10.16: Plumpkin - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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LMPD officer that was involved in a real tragic situation
last year has decided to resign, So Alissa Bagel. She

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resigned six months after a deadly crash that took place
on Fern Valley Road. She was driving ninety five miles
per hour and a forty five zone as she was
responding to an emergency call, but she did not have
her lights or sirens on when she struck another vehicle
in an accident that killed sixty one year old Charles
brisco This is this is just a tough situation all

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the way around, because this is a law enforcement officer
who who signed up to put their life on the line,
protect and serve, doing their job and could have just
been an honest mistake. Now again, when you have that
type of responsibility and you're doing that job, mistakes of
course can be tragic, but they do happen. These are

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human beings, So dash Can video shows she was weaving
through traffic before colliding with Briscoe's Cadillac. Investigators found no
evidence that she tried to break So again, this crash
happened April second, as again she was responding to an
emergency call about a disorder disorderly patient that was in
an ambulance. So that that accident, of course, was I

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mean tragic, it took it took this man's life and
clearly no intent. But the question of you know, should
officers be held to higher standards when it comes to
speeding even during emergency responses, That's a question I'm sure
some are asking, and I just sometimes there really is
no easy resolution as far as just accountability punishment that

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kind of stuff, because I mean, I don't know how
you could actually you could legally hold this officer responsible
for doing the job they were hired to do, and
while performing the job, obviously responding to an emergency call
that led to her driving ninety plus miles per hour.
I mean, that's doing the job, but didn't have the

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lights and sirens on and it was probably just a mistake,
just and again, that mistake is a sign of incompetence,
and when you are an incompetent official or an officer,
I should say it could be deadly and it was here.
So if you're the family of this man, Charles Brisco,
I mean, I'm sure your emotions are all over the place.
Wouldn't shock me if you feel as if, hey, no

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matter what law enforcement officer or not, this person was
driving with other lights on. And you can't do that
if you're a copper. If you're not, and that I mean,
I don't know how you could assume that that didn't
have somewhat of a factor in this accident taking place.
So she has decided to resign and a grand jury
did decide not to indict her on manslaughter charges back

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in July, And of course there's mitigating factors as to
why they made that decision, and I think it was
the right decision, but I also understand the other side
of I mean, if it was me who lost a
loved one in that situation, I mean, I don't know
how it would feel. I hope it never know how
it would feel. But internally LMPD Chief Humphrey, they determined
a thirty days suspension was appropriate for the officer, but

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she resigned before serving that suspension. She'd been on paid
leave since that crash happened. But again, the criminal case
that wrapped up in about two months, and then the
internal policy review from the department it was about six months.
And now again the suspension has been handed down and
that officer has decided to resign. And this is this
is an added element here that I was unaware of

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until the new update here in regards to just her
resigning as an officer. The victim Brisco, who the sixty
one year old Charles Brisco, A toxicology report showed a
blood alcohol level of zero point one seven to three
almost twice the legal limit. And also the report says
that he turned into Bagel's path, So again, driving drunk, doesn't.

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I mean, this is one of those situations to where
as far as just truly you know, you've got a
guy who was nearly twice the legal limit, you have
an officer going ninety miles an hour with no sirens
or lights on, and a tragic situation happened. As far
as just this, there's no it's not cutting dry as
far as what you do in a situation like this,
this is beyond complicated. And you know, some will say, hey,

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if the other driver was intoxicated, is that change your
view as far as the officer's responsibility. You could come
up to whatever decision of whatever conclusion you want, But
none of us will ever truly know. And that's just
what makes this tough. So and I have no clue
if this, if the suspension is what ultimately led to
this officer saying okay, well, if you're gonna, if you're
gonna punish me for doing my job and yes, I

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made a mistake, then you know I don't want to
be LMPD anymore. I've no clue if that's the mindset
or not. But again the resignation comes before the suspension
can be can be served. So again, just just a
crappy situation all the way around, really tragic, to be
honest with you. All Right, let's get to a quick
update of traffic and whether we'll see how the roadways
are looking on this Thursday morning. Looks like right now,
just some backup with all the construction that's going on

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seemingly everywhere in this city. But I'm sure that could
and in fact, I know that can change it any moment.
So we'll see if Bobby Ellis has any updates for
us on that, and keep this thing rolling along right
here on News Radio eight forty whas. I think we
are eight days away from the exhibition game with Louisville
and in Kansas, which still doesn't seem real that we're

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that close. But also what a wild what a wild
way to get your first look at your team, right,
You've got Kansas, So, by the way, is actually I
think ranked in the AP pole lower in the preseason
poll than they have been in a long time. It's
still gonna be a really good test, and I'm glad
they've get they've got this test before they play Kentucky,
which that game now less than a month away. It's
another crazy thing to think about. But yesterday was the

(07:20):
Lois of Basketball Local Media Day and Pat Kelsey we'll
share some of the some of the sound from from
that yesterday. And he said a lot of the things
that you would expect him to say, and really he's
I think much more. He's not having to do a
whole lot of selling this year because fans they they
got a glimpse of of of what he's all about
in year one. I think to say year one was

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a success could be a massive understatement. I think he
brought the fan base back to life, and not only
did they have success that we had certainly missed around here,
but I mean, he seems to be a guy that
that fits this program, this community, this fan base, and
I really don't see a scenario where he's not successful here.
Now does that mean go into final fours or winning
a championship. That's tough to say, because you could be

(08:03):
really good and that never happened. But and I'm sure
there's gonna be years where they're they're struggling, but you know,
so far, so good. But I think he feels like
he's got a team, and most do, not just fans
and of course he and his staff, but those who
cover college hoops think louis is going to be one
of the best teams in the country, and you can
tell that he believes that as well. And really a

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much different situation than last year. I think he didn't
really have a clue what he had to work with,
and then they had some very unfortunate injuries that changed
some things for them early and and we were just
kind of feeling him out right like it was it
was the honeymoon, and it was an awesome honeymoon. I'll
look back to that honeymoon like a lot of us
probably do the honeymoons we shared with our significant other,

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and think fondly of it. Because it was the only
scenario where Louisville could lose in the first round of
the tournament, and certainly I was disappointed as a fan,
and that's the worst scenario, right you get in and
then you're bounced. I think louis was the first team
to lose because they played the first game, which again
that's a nightmare scenario. But what I had hoped ended

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up playing out exactly the way it did, and that
is that I had such a fun ride, and I
enjoyed every bit of just the process of coming back
to life as a fan base and watching guys that
were good. But also you could tell they really cared
about playing for this city. They seem to really be
energized by the fact that they were bringing the fan
base back to life, and with that, I was just

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so overjoyed by the season itself that I couldn't really
I couldn't. I couldn't generate any real anger or really
any sadness for last year coming to an end, which
again it's rare this year. If they were to lose early,
especially if they have a really good season, it's going
to be that feeling that I hoped to never experience again,
which is one of just like, man, this is the
worst feeling ever. We're crazy about college hoops around here,

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Who's Radio eight forty whas when discussing the jac DS

(11:00):
financial nightmares. They've got a one hundred and eighty eight
million dollar deficit. I've at times said finger pointing, and
I'm not really sure there's any finger pointing going on
from Mariti Poyo, the former JCPS superintendent, because I'm not
really sure who he would be pointing the finger at,
although he was pretty quick to defend himself understandably, so

(11:21):
I mean, again, he's got a right to do that.
But even after he left the position, and there was
some talk that maybe he as the leader, was encouraging
his team to maybe not mislead, but maybe carefully not
include certain aspects of their financial situation. That was an
allegation that was made, and even somebody within said that

(11:43):
when he found out that the entire board and of
course the community was surprised to learn of just how
bad the financial situation was, that he understood while they
were surprised because it was there wasn't a whole lot
of transparency that would lead them to know just how
bad things are. And again that's another thing that's that's
up for debate. I suppose is just how bad things

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actually are.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
I really don't.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, I don't know why JCPS would be out
here lying about how far off they are from the budget.
I mean, that makes no sense at all. So there
are discrepancies. But WDRB they recently, I think it was yesterday,
they shared a never before seen interview with former Superintendent

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Marty Polio, and this was in June, so keep that
in mind, that's important here. But at that time he
was discussing sort of their financial situation and did talk
about I mean again, so it all comes down to
the COVID COVID relief funds, and that has been mentioned
more than anything as far as the factor and how
we got here, And where there's a real discrepancy is

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that Polio claims that the district would need to cut
forty million dollars in the next fiscal year because of
that situation, and he called it a soft landing as
far as having a plan to operate without huge issues
once those COVID funds are no longer there. But again,

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forty million is what he mentioned in June as far
as the number, but much different number that we now know.
So it's one hundred and eighty eight million dollars. He's
only off ninety million, And that's just what is wild
to think about, is you've got I mean, can that
be really a discrepancy? I mean it is, but I
mean it seems like that's that's under selling it, you know,

(13:30):
when discussing the amount of money that they're going to
need to cut in the next fiscal year to of
course still pay their teachers without having to offload a
bunch of assets in order to just get cash in
the bank to pay employees. I mean, he was ninety
million dollars off. Just to me, that seems unheard of.
So here's a quote from that interview again, this is
from June with Marty Polio. We knew COVID dollars were ending,

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knew that, we knew there was going to be a
shortfall we were going to have to correct. He also
went on to again talk about how they had a
soft landing and there was a plan in place, and
doctor Brian Yearwood, the new superintendent of course, who inherited
this big mess, and has acknowledged that he was unaware
of just how bad things were financially when he took
the job. He claims that's just simply not true. I'm paraphrasing,

(14:14):
but here's a quote from WDRB. This was completely I'm sorry,
that's the quote from Actually, let me back up. I'll
give you the quote from Polio first. Again, this is
from the June interview. This was completely planned out. This
was part of spending down the reserves and coming off
of COVID, so not a surprise at all. And he
also went on to claim that they used a lot

(14:36):
of that money at the end for just one off expenses,
just to use it up because they knew it wasn't
going to be coming in anymore. And I'm not really
sure if that adds a whole lot of context to
the situation as far as how they got here. But
doctor Yearwood has said, and this was Tuesday after the
recent board meeting, that the district did not have a
plan to reduce spending when the federal money ran out.

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So that's just a clear Hey, we had a plan,
We had a sawt landing. This was completely planned out.
And doctor Eyarwood saying, no, that's that's not the case.
This is what he had to say. We added programs, positions,
things like that, so when the funds ended, we just
did not have a plan to actually make cuts as
they sit here one hundred and eighty eight million dollars,

(15:17):
that being the deficit and Polio being what was it,
eighty million dollars off ninety million dollars off of what
of what? Yeah, ninety million dollars off of what would
he projected their their you know, their cuts are going
to be. I mean, it's one thing if it's a
you know, a million, we're talking ninety million dollars off.

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So the plan, I don't know what it was, and
honestly we'll never know or need to know, I suppose
because he's no longer the JCPS superintendent. But when it
comes to just that whole tenure, I mean to say
that he left a mess. And I'm not saying it's
specifically Marty Polio's fault because obviously, you know, he's not
the only person involved here, but he was the leader,

(16:01):
he was the superintendent. Even if he had no involvement,
no knowledge of it, he's supposed to because again, he's
the boss, he's the guy in charge. With that position
comes unfortunately the responsibility, and it's you know, it's you
that's that's that's in charge. So to say that he
left a mess on his way out would be a
massive understatement. Again, not putting all of that on him,
but clearly he was the guy in charge, and he's

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claiming as he left, Yeah, forty million dollars was going
to be what we have to trim, and we had
a plan. We were gonna be good to go once
that federal money ran out. We knew what we were
gonna do, and we were gonna be okay, No, not
at all. All right, quick break trafficking weather updates on
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eight forty whas. I'm going to enjoy the beautiful weather

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that we've had this week, and of course I believe
it's expected to still be very nice today, but Saturday
and Sunday looks as if we could have some real
rain coming in and that's never good. But we'll have
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that you did. Is it just me? Or the week's
going back. I mean, how is it already Thursday? I mean, John,
you're coming off of a week of vacation, so this
week maybe dragon for you.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I agree with you. I can't believe it's already Thursday either.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
I'm not kidding you. Since I made this change to
hosting mornings here on Whas, everything has gone by insanely fast.
I mean, I feel like every day it's o whow,
We're already at the end of the week, which again,
everybody's working for the weekend, right, I mean, weekends are great,
but I cannot believe that after today we got one

(19:31):
more day and then it's another weekend. Again. It's a
good thing, but sometimes I kind of wish life would
slow down, especially with my kids. John, you'll you'll know this, You'll,
you'll you may already be seeing it.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I'll say this. My wife and I were talking last night.
This week in particular, we feel like this has been
the most rapid growth we've seen with our daughter, who
just turned six months old not too long ago. So
it's very strange to see that kind of uptick and things.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh I remember, I remember. I don't remember the exact
thing it was, but yes, when you start to you
start to sense okay, I'm sensing some personality. I'm sensing
you know, just you know, as they start to kind
of form into being, you know, people will have more awareness.
I feel like who they are of course. And there
you know what is she six months now?

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, it's she's right on schedule. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. All right,
let's get to a quick time out. We'll check on
the roadways. Also see what we're looking at for the
forecast today with Matt Melosovich of WLKY. And we've got
an other sports update coming up as well right here
on News Radio eight forty whas