Larry Hoover Jr. Speaks On His Father's Commuted Sentence & Responds To The Backlash + More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So yesterday Larry Hoover was commuted on a federal level
by President Donald Trump. For people who don't understand what
that means, that means that basically we talked about this
in Front Page News this morning, his charges on the
federal level will be like excused or overlooked. But anything
else you're still dealing with, you still have to deal with.
And Larry Hoover is very much so still dealing with

(00:20):
a two hundred year sentence for murder on the state level. Yes,
state level.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
So he's not free.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, he's not saying welcome home and all that he is.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
No, he is not coming home. He is not walking out.
Ain't no welcome home Larry Hoover partyes'.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
You know what I meant.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
That's why I text you on the group land.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
What is commutation or what is community?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
He was, Yeah, he was moving him from one person
to the other.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I didn't know Chance Rapper was one of the people
who actually posted online. He didn't understand what was happening.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Let's take a listen, hey, Before I let y'all politicize
this or memify this, I just got to say I
am glad that Larry Hoover's home, and I got to
remind y'all that he was a political prisoner that was
set up by the federal government that he created the
was the Chicago votes. He did so many things to
like to really like mobilize our people, and he was

(01:06):
really targeted for that. And so before I get to
Coonan or doing whatever they're gonna do with this information,
I just wanted to say, I'm so glad that he's
home and God bless his family, and yeah, thank god.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Chance aren't my feelings because that's just spreading such misinformation,
and Chance is way smarter than that. You know, if
you just read a little bit more chance, you would
know he's not coming home. But that just lets me
know all chance they was read the headlines or saw J.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Prince's post. J Prince of laugh a lot over in Houston.
You don't even sorry, y'all, okay, posted yesterday, and when

(01:55):
he posted, his caption literally said Larry Hoover has been
partoned by Donald Trump. So even when I post day
and people were upset, I posted it exactly with what J.
Prince said because I knew people were going to be
upset about it, because it doesn't mean that he's walking
out of the anywhere today or tomorrow at the bar
he was commuted. So to explain a bit really quick,
who Larry Hoover was. He was the co founder Against

(02:16):
the Disciples, which was a Chicago based gang that, according
to police, engaged in drug trafficking, extortion, and murder, which
is why he's going through everything he's going through right now.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
We talked to Larry Hoover's son because I was trying
to get clarification for you guys on what this actually
means and what the state level looks like for Larry
Hoover right now. There was so much misinformation going around
with a lot of people thinking that, you know, what
we saw yesterday with Trump and everything that was announced
with Larry Hoover meant that your dad was going to
walk out of you know, the federal prison and you know,

(02:50):
be clear of everything today like right now.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Right. So I've been speaking on this anytime. I was
in a few and I was trying to let people
know that he was being held under Jewish due the jurisdiction,
which is he's been held under state law and he
has been held under federal law at the same time.
So he still had two cases to fight, so he

(03:17):
had to fight the federal case and he still had
to fight the state case. So now he's dealing with
the state case. I don't really know the law owner.
They I heard that it was illegal to help hold
a person under jeurishdiction, which they don't usually do, but
they never uplifted the state case when they took him
in a federal custom. So now we're dealing with state

(03:37):
law now.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
So I know that you guys have like this movement
that you're trying to do work when it comes to
the state things you guys are asking for like local
leadership that would actually be able to do anything. Is
it like lessen the sentence or what are you asking
for on the state level.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Okay, so my father is actually a C number, and
C numbers were because you know, people have a misunderstanding
everything that's going on. People are talking about the narrative
of who they say my father is and what he
has done. We're going back to his statecase and he
was sentenced as a seat number. A seat number were

(04:16):
men that were sentenced in the seventies, and they gave
him indetermined systems. So his sentence was to be at
least two hundred years, and he has to go to
the parole board every It was supposed to be every year,
and when we went to court last they wanted to
make it five years, but the lawyers fought and they

(04:36):
made it made it three years. So the seat numbers
go to the parole board. They don't have a determined
amount of time. They go to the parole board and
it's up to them to decide whether they deserve to
be paroled. And when my father went to be paroled
last time, they said that he didn't do what they
needed him to do, even though he was in the

(04:57):
eighty X and it was no way possible for him
to do the things that they needed to do. They
saying like, oh, you didn't take classes, you didn't do this,
to try to show show that you was thankful on him,
that you regret what you did. But at the same
time he's locked in the closet underground in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
And then when I posted on online, I knew that
the natural pushback would be but this man is responsible
for you know, the like I mentioned, there is alleged
drug traffic and extortion and murder. So I ask his son, like,
this is how people feel. They feel like, you're we're
glorifying someone who caused all of these things in the community.
What do you say to that? And here's what he said.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
People just say that they don't understand who he is.
They listen to the narrative of people that don't know
what they're talking about. Can they tell you people that
he has caused to be killed or that he has
said killed or killed hisself. He's been in prison all
of this time. Right now, we're fighting up. We're fighting
the stadcase that happened when he was twenty two years old,

(06:00):
when he was a baby, and they said that he
gave the call for somebody to be murdered, and his
raft on the case said that he did the murder
and he was released. That's what we're fighting with right now.
Right The stuff that those people are talking about are
He'll say rumors. I'm not saying that my father wasn't

(06:23):
in leadership at one point and wasn't involved in the streets.
But he's on he's had transformation. He was an illiterate,
dyslexic child. When he went to jail, he told himself
how to read, He told himself how to become a man.
He educated himself. He went to college, he became a

(06:44):
a paramedic. You know, he taught classes. But he went
in as a dyslestic kid. He couldn't read, and he
told hisself nobody told him. Like people are speaking of
who they think he is and what the rumors of
him are. They don't know who he is. They need

(07:06):
to look bustled. They need to hear real information instead
of listening to rumors that have been passed around the city. See,
we're fighting the monster the picture that they painted, but
we're not. They don't know anything about Larry Who. If
it was if they know about Larry Who, they would
understand that he wants the same thing that these people want.
He's not for kids dying in the streets. He's not
for ladies being raped and harm. He's not for man.

(07:31):
He's a peaceful individual. He's for everything for black people.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, I appreciate that. Thank you so much for joining us.
And so what's your car to action? What do you
I saw something on the lobbyesterday. You guys were tagging
who is the poor person? You guys are tagging? Is
it the governor? Mayor?

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, it's at wor Principale. That's his Instagram and then
as Gmail is governor at Illinois dot gov. We want
to reach out to God to Priscal to tell him
to ask him to sign the paper to give my
father a second chance of life. We're fighting a case

(08:09):
from when he was twenty two years old in which
his rappie said that he committed the crime and he
was released. We're not fight We shouldn't be fighting the rumors.
We should be fighting what the real situation is. That
was the problem in the first place. If the law applied,

(08:30):
he would have been released because of the law. Everybody
that was on his case with him, they was released
because of the first step back, because the time didn't
amount for the time that they gave him, and all
of his rapis were released. But because he was Larry Hoover,
they didn't agree with the law. And I had to
thank Donald Trump for going above the law to give

(08:51):
my father an opportunity. And now, as far as the
staycas is concerned, can we please follow the law. We're
supposed to believe in justice and our If we supposed
to believe justice and followed the law, the law needs
to work for us and our governor says he believes
in transformation, He believes in he believes in rehabilitation. He
believes in redemption. And my father has rehabilitated itself. He

(09:15):
has transformed from the young man that he once was,
and he deserves redemption. He's folk. I mean, he's been there.
Imagine living in the closet for thirty years. Close your
eyes and go in your closet and stay there. Can
you stay there for thirty years? You don't think he's
regretful for what he did? Do you think he would

(09:37):
be interested in coming back to the world and being
a part of criminology. He's a senior, he's an elderly man.
This picture behind me is not who he is right now.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Larr Hoover is not There's no welcome home Laron Hoover
parties today or tomorrow. It's not happening. They're trying to
get things handled on the state level. But even if so,
at what I think in what they're trying to do
is they want less. They know that he there's no
way that he's going to walk free one hundred percent,
but they want less. They feel like it's over assessive
and as you heard of Sin say, they feel like
he's a changed person out he should be looked at
as that.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, two hundred years, two hundred years in prison is crazy,
but I can't see it happening only because of who
the governor is. The governor is uh JB JB. Pritzer,
he's a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
They're trying to put some I guess pressure on them,
get the public to start writing letters and things like that,
but maybe don't give it.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Then they were online yesterday on Instagram Live. I was
on there. There was on there for about an hour
getting people to tag them and saying call his office.
And I'm like, I don't know if that's going to
work because Larry Hoover was such a big name, the
case was such a big thing, Like, I don't know
if he cares. And then yeah, so that's it.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
That is the latest with Lauren you head in the
court now, yes, all right, all right, Well she'll give
us a update later on to what happened in the
did he trial? Everybody else, let's get to the mix
of people's choice mix. It's the Breakfast Club, Good morning,
Wake that ass.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
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