February 26, 2025 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Charlamagne to God, here's a Doncy's.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey of the day to who.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now well buster rhymes donkey of today for Wednesday, February
twenty six goals to Shawn Simpson. Sean Simpson is a
sixteen year old North Carolina teenager who broke down in
tears in court after being charged as an adult for murder.
Let's go to fix to forty six for the report.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Please.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Sean Simpson came into Gaston County Court at points, wiping
away his tears as he stood before a judge. Just
sixteen years old. He's being charged with first green murder
as an adult. That's as a result of a law
change that wenting to effect in the Zimber, which allows
teens his age to be charged as an adult in
certain crimes. There is a realization that during this proceeding
that the gravity was hitting him a grand jury in
(00:47):
Diamond that could come in the near future, and the
moment that hit when a judge told him that he
would not be seeing freedom anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Court made as a hold without on court finals fishing
allegations support.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Charging concert was something that Sequatius Dawkins's family says they
needed to be here for Simpson, accused of killing Dawk
at Sunday night a long Chester Street. Simpson also accused
with attempted first screen murder involving another victim. Dawkin's family
says he was going to get medical supplies for his
(01:19):
mother when he was killed.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I would say this is a teachable moment, but I've
been alive forty six years and I haven't seen too
many of you learn yet. Okay, all of these are
rerun Sadly, I don't understand why we aren't breaking this cycle.
I don't understand why we aren't learning. I mean, truthfully,
this is me at sixteen or seventeen. Of course I
never killed anyone, but I've been in dumb ass situations
like this. When I was sixteen or seventeen, I went
to jail for a Sultan Barridy would intend to kill. Okay,
(01:42):
the charge got changed, the point in presenting a firearm.
But I was literally just in the backseat of a
car and one of my homieshot at another car.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Just dumb and young and reckless.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Wasn't about nothing, just teenage kids who don't really know
any better. I wrote about it and my first book,
Black Privilege. Opportunity comes to those who created. And the
reason I'm telling this story is because when my homie shot,
there was three.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
People in the car.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The bullet hit the headrest of de seit nobody was
sitting in the empty seat behind the passenger seat.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But what if that seat wasn't empty?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Then I go to jail for assessory to murder unless
I snitched, which I probably would have. My point is,
trouble is easy to get into and hard to get
out of, and none of us have the timestone from
the Marvel Cinematic universe. Okay, the timestone allows to use
it to control time. You can rewind, fast forward, travel
through time. When you see this young man, Sean Simpson
(02:30):
break down like that in court, don't you think he
wouish he had a timestone so he could rewind the
time and not do what he did.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Of course he would, of course.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, Sean and the young man he killed, the Equavius Dawkins,
had a fight, according to People Magazine the previous year
at Ashbrook High School. I don't know who won to fight,
but it clearly wasn't Sean. And guess what kids. You
got to learn to take an ass with it, okay,
because these are just all hypotheticals I'm about to spew.
But if you fight, get your ass with even if
(03:00):
it goes viral. So what, Okay, when anger rises, think
of the consequences. Would you rather go viral because you
got your ass beating in school? Or would you rather
go viral because you in the courtroom getting charged with murder?
And then when you get charged with murder, you looking
like Simbols screaming, screaming out after Mufossa got trampled by
the wilderbeace. Okay, this is exactly what Simba felt in
(03:23):
that moment, a mix of shock, grief, and disbelief.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But the grief you.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Feel spending the rest of your life in jail because
you getting charged as an adult isn't the same as
the grief as Equavi as his mother feels. So I
don't feel bad for you, Okay. I'm sad about the
situation because two young black men aren't going to have
a future in society.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You know, keeps failing these young men.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I read that Sean is being held in the Gaston
Adolescent Center, where he has been undergoing treatment Okay. The
center treats children and adolescents that have significant emotional and
behavioral difficulties. Now, I'm not the highest grade weed in
the dispensary, but why wasn't he getting this treatment before
he committed a murder?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I guess I still to say allegedly, but allegedly, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
There had to be signs, There had to be some
type of disciplinary issues at home and in school, but.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Those signs were clearly ignored.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But of course we don't get people help and tell
us way too late. And that's what I'm sad about. Okay,
these things could be prevented. But I don't feel bad
for Sean. Okay, because the Equavius was walking to a
store to buy items for his disabled mother, and that's
when Sean sat him. That's when Seawan shot them. Okay, listen,
let me read what it says. Okay, this, this is
what it says happened in People magazine. I'm gonna read this,
(04:31):
and you tell me what movie. This sounds like the
Equavius and his friend walking the family dollar to get
items for Equavius his mother. A black tesla drives past,
and a boy in the backseat identified as Sean Simpson
shot something out the window, the Quavius and his friend
began to run. When the car returns again, Sean Simpson
allegedly starts shooting from the back and that's how Poors
(04:52):
Equavius got shot and killed.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What movie? Does that sound like? Boys in the Day?
But this ain't no movie? Dog? Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is Equavius is dead for real because Sean Simpson made
a choice that he is clearly now regretting and that
he clearly can't change.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And destiny is not a matter of chance. It's always
a matter of choice.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I'm sad that Sean Simpson didn't make a better choice.
But I'm not moved by Sean Simpson's tears. I'm not
moved by his outbursting court. You know why, because I
know it's Equavius Dawkin's mother is crying way harder than
Sean ever will. Okay, there's a quote, and the quote
is everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn't mean
(05:35):
they have to pay for them for the rest of
their life. Kids, I want to tell y'all that quote
is a lie. Okay, Yes, everyone makes mistakes in life,
and depending what that mistake is, you will probably pay
for it for the rest of your life literally, and
first degree murder in North Carolina, there is absolutely a
life sentence. Please give Sean Simpson the biggest he huh,
(06:00):
sixteen years old man, sixteen, sixteen years old.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But for me, it was him breaking down realizing what
it is like you know too late.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
No, it is you know you out here trying to
be a y n about to go.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
To jail and be a yba.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, I'm sorry, I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I do not be feeling sorry for like yo, come on,
like that little boy not here no more. This was
all because you you couldn't just fight him, You couldn't
just keep fighting him.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Just that.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And I used to be back in the day before
you go get a gun, you keep fighting until you
win or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Just well, I mean people used to come back blasting too,
we said, we used to say the same thing back
to the day.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think now it's heightened because it's recorded and it
goes viral. Not a world sees it opposed to just
your hood. Yeah, but it happens often, like almost happened.
It happens a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It was like guns are more accessible, yeah, like like
what was at a higher rate, right, because growing up
you probably only well, I I'm from New York. Country
is a lot different, but you might have only known
one person with a gun, yeah, or maybe two people.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What you was scared, yo, honestly because we didn't have guns.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
And then if in New York, you would automatically get
I think it's two years or three years in prison
if you were found.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
With a gun.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So I'm forty six years old. Gun violence has been
going on at the time, but I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Now it seems like every kid has a gun, like, like,
not just small guns, I mean AARs, I mean shotguns.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I means.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Just like you, something like a little different, like this
is a new conversation. No, we're not acting like this
is a new conversation. Conversation, don't have the same.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, No, been going on since the beginning of time
and even and by the way, I just mentioned wanting
Tovie boys in the hood, right, this is the same
scenario for minutes of society.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Society dude get beat up and he comes back blasting.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
This is life, sadly, Yeah, and that's why I said
the cycle doesn't ever break. This has been going on
for a long long time. I'm not gonna sit here
and tell that lie. Like you know, gun violence has
not been prevalent for a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It has been. It seems like it's gotten worse in
the last last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Absolutely, it's just when somebody who's got a different opinion
respected and shut out.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Maybe we just care more because we're adults now, because
think about it, when you were when we was young,
we used to glorify it. We was young, you kind
of used to celebrate it a lot. Right, That's just
the fact.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That let's open up the phone lines about this kid.
Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five to one.
Do you feel bad for this kid? He's sixteen years old,
he allegedly shot two teams. He's not going to be
charged as a child, He's going to be charged as
an adult. He broke down and caught yesterday crying, so
you can tell where his mind frame is.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Let's discuss, Yeah, let's discuss. You feel sympathy. Do you
feel sad for this young man?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Something was sad for the situation of the cycle that
never seems to the end.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm sad for the little boy. Mother my head's that's
part of the cycles. Listen, but that's that's who I'm
I'm said for.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Let's talk about it. We'll take phone calls, we'll talk
about it and the death when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Good morning Dog here today is sponsored by renowned personal
injury attorney Michael to Buller Ammon Soft.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on
your side. If you're ever injured, go.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
To Michael to Bull dot com. That's Michael the Bull
dot com. And when you mess with the Bull, you
get the horns.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club
To Charlamagne to God, here's a Doncy's.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh man, Charlamagne, you've given donkey of the day to who.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now well buster rhymes donkey of today for Wednesday, February
twenty six goals to Shawn Simpson. Sean Simpson is a
sixteen year old North Carolina teenager who broke down in
tears in court after being charged as an adult for murder.
Let's go to fix to forty six for the report.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Please.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Sean Simpson came into Gaston County Court at points, wiping
away his tears as he stood before a judge. Just
sixteen years old. He's being charged with first green murder
as an adult. That's as a result of a law
change that wenting to effect in the Zimber, which allows
teens his age to be charged as an adult in
certain crimes. There is a realization that during this proceeding
that the gravity was hitting him a grand jury in
(00:47):
Diamond that could come in the near future, and the
moment that hit when a judge told him that he
would not be seeing freedom anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Court made as a hold without on court finals fishing
allegations support.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Charging concert was something that Sequatius Dawkins's family says they
needed to be here for Simpson, accused of killing Dawk
at Sunday night a long Chester Street. Simpson also accused
with attempted first screen murder involving another victim. Dawkin's family
says he was going to get medical supplies for his
(01:19):
mother when he was killed.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I would say this is a teachable moment, but I've
been alive forty six years and I haven't seen too
many of you learn yet. Okay, all of these are
rerun Sadly, I don't understand why we aren't breaking this cycle.
I don't understand why we aren't learning. I mean, truthfully,
this is me at sixteen or seventeen. Of course I
never killed anyone, but I've been in dumb ass situations
like this. When I was sixteen or seventeen, I went
to jail for a Sultan Barridy would intend to kill. Okay,
(01:42):
the charge got changed, the point in presenting a firearm.
But I was literally just in the backseat of a
car and one of my homieshot at another car.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Just dumb and young and reckless.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Wasn't about nothing, just teenage kids who don't really know
any better. I wrote about it and my first book,
Black Privilege. Opportunity comes to those who created. And the
reason I'm telling this story is because when my homie shot,
there was three.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
People in the car.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The bullet hit the headrest of de seit nobody was
sitting in the empty seat behind the passenger seat.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But what if that seat wasn't empty?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Then I go to jail for assessory to murder unless
I snitched, which I probably would have. My point is,
trouble is easy to get into and hard to get
out of, and none of us have the timestone from
the Marvel Cinematic universe. Okay, the timestone allows to use
it to control time. You can rewind, fast forward, travel
through time. When you see this young man, Sean Simpson
(02:30):
break down like that in court, don't you think he
wouish he had a timestone so he could rewind the
time and not do what he did.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Of course he would, of course.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, Sean and the young man he killed, the Equavius Dawkins,
had a fight, according to People Magazine the previous year
at Ashbrook High School. I don't know who won to fight,
but it clearly wasn't Sean. And guess what kids. You
got to learn to take an ass with it, okay,
because these are just all hypotheticals I'm about to spew.
But if you fight, get your ass with even if
(03:00):
it goes viral. So what, Okay, when anger rises, think
of the consequences. Would you rather go viral because you
got your ass beating in school? Or would you rather
go viral because you in the courtroom getting charged with murder?
And then when you get charged with murder, you looking
like Simbols screaming, screaming out after Mufossa got trampled by
the wilderbeace. Okay, this is exactly what Simba felt in
(03:23):
that moment, a mix of shock, grief, and disbelief.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But the grief you.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Feel spending the rest of your life in jail because
you getting charged as an adult isn't the same as
the grief as Equavi as his mother feels. So I
don't feel bad for you, Okay. I'm sad about the
situation because two young black men aren't going to have
a future in society.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You know, keeps failing these young men.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I read that Sean is being held in the Gaston
Adolescent Center, where he has been undergoing treatment Okay. The
center treats children and adolescents that have significant emotional and
behavioral difficulties. Now, I'm not the highest grade weed in
the dispensary, but why wasn't he getting this treatment before
he committed a murder?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I guess I still to say allegedly, but allegedly, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
There had to be signs, There had to be some
type of disciplinary issues at home and in school, but.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Those signs were clearly ignored.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But of course we don't get people help and tell
us way too late. And that's what I'm sad about. Okay,
these things could be prevented. But I don't feel bad
for Sean. Okay, because the Equavius was walking to a
store to buy items for his disabled mother, and that's
when Sean sat him. That's when Seawan shot them. Okay, listen,
let me read what it says. Okay, this, this is
what it says happened in People magazine. I'm gonna read this,
(04:31):
and you tell me what movie. This sounds like the
Equavius and his friend walking the family dollar to get
items for Equavius his mother. A black tesla drives past,
and a boy in the backseat identified as Sean Simpson
shot something out the window, the Quavius and his friend
began to run. When the car returns again, Sean Simpson
allegedly starts shooting from the back and that's how Poors
(04:52):
Equavius got shot and killed.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What movie? Does that sound like? Boys in the Day?
But this ain't no movie? Dog? Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is Equavius is dead for real because Sean Simpson made
a choice that he is clearly now regretting and that
he clearly can't change.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And destiny is not a matter of chance. It's always
a matter of choice.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I'm sad that Sean Simpson didn't make a better choice.
But I'm not moved by Sean Simpson's tears. I'm not
moved by his outbursting court. You know why, because I
know it's Equavius Dawkin's mother is crying way harder than
Sean ever will. Okay, there's a quote, and the quote
is everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn't mean
(05:35):
they have to pay for them for the rest of
their life. Kids, I want to tell y'all that quote
is a lie. Okay, Yes, everyone makes mistakes in life,
and depending what that mistake is, you will probably pay
for it for the rest of your life literally, and
first degree murder in North Carolina, there is absolutely a
life sentence. Please give Sean Simpson the biggest he huh,
(06:00):
sixteen years old man, sixteen, sixteen years old.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But for me, it was him breaking down realizing what
it is like you know too late.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
No, it is you know you out here trying to
be a y n about to go.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
To jail and be a yba.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, I'm sorry, I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I do not be feeling sorry for like yo, come on,
like that little boy not here no more. This was
all because you you couldn't just fight him, You couldn't
just keep fighting him.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Just that.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And I used to be back in the day before
you go get a gun, you keep fighting until you
win or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Just well, I mean people used to come back blasting too,
we said, we used to say the same thing back
to the day.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think now it's heightened because it's recorded and it
goes viral. Not a world sees it opposed to just
your hood. Yeah, but it happens often, like almost happened.
It happens a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It was like guns are more accessible, yeah, like like
what was at a higher rate, right, because growing up
you probably only well, I I'm from New York. Country
is a lot different, but you might have only known
one person with a gun, yeah, or maybe two people.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
What you was scared, yo, honestly because we didn't have guns.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
And then if in New York, you would automatically get
I think it's two years or three years in prison
if you were found.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
With a gun.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So I'm forty six years old. Gun violence has been
going on at the time, but I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Now it seems like every kid has a gun, like, like,
not just small guns, I mean AARs, I mean shotguns.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I means.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Just like you, something like a little different, like this
is a new conversation. No, we're not acting like this
is a new conversation. Conversation, don't have the same.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, No, been going on since the beginning of time
and even and by the way, I just mentioned wanting
Tovie boys in the hood, right, this is the same
scenario for minutes of society.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Society dude get beat up and he comes back blasting.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
This is life, sadly, Yeah, and that's why I said
the cycle doesn't ever break. This has been going on
for a long long time. I'm not gonna sit here
and tell that lie. Like you know, gun violence has
not been prevalent for a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It has been. It seems like it's gotten worse in
the last last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Absolutely, it's just when somebody who's got a different opinion
respected and shut out.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Maybe we just care more because we're adults now, because
think about it, when you were when we was young,
we used to glorify it. We was young, you kind
of used to celebrate it a lot. Right, That's just
the fact.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That let's open up the phone lines about this kid.
Eight hundred five eight five, one oh five to one.
Do you feel bad for this kid? He's sixteen years old,
he allegedly shot two teams. He's not going to be
charged as a child, He's going to be charged as
an adult. He broke down and caught yesterday crying, so
you can tell where his mind frame is.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Let's discuss, Yeah, let's discuss. You feel sympathy. Do you
feel sad for this young man?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Something was sad for the situation of the cycle that
never seems to the end.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm sad for the little boy. Mother my head's that's
part of the cycles. Listen, but that's that's who I'm
I'm said for.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Let's talk about it. We'll take phone calls, we'll talk
about it and the death when we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Good morning Dog here today is sponsored by renowned personal
injury attorney Michael to Buller Ammon Soft.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on
your side. If you're ever injured, go.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
To Michael to Bull dot com. That's Michael the Bull
dot com. And when you mess with the Bull, you
get the horns.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club
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