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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show. I try not to spend
too much time on the news of Houston where I live,
because we're a nationwide broadcast, But sometimes I feel like,
you know, we get too much LA news and New
York news and DC news. You need to know what's
happening out here in the real world, because the country's
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more like Houston than it is DC, that's for sure,
or New York or LA. ICE has arrested over two
hundred illegal alien child sex offenders in the Houston area
over the past just six months that President Trump has
been the president. Credit for this story goes to a
site called Straight Arrow News.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Two hundred and fourteen people detained by ICE in Houston
over the last six months have either been charged with
or convicted of child sex crimes. The press release from
ICE says the arrest number over the past six months
surpassed the amount of child sex offenders not by the
office in all of twenty twenty four. The office, crediting
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the federal government's increase of resources, The acting Field Office
director says, while we still have a long way to
go to truly get this crisis under control, the strides
we have made in just six months to make our
local communities safer our substantial, and our officers continue to
work tirelessly every day to get the worst of the
worst criminal aliens out of Southeast Texas. According to new
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analysis from the Deportation Data Project, ICE as a whole
has arrested more than one hundred thousand migrants since Trump's
inauguration on January twentieth.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Through late June.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The analysis suggests forty percent of those arrested are convicted criminals.
For comparison, in twenty twenty four, under the Biden administration,
fifty one thousand arrests were made and fifty three percent
had criminal records.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You've probably seen the story by now, because it's garnered
a lot of attention. ICE has arrested an illegal alien
who was trying to buy a gun. Now, illegal aliens,
like felons, are not allowed to buy guns, and that's
how Ice was alerted. When he went to fill out
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the federal firearms application. It triggered the fact that he's
in the country illegally and ICE was able to arrest him.
He's in the country from Jamaica and he's not just
an illegal alien. He was serving as a cop in Maine.
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He came to the country with a visa, but he
overstayed his visa, which by the way, is a crime.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Boston says John
Luke Evans was picked up in Biddeford after he illegally
tried to buy a gun in Maine. ICE says Evans
is from Jamaica and that he came here legally in
twenty twenty three but overstayed his visa. During the arrest,
they say he told ICE agents he was trying to
buy the gun to use as part of his employment
as a police officer. You can see Evans here in
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a post from the Old Orchard Beach Police Department back
in June as they welcomed six new reserve officers, saying
the group had recently graduated from the Main Criminal Justice
Academy's Law Enforcement pre Service program. ICE is coming down
on Old Orchard BEACHPD, saying, in part, we have police
department that was We have a police department that was
knowingly breaking the very law they are charged with enforcing
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in order to employ an illegal alien. Old Orchard Police
Chief Elice Chart is pushing back against ICE. She says
Evans did federal work authorization forms and that US Department
of Homeland Security verified that Evans was cleared to work
in the US. Chief Chard also points out that under
main law, non citizen residents are allowed to work in
law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Somebody needs to throw the book at these people. Federal
authorities arrested two staff members a few days ago at
a medical clinic in California after they blocked ICE agents
from arresting an illegal alien who fled into the clinic
during pursuit, like Monuel Noriega running to a church. US
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Attorney Bill Esseley, by the way, he is Trump's US
attorney pick for California. This guy is good and he
is in the belly of the beast. He is doing
such great work. US Attorney Bill Asselly says this story
is another example of a false narrative pedaled by irresponsible Well,
you know what, I'll let you listen to the story.
(04:59):
He says it all right here. ABC seven in LA
with the story.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
It's cell phone video that went viral a couple of
weeks ago showing employees at a surgery center in Ontario
trying to stop federal agents from arresting a suspected undocumented immigrant.
Now two of those workers, Jose Ortega and Daniella Davila,
charged with assaulting and interfering with federal officers.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
It is against the law to interfere with federal immigration agents.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You cannot touch them and you cannot get in their way.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
US Attorney Bill A. Saley says that ICE agents were
following a truck with three men inside of it on
July eighth in Ontario. The complaint calling one of those
men a quote target alien. When the truck arrived at
the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center, their target, Dennis Giann, who
was a landscaper at the center, ran inside the building.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The narrative out.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
There was an insinuation that this illegal alien was somehow
a patient at this medical center, that he was removed
during an appointment, and that's just completely false. He was
under investigation for being in the country here unlawfully.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He was being chased by federal agents.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
He ran into this medical center to escape the agents,
and these workers obstructed or attempted to obstruct the agent's
ability to apprehend him, and they made physical contact. They
actually touched the agents. They laid hands on federal agents.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well your imagine number.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The criminal complaint references this video allegedly showing the villa
wedging herself between the officer and Gien and Ortega then
grabbing the officer's arm. Ortega's niece speaking out alongside immigrants'
rights advocates this.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Afternoon, this arrest was not about law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It was about silencing him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
My uncle was being targeted and prosecuted, not because he
broke any law, but because he has fearlessly stoot up
to defend the constitutional rights.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
This arrest is not only a blatant abuse of power,
it is a direct violation of due process and a
dangerous attack on constitutional rights of US citizens.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Both medical workers have been arrested and made appearances in
federal court.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Did everybody knows who this guy is? Come on, man
fit them, Michael Berry, come on. DeSantis confirms that deportation
flights from Alligator Alcatraz began. I think it was last Friday.
They began, and he made clear. I want to be clear.
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I don't want it to be where illegals are just
being stored at the facility and then just kind of
sitting around. I want them processed and deported on an
aggressive schedule.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
This provides an ability to enhance the mission, to increase
the number and frequency of deportations. And so what's been
done here has really been remarkable. There's full ground air
communications from the airfield. There's air tracking radar capabilities, on
site security, securing all access ports of the taxiway and
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runway on aircraft arrival that happens. You got five thousand
gallons of jet fuel on site, you got runway lighting,
you got everything you need to be able to do that.
This airport is able to accept commercial sized aircraft and
conduct both both day and nighttime operations. And so that's
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what it's all about, to be able to help process
and remove folks that are legally in the state of
Florida and in the United States of America. So we
look forward to this cadence increasing.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't think we've addressed this on the show yet,
but it deserves our attention. After the fires in Los Angeles,
devastating fires, there was, as there often is, a celebrity
concert called Fire Aid and it raised one hundred million dollars.
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All the famous people performing, they never give their own money.
It's people at home, honest, decent, hardworking people sending in
ten dollars, twenty dollars, you name it. And so there's
Olivia Rodrigo, which is why you watch, or I don't
know who that is, Katy Perry or Lady Gaga. And
so one hundred million dollars was raised, but the money
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wasn't shared with the victims. California Republican Congressman Kevin Kylie
is calling for Attorney General Pambondy to investigate after it
was revealed that the money went to non profit political
groups with no experience in fire relief, and not a
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penny went to the actual victims.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
I have asked Attorney General Pambondy to open an investigation
into the fire aid concert that took place in the
aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles fires. What has happened,
what we have earned, is absolutely beyond belief. In the
aftermath of these fires, which destroyed eighteen thousand homes and
killed tragically thirty people, there was a fire aid concert
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in which a number of high profile musicians generously agreed
to perform, and people responded in an amazing way. Tens
of thousands of people donated, raising one hundred million dollars
for what they were told was direct relief for the victims.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But now we've learned that.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
This money didn't go to the victims at all. Instead,
it went to nonprofits, some of which have nothing to
do with fire relief, where they promote things like voting
and civic engagement and multi generational power building. Some of
them aren't even located in LA So I've asked the
Attorney General to open an investigation in order to restore
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the intent of the donors, in order to make the
victims whole and to bring accountability.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I yield back. We did this story yesterday morning on
the Morning Show. Give me if you listen to both shows,
because occasionally we do repeat ourselves, but I hope you
don't mind. This is such a positive, wonderful, sweet, beautiful story.
This fellow is a pilot and he was raised by
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his grandmother and his grandfather. So he is on the
schedule to fly one day and he finds out that
his grandmother is flying from Memphis to Chicago. I think
he lives in Memphis, and she lives in Memphis two
and he finds out that his grandmother is flying on
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this day at this time. He happens to be on
the schedule. So he contacts the pilot who's flying that plane.
He's certified to fly planes that size, and he gets
him to switch routes with him, so he gets to
fly his grandmother. Well, of course you've been on a
plane before. He gets on the plane, before she does.
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He doesn't allow himself to be seen in the terminal.
He gets on the plane, they close the door behind
the cockpit. His grandmother sits down. Oh, I get choked
up on this one. His grandmother sits down in the flight.
She's basically his mother, she's raised him. And he's doing
the announcements, and he tells the story about his grandmother,
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and of course the sad story that his grandfather never
got to see him fly or never got to hear
him do the announcements. This one right here, this is
as beautiful as story as there is.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Good afternoon, everyone, Welcome on Born American Airlines Fight forty
three eight.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Great service over to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
My name is Justin and I will.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Be here captain on today's flight, calling over to Chicago.
This is a very special flight for me. Little backstory
about me.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I was born and raised here in the Memphis area,
here up.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Here, and it's a special flight for me.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Guess right ahead. I grew up here in the business area.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They supported me, They've done everything they could to help me.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
It's where I am today.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
We passed away earlier this year, so he never got
the opportunity to fly with me.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
But this amazing crew that I'm flying with here today
was able to.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Help me pull it off to where my grandmother got
the opportunity to apply to Chicago with you today and
I will leave the compan so we do.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Appreciate her mindy and help me get off. So we
did do.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
The House Ethics Committee finds that Alexandria o Casio Cortez
broke rules in accepting the gown that she wore to
the met gala back in twenty twenty nine. The thirty
five thousd dollar gown, sorry, thirty five thousand dollars a
ticket to go, and the gown she wore read tax
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the rich, Well, isn't that cute? A bunch of rich
white liberals guilty over their wealth, wanting you tax to
death because they don't actually want. You know, they could
give money. At the end of your tax return, it
says you can donate to the federal government, you can
pay down the debt, do whatever you want. But these
rich white liberals, and that's who wants the taxes increased.
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Blacks don't want the tax increased. It's white liberals. They
are the death of this country. She was ordered to
pay an additional twenty seven hundred dollars for the rented
gown she wore that was valued at more than eighteen
thousand dollars. I don't think she cares. Honestly, I really
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don't think she cares. What does do you want to marry?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You want to just to say the word and I'll
PLUGU is a video the guy made. It's been going
around and several listeners have sent it to me. And
it's a guy claiming to prove that the six hour
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P three trigger will fire independent of being touched, which,
as you can imagine, is a huge problem. That's how
somebody gets killed or at a minimum, severely injured. And
I wondered, is there anything to this? Why do people
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keep sending me this? I've had some six hour some
former six hour partisans, uh, telling me that this is
very concerning and needs to be brought to light. Now,
I've known some folks over the years who are huge
six hour fans. And then it turns out that there
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is a police officer in Houston, thirty five year veteran
named Richard Fernandez Junior, who on January twenty at twenty
twenty five, he was working traffic control for a parade
and apparently his six hour went off and shot him
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in the foot, and he is filing lawsuit, a lawsuit
against sig Sour. This is an issue. Six hour has
created a website called P three twenty truth dot com
because this is coming up apparently quite a bit. There
are lots of people claiming this happened to them. Rick Fernandez,
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thirty five year HPD officer, is our guest. Welcome, sir,
thank you tell me if you would what happened January
twenty at twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, Well, I work on a crime suppression team out
of Kingwood and they had brought us down for the
for a parade they were going to have on MLK Day,
and so we were given an assignment to do some
traffic direction at MLK and Airport Boulevard, and so that's
where we were at and I came out. We were
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told given our assignment, and we were told to go
ahead and get on posts. We went out to our
posts and I exited my patrol car and I walked
around to the passenger site to start directing traffic and
have some people to turn onto MLK a certain direction,
and I made contact with the eye contact with a
driver that was coming towards me, and I started a point.
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I think I started a point, but I heard of
pops and then at that point I kind of got
a little confused because it sounded like my gun had popped.
It didn't sound like a gun shot. So I looked
down and I saw that I had a hole in
my pants around my calf, and then I could see
that I was starting to bleed because it was it
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was coming out, dripping down my calves down onto the ground.
And I told one of the people I was working
with that I think I'd been shot, and so, uh, again,
we didn't hear a gunshot, we heard a pop. So
he walked me around to the driver's side of my car.
He laid me down in the car and at that
point people started, I guess he radioed. People started coming
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towards me to help, but they started putting tarniquits on me,
and I didn't. I was I was confused because my
gun never it never came out of the holster. It
was in the holster the entire time. I didn't even
touch my gun and it fired. So uh So, anyway,
I was transported to Herman Hospital and they removed the
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bullet went in the upper part of my calf, went
down my calf all the weight to my ankle, and
they were moved at the next day. Surgically, I have.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Very well developed calves. How would you describe the development
level of your calves? Some people have really just kind
of straight up and down legs, and some people, like
a lot of Asians, will have really big muscular calves.
Where do you fit in that?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Well, I was a college football player and I am
I'm older now, but I am I am very much
at an infort rower.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So I rowe probably a lot like mum. I row
a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So if anybody that knows me knows I talked about rowing.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If I'm walking along in short pants and I flex
my calves in front of people they don't know me.
A lot of times people will comment, wow, that's an
imp you're probably getting that as well.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, I don't know. I really I don't know. I
don't wear shorts that often. I guess but U them.
But well, I have I.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Understand where you are, so so at what point? So
I'm thinking that the natural reaction for you never having
touched your weapon is that somebody else had to shoot you.
I mean, I'm thinking your first thought had to be, well,
I know, I didn't touch my gun. Somebody shot me?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Or was it angle?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, it was just it didn't. I didn't hear a gunshot.
I heard a pop, and so it confused me on
how did my gun fire in the holster and I'm
not pulling it out, I'm not touching my gun. How
did it fire? That couldn't be my gun? And I'm
not sure if I felt a little recoil on my hip,
but my gun never moved from the hulster. Yeah, so
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I was confused. I didn't feel like anyone was shooting
at me because I felt like I would have heard
the gun shot. I've heard enough gunshots that I would
recognize the gunshot. But I heard a pop, and it
was because it was locked.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
In the holster. And you think that what sound dampened it?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Interesting, Well, a thirty five year veteran, you've been to
the range a fair number of times and you've heard
enough rounds go off, so I think you'd know the
difference between a pop and a gunshot. It's just amazing
that it's on your hip and it goes off and
then you're I mean you might have I don't know,
I'm just spitballing. You might have gone in shock. Your
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body might have been in a shock that you were
not aware of.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
There's no doubt I was in shock.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So they take you to the hospital and my understanding
is that you lost feeling in your Is it your
right or left foot?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So the bullet goes through your calf, down the leg,
and does it lot in the foot or does it come.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Out and lodges in next to my ankle?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh? Is it still there now?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They took it out?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Okay, So tell me about the process from there. I'm
assuming that's pretty painful. I'm assuming you have some surgeries.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, surgery to remove the bullet. Uh, And I was
out for about three months and then I returned back
to duty. But as far as the pain and as
far as the you know, the surgeon at Herman was fantastic,
Doctor Easton fantastic. Uh. And my leg looks it looks
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about the same as it did before. And you know,
I do have some starring along my leg. It kind
of followed the trace of the bullet. And I've had
I've had to have lots of physical care, and I've
had to do lots of rehabilitation to it, and I
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still don't have feeling in part of my leg.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I can only imagine what size round does that fire?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It was a nine millimeter.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I look, I'm not the judge in your case, but
I can't imagine what level of anger I would feel.
I believe that a gun that I was wearing discharge
without me touching it can cause me all this. Can
you hold with us for just a moment, Kits of.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
The world as we know it is the world?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Sargan grit Frnandez Junior is our guest. He says that
on January twenty, twenty twenty five, while he was working
as a police officer for the Houston Police Department, a
thirty five year veteran, his service weapon discharged a six
hour p three. So you you do? You go? So,
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so Scott Cisco, your lawyer, how did you know to
find him? Is this his expertise? And then kind of
take us through that case if you would.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, first of all, not a sergeant, just a senior
police officer. Uh, because I know a lot of policemen
listen to you and they're going to be giving me
a hard time.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Oh did I say, sergeant?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I think I know. I'm yes, you did. I'm sorry,
I'm okay, Okay, that's you know. So Uh, Yes, Scott
is my attorney. Scott's been a friend of mine since
I was well, for a long time before my police
career started. Since elementary school. I've known Scott, So we've
been friends forever. Uh. And so I called Scott on
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the day it happened to let him know what happened.
He also knows me my wife knew her before we
were married. I mean, he's I've known Scott for so long.
So I called him to let him know what was
going on. And Scott came down and met with me
down there, and so I just felt like Shott was
such a good friend I had to let him know,
and yes, he is an attorney. We actually rode together
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at hpd H when we wrote out of Beech Nut.
So you know, I've known Scott forever.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And so you send a demand letter to them prior
to a lawsuit, or you filed a lawsuit. Kind of
walked me through how that has gone so far and
how they've responded.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, I I was, you know, talk contacted Scott, talked
to Scott and basically told Scott what I wanted to do,
because this does not need to happen to any other
police officer or any other citizen, or any other person
in the military. This does not need to happen. This
is a malfunction of their weapon. So Scott, he did
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what you know, he's an attorney, so he did what
he needed to do as far as the legal process,
and I know you're an attorney as well. I don't
know what was filed after that or how the sequence
went after that, because you know a lot of that
was me recovering. You know, this wasn't just a physical injury.
This was a very much a mental injury. And you've
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been around enough policeman to know that. You know, we
kind of joke around and give each other a hard time.
It was a very embarrassing situation for happened even though
I didn't do anything wrong. And I was telling people
that from ten minutes after I got shot, that I
didn't do anything wrong. This gun fired on its own,
and because I know how police been on to give
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you a hard time and it's jokingly, but you know,
I didn't want to hear it. And like I said, mentally,
you know, knowing the embarrassment that I felt like I
had brought to myself and my family, I was just
I was upset about that because and I kept replaying
things in my head how this happened. Because I didn't
touch my gun and it fired. And so you know,
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I mean to say that someone can do that, not
try and figure out, you know, how did it fire
in the hulst. I mean, it wasn't It wasn't just
hanging out of the ulster. It was locked in. You know,
our holsters are there, they're very you know, they have
to be a level three holes or so it's locked in,
it's secured, and it's still fired.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Six hour rights the P three to twenty cannot under
any circumstances discharged without a trigger pool. This is verified
through extensive testing by six hour, the US military, elite
law enforcement agencies, and independent laboratories. And then they say uninformed,
agenda driven parties recently launched attacks against six hours most tested,
most reliable, and most durable product, the P three twenty pistol.
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This misinformation causes confusion and uncertainty among our valued customers.
And yet you're not the only person filing a lawsuit.
Two years ago, the AP reported that a lawsuit filed
in US federal court and conquered New Hampshire claimed over
one hundred incidents of the P three to twenty pistol
unintentionally discharging when the user believed they did not pull
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the trigger. That's a lot of people making a claim
for sig sour to say it's not true. Now, if
if it is true, the company may not go bankrupt.
But this would be a massive hit, and on a
product that they presumably sell a lot of. So you've
got two sides locked up. But I'll tell you if
I was you, and I was certain I didn't pull
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the trigger or in no way contributed to this gun firing,
I'd do nothing short of making them pay that would be,
that would be for certain. What would be the proper response?
What what do you believe they should do?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, I think first of all, they need to get
rid of the gun or fix the gun. The gun
has a problem. And you know, I've been around guns
that I'm not someone that knows a hole lot about guns,
but I've been around guns because I've been a policeman,
had HPD for thirty five years, and I was a
bel air policeman before that, so I've been around guns
for a little while. And I have never heard or
never seen or never a rumor about a gun firing
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in the holster without someone pulling the trigger. Never heard
any gun doing that, Never heard of another SIG model
doing that, just the one P three twenty, and everybody
has the same story. And when I bought this gun,
I had never heard anything about anything bad about this gun.
And you know, I it wasn't until even after that
I learned about the drop test stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That was going on with it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
So as far as I knew, you know, the gun
was a good gun, and I didn't know about all
these problems. But it's a flawed gun and it has
a problem, and you know, I guess they're just going
to bury their head in the sand on it and
you know, keep making money off of it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I think I read somewhere that you've only used this
gun for a few years. My brother, who was an
over thirty year law enforcement officer, carried a glock and
his answer for that was the long trigger pool. That
was the thing he carried durability, but the long trigger
pool was was a really big deal compared to some
guys that still carried revolvers, and he just believed in
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that didn't want an accidental discharge. What did you carry
before the.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
C I carried a Smith and Weston forty five six. Uh,
and that was a gun I carried. I carried with
when I was a partnered with Scott Cisco. You know,
we carried the same gun. And uh, they quit making
that gun twenty years ago. You know. It was an
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old gun, but it was a dependable gun. It was
my gun. I knew how to use it. But I decided,
I guess a little later on my career, that I
was going to try something different because that gun was
a big gun, and it was a heavy gun, and
I'm not as as strong as I used to be,
so I thought, well, let me let me uh you know,
let me better myself here. And so once I did
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purchase the thig, you know, of course I got a
new holster with it. So I we practiced a lot
with these guns because I wanted to get proficient with
not only the gun but the holster as well, because
I needed a new holster to go with it. So
I did, you know, me and some other people on
my team, we went out and shot and shot a lot.
So we just we again wanted to get proficient with
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the weapon, wanted to get proficient with the holster.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Thirty five years. How long were you a bel Air
police officer before that?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
From eighty eight to ninety and I started HBD in
ninety so.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You've got you're going on forty years as a law
enforcement officer. That is a career longer than probably all
but one or two percent of law enforcement. That's that's impressive.
How long would you have continued to be an officer
had this not happened?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well, I don't know. I just got a big pay raise,
so you know, I mean, come on, I don't know,
a couple more year. Like I said, I try and
stay in shape. I know that that HVD has a
lot of younger officers, and you know I want to
be able to I don't want to be the weak
link of my unit.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, Officer Rick Fernandez Junior. First of all, thank you
for thirty five years of serving the Houston Police Department
a couple of years before that. In bel air, You've
obviously committed your life to it. You deserve better. I
hope for the absolute best for you. Thanks for sharing
your story with us, and hope for good things to
come for you service.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Thank you very much for having
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Me, Thank elus for good thank you, and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show. I try not to spend
too much time on the news of Houston where I live,
because we're a nationwide broadcast, But sometimes I feel like,
you know, we get too much LA news and New
York news and DC news. You need to know what's
happening out here in the real world, because the country's
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more like Houston than it is DC, that's for sure,
or New York or LA. ICE has arrested over two
hundred illegal alien child sex offenders in the Houston area
over the past just six months that President Trump has
been the president. Credit for this story goes to a
site called Straight Arrow News.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Two hundred and fourteen people detained by ICE in Houston
over the last six months have either been charged with
or convicted of child sex crimes. The press release from
ICE says the arrest number over the past six months
surpassed the amount of child sex offenders not by the
office in all of twenty twenty four. The office, crediting
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the federal government's increase of resources, The acting Field Office
director says, while we still have a long way to
go to truly get this crisis under control, the strides
we have made in just six months to make our
local communities safer our substantial, and our officers continue to
work tirelessly every day to get the worst of the
worst criminal aliens out of Southeast Texas. According to new
(01:53):
analysis from the Deportation Data Project, ICE as a whole
has arrested more than one hundred thousand migrants since Trump's
inauguration on January twentieth.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Through late June.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The analysis suggests forty percent of those arrested are convicted criminals.
For comparison, in twenty twenty four, under the Biden administration,
fifty one thousand arrests were made and fifty three percent
had criminal records.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You've probably seen the story by now, because it's garnered
a lot of attention. ICE has arrested an illegal alien
who was trying to buy a gun. Now, illegal aliens,
like felons, are not allowed to buy guns, and that's
how Ice was alerted. When he went to fill out
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the federal firearms application. It triggered the fact that he's
in the country illegally and ICE was able to arrest him.
He's in the country from Jamaica and he's not just
an illegal alien. He was serving as a cop in Maine.
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He came to the country with a visa, but he
overstayed his visa, which by the way, is a crime.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Boston says John
Luke Evans was picked up in Biddeford after he illegally
tried to buy a gun in Maine. ICE says Evans
is from Jamaica and that he came here legally in
twenty twenty three but overstayed his visa. During the arrest,
they say he told ICE agents he was trying to
buy the gun to use as part of his employment
as a police officer. You can see Evans here in
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a post from the Old Orchard Beach Police Department back
in June as they welcomed six new reserve officers, saying
the group had recently graduated from the Main Criminal Justice
Academy's Law Enforcement pre Service program. ICE is coming down
on Old Orchard BEACHPD, saying, in part, we have police
department that was We have a police department that was
knowingly breaking the very law they are charged with enforcing
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in order to employ an illegal alien. Old Orchard Police
Chief Elice Chart is pushing back against ICE. She says
Evans did federal work authorization forms and that US Department
of Homeland Security verified that Evans was cleared to work
in the US. Chief Chard also points out that under
main law, non citizen residents are allowed to work in
law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Somebody needs to throw the book at these people. Federal
authorities arrested two staff members a few days ago at
a medical clinic in California after they blocked ICE agents
from arresting an illegal alien who fled into the clinic
during pursuit, like Monuel Noriega running to a church. US
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Attorney Bill Esseley, by the way, he is Trump's US
attorney pick for California. This guy is good and he
is in the belly of the beast. He is doing
such great work. US Attorney Bill Asselly says this story
is another example of a false narrative pedaled by irresponsible Well,
you know what, I'll let you listen to the story.
(04:59):
He says it all right here. ABC seven in LA
with the story.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
It's cell phone video that went viral a couple of
weeks ago showing employees at a surgery center in Ontario
trying to stop federal agents from arresting a suspected undocumented immigrant.
Now two of those workers, Jose Ortega and Daniella Davila,
charged with assaulting and interfering with federal officers.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
It is against the law to interfere with federal immigration agents.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You cannot touch them and you cannot get in their way.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
US Attorney Bill A. Saley says that ICE agents were
following a truck with three men inside of it on
July eighth in Ontario. The complaint calling one of those
men a quote target alien. When the truck arrived at
the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center, their target, Dennis Giann, who
was a landscaper at the center, ran inside the building.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The narrative out.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
There was an insinuation that this illegal alien was somehow
a patient at this medical center, that he was removed
during an appointment, and that's just completely false. He was
under investigation for being in the country here unlawfully.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He was being chased by federal agents.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
He ran into this medical center to escape the agents,
and these workers obstructed or attempted to obstruct the agent's
ability to apprehend him, and they made physical contact. They
actually touched the agents. They laid hands on federal agents.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well your imagine number.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The criminal complaint references this video allegedly showing the villa
wedging herself between the officer and Gien and Ortega then
grabbing the officer's arm. Ortega's niece speaking out alongside immigrants'
rights advocates this.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Afternoon, this arrest was not about law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It was about silencing him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
My uncle was being targeted and prosecuted, not because he
broke any law, but because he has fearlessly stoot up
to defend the constitutional rights.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
This arrest is not only a blatant abuse of power,
it is a direct violation of due process and a
dangerous attack on constitutional rights of US citizens.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Both medical workers have been arrested and made appearances in
federal court.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Did everybody knows who this guy is? Come on, man
fit them, Michael Berry, come on. DeSantis confirms that deportation
flights from Alligator Alcatraz began. I think it was last Friday.
They began, and he made clear. I want to be clear.
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I don't want it to be where illegals are just
being stored at the facility and then just kind of
sitting around. I want them processed and deported on an
aggressive schedule.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
This provides an ability to enhance the mission, to increase
the number and frequency of deportations. And so what's been
done here has really been remarkable. There's full ground air
communications from the airfield. There's air tracking radar capabilities, on
site security, securing all access ports of the taxiway and
(07:58):
runway on aircraft arrival that happens. You got five thousand
gallons of jet fuel on site, you got runway lighting,
you got everything you need to be able to do that.
This airport is able to accept commercial sized aircraft and
conduct both both day and nighttime operations. And so that's
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what it's all about, to be able to help process
and remove folks that are legally in the state of
Florida and in the United States of America. So we
look forward to this cadence increasing.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't think we've addressed this on the show yet,
but it deserves our attention. After the fires in Los Angeles,
devastating fires, there was, as there often is, a celebrity
concert called Fire Aid and it raised one hundred million dollars.
(09:00):
All the famous people performing, they never give their own money.
It's people at home, honest, decent, hardworking people sending in
ten dollars, twenty dollars, you name it. And so there's
Olivia Rodrigo, which is why you watch, or I don't
know who that is, Katy Perry or Lady Gaga. And
so one hundred million dollars was raised, but the money
(09:24):
wasn't shared with the victims. California Republican Congressman Kevin Kylie
is calling for Attorney General Pambondy to investigate after it
was revealed that the money went to non profit political
groups with no experience in fire relief, and not a
(09:45):
penny went to the actual victims.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
I have asked Attorney General Pambondy to open an investigation
into the fire aid concert that took place in the
aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles fires. What has happened,
what we have earned, is absolutely beyond belief. In the
aftermath of these fires, which destroyed eighteen thousand homes and
killed tragically thirty people, there was a fire aid concert
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in which a number of high profile musicians generously agreed
to perform, and people responded in an amazing way. Tens
of thousands of people donated, raising one hundred million dollars
for what they were told was direct relief for the victims.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But now we've learned that.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
This money didn't go to the victims at all. Instead,
it went to nonprofits, some of which have nothing to
do with fire relief, where they promote things like voting
and civic engagement and multi generational power building. Some of
them aren't even located in LA So I've asked the
Attorney General to open an investigation in order to restore
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the intent of the donors, in order to make the
victims whole and to bring accountability.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I yield back. We did this story yesterday morning on
the Morning Show. Give me if you listen to both shows,
because occasionally we do repeat ourselves, but I hope you
don't mind. This is such a positive, wonderful, sweet, beautiful story.
This fellow is a pilot and he was raised by
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his grandmother and his grandfather. So he is on the
schedule to fly one day and he finds out that
his grandmother is flying from Memphis to Chicago. I think
he lives in Memphis, and she lives in Memphis two
and he finds out that his grandmother is flying on
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this day at this time. He happens to be on
the schedule. So he contacts the pilot who's flying that plane.
He's certified to fly planes that size, and he gets
him to switch routes with him, so he gets to
fly his grandmother. Well, of course you've been on a
plane before. He gets on the plane, before she does.
(12:02):
He doesn't allow himself to be seen in the terminal.
He gets on the plane, they close the door behind
the cockpit. His grandmother sits down. Oh, I get choked
up on this one. His grandmother sits down in the flight.
She's basically his mother, she's raised him. And he's doing
the announcements, and he tells the story about his grandmother,
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and of course the sad story that his grandfather never
got to see him fly or never got to hear
him do the announcements. This one right here, this is
as beautiful as story as there is.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Good afternoon, everyone, Welcome on Born American Airlines Fight forty
three eight.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Great service over to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
My name is Justin and I will.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Be here captain on today's flight, calling over to Chicago.
This is a very special flight for me. Little backstory
about me.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I was born and raised here in the Memphis area,
here up.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Here, and it's a special flight for me.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Guess right ahead. I grew up here in the business area.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They supported me, They've done everything they could to help me.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
It's where I am today.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
We passed away earlier this year, so he never got
the opportunity to fly with me.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
But this amazing crew that I'm flying with here today
was able to.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Help me pull it off to where my grandmother got
the opportunity to apply to Chicago with you today and
I will leave the compan so we do.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Appreciate her mindy and help me get off. So we
did do.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
The House Ethics Committee finds that Alexandria o Casio Cortez
broke rules in accepting the gown that she wore to
the met gala back in twenty twenty nine. The thirty
five thousd dollar gown, sorry, thirty five thousand dollars a
ticket to go, and the gown she wore read tax
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the rich, Well, isn't that cute? A bunch of rich
white liberals guilty over their wealth, wanting you tax to
death because they don't actually want. You know, they could
give money. At the end of your tax return, it
says you can donate to the federal government, you can
pay down the debt, do whatever you want. But these
rich white liberals, and that's who wants the taxes increased.
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Blacks don't want the tax increased. It's white liberals. They
are the death of this country. She was ordered to
pay an additional twenty seven hundred dollars for the rented
gown she wore that was valued at more than eighteen
thousand dollars. I don't think she cares. Honestly, I really
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don't think she cares. What does do you want to marry?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You want to just to say the word and I'll
PLUGU is a video the guy made. It's been going
around and several listeners have sent it to me. And
it's a guy claiming to prove that the six hour
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P three trigger will fire independent of being touched, which,
as you can imagine, is a huge problem. That's how
somebody gets killed or at a minimum, severely injured. And
I wondered, is there anything to this? Why do people
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keep sending me this? I've had some six hour some
former six hour partisans, uh, telling me that this is
very concerning and needs to be brought to light. Now,
I've known some folks over the years who are huge
six hour fans. And then it turns out that there
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is a police officer in Houston, thirty five year veteran
named Richard Fernandez Junior, who on January twenty at twenty
twenty five, he was working traffic control for a parade
and apparently his six hour went off and shot him
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in the foot, and he is filing lawsuit, a lawsuit
against sig Sour. This is an issue. Six hour has
created a website called P three twenty truth dot com
because this is coming up apparently quite a bit. There
are lots of people claiming this happened to them. Rick Fernandez,
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thirty five year HPD officer, is our guest. Welcome, sir,
thank you tell me if you would what happened January
twenty at twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, Well, I work on a crime suppression team out
of Kingwood and they had brought us down for the
for a parade they were going to have on MLK Day,
and so we were given an assignment to do some
traffic direction at MLK and Airport Boulevard, and so that's
where we were at and I came out. We were
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told given our assignment, and we were told to go
ahead and get on posts. We went out to our
posts and I exited my patrol car and I walked
around to the passenger site to start directing traffic and
have some people to turn onto MLK a certain direction,
and I made contact with the eye contact with a
driver that was coming towards me, and I started a point.
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I think I started a point, but I heard of
pops and then at that point I kind of got
a little confused because it sounded like my gun had popped.
It didn't sound like a gun shot. So I looked
down and I saw that I had a hole in
my pants around my calf, and then I could see
that I was starting to bleed because it was it
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was coming out, dripping down my calves down onto the ground.
And I told one of the people I was working
with that I think I'd been shot, and so, uh, again,
we didn't hear a gunshot, we heard a pop. So
he walked me around to the driver's side of my car.
He laid me down in the car and at that
point people started, I guess he radioed. People started coming
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towards me to help, but they started putting tarniquits on me,
and I didn't. I was I was confused because my
gun never it never came out of the holster. It
was in the holster the entire time. I didn't even
touch my gun and it fired. So uh So, anyway,
I was transported to Herman Hospital and they removed the
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bullet went in the upper part of my calf, went
down my calf all the weight to my ankle, and
they were moved at the next day. Surgically, I have.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Very well developed calves. How would you describe the development
level of your calves? Some people have really just kind
of straight up and down legs, and some people, like
a lot of Asians, will have really big muscular calves.
Where do you fit in that?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Well, I was a college football player and I am
I'm older now, but I am I am very much
at an infort rower.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So I rowe probably a lot like mum. I row
a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
So if anybody that knows me knows I talked about rowing.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If I'm walking along in short pants and I flex
my calves in front of people they don't know me.
A lot of times people will comment, wow, that's an
imp you're probably getting that as well.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, I don't know. I really I don't know. I
don't wear shorts that often. I guess but U them.
But well, I have I.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Understand where you are, so so at what point? So
I'm thinking that the natural reaction for you never having
touched your weapon is that somebody else had to shoot you.
I mean, I'm thinking your first thought had to be, well,
I know, I didn't touch my gun. Somebody shot me?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Or was it angle?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, it was just it didn't. I didn't hear a gunshot.
I heard a pop, and so it confused me on
how did my gun fire in the holster and I'm
not pulling it out, I'm not touching my gun. How
did it fire? That couldn't be my gun? And I'm
not sure if I felt a little recoil on my hip,
but my gun never moved from the hulster. Yeah, so
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I was confused. I didn't feel like anyone was shooting
at me because I felt like I would have heard
the gun shot. I've heard enough gunshots that I would
recognize the gunshot. But I heard a pop, and it
was because it was locked.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
In the holster. And you think that what sound dampened it?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Interesting, Well, a thirty five year veteran, you've been to
the range a fair number of times and you've heard
enough rounds go off, so I think you'd know the
difference between a pop and a gunshot. It's just amazing
that it's on your hip and it goes off and
then you're I mean you might have I don't know,
I'm just spitballing. You might have gone in shock. Your
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body might have been in a shock that you were
not aware of.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
There's no doubt I was in shock.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So they take you to the hospital and my understanding
is that you lost feeling in your Is it your
right or left foot?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So the bullet goes through your calf, down the leg,
and does it lot in the foot or does it come.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Out and lodges in next to my ankle?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh? Is it still there now?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They took it out?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Okay, So tell me about the process from there. I'm
assuming that's pretty painful. I'm assuming you have some surgeries.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, surgery to remove the bullet. Uh, And I was
out for about three months and then I returned back
to duty. But as far as the pain and as
far as the you know, the surgeon at Herman was fantastic,
Doctor Easton fantastic. Uh. And my leg looks it looks
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about the same as it did before. And you know,
I do have some starring along my leg. It kind
of followed the trace of the bullet. And I've had
I've had to have lots of physical care, and I've
had to do lots of rehabilitation to it, and I
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still don't have feeling in part of my leg.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I can only imagine what size round does that fire?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It was a nine millimeter.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I look, I'm not the judge in your case, but
I can't imagine what level of anger I would feel.
I believe that a gun that I was wearing discharge
without me touching it can cause me all this. Can
you hold with us for just a moment, Kits of.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
The world as we know it is the world?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Sargan grit Frnandez Junior is our guest. He says that
on January twenty, twenty twenty five, while he was working
as a police officer for the Houston Police Department, a
thirty five year veteran, his service weapon discharged a six
hour p three. So you you do? You go? So,
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so Scott Cisco, your lawyer, how did you know to
find him? Is this his expertise? And then kind of
take us through that case if you would.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, first of all, not a sergeant, just a senior
police officer. Uh, because I know a lot of policemen
listen to you and they're going to be giving me
a hard time.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Oh did I say, sergeant?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I think I know. I'm yes, you did. I'm sorry,
I'm okay, Okay, that's you know. So Uh, Yes, Scott
is my attorney. Scott's been a friend of mine since
I was well, for a long time before my police
career started. Since elementary school. I've known Scott, So we've
been friends forever. Uh. And so I called Scott on
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the day it happened to let him know what happened.
He also knows me my wife knew her before we
were married. I mean, he's I've known Scott for so long.
So I called him to let him know what was
going on. And Scott came down and met with me
down there, and so I just felt like Shott was
such a good friend I had to let him know,
and yes, he is an attorney. We actually rode together
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at hpd H when we wrote out of Beech Nut.
So you know, I've known Scott forever.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And so you send a demand letter to them prior
to a lawsuit, or you filed a lawsuit. Kind of
walked me through how that has gone so far and
how they've responded.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, I I was, you know, talk contacted Scott, talked
to Scott and basically told Scott what I wanted to do,
because this does not need to happen to any other
police officer or any other citizen, or any other person
in the military. This does not need to happen. This
is a malfunction of their weapon. So Scott, he did
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what you know, he's an attorney, so he did what
he needed to do as far as the legal process,
and I know you're an attorney as well. I don't
know what was filed after that or how the sequence
went after that, because you know a lot of that
was me recovering. You know, this wasn't just a physical injury.
This was a very much a mental injury. And you've
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been around enough policeman to know that. You know, we
kind of joke around and give each other a hard time.
It was a very embarrassing situation for happened even though
I didn't do anything wrong. And I was telling people
that from ten minutes after I got shot, that I
didn't do anything wrong. This gun fired on its own,
and because I know how police been on to give
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you a hard time and it's jokingly, but you know,
I didn't want to hear it. And like I said, mentally,
you know, knowing the embarrassment that I felt like I
had brought to myself and my family, I was just
I was upset about that because and I kept replaying
things in my head how this happened. Because I didn't
touch my gun and it fired. And so you know,
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I mean to say that someone can do that, not
try and figure out, you know, how did it fire
in the hulst. I mean, it wasn't It wasn't just
hanging out of the ulster. It was locked in. You know,
our holsters are there, they're very you know, they have
to be a level three holes or so it's locked in,
it's secured, and it's still fired.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Six hour rights the P three to twenty cannot under
any circumstances discharged without a trigger pool. This is verified
through extensive testing by six hour, the US military, elite
law enforcement agencies, and independent laboratories. And then they say uninformed,
agenda driven parties recently launched attacks against six hours most tested,
most reliable, and most durable product, the P three twenty pistol.
(27:46):
This misinformation causes confusion and uncertainty among our valued customers.
And yet you're not the only person filing a lawsuit.
Two years ago, the AP reported that a lawsuit filed
in US federal court and conquered New Hampshire claimed over
one hundred incidents of the P three to twenty pistol
unintentionally discharging when the user believed they did not pull
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the trigger. That's a lot of people making a claim
for sig sour to say it's not true. Now, if
if it is true, the company may not go bankrupt.
But this would be a massive hit, and on a
product that they presumably sell a lot of. So you've
got two sides locked up. But I'll tell you if
I was you, and I was certain I didn't pull
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the trigger or in no way contributed to this gun firing,
I'd do nothing short of making them pay that would be,
that would be for certain. What would be the proper response?
What what do you believe they should do?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, I think first of all, they need to get
rid of the gun or fix the gun. The gun
has a problem. And you know, I've been around guns
that I'm not someone that knows a hole lot about guns,
but I've been around guns because I've been a policeman,
had HPD for thirty five years, and I was a
bel air policeman before that, so I've been around guns
for a little while. And I have never heard or
never seen or never a rumor about a gun firing
(29:13):
in the holster without someone pulling the trigger. Never heard
any gun doing that, Never heard of another SIG model
doing that, just the one P three twenty, and everybody
has the same story. And when I bought this gun,
I had never heard anything about anything bad about this gun.
And you know, I it wasn't until even after that
I learned about the drop test stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That was going on with it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
So as far as I knew, you know, the gun
was a good gun, and I didn't know about all
these problems. But it's a flawed gun and it has
a problem, and you know, I guess they're just going
to bury their head in the sand on it and
you know, keep making money off of it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I think I read somewhere that you've only used this
gun for a few years. My brother, who was an
over thirty year law enforcement officer, carried a glock and
his answer for that was the long trigger pool. That
was the thing he carried durability, but the long trigger
pool was was a really big deal compared to some
guys that still carried revolvers, and he just believed in
(30:15):
that didn't want an accidental discharge. What did you carry
before the.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
C I carried a Smith and Weston forty five six. Uh,
and that was a gun I carried. I carried with
when I was a partnered with Scott Cisco. You know,
we carried the same gun. And uh, they quit making
that gun twenty years ago. You know. It was an
(30:39):
old gun, but it was a dependable gun. It was
my gun. I knew how to use it. But I decided,
I guess a little later on my career, that I
was going to try something different because that gun was
a big gun, and it was a heavy gun, and
I'm not as as strong as I used to be,
so I thought, well, let me let me uh you know,
let me better myself here. And so once I did
(31:00):
purchase the thig, you know, of course I got a
new holster with it. So I we practiced a lot
with these guns because I wanted to get proficient with
not only the gun but the holster as well, because
I needed a new holster to go with it. So
I did, you know, me and some other people on
my team, we went out and shot and shot a lot.
So we just we again wanted to get proficient with
(31:24):
the weapon, wanted to get proficient with the holster.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Thirty five years. How long were you a bel Air
police officer before that?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
From eighty eight to ninety and I started HBD in
ninety so.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You've got you're going on forty years as a law
enforcement officer. That is a career longer than probably all
but one or two percent of law enforcement. That's that's impressive.
How long would you have continued to be an officer
had this not happened?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well, I don't know. I just got a big pay raise,
so you know, I mean, come on, I don't know,
a couple more year. Like I said, I try and
stay in shape. I know that that HVD has a
lot of younger officers, and you know I want to
be able to I don't want to be the weak
link of my unit.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, Officer Rick Fernandez Junior. First of all, thank you
for thirty five years of serving the Houston Police Department
a couple of years before that. In bel air, You've
obviously committed your life to it. You deserve better. I
hope for the absolute best for you. Thanks for sharing
your story with us, and hope for good things to
come for you service.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Thank you very much for having
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Me, Thank elus for good thank you, and good night.
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