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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we are at day three of the I
sixty five shut down, and rarely do I get a
chance to be an untold you so guy, but the
chance is here to at least say that two of
the three I think biggest takeaways up to this point
in the early stages of this project, two of them
I got right. Old Louisville is the biggest victim right now,
other than the truck drivers who keep hitting that Third
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Street overpass, because I guess their trucks are victims there
because they can't open and remains undefeated. That is not
something I gave any thought to, but it has probably
been the most noticeable thing because it just keeps happening.
And I think this, if it hasn't already, will become
national news where people point and say, look at what's
happening in Louisville. They shut down the interstates, and there
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are semis who don't realize they're being re routed and
if their trucks, and again I guess every semi is
essentially too tall, and if you try to make your
way through there, you're gonna end up smashed. But anyways,
Old Louisville I think is the victim with just not
the amount of traffic that they now have in those
neighborhood street but the noise. And I'm sure a lot
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of you know this, but this project doesn't stop. They
don't take I mean, whether permitting, They're going to work
around the clock until this is done because they've got
to hit that timeline. So when they get home from work,
loud noise, when they wake up in the middle of
the night unintentionally because of the project, I'm sure they're frustrated,
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to say the least. So it sucks. I feel for them,
and hopefully they can find a way to, you know,
wear headphones or something, because I mean when I was
driving this morning, I mean I could just notice the
sound that comes with what's going on there. And if
it never leaves you, because again you get home and
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you you just it never stops. So I think Old
Louisville is feeling it the most right now as far
as the areas, and then also semi trucks in general
take away the can opener situation. You just seeing three
eighteen wheelers all lined up on Second Street is not
something that looks normal in any way because it never
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usually happens. And I got a chance yesterday to see
firsthand what can happen whenever, whenever that situation presents itself
where you've got an eighteen wheeler turning off of Second
Street to go to Oak Street or Saint Catherine, and
it's no fault of the driver, but they just can't
make that turn without hitting parked cars or hitting things
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on the sidewalk. So I'm sure some of these drivers
are learning the hard way that they don't need to
be on those streets, regardless if it adds more time.
They need to just go around via Interstate Highway. But
then there are some semis that probably have to take
these routes to get to where they need to go
because as much as it's a pain in the ass
for them and us on the roadways, there is a
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real need at times for semis to be downtown Louisville
delivering things. So I'd say so far the trial and
error week has been relatively smooth. But I'm sure if
you're somebody that has added a bunch of time to
your commute, you wouldn't call it smooth. You'd call it
a pain in the ass. But we knew that was
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gonna happen, right They at least warned us of this,
and after two months things will get better, and it'll
get better before then. But a lot of folks that
think still kind of feeling out what makes the most
sense for them, and they're commute home, and look, it
may get to a point where what makes sense for
you as far as your drive in is different than
the path you take when you go home. It really
just depends. Everybody's situation can be different. But how about this.
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There's an official website for the can Opener, Louisville Canopener
dot Live. You can see the updates. They've got a
tally and they did update it this morning. John, They've
given us an update. We're now sitting at seven eighteen
wheelers that have fallen victim to the Undefeated can Opener.
Because there was I knew there was one. I woke
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up this morning kind of sleep walking, and I was
checking my phone and I saw somebody share on Facebook
a casualty and it was night and I'm thinking that
must have meant it happened overnight. But then again, like
I often do, when I wake up at three fifteen,
it's a little foggy. I don't remember, really did I
dream that or did I see it? And I guess
I really did see it, because we now have a
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total of seven really in a matter of two days, right,
I mean the seven was taallled. The seventh victim was
tallied before the interstate traffic even started this morning as
far as rush hour. So there'll be more today, you
can guarantee it. And you got to wonder at some
point with the many drivers that just drive through Louisville.
It's not their destination, but they're just passing through, and
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they don't have the GPS needed for truck drivers. They've
got a standard ways that doesn't know they're driving an
eighteen wheeler. I mean, if this continues to happen at
this rate, even though it's not the city's fault, they've
got to do something right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I wouldn't be surprised if you see action taken this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And I don't know what do you do other than
like just like put up.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I mean, maybe can you prevent people from going down
that section of the street specifically, or there are there
things in between each block that people have to get
to or is that just a grand question road, because
if that's just a transition road from one place to another.
I bet they can shut that entire thing down if
they want to.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, I mean they'd have to do something, you would think,
because right now I would say the seven in really
a little bit over forty eight hours. That's probably more
than you get in a few years. And I could
you know, nobody has started tracking it until this, so
there's not a documented history. I don't think of all
of the incidents that have happened right there where the
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can opener is, but at some point, like you would think,
it would cause damage to that overpass to where you
would need to start a whole new project because semis
keep running into it.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You may have already mentioned this, but the website says
for the overnight one, they called it the first meal
of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I love that there's two options on the homepage that
you can click on as far as links. You've got
the counter which is that homepage really and then report
a feeding report. Yeah this is uh, that's uh, that's
really really well done.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know if I would call this well done,
but we do have a a fifty nine second AI
created song in dedication to the can opener. Let's see
if I forgot the right one pulled up. Here, here
we go, and I don't know who to credit this
to other than the person who sent it to me.
They didn't they didn't perform it putting together. Yeah, that's well,
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said fake Brad Paisley. Here with a tribute to the
can opener.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Down on Third Street. Everybody knows the name that little
bridge in Louisville build a lot of fame. A sixty
five got shut down. Trucks started coming through. The can
opener looked around and said, I've been waiting here for you.
Five trucks in two days, and the week's still young.
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Warning signs are everywhere, but somehow here they come. Tow
truck park nearby now waiting for the next. It all
looks like business is booming after all.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
The Third Street Bridge wins again. Everybody knows how this
story ends. The Third Street Bridge wins again. Five trucks
down and counting still.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You can read the size.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But if you don't.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The Third Street Bridge wins again.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Five trucks down.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The counting can opener wins again, undefeated. Still seven casualties
as of right now, and I'm not rooting for more,
but I think we're gonna see more.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I like that song more after a second one.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. It kind
of hits even better the second time. So yeah, good stuff.
All right, let's get to a quick time out what
I want to get to next. We'll let you hear
what some of our listeners have had to say as
far as the officer involved shooting that now led to
a life lost and an officer fired pretty quickly, Chief Humphrey,
stick around, who's ready to eight fort whas.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Termination proceedings against this officer are moving forward. A criminal
investigation into this incident is underway, and the Commonwealth Attorney
is now also involved in this matter.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What I can tell you is this was not the
right action. We see officers every day that encounter extremely
dangerous situations, and you don't see this. Our officers every
day make tough decisions that don't result in this.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That was Mary Greenberg and Chief Humphrey discussing the action
that was taken to start the process to fire the
offer Sir Nathan Stotts, who was the shooter that arrived
and shot an unarmed naked man and that man died,
And now we know this officer is going to be
fired and I'd say, if you've seen the body cam footage,
it's an understandable decision and reaction from city leaders. And
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we've had some listeners this morning sharing their thoughts on
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here it's fired up. This is from a woman who
has some thoughts in a question on the situation.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Yeah, so here's what I keep coming back to. We've
got a shortage of officers right now. Everybody knows that.
And when you're that desperate to hire people, you have
to I mean you just have to wonder are we
cutting corners somewhere and training, Like, are these guys getting
everything they need before they're out there on their own?
Because a naked, unarmed man running at you is scary.
I get that, but that's also exactly the kind of
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situation you should be trained for. And if he wasn't,
I mean, that's not just on him, that's on the
whole system that put him out there.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I would say, given the quick reaction and even the
comments directly from Chief Humphrey is that they're not trained
to do that at all. It sounds like there's no
scenario with what that officer was presented with meeting the
situation that he handled it in any way like you
were supposed to and like you're trained to. I mean,
I have no experience in any of the process that
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goes into how you're trained and whatnot, but I think
it's just pretty common that that wouldn't be that wasn't necessary.
There's a lot of other things you could do up
to that point. But as I've said throughout the morning here,
when you consider all the different types of risks you
take and the consequences that come with being a law
enforcement officer, I think this is another one you just
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add to the list that maybe doesn't get a whole
lot of acknowledgment that you can have the best intent
ever as far as why you choose to swear an
oath and protect and serve, and you know every day
that you go out on patrol, what happened to this
officer when he arrived to address Any day, that can happen,
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and you can't be surprised. There are officers who work
in entire twenty thirty years and they never even come
close to having to draw their weapon. That happens. That's
actually more often than not, an officer never actually pulls
their weapon on somebody. But you have to know at
all times it can happen, and when it does, you're
going to have situations that put you in a spot
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where you've got to make a quick decision, and that
quick decision can have all kinds of different consequences. And
this is I think a consequential decision where there's the
consequence of losing your job, but you also took somebody's life.
And I don't believe for a second that this that
was the intent. I don't mean, I don't know this
individual at all, but I choose to believe that nobody
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gets into law enforcement because they want to kill people.
That's happened, and people have been dealt with, and some
people have not been dealt with the way they probably
needed to when it comes to that kind of stuff.
We know examples of that as well. But when you
consider what it is men and women do sacrifice by
taking on this profession, there's a lot and this is
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another one that you just you could make that decision
that takes life, ruined yours, and it's just because you
learned in real time that you didn't make the right decision.
And you can have all the training, you can, even
have prior experiences with something that is somewhat similar, and
maybe in that moment, when the dust settles, you look
back and say, Okay, man, that was wild, but I
made the right decision in that moment. This officer didn't
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make the right decision in that moment, and it's cost
somebody their life and again maybe ruined this officer's life
moving forward for a variety of reasons, not just because
of potential consequences further, but I don't know about you.
If that was me, that messed me up. So I
feel for everybody involved in this entire situation. I really do.
(12:43):
All Right, we got a Sports of Day coming up,
Game one of the NBA Finals getting ready to start,
and I say this sincerely. I don't know if you
believe me, but I mean it when I say it.
I'm excited. I think it's gonna be a really good
serious We'll talk about it with Scott on the other
side right here at news Radio eight forty WHS Wacky
Back e the weed, cannabis, medical marijuana. That's the professional
(13:06):
way to discuss what we're about to discuss here. Because
Andy was sure yesterday signed an executive order uh TO
to add more qualifiers for medical marijuana here in Kentucky.
Those that have terminal terminal illness, sickle cell anemia, als,
Parkinson's disease, HIV and AIDS, Crohn's disease, severe arthritis, fibromyalgia, glaucoma,
(13:28):
et cetera. Many more medical conditions that you have can
now qualify you to to be on to get medical marijuana,
get your card, and and use this to help you.
And I will say, uh, I was dealing with something
that I didn't even know anything about, couldn't relate that
I now no longer deal with really at all. And
it's because of THC products. I tried all these other
(13:50):
medications and not only did they not work well for
me as far as being effective, like the side effects
almost made me wonder if it was worth it. I'll
just I'll just live with these panic attacks. If I'm
going to have you know, all these other side effects,
and you'll try one for six weeks, oh, not working
and it's actually making you worse. Well, we'll start all
over again. We'll get you on a new medication and
(14:11):
you can We'll give it another couple of months, so
I can tell you I don't have any of these
severe conditions that people have that are life threatening and whatnot.
I mean again in terminal illness. That's that's another qualifier here.
So uh, that's much more serious than anything I'm going through.
But I'm sure many people that never experienced marijuana ever
other than maybe smoking a joint in high school, they
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now do see the benefit of how it can help
you when it comes to health. So a lot more
people can now legally get their hands on weed. Anytime
I talk about weed on the radio, I always go
back to this, say do it again.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Stay off the weeds.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Stay off the weed. And you can't stay off the weed.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
He ain't getting busted for using we Duh's off the weed.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That was of course, screaming a smith when he used
to have to cover athletes smoking weed and it being
a big deal. But Bnatti, that's not even a thing anymore.
Like no, over time, gradually it's been seen as something
that's not as viewed as this demonized thing totally now
like it's.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
It's socially exceptally flips. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the reefers. Okay,
so when probably the.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Biggest jump in marijuana consumption medically or not medically is
people like even older than.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
You, sixty five or older. I think it was sixty two.
It was sixty two or older. Was the majority of
people filling out those marijuana cards in Kentucky. We do
what we do, which is make it so difficult. You
can't buy you can't it's got to be grown here.
It's so stupid, you can't sell it outside of the state. Oh,
but drive to Cincinnati. I bought it from my brother
in law and I was like, I can just go
(15:57):
in there. They're like, yeah, I just scan your license
and then you go in and I was like I
can buy it and they're like yeah, so it's available
with everybody. My question is he added all that to
the list. Doesn't that really cover everybody?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Now?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Like you, if you do anxiety, just the list you
mentioned and then throw in the other list we had already.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, so I take like a I take product like
I take THHC gummies every now and then they can
help me if I feel like a panic attack coming
on they also helped me sleep, so like I don't
need a card, Like I can just get by with that.
But for those that are dealing with I mean, I
guess this would be the legal way to get it.
And who knows. I've never smoked medical marijuana, but maybe
it would even have a better effect on what I
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what I need those those gummies for. But you're right
with all those different conditions of people. Yeah, it's a
lot of five folks.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Just make it legalized recreational marijuana. Let's move. You know
you're gonna get there, Kentucky, you know you're in the
future going to do it. Just do it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's kind of like sports gambling, right. We knew eventually
we were going to have to just we had every
single reason. We did it. All seven states that border us,
We're the Dome doing it. We were going to do
it regardless. You might as well make some money off
of it and regulate it.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
So, yeah, well I didn't realize maybe it wasn't a
good call for everybody to be able to get.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There's not there's some people that you know that temptation
is unavoidable.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
You think there's a legitimate n C DOUAA tournament moving forward.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean, I would hope so naive youngster, that's I mean,
you might as well try to tell me Santa is
not real. You crushed. I love the tournament in my
brain that it may go away.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
You don't think these these these schools are going to
be fixing games. Players are going to be fixing games.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Come on, nah? Yeah, I mean it was inevitable that
you'd have some level of folks realizing they could profit
from this.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
But the Mafia is really good at jamming up adults
like grown men, grown women, And that's what they do.
They get you behind on you owe them, and then
now you're going to miss free throws or whatever for them.
They do a good job with that. If how good
do you think they are doing that to an a
ten year old?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
They're also really good at targeting the right eighteen year
old and the right adult, just because they know what
they need.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
I mean, well, you and I roommates, You are the
starting point guard. You get most of your points from
the free throw line. You used to be able to
drive to the basket, but that's not working for you anymore,
so you get your points getting fouled. Well, I need help, Nick,
here's what I need you to do. It's just one
game you're playing Northern Illinois. Don't worry about it, and.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I've got more control of the outcome with those for
me tonight.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Just miss your free throws for me, and you're telling
me one game for your best friend.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So let me ask you this, because the counter to
that would be, well, yeah, but at least now because
it's regulated, we have the ability to track and see
when this unusual activity takes place. Imagine how much it's
been going on before gambling was legal. Hear, I hear
that point. But also like we now have it right
in front of everybody's face, that there's some lack we're
(18:56):
lacking integrity with players shaving points in that right.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Come on, it's too easy. The guy could click on
his phone.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And the look the product as a whole. I'd rather
just not know, well, and I whenever it was legal,
we just didn't know they were throwing games.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
And if you're not stupid about it, See, I'm the gambler.
I'm the guy that wants to cheat, and I'm going
to talk you into it. If I don't bet too much,
if I just bet a normal amount, because I need
some extra cash, and you're gonna do this for me
because you're just gonna miss a couple of free throws
against all the Illinois, but you'll win the game.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Then you won't get caught. It's a normal amount of money.
The people who get caught are the ones who just
they put a million dollars five hundred k on prairie
for you to beat North Carolina A and T like
that's gonna get flagged for intual activity. Yes, all right,
we need to get to a quick time out with
trafficking weather. But before we do that, we talked senior
pranks earlier, and I asked folks to share their their
senior pranks if they had a good one, and I
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thought this was a really, really good one.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Two days before the last day of school my senior year,
I panted the principal like full on in the hallway
in front of everybody, and yeah, they didn't let let
me walk in graduation, couldn't go. And people ask me,
was it worth it? And I mean, hell yeah, hell yeah,
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I do it again. I do it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So he pants the principal full on. He says yeah,
and didn't get to walk in graduation and I don't
know how many years ago that was, but he doesn't
regret it. So I asked and you delivered. That's I mean,
that's a risky senior prank, but in your mind it
paid off. All right, Quick update traffic and weather. We'll
come back on the other side, finish up with Tony
and talk about the officer involves shooting that of course
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led to somebody losing their life and that officer losing
his job. Stick around it. So who's rady to eight forty?
Whas all right, we're wrapping things up here on a
Wednesday morning. We hand it off to mister Tony Venetti,
who he has an experience that I don't. He said,
many experiences that I don't, and I regret that I
didn't get to live the life that you did. However,
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you got to experience training, essentially a mock training of
what it's like when you have to act in an
instant as a law enforcement officer. How do you handle
somebody that may be perceived as a threat. So we've
talked a lot about it this morning, where clearly this
officer over the weekend did not do what he was
trained to do, and that cast somebody of their life
and it's now cost him his job. What was that
experience like as far as just what they train you
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to be prepared for it, at least as best you can.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
They have a multi million dollar device that they train with,
So this police officer did train that way.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
They all do.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
So you walk into a room and it is a
gigantic room and the wall is huge and it's one
screen that is your scene. You get a gun. It
is an actual gun like the police carry nine millimeter
or whatever it is, but it weighs the same and
has a laser on it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So you have a.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Holster, you have the gun in there, and you're the
police officer. So they start the scenario. Your job is
to either pull your gun, but you start to give
instructions to whoever's standing there. So that's what you do,
and then in the end you're graded on how you perform.
I did do one where a guy came at me
with a butcher knife and it was in a subway
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and he was coming towards me. But people don't realize
when someone's walking towards you, if they're going to attack you.
In the last six yards or five yards, they speed up, right,
So they're walking at a pace and then they when
they get near you, they speed up to get you.
So I shot him because he had a sweatshirt and
an overcoat on. So I have two options. I have
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the gun and I have the taser. So which one
am I going to use? I looked at him and
that knife was gigantic, and he was coming towards me,
and I kept saying, put the knife down, stop walking,
stop walking, put the knife down, and I in my brain,
I said, where am I going to shoot him with
a taser. It's not going to get through any of
these clothes. It's winter, right, So I pulled my gun
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and I shot him. And afterwards the police officer was
like that that was the right call.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And that makes sense. But I just keep coming back
to how it has to happen all so quick that
like you don't even really do you have the ability
to process what you process? Like did you think about
the coat? Did you was that in the moment why
you made the reaction? Because he was the right one,
it was, but it's just so quick.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I just thought, where am I gonna shoot him with
a taser? That's going to hook onto I will tell
you it is so lifelike and it is so intense
you're shaking after the training, like your heart is pounding.
I got killed three out of four times in those scenarios.
I did the same training in Saint Matthew's. They have
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the same thing. It's a multimillion dollar room. It's insane.
I won three or four out of the four on
the same ass. Yes, because the one that got killed
he had a guy, he had a hostage that was
kneeled down next to him on one hand and had
the gun pointed down to the ground in the other hand.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So these are detailed situations they put you in, absolutely
and may it makes total sense considering the nature of
what you what you're tasked with, if you decide to
go protect and serve.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
So he had the gun pointed down, he had the
hostage in the other hand. He wheeled it up and
shot me. I literally had no time to react, and
so they timed it the time between it went from
staatetionary gun to shooting me, and it was point two seconds.
It was really really quick, and he said that's the time,
and so if if I shoot him, they're gonna go.
(24:10):
He wasn't even pointing the gun at you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Dude, you didn't have to do that.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
You didn't have to shoot him.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Get on, He didn't.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
He wasn't pointing it at the hostage. He was pointing
the gun to the ground. You don't know, but I
know because I've done the training that it's point zero,
zero's second or whatever that he's gonna get me. So
I know that. So I'm putting two in him and
going home today.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Some of the raw and real reaction from bodycam footage
is the trauma that is right there for an officer
that does know he had to do it and probably
doesn't regret it because he's alive, but they didn't want
to know. And it is rare for an officer to
shoot somebody. It's rare for an officer to get shot,
but it does happen, and you have to know every
day when you go out there on patrol it can't happen.
(24:54):
So for those like, well, did you like, who's stupid
enough to shoot a cop? Enough people have I'm not
gonna take a risk. I want to go home to
my family.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
If you're willing to shoot a cop, you're willing to
do anything, which is a scary individual. But this is
why if you engage with the cops, just do what
they tell you to do politely, Just.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Do that, and not only because that's what you should do,
but they'll they'll appreciate it because you know, they don't
want to get into that nonsense because who would, right,
But it happens, all right, mister Venetti is coming your
way next solo. I mean, it's not the full product
that is Tony and Dwight, but it's not far from it.
It's true. It's it's John Alden's time to shine you
damn right. It is
All right, we are at day three of the I
sixty five shut down, and rarely do I get a
chance to be an untold you so guy, but the
chance is here to at least say that two of
the three I think biggest takeaways up to this point
in the early stages of this project, two of them
I got right. Old Louisville is the biggest victim right now,
other than the truck drivers who keep hitting that Third
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Street overpass, because I guess their trucks are victims there
because they can't open and remains undefeated. That is not
something I gave any thought to, but it has probably
been the most noticeable thing because it just keeps happening.
And I think this, if it hasn't already, will become
national news where people point and say, look at what's
happening in Louisville. They shut down the interstates, and there
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are semis who don't realize they're being re routed and
if their trucks, and again I guess every semi is
essentially too tall, and if you try to make your
way through there, you're gonna end up smashed. But anyways,
Old Louisville I think is the victim with just not
the amount of traffic that they now have in those
neighborhood street but the noise. And I'm sure a lot
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of you know this, but this project doesn't stop. They
don't take I mean, whether permitting, They're going to work
around the clock until this is done because they've got
to hit that timeline. So when they get home from work,
loud noise, when they wake up in the middle of
the night unintentionally because of the project, I'm sure they're frustrated,
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to say the least. So it sucks. I feel for them,
and hopefully they can find a way to, you know,
wear headphones or something, because I mean when I was
driving this morning, I mean I could just notice the
sound that comes with what's going on there. And if
it never leaves you, because again you get home and
(01:44):
you you just it never stops. So I think Old
Louisville is feeling it the most right now as far
as the areas, and then also semi trucks in general
take away the can opener situation. You just seeing three
eighteen wheelers all lined up on Second Street is not
something that looks normal in any way because it never
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usually happens. And I got a chance yesterday to see
firsthand what can happen whenever, whenever that situation presents itself
where you've got an eighteen wheeler turning off of Second
Street to go to Oak Street or Saint Catherine, and
it's no fault of the driver, but they just can't
make that turn without hitting parked cars or hitting things
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on the sidewalk. So I'm sure some of these drivers
are learning the hard way that they don't need to
be on those streets, regardless if it adds more time.
They need to just go around via Interstate Highway. But
then there are some semis that probably have to take
these routes to get to where they need to go
because as much as it's a pain in the ass
for them and us on the roadways, there is a
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real need at times for semis to be downtown Louisville
delivering things. So I'd say so far the trial and
error week has been relatively smooth. But I'm sure if
you're somebody that has added a bunch of time to
your commute, you wouldn't call it smooth. You'd call it
a pain in the ass. But we knew that was
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gonna happen, right They at least warned us of this,
and after two months things will get better, and it'll
get better before then. But a lot of folks that
think still kind of feeling out what makes the most
sense for them, and they're commute home, and look, it
may get to a point where what makes sense for
you as far as your drive in is different than
the path you take when you go home. It really
just depends. Everybody's situation can be different. But how about this.
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There's an official website for the can Opener, Louisville Canopener
dot Live. You can see the updates. They've got a
tally and they did update it this morning. John, They've
given us an update. We're now sitting at seven eighteen
wheelers that have fallen victim to the Undefeated can Opener.
Because there was I knew there was one. I woke
(03:57):
up this morning kind of sleep walking, and I was
checking my phone and I saw somebody share on Facebook
a casualty and it was night and I'm thinking that
must have meant it happened overnight. But then again, like
I often do, when I wake up at three fifteen,
it's a little foggy. I don't remember, really did I
dream that or did I see it? And I guess
I really did see it, because we now have a
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total of seven really in a matter of two days, right,
I mean the seven was taallled. The seventh victim was
tallied before the interstate traffic even started this morning as
far as rush hour. So there'll be more today, you
can guarantee it. And you got to wonder at some
point with the many drivers that just drive through Louisville.
It's not their destination, but they're just passing through, and
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they don't have the GPS needed for truck drivers. They've
got a standard ways that doesn't know they're driving an
eighteen wheeler. I mean, if this continues to happen at
this rate, even though it's not the city's fault, they've
got to do something right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I wouldn't be surprised if you see action taken this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And I don't know what do you do other than
like just like put up.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I mean, maybe can you prevent people from going down
that section of the street specifically, or there are there
things in between each block that people have to get
to or is that just a grand question road, because
if that's just a transition road from one place to another.
I bet they can shut that entire thing down if
they want to.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, I mean they'd have to do something, you would think,
because right now I would say the seven in really
a little bit over forty eight hours. That's probably more
than you get in a few years. And I could
you know, nobody has started tracking it until this, so
there's not a documented history. I don't think of all
of the incidents that have happened right there where the
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can opener is, but at some point, like you would think,
it would cause damage to that overpass to where you
would need to start a whole new project because semis
keep running into it.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You may have already mentioned this, but the website says
for the overnight one, they called it the first meal
of the day.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I love that there's two options on the homepage that
you can click on as far as links. You've got
the counter which is that homepage really and then report
a feeding report. Yeah this is uh, that's uh, that's
really really well done.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know if I would call this well done,
but we do have a a fifty nine second AI
created song in dedication to the can opener. Let's see
if I forgot the right one pulled up. Here, here
we go, and I don't know who to credit this
to other than the person who sent it to me.
They didn't they didn't perform it putting together. Yeah, that's well,
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said fake Brad Paisley. Here with a tribute to the
can opener.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Down on Third Street. Everybody knows the name that little
bridge in Louisville build a lot of fame. A sixty
five got shut down. Trucks started coming through. The can
opener looked around and said, I've been waiting here for you.
Five trucks in two days, and the week's still young.
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Warning signs are everywhere, but somehow here they come. Tow
truck park nearby now waiting for the next. It all
looks like business is booming after all.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
The Third Street Bridge wins again. Everybody knows how this
story ends. The Third Street Bridge wins again. Five trucks
down and counting still.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You can read the size.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But if you don't.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The Third Street Bridge wins again.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Five trucks down.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The counting can opener wins again, undefeated. Still seven casualties
as of right now, and I'm not rooting for more,
but I think we're gonna see more.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I like that song more after a second one.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. It kind
of hits even better the second time. So yeah, good stuff.
All right, let's get to a quick time out what
I want to get to next. We'll let you hear
what some of our listeners have had to say as
far as the officer involved shooting that now led to
a life lost and an officer fired pretty quickly, Chief Humphrey,
stick around, who's ready to eight fort whas.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Termination proceedings against this officer are moving forward. A criminal
investigation into this incident is underway, and the Commonwealth Attorney
is now also involved in this matter.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What I can tell you is this was not the
right action. We see officers every day that encounter extremely
dangerous situations, and you don't see this. Our officers every
day make tough decisions that don't result in this.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That was Mary Greenberg and Chief Humphrey discussing the action
that was taken to start the process to fire the
offer Sir Nathan Stotts, who was the shooter that arrived
and shot an unarmed naked man and that man died,
And now we know this officer is going to be
fired and I'd say, if you've seen the body cam footage,
it's an understandable decision and reaction from city leaders. And
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we've had some listeners this morning sharing their thoughts on
the talkback. All you have to do is click the
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here it's fired up. This is from a woman who
has some thoughts in a question on the situation.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Yeah, so here's what I keep coming back to. We've
got a shortage of officers right now. Everybody knows that.
And when you're that desperate to hire people, you have
to I mean you just have to wonder are we
cutting corners somewhere and training, Like, are these guys getting
everything they need before they're out there on their own?
Because a naked, unarmed man running at you is scary.
I get that, but that's also exactly the kind of
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situation you should be trained for. And if he wasn't,
I mean, that's not just on him, that's on the
whole system that put him out there.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I would say, given the quick reaction and even the
comments directly from Chief Humphrey is that they're not trained
to do that at all. It sounds like there's no
scenario with what that officer was presented with meeting the
situation that he handled it in any way like you
were supposed to and like you're trained to. I mean,
I have no experience in any of the process that
(10:07):
goes into how you're trained and whatnot, but I think
it's just pretty common that that wouldn't be that wasn't necessary.
There's a lot of other things you could do up
to that point. But as I've said throughout the morning here,
when you consider all the different types of risks you
take and the consequences that come with being a law
enforcement officer, I think this is another one you just
(10:29):
add to the list that maybe doesn't get a whole
lot of acknowledgment that you can have the best intent
ever as far as why you choose to swear an
oath and protect and serve, and you know every day
that you go out on patrol, what happened to this
officer when he arrived to address Any day, that can happen,
(10:50):
and you can't be surprised. There are officers who work
in entire twenty thirty years and they never even come
close to having to draw their weapon. That happens. That's
actually more often than not, an officer never actually pulls
their weapon on somebody. But you have to know at
all times it can happen, and when it does, you're
going to have situations that put you in a spot
(11:11):
where you've got to make a quick decision, and that
quick decision can have all kinds of different consequences. And
this is I think a consequential decision where there's the
consequence of losing your job, but you also took somebody's life.
And I don't believe for a second that this that
was the intent. I don't mean, I don't know this
individual at all, but I choose to believe that nobody
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gets into law enforcement because they want to kill people.
That's happened, and people have been dealt with, and some
people have not been dealt with the way they probably
needed to when it comes to that kind of stuff.
We know examples of that as well. But when you
consider what it is men and women do sacrifice by
taking on this profession, there's a lot and this is
(11:56):
another one that you just you could make that decision
that takes life, ruined yours, and it's just because you
learned in real time that you didn't make the right decision.
And you can have all the training, you can, even
have prior experiences with something that is somewhat similar, and
maybe in that moment, when the dust settles, you look
back and say, Okay, man, that was wild, but I
made the right decision in that moment. This officer didn't
(12:20):
make the right decision in that moment, and it's cost
somebody their life and again maybe ruined this officer's life
moving forward for a variety of reasons, not just because
of potential consequences further, but I don't know about you.
If that was me, that messed me up. So I
feel for everybody involved in this entire situation. I really do.
(12:43):
All Right, we got a Sports of Day coming up,
Game one of the NBA Finals getting ready to start,
and I say this sincerely. I don't know if you
believe me, but I mean it when I say it.
I'm excited. I think it's gonna be a really good
serious We'll talk about it with Scott on the other
side right here at news Radio eight forty WHS Wacky
Back e the weed, cannabis, medical marijuana. That's the professional
(13:06):
way to discuss what we're about to discuss here. Because
Andy was sure yesterday signed an executive order uh TO
to add more qualifiers for medical marijuana here in Kentucky.
Those that have terminal terminal illness, sickle cell anemia, als,
Parkinson's disease, HIV and AIDS, Crohn's disease, severe arthritis, fibromyalgia, glaucoma,
(13:28):
et cetera. Many more medical conditions that you have can
now qualify you to to be on to get medical marijuana,
get your card, and and use this to help you.
And I will say, uh, I was dealing with something
that I didn't even know anything about, couldn't relate that
I now no longer deal with really at all. And
it's because of THC products. I tried all these other
(13:50):
medications and not only did they not work well for
me as far as being effective, like the side effects
almost made me wonder if it was worth it. I'll
just I'll just live with these panic attacks. If I'm
going to have you know, all these other side effects,
and you'll try one for six weeks, oh, not working
and it's actually making you worse. Well, we'll start all
over again. We'll get you on a new medication and
(14:11):
you can We'll give it another couple of months, so
I can tell you I don't have any of these
severe conditions that people have that are life threatening and whatnot.
I mean again in terminal illness. That's that's another qualifier here.
So uh, that's much more serious than anything I'm going through.
But I'm sure many people that never experienced marijuana ever
other than maybe smoking a joint in high school, they
(14:33):
now do see the benefit of how it can help
you when it comes to health. So a lot more
people can now legally get their hands on weed. Anytime
I talk about weed on the radio, I always go
back to this, say do it again.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Stay off the weeds.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Stay off the weed. And you can't stay off the weed.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
He ain't getting busted for using we Duh's off the weed.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That was of course, screaming a smith when he used
to have to cover athletes smoking weed and it being
a big deal. But Bnatti, that's not even a thing anymore.
Like no, over time, gradually it's been seen as something
that's not as viewed as this demonized thing totally now
like it's.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
It's socially exceptally flips. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the reefers. Okay,
so when probably the.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Biggest jump in marijuana consumption medically or not medically is
people like even older than.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
You, sixty five or older. I think it was sixty two.
It was sixty two or older. Was the majority of
people filling out those marijuana cards in Kentucky. We do
what we do, which is make it so difficult. You
can't buy you can't it's got to be grown here.
It's so stupid, you can't sell it outside of the state. Oh,
but drive to Cincinnati. I bought it from my brother
in law and I was like, I can just go
(15:57):
in there. They're like, yeah, I just scan your license
and then you go in and I was like I
can buy it and they're like yeah, so it's available
with everybody. My question is he added all that to
the list. Doesn't that really cover everybody?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Now?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Like you, if you do anxiety, just the list you
mentioned and then throw in the other list we had already.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, so I take like a I take product like
I take THHC gummies every now and then they can
help me if I feel like a panic attack coming
on they also helped me sleep, so like I don't
need a card, Like I can just get by with that.
But for those that are dealing with I mean, I
guess this would be the legal way to get it.
And who knows. I've never smoked medical marijuana, but maybe
it would even have a better effect on what I
(16:36):
what I need those those gummies for. But you're right
with all those different conditions of people. Yeah, it's a
lot of five folks.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Just make it legalized recreational marijuana. Let's move. You know
you're gonna get there, Kentucky, you know you're in the
future going to do it. Just do it.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's kind of like sports gambling, right. We knew eventually
we were going to have to just we had every
single reason. We did it. All seven states that border us,
We're the Dome doing it. We were going to do
it regardless. You might as well make some money off
of it and regulate it.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
So, yeah, well I didn't realize maybe it wasn't a
good call for everybody to be able to get.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There's not there's some people that you know that temptation
is unavoidable.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
You think there's a legitimate n C DOUAA tournament moving forward.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean, I would hope so naive youngster, that's I mean,
you might as well try to tell me Santa is
not real. You crushed. I love the tournament in my
brain that it may go away.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
You don't think these these these schools are going to
be fixing games. Players are going to be fixing games.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Come on, nah? Yeah, I mean it was inevitable that
you'd have some level of folks realizing they could profit
from this.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
But the Mafia is really good at jamming up adults
like grown men, grown women, And that's what they do.
They get you behind on you owe them, and then
now you're going to miss free throws or whatever for them.
They do a good job with that. If how good
do you think they are doing that to an a
ten year old?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
They're also really good at targeting the right eighteen year
old and the right adult, just because they know what
they need.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
I mean, well, you and I roommates, You are the
starting point guard. You get most of your points from
the free throw line. You used to be able to
drive to the basket, but that's not working for you anymore,
so you get your points getting fouled. Well, I need help, Nick,
here's what I need you to do. It's just one
game you're playing Northern Illinois. Don't worry about it, and.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I've got more control of the outcome with those for
me tonight.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Just miss your free throws for me, and you're telling
me one game for your best friend.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
So let me ask you this, because the counter to
that would be, well, yeah, but at least now because
it's regulated, we have the ability to track and see
when this unusual activity takes place. Imagine how much it's
been going on before gambling was legal. Hear, I hear
that point. But also like we now have it right
in front of everybody's face, that there's some lack we're
(18:56):
lacking integrity with players shaving points in that right.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Come on, it's too easy. The guy could click on
his phone.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And the look the product as a whole. I'd rather
just not know, well, and I whenever it was legal,
we just didn't know they were throwing games.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
And if you're not stupid about it, See, I'm the gambler.
I'm the guy that wants to cheat, and I'm going
to talk you into it. If I don't bet too much,
if I just bet a normal amount, because I need
some extra cash, and you're gonna do this for me
because you're just gonna miss a couple of free throws
against all the Illinois, but you'll win the game.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Then you won't get caught. It's a normal amount of money.
The people who get caught are the ones who just
they put a million dollars five hundred k on prairie
for you to beat North Carolina A and T like
that's gonna get flagged for intual activity. Yes, all right,
we need to get to a quick time out with
trafficking weather. But before we do that, we talked senior
pranks earlier, and I asked folks to share their their
senior pranks if they had a good one, and I
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thought this was a really, really good one.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Two days before the last day of school my senior year,
I panted the principal like full on in the hallway
in front of everybody, and yeah, they didn't let let
me walk in graduation, couldn't go. And people ask me,
was it worth it? And I mean, hell yeah, hell yeah,
(20:08):
I do it again. I do it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So he pants the principal full on. He says yeah,
and didn't get to walk in graduation and I don't
know how many years ago that was, but he doesn't
regret it. So I asked and you delivered. That's I mean,
that's a risky senior prank, but in your mind it
paid off. All right, Quick update traffic and weather. We'll
come back on the other side, finish up with Tony
and talk about the officer involves shooting that of course
(20:32):
led to somebody losing their life and that officer losing
his job. Stick around it. So who's rady to eight forty?
Whas all right, we're wrapping things up here on a
Wednesday morning. We hand it off to mister Tony Venetti,
who he has an experience that I don't. He said,
many experiences that I don't, and I regret that I
didn't get to live the life that you did. However,
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you got to experience training, essentially a mock training of
what it's like when you have to act in an
instant as a law enforcement officer. How do you handle
somebody that may be perceived as a threat. So we've
talked a lot about it this morning, where clearly this
officer over the weekend did not do what he was
trained to do, and that cast somebody of their life
and it's now cost him his job. What was that
experience like as far as just what they train you
(21:14):
to be prepared for it, at least as best you can.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
They have a multi million dollar device that they train with,
So this police officer did train that way.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
They all do.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
So you walk into a room and it is a
gigantic room and the wall is huge and it's one
screen that is your scene. You get a gun. It
is an actual gun like the police carry nine millimeter
or whatever it is, but it weighs the same and
has a laser on it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So you have a.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Holster, you have the gun in there, and you're the
police officer. So they start the scenario. Your job is
to either pull your gun, but you start to give
instructions to whoever's standing there. So that's what you do,
and then in the end you're graded on how you perform.
I did do one where a guy came at me
with a butcher knife and it was in a subway
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and he was coming towards me. But people don't realize
when someone's walking towards you, if they're going to attack you.
In the last six yards or five yards, they speed up, right,
So they're walking at a pace and then they when
they get near you, they speed up to get you.
So I shot him because he had a sweatshirt and
an overcoat on. So I have two options. I have
(22:21):
the gun and I have the taser. So which one
am I going to use? I looked at him and
that knife was gigantic, and he was coming towards me,
and I kept saying, put the knife down, stop walking,
stop walking, put the knife down, and I in my brain,
I said, where am I going to shoot him with
a taser. It's not going to get through any of
these clothes. It's winter, right, So I pulled my gun
(22:42):
and I shot him. And afterwards the police officer was
like that that was the right call.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And that makes sense. But I just keep coming back
to how it has to happen all so quick that
like you don't even really do you have the ability
to process what you process? Like did you think about
the coat? Did you was that in the moment why
you made the reaction? Because he was the right one,
it was, but it's just so quick.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I just thought, where am I gonna shoot him with
a taser? That's going to hook onto I will tell
you it is so lifelike and it is so intense
you're shaking after the training, like your heart is pounding.
I got killed three out of four times in those scenarios.
I did the same training in Saint Matthew's. They have
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the same thing. It's a multimillion dollar room. It's insane.
I won three or four out of the four on
the same ass. Yes, because the one that got killed
he had a guy, he had a hostage that was
kneeled down next to him on one hand and had
the gun pointed down to the ground in the other hand.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So these are detailed situations they put you in, absolutely
and may it makes total sense considering the nature of
what you what you're tasked with, if you decide to
go protect and serve.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
So he had the gun pointed down, he had the
hostage in the other hand. He wheeled it up and
shot me. I literally had no time to react, and
so they timed it the time between it went from
staatetionary gun to shooting me, and it was point two seconds.
It was really really quick, and he said that's the time,
and so if if I shoot him, they're gonna go.
(24:10):
He wasn't even pointing the gun at you.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Dude, you didn't have to do that.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
You didn't have to shoot him.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Get on, He didn't.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
He wasn't pointing it at the hostage. He was pointing
the gun to the ground. You don't know, but I
know because I've done the training that it's point zero,
zero's second or whatever that he's gonna get me. So
I know that. So I'm putting two in him and
going home today.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Some of the raw and real reaction from bodycam footage
is the trauma that is right there for an officer
that does know he had to do it and probably
doesn't regret it because he's alive, but they didn't want
to know. And it is rare for an officer to
shoot somebody. It's rare for an officer to get shot,
but it does happen, and you have to know every
day when you go out there on patrol it can't happen.
(24:54):
So for those like, well, did you like, who's stupid
enough to shoot a cop? Enough people have I'm not
gonna take a risk. I want to go home to
my family.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
If you're willing to shoot a cop, you're willing to
do anything, which is a scary individual. But this is
why if you engage with the cops, just do what
they tell you to do politely, Just.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Do that, and not only because that's what you should do,
but they'll they'll appreciate it because you know, they don't
want to get into that nonsense because who would, right,
But it happens, all right, mister Venetti is coming your
way next solo. I mean, it's not the full product
that is Tony and Dwight, but it's not far from it.
It's true. It's it's John Alden's time to shine you
damn right. It is
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