Donkey Of The Day: Louisiana State Police Fires Trooper Who Spoke Out About Police Brutality

Louisiana State Police Fires Trooper Who Spoke Out About Police Brutality

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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had to make a judgment. Who was gonna be on
the donkey of the day. They chose you the breakfast
club bitch's donkey of the day today. Yeah, donkey today
from Monday, October eighteenth goes to the Louisiana State Police
UH Department or patrol for what they're doing to a
state trooper named Carl Cavalier. Now, these are the kind

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of stories I love to amplify because in situations like this,
there are hoping for a lack of media attention because
the less attention the story gets, the more injustice they
can get away with it, all right, more injustice they
can get away with they can bury it all right. Now,
y'all know I love carry your horn? Dropping a clue,
moms to carry your horn. If you know who carry
your horn is. She's a former police officer from Buffalo,
New Yorker's sister who was fired for intervening when a

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white police officer attempted to choke UH a young black man.
All right, this happened in two thousand and six, she
got fired in two thousand and eight and just want
a lawsuit to receive her pension. This past April in one,
I got a lot of love for carry your horn
in her situation made me hyper sensitive the police officers
who do the right thing, because we all talk about

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this blue wall of silence and the idea of good
cops are bad cops, and we often say you can't
possibly be a good cop if you don't speak out
against the bad cops. Well, cases like carry your Home
and show you that even when you are a good
cop who stops bad cops from doing things like killing folks,
there will be consequences and repercussions to you and you
will end up being punished. And that's exactly what has

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happened or is happening to called Cavalier. Would you like
to know the story you're called Cavalier, Well, let's go
to B and C News for the report. Police. We
turned out to Louisiana where a black state trooper has
been fired after speaking out about police brutality and racism
within his department. As comes after a trooper, Carl Cavalier,
gave several TV interviews criticizing the department for its handling

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of the death of Ronald Green, a black man who
died after he was beaten and dragged during an encounter
with troopers, but police initially reported that Ronald died in
a car crash. A spokesperson with Louisiana State Police says
Cavalier is being let go because he violated department policy.
The officers that actually committed the crimes, they'll have their jobs.
I'm curious to see whether or not he will be

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compensated with the civil lawsuit that I presume is forthcoming,
given that he was terminated inappropriately. And there may have
been rules about releasing information, but those are typically superseded
when people are revealing information that is illegal, trying to
get rid of an officer for doing the right thing.
So you're a Louisiana State trooper who accused your colleagues

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of an internal cover up because of the murder of
a brother named Ronald Green. Rest in peace to Ronald Green. Now,
I tell you all the time, I'm not the highest
grade of weed, and it just entry. But if Louisiana
State Police tell Ronald Green's family that Green died in
a car crash, but body camera and dash camera foot
to show something totally different, meaning they show Ronald Green
being tased, kicked, and punched before he died in police custody.

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Then somebody got explaining to do and called cavalier feels
the same way. Let's listen to him and what he
had to say. Let's go to w w LTV CBS
four for the report. Police. These guys are actively covering
up a murder. You know what, it could happen to
anyone and my family member, your family member. I just
want the right thing to be done. Yeah, so I
considered the murder because why else would we would we

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hesitate to be transparent about it? You know, why else
would we not do our jobs and hold these guys
are comorable? Why why else? Without the reason? You know,
they're still videos that still remain under lock and key.
This isn't a lack of transparency. This is just a
s greate up lie. Okay. How can a system be
changed from the inside out when people on the inside
are punished for doing the right thing? There's law enforcement

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understand that these are the kind of situations that could
build trust between the community and law enforcement. All we
want to know is that someone is attempting to do
the right thing. We just want to be treated fairly.
We can't keep having these conversations about you know, bad
apples and in law enforcement, because when you hear stories
like this, clearly the whole tree is riding. All right.

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She called Cavalier. I can trust him, but I can't
trust the system that he's a part of. And the
reason they are firing him, I guarantee is because now
the system can't trust him. LSPD. If you fire called Cavalier,
you're drawn a clear line in the sand between the
people in your office, is a clear line in the
sand of right and wrong, because you're telling the people

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what's right doesn't matter. Having integrity doesn't matter. The only
people who should be fired in this situation is the
officers who beat on Ronald Green and then lied about
how he died. Is this complicated to anybody? He shouldn't be.
How can the State Police Superintendent Lamar Davidson a letter
to call Cavalier saying Cavalier violated department the season procedures?

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How okay? Clearly, tays and kicking and punching a suspect
already in custody is part of policies and procedures. Clearly,
lying about how a person really died is part of
department policies and procedures. Okay, the system of law enforcement
in this country really really needs to be degratified. Okay,
Racism and bigotry are not a part of law enforcement

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in America. They are law enforcement in America. It's literally
the foundation law enforcement is built upon, and nothing is
going to change as long as there are these individual
cases like this. Because it's easy to dismiss a carryer horn,
it's easy to dismiss the call cavalier. But what would
happen if all the good cops in these departments stood
up against injustice and not just one What if it

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was a collective of officers saying, no, this is wrong
and this is not how we do things. And if
it is how the system does things, we won't be
doing them like this anymore. Even when I look at
what called Cavalier was accused of and regarded the violating
the department's policy, he says they violated the department's policy
on public statement law for orders loyalty to the department.

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Why because he got loyalty to the people disiman with
the dissemination of information, seeking publicity, and conduct unbecoming to
an officer. Meanwhile, as Carl said, the officers who potentially
killed someone in lied about it are still on the
force if what they did is an unbecoming to an office.
So what is they said? He's seeking publicity? Why? Because

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he's simply trying to get justice for a man who
a bunch of officers allegedly killed and then they lied
about how he died. External circumstances will not change until
internal belief systems change. Hold your head, called cavalier, please
give the Louisiana State Troopers the biggest he hull. All right,

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all right, thank you for that donky today. Now it's
just and my my mom and dad just hit me.
They told me that whoa Colin Powell passed away? So
rest in peace. His family actually said it on Facebook.
They said he died from complications from COVID and he
was eighty four years old. And we'll give you some
more information as we know, but it was just announced

(07:14):
like five minutes ago. Yeah, and he said he was
fully vaccinated, but he said he died of complications of
COVID nineteen. Complications is a key word, but because he
was eighty something years old, you probably had some other
health issues and things of that nature. All right, Well,
as we have more information, we will let you know.
As this just broke wow. Alright, alright, well let's clear

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our minds. Clear our minds, clear our minds. Let's open
up the phone. Ones eight five one O five one.
I know we were talking about this behind the scenes.
G Tory Hart. Yes, Tory Hart. Um. She was talking
about how people always give her flag four having the
last name Hart from her ex husband Kevin Hart. Here's
what she had to say. One of the questions that
the ladies asked me is like, why do you still

(07:56):
had a hard name? And I'm like, well, because it's
my first of all, Second of all, because Kevin ain't
never asked for it back or he don't want to
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of all, my kids don't want me to change my name.
So that's something that people always ask me. And I'm like,
that's my name, Get over it. I'm gonna be your
heart until I decide not to be all right, So
what's the question? Um? Yes, she said that people will

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always asked her that, and I know this has been
an issue right of somebody. When you get divorced as
a woman, you know, if you get married, you choose
can choose to change your last name to your husband's
last name. But when you get divorced, then do you
change your name back or do you keep that last name?
All right, well, let's talk about five eight five one
five one. When you get divorced, do you give back

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the last name? Do you take your original name? That
is the question. She said, it's hers though, she said,
that's my name, first of all, it is it is
her name. Her name is changing. That's her kid's name
as well. So let's talk about it when we come back.
Eight five one on five one is to breakfast club.
Good morning,