8.29: Friday Vibe - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get it started six oh five here
on news Radio eight forty whas do you feel it?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
That's Friday, folks. We've made it.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The holiday weekend is upon us, and I am certainly excited.
I'd be excited regardless, but the weather also is a
big factor to the excitement. You're gonna beautiful this weekend,
and I'm looking forward to taking full advantage of it.
A lot of college football, a lot of just being outside, right,
and we're gonna help get you set for the weekend here.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's what we do, at least we try to. I
am going to tear up my grill this weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I'm sure it's going to be like healthy food
items as h No, dude, we're.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Rolling, man, I've already got some menu stuff lined up, man.
I mean actually, in fact, actually I'm going to make
a beer run later this afternoon and make sure I'm
stocked up.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You got you gotta be stocked up.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
In fact, this is probably one of the busier, one
of the busier days that double liquor stores are going
to see, right, I mean, I'm sure Fridays are pretty
busy because people want to get set for the weekend.
But especially the holiday weekend. Oh yeah, so yeah, looking
forward to it, no doubt. All Right, So this story
is something I read yesterday initially over at WDRB, and

(01:06):
I've got some questions, And again I'm not privy to
these answers. I'm sure there's I mean, there's a lot
of things that go on when it comes to an
investigation where details could make it make more sense. But again,
the lack of transparency is pretty obvious when it comes
to criminal investigations. But just an unfortunate situation all the
way around. So in twenty twenty two, this is in
January of twenty twenty two, there was a Louisville woman
to Tom who was.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
A postworker, Coquita Boyd, and she.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Got into a minor accident on her waiter work and
when officers arrived, she was asked for a breathalyzer test.
I'm sorry, she asked for a breathalyzer test to prove
she was sober, but the police apparently refused and instead
arrested her for DUI. According to a lawsuit that's been
filed by her family, So what happened next was a
fourteen month nightmare, really, and according to her family, that

(01:54):
impact left a lasting damage that followed her until she
passed away this past May. So here's what we know.
According to the lawsuit, the officer, Samantha Davenport, claimed that
the woman failed a field sobriety test despite no smell
of alcohol or slurred speech, and she was cuffed in charge.
Now at jail, she blew a zero point zero on

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the breathalyzer, and at the hospital blood tests confirmed she
was clinically sober. Davidport, the officer, later admitted that she
simply didn't carry a portable breathalyzer because I guess, quote
what she told the woman was it wasn't her thing, quote,
wasn't my thing. So maybe I don't know if law enforcement,
if there's only certain officers that carry those that have

(02:38):
that on them. But this woman was accused of being intoxicated,
and she wanted a breathalyzer at the time, they didn't
have it on site. She apparently failed a And that's
where it gets gets tricky, because there's something that says
that she failed the field sobriety test, but there's also
something that says that she was in course, she didn't
cooperate during the field sobriety test. So either way, she

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ended up being prosecuted for this without really any evidence
at all. She spent fourteen months fighting dui charges before
the case was eventually dismissed. And the lawsuit that has
been filed says the Davenport pursued the law enforcement the
officer Davenport pursued prosecution knowing that there was proof that
this woman was sober. And of course the lawsuit states

(03:25):
that it's an egregious miss it's an example of an
egregious misconduct, and again, a wrongful arrest lawsuit is ongoing.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
The aftermath here is awful. She had forty four and
a mother of five boyd She passed away in May
from complications tied to high blood pressure. Her family has
said that the stress of that arrest and lawsuit weighed
heavily on her, and her son told WDRB quote, the
main thing she wanted was justice. She didn't want this
to happen to anybody else. So, again, this is not

(03:51):
that uncommon as of late to hear of a dui
arrest where somebody is not over the legal limit. Now
this is a different situation. This was somebody that there's
quite literally zero evidence that she was not sober. In fact,
not only did a breathalyzer test show zero point zero,
a blood test confirmed that as well. There's really no
other way that I know of to and again maybe

(04:13):
there is, but I'm just saying any time I've ever
heard of anybody having evidence against them of being intoxicated,
it's just the outright refusal for anything, meaning you won't
let them test anything, breathalyize or blood or anything. And
I think there's a way to where you don't really
have control over that at some point. But regardless, I
just don't know how something like this could happen.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
First thing that comes to mind for me is you
can be under the influence of something that's not alcohol, right,
and that can still leave you impaired in what I
don't know. And again, good morning. To bring in our
friend Dwight Mitchell, who's going to join us coming up
here around seven o'clock from LMPD.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
And obviously he can't talk.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
About specific cases, but I would ask him sort of
protocol for this. Obviously, you can be highly intoxicated on
or impaired, I should say, on some type of substance
that is not that is not alcohol. I mean in
I'm sure there's things that maybe I mean out again,
as far as being able to truly get something from

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their blood that tells them, I guess. I guess you'd
be able to get that from that from a blood
test when those take place after an arrest has been made.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
But what I think is is a.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Real head scratcher here is that the prosecution by this
officer Davenport was pursued with their clearly being evidence that
shows that this person was not under the influence. And again,
maybe she wanted to push it because she wanted to
get it to trial to where she could She's got,
you know, body came evidence or something that would that
would give some justification as to why she made this

(05:39):
arrest whenever the breathalyzer showed her and she later admitted
she didn't smell alcohol and that this woman also didn't
slur her speech. So just I feel awful for this
woman who went through that, and I just don't really
know how that can happen. Now. Again, this is different than,
for example, the recent Russ Smith arrest. He was arrested

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for DUI and he did have alcohol in his system,
but at the jail and at the time of his arrest,
they did a breathalyzer and it did not meet the
level of where you would be charged. Now, again it's
officer discretion. They can still just make that decision. And
I mean if I was on the wrong I mean

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I'd be upset as well. If I was pulled over.
I was honest about drinking, but I knew that my
limit was not hit. The breathalyzer confirmed that, and yet
I still got charged. I mean I'd be upset too,
But again it's the officer's discretion point I understand. All Right,
We've got an update of trafficking weather coming your way
as we move forward here on a Friday morning, getting
you set for the holiday weekend on news radio Waight

(06:41):
forty whas so both U of L and UK getting
their season started this weekend, and safe to say Kentucky's
got a bigger challenge on their hands than Louisville. Will
EKU not expected to be a big thread. Obviously, it's
a pay game for them. They're coming to get a
beat down, get a check, and head back to Richmond.
At the Toledo the is it Toledo or Acron, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's Toledo.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, Toledo is coming into Kentucky looking to win because
they're a good team in the MAC. I thought last
night overall did a pretty good job as far as
just showing they can compete, and this Toledo team is
believed to be one of the best that the MAC
has to offer. Now, I'm not predicting an upset by
any means, but I also know that it's one of
the power level conferences playing a lower level conference. This
is a trendy upset pick because Kentucky struggles, and of

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course Acron's a good team. They've received I'm sorry, Toledo's
a good team. They received votes in the AP Pole,
they're coming off a good year. So again, I'm not
predicting the upset here because sometimes you just get out
there and you see, okay, well, look they've got SEC
players the other team doesn't, and it could just play
out to where Kentucky wins without much issue. In fact,
the more I can think about it, the more I
can see it playing out that exact way. However, I
would say that if Kentucky does somehow lose this game,

(07:49):
the Marx Stoops is not going to be fired tomorrow,
or I guess you know, after the game or even
this season, but it would be the ultimate moment of Okay,
he knew this was bad and last year was an
outlier as far as the struggles that they had. But
here you are with a chance to rebound, and if
you get it started with a loss to a MAC
team with a challenging schedule the rest of the way,

(08:11):
I think you would see morale as low as it's
ever been for Stoops in Lexington. So the reason I
bring all this up is because if in fact this
season is worse than last year, I think a lot
of folks just expect Kentucky to make a move, and
they probably will. But if they don't, you got to
think it's because of.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
The money.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Because right now the Curer Journal has a breakdown of
Stoops's salary. So he makes nine million annually and his
contract runs through twenty thirty one, and if he was
to be let go before his contract comes to an end,
Kentucky's gonna owe him seventy five percent of his remaining
salary if he's fired, So to move on from him
it would cost you forty point five million dollars And

(08:52):
I just I mean not to say that Kentucky wouldn't
be able to round up funds. They've got some deep
pockets as far as people that will help pay to
get stuff done. Talking about the Craft family here, but
that's I mean, that's that's an insane amount of money
when it comes to moving on from somebody. I mean,
the largest ever is Jimbo Fisher, Texas A and M
but that's in that's seventy seven million. But I just

(09:15):
part of me thinks that Mitch Barnhard is so loyal
to Stoops that he'll he'll at least.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Have in the back of his mind.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, yeah, we've been good with him before, better than
we ever have as far as consistency. But I just
think the game's changed a lot. And when you can
see this sink, the sinking ship, you got to you
got to make a move. But again, it's it's easier
to talk yourself out of it when you're looking at
a forty point five million dollar pay payment just to
make that change happen.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So he's definitely, I mean, he's said he structured it,
you know, And I think unfortunately Kentucky fans, you're gonna
be stuck with this, so they're gonna have to find
a way to As you mentioned, Nick, hit the portal,
get yourself some talent and that can start running with
these SEC teams or it's gonna be a long long sight.

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Speaker 2 (11:08):
Thank you very much, John Shannon.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
It is a Friday as we get you set for
the holiday weekend here at news Radio eight forty whas
Coffee and Company Nick Coffee. That's me Scott Fitzgerald alongside
you just heard John Shannon there and the company man
John Alden, be back with us next week.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Looking forward to that. So this story is one that.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm currently seeing being mentioned on wkyre partners and I
did have it on the radar to discuss this morning,
and why not bring it up now just because it's
distracted me as we get this segment started, because I
just can't fathom how this happens.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
But a woman has.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Been charged after a dui crash took place yesterday where
her vehicle flipped and it left her and her younger
passenger a child injured. So this happened late night, I
guess last night, I suppose, But it's landed this woman
behind bars because she was she was intoxicated with her

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child in the car, and again the accident led to
the vehicle flipping over hitting other vehicles. Thirty one year
old Chalisa Helm was arrested.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
This was Wednesday night on South seventh Street after shuv
overturned and hit two vehicles, and witnesses say that they
saw a baby being pulled from the suv. Police later
found Helm on the sidewalk with her child, and officers
noted that she had slurred speech, smelled strongly of alcohol,
and had blood on her clothes. So they also found
open alcohol containers inside the suv, and she didn't admit

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she was texting when she struck a parked car and
obviously accident took place. Her child wasn't a booster's seat
at the time, but she refused field sobriety test, but
blew a zero point zero eighty four on the breathalyzer
five hours after, so she was still legally intoxicated five
hours after the accident took place. I don't I'm not

(12:57):
an expert by any means when it comes to the
zero you know the actual you know how long it
would take somebody like I can't do the quick math
that'll tell you how intoxicated she might have actually been
at the time of the arrest. But I wouldn't be
shocked to think that it would be substantial as far
as just the difference there as it being zero point

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zero eighty four five hours after this accident took place.
So the child was taken in Orton Children's Hospital for
treatment and the mother Helm is facing charges du I
won engagement, reckless driving, and endangering the welfare of a minor.
So I mean how I mean, I who would just
sit around thinking about these kind of things happening, because

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that's no way to live. Now again, if you want
to find this type of news, there's no shortage of
it really across the country. And I don't say that
to be gloom is doom. I just think that's the
reality of it. And we have access to information via
the Internet that we didn't used to have many years ago.
But just I mean, this poor baby, I mean, just
a helpless, innocent young child that is being taken care

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of us somebody who clearly isn't is an awful human being.
I mean I don't know her personally, Hopefully she could help.
Maybe there's some reasoning behind why she's getting hammered and
driving with her child, but I mean just awful.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, I mean this highlights the need for you know,
there's so many different avenues we need to at this
time help folks out when it comes to whether it
be you know, social healthcare, social medicine. I'm not one
that says the government needs to lean in and just
you know, support everybody, but there needs to be an
equal balance. And obviously, as you mentioned, this lady has
certain issues going on in her life right now, and

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if she were afforded the opportunity to receive some sort
of help, and maybe she hasn't, she just turned it down.
That's another story for another day. But you know, we
finally are breaking through the stigma of mental health, and
hopefully this highlights you know, look, if there's something not
right with you, if you're a little off center, you
just got a vibe that's not working for you, there's

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help out there. And I only hope that we can
increase ways for people who can afford because I don't
believe me. I know, counseling can be expensive, or any
mental health can be expensive like that. But hopefully we're
able to find ways to help people get the resources
and the help they need. Because clearly this lady needs
some help.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
She needs something. Yeah, that's what I'll say. I mean,
she needs something.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
She also needs to be held accountable. I mean, well, agreed, agreed,
I'm yeah, I'm not disputing that at all.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
You're one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I mean, I think there's everybody's different. But I know,
public shame, public humiliation can do a lot to people.
And I find myself and again it's because the algorithm
of social media knows me well, especially on TikTok, I
find myself not being able to avoid these bodycam videos

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of different arrests and most and oftentimes it's DUI, Yeah,
and if I just think of whenever this person who
ends up clearly you know, getting arrested for DUI and
they make a fool of themselves, question what power law
enforcement has wanting to see a supervisor and claiming that
they don't have to take the you know, they don't
need to do the test, and all that kind of stuff.

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I just didn't imagine the legal process of them being
shown the body cam footage of how they behaved and
making it public when these things happened, because these people
deserve to be held accountable. They also, I mean, that
can only help you truly learn from your ways and
your mistakes if in fact, you see after the fact

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how you behave Because given the level of intoxication here
with this woman, it wouldn't shock me at all if
she doesn't remember it, because that's how drunk she was.
So I just as as I'm trying to get a
visual here in my head of this whole thing playing out,
I mean, I go back to some of these videos
I've seen of people who get I mean, who get
pulled over and they're clearly driving while intoxicated, and they're

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I mean, you just never know who you're next to.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
You on the road as far as you know, are
they are they?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Are they not intoxicated just like you would assume most
people are. Or are you driving next to somebody who's
who's fifteen beers deep? I mean like you just don't
know and uh yeah, I mean I.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Think you're onto something, Nick, And there is a fine
line between having that, you know, offering that help. Obviously,
this lady had issues with alcohol in so many people
do I mean, yeah, but like.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Maybe she just maybe she just gets I mean, like
I guess there's different levels to having issues with alcohol,
but like I don't maybe she's just an irresponsible idiot
who gets drunk. I mean, like that doesn't mean I mean,
you know, I know some people need help, some people
need to not be idiots understood.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
No, no, no, I totally make your putt.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I totally get what you're putting down, and you're right
on a number of respects. If there's a certain level
of public shaming involved, that wakes people up. For example,
we were talking earlier this week about how I got
to paddle in school. Well, some people even back then
advocated against paddling in school, but for me, it got
my attention and it turned me out, you know.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
So what you're saying is right with this lady.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
If she's just getting drunk just to getrunk and she's
not even trying to reach out and get help, well
then that's another story.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
And you know, I swear I think that if if
people had if some people just have no shame, they
don't care. But I've seen some of these videos of
how people are and I probably and I think at
the time, like I'm sure when they're not intoxicated, they're
nowhere near this, but.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
They're just completely blitzed.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
But if I saw myself behave in any way like that,
I would never drink alcohol again, in fear of turning
into something, in fear of turning into somebody I didn't
know I could be, because when I get to that
level of intoxication, I don't, you know, I block out.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I don't remember it. Yeah, so yeah, just awful stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
All right, We've got another update of traficking weather coming
up right here on news RADIOA forty WHS. All right,
it is six forty nine here at news Radio A
forty whas Happy Friday, as we get you set for
the holiday weekend real quick before we get back to
another update of traffic and weather. We've also got a
sports update coming your way with Scott and we'll get
the seven o'clock hour started with LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell,
who's going to join us here in studio. But I

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mentioned earlier if Mark Stoop's is to be fired, which
I'm not saying that that will happen. However, if in
fact they're to lose to Toledo, which is a real possibility,
although I don't expect it, that'll lead to people saying, Okay,
this this has run its course. Last year was an outlier,
but man, what an awful way to get a bounce
back season. At least that's what it's supposed to be started.

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So anyways, just looking at the numbers, if Stoups was
to be fired the number I mentioned earlier, This is
information courtesy of the Courier Journal, the cost to make
a move before his contract comes to an end would
be forty point five million dollars. So the biggest buyout
that's ever been paid to get rid of a coach,
and it's crazy to think about. Jimbo Fisher was paid
seventy seven million dollars to no longer do his job.

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What a gig college football coaches have have the ability.
I mean, that's just insanity that that's even a thing.
But hey, they credit the agents, I suppose. But other
big buyouts that were paid. Gus Melzon was paid twenty
one million, Willie Taggart was paid around twenty million when
he he was let go at Florida State, and then

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Auburn also had a big buy out of fifteen point
three million to Brian Harson, and then ed Orgeron was
paid sixteen point one million for his contract to be
bought at. So I'll bring all that up to say,
is Kentucky football the program that's going to do something
unprecedented for.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
A basketball school?

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Again, they've got sec money, they've got deep pockets, but
there's so much uncertainty with the financials of college athletics
right now. I just I don't know if anybody's willing
to pay forty plus million dollars to move on from
a coach if it gets there. It may not get there,
but I think even a when tomorrow and another four
and eight season for Kentucky, which is possible just because

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of how challenging their schedule is, I I think if
you're a Kentucky fan and you're thinking of okay, well,
it'll work itself out, because if he doesn't get it
done this year, Mitch is going to move on. He
might or he might not, because forty point five million
dollars is a lot of money. I mean, the contract
Stoops was given makes it to where he could probably
prop his feet up and not have to worry a

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whole lot about his job security. But again, you know,
you could talk you Kentucky could find some money if
they really had to. I suppose, right the Crafts could
maybe pony up some money to maybe move on from him.
But man, just looking at other buyouts that have taken place,
this would be the second largest buyout in the history
of college football for a program that really, until recent

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years has never really shown a big time commitment to football.
And in fact, the reason that they did start to
commit to football is because of the guy that they
may have to pay forty million dollars to get rid of.
So just something to think about, all right, Traving a
weather on the way. Sports updates as well from Scott
right here on News Radio eight forty whas