Who's Really Safe? The Disturbing Reality of America's Criminal Justice Crisis

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Violence seems to be everywhere these days - even in the most unexpected places. Today we dive into a truly bizarre case where a decomposed, dismembered body was discovered in a Tesla registered to popular singer D4VD (pronounced "David") after the vehicle had been abandoned and towed to a Los Angeles impound lot. The grisly discovery came days after the car was sitting in the summer heat, leading to a foul odor that finally prompted investigation.

But that's just the beginning of our disturbing crime roundup. We're tracking the massive manhunt for Jamal McGriff, a 42-year-old career criminal with a horrifying 30-year record who brutally murdered an elderly couple in Queens. The victims - parents of an FDNY paramedic - were found bound, stabbed multiple times, and set on fire in their own home after being terrorized for nearly five hours. The most infuriating part? This dangerous offender was walking free despite decades of violent behavior, raising serious questions about our criminal justice system's priorities.

We also examine President Trump's recent dinner outing in Washington DC, where he attempted to demonstrate improved safety in the capital following his administration's crime crackdown. But does a presidential dinner with Secret Service protection really prove anything about everyday citizens' safety? I don't think so. The reality is that many of us have dramatically changed our behavior - I don't even answer my door anymore - because we can't rely on the system to keep dangerous people off our streets. So what's really behind this crime wave? Is it failed "reimagined" justice policies that prioritize keeping offenders out of prison? Mental health system failures? Or something more sinister? Join the conversation and share your thoughts on what's driving this disturbing trend. Subscribe now for more unfiltered analysis of today's most troubling news stories.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and good morning, my little love bunnies.
All right, today I have for youa singer.
I don't know who this characteris this singer and he spells it
.
I hate when people do this.
He spells his name D, then withthe number four and then VD, so

(00:21):
I'm going to call him David,even though if you spelled it
out it would be DeFore VD.
Anyway, a decomposed anddismembered body was found in a
Tesla of his.
But we'll get to that in aminute.
And then we have more issuesabout criminals being out on the
street.
New York Police Departmentissues dire warning as a manhunt

(00:45):
launched for armed careercriminal accused of torching,
killing elderly NYC couple.
And then we have Trump dinesout in DC to show that it is
safe.
I've got some words about that,but we're going to save that
one for last.
Let's start with this singerrapper, whatever he is.
All right, here we go From theNew York Post.

(01:07):
Please don't let there be anypop-ups in this.
All right.
A putrid, dismembered body hasbeen found dumped in a Tesla,
reportedly registered to apopular New York-born singer.
I'm gonna call him David.
I'm not pronouncing DeForeVD,deforevd, okay, whatever.
Several days after it wasabandoned and taken to a Los

(01:32):
Angeles tow yard, so I don'tknow what this means.
It was registered to him.
It was abandoned on the street.
The police, or whoever came andtook it away, took it to the
impound whatever and they founda body in it days later after it
started smelling.
Uh, what does this mean forthis character?
I don't know.
I don't know what it means andwhen it was registered to him.

(01:54):
They probably need to ask himsome questions.
Police made the grim discoveryat the impound lot in hollywood
on monday afternoon afterworkers reported a foul odor
coming from the electric vehicle.
Now this guy it could have beenstolen.
This car could have been stolen.
He could have bought it for afamily member.
Who knows what?
Who knows the 2023, but we needto find out.

(02:16):
I would like to know.
The 2023 Tesla is registered toDavid Anthony Burke, the
20-year-old Queens-born romantichomicide artist known as D4VD,
so he has a song named RomanticHomicide.
That's not good.
The artist's representativesassured Burke it is cooperating

(02:36):
with authorities, even though heis still out on tour, according
to a statement obtained by NBCblah blah, blah blah.
Authorities told the outletthat it could take some time,
since the bagged remains weren'tintact on top of the body's
advanced decomposition.
From days locked in the Teslafront trunk baking in the South

(02:59):
Carolina sun oh isn't thatlovely.
The car, which bears Texaslicense plates, had been towed
to the lot after being reportedabandoned in the Hollywood Hills
roughly five days ago.
In that time, david had beensharing routine posts with his
two million followers onInstagram.

(03:20):
He is currently in the middleof a world tour and had a show
in Minneapolis scheduled onTuesday night, with Los Angeles
stops slated for later thismonth.
No idea who this guy is.
He previously performed onstage in Chicago on Saturday at
the Salt Shed David, best knownfor his tracks here With Me and

(03:40):
Romantic Homicide.
Okay, then it just stops.
The article just stops.
Who knows?
Will we have a follow-up onthat?
I don't know.
I hope we do All right.
Next up is this more out oncashless bail, dei system,
reimagined criminal justicereimagined bullshit.

(04:02):
Now I did a video yesterday onYouTube and I hope you go watch
it and please share it.
It's about this whole thingabout DEI and the criminal
justice system and how peopleare just walking about freely.
Now it doesn't matter how manytimes they get arrested.
It was about Irina Zarutska.

(04:24):
It was about her case that Italked about.
So please go subscribe to myYouTube channel, go watch that
video I think it's pretty goodand then go share it please.
Okay, police launched a massivemanhunt Tuesday for a violent
sex offender and career criminalsought in the horrific Queens

(04:44):
fire that killed the elderlyparents of an FDNY paramedic.
Jamal McGriff, who is 42 yearsold and ex-con on parole with a
string of career busts, has beenidentified as a suspect in the
vicious deaths of 78-year-oldMaureen Olton and her husband,
frank Thomas Olton, 76, who wasfound bound to a pole in the

(05:08):
basement with multiple stabwounds after their Bell Rose
home was torched Monday.
Police and law enforcementsources said.
Nypd Commissioner Jessica Tischsaid McGriff is armed and
dangerous and has a 30-year-longcriminal record.
Well hello, why is he not in af***ing prison?

(05:31):
The suspect's MO is to godoor-to-door asking for some
kind of assistance until he cangain entry.
Oh, my word.
Oh, don't see, I don't answermy door anymore.
Ever I haven't answered my doorin forever.
Somebody rings the door.
I'm not answering it.
No, sir, I will just sit therequietly until somebody leaves.
No, I'm not answering the dooranymore.

(05:53):
Ever I've been like that foryears and I remember not till
when my kids were little, oh myword, I would sit there with the
windows open, the front doorwide open, and, you know, just
let them play.
And, oh, that was the day whenwe could do that back then,
remember, not anymore.
Thank you for everything, notOkay.

(06:15):
Investigators for the NYPD andour partners on the Regional
Fugitive Task Force are workingaround the clock to locate and
to apricate whatever tish said.
The suspect killer entered the254th street home through a back
door around 10 15 am on mondayand was caught on surveillance
footage, leaving afterterrorizing the elderly victims

(06:36):
for nearly five hours.
Oh, my word, bless their hearts.
Frank olton had been dousedwith a flammable liquid and set
on fire, while both victims werestabbed multiple times.
Oh my God, this is horrible.
Just 14 minutes later, firealarms went off.
Oh God, maureen Olten's bodywas found on the first floor and

(06:57):
her husband in the basement,where he had been chained and
lifeless before the fire was set.
And lifeless before the firewas set.
Tragically, police said theirfirst responder's son was
alerted to the blaze at hisparents' home and was at the
scene when the fire was down.
Oh, my goodness Bless.
Oh, mcgriff had robbed the 30th.

(07:19):
Okay, then it goes on and talksabout his career criminals.
Oh, I hope they get this guyand put him away for life.
You know, I don't know, though,anymore, and you know you can
guess what.
Well, I'm not going to say it.
All right, moving on to, trumpdines out with cabinet officials
to demonstrate DC safety aftercrime cracked down.

(07:40):
Outcome is really spectacular.
All right, mr President, I getwhat you're doing, but come on,
you're the President of theUnited States.
You have Secret Service withyou all over the place all the
time, probably when you go tothe bathroom, so I don't want to
hear about how safe it is now.
You, of course, you're going tobe safe going out and about
Shut up.
I love you, but no, presidentTrump took the streets of

(08:03):
Washington DC Tuesday and dinedout with members of his cabinet
as he touted the spectacularoutcome of his crime crackdown.
I'm sure it is spectacular, Idon't doubt him on that.
But him trying to go out todinner and say look how safe it
is, come on, do you think we'restupid?
Trump's outing to Joe's Seafood, prime Steak and Stone Crab, an

(08:24):
upscale establishment about ablock away from the White House,
marks the first time thepresident has gone out to dinner
in the district since the startof his second term.
And you know, we were watchingthis story on the news this
morning and the gent asked Iwonder if the Secret Service has
to go in there.
I'm sure they go sweep theplace first, but I wonder if

(08:44):
they have to stand back thereand watch them prepare the food.
I'm like I'm sure they do, orthey just bring in their own
chef and say, hey, come in anddo they have somebody that to
taste?
Test taste at first.
You know, I don't know, I don'tknow.
What do you think about that?
That's not the question of theday.
We are going to have thequestion of the day and it is
well, it's actually a multitudeof questions.

(09:05):
I guess my question, if I canarticulate it right, or whatever
, is what do you think is thecause of all of these crimes?
Is it one?
The new reimagined justicesystem?

(09:25):
Or two?
Uh, is it lack of mentalillness?
Uh, crisis intervention,whatever, if sin sanus not
addressing mental illness.
Now here's the thing with irinazarutska and they're saying the
guy who killed her in coldblood, like that, had mental

(09:47):
illness.
Well, at first I was goingalong with that and then I heard
Greg Gutfeld talk about it.
And he's right.
Greg Gutfeld, if you can findhis little tirade on it I think
it was on the five that he didit You'll probably find a video
out there on him explaining whyhe doesn't think it's mental
illness, why he says this excuseis just not right.

(10:10):
He said he was a man goingafter a woman.
He was behind her so she didn'tknow it was coming, so it was
on purpose, and then he walkedaway.
It was on purpose, like he knew, and then he walked away like
as fast as he could because heknew it was wrong.
So he knew what he was doing.

(10:31):
It wasn't mental illness, heknew what he was doing.
He, he was a man whooverpowered a woman who was not
suspecting anything and then ranaway.
So, yeah, okay, I get that.
Anyway, what do you think thecause is of all of this stuff
happening?
I think it's the new reimaginedjustice system where they just

(10:54):
let everybody free because theydon't want to be called racist.
That's what I think, and Ithink we do have a race war
coming, or it's here already,here A long time ago.
Somebody that I knew a verylong time ago have a race war
coming, or it's here alreadyhere A long time ago, somebody
that I knew a very long time agotalked about race war coming.
And are we amongst it right now?
I don't know, because everydaypeople get along just fine.

(11:17):
It's the criminals that are thepeople that are doing all of
this, it's not everyday people.
So I don't know, I don't know.
What do you think?
I'm getting muddled down here?
Give me what you, what yourthoughts are on all of this.
Okay, I gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.