Updates: Local Juvenile Crime / Metro Board Resignation

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
About a year ago, there was a woman out for
a jog or a walk or something at Memorial Park
and a fifteen well actually this kid was thirteen years old,
so it was more than a year ago. It was
two or three years ago. It's amazing how fast time goes.
So about thirteen years old, woman is out for a

(00:22):
walk at Memorial Park, midtown, Omaha. He threatens her with
a knife, pushes her into a little wooded area there
at the park, and attempts to assault her. And then
the story doesn't even say that he was then running
around in traffic waving a weapon at people. This kid

(00:45):
lost what was ever left of his ever loving mind
that day. I don't know anything else about this kid.
I mean, either this kid is demon incarnate or he
had a really bad day, was either on or off
the wrong kind of medication. I don't know. But since
that point, because of his age, they couldn't charge him

(01:07):
with a crime, so they put him in the juvenile
justice system. And that means every once in a while
he sees a counselor and the counselor says, Billy, if
that is your real name, I don't know the kid's name, Billy.
You know you shouldn't have done that. Yeah, I know,
stop that, And sometimes they smack him with a newspaper.

(01:30):
You billy, you stop that. So now he's sixteen and
they've decided that he can't be in the juvenile justice
system anymore. They're like, all right, well, now we charge
him with a crime, and noupe can't do any of that.

(01:50):
He was thirteen when he did this, So what happens.
He's just he's out, He is completed in patient treatment,
and he is now back in society, which means that
here in a few weeks, he's going to school. Immediately.
Parents are like, wait, which school? Now, I've got bad

(02:14):
news for you here. I don't know which school, but
I do know this. When you send your kids to
school here in the next couple of weeks, three weeks,
there's a pretty decent chance that there's someone in each
classroom who's an absolute raving maniac. Sorry, hate to say
that about these little children, the future of tomorrow. Why

(02:39):
would I say such a thing Because I hate kids? No,
I love kids, Lucy hate hates kids. But and teachers
will tell you this in any moment of candor, you
can get from them. In each classroom there's one, two,
sometimes three kids that the teachers are like. If I
could just not only excuse them from my classroom, but

(03:03):
jettison them into space, life would be so much better
for everybody. Now, that doesn't mean that they're the kind
that are like get in the bushes at the business
end of a knife. But these kids could very well
be violent, harassing all the rest of this stuff. And

(03:25):
why do I say this because the story here from
WWT six news about this Omaha teenager who's going back
to school as parents are like, wait a second. If
sex offenders have to report what one parent said to
the TV station, miners with violent sex offenders should have
to publicly report. I don't want my daughter anywhere near

(03:47):
this kid at school. We don't know who the kid is,
we don't know his name, we don't know what school.
The kids will fish this one out though, there're these
little columbos. They'll figure it out. They'll either figure out
this is the kid, or they'll figure out pretty quickly
there's something weird about this kid and we don't like him. Sorry, again,

(04:12):
it sounds horrible to say this. I'm just telling you,
these kids no so why would I say that there's
a lot of kids. This is the Nebraska State Probation
Administrator talking to WWT First Alert six News. He said, well,
what happens is when we have a kid who is

(04:33):
released back into society like this, it's like a wounded raptor.
We tried our best to patch it up, and now
we have to release it back into the wild. But
they'll be an ankle monitor, there'll be a curfew, he's
required to continue his therapy. If he rides a school bus,

(04:54):
he has to sit in the first two rows. That'll
be a tell. If there's a weird kid on your
school say, come back here and sit with me and
sit in the third row. If he can't, that's your kid.
He must stay away from electronics and the internet unless
supervised by an adult. Wait, the same adults who are
supervising him when he did this a few years ago,

(05:17):
when he attacked this woman by knife point? Are these
the adults who are supervising him. Great, I feel good
about this. So probation is trying to keep an eye
on this kid and for the parents to say, wait
a second, if this kid's still so dangerous that we
need to have whether at the school are the teachers

(05:38):
going to be made aware? We don't know. The principal
will probably be made aware. There might be a school
resource officer or counselor made aware, But I don't know
about the teachers. But Probation is going to be monitoring him. Well,
how many young people are being monitored right now by

(06:00):
the Nebraska State but Probation Administrator twenty three hundred and
twenty seven At wait a second, I thought we just
heard from a Douglas County board member on kfab's morning
news the other day that the county board was trying
to a few years ago eliminate the bigger juvenile justice
center because we don't need to have so many kids

(06:22):
locked up. And you know about this story. In case
you don't, we've got a juvenile justice center downtown that
has so many beds. We have more juvenile justice offenders
in there than we have beds. In their wisdom, though,
the county board still voted to create a smaller juvenile

(06:43):
justice center. And they build it and it's there, but
no one's using it for anything. They spent a whole
bunch of money to build this thing. No one's using
it for anything. Including the overflow. They don't want this
thing to be used. They don't want any of the
stuff to be used. So more and more kids are
ferreted out to things like probation, where they remove their

(07:05):
ankle monitor and continue to engage in criminal behavior all
the time. Right now, the probation, how many probation officers
do you think you have? I don't know the answer
to that question. I'm guessing it's not twenty three hundred
and twenty seven or anywhere close to it. But that's
the number of young people who are supposed to be
checking in with probation. And these are young people, meaning

(07:27):
they'll be in school here in a few weeks. They're young,
they're out. They're not in like they're not at Carnee
or even in the Juvenile Justice center here in Omaha.
They're just being monitored. Can't wait to send my kid
back to school here in a couple of weeks. What

(07:48):
else do we have in the news involving young people? Well,
and an Omaha movie theater. The other night, a mom
and a kid went to I don't know what movie,
but they went to the Sarbon Cinema Starbon Village about
sixty seventh in center. This was Tuesday night, movie gets

(08:13):
out eleven thirty and there were a group of kids
in their young people and the mom did something absolutely inexcusable.
These this group of young people were in the movie
and they wouldn't shut up. They spent money to go
see a movie and they're in there talking. They're ruining
the experience for everyone else. And the parents said, hey,

(08:35):
can you guys be quiet. Of course, the gang of
young people took exception to this, and now they're out
in the lobby. The girl spits on the mom. Her son,
who was eighteen, said, you can't do that. You've got
to apologize for spitting on my mom. And that's when
a group of attackers ganged up on this kid and

(09:00):
got him down on the ground and started punching and
kicking him repeatedly. Mom tried to intervene. She's got a
broken wrist, cuts to her head and face and a
chip tooth. Son has a large cut on top of
his head and a lot of bruising. These guys were

(09:20):
assaulted right there in the lobby of the movie theater.
There were employees, I presume looking on going what in
the world do we do about this? Well, no, one
did anything. This story really really upsets me because I've
become that first parent to tell a group of young people, hey,
can you guys keep it down a little bit. Yeah,

(09:43):
can't wait until I get gang beat by a group
of teenagers. But don't worry. You're not allowed to carry
a firearm into a movie theater, a lot of private businesses.
Why would you ever need one? One of these people,
I don't know if it was the I think it
was the one of the attackers went and grabbed a
large flashlight from nearby, like one of those big, heavy flashlights,

(10:07):
clubbed him in the head with it. Could have killed
this kid. But you're not allowed to defend yourself. Hey,
these are just kids. Let's see a driver? Am I dwelling?
A driver crashed into a home and Lincoln at four
point thirty in the morning yesterday. The driver was twelve

(10:28):
years old. There were two passengers in the car, thirteen
and fourteen years old. They're out at four thirty in
the morning. They've presumably stolen mom's car. The mom says
she wasn't to wear her daughter and her two friends
taking the car out in the middle of the night.
They're driving around, didn't know what they were doing. A
homeowner tells k ETV News Watch seven he awoke to

(10:49):
a loud bang and his house shaking from the impact
of a car smashing into his house, goes outside. Three
teenagers are running from the yard. Card that's lucy. You
ever go joy riding when you were a teenager when
you weren't supposed to, you weren't licensed to drive? Who

(11:14):
I wasn't the driver? But yes, yeah, I know, me too.
I the idea of, oh, we're just gonna crash into
a house and we're gonna run off. No one will
ever know it was us. Holy smokes, How stupid can
you be? I get the instinct to run, but at
some point doesn't doesn't something in your brain say, well,

(11:39):
they're gonna know it's my mom's car, and my mom's
gonna probably guess it was me who did this?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
What?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Take your car and drive? I don't Lord?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
All right?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is that all I got on the rampaging young people tonight.
I'm sure you'll have.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Morning New a bunch of them by Monday.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
I know, but yep, that's all I got on that front.
Here say hey, back to school times coming up. Can't
wait till your kids are right there sitting in the
classroom next to multiple juvenile offenders, some who are very violent.
That's great.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
And if you're doing that now, and if you go
to the movies and there's a bunch of kids over
there talking, then you're not allowed to tell them to
be quiet in the movie theater because you'll get gang beat.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
That's fantastic. All right. We have another movement on the
case of a Metropolitan Community College board member. I'll let
you know what happened yesterday on this story. In two minutes.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Told you now a couple of days ago that there
was a move to try and get a board member
from the Metro Community College Board of Governors, that's the
school board for Metro. No one has any idea who
their Metro Community College representative is. No one remembers whether
they voted for this board, who their board member is,
or who any of these people are. Why does it matter.

(13:11):
I don't go to Metro Community College because they can
raise your taxes. These guys have the ability to raise
your taxes. Just letting you know it's an important board.
This issue, though, got to be a little weird there
was a a private chat among people who thought that

(13:34):
they were friends. This is what I've learned since we've
talked about this the last few days, was this wasn't
something posted in a on a public Facebook page they
where they shared a picture of a local liberal activist

(13:54):
who her page, her public Facebook page, is full of
vanity and vulgarity and anti conservative this and that, which
is fine, But then don't come at me and be like,
I'm so offended that someone said something vulgar. You are

(14:16):
fluent in vulgar. But she's playing the victim the last
few days because someone made a really hideous comment about
her and her I don't know if it's her boyfriend
or husband. I don't have any idea, but the idea
the thing was, there was a picture of these guys
at a gay pride parade here recently in Omaha. She's

(14:39):
proudly holding a license plate that says eighty six forty
seven FDT eighty six forty seven eliminate the forty seventh
president FDT forget Donald Trump, right, So probably holding the
license plate this is who we are in your face,
which again fine, I don't care. A lot lot of

(15:00):
people have then complained to the Nebraska DMV, saying, why
did you issue this license plate? You need to recall it.
I have heard, though I don't have it on one
hundred percent certitude, but I have heard that the DMV
has issued a recall for this license plate. Be that
as it may. There's a picture of them, and someone

(15:25):
said that the guy involved was gayer than Elton John's handbag,
and then a member of the Metro Community College Board,
Adam Gottshall, said, maybe that's why she's crazy. She has
not been satisfied in the bedroom, except to use a
very profane, vulgar, ugly phrase to suggest as much this is.

(15:51):
This is the way some guys talk when they think
that no one's listening to them. Sorry, did I say
that out loud? So it was a private conversation with
a bunch of people thought that they could get away
with saying something like that. Someone on the chat was
not enthralled. Lucy remind me to come back to that

(16:12):
if I ever write it down here.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh, because I can't remember what was it?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
No, I want to get back to that, like so,
because the issue is like, why was this leaked? Someone
on the chat was not impressed by the comment very quickly.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
So you just make sure that the comment that we
can contribute to god Shaw is about the bedroom, not
about the bag, right, Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
No word from Elton John's handbag.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
But so this all gets out there, a number of
liberal activists are like, this is terrible. He needs to
be removed from the board. Well, apparently the board couldn't
remove him, but they could censure him. They could all
get together and they're meeting the other night and say
you and he apologized for the comment, voted with them

(17:04):
to censure him, but said he wasn't going to resign.
Then things got really crazy when he was taken out
by the cops because there was a warrant for his
arrest for a failure to appear in court on something
to do with whether or not he had the right
registration in his car or whatever. So amazing that everyone
suddenly knew where this dangerous criminal was. Failure to appear

(17:28):
for lack of registration, that's what they bargein to Holmes for.
But still so he was taken out from the meeting,
and then last night they had an emergency meeting of
the board and unanimously voted to accept his resignation. He

(17:51):
is now resigned from this board. He didn't show up
at the meeting. He sent in a letter, And the
letter he said it was a privilege to represent the
residents of District three and he didn't want to be
a part of any potential continued harm to the board,
the college, or its students. He said, I've seen firsthand

(18:13):
how the college serves its community by putting the students first,
by responding to constituents' needs, and above all, by honoring
its mission statement. So he resigned from the board. Why
to take a few days? Well he was under arrest, Well, right,

(18:34):
I can. I've talked to some of the people who
are familiar with this situation, and I can only I
will only choose to say this because now this guy
is no longer on a board, he reverts back to
being private citizen. He's got things going on in his
private life that were not helped by this situation. Still,

(19:00):
the question for me comes back to if these are
a bunch of guys and people talking on this private chat,
someone saw this and thought he needs to pay for
that comment. Now, I'm not disputing it was an ugly comment,
But when you think that you're saying something among friends,

(19:22):
and one of those so called friends screenshots it and
sends it to the liberal activists. There's something more at
play now, just because even though I'm really late for
this break, I don't want to re explain everything next,
so let me just wrap this up here. You know
that there is a there's a second congressional district race

(19:47):
that's now underway. We still have several months until a primary,
and then several months after that until next November, next
November for the general election, and local conservative group people
have started to divide up into what is right now
two camps. You've got your Brett Linstrom, you got your

(20:08):
Brinker Herding. These are the two camps that have now
divvied up and are looking at the second congressional seat
being vacated by Don Bacon. On top of that, you've
also got senate race. And so there are some people
on the conservative side who are more Dan Osborne. I
still don't quite get it, but it's there. And so

(20:33):
what you have right now is a number of people
on the red side of the political spectrum who divided
up into a couple of different groups, and there are
problems with each other as they're trying to take down
each other's candidates because this is the game that's played.
So a lot of people are looking at this going, oh,
it's blue people, it's Blue daughters who have been doing this. No,

(20:56):
it's so called friendly fire from within the Republican Party,
which is already really divided. And this happened a few
years ago when you had your more Trump people go
against your more establishment Republicans in this area, in this state,
and that created a big rift, and that rift is

(21:18):
not getting any closer to being mended. It is widening,
if anything. So someone on this chat who's not aligned
with someone's political candidate when it comes to Senate and
or Congress said, huhh. Now, none of this has come
out to touch anyone who is running for Congress right now,

(21:44):
but I think that's where all of this really comes from.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Scott Voyes Mornings nine to eleven on News Radio eleven
ten KFAB