The Murder Of Airman Fortson

Episode Transcript

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Time to bury the tired narrative,tired narrative and uncover stories not typically heard,
but stories that need to be heard, right or wrong, life or
death. This isn't your typical lawshow. This is Big Angry Law with

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Charles Big Angry Adams on KPRC nineNow, Charles Adams. We'll get it
good Friday evening, Ladies and gentlemen. This is Charles Adams. This is
Big Angry Radio. I think I'mjust whistling a little bit. I don't
know why. Nine fifty am,KPRC, Real, Texas, Real Talk.

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I am back here in the agein Houston, Texas, in my
real equipment. I imagine it soundsa bit better. I want to start
with a story that didn't get atremendous amount of attention, but I find
it to be trely disturbing. Itis out of Livonia, Michigan. I
want. I want to play ashort clip and then we will discuss what

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I think is is ever so commonin today's society where the bad guys are
not only winning, but are dissatisfiedwith their level of success. Let's listen.
It happened in April. Two customerscomplained about their stakes at a chain

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seafood restaurant in Lavonia. We're notnaming Susan took the food off the bill
and apologized profusely. She left sixdollars worth of those lemonades on there to
pay for, but the couple crumbledthe receipt and tossed it at her.
Then a man they were with allegedlystepped in his name DeShawn Kelly. Oh,
we were toe to toe, literallytoe to toe and I and he's

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calling me all kinds of nasty,horror names. Then she says, Kelly
attacked. It happens so fast nobodycould have stopped it. The couple and
Kelly quickly left, leaving shoes intheir bloodied and knocked out. I was
told, as a matter of fact, they just kind of walked over and
around me like I was a pieceof garbage. The whole thing caught on

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camera. Hard to argue that andfacial recognition help LaVonne. You police catch
Kelly a week later now now thevideo. It just we have people that
feel it is okay to steal things, steal services, steal items because they

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are entitled to it. And wehave this new milk toast society where lost,
prevent is told not to intercede,to let the thieves go. And
in fact, most frequently what yousee when you see shoplifting arrests, it

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involves self checkout regular citizens who agreeto go with security that actual thieves.
Nowadays, the non participatory, thosethat don't follow rules, They simply leave
knowing that ninety nine one thousand,nine hundred and ninety nine times out of

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one hundred thousand they will not bechallenged because companies are telling employees that if
they challenge thieves, they will beterminated. Who bears those costs? All

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of us moral, normal people whothink if you go to a store for
something, you should pay for it. Now, I don't think we should
be paying these inflated costs. Crimeis out of control, inflation is out
of control, and they are intertwined. Now, I would blame the rapid

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spending of this administration, the prioradministration, and the prior administration. That's
both sides of the aisle, andthe prior one too. I mean,
w is pinchant for warmongering costs thiscountry an incredible amount of money. But
of course no one. Obama's administrationset a high water mark that the Biden

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administration has just absolutely blown through whileKarine Jean Pierre looks us in the eye
and tells us everything's great and it'sobscene. But I a frequent I frequently
dine out, and I have seenit. I talked about it on the

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last show I did. I complainedI booked a room, was given a
different type of room that was notas nice with a feature that I did
most certainly did not want, andinsisted that I be given the room that
I booked, and instead I wasgiven an incredible upgrade. I didn't want
the upgrade. When I have abad service, I will often tell them,

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hey, I'm getting bad service,And when things are offered for free,
I say, no, I'm notdoing this to try to get things
for free. I simply don't wantbad service or I don't want other people
to suffer the same issue. Butyou see those people every not every time,

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but damn near every time you goout, people throwing a tantrum trying
to get things for free. Butof course there are those that that's not
There's people in this country who aretold that they are owed debt, that
they were born victims, and thatothers were born victimizers, and they believe,

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because it's been brainwashed into them,that any inexcusable behavior is excusable because
of a generational or a legacy borngrievance. And it's insane and you can't

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you can't label any demographic that way, whether it be race, religion,
or you can just label awful peoplethat way. In America needs to start
sending in a crowded restaurant a tinyyou'd still this woman was weeks after this

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bloody abuse when she was interviewed,caked on makeup and you could still see
the ring of the black eye andthe damage that was done to her face
by a grown man who was madthat it wasn't enough to comp their meals.
All we didn't like our steaks,We want them for free. Free,

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you owe us, oh, ohowe us, all of you,
oh, all of us. Thatwasn't enough to get made. But they
had to pay for their lemonade.Hell dare then you wonder if a tip
was given, Like if someone doesinsist on giving me something for free,
I over tip. As a result, whatever the cost of the item was,

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I give it to the server.It is insane. Businesses, stop
bending your knees to the monsters,A big Angry Law with Charles Adams on
k p r C nine fifteen.Cold and talking sold anything. And then

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you know he was a little bad. You know everything I just wanted.
It's how you got on to youknow. Stay all right, ladies and

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gentlemen. I don't want to loseyour loves. I'm spending my Friday evening
doing radio for you, second timethis week. I was traveling all week.
I just got back and I'm sorryI didn't do more. So it
was a busy busy is a goodweek business wise. But I am happy

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that I've gotten a chance to sitdown and speak with you on this lovely
evening. But I want to talkabout a story that is anything but lovely.
It's absolutely horrifying, and it is. It's a couple of years ago

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there was a young woman who wasa twenty eighteen Nobel Peace Prize recipient alongside
a Congolese gynecologist, and they wererecognized for their efforts to end the use
of sexual violence as a weapon ofwar and on conflict. She is the

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first Iraqi and Yazide to have beenawarded a Nobel Peace Prize. A shining
star of survival and someone that everyoneshould hear from the ZDI people. I
read an article just last week Iconsume it's you know, I get wary

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of talking about Islamist horror so muchbecause I think I fear of it being
one sided. But the truth isthat it is. In this world,
it is often one sided. Andthat's not to suggest that the West,
or Asia or Russia that there's notthings that are done wrong by other groups.

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It is the level of embrace bythe populace the public that I find
most just. I read an articleabout Zids that the butchering of thousands of
Ezid's for refusing to convert to Islam, and the cell of the fact that
it was. Some of this articlewas discussing about seven thousand women and children

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sold into both actual, both sexualand non sexual slavery. It's both of
its actual slavery, but one itsounds a bit more horrifying than the other.
And we talk, I mean,we love to talk in America,
especially in academic circles, about howhorrible the Western world is and the legacies

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and the debts owed. If youwere born with white skin, you were
born with a financial debt to payreparations for historical horrors. No one seemed
those same app and academics, thosesame journalists, seem incredibly hesitant to talk
about modern slavery where it exists,how it exists, who was doing it,

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Whether it's the importation of workers intoQatar and in Saudi Arabia and other
countries, whether it is the actionsof Chinese in African nations after they've invested
in air quotes millions and billions ofdollars for building infrastructure. Is that horrifying

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video of men being whipped in Nigeriaby a Han Chinese construction manager. But
right now in this world, slaveryit does not exist in the West.

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It's embraced as a horrible, horriblething. It's not embraced, it is
it recognized as a horrible thing.And the only places it is in open
existence is in portions of Africa andthroughout the Middle East except oh Israel and

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so so. A couple of yearsago, this woman, not she,
this Nobel Peace Prize winner was hada book tour and her book tour was
canceled by the Toronto District School Board. The book was The Last Girl,
My Story of captivity when she washeld by Isis as a sex slafe because

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it was canceled by the superintendent becauseshe thought the speech by this woman would
and I quote, foster Islamophobia.Now we live in a world where it
is celebrated by progressives left us oncampuses across this country and on mainstream media

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and left wing media. This falseequivalency between all Jewish people and whatever wrong
the IDF has done, whatever badposition ned Yahoo has. In just the

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last seven days, we've been forcefed the notion that the IDF shutting down
a crossing into Rafa was evil,and even our president jumped on the bandwagon,
that doddering, senile buffoon of condemnationof Israel that resonates with many as

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condemnation of Jews. What you don'tsee discussed is the why why did the
IDF shut down that entrance into Rafa. Was it staging, No, they

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don't need to stage the eventual attack. Instead, it was the fact that
for Israeli's soldiers were killed by arocket attack from that crossing. You don't
see that anywhere. You don't seeany discussion of that anywhere. It's not

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germane to the mainstream media math orwhat strikes me is absolutely one of the
most shocking things is Biden withholding smartbomb technology to prevent the IDF from having

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more precision in their attack. Now, the same IDF who have been telling
those in Rafa that they need torelocate, And yeah, they could do
more. The Israeli government could domore for their opponents, to provide more
shelter and more safety and more food. But I don't seem to think that.

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It doesn't seem to me that mostpeople get that. Almost always in
war, people don't do anything fortheir opponents except wage war, and they're
not expected to. Now that doesn'tmean I'm okay with it, because I
wish it would all stop, Butpretending that Israel is not prosecuting this war

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differently or more humanely than other warmongersis dishonest. And I started this segment
wanting to discuss a Belgian child whowas gang raped by Islamist immigrant children.
She had been lured into the woodsby one that she thought was her boyfriend.

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In Belgium, incredibly peaceful, safe, European state, incredibly safe.
There is a that is a washin crime that is almost exclusively Islamist immigrant
they took this little girl, thisyoung teen, and held her in the

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woods and gang raped her for twostraight days, gang raped and tors sexually
tortured her. No one's talking aboutthat because it might promote islamaphobia, which
is insane. Sudden she loves,tell me, Charles, she doesn't side

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of things. Side she tells us. How about she's miss siss dreams,
Charles tracys all times. All right, we are back, Charles Adams,

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coming to you from the bel AirHotel in beautiful bell California, and a
magno mistake. It's beautiful, Theweather's beautiful. The pool that I have
on my deck here is heated.I was out there. I did not
intend to swim on this trip,so I was out there in my drawls
earlier today after my morning meeting,before my lunch meeting. And it was

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pretty splendid. Not so splendid goingfor our former president Donald Trump being actively
humiliated by the Manhattan disc Attorney's Officein contravention or despite Judge Merschaan's order to
the contrary over the last couple ofdays. But of course, the jurist

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who has very clear ties to veryclear efforts to ensure that Donald Trump is
not re elected president. It wasfar more toothless with his constraints of the
DA's office, and he has beenwith his constraint of the president for his

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for allegedly violating the gag order heput in place, willfully ignoring the fact
that he is a defendant who isalso running for the presidency. But the
judge had cautioned the District Attorney's officeabout going into detail of the sexualized relationship

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between the former president and prior tohis candidacy and the prostitute slash pornographic actress
in the Pearl Clutterers. How dareyou call this victim a prostitute? Well,
she took bonny to have sex,and it wasn't for making a commercially

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viable film. That's prostitution. Andit's come out that they had sex without
any sort of protection, which youknow, fall true and I think that
it is. And it speaks notvery highly of the president in his relationship
with his wife, who had givenbirth to Baron Trump not long before this

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relations But again, there are youknow, there are equally incredible claims about
Biden, and of course the one'sabout Biden are about sexual assault. That
I think have because of the recencyof the outcry that was captured on the
Larry King Show by the wife,I think that I think there's more credibility

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there. And of course, becausethose allegations remained against the Democratic candidate for
the presidency, the woman was vilifiedby the press. But it is believe
all women, except if they arecriticizing a liberal, and that ties us
back to the legislator in New York. But before we move there, you

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know this thing with Stormy right now, storm people are saying that Stormy has
raised the specter of coerced sex withthe president because she said she didn't want
to. You know, when Iheard the testimony, I think that,
and I think Stormy Daniels is afabulous not saying she's fabulous, I'm saying

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she likes to make up stories.And again, just my opinion, but
it's an opinion that her equally dishonestimprisoned attorney has you know, somewhat ratified
with his statements about her behaviors.And of course I'm talking about Avinati,

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but who I am no fan of, and as you know, I'm no
fan of Donald either. But thethe crux of this case has nothing to
do with their sexual relationship, nothingat all. Right, the President having
sex with Stormy has absolutely no bearingon other than we had sex. I

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made this outcry that sounds like extortion, got money, agreed not to say
anything, but of course she didn'tstill say anything because she's a patriot,
not an attention sinking prostitute. Butthe truth of the matter is they most
likely had sex. But that's notan element of this crime. Now,

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this crime being prosecuted against the presidentis only being prosecuted because Donald Trump entered
the political arena. And basically theallegation is he misidentified a payment that created
a tax benefit that would have notexisted if it was identified as a settlement

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of a sexual harassment claim. Now, I know that doesn't really sound like
a crime, but probably it isif he did so, and was responsible
for doing so, and knew thatit was being done so for the purposes

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of saving a very small amount ofmoney when you're a billionaire, or even
a pretend billionaire who's actually a sentto millionaire. Whatever, he is right,
and everyone knows that, every attorney, even the ones that are all
up in arms about it on TV. Everyone in the Manhattan disc Attorney's Office

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that doesn't think violent robbery should beprosecuted as robbery. Every judge on every
bench, everyone knows that this isonly being prosecuted to try to either prevent
Donald Trump from running for president fora second or third time, or if

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that's not possible, help prevent himfrom winning. And that is ultimately my
problem with all this, like thedecision to and again we're not going to
get to all these stories I wantto talk about, but the decision to
lift the statute limitations this Adult SurvivorsAct that was expressly done to allow this
Eging Carroll to sue Donald Trump becausethe Democrats thought it would destroy him.

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Again, I have a problem withweaponizing both our civil and criminal justice systems
against the political candidate simply because ofhis politics. You want to get Donald
Trump for breaking the law, gethim for breaking the law, but prosecuting
him for crimes that would never everbe prosecuted but for the fact that he

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was a political opponent. And wesee all these I saw a read an
arcicle suggesting that one of the prosecutorsreceived a twelve thousand dollars payment for advice
from a Democrat Organs. I mean, it's it is long past time that

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reasonable people, even reasonable people thatdon't support the candidacy of Donald Trump,
concede or admit or publicly stated ifthey're in the public sphere that when Comy
came out and said no reasonable probablyyes, Hillary Clinton's team committed multiple crimes.

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They didn't say that expressly, buthe did say that no reasonable prosecutor
would prosecute these crimes. And whileconceding there was multiple crimes committed. If
it just isn't palatable, it isn'tAmericanism. It is a threat to our

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democracy. And I am not proneto the hyperbole, and almost certainly not
on the Trump train. But allthe hemming and hauling and talking about how
our democracy will be destroyed if heis elected. They said that in twenty
sixteen, they said it in twentytwenty, and they're saying it now is

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largely being pushed by either those whoare actively trying to destroy our democracy are
those who are aware of those,like the mainstream medium, aware of those
that are trying to destroy a democracy, and don't have a problem with it
because they would rather see their teamwin. And that's not what America is

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that's not what democracy is. Thewhole thing is you have a level playing
field and whoever it's the most voteswins and gets to choose the direction.
And of course we didn't see thatduring its presidency. We saw activist tourists,
activist federal judges shut down all ofhis efforts, like on immigration,

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whereas now now the bide administration,or we're going to curtail asylum claims for
criminals. Why were we ever lettingcriminals make asylum claims. I read an
article in Texas Tribune that was lamentingthat a woman who had committed some violations
was going to be banned for theUnited States for ten years. Was talking
about how she worked for a publicschool district. How did she work for

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a public school district as an illegalalien. We just don't have any rules
except for the rule following anymore,right now, the rule following in certain
demographics. But hey, waay backin just one second, I want to
play a clip from this New Yorklegislator the claims against him and being a
cry baby about it. It's greatan I photo the worst way. It's

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always the same. It's just ashow. That's all I can say.
David, and you sing to methis way, we're gonna know that it's
one, always the same. It'sjust a shame, and that's all.
I couldn't give it all on myhorn motel, so I can't feel the

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thing from my head down to themounts. What they always seem to be
looking at me. It's always thesame. It's just a shame. That's
song turning me out, turning megive me much even to put him in

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through it all the time, takingin the marketing. All right, ladies
and gentlemen, we went to break. We had just finished playing the the
audio portion of the bodycam video ofthe what I consider an execution of a
active duty Air Force Senior Airman RogerFortson in Okhouosa County, Florida. It

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sounds as if and it appeared tobe, and this is just conjecture.
The office staff of the apartment complexclaiming they heard a disturbance in the apartment.
Now he was apparently facetiming his girlfriendand they could have been arguing on
FaceTime, who knows, but thatperson whoever they were, also claimed she

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heard sounds of physical violence in theapartment complex, which doesn't sound possible if
he was there alone. The youngman came to the door with a gun,
an officer saying sheriff's apartment, veryloudly, but banging on the door

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with great force, and at leastinitially hiding himself away so he could not
be seen by someone looking through thepeephole. Now, domestic violence incidents are
the most deadly calls for officers,but just because that reality does not mean

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that a policeman can shoot someone withoutcause. You can go to the door
in your home with a firearm.He did not point it at the cop.
He never raised the firearm. Itwas in his hand pointing straight down.
He only stepped out when he wasordered. The officer saw the gun
and clearly got scared. He gotscared, a kin to the officer,

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the Filipino descent officer who murdered FilandoCastile, the white officer who shout and
killed a young Tamir Rice for havinga toy gun in a park, a
visibly toy gone in a park.In the Philandomic Casteel case, the districtory's
office actually prosecuted him and the juryfound him not guilty, but there was

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an effort to secure a conviction andthe Tamir Rice case, there was a
no bill, which a no billis what the DA's office wants. The
Discretorney's office love to hide behind thegrand jury decision as if they're not the
ones that dictate what that decision willbe. And I have what was always
shocked and horrified by Tamir Rice becausethere was video of the incident and there's

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absolutely no justification. It was justoutright cowardly murder. And I think this
was as well. You can't bepro Second Amendment and think that you're not
allowed to have a gun in yourhome when someone's banging crazily on your door.
Now, if you see that it'slong enforcement, should you put your

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gun down, Probably, but youdon't have a have to. Does it
make it your fault as a gunowner for opening the door in that manner
in your own home. Absolutely not. Now, the initial narrative was the

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deputy went to the wrong apartment.Now, he went to the apartment he
was directed to go to. Youcould see fourteen oh one on the doorway.
He did not go to the wrongapartment. The woman may have misidentified
the apartment, or she may havecontrived the whole story, or she may
have heard an argument on FaceTime oron the telephone that she misconstrued for an

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argument in an in person argument betweentwo people. We don't know, we
will likely never know, but becausethe body can, what we do know
is that airman for Senior ermerin Fortsundid not point his firearm at the deputy,
and the deputy had no justifiable reasonto execute that young man. Because

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of the body cam, we knowexactly what happened. That's why I believe
it should be mandatory. And whatwe've seen in the wake of this horrible,
tragic incident is the widespread condemnation oflaw enforcement. My television opponent used
it to just condemn white law enforcement. Although I don't know if we are

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sure whether the deputy involved, itappears he was white. He might have
been Latino, I don't know.But what you don't see and just like
there was a guy in New Yorkwho pulled off someone said jobs smiling and
saying don't wear that here or somethingof a and all the headlines are hate

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fieldah blah blah blah blah. Well, I mean, clearly he thought he
was funny, he was being ajerk, But we don't see the same
headlines for the anti Semitic attacks thatyou know, it's all contextualized because we're
being force fed in narratives and it'shorribly disgusting. Now, do I want

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justice for mister Fortson. Absolutely,You don't have a right to do that.
You say, oh, well,it's man, so I know he
made the intentional decision to kill aman that he had no lawful right to
kill. That's murder and there needsto be that consequence, the consequence of

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murder. Should his motive? Shouldthat play into the decision making factor when
sentencing. Sure. Just to todayin Bear County, in the suburb of
San Antonio, we had a fouryear old child killed in a house turned
into Swiss cheese and two other childrenshot by what appears to be cartel violence

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that is spilling over into the stateof Texas because of the incredibly open southern
border where criminals are fairing, cartelmembers are firing people, coyoting people across
and come across themselves. And thenagain, that's not a condemnation of the
hard working max and people. Now, it's a condemnation of cartel members and

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our awful, awful government that hasleft us with an almost I mean fully
open border for anyone that really wantsto come in. But you don't condemn
all Latino people because of that incident. You condemn the cartel. You don't

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condemn all black men. You shouldn'tcondemn all black men, despite the outsized
portion of violent crime in the blackmale community. Like I saw a statistic
that black women commit more murder thanwhite men in America, which is insane
on a per capita basis, it'sinsane. But again, that doesn't speak

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to it's still just a small fractionof black women. It doesn't speak to
black women. To do that wouldbe racism. And to condemn all law
enforcement because of the misdeeds of thefew, well that's equally stupid. What
we should want in America is consequencesfor criminals. Whether it's a criminal with

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a badge or a criminal, it'sjust a criminal. And in this situation,
abs in that body can we wouldbe be we would be told an
incredibly different story. And that iswhy they should be mandatory for all non
undercover police encounters with civilians. Mandatory. We have the technology, it's completely

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possible, and I do applaud OkaluosaCounty for releasing the video. I think
they thought it was exculpatory or atleast would bolster their claims that this was
justified. And I don't see howthis video the airmen. Absolutely he just
has a gun in his hand pointingat the ground. He's even engaging in

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trigger safety. It appears, Imean, you can only see it.
I slowed it down, but itlooks like he doesn't have his finger on
the tree. The whole thing's horrifying, and we need consequences for criminals.
I don't know, and it's anyonethat supports the Second Amendment should support the
family of Roger Fortson, but equallywe shouldn't be condemning all cops because of

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the cowardice of this one. Thankyou all for listen.