crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
No, I'm fed up.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm fed up, and this is my hometown and I'm
sick of seeing it going down the sewer like this.
And I say, you know, if you're elected, if you're
a judge in Franklin County, I think we need legislation.
If that's what it takes, it should be mandatory for
the criminal judges, for the domestic judges. You need to
do a quarterly ride along with a Columbus Police officer
and you know, my beloved West Side ten eighteen nineteen,
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that's fine, you want to do twelve, that's fine. Put
them in Linden that you need to see what the
people out here who aren't living with with armed security
and in very nice mansions in the beautiful suburbs. You
have to see. Here's what we're living with every day,
and here's what you keep sending back to us. I
think it should be mandatory that they got out there
and witness it for themselves.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well, I can tell you as tragic something that happened
yesterday was and it's kind of kind of really just down.
I was when this happened, because it does. It's an
emotional sock in the gut. Two officers were involved in
a car accident in the North London area responding to
the officer downfall, and I watched a video these two
officers were injured in accident and I watched community members run
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up to the car and pull these officers out. They
thought the car was on fire, it was smoking airbags.
But it's at a testament to the community supports their police.
And there was males females, black, white, Everybody went to
help their officers. And that's what I want the cops
to know. Do not give up deep fighting. The community's
worth it. And thank you to all those citizens that
helped us out last night.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, I and you know that's the reverse side of this.
I hope.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I know how difficult it is when they have to
see this every day, But I hope that the officers
do know there are more people like that like us
than there are bad guys, and people like us are
getting to the point where we're just as fed up
with it as you are. We want your work to
mean something because when it does, it benefits all of us.
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And we're more behind you, I think than media reports
in our court system would let you know. And there
our media in our court system need to start understanding.
You guys are out numbered. You're on the wrong side
of this thing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, well, I appreciate you know. I tell everybody the
committee's worth it. And the officers had a long night
last night. They went home, they saw their families, they
had a shower, shave, they came right back to work
and we won't stop. We have a ten thousand dollars
award for Deon Davante Dixon ten thousand dollars award by
the Turn Order Police owning up money and Central Ohio
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Prime Stoppers ten thousand dollars. That's a lot of money.
We need people to call in give us tips. We
have to get this individual all art streets.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Are we assuming that he is still here in Central Ohio?
Does he have connections in other parts of the country
where he might have fled?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
So, I mean, you know what, as officers investigators, we
nothing's not on the table. We put out a nationwide
alert for him. There's every a cop from here to
California is going to get a teletype message with his
information saying, hey, be on the lookout people, you cannot
run forever. One or two things are going to happen.
He could turn himself in and peacefully surrender and see justice,
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or he can get into another gunfight, which the chances
of him winning this one are are pretty slim to none.
So we want him to come peacefully. But like I
always say, we're going to respond to a suspects actions.
I hope he doesn't go down that route, but you know, we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Be waiting myself. My show, my airwaves are always available
to you. Brian Steel, President of FOP Lodge nine. Whenever
you need you just call.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Thank you, brother, appreciate you and your listeners.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You take care of yourself and keep your head on
a swivel out there. I can't tell you how much
you are appreciated the work that you do, all.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Of you, and it's.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It's going I have to believe it's going to get better.
Otherwise I'm going to be very distressed and depressed.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He alp me too, brother, Thank you so much