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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hi, oh, let's go oh, let's go oh, let's go oh.
Let just talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT
Brett Jensen here with you on this very busy Wednesday
of Breaking with Brett Jensen. And I will tell you
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I've had a lot of things go viral over the
last twenty four hours, like a lot, and we're going
to get into that. When I say viral, I mean
tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of views from
stuff that I put on Twitter last night, put on
Twitter this morning, and a lot so and it's all
centering around, obviously, the horrific situation concerning the woman that
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died and that was brutally murdered Friday evening around nine
to forty five and on the light rail. And so
the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police they put out a
statement today and we're gonna hear from Daniel Redford coming
up in about oh ten minutes from now, ten twelve
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minutes from now, we're gonna hear from him about the
statement and crime in Charlotte. And it is something that
is h it's something that is what's the best word
I'm looking for here, it's it's something that they are
taking very very seriously clearly. And so what I want
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to do is read because I want you to hear
what the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police put out there
today for their official statement. And the Charlotte Fraternal Order
Police that's the police union, right, that's like if something,
if a cop is under lawsuits or suspended or whatever,
they're the ones that defend the police, right. Not everyone's
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a member, Like you're allowed to join the union if
you want to or not what it's up to you.
But they have a lot of members and it's not
just it could be the Huntersville Police Department. It could
be state Police, it could be the Mecklimore County Sheriff's Office,
it could be any of them, right, So it's not
just CMPD. So the Charlotte Mecklenburg FOP put out a
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statement today and I'm going to read it to you
because I want you to hear and fully understand why
Daniel Redford, the president of the Charlotte FOP, is coming
on and like I said in about eleven minutes from
now to Charlotte voters, do not be fooled. We need
new leadership in the city starting at the top. After
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Irena Zarutzka was murdered in uptown Charlotte on the Lane
lightrail this past weekend, the City of Charlotte government leaders
are finally speaking out. There have been approximately fifty murders
already in twenty twenty five, so we guess it's about
time they do. I got news for you. It only
gets more pointed from here. The article below approves how
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out of touch our quote leaders end quote actually are.
In response to this census killing, Mayor Vile Lyles released
the following statement. First and foremost, my thoughts and prayers
go out to the young women's family and friends. You
know I dove into that big time, and if you
haven't heard it, I highly strongly recommend you go to
WBT dot com, click on the menu and listen to
last night's show, especially like the first thirty minutes, and
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then I even offer solutions about light rail. Nonetheless, I
continued with the fop. The rest of her statement, coddled
the man responsible, a man who served six years in
prison for armed robbery, and spoke about how unfortunate the
outcome was. Mayor Lyles, how about you talk about the
failures of the last lack of resources the city provides
for serious mental health issues. How about you say this
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never should have happened and that you promised the family
that they will receive justice. How about you apologize for
choosing now while you are being primaried to care enough
to release a lengthy statement. Oh okay, by laws wasn't
the only one that took arrows to Edwin Peacock Charlotte
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City Council at Large. He's currently in serving Charlotte City
Council for Tug McCarry's but he's running for at large.
To Edwin Peacock Charlotte City Council at Large. Your comments
are disgusting. How dare you use this tragedy to promote
the transit sales tax? This article says, quote Peacock also
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brought up the sales tax to increase to fund light
rail expansion, being on the ballot in November end quote.
You're quoted as saying, quote, the moment that the transit
system starts becoming something where it's not considered to be
safe is the moment in which you begin to lose riders.
You begin to lose the momentum that you want to keep.
And I don't want to see our community. Most records,
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most records point to the sales tax being directed towards expansion,
not safety. Not safety. By the way, is in all
caps a little bit more, a little bit more here, hope,
So let me go to the next page. Sorry about that.
It's going for expansion of to new corridors, bus, rapid transit,
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rapid roadway safety, and multi module investments like you know,
like riding bikes and stuff like that. Right, if you
can't keep the current transit system safe, how in the
hell are writers going to believe you can keep a
larger system with more trains and buses safe. This tax
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is estimated to cause see average Charlotte household two hundred
and forty more annually two hundred and forty dollars annually
because it's a one cent sales tax. Finally, remember that
the Charlotte leaders gave six hundred and fifty million dollars
to a man that Forbes estimates is worth two hundred
twenty three billion dollars. He's talking about David Tepper and
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the stadium renovation, or I should say they the FOP.
Imagine what six hundred and fifty million dollars could have
done to improve safety on the light rail. Add additional
police officers, provide more funding to the Charlotte Area Transit
System CATS for more security, officers, implement programs aimed at
seriously mental ill individuals. And the list goes on. While
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they gave away six hundred and fifty million dollars to
a billionaire, they now ask you to provide them with
more money. And then they link to an article where
they quote members finally talking about what's going on with
this murder? As you mentioned or excuse me, as I
mentioned yesterday it took vy Lyles the mayor her literal nickname.
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I'm not joking when I say this. This isn't something
that Brett Jensen came up with. This is something that
Democrats say, Republicans say, and unaffiliated say. No Show VI.
That's her nickname, No Show VI. During COVID, she was
nowhere to be saying, I forgot about that yesterday. She
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was nowhere to be found during COVID, and I finally
called it, like, where the hell's the mayor? The entire
city shut down? Where's the mayor of the fifteenth biggest
city in America? And finally, when she finally spoke like months.
It was Are you happy now, Brett? That was her
response to me. I'm like, you're the mayor. How are
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you not speaking during COVID and don't forget during the
mass shooting uptown? How about give us some grace because
you know I was up in DC seeing my grandchildren because,
like I said yesterday, apparently cell phones and internet don't
work in Washington, DC, where they can't call her pr
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boy to say hey, we need to put out a statement,
because hopefully it would have been better than the statement
you put out yesterday. I don't know how anything could
have been worse than the statement you put out yesterday
sixteen words, or about the girl you didn't say her
name and the other four hundred and fifty words, or
about how society failed the man that killed her, and
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that how it was tragic that he had an episode. No,
the only tragedy was that he killed her. That's the tragedy.
But you don't find that a tragedy. They've been here
for four months from Ukraine. You survive missiles and guns
and tanks in Ukraine. You come to Charlotte. Four minutes later,
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you're dead. Randomly it was a random attack, didn't know
each other. I've spoken to some quite a few people
over the last twenty four hours. It just unprovoked, just
randomly walked up and just started attacking. And again, this
wasn't like at one o'clock in the morning like you're
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in New York City. This is like nine forty five
on a Friday night and South End. So welcome back
to breaking with Brett Jensen on this act of Wednesday night.
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All right, so we're still talking about the situation that
happened with the woman on Friday night, and the Charlotte
of Maternal Order of Police put out a scathing statement
on their Facebook page, and I recommend that you go
there and check it out. And us now to talk
about that is FOP President Daniel Redford. First of all,
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Daniel Redford, thanks for joining me tonight. And second of all,
that was a pretty strong statement that the FOP put
out today. What prompted that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Obviously for this, I mean, we've got a twenty three
year old female who was violently murdered on public transportation,
and prior to this city council didn't care at all
about all the crime that was going on, all the
murders that have been going on in the city up
to this point, the nearly double percentage of homicides that
occurred in the Uptown area. But all of a sudden,
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here we are months away or weeks away now from
a reelection where every candidate on city Council was being primaried,
with the exception of a few, and now all of
a sudden they chose this to be the platform in
which they wanted to go out and advocate for. So
it's kind of a little too little, too late that,
you know, here we are in August, going into September,
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and then in November, city council will be you know,
voted on, and they are using this as a platform
and bulister their political platform, you know. To hear the
mayor come out and in her first sentence say, oh,
we feel sorry for the family, and then the rest
of her statement goes on and pretty much justifying that
what this guy did wasn't his you know, in his
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hands because he was mentally ill. Is pretty grotastic if
you ask me. So that's what really prompted the frustration
on that. And then you've got counsel of peacock and saying, oh, hey,
you know, we need to we need the sales tax
increase to go on for transit. It's it's disgusting that
they're using this to gain political points and take advantage
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of the Charlotte voters thinking that they are not educated
enough to make their own opinion of what's right for them.
We need to address crime. We've been very vocal and
frustrated about the courts and the judges and city Council's
lack of attention of going out here and holding people accountable,
working together and push back to the island offenders that
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kill our they call our citizens. I just wish that
city Council would be as passionate when the young black
men get killed in our in our communities on almost
a weekly to daily basis. I wish they'd be is
as passionate to those instances than they are when when
it's a CMPD officer that shoots somebody in our community.
You know, we don't get any collective message or any
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collective comments or feedback or anything from city council unless
it's a major event. But every you know, it's like,
do they not care about these other crimes that are
going on? Do they not care about these other murders?
The families what is it about this young female that
was killed the other day that all of a sudden,
this is the one where they want to come out
of the closet on and say, hey, well, you know,
we finally care and something really has to be done.
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You know? Is it is it that it's obviously a
high publicity topic and that they're weeks away from getting
re elected and they've got to do something to make
it seem like they care. Uh, Like I said, it's
it's it's a little too late for all of that. Now.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
The FFP usually endorses candidates that are running for office.
When will the FFP make their official announcements on the
candidates that they've endorsed?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So the endorsements will be made in finalized on September second,
which is the first Tuesday of September.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Speaking with Daniel Redford, president of the Charlotte Fraternal Order
of Police, which is essentially the police union here. So, Daniel,
are you surprised that this story has gone national and
viral like it has. I mean, major major media outlets
have picked it up, including the Daily Mail over there
in London.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, I'm not surprised at all because when you look
at who this victim is this is a twenty three
year old girl that fled war torn Ukraine months ago,
where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or
murdered in an ongoing war. So she comes to Charlotte
and is only here a couple of months, whereas that
war has been going on for several years now. She
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survives war torn Ukraine and comes to Arlotte and gets killed.
That is national news. This should be something that gets
talked about for months and years on end, because it
is just devastating to see that it appears that Charlotte
is not safer than they were torn countries because this
lady was killed after months, survived years of a war,
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and then comes to Charlotte gets killed after only a
couple of months of being here.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Speaking with Daniel Radford, president of the Charlotte Fraternal Order
of Police, the FOP has called for new leadership at
the city level. Do you think if there is a
change in leadership across the board that it will actually
change things in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's the hope, because I can tell you, you know, I
can tell you this and there's a statement that stuck
out to me when we collected data from our members
on who they wanted as their next chief, and the
statement was is that there is a fifty to fifty
percent chance that things will get better with a new chief,
and one hundred percent guaranteed that nothing will change if
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they hire internal. That same principle and concept can be
applied here. We have a mayor who's running for what
her fifth term, right and now, homelessness wants to be
a top priority, and safety on the light rail wants
to be a top priority. Everybody on city Council, I
believe is serve multiple terms and are all up for
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re election. So if you want change, you cannot continue
to vote for the same people who are going to
push the same policies and agendas that year after year
continue to stay in power. We need to have a sweep,
We need to have new leadership, we need to have
new council. We're going to have a new police chief
coming in. So this is a great opportunity to have
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a hard reset and really get the leadership in place
that can take Charlotte into the future, both in innovation,
job creation, transit, but most of all safety.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Speak with Daniel Redford, the President of the Charloff Internal
Order of Police and Daniel, you know, the has called
for sweeping changes at the city government leadership level, and
I'm just wondering, is there anything else that you want
to say to the people that are listening right now
that are members of your organization that go on and
put their lives on the line every single day. Is
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there anything that you want to say to our listeners.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I should just be there for them, support them. Understand
that the job of a police officer is hard and challenging.
For this, for this specific incident alone, I can tell
you that when the public finds out the full details
of how this murder occurred, it is going to be horrific.
I heard from a seasoned violent crime detective just yesterday
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that told me, Dan, I've been doing violent crimes for
a long time, and the video of this girl's murder
is probably the hardest thing I have ever seen. That
should tell you something. You know, there's a lot of
details to this that that you know that cannot be
public size. But I think that statement said to me
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yesterday resonates with me because in everything that I have
heard from our members about this, this was a horrific
crime that never should have happened by a violent offender
who was allowed to be out on our streets. So
Mayor viy Lyle seems to have cared more based on
her statement about this man who never should have been
on our streets, who committed this violent act, who is
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a who has a violent history, who should not have
been on the streets to begin with, that she her
statements seemed to care more about his mental health struggles
than she did about this violent act and this murder
of this twenty this twenty three year old girl. Again,
those statements are there tone deaf, They do not they
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do not replicate what the reality of the violence in
Charlotte is. And until our city leaders fully understand what
took place here and would I would strongly encourage every
city count member that is listening to your segment, Brett
or hear's about it later on, I would ask that
all of them collectively demand to see the video from
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this train of the murder, of this incident, so that
they can see firsthand just how bad the violence in
Charlotte can be.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Daniel Redford, President of the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police,
I really do appreciate you joining us tonight. All right,
thank you, Brett, and I just want to make sure
that you know you guys picked up on what he
said that a long time homicide detective saw the video
from the light rail instead. It's in all of his
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years as being a detective, it's the worst thing he's
ever seen. Think about that for a second, Think about
the fear of her. Just all of a sudden, a
guy just randomly comes up to you on the light
rail and just starts going helter skelter on you, Charles
Manson style. It's unbelievable, and this is why it's making
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national news. And the mayor Vilals apparently thought the society
was at fault and not the man. Society is at fault.
Just remember that it's not your fault. It's not your fault.
Remember the old goodwill hunting scene at the very very end.
It's not your fault. It's not your fault. Well apparently
Vilas is. I think it's his fault. All about the
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Rex Brett Jensen on this Wednesday night, and again this
is why I tell you to follow me on x
for all the latest and breaking news in and around
the Charlotte area. I put out a copy of that
FOP statement concerning the mayor vilals concerning Charlotte City Council
concerning the tragic death of the woman that died Friday
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night and all the excuses that are being made for
her attacker by at least one city official being by Lyles. So.
But I put all that stuff there on accent. Again.
That's why I highly recommend that you really need to
follow me because tens and tens and tens of thousands
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of other people saw my stuff today. So if you
weren't one of them, you should be. By the way,
you can text the WBT text line, which is driven
by Liberty Buick GMC at seven four five, seven eleven ten.
That's also the exact same number to call the show. Okay.
So back in January, okay, de Carlos Brown, the guy
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charged with killing the young woman right and Ukrainian woman
but here four months so, he was arrested for basically
misusing the nine to one one system. Okay. Police said
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that he called from the hospital. These are this is
reading reports here. Police said that he called from the
hospital and claimed someone gave him quote man made material
end quote that controlled where he quote eight walked and
talked end quote and despite his criminal pass like tons
of arrests. We know that he spent many years in jail.
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I think he's got fourteen different mugshots. I'm not even joking.
I think it's fourteen. Is the number of mugshots that
he's got. What does that tell you? I'm being dead serious. So,
but despite everything that went on with his past violent
crimes and everything else, Magistrate Tertertia's stokes basically said, hey,
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you're not gonna have to go to jail as long
as you give me a written promise that you'll show
up in court. And if you look at her and
her profile and everything else, you immediately go activist judge.
Activist judge. She's not even a judge, she's a magistrate.
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They call magistrate judges. They're the ones that set the
bail or can set bail on stuff like this. Right,
So anyways, once again a magistrate. You truly and I'm
not even trying to be funny here, the average IQ
is about one hundred. So when people say I'll got
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one hundred IQ, yeah, that's not like in the school
where one hundred was like good right, No, No, one
hundred is extremely average and maybe just a few points
below average. In order to be a magistrate in North Carolina.
You could have an IQ of about eighty. Well, Brett,
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what do you want? No, I'm serious. You can have
a GED, never step foot in college, and you are
allowed to determine the fate of people in court. I
want you to think about that for a second. If
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you have a four year degree, you don't have to
have I think it's like very little experience, like a
couple of years experience, right. I think it's maybe four
years of experience work getting the clerk at court's office.
I think I'm trying to do this off the top
of my head because I've talked about this many times
the last three and a half years. If you've got
a two year degree associates degree, I think it's six years.
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And if you've got a GED, you can I think
be appointed or elected or whatever it is that you are.
I think after eight years, eight years, so you don't
have to be the brightest bul to determine outcomes setting bail,
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setting bond. Right, I've got something I'm going to talk
about tomorrow night about another magistrate concerning a situation that
transpired last week, late last week, and you want to
know why there's so many repeat offenders on the streets,
like this hump that did all the that did that
horrific crime. Okay, I'm gonna go more into this tomorrow,
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but this magistrate said, just show up. We won't hold you.
Good luck riding the light rail for free again, because
you know, in Charlotte will use the honor system, even
though no other city in America uses the honor system.
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Every other city in the country that has transit like
this rapid transit. You have gates, you have to buy tickets,
you have security, and whatever freaking genius decided this was
a good idea. It's city Charlotte city leadership. There you
go in a way you could almost say, these deaths
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and all these crimes are on your head, you're whatever.
Whatever brilliant person said, Hey, I've got a great idea.
Even though we're spending tens and tens and tens and
hundreds of millions of dollars on a light rail system,
here's an idea. Let's just say, uh, we trust you
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citizens to actually buy your own dollar fifty ticket or
two dollars ticket. Ah, we don't need turnstiles, we don't
need we trust you, we don't need security on the
light rail. We're good. We're such a great city and
so honest, we don't need any of that. All the
other cities that actually charge people to ride their light rail,
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they're fools. Okay, all right, but magistrates, I've got more
on you tomorrow, because again, you don't have to have
an IQ above eighty five to be a magistrate. You
truly don't. Welcome back to Breaking with Bret Jensen for
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a few more minutes here as we go up until
seven o'clock. Okay, So, I know all the other shows
all day have been talking about the situation in Minnesota,
like I get it, and I'm just going to give
you a couple of brief facts and then I'm going
to do something that I don't do a lot and
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actually give you a personal statement. Number one, the guns
that this deranged and everyone knew he was deranged well
before this. You could just tell by looking at him
and totally like seriously, there's something seriously mentally wrong with him,
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and you could tell that. And it's a guy. It's
not a she. It's a heat period. He's built like
a linebacker. Anyways, not even joking anyways, every single gun
and bullet that he had was purchased legally. Everyone, So,
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and we're talking in a deep blue state that you know,
he generally has like stricter rules when it comes to
stuff like that. Right, everyone was purchased legally, and so
there's that. Okay, again a demned state. So just just
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keep that in mind. Right, we're not talking Alabama, We're
not talking North Carolina, South Carolina, like we're talking Minnesota. Okay,
that's number one. Number two. If you look at all
the big killings lately, nearly all, if not one hundred
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percent of them have been done by Democrats. How about
the school shooting just outside of Nashville by a girl
who wanted to be a boy and didn't want to
have children suffer through what she suffered through because again
mentally deranged. Then today another someone who is clearly a
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man but says that he's a woman. Was that a
Republican that tried to shoot Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania? Was
that a Republican that tried to shoot Trump at a
golf course in Florida? Was that a Republican that drove
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that rented a car from Kansas, drove it to Las
Vegas outside of a Trump hotel and blew him and
the truck up, hoping to cause major damage at a
Trump hotel in Vegas? Was that a Republican? Was it
a Republican that shot all the congressmen practicing for baseball
their annual congressional baseball game, That shot all the Republicans?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Was that a Republican? Was it a Republican that on
New Year's Eve took a car and started driving down
Bourbon Street killing everyone? These are Republicans, oh, white man, Republican? No, No,
you haven't been able to say that in quite a
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while now hearing that in the media. Or was it
a Republican that broke into Nancy Pelosi's house? No, that
memphy you remember. Initially Hillary Clinton kept saying it was
Oh no, no, not even remotely close. When was the
last time you saw a Republican that was a gay
hippie in San Francisco. Not a lot of exactly a
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lot of red pill people running around up there in
San franz that are gay hippies, massive potsmokers, right, the
love to go barefoot. That's what this guy was. I
wasn't being stereotypical. That's literally what this guy was that
broke into policy's house and beat up her husband. So
just remember this. And then you have Gavin Newsom again,
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these aren't these aren't Republicans. And then you have Gavin
Neussem today come out on Twitter and what he did
is so disgusting from a human standpoint. He literally put
on Twitter and I'm paraphrasing, our children are dying and
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the GOP is doing nothing to protect them. I'm sorry,
what what state did this happen in. This is a
man that's built like a linebacker that you would have
allowed to play against high school girls in your state.
This is a man that you would have called she
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he's bigger than you, Gavin Newsom, I'm not joking. This
dude is stout so just absolutely reprehensible human behavior. But
I expect nothing left less from the far left. The
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far left, I expect nothing less. They would have allowed
this horrible human being, deranged, mentally challenged human being to
play against women in sports in high school and in
college only because he said he was If I say
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I'm a Golden retriever like Maggie, do I get to
go hang out at the Pound for free, for free
rent and free food. I'm just curious I'm a golden retriever.
I will start walking on all fours. Do I get
a free place to stay in, free food at the
animal shelter? I'm saying, I'm a golden retriever. Why don't
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you believe me? Okay? If you want to pass out
reparations and I claim I'm African American, why don't I
get that that's how I identify? Well, Brett, we would
take DNA tests. Oh so you'll take DNA tests for that,
but not whether or not someone's a man or a woman.
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Got it? Got it? Okay, don't forget Elizabeth Warren kept
claiming that she was Cherokee or Indian or whatever, and
then they did a DNA test and she was one
one sixty four thousandth Indian. But she got all the
uh benefits of saying that she was a Native American
and to get into Harvard and other places. Okay, Okay,
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so just remember this. Just remember everything that I told
you about the guns being purchased legally in a deep blue,
demented state. All you have to do is look at
everyone that they've elected over the last twenty five years. Also,
the fact it's not Republicans that are doing the mass murders,
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and then Gavin Newsom being Gavin Newsom. All right, everyone
that's going to do it for us tonight. I appreciate
Daniel Read for the President of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Fraternal
Order of Police joining us to talk about the statement
that they posted on Facebook. Again. Tomorrow, I've got some
more stuff coming down those lovely magistrates, so we'll have
fun with that and enlighten you about stuff like that
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and also some other things. My name's Brett Jenson, and
you've been listening to Breaking with Brett Jenson.