Laken Riley / Nazi Rally in Ohio

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome Jack Crumley, twenty four to seven News national correspondent
on a couple of items here Jack, Good morning, Good morning,
Good debby on KFAB. What can you tell us about
the latest in this murder trial of the Venezuela and
illegal accused and the killing of Blake and Riley. A
horrible story and that trial is underway. The last I

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heard his basic defense as well, you can't prove that
he's the one that killed her. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, so, yeah, the prosecution is still presenting their case
and will likely rest today. There's been some evidence that
was presented yesterday in testimony on the technology side of things.
I think this is one of the more interesting parts
of this case in that, you know, Lincoln Riley, as
she was jogging that morning in February, had her cell
phone on her and a smart watch that was monitoring

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her heart rate sent there was an SOS activated on
her cell phone that was at about nine ten am,
and then the you know, data from the smart watch
keeping track of things like heart rate as she was
running and showing that she was running a little faster
for a little bit before geographically she came to a
stop and it was also able to detect the moment
that her heart stopped beating at nine to twenty eight am.

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The FBI says that jose Ebara, the defendant's phone was
geographically close to Riley's at the time of her killing.
Presentation showing phone movements in the case. Again, the prosecutions
expected to rest their case today and then the defense
will take over, likely presenting their case tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, as a prosecution presented the evidence and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yet, Yeah, there's been evidence presented about some clothing that
was found in a dumpster that was a suspect scene
wearing a darker jacket and the hat dumping clothing into
that dumpster. That clothing that the suspects scene on surveillance
video was wearing seems to match a selfie that jose

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Ebarra took of himself. The clothing that was found in
the dumpster allegedly with both Ibara and Lake and Riley's
DNA on it.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, just try to imagine what her family goes through
having to listen to all of this evidence. Heartbreaking and Columbus, Ohio,
apparently the Nazis decided to be a good idea to
have a little parade h.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Jack, Yeah, about a dozen people all dressed in black,
wearing red skull sort of masks over their faces, and
some of them allegedly armed and carrying large flags with
black flags with red swastikas on them. The video that
was posted in this neighborhood in Columbus, which is called

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the Short North, which is a real sort of hip
arts district in the city, showing them yelling racial slurs
and making anti Semitic statements. Police got called, no surprise,
and they responded check things out. There were some questions
about whether or not there was a pepper spray incident.
Things sort of broke up. There was a van that
was detained for a little bit, Questions were asked, no

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arrests made, no charges filed, And in the aftermath of that,
you know, the mayor, members of Columbus City Council, Ohio
Governor Mike DeWine and others all issuing statements roundly forcefully
condemning that march. The White House also speaking out against it.
By those twelve people on a Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
No arrests. I don't know, Jack, what the firearms law
is in Columbus, Ohio, but there was one report that
that Columbus police reported the sum of the people had
the guns.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
But there is an open Cary state.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, so no arrest there, and it is a speech
issue on Columbus is trying now to ensure that there
won't be another one. What are they doing?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well? You know, I think the more notable thing is
in terms of, you know, the aftermath of that, you
know march on Saturday. On Sunday, there was a there
was there was a group of people from the community,
a large group of black men who held a unity
march along the same route that the Nazis took on Saturday.
They we spoke to the press beforehand saying that you know,

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this is our community. We're not wearing masks. We're not
just gonna sit here and let these people do this.
We want to come out in march and show that
you know, this is not something that we're just willing
to sit back and tolerate.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, it's sometimes the freedoms we enjoy under the Constitution
come with painful examples, and that's one of them there
in Columbus. Jack, thank you, great to have you on.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Appreciate it. Thank you, bet.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Jack Cromley twenty four to seven News correspondent. Yeah, this
open Caerry state. They didn't assault anybody. You can say
what you want in America into the First Amendment, even
if it's horrible and disgusting. It's happening in the Columbus Ohio.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
There.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
What a bunch of losers? Can you imagine? Now? The
left before the election would love to have had us
believe that the country is ripe with white supremacists and
Nazis and racist. You mean it's not. It's not. Oh never, well,
I will say it never has been, but it's certainly not.
Now what tiny percentage of sick almost said a bad word? People?

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Are they? That they just compelled to do that? We
hate this group over here, so we're gonna carry Nazi
flags and march and call them names. Free country, I know,
protect the right for people to express their views and demonstrate,
and we do so so that everybody gets the right,
not just people with whom we disagree or agree. But
the idea is that the majority the masses will then

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shout that down, belittle them and marginalize them, which I
don't know if that happened, but I hope so