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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly shows.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is yes, we need to seek accountability here, don't jump
to conclusions. But it's not surprising that if you fire
senior leadership who run the National Weather Service, you're not
going to get the best weather predictions.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Kelly Nash. The fact that they slashed the National Weather Service,
whether or not that was the direct approximate cause of
those deaths, the fact that we're having that conversation is
the issue. And Kelly show woc.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So we'll be learned there from those two well fought
out and well I thought well positioned arguments was that
you shouldn't jump to conclusions. While you're jumping to conclusions,
mister swallwell, yeah, and we should be outraged we even
having to have this conversation, the fact that we even
we're having a manufactured conversation about a crisis. It didn't
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happen during a crisis.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What if we had a conversation about feng thing, don't
jump to any Yeah, I mean Eric Swallwell, all the Democrats,
everybody on the left is insane right now with their
trying to trap Trump or any other Republican into somehow
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this is their fault that there was a flood and
or that, I mean it started with the whole National
Weather Service was gutted. Okay, it was not gutted in
that in that office you had one meteorologist taken early buyout. Nobody,
zero point zero people have been fired in the National
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Weather Service. You made it sounds like they were all
frog marched out as soon as Trump took office. Secondly,
on the night of the flooding, they had actually more
than doubled the staff of meteorologists.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They went ap not exactly a Trump campaign, support of publication.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And and you know, you and I were joking about
this this morning. It's the way they all present it.
It sounds as if every meteorologist in the world gets
all their information from the government.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm pretty sure I've seen the DOPPERL the radar. I
remember seeing the first one. I thought, why is that
gigantic golf ball here off of I eight five in Greenville.
That was the first DOPPERL the radar system I'd ever seen.
And those things are huge. But I know that what
we just we just send out the National Weather Service
information to John Farley, is that where he gets all
of his weather information.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
He just parrots that the Weather channel does that. I
guess they don't know what's going on. Nobody knows what's
going on unless they're a government employee. That's the only way.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Mike side. They all not had any idea of how
to generate his own weather report.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Does Harvard not offer a weather class because apparently only
people from Harvard and or employed by the government are
quote unquote experts. Enough, you're not going to take the
word of the local people or anybody else.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, the Democrats have already told you because you voted
for Trump, you deserve this, So take your medicine Texas.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know. I was I find that ironic as well,
because when they talk about whatever, like just flashing back
to North Carolina, and there are a lot of similarities
in the sense that it was a flood that got
western North Carolina. It was also a heavily Republican area,
and the Biden administration, along with the Democrat governor at
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the time, Roy Cooper, basically told Western North Carolina to
go f itself pretty much, you people. And in case
you're wondering about the vote totals, it was five to one.
That was how much Trump won that district in twenty twenty. Again,
he didn't win the presidency allegedly in twenty twenty, but
he won that district, those districts, those counties in both
Texas and in North Carolina five to one. And so
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the Democrats are basically politicizing government and going after him.
But a lot of people said at the time about
the North Carolina thing, and again, now, this is what
you people voted for. You people voted. You wanted less government.
This is what less government looks like. That's right, but
that's not what because what they voted for was less government,
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but they didn't get less government. When you say I
want less government, what you usually mean by that is
I want fewer tax dollars taken from me. They're still
paying about fifty percent of their money to the government,
whether it's state or the federal. So they wanted less government,
and had they not given fifty percent of their paychecks
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to the government, they would have had money to rebuild
their houses and do these other things. Instead, you took
my money and then you would not come when I
needed a hand. That's the difference. So I what I
voted for and what I got are two different things.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, the other thing is man say God said, So
we haven't heard those qus.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What happened to that God?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Did?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
God call him home? So you you also deserved it
because we learned in the Old Testament, for God's sake
that God don't like racist and that was a white
Christian camp. They excluded all people of color. That's why
you wash down the river? Was that in the brochure seek, hile,
come to our white Christian nationalist camp.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Of course not. And look, it doesn't take a genius
to figure out in America where only about twelve percent
are black, and you know, look, we'll even go with
the Latinos, especially in that district, all right, you know
you're talking about Texas, there's going to be a lot
of Latinos down there. Put it at like thirty five
forty percent, kind of like if you're living in the
midlands of South Carolina, you're going to see a roughly
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forty percent of the area is going to be black. Again,
the majority still white. And for a myriad of reasons,
and we don't need to go back and try to
do all this right now, but for a myriad of reasons,
the majority of wealthy people in America are white. That
Christian camp is not free. You're going to have to
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pay thousand dollars to go to it. The majority of
the people that are going to go are gonna be white.
That's who it is. And also will point out that
it's the majority of people who go to the similar
affiliated churches. If you go to a black church, you're
probably even if you are a multimillionaire, you're probably not
going to send your kid to that camp for whatever reasons.
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I'll also point out, if you go to a football camp,
most of the kids, they're gonna be black, at least
here in the midlands of South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, I used to be able to say I agree
with Jesse Jackson. You did, yes, because he would say
Sunday morning is the most segregated hour. Sunday morning, eleven o'clock,
it's the most segregated hour in America. And he was
right because the Christians were all in church, so the
people not in church. Now, I didn't differentiate between white
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and black churches. I'm white and black churches. The congregations
in both of those churches were segregated from the nine Christians.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I agree with you if you put it under that context.
But now, unfortunately, because the left is also infiltrated to
Christian Church. Now that argument doesn't even stand because you're
going to find out or we're finding out more and more.
Although it was interesting, you would have thought that the
liberals and the Christian Church would have pushed back on
the property tax issue. Apparently they're willing to pay it.
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And I agree with Kally, churches just start. You should
start paying your own taxes. Yeah, you want to make
sure you can have a voice in politics, stand on
your own damn two feet.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Absolutely, and I would encourage that. I wouldn't even say
like I'm afraid of it or anything like that. Though yes,
it takes money out of the church's availability to do
good works in the community. I totally understand that it
actually empowers the government even more, which I'm against. I
totally get it. But if you want to be able
to say I want to have an influence on politics,
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which is what you're called to do as the church,
you are supposed to be a voice in the community
for the the actual political structure should be influenced as
culture in general in the community should be influenced by
your mere presence.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I don't worry about your outreach to other countries.
Why don't you worry about your outreach to the community
of which you stand. Now you're on property taxes and
you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm a taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm a taxpayer Christian God by God, God said Manset,
And I'm the man.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know, the man.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hey, wait, mante, here's the man, Kelly Nash. Welcome back
in the studio. Richly County Sheriff Leon Lot. Good to
see you, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Good to see y'all again. I'm still my arms still
a little bit sore for a softball game we played,
you know, we had. Yeah, I think I'm recovering from it.
But it's just waving people around third, waving around third.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Wow, are you the catcher for the team that was
the catch for?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I see now my arm's sore. But Jay Coon is
just going to be sore for a whole year. I
mean this is to you in the road that his
feelings got hurt over in Lexington because we actually go
into Lexington and play them, you know, and they insist
on being the home team all the time, you know,
And I think that's gonna give them an advantage. It
ain't worth it.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You want to mention that your also were down a
few players.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Uh, we had five of our starting players, wasn't there.
So we were really with the C team this time,
and still whooped up on them. And they practice I
think for like two months before we played them. We
ain't practice. We just walk on the field.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And see this is the benefit of having a badge.
See if I make fun, if sure could because I
beat him in the pit boiled peanuty in competition.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I did that. But I did that too.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But see here's the difference in having a bat I
don't have a batge. There was a standing order to
arrest me for anything once I crossed over.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
The That's probably true. The bridge, that's probably true. But
we had fun. It was you know, it was for
a good cause. It raised a good butter man money
for us. So you know, the USO does so much
that for our military particular. Are so just coming in
and be trained at Fort Jackson. They greet him and
do a lot of different things. We have. We have
a good time, but it's always better to come out
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as the champion. Jonathan, that's right. You wouldn't know that yet.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh no, you.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Talking about I see that little thing.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right, So here's the thing. What are you going to
turn your ire towards Newberry or Fairfield or another neighboring county.
I mean, these guys are getting off easy over there
in Fairfield.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I know Will Montgomery who used to work for us
at the Sheriff's apartments. Good guy. Lee Foster is a
good guy, and I don't know that. I don't know
if I can hurt their feelings like I do.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Are you just waiting for them to step up and
make the challenge? It's you got a standing offer. You'll
take out all on anybody. Yeah, doesn't that You bring
the New York Yankees down here? We'll play that.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
We played them too. I probably have the A team
out for them though.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I was going and sick for that game now, can't.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Be on vacation.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Will you take them all? Like the Los Angeles Police
Department takes on ice? What the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
We don't do that. You don't do that to fell
the cops and that that's what they are. They're doing
their job, and you know you can't. That's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
That's the scary part to me is that you get
law enforcement officers to actually act against law enforcement officers.
There's there's a deterioration here of some kind with those
who wear the badge.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And I am very good friends with the police chief
in Los Angeles because he was prior sheriff of Los
Angeles and we're good friends. We've We've done a lot
of stuff together. And I will tell you he is
a cops cop. He's not making that decision. He's not
making that decision. I think the Governor of California is
actually visiting our ste I won't be.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
There now, by the way, I'm only going to get
it's not seasonal, but I know it's a very active
time of the year for you for a lot of
different events. But you stay busy with a lot of
different events. Anyway, it seems like every time I see
you in the news, it's either a community celebration moment
where a church or another organization is honoring you and
the Sheriff's department with the fundraiser of the like, or
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it's one of those press conferences where you're once again
having to talk about kids with guns. The emotional level
of being the sheriff. It's just all over the road.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, but it's more good things than this bad things.
I'll tell you that. People say, how do you handle?
I said, man, I get to see good stuff all day.
Yesterday I got to read books to two different classes
of kids, little kids five years old, I don't up
until the sixth grade, and just see the excitement in them.
And that's the good things. There's so much more good
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things that's going on in our community than the bad things.
But unfortunately media likes to cover the bad things. When
a kid stumbles and falls and people need to know
about it, but we're not doing as well as letting
us know the people know that the goods this time.
Even about the school districts, we always complained, oh this
and that somebody got arrested to this school. Well, think
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of the thousands of kids who go to school every day.
We don't hear about who just go to school and
get a good education. So you know, so you know,
leads leads, and it's always that way. And you watch
the news at night and the first fifteen stories is
about shooting, robberies or something something bad. It's got order.
It's not even worth watching the news anymore or reading
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the paper. I don't think anybody reads the paper anymore.
But yeah. Really, I think most people get their news
from shows like this and what y'all do and in
other ways than they do the traditional methods. Because people
are tired of hearing all the bad stuff. Let's do
some good, feel good stories. And there's so many of
them out there. And you know, last you know, the
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day before the fourth of July, we had our senior
citizens that I went around and brought gift baskets to them.
I didn't need the media to be there. It was
just put a smile on these old people's face, and
it did. They were so excited. The sheriff came to
my house and the sheriff brought me a bag with
some food in it and some goodies in it. You know,
these are people they probably don't get a whole lot,
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but here we are giving them just a little bit
of something and it means a whole lot to them.
So a lot more good stuff goes on, but it
really does.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Sheriff, speaking of good news and great opportunities. Next Saturday night,
you're going to have something going on kind of special
to help out the canines.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Right, We've got Guardians of the Night race. We'll have
over five hundred walkers and runners and the canines come
out to the state fair grounds and this is a
big event that started after our police dog Fargo was killed,
first police dog in the state to ever get killed.
We started doing Guardians of the Night in honor of him,
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and it's continually to grow. We had over five hundred
people participate last year. It's at night, so it's a
little bit cooler, it's in a safe place, it's on
the fair ground. We have a good time. People come to.
Those who just want to walk and jog, they go
out early at eight o'clock they go and to walk
their dogs or whatever. Nine o'clock is you serious runners,
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It is actually a timed event that qualifies for whatever
they need to qualify for races. And so you have
the serious one engine, but everybody's there, you know, to
honor the police dogs.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Last year, unfortunately I had three that got killed. Yeah,
I had another one that got shot and we had
to retire because the bullet just did so much damage.
So that's four dogs that we lost last year in
the line of duty. And so the community just community
just pours out.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
The love for him. But is this another event that
you will win?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Well, I don't have to worry about any other shriffess
being there because they won't come out for that.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That's had a picture in my mind of you with
sled dogs and Jaku with his dogs.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's a good winner event.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Next time we get snow, I want to see that.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I will be walking my dog though okay, I always
always bring my German shepherd and we walk, and my
wife and daughter will be there too, and it's just
a fun event and people have a great time. You know,
it's a five k so what three point one miles
and again it's a fun walking run and then it's
the real serious one. But again it's all always to
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honor our k Nines and then it also raises funds
for him too. And you know, to get a dog,
you're talking about twenty thousand dollars just from the get go,
before you do all the training, so they're very expensive.
But we have the funds because people give. People really
want to support. When they hear about a police dog
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being killed across the whole world, we start getting notes
and cards and stuff and people send money, so financially
it helps us out to have this Guardians of the Night.
But people help us out all through the year had a.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Big enough donation, would you name the canine after me?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
We actually have done that before.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I was always thinking, because you do you know, you
see colleges do with buildings and things like that.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
We have done that. We have had someone that, you know,
joe I'll tell you Joey Taylor, who was on clumbers
City council, was a good friend, loved dogs, big supporter,
passed away. His wife said, you know, I want to
buy a dog and Joey's memory, and we're gonna call
it Jet. Joey Taylor. We had. We have Jet on
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our uh and in our canine. So yes, people have
been able to do that. And you don't have to
get a dog named after him. We don't do it.
But you know, when somebody does something like that. And
Joey Taylor was a good friend of law enforcement. He
did he did a lot for law enforcement. He bought
a city of Columbias some police dogs and gave him
to them and uh, he he loved his animals. And
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you know, that's what his wife wanted to do in
his honor. And I thought, I thought it was a
great Listen, let's name it after him, name it Jet
and so that's what we've got so far.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
In this conversation, you mentioned a city council member, we
talked about County Council having to do with schools in particular.
There are a lot of legislative issues that you deal
with outside of this thing, even like the General Assembly
with the closing of this last session, where there are
opportunities that you felt were missed or there were successes
from the legislature that you're excited about. What happened for
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law enforcement in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Well, the failure to stop law got passed, which I
think is good. It's not in effect yet, but it's
got passed where they put a little bit more teeth
into failure to stop prior if you've fled from the police.
It really didn't get anything, no charges, hardly ever prosecuted.
So General Assembly did pass some legislation that strengthened that.
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You know, the biggest disappointment that I saw is that
came with earmarks and people think, oh my god, that's pork,
that's bad stuff, that's this thing, and sometimes it's used
like that, but sometimes it's used for good stuff. Now,
we needed a command post. Our command post that we
had was a Winter Bay go from like two thousand.
I mean it was just outdated and caught on fire twice.
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Last year, the General Assembly, in an ear mark, gave
us enough money to go get us another get us
a command post. Now this year, our two helicopters are down.
We can't fly. They are not airworth anymore. Their Vietnam
Era they both in the seventies. They're just not airworthy.
And we had some legislators that from Richland County had
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all got together and said, okay, let's get the Sheriff's
apartment some money about one point two million dollars so
they can't get a new helicopter. Well, when they cut
out all the ear marks, they went my helicopter, and
so you know, they just threw the baby out with
the Bath War. You know, there's some that our port
that shouldn't be done, but there's some that really helps
and impacts the community, and we didn't get it. So
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now we have to wait and hopefully next year the
General Assembly and do go back to the ear marks
that they've done that helps out local government. Now, to me,
I think that's a big disappointment.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Sheriff Lot You you know you're talking about we should
focus a little bit more on some of the positive stories. Obviously,
in law enforcement, part of the story has to be
bad because usually there's a crime involved. But you guys
are batting one hundred or excuse me, a thousand right
now when it comes to solving murders.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And it's been that way for three years. We haven't
had an unsolved murder in three years. We've had ten.
This year we solved all ten and that's about half
of what we had last year this time, So.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The murder rate has been cutting the half.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
So the murder rate is good, but we still got ten,
ten victims. Ten people's died. But at least the family
knows that, you know, some justice is being done. You know,
we've done our part. We've made their rest, We've made
the case that it's up to the prosecutors to do
their part. So now we got some of the best
investigators in the world. Our forensic lab is second to none.
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You know, we can we can do it all and
we get it very quickly. But one thing that we
have that i'll team most places in the United States
doesn't have that is the relationship with the community. Our
community in Richland County will not hesitate in calling us
and saying I saw this, this is who did this,
this is where he is, this is where she's at.
The community works hand in hand with us to make
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sure we saw these cases. And we had a murder
on Broad River Road not too long ago at the
c kmart and we were getting crime stoppers tips. We
were getting people calling us right left telling us who
did it and when we were able to solve that
one almost immediately because of what the community does. You
don't have that everywhere, but this is something that we've
developed over the years. We've made a concentrated effort to
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go out into all of our communities and build relationships
with them, so it doesn't matter where it happens. In
Richland County, We've developed a relationship and the people are
fed up with crime and they let us.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Know very quickly.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yesterday I saw a video in New York where a
child was almost picked up right off the sidewalk in
front of the parents, whisking to a band and then
gone probably forever. How is child trafficking or trafficking in general,
And we've had a lot of problems, particularly from our
southern border. How is it now in Richland County in particular,
because I know you may not be the head of
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those investigations because I think they are mostly federal crimes,
but you guys get involved because it does happen here
in the county.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
It is our responsibility. The sex trafficking and usually that's
what it is. When you're talking about human trafficking in
Richland County is sex trafficking. It intends to be runaway
young girls. That's not where somebody gets snatched off the street.
It's where a young girl is a runaway or over
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social media that she is groomed to where she meets
somebody and then you know, they turn them into a
select traffic and we work those cases. They happen here
in Richland County, but we have a unit that just
specializes in those type cases and so we have them.
A lot of it's concentrated in the Too Notch Road area.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Is it getting worse.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
No, I'm not gonna say it's getting worse about any
means whatsoever. Things that you hear about that problems in
other parts of the United States are just not problems here.
We don't we don't have the influence with people coming
across the border that has a negative impact here in
Richland County. We just don't know some drugs yet, but
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drugs are. Drugs are coming from Canada, They're coming all
over the place, China. But we just don't have the
when you talk about illegals, we just don't have those
problems that other people have. One reason is that relationship
we have with all the minority communities. They know that
they're going to suffer when they have somebody who's here
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illegally does something wrong, so they don't want it. They
tell us MS thirteen some years ago tried to move
into Richland County. Hispanic community let us know everywhere they
were at what they were doing, and we were dead
on them. They left, they left, They didn't so they
didn't set up operation here because they we were on
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top of them. They could make a move without somebody
in Hispanic community calling and letting us know. And so
we continue to see it that way with all our
minority communities.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Sure, Flee and Lott with us here on the Jonathan
and Kelly Show. And this question probably would be better
asked of Skip Holbrook, but he's not with us, and
you are, And is Richland County, Columbia's part of that.
The news this morning as we record this, the big
news in Colombia is that there is a potential EMU
roaming wild over on Bush River Road. Any updates on that.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's still running.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's still running.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
It's still running. That flightless birds moving very quickly. It's
on the loose. A few weeks ago to right close
to where we're at in this studio, we had a
pig going down the interstate, so we called the pig.
There's video that's we went nationwide. Now NBC News even
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contacted us about him. Two highway patrol officers and one
of my deputies. A pig fell out of the truck,
one of the big truck. The pig figure fell out.
There was a small pig and here they are running
zig zagging and they catched the pig.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I did see the video and that that that
patrol me. They ended up hauling the pig.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's a farm boy, he knews actually how to do
the pig. And my deputy that was there, she's also
a farm girl. She had friends who's got pigs. So
the pig found a home.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
We have a we adopted them all.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, we adopted it out. We have pictures that it
land in the mud with the rest of the pig.
So it was a feel good story. But people had
a blast over that. But them you, we ain't caught
it yet. The problem is, though, is what are you
gonna do when you catch it. I don't know. That's
a big bird, pecky on top of your ball.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Head, I said. If I was the cop coming up
to my taseel, he's.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Six foot tall. Possibly they get to be like six
feet tall.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And they run over thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, and those pictures of it running down bush.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Chasing that, well, I know the Mustang can trace down
the thirty one mile hour EMU. But if the EMU
does not stop, can you now and force the failure
to stop?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
As long as we've got the blue lights and sour
you know we can. We can handcut them little skinny
legs that got so fat.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You're gonna zip time. And I think I'm tasting that thing.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
If I can get close enough, because he's not.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
We're you going to hit it. It's got a little
tiny neck. It's long, but you got to be able
to get two prongs in it. You can't get it
in the body because the feathers.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Are too thick.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I only hope that we have a camera handy because
this has got to be featured on on Patrol Live
with Bernis Wilson when we go to when we go
to Columbia, South Carolina for the EMU cat the EMU
catcher that's going on.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But the pig, the little small pig was classic. I
mean here they are, you know, kind of double standard
here because we call pigs a lot of times, as
as Roger.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Pig on.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
The two pigs were chasing the pig cat catch the
pig behind you know, listen ups back legs and Jonathan,
you know about farm stuff. That pig was squealing from
in the back of the cargo and we took it
to the farm and he's living a good life now.
Hopefully he's not being a barbecue anytime.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I say that pig is going to be valuable.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I don't know. I don't know, Maurice.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I guess you.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Don't see many ROTISSERIEUS available. Hey, Sheriffly, thank you again
for all your efforts and a big salute to law
enforcement no matter which county, even Lexton County. Although you
guys need to obviously work on your softball team big
salute to law enforcement from Ice all the way to
our county and to our cities. And also for all
the volunteers. You have, so many volunteers. People want to volunteer.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
People come in right and left every day. What can
I do to help out? And and we put them,
We put them to work. If you've got a desire
to do something, you want to volunteer, then come on,
We'll find somewhere for you. But that saves us a
lot of money and also allows us to have people
to send the office out of the office and put
them on the street, which is where they need to be.
Where we want to get as many as we can.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And if you have experience with EMUs, we need you
to if you.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Can last of that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How do you wrangle that thing? I don't know, put
a lass around that little pencil neck of his a nother.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Way that you'd heard it too bad? And if you
put around the feet then it's gonna fall face down
and break his beak. I'm just I don't know what
we're going to do. Oh remember recently you had the
zebra that was run that's right, and they used a
helicopter with a hall us and lifted that zebra up
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and flew it home.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
What did think he was going through his mind?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What in the hell if I could with a ride
like that, I would try to escape again.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
He didn't look I had any paint on his face.
It looked like it was enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Thank you again, sure the fine
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly shows.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is yes, we need to seek accountability here, don't jump
to conclusions. But it's not surprising that if you fire
senior leadership who run the National Weather Service, you're not
going to get the best weather predictions.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Kelly Nash. The fact that they slashed the National Weather Service,
whether or not that was the direct approximate cause of
those deaths, the fact that we're having that conversation is
the issue. And Kelly show woc.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So we'll be learned there from those two well fought
out and well I thought well positioned arguments was that
you shouldn't jump to conclusions. While you're jumping to conclusions,
mister swallwell, yeah, and we should be outraged we even
having to have this conversation, the fact that we even
we're having a manufactured conversation about a crisis. It didn't
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happen during a crisis.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
What if we had a conversation about feng thing, don't
jump to any Yeah, I mean Eric Swallwell, all the Democrats,
everybody on the left is insane right now with their
trying to trap Trump or any other Republican into somehow
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this is their fault that there was a flood and
or that, I mean it started with the whole National
Weather Service was gutted. Okay, it was not gutted in
that in that office you had one meteorologist taken early buyout. Nobody,
zero point zero people have been fired in the National
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Weather Service. You made it sounds like they were all
frog marched out as soon as Trump took office. Secondly,
on the night of the flooding, they had actually more
than doubled the staff of meteorologists.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They went ap not exactly a Trump campaign, support of publication.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And and you know, you and I were joking about
this this morning. It's the way they all present it.
It sounds as if every meteorologist in the world gets
all their information from the government.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm pretty sure I've seen the DOPPERL the radar. I
remember seeing the first one. I thought, why is that
gigantic golf ball here off of I eight five in Greenville.
That was the first DOPPERL the radar system I'd ever seen.
And those things are huge. But I know that what
we just we just send out the National Weather Service
information to John Farley, is that where he gets all
of his weather information.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
He just parrots that the Weather channel does that. I
guess they don't know what's going on. Nobody knows what's
going on unless they're a government employee. That's the only way.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Mike side. They all not had any idea of how
to generate his own weather report.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Does Harvard not offer a weather class because apparently only
people from Harvard and or employed by the government are
quote unquote experts. Enough, you're not going to take the
word of the local people or anybody else.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, the Democrats have already told you because you voted
for Trump, you deserve this, So take your medicine Texas.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know. I was I find that ironic as well,
because when they talk about whatever, like just flashing back
to North Carolina, and there are a lot of similarities
in the sense that it was a flood that got
western North Carolina. It was also a heavily Republican area,
and the Biden administration, along with the Democrat governor at
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the time, Roy Cooper, basically told Western North Carolina to
go f itself pretty much, you people. And in case
you're wondering about the vote totals, it was five to one.
That was how much Trump won that district in twenty twenty. Again,
he didn't win the presidency allegedly in twenty twenty, but
he won that district, those districts, those counties in both
Texas and in North Carolina five to one. And so
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the Democrats are basically politicizing government and going after him.
But a lot of people said at the time about
the North Carolina thing, and again, now, this is what
you people voted for. You people voted. You wanted less government.
This is what less government looks like. That's right, but
that's not what because what they voted for was less government,
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but they didn't get less government. When you say I
want less government, what you usually mean by that is
I want fewer tax dollars taken from me. They're still
paying about fifty percent of their money to the government,
whether it's state or the federal. So they wanted less government,
and had they not given fifty percent of their paychecks
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to the government, they would have had money to rebuild
their houses and do these other things. Instead, you took
my money and then you would not come when I
needed a hand. That's the difference. So I what I
voted for and what I got are two different things.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, the other thing is man say God said, So
we haven't heard those qus.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
What happened to that God?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Did?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
God call him home? So you you also deserved it
because we learned in the Old Testament, for God's sake
that God don't like racist and that was a white
Christian camp. They excluded all people of color. That's why
you wash down the river? Was that in the brochure seek, hile,
come to our white Christian nationalist camp.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Of course not. And look, it doesn't take a genius
to figure out in America where only about twelve percent
are black, and you know, look, we'll even go with
the Latinos, especially in that district, all right, you know
you're talking about Texas, there's going to be a lot
of Latinos down there. Put it at like thirty five
forty percent, kind of like if you're living in the
midlands of South Carolina, you're going to see a roughly
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forty percent of the area is going to be black. Again,
the majority still white. And for a myriad of reasons,
and we don't need to go back and try to
do all this right now, but for a myriad of reasons,
the majority of wealthy people in America are white. That
Christian camp is not free. You're going to have to
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pay thousand dollars to go to it. The majority of
the people that are going to go are gonna be white.
That's who it is. And also will point out that
it's the majority of people who go to the similar
affiliated churches. If you go to a black church, you're
probably even if you are a multimillionaire, you're probably not
going to send your kid to that camp for whatever reasons.
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I'll also point out, if you go to a football camp,
most of the kids, they're gonna be black, at least
here in the midlands of South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, I used to be able to say I agree
with Jesse Jackson. You did, yes, because he would say
Sunday morning is the most segregated hour. Sunday morning, eleven o'clock,
it's the most segregated hour in America. And he was
right because the Christians were all in church, so the
people not in church. Now, I didn't differentiate between white
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and black churches. I'm white and black churches. The congregations
in both of those churches were segregated from the nine Christians.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I agree with you if you put it under that context.
But now, unfortunately, because the left is also infiltrated to
Christian Church. Now that argument doesn't even stand because you're
going to find out or we're finding out more and more.
Although it was interesting, you would have thought that the
liberals and the Christian Church would have pushed back on
the property tax issue. Apparently they're willing to pay it.
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And I agree with Kally, churches just start. You should
start paying your own taxes. Yeah, you want to make
sure you can have a voice in politics, stand on
your own damn two feet.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Absolutely, and I would encourage that. I wouldn't even say
like I'm afraid of it or anything like that. Though yes,
it takes money out of the church's availability to do
good works in the community. I totally understand that it
actually empowers the government even more, which I'm against. I
totally get it. But if you want to be able
to say I want to have an influence on politics,
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which is what you're called to do as the church,
you are supposed to be a voice in the community
for the the actual political structure should be influenced as
culture in general in the community should be influenced by
your mere presence.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I don't worry about your outreach to other countries.
Why don't you worry about your outreach to the community
of which you stand. Now you're on property taxes and
you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm a taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm a taxpayer Christian God by God, God said Manset,
And I'm the man.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know, the man.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hey, wait, mante, here's the man, Kelly Nash. Welcome back
in the studio. Richly County Sheriff Leon Lot. Good to
see you, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Good to see y'all again. I'm still my arms still
a little bit sore for a softball game we played,
you know, we had. Yeah, I think I'm recovering from it.
But it's just waving people around third, waving around third.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Wow, are you the catcher for the team that was
the catch for?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I see now my arm's sore. But Jay Coon is
just going to be sore for a whole year. I
mean this is to you in the road that his
feelings got hurt over in Lexington because we actually go
into Lexington and play them, you know, and they insist
on being the home team all the time, you know,
And I think that's gonna give them an advantage. It
ain't worth it.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You want to mention that your also were down a
few players.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Uh, we had five of our starting players, wasn't there.
So we were really with the C team this time,
and still whooped up on them. And they practice I
think for like two months before we played them. We
ain't practice. We just walk on the field.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And see this is the benefit of having a badge.
See if I make fun, if sure could because I
beat him in the pit boiled peanuty in competition.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I did that. But I did that too.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But see here's the difference in having a bat I
don't have a batge. There was a standing order to
arrest me for anything once I crossed over.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
The That's probably true. The bridge, that's probably true. But
we had fun. It was you know, it was for
a good cause. It raised a good butter man money
for us. So you know, the USO does so much
that for our military particular. Are so just coming in
and be trained at Fort Jackson. They greet him and
do a lot of different things. We have. We have
a good time, but it's always better to come out
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as the champion. Jonathan, that's right. You wouldn't know that yet.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh no, you.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Talking about I see that little thing.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right, So here's the thing. What are you going to
turn your ire towards Newberry or Fairfield or another neighboring county.
I mean, these guys are getting off easy over there
in Fairfield.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I know Will Montgomery who used to work for us
at the Sheriff's apartments. Good guy. Lee Foster is a
good guy, and I don't know that. I don't know
if I can hurt their feelings like I do.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Are you just waiting for them to step up and
make the challenge? It's you got a standing offer. You'll
take out all on anybody. Yeah, doesn't that You bring
the New York Yankees down here? We'll play that.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
We played them too. I probably have the A team
out for them though.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I was going and sick for that game now, can't.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Be on vacation.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Will you take them all? Like the Los Angeles Police
Department takes on ice? What the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
We don't do that. You don't do that to fell
the cops and that that's what they are. They're doing
their job, and you know you can't. That's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
That's the scary part to me is that you get
law enforcement officers to actually act against law enforcement officers.
There's there's a deterioration here of some kind with those
who wear the badge.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And I am very good friends with the police chief
in Los Angeles because he was prior sheriff of Los
Angeles and we're good friends. We've We've done a lot
of stuff together. And I will tell you he is
a cops cop. He's not making that decision. He's not
making that decision. I think the Governor of California is
actually visiting our ste I won't be.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
There now, by the way, I'm only going to get
it's not seasonal, but I know it's a very active
time of the year for you for a lot of
different events. But you stay busy with a lot of
different events. Anyway, it seems like every time I see
you in the news, it's either a community celebration moment
where a church or another organization is honoring you and
the Sheriff's department with the fundraiser of the like, or
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it's one of those press conferences where you're once again
having to talk about kids with guns. The emotional level
of being the sheriff. It's just all over the road.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, but it's more good things than this bad things.
I'll tell you that. People say, how do you handle?
I said, man, I get to see good stuff all day.
Yesterday I got to read books to two different classes
of kids, little kids five years old, I don't up
until the sixth grade, and just see the excitement in them.
And that's the good things. There's so much more good
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things that's going on in our community than the bad things.
But unfortunately media likes to cover the bad things. When
a kid stumbles and falls and people need to know
about it, but we're not doing as well as letting
us know the people know that the goods this time.
Even about the school districts, we always complained, oh this
and that somebody got arrested to this school. Well, think
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of the thousands of kids who go to school every day.
We don't hear about who just go to school and
get a good education. So you know, so you know,
leads leads, and it's always that way. And you watch
the news at night and the first fifteen stories is
about shooting, robberies or something something bad. It's got order.
It's not even worth watching the news anymore or reading
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the paper. I don't think anybody reads the paper anymore.
But yeah. Really, I think most people get their news
from shows like this and what y'all do and in
other ways than they do the traditional methods. Because people
are tired of hearing all the bad stuff. Let's do
some good, feel good stories. And there's so many of
them out there. And you know, last you know, the
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day before the fourth of July, we had our senior
citizens that I went around and brought gift baskets to them.
I didn't need the media to be there. It was
just put a smile on these old people's face, and
it did. They were so excited. The sheriff came to
my house and the sheriff brought me a bag with
some food in it and some goodies in it. You know,
these are people they probably don't get a whole lot,
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but here we are giving them just a little bit
of something and it means a whole lot to them.
So a lot more good stuff goes on, but it
really does.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Sheriff, speaking of good news and great opportunities. Next Saturday night,
you're going to have something going on kind of special
to help out the canines.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Right, We've got Guardians of the Night race. We'll have
over five hundred walkers and runners and the canines come
out to the state fair grounds and this is a
big event that started after our police dog Fargo was killed,
first police dog in the state to ever get killed.
We started doing Guardians of the Night in honor of him,
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and it's continually to grow. We had over five hundred
people participate last year. It's at night, so it's a
little bit cooler, it's in a safe place, it's on
the fair ground. We have a good time. People come to.
Those who just want to walk and jog, they go
out early at eight o'clock they go and to walk
their dogs or whatever. Nine o'clock is you serious runners,
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It is actually a timed event that qualifies for whatever
they need to qualify for races. And so you have
the serious one engine, but everybody's there, you know, to
honor the police dogs.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Last year, unfortunately I had three that got killed. Yeah,
I had another one that got shot and we had
to retire because the bullet just did so much damage.
So that's four dogs that we lost last year in
the line of duty. And so the community just community
just pours out.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
The love for him. But is this another event that
you will win?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Well, I don't have to worry about any other shriffess
being there because they won't come out for that.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That's had a picture in my mind of you with
sled dogs and Jaku with his dogs.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's a good winner event.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Next time we get snow, I want to see that.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I will be walking my dog though okay, I always
always bring my German shepherd and we walk, and my
wife and daughter will be there too, and it's just
a fun event and people have a great time. You know,
it's a five k so what three point one miles
and again it's a fun walking run and then it's
the real serious one. But again it's all always to
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honor our k Nines and then it also raises funds
for him too. And you know, to get a dog,
you're talking about twenty thousand dollars just from the get go,
before you do all the training, so they're very expensive.
But we have the funds because people give. People really
want to support. When they hear about a police dog
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being killed across the whole world, we start getting notes
and cards and stuff and people send money, so financially
it helps us out to have this Guardians of the Night.
But people help us out all through the year had a.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Big enough donation, would you name the canine after me?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
We actually have done that before.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I was always thinking, because you do you know, you
see colleges do with buildings and things like that.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
We have done that. We have had someone that, you know,
joe I'll tell you Joey Taylor, who was on clumbers
City council, was a good friend, loved dogs, big supporter,
passed away. His wife said, you know, I want to
buy a dog and Joey's memory, and we're gonna call
it Jet. Joey Taylor. We had. We have Jet on
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our uh and in our canine. So yes, people have
been able to do that. And you don't have to
get a dog named after him. We don't do it.
But you know, when somebody does something like that. And
Joey Taylor was a good friend of law enforcement. He
did he did a lot for law enforcement. He bought
a city of Columbias some police dogs and gave him
to them and uh, he he loved his animals. And
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you know, that's what his wife wanted to do in
his honor. And I thought, I thought it was a
great Listen, let's name it after him, name it Jet
and so that's what we've got so far.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
In this conversation, you mentioned a city council member, we
talked about County Council having to do with schools in particular.
There are a lot of legislative issues that you deal
with outside of this thing, even like the General Assembly
with the closing of this last session, where there are
opportunities that you felt were missed or there were successes
from the legislature that you're excited about. What happened for
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law enforcement in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Well, the failure to stop law got passed, which I
think is good. It's not in effect yet, but it's
got passed where they put a little bit more teeth
into failure to stop prior if you've fled from the police.
It really didn't get anything, no charges, hardly ever prosecuted.
So General Assembly did pass some legislation that strengthened that.
(18:47):
You know, the biggest disappointment that I saw is that
came with earmarks and people think, oh my god, that's pork,
that's bad stuff, that's this thing, and sometimes it's used
like that, but sometimes it's used for good stuff. Now,
we needed a command post. Our command post that we
had was a Winter Bay go from like two thousand.
I mean it was just outdated and caught on fire twice.
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Last year, the General Assembly, in an ear mark, gave
us enough money to go get us another get us
a command post. Now this year, our two helicopters are down.
We can't fly. They are not airworth anymore. Their Vietnam
Era they both in the seventies. They're just not airworthy.
And we had some legislators that from Richland County had
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all got together and said, okay, let's get the Sheriff's
apartment some money about one point two million dollars so
they can't get a new helicopter. Well, when they cut
out all the ear marks, they went my helicopter, and
so you know, they just threw the baby out with
the Bath War. You know, there's some that our port
that shouldn't be done, but there's some that really helps
and impacts the community, and we didn't get it. So
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now we have to wait and hopefully next year the
General Assembly and do go back to the ear marks
that they've done that helps out local government. Now, to me,
I think that's a big disappointment.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Sheriff Lot You you know you're talking about we should
focus a little bit more on some of the positive stories. Obviously,
in law enforcement, part of the story has to be
bad because usually there's a crime involved. But you guys
are batting one hundred or excuse me, a thousand right
now when it comes to solving murders.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And it's been that way for three years. We haven't
had an unsolved murder in three years. We've had ten.
This year we solved all ten and that's about half
of what we had last year this time, So.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The murder rate has been cutting the half.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
So the murder rate is good, but we still got ten,
ten victims. Ten people's died. But at least the family
knows that, you know, some justice is being done. You know,
we've done our part. We've made their rest, We've made
the case that it's up to the prosecutors to do
their part. So now we got some of the best
investigators in the world. Our forensic lab is second to none.
(20:58):
You know, we can we can do it all and
we get it very quickly. But one thing that we
have that i'll team most places in the United States
doesn't have that is the relationship with the community. Our
community in Richland County will not hesitate in calling us
and saying I saw this, this is who did this,
this is where he is, this is where she's at.
The community works hand in hand with us to make
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sure we saw these cases. And we had a murder
on Broad River Road not too long ago at the
c kmart and we were getting crime stoppers tips. We
were getting people calling us right left telling us who
did it and when we were able to solve that
one almost immediately because of what the community does. You
don't have that everywhere, but this is something that we've
developed over the years. We've made a concentrated effort to
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go out into all of our communities and build relationships
with them, so it doesn't matter where it happens. In
Richland County, We've developed a relationship and the people are
fed up with crime and they let us.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Know very quickly.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yesterday I saw a video in New York where a
child was almost picked up right off the sidewalk in
front of the parents, whisking to a band and then
gone probably forever. How is child trafficking or trafficking in general,
And we've had a lot of problems, particularly from our
southern border. How is it now in Richland County in particular,
because I know you may not be the head of
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those investigations because I think they are mostly federal crimes,
but you guys get involved because it does happen here
in the county.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
It is our responsibility. The sex trafficking and usually that's
what it is. When you're talking about human trafficking in
Richland County is sex trafficking. It intends to be runaway
young girls. That's not where somebody gets snatched off the street.
It's where a young girl is a runaway or over
(22:43):
social media that she is groomed to where she meets
somebody and then you know, they turn them into a
select traffic and we work those cases. They happen here
in Richland County, but we have a unit that just
specializes in those type cases and so we have them.
A lot of it's concentrated in the Too Notch Road area.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Is it getting worse.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
No, I'm not gonna say it's getting worse about any
means whatsoever. Things that you hear about that problems in
other parts of the United States are just not problems here.
We don't we don't have the influence with people coming
across the border that has a negative impact here in
Richland County. We just don't know some drugs yet, but
(23:28):
drugs are. Drugs are coming from Canada, They're coming all
over the place, China. But we just don't have the
when you talk about illegals, we just don't have those
problems that other people have. One reason is that relationship
we have with all the minority communities. They know that
they're going to suffer when they have somebody who's here
(23:50):
illegally does something wrong, so they don't want it. They
tell us MS thirteen some years ago tried to move
into Richland County. Hispanic community let us know everywhere they
were at what they were doing, and we were dead
on them. They left, they left, They didn't so they
didn't set up operation here because they we were on
(24:10):
top of them. They could make a move without somebody
in Hispanic community calling and letting us know. And so
we continue to see it that way with all our
minority communities.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Sure, Flee and Lott with us here on the Jonathan
and Kelly Show. And this question probably would be better
asked of Skip Holbrook, but he's not with us, and
you are, And is Richland County, Columbia's part of that.
The news this morning as we record this, the big
news in Colombia is that there is a potential EMU
roaming wild over on Bush River Road. Any updates on that.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's still running.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's still running.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
It's still running. That flightless birds moving very quickly. It's
on the loose. A few weeks ago to right close
to where we're at in this studio, we had a
pig going down the interstate, so we called the pig.
There's video that's we went nationwide. Now NBC News even
(25:08):
contacted us about him. Two highway patrol officers and one
of my deputies. A pig fell out of the truck,
one of the big truck. The pig figure fell out.
There was a small pig and here they are running
zig zagging and they catched the pig.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I did see the video and that that that
patrol me. They ended up hauling the pig.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
He's a farm boy, he knews actually how to do
the pig. And my deputy that was there, she's also
a farm girl. She had friends who's got pigs. So
the pig found a home.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
We have a we adopted them all.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, we adopted it out. We have pictures that it
land in the mud with the rest of the pig.
So it was a feel good story. But people had
a blast over that. But them you, we ain't caught
it yet. The problem is, though, is what are you
gonna do when you catch it. I don't know. That's
a big bird, pecky on top of your ball.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Head, I said. If I was the cop coming up
to my taseel, he's.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Six foot tall. Possibly they get to be like six
feet tall.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And they run over thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yeah, and those pictures of it running down bush.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Chasing that, well, I know the Mustang can trace down
the thirty one mile hour EMU. But if the EMU
does not stop, can you now and force the failure
to stop?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
As long as we've got the blue lights and sour
you know we can. We can handcut them little skinny
legs that got so fat.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You're gonna zip time. And I think I'm tasting that thing.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
If I can get close enough, because he's not.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
We're you going to hit it. It's got a little
tiny neck. It's long, but you got to be able
to get two prongs in it. You can't get it
in the body because the feathers.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Are too thick.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I only hope that we have a camera handy because
this has got to be featured on on Patrol Live
with Bernis Wilson when we go to when we go
to Columbia, South Carolina for the EMU cat the EMU
catcher that's going on.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But the pig, the little small pig was classic. I
mean here they are, you know, kind of double standard
here because we call pigs a lot of times, as
as Roger.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Pig on.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
The two pigs were chasing the pig cat catch the
pig behind you know, listen ups back legs and Jonathan,
you know about farm stuff. That pig was squealing from
in the back of the cargo and we took it
to the farm and he's living a good life now.
Hopefully he's not being a barbecue anytime.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I say that pig is going to be valuable.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I don't know. I don't know, Maurice.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I guess you.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Don't see many ROTISSERIEUS available. Hey, Sheriffly, thank you again
for all your efforts and a big salute to law
enforcement no matter which county, even Lexton County. Although you
guys need to obviously work on your softball team big
salute to law enforcement from Ice all the way to
our county and to our cities. And also for all
the volunteers. You have, so many volunteers. People want to volunteer.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
People come in right and left every day. What can
I do to help out? And and we put them,
We put them to work. If you've got a desire
to do something, you want to volunteer, then come on,
We'll find somewhere for you. But that saves us a
lot of money and also allows us to have people
to send the office out of the office and put
them on the street, which is where they need to be.
Where we want to get as many as we can.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
And if you have experience with EMUs, we need you
to if you.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Can last of that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How do you wrangle that thing? I don't know, put
a lass around that little pencil neck of his a nother.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Way that you'd heard it too bad? And if you
put around the feet then it's gonna fall face down
and break his beak. I'm just I don't know what
we're going to do. Oh remember recently you had the
zebra that was run that's right, and they used a
helicopter with a hall us and lifted that zebra up
(29:02):
and flew it home.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
What did think he was going through his mind?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What in the hell if I could with a ride
like that, I would try to escape again.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
He didn't look I had any paint on his face.
It looked like it was enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Thank you again, sure the fine
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