August 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Willie talks with WLWT-TV anchor Sheree Paolello about the newest arrest in the infamous brawl case that happened a couple of weeks ago in downtown Cincinnati and he takes your phone calls to hear your thoughts and concerns.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
My Billy cunning in the Grant America.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome to this war is possibly rainy Wednesday afternoon in
the triestate of Reds, baseball looked impregnable, like the imagine
no line. I thought the new pitcher last night was
in trouble until I struck out three in a row.
The Reds look unbeatable at this point, Going out again,
going out it again today, first pitch about two twenty
Pregame coverage starts to me in the segment of one,
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But until then, Shari Pololo of the Power of Five
has some breaking information about the sixth the Rest, considering
the beatdown that happened on Fourth and Elm and Shari Pololo,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. I have many
questions about the Gaza Strip, something about the pick up,
the pieces of the bunker busters. I want to talk
about what's happening with monetary policy, with interest rates. I
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want to talk about the Southern border. I want to
talk about all those matters and more. But before we
get to all that all those issues, tell me about
the sixth the Rest and your conversation with the police.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey, good afternoon to you, Lily. So this morning just
before nine o'clock, Cincinnati police were able to track down
a sixth suspect in this fight and assault. She's it's
a woman, So this would be the second woman among
the six people who are charged. Twenty five year old
Ayesha Devall charged with felonious assault and aggravated riot. The
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Fugitive Apprehensive Team tracked her down this morning. So this,
you know, Police Chief Terasigi had told us last week
that they had six people in total they were looking for.
This is the sixth and final suspect, at least of
those who we know that they were looking for. You know,
it's interesting, Wally, We have talked so much about this,
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that incident that happened almost two weeks ago now, and
I was doing a little bit of research on now
I don't know a ton of their history on this.
Ayisha the sixth suspect who was just arrested. But of
the five who we knew about as of last night,
four of the five, basically all four of the men
who had been arrested all had prior criminal histories. The
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one guy, the Merriweather guy, he was actually locked up
by the task Force on July second on four gun charges.
He was out on a four hundred dollars bond the
next day. That's that Montonnez Merriweather currently going through the
legal process. And I could go through all of these
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other people as well who are charged and whether it
was domestic violence, formi's assault charges, drug trafficking. Many of
them have seminal histories. But then a lot of the
charges that they were facing were dismissed as well. So
I think that's the concern for so many people around
Greater Cincinnatius. This is a twofold problem when I'm looking
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at this from the outside. The police too, said it
last week. We have heard it for years from police
officers that we do have this revolving doer of injustice.
I think is so many people would say, and it's
frustrating for these officers on the streets, whether they're on
the task force or just beat officers, they're locking people
up and then the next day they're released. In fact,
I was just taking with an officer this morning. He
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said both century I actually had a kid who he
had sell any warrants out. This was just this week
and twenty twenty said, no, we arrested him. We were
trying to lock them up twenty twenty. So that's the
Juvenile Detention Center said, nope, relation to his parents. And
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this is a kid under eighteen who had sell any
warrants out. These are not you know, kids with the
speeding ticket or people with some sort of misdemeanor charge.
These are serious charges of robbery, you know, criminal activity
that put people in our communities, in their communities by
the way that they live in in danger. But then
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I think you will also have you know, so that's
been an ongoing problem for the last several years. If
you would ask, you know, the police officers, the people
who are arresting these guys that we have were two
lacks on crime and judges let them write back out,
especially when you're talking about teenagers. I mean, look, we
were talking about the same issue last year when we
had groups of teenagers who were attacking unsuspecting people in
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the middle of the day, just walking on downtown street.
So this has been going on. It's just now, you know,
the light of being shined on it again because of
this fight and attack that broke out two weeks ago.
But then you also, I think, you know, from my
point of view, I think where this blew up, So
much is is transparency. You know, whenever there's a police
involved shooting or some sort of violent incident. Typically for
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the last you know, ten plus years, Cincinnati police, especially
since the collaborative in two thousand and two, Cincinnati police
are very transparent. They come out within a day or two,
show you all the video, take you through, step by
step by step what has happened. And unfortunately that didn't
happen in this case. Look, I get it, you know,
the police chief and city leaders are damned if you do,
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damned if you don't. But when you come out and
you say, here's what we think started it, here's where
things went wrong, and this is what led to again
the fight, and then that led to this attack and
assault of six people and one woman being knocked unconscious,
I think then it doesn't become Then you don't get
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national leaders who are getting involved in saying what in
the heck's going on in Cincinnati, Ohio?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right, Well, we got Bernie Marino's going to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But as far as the police, this Merriweather character was
picked up by that special task force July the second.
I mean, this is a bad guy to begin with,
he was terrible and then he gets out. Bill Mallory,
the judge is a good guy.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I like him.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Everyone likes Bill Mallory. But he doesn't think people should
be in jail for criminal offenses. He gives this Merriweather
in his thirties, got a terrible record, essentially a four
hundred dollars cash bond and get out. And then I
received a text from Judge Melissa Powers who said that
you know, she ran juvenile court with an iron grip
for many years. And she said to me in a text,
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you may know this. When I left juvenile court three
years ago, Judge Kerrie Bloom declared that the juvenile Court
will no longer enforced curfew or truancye violations. All the
charges were summarily dismissed unofficially, which means the prosecutors don't
have an opportunity to appeal or to object, and right
now there are no laws that our juvenile court will enforce.
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In fact, she her main item of business is to
have a book report if you do, if you rape
somebody or commit a crime, it's a book report.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How do you feel about that one?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well, I mean, obviously it's outrageous and I think to
most people if that in fact won't the punishment. It's outrageous.
You know, I was talking to you about the police
officer who I was and by the way, a high
ranking officer who I was talking with this morning about
this test force arresting a kid just the other night.
And he was telling me the kid sixteen, This was
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a kid who was breaking into multiple vehicles, had multiple
breaking and entering warrants out and the answer from twenty
twenty was just releasing back to his parents. And what
I would say to that is, do we remember what
happened at the beginning of the summer, the teenager, the
young person who was again stealing cars, and what ended
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up happening, well, when he was stealing finally another car,
he was shot and killed by police because he had
a gun, went to get the gun and was you know,
again it was this encounter with police. It's like, at
what point do we say enough is enough? We don't
want to lose people, because you know, police are put
in a compromise situation where they're trying to arrest what
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they believe as a criminal. And then we saw what
happened after that, and it was the ripple effect. His
father allegedly was so upset that he went and you know,
chosen officer a deputy at random and shot and killed
or stuply shinkilled, ran, hit and killed Deputy Larry Henderson.
So you know, I think that there clearly is a
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breakdown in our system and that's what people are concerned about.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, sure, and why I'm monitoring you last night with
Mike and I try to watch everything Simultaneously. You're doing
this piece about lemon Kearney saying, well, we got to
pay armed robbers one thousand dollars a month not to
commit any more crime. Then I'm watching someone else say, well,
the curfew you know, is going to be eleven o'clock,
then it's going to be nine o'clock and then midnight.
Of course you have no court, don't enforce it. And
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you're talking about city council and their law and Public
Safety committee, and it Scottie Johnson, who has more lucid
moments than many, who was a former police officer. SI
kind of gets mad at the fact that someone might
think Cincinnati is unsafe and you're not paying attention look
at all the things we've done, and then you quickly
cut the crime scene tape in ot R at eleven
fifteen pm last night. So one packages, hey, look, things
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are great, it's unbelievable. Then you say let's go to OTR.
Someone just had their brains blown out. Did you see,
I mean, did you feel what you were doing?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It is unsettling. Listen, it is unsettling because look, if
you talk to the chief and if you look at
the numbers twenty twenty two, two hundred and thirty nine
shootings in Cincinnati right now, that numbers at one hundred
and seventy one. So yes, if you look at the
numbers from four years ago, the numbers are down. But
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we all know. I mean, I talk to people in
the suburbs. I live in Mason, and so many people
I know say I'd rather just go out of here
and not risk something not just happening to me, but
to my car. You know, all of the things. It's
the image and perception that it's not safe to be downtown.
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And I think that's what the concern is. And you know, look,
city leaders can you can you can say, look, shootings
are down from year to year from four years ago,
but the reality is when you have a big, big
weekend where there's a sinc Anai Music Festival, there's a
REDS game, there's an sc game, and you have what
happened two weeks ago. It certainly doesn't give people a
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feeling from the suburbs that it's safe to go downtown.
And I always say, what my bigger concern is is
what about the people who live in these communities who
don't have the option to go to a restaurant that
they feel like is safer, where they don't have that
chance of their car being broken into them being held
up when they're getting in their car. So it's certainly
something that I think we as a city have to
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come together, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican and say,
what are we going to do to make our city
look better to people on the outside. Look, we're building
a new convention center, and we're hoping to get major
conventions and bigger and better, you know, things going on
so that we can continue to grow our city. But
you can't have people who come to our city getting
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robbed or worse, getting shot because somebody holds them up
and they don't give them their wallet. So I think
it's just a ripple effect. I was really you know,
on Friday when I watched that news conference, and I'm
talking not as a journalist. Look, it was frustrating as
a journalist because just like I think the police feel,
we feel in the media, we're damned if we do,
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damned if we don't. You know, I put something out
on social media thing, we're trying to get the videos,
we're trying to get the people who shot them to
release them, and people think we're holding back to information.
But then you put out information that somebody has been
arrested or these are the people who've been arrested, and
Scotti Johnson's sicked off because we're showing the video over
and over again. Well, guess what, we do that in
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every crime. You know, we did that last summer when
kids were jumping innocent people walking down the streets. We
do that when there's a police involved shooting, and there
are questions on if it's justified. So I always say, well,
we are truly just trying to give you information. But
it's frustrating when you see this city leaders coming together
and you're like, Okay, well what are we going to
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do about her? I think we can all agree we've
got a problem. You shouldn't have people where. Look, if
that whoever started that fight, if those two people just
would have fought, this would have never made the news.
It would have been one one guy beaten the crop
out of another guy. But what happened was you then
had the guy who looks like from the videos we've seen,
who maybe initiated this, who sort of slapped the one
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guy being dragged into the street and beaten by multiple people,
and then a woman who appears to be trying to
break it up being laid out. And I'll tell you what, Lily,
when I initially saw that video two weeks ago on
a Saturday morning of that woman, we know it's Ally,
and we do believe she's going to be talking with
Senator Marino today when he addresses the media here. Locally,
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I thought she was dead. I mean the video cut
off and the initial woman I got and I thought
she was dead. And it's like, that's what people across
the country see. I had friends of mine who lived
outside of the city saying, Wow, what's going on in Cincinnati.
And what it reminds me of is I was a
beat reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina in two thousand and
one when we had the racewriters break out and I
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was a prime reporter, and when I told them I
was going home in two thousand and two to Cincinnati,
my police officer friends and Charlotte said, why in the
world would you want to look there? So I don't
want that to be the perception across the country. And sadly,
when you see videos like this, it's just like when
you're watching videos of George Floyd and all of it.
If you want to enter race into the equation, it
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is a black eye on whatever city it's going on in.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, I do some interviews around the country, and Cincinnati.
I won't say it's fair a black eye. What it
is is the worst pr that a region could ever
get is to have major national networks on a loop,
pay the beating, play the beating of those individuals, and
then play the comments of Victoria Parks, who's the president
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pro tem of the city council, who said, you know what,
they brought it on themselves.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
They kind of deserve that happened.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And I'm thinking, and then all of us say things,
maybe imprompted, we shouldn't have said. A couple of days later,
she doubled down with the interview with Curtis Fuller and said, no,
that's exactly what I feel. And that's a that's not
somebody in the street. That's like a sixty five year
old city council member. That is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know, I was talking with a neighbor and look,
we heard out rageous things posted by a trustee in
Ross Township on the other side who used.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The word.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He used the N word, and you know, I mean,
it's outrageous to me. And I had a neighbor say
to me the other day, again, they weren't following this
as closely as we clearly are, but he says, doesn't
it just come down to you wanting any city leader
to say right is right and wrong is wrong. And
I always say to my boys, I'm never going to
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condone bad behavior. Right, So if a teacher, if a
coach calls me and says you did something, I'm never
to justify your actions. You know, I want you to
make it right or always to try and choose the
right thing. And I think that's what the majority of
Greater Cincinnati is saying, is we just want the people
who were involved in this to be held accountable. And
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I think that again, transparency is playing a big role
in this. There are so many questions when you you know,
I'm left to wonder, Okay, when the chief says, well,
you haven't seen at all, because Damon Lynch was he
was the first person to say, here's what we think happened.
And the chief basically said, well, that might not be
all of it. There are other videos out there. So
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then I'm thinking, as a journalist, did something happen inside
that bar, If something happened that we haven't seen, and
why not just say it? Why not say that there
was a racial slurmaid why not say, you know, whatever
it is, take this through just like you would a
police involved shooting. And so that way, there aren't all
of these questions out there, and you don't have you're
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not dividing the city by race, because whether this was
racially motivated or not, it's now become a racial.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Issue, right, especially when leaders of the city say, you know,
like every face up there looks like my face, which
is Damon Lynch, and by the way, now lives in
Claremont County. That's a different issue. Well, the perpetrators of
this event were black, the victims are all white, and
I don't know if race played an element or not.
Where I was told that the N word was expressed,
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I had on Ken Kober yesterday. He said, well, they
can't find the in word. And then I find out, well,
maybe there was a minor drug deal involved in which
the white guy wanted to buy marijuana from the black
guy and the price was too high, so they got
into it. The white guy, Leegley, was drunk, and so
therefore he had some beer muscles. And if that's the case,
why not get it out there and say it. If
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you have the video, play it and don't wait two weeks.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, because again, it just takes me back to so
many of the incidents that we have had or you know,
over the past twenty years, where I think Cincinnati police
has been so good about getting in front of things
if they feel and by the way, outline police agencies too,
for the most part, if they feel like they've had
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an incident that you're doing to be controversial where maybe
a police officer is going to be in question or
something else, they get out in front of it and
take you through what happened and say this is now
under investigation, we're looking into it. And I think it
eases attention right in our communities.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeh, well, we got to run. I want to talk
to you about interest rates, the southern border and Gaza.
We never got to it. And I wanted to maybe
give credit to blame the women, because, as you know,
all the four main anchors are female. City manager is
a female, the chief of police is a female, The
county commissioners are female, the corners are female, the prosecutor
is a female. The presiding judges and all the courts
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are female. The Chief Justice Ohio is a female.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I blame women on this one because women control. We
white guys had a good run. But it's over. Man,
it's over. Tell your boys, we had a good run,
but it's done. It's over. I'm just saying, look, I
see women, women, women, and by the way, I love
women more than I love men, and women are better
people than men. I think we're gonna agree on that.
But nonetheless, give my give my best of my dark.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
We have plenty of men involved. They are all women,
are there.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, he's a metro sexual from Beaver Creek and look
up metrosexual.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's him.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm just saying that we got problems everywhere and women
are to blame.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Okay, well, well i'll beg to differ on that one.
I'll agree to disagree.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Sure, he thank you, but I'll be watching tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'll be monitoring more crime scene tape and O t
R as the city's crime rates are down. All right,
sureI give my best everyone at five.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
All right, go go red.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
They're gonna win this. Afteroon, let's continue with more your comments.
Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, Bill Cunningham,
News Radio seven hundred WLW. Reds Baseball starts about one
to twenty with me and the seg man in the
pregame show. First pitch about two to twenty, our time
in Chicago. Chicago Cubs are unbeatable. They were impregnable, like
the Magino line. However, looking at it this way, the
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Reds look dominant in the two games they pitcher last
night I thought was fabulous. Now the Reds are marching
for glory and for some of the judgment seat of God.
After this they go to Pittsburgh for four then come back.
But until then, a little couple little stories. I touched
on this with Shari. There's a classic scene from one
of my old time movies called Patten and what George C. Scott,
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playing Patton, is talking to an English general about how
the English have taken control of the skies in northern
Africa and you won't see too many fighters anymore with
swastikas on their wings because we control the air. As
those words came out of his mouth, another spitfire came
over ahead, strafing the headquarters of Georgie Patton.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And so George C.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Scott turns to the general and says, you were talking
about air superiority. We'll tell that Nazi up there about that.
I'm watching Channel five last night, and you go through
all the comments of Scottie Johnson, who's angry. Someone even
suggests Scottie Johnson suggest that maybe downtown is unsafe, and
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then you talk about lemon Kearney, who wants to pay
convicted arm robbers one thousand dollars a month to travel
out of Cincinnati to get a perspective. And then quickly
they go to Breaking News OTR. Someone just had their
brains blown out. Unfortunately the guy's dead. Normally that happens
when you get your brains blown out. And fifteenth in
Liberty crime scene tape everywhere, and so I bring it
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up to sharied the show. Well, city council is saying,
I'm okay, You're okay, We're really effective. Crime is down
in this zip code between the hours at three and
four pm on Wednesday afternoon in Mount Washing crime is
down eleven percent. In reality, crime is way up from
areas that were up to begin with. And so when
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the juxtaposition of the statements, the verbal remarks and the
glory of city council meets reality of crime scene tape
and OTR and the Channel five News at Night with
Mike and CHERI, my gosh, do we have problems. And
it's a small item, but I noticed last night also
this happened on Saturday night Sunday morning. Fourteen vehicles were
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stopped and three fled after police interrupted a street takeover
on downtown Cincinnati in August I. And this happened on
the denon part of Ray Street near the Brady Music Center,
prompting a response from the police, which is a positive.
I've seen the video. It is absolutely disgusting. Downtown Cincinnati,
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not too far from the New Convention Center. Seventeen vehicles
converged at the down of Race Street near the Brady
Music Center, prompting a response from police and all at
least three vehicles, I'm sorry, four vehicles were impounded.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
According to the Post.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
One of the cars had expired plates and the driver
heading expired license. Two other vehicles were found with no
license plates displayed. Likely many of these cars were stolen,
by the way, the reason is the market for stolen cars.
You know Ryan Hinton's business and his buddies were stealing cars.
Is they sell these cars to other criminals to have
street takeovers. Police were able to attain the license plate
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number of one of the vehicles. Owner was tracked down,
and so now because of the policies of Melissa Powers,
they have now confiscated the vehicles. Of course, about half
of these vehicles are not owned by the person conducting
the street takeover. They're stolen vehicles like the one Ryan
Hinton stolen his gang from northern Kentucky. So the street takeover,
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which is the potential of saying I'm here to hell
with you, We're taken over the street like Fourth Street.
I've seen terrible videos on Fourth Street right there in
front of the Convention Center by cook Sporting Goods, at night,
on a regular Saturday night. It's a party town. They
block off either ends, the boomboxes come out. An anchor
told me this simulator or real sex acts being conducted,
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Marijuana is being smoked. That's on Fourth Street in downtown Cincinnati,
between the Central Trust Tower where that used to be
and cook Sporting Goods. His party time I had on yesterday.
You might remember it might have been the day before
of a gentleman who's moving his business out of downtown Cincinnati.
He got quite a bit of publicity for this, and
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not a positive kind for the city. And he's moving
to Blue Ash And he's moving to Blue Ash because
they recruited him and his employees did not feel safe
in downtown Cincinnati, and so what he did was take
his business and look around and said, let's go north.
His name is Victor Lewis of One Logistics Network, and
Victor Lewis is a native Cincinnatian who loved coming to
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down is business in Queen'sgate, lived on Fourth Street and
that in the last two or three years, she said,
I can't take it anymore. It's party town every night
with street takeovers and crime and gunshots and homelessness. Last
night at the main library in downtown Cincinnati, there were
about a dozen the homeless who pitched a tent and
we're living out in front of the library in downtown Cincinnati,
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despite a court order signed by Jodge Ruhlman under the
leadership of Joe Deeters that you can't do that. But
it takes somebody to bring emotion to all the city
and contempt for not enforcing homeless rules, laws and orders
that didn't happen. And so when we have some of
these most idiotic proposals of those whose policies have caused
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the problem in the first place, it is to pay
arm robbers one thousand dollars a month not to commit
any more arm robberies. Of course, that's Vice Mayor lemon Kearney,
Jan Michelle lemon Kearney, who is championing a program. And
I think Scott Sloan had on a guest this mo
Arnie Cramberden that talked about it. I think he said, look,
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if I have four boys and one's an arm robber
and a bum, and the city's going to pay him
one thousand dollars a month not to commit armed robberies,
what do you say to the other three boys who
don't commit armed robberies and are living a good life.
And the program once he's spound about a million dollars
a year. And it's just not involved paying armed robbers
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not to commit any more armed robberies. But it involves
pay travel expenses, job training, therapy and more. The idea
of our beloved vice mayors to send these armed robbers
to other cities, let them go a little vacation with
one thousand dollars free we give them every month.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Is it going to pass?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Probably it will. One of the other council members, she's
a newbie, and I'm sure she's a social justice warrior.
Her name is Albie Anna Albi. She's campaigning on anti
violence initiatives. By the way, how's that looking?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Said?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The advanced Peace program is part of a piece of
a larger puzzle, pointed to a new hospital based violence
intervention program. And so, if you judge, I may bring
this up to a later guest, this is what you
promised and this is what you delivered. You promised less violence,
fewer murders, less tree takeovers, less homelessness.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And you get the opposite.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And so when you as a politician over promise and
underdeliver instead of over delivering and under promising. When you
promise up and deliver down, most of the time theres
a negative consequence of the ballot box. Would you agree
you can't. You said you're going to do this, and
instead you did that, So therefore we're not going to
vote for you anymore. We're going to find somebody else.
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When you have a council member Victoria Parks who claims
that the victims, including Holly and the other ones, begged
for the beatdown, They wanted it to happen, you're kind
of stunned by the stupidity. And I understand she has
another cushy job somewhere in government with the Veterans' Commission
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waiting her, waiting for that to take over. And then
you have another council member Jan Michael Michelle lemon Kearney
who wants to pay arm robbers money not to commit
more arm robberies, and then to send them on travel
programs in order to see how other cities look. That's
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the root of the problem. I got a text here
at a recent takeover and north Side, several cars were
forced to stop thue to the large numbers of motorcycles
and ATVs running amok on the streets and the sidewalks.
Several cars were damaged and the drivers beat their horns
or tried to drive away, couldn't get away. It is
a regular event in madison Ville at Matamore to have
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ten to twenty car break ins every night. Hyde Park,
Oakley had one hundred over three day perry car break
ins to steal guns and money and wallets, whatever. And
every now and then a car is stolen and that
becomes the basis of another street takeover, and it's chaos.
We don't have to live like this. Doesn't have to
be this way. This wasn't the way the city was,
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even under Democrats. For the last fifty some years we've
not had a Republican Maysons Willis Gratison. You might recall
that Ken Blackwell seize power in the nineteen eighties for
a couple of years as a charter right. You have
options in this election less than ninety days away to
change the course of the city.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But if you keep investing.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Your hope and promises and a failed party and a
failed council anticipating a different result, maybe you deserve what
you get Many have written nationally that let the cities go.
I don't want Cincinnati to become Portland, or Chicago or
Washington d C. If Washington d C. Was a state,
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it'd have the highest crime rate in the United States.
And Donald Trump is thinking about whatever that means, taking
over Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
It is so bad. Mayor Bowser is there. She's so bad.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And the police department has been so castrated that they
can't arrest anybody. And the House and Santa staffers and
members of executive branch who try to help those being
raped or robbed or having their car heisted are beaten
to with an inch of their life by ten or
twelve kids doing it. And they're all under the age
of eighteen. And I might add ninety eight percent of
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them are black, looks like in Cincinnati. The face of
crime in Cincinnati is a young male black face. While
the great majority of young black males would never commit
a crime, but those who do commit the crimes overwhelmingly
young blacks, as opposed to the rest of the majority
of young blacks that don't commit crime at all. They
get about their business every day. But because race is
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an issue, the Democrat Party will always pull us punch
and blame something else, such as we're not paying the
criminals enough not to commit crime, or we need more drones,
or we need less video. I thought, see something, say something. Well,
in Holly's case, somebody saw something. They video it, video it,
and guess what. The mayor and the vice mayor and
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the chief of police went after the people issuing the
video saying, I thought that was a positive. They have
an accurate picture of what transpired, instead of someone saying
what happened, this is what happened.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Take a look.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
And the chief of police said's a terrible thing when
she pointed her finger at the media and said, you're
the problem by playing that video.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Stop playing that video.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What? And so nothing will change until the voters cause
it to occur. And there's no evidence in any American
city for the last thirty years that when the failed
liberal democratic Marxist policies enacted by city councils from Los
Angeles to New York, at no point has there been
ever an occasion when another party defeated the failed Democrats
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in charge.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
It hadn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
There's a little bit of a spring shoots out of
Baton room, Louisiana, there was a Republican elected there for
the first time. In Dallas, Texas, the Democrat mayor became
a Republican, but the council overwhelmingly remains Democratic. So when
the voters take control of the ballot box and say,
in Cincinnati, we don't have to live like this. We
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can have schools that are functional, get rid of street takeovers,
get rid of the homeless problem, quit drug use on
city streets, quit smoking marijuana openly in Washington Park, enforce
the truancy laws and the vagrancy laws. Enforce them, and
enforce the curfew laws, which are president Juvenile Court Judge
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Kerry Bloom, the one with a ring nose, says she's
not going to enforce truancy laws or she's not going
to enforce curfew.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
He says, it's not a big deal. Let the get now.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I'm not going to So what good does it do
for a cop to arrest somebody or stop someone sixteen
year old kid at til one am in the morning
on the banks or in the OTR whatever one o'clock
in the morning. If juvenile court the leader of Juvenile Court,
the judge says, I'm not going to enforce those laws.
I took an oath to enforce the law, but I'm
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going to make a personal decision not to do it.
How does that work? The cop is like a babysitter.
We're in the hell of the parents. Where are they?
And getting ready for school? And I guess school starts
in about two weeks or so. None of the problems
are going to be at the bus stops. Too many
kids from different high schools at a bus stop. And
the great majority of violence by black kids are against
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other black kids, and for white kids against other white kids.
When the twain goes across each other, ninety percent of
the time is black on white, not white on black.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And none of that's racial.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's all about behavior, because for centuries black kids acted
quite well and got along with life famously, until forty
fifty years ago in the Democratic Party started paying men
not to become married and paying men to leave the home.
Now it's metastasized after two or three generations to what
we have today. But to pay arm robbers not to
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commit arm robbery, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Let's continue.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I may take some calls, but that open up the
lines right there, and I'll be breaking about one sixteen
Eastern time for red Spaceball. But until then, my lines
are yours. Do you want to pay young arm robbers
one thousand dollars a month and give them a travel
stipend as opposed to kids doing what's right? Five and three,
seven four nine, seven thousand pound seven hundred the new
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Man and the Conscience of the American people on news
radio seven hundred.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
WW.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Let's continue with more and don't acknowledge two things before
I go to Jenny, Jenny from the block and Mount Washington,
the mean streets of Mount Washington, Kyland, Dayton, and then
many others.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Two quick notes.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Five soldiers have been shot at uh in George Fort Stewart.
The wrong doer has been apprehended. Trump's been briefed on
what's happening. But Fort Stewart in South Carolina is at
Georgia said that they had a terrible incident in which
five soldiers have been shot. The wrong doer has been apprehended.
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And secondly, I would note that christ Hospital and the
Farmer Family Foundation has come together and Scott Farmer and
others have donated fifteen million dollars to doctor Dean Carriacus
at the Christ Hospital so there can be a broadcast
center to provide surgical education of physicians locally and around
the world.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
And this will be done. It's not like a radio
TV thing.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
It'll be broadcast at the surgeries at Christ Hospital to
teach those at other hospitals in the Tri State and
around the nation, around the world the proper most cutting
edge procedures when it comes to vascular and hard care.
And the Farmer Family Foundation looked at all the hospit
but then the sound of my voice and that that
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covers eight states said, the best place to spend this
money in an educational way to teach other cardiologists around
around the around the nation how to do their job
is to give it to Debbie Hayes, good friend of
mine who runs the hospital from a Mount Notre Dame
high school girl. And the greatest UH cardiac surgeon in
the world is doctor Dean Carriacus right here in Cincinnati.
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And UH, because of this contribution, he'll be he'll he'll
be teaching procedures to other doctors in the Tri State
and elsewhere. But until then, let's take your calls going
to go another seven or eight minutes and get into
the retch pregame. We'll go to Jenny from the mean
streets of Mount Washington. Jenny in Mount Washington. Give me
a full report, Jenny, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Just barely? Are you in a basement somewhere? Where are you.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Seventy coming home to the beautiful.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Take your time, Jenny, take your time, give me a
full report.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
What do you got.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I'm pissed off, aid, I've lived in beautiful Mount Washington
for twenty five years of my wonderful husband, and we
love it there. That said, I fantasize about seceding from
the city of bit because we have morons of city
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council and payorship. I'm on together, back Corey Bowen and
get some concens.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But Jenny, can you imagine if in ninety days, the bright, intelligent,
urbane voters in the city of which you're a part
I would imagine, say, you know what our metrosexual mayor
from Beaver Creek have to have.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Piraval is doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
You have city council members proposing to pay armed robbers
one thousand dollars a month not to come in on
robberies or travel Let's keep the same group in charge
that's brought us to this point. How depressing would that be?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
It was huge?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
And you know who I blame the hippies. The hippies
so are in their seventies who say live and let live.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
We can't call to stay, We can't use their.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Common sense, and they have destroyed what is now this
beautiful city. And I'm over it. And we need to
get the word out that Corey Bowen is the future
or ever.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, or else we're going to become Portland in Chicago.
There was another problem in Mount Washington, a homeless encampment
behind a business and the business owner called the city
repeatedly to clean it out. That couldn't get it done.
Now Segment Dennison tell us me down at the main
public library, there's a homeless encampment there a ten to
fifteen strong, violating court orders, and the city not enforce it.
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Despot a court order to do so. Let's go to
kyl and Dayton and thousands of others. Kyle and Dayton,
the gem city, give me a full report.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Kyle Hi Willie. I just wanted to start this off
by saying it's an honor to talk to you, first
time caller, longtime listener.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
I would just like to say, for one, I was
in Indianapolis last weekend for a convention. There's a large
police presence there. I felt very safe. Convention thing is
very beautiful. I hope to see Cincinnati one day have
the same.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But as I'm.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Saying, there's a large police presence there, and I just
can't help but think, you know, what happened to deterrence?
You know, to deter crime. I thought that was the
whole point, not to basically reward it.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Like what you're.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Saying is as in like giving people one thousand dollars to.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Not commit crime. Beautiful.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
I think that it's the other way around, right, You
need to deter them. Our military does that. Why not
the police?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
You know, Kyle? When I go to big events in Kentucky,
like the Kentucky Derby, the governor calls out every year
the National Guard and to back up local police because
they have a quarter of a million people and there's
going to be one tenth to one percent acting up.
That's two and a half thousand people. So the National
Guard is there for big events. Why can't Cincinnati when
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we have like the music festival simultaneously with the Big
Three basketball tournament, simultaneously with the Reds have a three
game series against Tampa simultaneously with TQL, we have a
two hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It made sense to call it the National Guard.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Let him stand on every street corner, too strong, and
all of a sudden, someone like this Merriweather character will
be deterred from kicking the crap out of people.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
How about that novel suggestion?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
How about encouraging noncommission of crime by law enforcement being present?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How about that, Sherlock? Would that help?
Speaker 5 (39:56):
What a novel idea?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right, What a great idea?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Like to add, I'd also like to.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Add a but so obsessed with his image? How can
you not get in front of this story? You know,
without with things, with transparency anything, They're always being reactive
instead of proactive. And that's all I have to say.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Thank you, thank you, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I would say, our beloved mayor who's a metrosexual which
means heterosexual male, more concerned with his grooming and appearance
without substance. That would be a picture of our mayor
right there in Wikipedia. With that was in Canada, and
then he came out to say, you know what, I
was celebrating the life of my five year old son
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before he goes to kindergarten. So for a politician to
use the innocence of his own son to obscure and
hide his own incompetence is particularly disreputable. One sixteen Homi
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome to this war is possibly rainy Wednesday afternoon in
the triestate of Reds, baseball looked impregnable, like the imagine
no line. I thought the new pitcher last night was
in trouble until I struck out three in a row.
The Reds look unbeatable at this point, Going out again,
going out it again today, first pitch about two twenty
Pregame coverage starts to me in the segment of one,
(00:28):
But until then, Shari Pololo of the Power of Five
has some breaking information about the sixth the Rest, considering
the beatdown that happened on Fourth and Elm and Shari Pololo,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. I have many
questions about the Gaza Strip, something about the pick up,
the pieces of the bunker busters. I want to talk
about what's happening with monetary policy, with interest rates. I
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want to talk about the Southern border. I want to
talk about all those matters and more. But before we
get to all that all those issues, tell me about
the sixth the Rest and your conversation with the police.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey, good afternoon to you, Lily. So this morning just
before nine o'clock, Cincinnati police were able to track down
a sixth suspect in this fight and assault. She's it's
a woman, So this would be the second woman among
the six people who are charged. Twenty five year old
Ayesha Devall charged with felonious assault and aggravated riot. The
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Fugitive Apprehensive Team tracked her down this morning. So this,
you know, Police Chief Terasigi had told us last week
that they had six people in total they were looking for.
This is the sixth and final suspect, at least of
those who we know that they were looking for. You know,
it's interesting, Wally, We have talked so much about this,
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that incident that happened almost two weeks ago now, and
I was doing a little bit of research on now
I don't know a ton of their history on this.
Ayisha the sixth suspect who was just arrested. But of
the five who we knew about as of last night,
four of the five, basically all four of the men
who had been arrested all had prior criminal histories. The
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one guy, the Merriweather guy, he was actually locked up
by the task Force on July second on four gun charges.
He was out on a four hundred dollars bond the
next day. That's that Montonnez Merriweather currently going through the
legal process. And I could go through all of these
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other people as well who are charged and whether it
was domestic violence, formi's assault charges, drug trafficking. Many of
them have seminal histories. But then a lot of the
charges that they were facing were dismissed as well. So
I think that's the concern for so many people around
Greater Cincinnatius. This is a twofold problem when I'm looking
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at this from the outside. The police too, said it
last week. We have heard it for years from police
officers that we do have this revolving doer of injustice.
I think is so many people would say, and it's
frustrating for these officers on the streets, whether they're on
the task force or just beat officers, they're locking people
up and then the next day they're released. In fact,
I was just taking with an officer this morning. He
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said both century I actually had a kid who he
had sell any warrants out. This was just this week
and twenty twenty said, no, we arrested him. We were
trying to lock them up twenty twenty. So that's the
Juvenile Detention Center said, nope, relation to his parents. And
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this is a kid under eighteen who had sell any
warrants out. These are not you know, kids with the
speeding ticket or people with some sort of misdemeanor charge.
These are serious charges of robbery, you know, criminal activity
that put people in our communities, in their communities by
the way that they live in in danger. But then
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I think you will also have you know, so that's
been an ongoing problem for the last several years. If
you would ask, you know, the police officers, the people
who are arresting these guys that we have were two
lacks on crime and judges let them write back out,
especially when you're talking about teenagers. I mean, look, we
were talking about the same issue last year when we
had groups of teenagers who were attacking unsuspecting people in
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the middle of the day, just walking on downtown street.
So this has been going on. It's just now, you know,
the light of being shined on it again because of
this fight and attack that broke out two weeks ago.
But then you also, I think, you know, from my
point of view, I think where this blew up, So
much is is transparency. You know, whenever there's a police
involved shooting or some sort of violent incident. Typically for
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the last you know, ten plus years, Cincinnati police, especially
since the collaborative in two thousand and two, Cincinnati police
are very transparent. They come out within a day or two,
show you all the video, take you through, step by
step by step what has happened. And unfortunately that didn't
happen in this case. Look, I get it, you know,
the police chief and city leaders are damned if you do,
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damned if you don't. But when you come out and
you say, here's what we think started it, here's where
things went wrong, and this is what led to again
the fight, and then that led to this attack and
assault of six people and one woman being knocked unconscious,
I think then it doesn't become Then you don't get
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national leaders who are getting involved in saying what in
the heck's going on in Cincinnati, Ohio?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right, Well, we got Bernie Marino's going to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But as far as the police, this Merriweather character was
picked up by that special task force July the second.
I mean, this is a bad guy to begin with,
he was terrible and then he gets out. Bill Mallory,
the judge is a good guy.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I like him.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Everyone likes Bill Mallory. But he doesn't think people should
be in jail for criminal offenses. He gives this Merriweather
in his thirties, got a terrible record, essentially a four
hundred dollars cash bond and get out. And then I
received a text from Judge Melissa Powers who said that
you know, she ran juvenile court with an iron grip
for many years. And she said to me in a text,
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you may know this. When I left juvenile court three
years ago, Judge Kerrie Bloom declared that the juvenile Court
will no longer enforced curfew or truancye violations. All the
charges were summarily dismissed unofficially, which means the prosecutors don't
have an opportunity to appeal or to object, and right
now there are no laws that our juvenile court will enforce.
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In fact, she her main item of business is to
have a book report if you do, if you rape
somebody or commit a crime, it's a book report.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How do you feel about that one?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well, I mean, obviously it's outrageous and I think to
most people if that in fact won't the punishment. It's outrageous.
You know, I was talking to you about the police
officer who I was and by the way, a high
ranking officer who I was talking with this morning about
this test force arresting a kid just the other night.
And he was telling me the kid sixteen, This was
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a kid who was breaking into multiple vehicles, had multiple
breaking and entering warrants out and the answer from twenty
twenty was just releasing back to his parents. And what
I would say to that is, do we remember what
happened at the beginning of the summer, the teenager, the
young person who was again stealing cars, and what ended
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up happening, well, when he was stealing finally another car,
he was shot and killed by police because he had
a gun, went to get the gun and was you know,
again it was this encounter with police. It's like, at
what point do we say enough is enough? We don't
want to lose people, because you know, police are put
in a compromise situation where they're trying to arrest what
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they believe as a criminal. And then we saw what
happened after that, and it was the ripple effect. His
father allegedly was so upset that he went and you know,
chosen officer a deputy at random and shot and killed
or stuply shinkilled, ran, hit and killed Deputy Larry Henderson.
So you know, I think that there clearly is a
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breakdown in our system and that's what people are concerned about.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, sure, and why I'm monitoring you last night with
Mike and I try to watch everything Simultaneously. You're doing
this piece about lemon Kearney saying, well, we got to
pay armed robbers one thousand dollars a month not to
commit any more crime. Then I'm watching someone else say, well,
the curfew you know, is going to be eleven o'clock,
then it's going to be nine o'clock and then midnight.
Of course you have no court, don't enforce it. And
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you're talking about city council and their law and Public
Safety committee, and it Scottie Johnson, who has more lucid
moments than many, who was a former police officer. SI
kind of gets mad at the fact that someone might
think Cincinnati is unsafe and you're not paying attention look
at all the things we've done, and then you quickly
cut the crime scene tape in ot R at eleven
fifteen pm last night. So one packages, hey, look, things
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are great, it's unbelievable. Then you say let's go to OTR.
Someone just had their brains blown out. Did you see,
I mean, did you feel what you were doing?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It is unsettling. Listen, it is unsettling because look, if
you talk to the chief and if you look at
the numbers twenty twenty two, two hundred and thirty nine
shootings in Cincinnati right now, that numbers at one hundred
and seventy one. So yes, if you look at the
numbers from four years ago, the numbers are down. But
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we all know. I mean, I talk to people in
the suburbs. I live in Mason, and so many people
I know say I'd rather just go out of here
and not risk something not just happening to me, but
to my car. You know, all of the things. It's
the image and perception that it's not safe to be downtown.
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And I think that's what the concern is. And you know, look,
city leaders can you can you can say, look, shootings
are down from year to year from four years ago,
but the reality is when you have a big, big
weekend where there's a sinc Anai Music Festival, there's a
REDS game, there's an sc game, and you have what
happened two weeks ago. It certainly doesn't give people a
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feeling from the suburbs that it's safe to go downtown.
And I always say, what my bigger concern is is
what about the people who live in these communities who
don't have the option to go to a restaurant that
they feel like is safer, where they don't have that
chance of their car being broken into them being held
up when they're getting in their car. So it's certainly
something that I think we as a city have to
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come together, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican and say,
what are we going to do to make our city
look better to people on the outside. Look, we're building
a new convention center, and we're hoping to get major
conventions and bigger and better, you know, things going on
so that we can continue to grow our city. But
you can't have people who come to our city getting
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robbed or worse, getting shot because somebody holds them up
and they don't give them their wallet. So I think
it's just a ripple effect. I was really you know,
on Friday when I watched that news conference, and I'm
talking not as a journalist. Look, it was frustrating as
a journalist because just like I think the police feel,
we feel in the media, we're damned if we do,
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damned if we don't. You know, I put something out
on social media thing, we're trying to get the videos,
we're trying to get the people who shot them to
release them, and people think we're holding back to information.
But then you put out information that somebody has been
arrested or these are the people who've been arrested, and
Scotti Johnson's sicked off because we're showing the video over
and over again. Well, guess what, we do that in
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every crime. You know, we did that last summer when
kids were jumping innocent people walking down the streets. We
do that when there's a police involved shooting, and there
are questions on if it's justified. So I always say, well,
we are truly just trying to give you information. But
it's frustrating when you see this city leaders coming together
and you're like, Okay, well what are we going to
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do about her? I think we can all agree we've
got a problem. You shouldn't have people where. Look, if
that whoever started that fight, if those two people just
would have fought, this would have never made the news.
It would have been one one guy beaten the crop
out of another guy. But what happened was you then
had the guy who looks like from the videos we've seen,
who maybe initiated this, who sort of slapped the one
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guy being dragged into the street and beaten by multiple people,
and then a woman who appears to be trying to
break it up being laid out. And I'll tell you what, Lily,
when I initially saw that video two weeks ago on
a Saturday morning of that woman, we know it's Ally,
and we do believe she's going to be talking with
Senator Marino today when he addresses the media here. Locally,
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I thought she was dead. I mean the video cut
off and the initial woman I got and I thought
she was dead. And it's like, that's what people across
the country see. I had friends of mine who lived
outside of the city saying, Wow, what's going on in Cincinnati.
And what it reminds me of is I was a
beat reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina in two thousand and
one when we had the racewriters break out and I
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was a prime reporter, and when I told them I
was going home in two thousand and two to Cincinnati,
my police officer friends and Charlotte said, why in the
world would you want to look there? So I don't
want that to be the perception across the country. And sadly,
when you see videos like this, it's just like when
you're watching videos of George Floyd and all of it.
If you want to enter race into the equation, it
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is a black eye on whatever city it's going on in.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, I do some interviews around the country, and Cincinnati.
I won't say it's fair a black eye. What it
is is the worst pr that a region could ever
get is to have major national networks on a loop,
pay the beating, play the beating of those individuals, and
then play the comments of Victoria Parks, who's the president
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pro tem of the city council, who said, you know what,
they brought it on themselves.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
They kind of deserve that happened.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And I'm thinking, and then all of us say things,
maybe imprompted, we shouldn't have said. A couple of days later,
she doubled down with the interview with Curtis Fuller and said, no,
that's exactly what I feel. And that's a that's not
somebody in the street. That's like a sixty five year
old city council member. That is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know, I was talking with a neighbor and look,
we heard out rageous things posted by a trustee in
Ross Township on the other side who used.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The word.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He used the N word, and you know, I mean,
it's outrageous to me. And I had a neighbor say
to me the other day, again, they weren't following this
as closely as we clearly are, but he says, doesn't
it just come down to you wanting any city leader
to say right is right and wrong is wrong. And
I always say to my boys, I'm never going to
(14:54):
condone bad behavior. Right, So if a teacher, if a
coach calls me and says you did something, I'm never
to justify your actions. You know, I want you to
make it right or always to try and choose the
right thing. And I think that's what the majority of
Greater Cincinnati is saying, is we just want the people
who were involved in this to be held accountable. And
(15:15):
I think that again, transparency is playing a big role
in this. There are so many questions when you you know,
I'm left to wonder, Okay, when the chief says, well,
you haven't seen at all, because Damon Lynch was he
was the first person to say, here's what we think happened.
And the chief basically said, well, that might not be
all of it. There are other videos out there. So
(15:37):
then I'm thinking, as a journalist, did something happen inside
that bar, If something happened that we haven't seen, and
why not just say it? Why not say that there
was a racial slurmaid why not say, you know, whatever
it is, take this through just like you would a
police involved shooting. And so that way, there aren't all
of these questions out there, and you don't have you're
(15:59):
not dividing the city by race, because whether this was
racially motivated or not, it's now become a racial.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Issue, right, especially when leaders of the city say, you know,
like every face up there looks like my face, which
is Damon Lynch, and by the way, now lives in
Claremont County. That's a different issue. Well, the perpetrators of
this event were black, the victims are all white, and
I don't know if race played an element or not.
Where I was told that the N word was expressed,
(16:27):
I had on Ken Kober yesterday. He said, well, they
can't find the in word. And then I find out, well,
maybe there was a minor drug deal involved in which
the white guy wanted to buy marijuana from the black
guy and the price was too high, so they got
into it. The white guy, Leegley, was drunk, and so
therefore he had some beer muscles. And if that's the case,
why not get it out there and say it. If
(16:47):
you have the video, play it and don't wait two weeks.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, because again, it just takes me back to so
many of the incidents that we have had or you know,
over the past twenty years, where I think Cincinnati police
has been so good about getting in front of things
if they feel and by the way, outline police agencies too,
for the most part, if they feel like they've had
(17:13):
an incident that you're doing to be controversial where maybe
a police officer is going to be in question or
something else, they get out in front of it and
take you through what happened and say this is now
under investigation, we're looking into it. And I think it
eases attention right in our communities.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeh, well, we got to run. I want to talk
to you about interest rates, the southern border and Gaza.
We never got to it. And I wanted to maybe
give credit to blame the women, because, as you know,
all the four main anchors are female. City manager is
a female, the chief of police is a female, The
county commissioners are female, the corners are female, the prosecutor
is a female. The presiding judges and all the courts
(17:53):
are female. The Chief Justice Ohio is a female.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I blame women on this one because women control. We
white guys had a good run. But it's over. Man,
it's over. Tell your boys, we had a good run,
but it's done. It's over. I'm just saying, look, I
see women, women, women, and by the way, I love
women more than I love men, and women are better
people than men. I think we're gonna agree on that.
But nonetheless, give my give my best of my dark.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
We have plenty of men involved. They are all women,
are there.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, he's a metro sexual from Beaver Creek and look
up metrosexual.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That's him.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm just saying that we got problems everywhere and women
are to blame.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Okay, well, well i'll beg to differ on that one.
I'll agree to disagree.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Sure, he thank you, but I'll be watching tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'll be monitoring more crime scene tape and O t
R as the city's crime rates are down. All right,
sureI give my best everyone at five.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
All right, go go red.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
They're gonna win this. Afteroon, let's continue with more your comments.
Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, Bill Cunningham,
News Radio seven hundred WLW. Reds Baseball starts about one
to twenty with me and the seg man in the
pregame show. First pitch about two to twenty, our time
in Chicago. Chicago Cubs are unbeatable. They were impregnable, like
the Magino line. However, looking at it this way, the
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Reds look dominant in the two games they pitcher last
night I thought was fabulous. Now the Reds are marching
for glory and for some of the judgment seat of God.
After this they go to Pittsburgh for four then come back.
But until then, a little couple little stories. I touched
on this with Shari. There's a classic scene from one
of my old time movies called Patten and what George C. Scott,
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playing Patton, is talking to an English general about how
the English have taken control of the skies in northern
Africa and you won't see too many fighters anymore with
swastikas on their wings because we control the air. As
those words came out of his mouth, another spitfire came
over ahead, strafing the headquarters of Georgie Patton.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And so George C.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Scott turns to the general and says, you were talking
about air superiority. We'll tell that Nazi up there about that.
I'm watching Channel five last night, and you go through
all the comments of Scottie Johnson, who's angry. Someone even
suggests Scottie Johnson suggest that maybe downtown is unsafe, and
(20:25):
then you talk about lemon Kearney, who wants to pay
convicted arm robbers one thousand dollars a month to travel
out of Cincinnati to get a perspective. And then quickly
they go to Breaking News OTR. Someone just had their
brains blown out. Unfortunately the guy's dead. Normally that happens
when you get your brains blown out. And fifteenth in
Liberty crime scene tape everywhere, and so I bring it
(20:48):
up to sharied the show. Well, city council is saying,
I'm okay, You're okay, We're really effective. Crime is down
in this zip code between the hours at three and
four pm on Wednesday afternoon in Mount Washing crime is
down eleven percent. In reality, crime is way up from
areas that were up to begin with. And so when
(21:09):
the juxtaposition of the statements, the verbal remarks and the
glory of city council meets reality of crime scene tape
and OTR and the Channel five News at Night with
Mike and CHERI, my gosh, do we have problems. And
it's a small item, but I noticed last night also
this happened on Saturday night Sunday morning. Fourteen vehicles were
(21:33):
stopped and three fled after police interrupted a street takeover
on downtown Cincinnati in August I. And this happened on
the denon part of Ray Street near the Brady Music Center,
prompting a response from the police, which is a positive.
I've seen the video. It is absolutely disgusting. Downtown Cincinnati,
(21:54):
not too far from the New Convention Center. Seventeen vehicles
converged at the down of Race Street near the Brady
Music Center, prompting a response from police and all at
least three vehicles, I'm sorry, four vehicles were impounded.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
According to the Post.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
One of the cars had expired plates and the driver
heading expired license. Two other vehicles were found with no
license plates displayed. Likely many of these cars were stolen,
by the way, the reason is the market for stolen cars.
You know Ryan Hinton's business and his buddies were stealing cars.
Is they sell these cars to other criminals to have
street takeovers. Police were able to attain the license plate
(22:32):
number of one of the vehicles. Owner was tracked down,
and so now because of the policies of Melissa Powers,
they have now confiscated the vehicles. Of course, about half
of these vehicles are not owned by the person conducting
the street takeover. They're stolen vehicles like the one Ryan
Hinton stolen his gang from northern Kentucky. So the street takeover,
(22:54):
which is the potential of saying I'm here to hell
with you, We're taken over the street like Fourth Street.
I've seen terrible videos on Fourth Street right there in
front of the Convention Center by cook Sporting Goods, at night,
on a regular Saturday night. It's a party town. They
block off either ends, the boomboxes come out. An anchor
told me this simulator or real sex acts being conducted,
(23:16):
Marijuana is being smoked. That's on Fourth Street in downtown Cincinnati,
between the Central Trust Tower where that used to be
and cook Sporting Goods. His party time I had on yesterday.
You might remember it might have been the day before
of a gentleman who's moving his business out of downtown Cincinnati.
He got quite a bit of publicity for this, and
(23:37):
not a positive kind for the city. And he's moving
to Blue Ash And he's moving to Blue Ash because
they recruited him and his employees did not feel safe
in downtown Cincinnati, and so what he did was take
his business and look around and said, let's go north.
His name is Victor Lewis of One Logistics Network, and
Victor Lewis is a native Cincinnatian who loved coming to
(23:59):
down is business in Queen'sgate, lived on Fourth Street and
that in the last two or three years, she said,
I can't take it anymore. It's party town every night
with street takeovers and crime and gunshots and homelessness. Last
night at the main library in downtown Cincinnati, there were
about a dozen the homeless who pitched a tent and
we're living out in front of the library in downtown Cincinnati,
(24:21):
despite a court order signed by Jodge Ruhlman under the
leadership of Joe Deeters that you can't do that. But
it takes somebody to bring emotion to all the city
and contempt for not enforcing homeless rules, laws and orders
that didn't happen. And so when we have some of
these most idiotic proposals of those whose policies have caused
(24:42):
the problem in the first place, it is to pay
arm robbers one thousand dollars a month not to commit
any more arm robberies. Of course, that's Vice Mayor lemon Kearney,
Jan Michelle lemon Kearney, who is championing a program. And
I think Scott Sloan had on a guest this mo
Arnie Cramberden that talked about it. I think he said, look,
(25:02):
if I have four boys and one's an arm robber
and a bum, and the city's going to pay him
one thousand dollars a month not to commit armed robberies,
what do you say to the other three boys who
don't commit armed robberies and are living a good life.
And the program once he's spound about a million dollars
a year. And it's just not involved paying armed robbers
(25:24):
not to commit any more armed robberies. But it involves
pay travel expenses, job training, therapy and more. The idea
of our beloved vice mayors to send these armed robbers
to other cities, let them go a little vacation with
one thousand dollars free we give them every month.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Is it going to pass?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Probably it will. One of the other council members, she's
a newbie, and I'm sure she's a social justice warrior.
Her name is Albie Anna Albi. She's campaigning on anti
violence initiatives. By the way, how's that looking?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Said?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The advanced Peace program is part of a piece of
a larger puzzle, pointed to a new hospital based violence
intervention program. And so, if you judge, I may bring
this up to a later guest, this is what you
promised and this is what you delivered. You promised less violence,
fewer murders, less tree takeovers, less homelessness.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And you get the opposite.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And so when you as a politician over promise and
underdeliver instead of over delivering and under promising. When you
promise up and deliver down, most of the time theres
a negative consequence of the ballot box. Would you agree
you can't. You said you're going to do this, and
instead you did that, So therefore we're not going to
vote for you anymore. We're going to find somebody else.
(26:48):
When you have a council member Victoria Parks who claims
that the victims, including Holly and the other ones, begged
for the beatdown, They wanted it to happen, you're kind
of stunned by the stupidity. And I understand she has
another cushy job somewhere in government with the Veterans' Commission
(27:08):
waiting her, waiting for that to take over. And then
you have another council member Jan Michael Michelle lemon Kearney
who wants to pay arm robbers money not to commit
more arm robberies, and then to send them on travel
programs in order to see how other cities look. That's
(27:32):
the root of the problem. I got a text here
at a recent takeover and north Side, several cars were
forced to stop thue to the large numbers of motorcycles
and ATVs running amok on the streets and the sidewalks.
Several cars were damaged and the drivers beat their horns
or tried to drive away, couldn't get away. It is
a regular event in madison Ville at Matamore to have
(27:54):
ten to twenty car break ins every night. Hyde Park,
Oakley had one hundred over three day perry car break
ins to steal guns and money and wallets, whatever. And
every now and then a car is stolen and that
becomes the basis of another street takeover, and it's chaos.
We don't have to live like this. Doesn't have to
be this way. This wasn't the way the city was,
(28:16):
even under Democrats. For the last fifty some years we've
not had a Republican Maysons Willis Gratison. You might recall
that Ken Blackwell seize power in the nineteen eighties for
a couple of years as a charter right. You have
options in this election less than ninety days away to
change the course of the city.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But if you keep investing.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Your hope and promises and a failed party and a
failed council anticipating a different result, maybe you deserve what
you get Many have written nationally that let the cities go.
I don't want Cincinnati to become Portland, or Chicago or
Washington d C. If Washington d C. Was a state,
(28:57):
it'd have the highest crime rate in the United States.
And Donald Trump is thinking about whatever that means, taking
over Washington d C.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
It is so bad. Mayor Bowser is there. She's so bad.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And the police department has been so castrated that they
can't arrest anybody. And the House and Santa staffers and
members of executive branch who try to help those being
raped or robbed or having their car heisted are beaten
to with an inch of their life by ten or
twelve kids doing it. And they're all under the age
of eighteen. And I might add ninety eight percent of
(29:28):
them are black, looks like in Cincinnati. The face of
crime in Cincinnati is a young male black face. While
the great majority of young black males would never commit
a crime, but those who do commit the crimes overwhelmingly
young blacks, as opposed to the rest of the majority
of young blacks that don't commit crime at all. They
get about their business every day. But because race is
(29:49):
an issue, the Democrat Party will always pull us punch
and blame something else, such as we're not paying the
criminals enough not to commit crime, or we need more drones,
or we need less video. I thought, see something, say something. Well,
in Holly's case, somebody saw something. They video it, video it,
and guess what. The mayor and the vice mayor and
(30:11):
the chief of police went after the people issuing the
video saying, I thought that was a positive. They have
an accurate picture of what transpired, instead of someone saying
what happened, this is what happened.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Take a look.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
And the chief of police said's a terrible thing when
she pointed her finger at the media and said, you're
the problem by playing that video.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Stop playing that video.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
What? And so nothing will change until the voters cause
it to occur. And there's no evidence in any American
city for the last thirty years that when the failed
liberal democratic Marxist policies enacted by city councils from Los
Angeles to New York, at no point has there been
ever an occasion when another party defeated the failed Democrats
(30:55):
in charge.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
It hadn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
There's a little bit of a spring shoots out of
Baton room, Louisiana, there was a Republican elected there for
the first time. In Dallas, Texas, the Democrat mayor became
a Republican, but the council overwhelmingly remains Democratic. So when
the voters take control of the ballot box and say,
in Cincinnati, we don't have to live like this. We
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can have schools that are functional, get rid of street takeovers,
get rid of the homeless problem, quit drug use on
city streets, quit smoking marijuana openly in Washington Park, enforce
the truancy laws and the vagrancy laws. Enforce them, and
enforce the curfew laws, which are president Juvenile Court Judge
(31:39):
Kerry Bloom, the one with a ring nose, says she's
not going to enforce truancy laws or she's not going
to enforce curfew.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
He says, it's not a big deal. Let the get now.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I'm not going to So what good does it do
for a cop to arrest somebody or stop someone sixteen
year old kid at til one am in the morning
on the banks or in the OTR whatever one o'clock
in the morning. If juvenile court the leader of Juvenile Court,
the judge says, I'm not going to enforce those laws.
I took an oath to enforce the law, but I'm
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going to make a personal decision not to do it.
How does that work? The cop is like a babysitter.
We're in the hell of the parents. Where are they?
And getting ready for school? And I guess school starts
in about two weeks or so. None of the problems
are going to be at the bus stops. Too many
kids from different high schools at a bus stop. And
the great majority of violence by black kids are against
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other black kids, and for white kids against other white kids.
When the twain goes across each other, ninety percent of
the time is black on white, not white on black.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And none of that's racial.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It's all about behavior, because for centuries black kids acted
quite well and got along with life famously, until forty
fifty years ago in the Democratic Party started paying men
not to become married and paying men to leave the home.
Now it's metastasized after two or three generations to what
we have today. But to pay arm robbers not to
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commit arm robbery, that is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Let's continue.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I may take some calls, but that open up the
lines right there, and I'll be breaking about one sixteen
Eastern time for red Spaceball. But until then, my lines
are yours. Do you want to pay young arm robbers
one thousand dollars a month and give them a travel
stipend as opposed to kids doing what's right? Five and three,
seven four nine, seven thousand pound seven hundred the new
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at and T Bill Cunningham, the Voice of the common
Man and the Conscience of the American people on news
radio seven hundred.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
WW.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Let's continue with more and don't acknowledge two things before
I go to Jenny, Jenny from the block and Mount Washington,
the mean streets of Mount Washington, Kyland, Dayton, and then
many others.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Two quick notes.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Five soldiers have been shot at uh in George Fort Stewart.
The wrong doer has been apprehended. Trump's been briefed on
what's happening. But Fort Stewart in South Carolina is at
Georgia said that they had a terrible incident in which
five soldiers have been shot. The wrong doer has been apprehended.
(34:17):
And secondly, I would note that christ Hospital and the
Farmer Family Foundation has come together and Scott Farmer and
others have donated fifteen million dollars to doctor Dean Carriacus
at the Christ Hospital so there can be a broadcast
center to provide surgical education of physicians locally and around
the world.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
And this will be done. It's not like a radio
TV thing.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
It'll be broadcast at the surgeries at Christ Hospital to
teach those at other hospitals in the Tri State and
around the nation, around the world the proper most cutting
edge procedures when it comes to vascular and hard care.
And the Farmer Family Foundation looked at all the hospit
but then the sound of my voice and that that
(35:03):
covers eight states said, the best place to spend this
money in an educational way to teach other cardiologists around
around the around the nation how to do their job
is to give it to Debbie Hayes, good friend of
mine who runs the hospital from a Mount Notre Dame
high school girl. And the greatest UH cardiac surgeon in
the world is doctor Dean Carriacus right here in Cincinnati.
(35:27):
And UH, because of this contribution, he'll be he'll he'll
be teaching procedures to other doctors in the Tri State
and elsewhere. But until then, let's take your calls going
to go another seven or eight minutes and get into
the retch pregame. We'll go to Jenny from the mean
streets of Mount Washington. Jenny in Mount Washington. Give me
a full report, Jenny, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Just barely? Are you in a basement somewhere? Where are you.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Seventy coming home to the beautiful.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Take your time, Jenny, take your time, give me a
full report.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
What do you got.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I'm pissed off, aid, I've lived in beautiful Mount Washington
for twenty five years of my wonderful husband, and we
love it there. That said, I fantasize about seceding from
the city of bit because we have morons of city
(36:24):
council and payorship. I'm on together, back Corey Bowen and
get some concens.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But Jenny, can you imagine if in ninety days, the bright, intelligent,
urbane voters in the city of which you're a part
I would imagine, say, you know what our metrosexual mayor
from Beaver Creek have to have.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Piraval is doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
You have city council members proposing to pay armed robbers
one thousand dollars a month not to come in on
robberies or travel Let's keep the same group in charge
that's brought us to this point. How depressing would that be?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
It was huge?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
And you know who I blame the hippies. The hippies
so are in their seventies who say live and let live.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
We can't call to stay, We can't use their.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Common sense, and they have destroyed what is now this
beautiful city. And I'm over it. And we need to
get the word out that Corey Bowen is the future
or ever.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, or else we're going to become Portland in Chicago.
There was another problem in Mount Washington, a homeless encampment
behind a business and the business owner called the city
repeatedly to clean it out. That couldn't get it done.
Now Segment Dennison tell us me down at the main
public library, there's a homeless encampment there a ten to
fifteen strong, violating court orders, and the city not enforce it.
(38:01):
Despot a court order to do so. Let's go to
kyl and Dayton and thousands of others. Kyle and Dayton,
the gem city, give me a full report.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Kyle Hi Willie. I just wanted to start this off
by saying it's an honor to talk to you, first
time caller, longtime listener.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
I would just like to say, for one, I was
in Indianapolis last weekend for a convention. There's a large
police presence there. I felt very safe. Convention thing is
very beautiful. I hope to see Cincinnati one day have
the same.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But as I'm.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Saying, there's a large police presence there, and I just
can't help but think, you know, what happened to deterrence?
You know, to deter crime. I thought that was the
whole point, not to basically reward it.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Like what you're.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Saying is as in like giving people one thousand dollars to.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Not commit crime. Beautiful.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
I think that it's the other way around, right, You
need to deter them. Our military does that. Why not
the police?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
You know, Kyle? When I go to big events in Kentucky,
like the Kentucky Derby, the governor calls out every year
the National Guard and to back up local police because
they have a quarter of a million people and there's
going to be one tenth to one percent acting up.
That's two and a half thousand people. So the National
Guard is there for big events. Why can't Cincinnati when
(39:22):
we have like the music festival simultaneously with the Big
Three basketball tournament, simultaneously with the Reds have a three
game series against Tampa simultaneously with TQL, we have a
two hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It made sense to call it the National Guard.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Let him stand on every street corner, too strong, and
all of a sudden, someone like this Merriweather character will
be deterred from kicking the crap out of people.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
How about that novel suggestion?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
How about encouraging noncommission of crime by law enforcement being present?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How about that, Sherlock? Would that help?
Speaker 5 (39:56):
What a novel idea?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right, What a great idea?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Like to add, I'd also like to.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Add a but so obsessed with his image? How can
you not get in front of this story? You know,
without with things, with transparency anything, They're always being reactive
instead of proactive. And that's all I have to say.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Thank you, thank you, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I would say, our beloved mayor who's a metrosexual which
means heterosexual male, more concerned with his grooming and appearance
without substance. That would be a picture of our mayor
right there in Wikipedia. With that was in Canada, and
then he came out to say, you know what, I
was celebrating the life of my five year old son
(40:35):
before he goes to kindergarten. So for a politician to
use the innocence of his own son to obscure and
hide his own incompetence is particularly disreputable. One sixteen Homi
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!