The Ugly Faces of Anti Semitism

Two ugly cases of Antisemitism explode out of the Progressive left. Elias Rodriguez, associated with progressive causes, recently murder two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington D.C. One organization Elias Rodriguez is affiliated with the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition. This far left National Organization advocates for the Palestinian Cause.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:36):
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I got Adam Marenjel is going to come on and

(01:41):
talk about qualified immunity, very important a public policy issue.
And then I have Jennifer Schumanski from Texas's gonna she's
gonna talk about all their things they're doing in Texas
to check the Soros Fund of days there. But I
have CC Wood, the incomparable CC Woods coming back. There's
a lot of stuff going on in LA and I've
been trying trying to cover stuff around the country and

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CC is kind of a muckraker here, newsperson here in
LA that I have a relationship with. She's been on
before and you could follow CC. That's her Twitter feed
at C C. Woods and she's the Current Report dot
com as well. And there's there's been an issue going
on where a deputy sheriff was prosecuted by the Feds

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and she she monitored that case. Now, I did talk
about the Trevorcker case and uh, and he was convicted
and when I looked at the video of the force,
I was underwhelmed by the the the actions of him
and it clearly was not a federal case. They made
a federal case out of it. It wasn't a federal
case and UH, and we got but we got a

(02:44):
new US attorney here in La, Phil A. Saley, and
he petitioned the court to reduce the sentence. That the
sentence or reduce the charge which a judge agreed and
which which tells you, I mean if when a judge
looks at something he agrees to reduce a charge, that
means he We had some questions with it too, So
the judge handled the case and then they're going to

(03:04):
be going to reseentencing. But she's been all over it,
she's been working with his attorney, and we're going to
we're going to probably talk about that case amongst other
things that are happening here in LA and we will
talk about one of the issues that's happening here in
La too on this particular this show. So to stay
tuned for June, you know, and you can see those
shows again. I'm going to do a show on Judge Dugan,

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that's the judge that has been indicted and will be
prosecuted by the Feds, also in June. That'll be June four,
So tune in. We have a lot of good subjects
and also you can go back and listen, Like I said,
listen to all the previous shows at kadridb dot com
Briefing with the Chief. Now here's here's what I want
to talk about today. The title of this thing is
the Evil, the Ugly Faces of anti Semitism. And ever

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since October seventh and twenty twenty three, we saw we
saw an uptick in anti Semitic behaviors and language, a
lot of it coming from the left and a lot
of it coming out of the Democratic Party. A lot
of Democratic leaders talking about this, and there's been some
really really shocking language used. And we've had people on

(04:10):
my show. In fact, if you go back to all
my previous shows, we the very first show we did
regarding anti semitism was with a with a syndicated columnists
I think it was Thomas Ellis's I think his name,
and we talked about anti Semitism on college campuses. He
clued me in, he said, hey, these protests started October eighth,

(04:33):
they were ready to go. They're funded by Cutter and others.
And you know what, as I moved through, as we
moved through from October seventh, forty, you know he's right.
I had another guy named Jake Novak on and we
talked about anti semitism. He talked about the same thing.
I recently recently completed the book Al Qaeda two point zero.
I'm hoping to get the author or one of the

(04:55):
major contributors on regarding that book and kind of communicating.
They have a different communication thing though, Intel guys, they
want you to work it on. Was it WhatsApp or
discord or something like that. So I got to figure
that those things out just to get the guy on my show.
But they talk about the threat that we have in
this country, and they talk about the the psyops that
they're doing on the American people. And I've been traveling

(05:17):
recently and talking to folks, and sometimes you kind of
get in a little bubble, right. You tend to talk
to people who who think like you think, and when
you say it's outrageous all the anti Semitisms going on,
they all agree with you because you tend to hang
out with people you agree with, and you know, and
as I was traveling, I was hitting up some folks
that I hadn't seen for a long time, and it
was pretty clear to me these folks were uninformed. But

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they use words like genocide when they talk about what's
going on in Gaza, and they were clearly embracing anti
Semitic attitudes. And I'll admit I was in Michigan and
I was adjacent to Dearborn, the largest that's the home
of the largest number of Arabs in this country. That's

(06:00):
my hometown, Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan's right next door and
can sometimes be a hotbed of terroist activity. It was
very focused there. Terrorists there a lot. But what that means, though,
is a lot of the local politicians tend to support Palestine, right,
and so that tends to be the attitude there when
you go back there, not by everybody, but shockingly, some

(06:23):
of the language used, just as shockman, it was clearly
anti Semitic. They clearly didn't understand what they were talking
about in terms of the issue. And then of course
we had the murder of the two diplomats in Washington, c.
And I believe that this violence that is being directed
at Jews and israelis. These violence that are being directed

(06:44):
at Jews and israelis. Yeah, I know, my producer is
saying the Hassan Piker, Yeah, I've watched some of his stuff. Yes,
it's out of control. Is I think the groundwork has
been laid because people are desensitized. Now you've heard me
say that word before, desensitizing or dehumanizing a group of people.

(07:07):
Now you've heard me use that in the context of
what they say about law enforcement guard dogs for the rich.
They're Nazis, they're you know, Gestapo's the latest target, biggest
target is Ice, and they're using those language to justify
the violence against Ice police officers. Which is why the
show that I got coming up regarding Judge Dugan is important.
Which is why the show that I did regarding the

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Congresswoman mac Iver is important. Lemonica to mcgiver and her
arrest by the FEDS and the prosecution is the language
that they're using is not appropriate and does inspire violence,
and we're seeing it play out in real time. We
saw it in d C, which and I'll get into
that a little bit, but I just want to here

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are some of the things that they're saying. Well, they're
obviously they're saying free Palestine. They're calling Jews Nazis. Can
you believe that they're calling Jews Nazis. They're calling them colonizers,
they're saying that they're committing genocide, and uh, these are
these are These are catalysts uh for for for people.

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These inspire people to commit hateful acts and violent crimes,
which is what we saw in Washington.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
D C.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
And let me get into this case. I think we
got a couple of videos. Let's let's it's the Elias
Rodriguez case. He killed two two Jewish staffers for the
Israeli MBBC in d C just just last week. Let's
roll with the first video.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
The suspect in the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers
in Washington, d C. Appeared to be motivated by the
war in Gaza. Thirty year old Elias Rodriguez, an activist
from Chicago, had in recent years participated in protests and
opposed wars in the Middle East. Here's what we know

(08:52):
about the alleged shooter. Rodriguez is a resident of Chicago's
Albany Park neighborhood, where investigators searched his home in the
hours after the shooting. As the FBI gathered evidence, a
picture began to emerge of an activist who has long
opposed intervention in the Middle East. According to a GoFundMe
created in twenty seventeen to help send Rodriguez to the

(09:13):
People's Congress of Resistance in DC. Rodriguez said he was
eleven when his father was sent to Iraq. The post,
apparently written by Rodriguez, said, I don't want to see
another generation of Americans coming home from genocidal imperialist wars
with trophies. Based on an interview he gave it a
demonstration against Amazon several years ago. He appears to have

(09:34):
been affiliated with a group called Answer Chicago. At one point, we.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Feel like, if we can keep Amazon out, that is
a huge victory, and it demonstrates sort of the power
of people coming together and be able to say no
to things like gentrification and these corporate subsidies.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Answer, an organization that supports the Palestinian cause, denied any affiliation.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation, another organization that opposes
Israel's actions in Gaza, said in a post Rodriguez had
a brief association with one branch of the PSL that
ended in twenty seventeen. The group said it did not
support the shooting. It's unclear at this point when or

(10:11):
how Rodriguez traveled to DC. According to his LinkedIn profile,
he works as an administrative specialist at the nonprofit American
Osteopathic Information Association and previously held several roles at the
History Makers. A profile that has since been taken down
from the history Maker's website says Rodriguez prepares detailed research,
outlines and biographies of accomplished leaders in the African American community.

(10:36):
It also says Rodriguez holds a degree in English from
the University of Illinois at Chicago. In a statement, the
American Osteopathic Information Association said, we were shocked and saddened
to learn that an AOIA employee has been arrested as
a suspect in this horrific crime.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, so thank you that great recap from the Wall
Streets Journal on that one. Here so here, Now everybody's
the moon walking away from this guy. Oh yeah, he
was with us, but now he's not. And we and
we just avowed anything he's done, you know. But let's
let's be clear here. These organizations are that he's participated
with a radical leftist organization that that advocate for Palestine

(11:19):
and against against Israel I Love Me Answer Coalition. That's
so he calls it Answer Chicago, but there's an international answer.
There's Answer Coalition. Now I have a long history with
Answer Coalition, not as a member, but as somebody that
had to deal with them numerous times. So I was
it was after it. So they started basically in twenty

(11:40):
twenty one, after September eleventh, when we went into Afghanistan,
and of course they're protesting us being in Afghanistan. I
just I just have to tell you a funny story.
So I'm working some war protests outside of the Federal
Building in West la I'm the incident commander, so I'm
in charge of everybody, you know. I happened to land
there in two thousand and three, right after we win

(12:00):
in Iraq, and it was one where every weekend there
was a war protest, and my boss was adjusting my
schedule to go out there and manage this drama. I
was the detective lieutenant, right but I'm going out there
because I have tactical knowledge and skills, and so I
got to handle it, and I got a team of guys,
and this is what we did for damn near every

(12:21):
weekend for several months because because of these anti war protesters. Now,
the vast majority were peaceful, so that's fine, but Answer
Coalition was pushing a lot of these these protests, and
of course Ed Asner was there and Susan Sarandon was there,
and I have to tell you, prior to one of these,
a sergeant that I had who was putting all the

(12:42):
paperwork together, he got called up by the media and
the media asked him, well, they're threatening to burn the
flag there, you can do something about it. And of
course love the guy, but he reacted, I'm going to
arrest anybody who burns the flag, which of course you
can't do. It's their right for the constitution to burn
their own flag and protest. And of course, so then

(13:02):
everybody was out there, all the media was out there,
and they wanted to see how we were going to
react when they burned the flag, right, and of course
I had to brief everybody, We're not going to do anything.
As long as it's their own flag that they're burning,
We're not going to do anything. That's it's their right.
And so we were policing it. And so I had
this La Times reporter just tagging along with me because

(13:23):
he wanted to see what it was going to do.
And I think he was going to try and catch me,
try and catch me dirty doing something, because I don't
trust those guys. And so we're at this Answer War
protest at the Federal Building and somebody gets up there
and says, this is our fault, we did this, and
we shouldn't be there. How dare we going there and
basically detegrating the military and the George Bush's response, our

(13:47):
government's response to nine to eleven. And this time this
reporter says to me, he says, you know, they know
they attacked America, right, don't they know that? And as
I can think of, this guy is just setting me
up to say something. And I said, you know what
you said that, brother, not me. Keep that in mind.
You said that. But he seemed to be upset that

(14:07):
they were denigrating our response. And you know, I didn't
know if he was actually genuine or if he's starting
to get a comment from me, but I kept my
mouth shut. I didn't. I didn't fall in that trap.
But let's let's talk about who Answer coalition is ACT
Now to Stop War and End Racism. So it's an acronym.
Answer is an acronym for Act Now to Stop War

(14:29):
and End Racism. I guess we got to throw everything
in there, war and racism, right, It is a coalition
of radical left activists that leads campaigns against American foreign
policy and the State of Israel. So they campaigned directly
against the State of Israel. As of September twenty twenty two,
the organization was not technically a standalone entity. Now I

(14:50):
have their tax documents, so go through their tax documents
in a minute. They are a fiscally sponsored project of
the Progressive Unity Fund. It's a five and one C
three organization based in Washington, d C. All donations to
Answer go to the Progressive Unity Fund. Besides the DC headquarters,

(15:11):
Answer Coalition has twelve offices around the country, around the
United States, so it's big. It's got twelve offices. I
think it's got one in San Francisco. And you know,
I was as I was reading this comes from Influence Watch,
who kind of monitors all of these nonprofits and and
puts the information down and see whose the leadership is.

(15:32):
And one of the other things. In twenty twenty four,
Benjamin Netanyah who came to town. He was in d C.
And they protested there and it evolved into violence. So
this is an organization that is willing to commit Yeah,
bbe it was willing to commit violence. That's my producer, Yes, Bob,
And they're willing, They're willing, they'll they'll do low level

(15:52):
intensity violence. When I dealt with these guys over and
over again, for the most part, they were peaceful. However,
when I transition into transit policing, and they were and
they were doing their protests into in Hollywood, so we
had to remember to have the subway and light rail
lines all through Los Angeles and I was in charge
of that as a chief. They were also doing protests

(16:13):
there and the point agency for that was l a
PD and we were support agency protecting the transit system
at the time. And a lot of rocks and bottles
thrown towards the LAPD because some of these folks are violent.
When you start using rhetoric like genocide and Nazi and
Gestapo and and and colonizers, you know, people people think

(16:37):
it's okay to use because you're dehumanizing a whole class
of people, and then it becomes okay to use violence
against them. And I saw that, and I've been worn
and I've been saying on the show that we're going
to see protests after protests, and they'll ramp up in
their violence. Now they've killed two people in DC. So
let's get to this. This is this, this is from
the Department of Justice, and this is federal charges. I

(17:00):
think we got one more video. Let's show the one
more video to flesh out a little more detail on this,
and then we'll get into the charging documents from the DOJ.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Tonight, more details are emerging in the deadly shooting outside
Washington's Capital Jewish Museum, where Israeli Embassy staffers Sarah Milgram
and Juron Leshinsky were killed Wednesday night after leaving a
young diplomat's event. Investigators alleging in court documents that surveillance
cameras captured Eli S. Rodriguez walking past the victims before
pulling a gun from his waistband and firing several shots.

(17:31):
The documents say Rodriguez then stood over them, appearing to
reload and firing several more rounds before tossing the gun
and going into the museum.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
I go up to him and they say are you okay?
And he goes. I call the police, Call the police,
I'm okay.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Paige Siegel attended the event and says she became suspicious
and continued to question Rodriguez before he became agitated and
grabbed his backpack as police approached.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
He's free Palestine, Free Palestine. I start screaming, get him out,
get him out, and I'm like screaming to the police,
like check his bag, check his bag.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
Investigators have interviewed Rodriguez and say they're still piecing together
his life, trying to talk to people who knew him.
Back at the museum, a growing memorial outside to honor
the shooting victims. A close friend remembering Sarah as being
full of joy and compassion.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
These are two beautiful souls that works for peace and
that work to build our community day in and day out,
and so to have them being taken away from us
in this horrific manner, it just makes no sense.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yarolasinski's remains arrived back in Israel earlier today for a
short memorial service with his family and the private burial.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
Lester Aaron Yo Christin, I thank you thanks for watching,
stay updated about breaking news and time.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
So we see this vile killer and what does he do.
Right after he brutally lures to people, he starts yelling,
free free Palestine. You saw him there, Free free Palestine.
This guy has no conscience. And these folks, these these
these two were lovers, right, these these two young people
that he was about to engage, give her an engagement

(19:12):
ring the next week, and they were going to get engaged.
They were very close, obviously saw him. Very young people, professionals,
just doing their job, and they're brutally murdered because they're
Jewish and they're coming out of a Jewish event. Think
about that. Think about that, and this idiot is chanting
no remorse whatsoever. Twenty one rounds he fired. He first,

(19:36):
he shot at the young man, he walked by him
a few times, then shot him from behind, put him down,
shot the girlfriend, and then stood over and she tried
to call away, crawl away, and shot her multiple more times,
twenty one times. Then, of course he tossed the gun
away because he didn't want he didn't want to shoot
it out with the cops. He might get hurt, right,

(19:57):
And then he did his little protest, his little pretending
like he was traumatized at first, and then he did
his chant this is who he is, and he was
part of answer coalition. Don't let answer coalition back off.
Wait a minute, I gotta I gotta talk one more
time about this other organization that is that is the

(20:18):
sponsor's Answer Coalition, because you got to hear about these
good guys too, and he's a member of this stuff, right,
he belongs to this stuff. Don't let them move walk
away from this because you know what, if this was
an organization on the right, who's whose member did this,
nobody would Nobody would let them live it down. Nobody
would let them live it down. Nobody. But what did

(20:40):
the me to do? Oh wait, they disavowed. Nobody's digging
in and answering questions. No, in the media is not
asking questions, well, what do you mean when did he
leave in twenty seventeen? How long did he pay dues?
Did you they're not asking it. They're okay, okay, we'll
take your word for it. We'll take And they're not
saying the radical leftist organizations do violence because you know,
in two thousand and twenty four they engaged in violence.

(21:02):
Answer Coalition engaged in violence when Benjamin Not yeah, who
visited DC, So they had they have proclivities for this,
which so you have to wonder what they're saying to
their members. And let's throw up the Answer Coalition card
and you can see see their website, and this is
the language they use. Massive March for Palestine brings the

(21:23):
movement against Genocide into the Trump area. Now you know
they use this language genocide they use you know this
was said here. So genocide is you're either going to
target a group of people because their faith, because their
their nationality, and and and you want to wipe them out,
you're gonna kill them. Right, Let's be clear. Gaza was

(21:44):
seized I think it was a nineteen sixty seven from
Egypt in a war in which they fought Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
and Iraq, all all at the same time, and is
managed to hold them off and gain ground and occupy territory.
They've occupyed territory in the Gaza Strip and including the

(22:07):
Syinai Desert, which they gave back to Egypt for peace.
They took land from Jordan, which represented what is now
the West Bank where the Palestinians are at. They took
Jordan and the Golan Heights, which now Israel is moving
into now that Cereal is being controlled by extremists. And
they took some land up north. But they've been exchanging

(22:30):
land for peace. They did that with Egypt with the
donser Arnwaserat, and it's been in place for a long time.
They kept the Golan Heights at the time, or the
Gaza Strip at the time, but turn that over in
two thousand and four to the Palestinian Authority for peace,
and guess what they didn't get peace. The Palestinians funded

(22:52):
by Hamas who live in Gaza, funded by Iran who
live in Gaza. They funded Hamas, started targeting Jewish folks,
and that's why Israel built the wall, That's why they
had the iron don I know. I visited that area
just outside of Gaza, and the immediate area outside of
Gaza is under threat. If you go to the local schools,

(23:15):
you'll see bomb shelters for the kids. If they're standing
out there waiting for the buses and there's an irrate siren,
they go into the bomb shelters. You see bomb shelters
right next to their bus stops, so if rockets start flying,
they'll go into the bus stops. And when they were
people were brutally murdered. On October seventh, some of those
people hidding those bus stops bomb shelters, and the terrorists

(23:38):
came and killed all of them in there. Those are
the kind of things that exist in that area because
they are regularly shelled or regularly rocketed out of Gaza.
So they exchanged lands for peace, they didn't get peace,
and so people are calling this a genocide. But let's
keep in mind what most people don't know and the
media will not tell you, is there are two million

(24:00):
Palestinians living in Israel in peace that have full citizenship.
If they're trying to commit a genocide against the Palestinians,
they're start doing a crummy job of it. They are
targeting the Gaza strip which launched a vicious and brutal
attack on their country. And this was just the latest attack.

(24:24):
These attacks have been going on. I think CAMAS took
over in two thousand and nine, so they've been going
on for fifteen sixteen years with varying intensities. Obviously October
seventeen the worst culprit. So the Answer Coalition is funded
by the Progressive Unity Fund. This is a radical leftist

(24:46):
group that is fiscally sponsors activists organ radically left US.
Radically left US organizations including Answer, Women's Organized to Resist
and Defend that's acronym's word, and the and the National
Committee to Free the Cuban Five whatever that is, and
the Pivot to Peace, so radical leftist organization that I

(25:10):
think is stoking the flames of violence. They say they're
for peace. There's nothing peaceful about this. So let's get
into the let's get into what the DOJ says about these.
So the defense child charges filed after deadly shooting of
israel diplomats in d C. So this is out of
the DC office. You can go there and you can

(25:32):
find it there. And Elias Rodriguez, thirty one of Chicago,
so he's from Chicago, has been charged with federal and
local murder offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of
two Israeli embassy staff members outside of the Jewish National
Museum in Washington, d C. May twenty that occurred on
May twenty first, twenty twenty five. Rodriguez has charged in

(25:56):
US District Court for the District of Columbia see with
the murder of foreign officials. So one is actually lives
in Israel and he was here to work. And I
believe his girlfriend is actually a US citizen but Jewish
and working in the Israeli embassy, causing death through the

(26:16):
use of firearm, and discharging a firearm during the crime
during the crime of violence. He was also charged with
two counts of first degree murder under the DC Criminal Code.
So you know, they have the municipal law enforcement and
then they have federal law enforcement, although it's all going
to end up fed because DC is a federal enclave,

(26:37):
so all the laws that are enforced there are generally
under the auspices of the federal government, but they do.
You can go get charged with murder there and it
not be generally a federal offense, but you get charged
like it's a local charge. But it's all the federal
prosecutors that are going to be handling this case. You're
not going to have state charges and federal charges. It's
all going to be federal. And the charges were announced

(27:00):
by the US Attorney Jeanine Janine Pero Perial. This is
this is Judge Pierro from Fox News. She's now the
US prosecutor in DC, and so, uh, I'm really I'm
really happy to see that happen, you know, because I
think she she is a she is a patriot. She's
looking to, uh help help change our country, help Trump

(27:22):
change our country. And I'm happy that she landed there
just before this thing happened, so she can move forward
with the prosecutions. And uh, let's see the FBI Director
in Charge Steven Jensen and Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith.
This brutal anti Semitic violence has no place in our
country or anywhere in civilization, says Attorney General Bondi. We

(27:45):
will follow the facts and secure the most severe possible
punishment for the perpetrator of this heinous crime, which robbed
two wonderful young people who have a who had a
bright future together. Yeah. Yeah, And here's the thing. What
that means is, uh, they're going to be checking out
this guy's social media posts. They're gonna be checking out

(28:06):
was did he receive funding from anybody to make this trip?
You know, how did he get his gun? Who? Who
did did he do a straw straw man purchased where
somebody else purchased the form? Did he purchased it separately himself?
Because you know, hey, listen to Chicago. You know it's
hard to get a gun there, right, they got all
these gun laws, So how do they do this? Was
he still affiliated with Answer? And you know, and you know,

(28:27):
if he's continuing to show up to this protest, he's affiliated.
Because here's the thing. You put your number, you put
your email in. Hey, let me know when there's a
protest going on, I'll show up. I want to know
is he affiliated that way? I want to know. Then
I want to know did he talk about any violence
with anybody else in those organizations beforehand? Our community is

(28:47):
really because of one person's actions, two families are left
to grief for dreams that will never be realized. The
US Attorney Paro said, violence of any kind is unacceptable.
Senseless acts that take innocent lives are are intolerable. We
will hold accountable anyone who flicks harms on our families,

(29:08):
our neighbors, our citizens of our nation, or the visitors
of our great capital. We are united in that purpose,
and we hold strong against those whose reckless actions claim
the victims. Any part of our community that's this is
this is important. We you know, we have to we
have to tell the folks that are being targeted this
is Jewish community. We're there for you. And I just

(29:31):
like what is going on with the d J today.
You know we've seen the judges is being charged in Minneatan,
Minnesota because she she she helped an iglical emmern get
away from ICE officials, right, they were there to do
their job and she obstructed it. She's getting charged. Great,
we are charging Congresswoman mcg iver for for obstructing and

(29:54):
I think striking ICE agents. Uh, and they're charge They're
moving forward with those charges there. And now we're seeing
this aggressive pursuit of this guy who killed two people.
But I'm hopeful that they dig into his background and
dig into his affiliations and let us all know who's
behind all this, who's he affiliated with, who's he listening to,

(30:15):
who's poising his mind? You know who in these organizations
are helping to poise his mind? Right, the Civil Rights
Division is aggressively pursuing every avenue to investigate, meaning they're
gonna look at all the emails, they're going to look
at his social media, and they're gonna look at everybody
in his background and maybe maybe we'll just find some
other co conspirators. So this is you know, I'm happy

(30:39):
to see this moving forward. You know, this guy, like
I said, he stood over these people and shot them
twenty one times. I was listening to a news report
that the female victim survived the first round of firing
and was trying to call a way to safety, and
he emptied gone into her to make sure she was dead,

(31:02):
which means she knew she knew she was going to die.
And that is one of the elements when they go
after the federal death penalty. You know, did the did
the did the victim suffer? Was the was the victim
in fear? Was their terror involved? And there absolutely was?
There absolutely was. And so who is funding all this stuff? Well,

(31:23):
obviously they're funded by a bunch of progressives. And here's
here's the argument. This organization of this guy was a
member who committed this violence was funded by a progressive organization.
Right Progressives Answer Coalition in twenty twenty three received seven
hundred and twenty one thousand dollars for this mission. Seven

(31:47):
hundred and twenty one So it's up too so Latin.
The previous year it was just shy of four hundred thousand.
But Trump's winning, so you can see all this money
flowing in from progressives and people are paying with their lives,
and progressives are not standing up and holding themselves accountable
for the people in their ranks that are willing to
commit murder, they're not doing that. So these guys are

(32:12):
well funded, well organized, twelve locations, and the people that
are affiling with them are killing people. This is the
ugly face of anti Semitism masquerading as organizations of peace.
Answer Coalition, well, we just want peace, we don't want war.

(32:34):
But somebody that affiliated with you, somebody who listened to
your reddick, went out and killed two people. So this
is for me, this is uh, well one, it's a
devastating thing. But I'm glad to see Pam Bondi and
her folks are going after aggressively. Now, I wanted to
talk about, shockingly another issue of anti semitism, and certainly
it's a much more minor in scale in comparison to

(32:56):
the one we just talked about. Was a situation and
that I talked about previously. It was the deputy mayor
of Los Angeles, Brian Williams, was accused of doing a
bomb threat to city Hall. Well, he pled guilty, And
the interesting thing is I didn't know what he had
said in that bomb threat, but he implied that, you know,

(33:16):
the person making the threat was sick and tired of
the city support of the Jewish community. That's what his
alleged threat was, and then he was the one who
made it. So I think that's anti Semitic. It certainly
is problematic, and let's let's roll with his video.

Speaker 9 (33:36):
A former deputy for La Mayor Karen Bass has agreed
to plead guilty to a charge he phoned in a
fake bomb threat to city Hall. Brian Williams has been
on administrative leave for months while the FBI investigated this case.
Our investigative reporter Eric Leonard joins US Now with an update.

Speaker 8 (33:52):
Eric, Well, many of City Hall were stunned when we
learned last December that federal agents had served as search
warrant at the home of Brian Williams as they looked
into a bomb threat that had been reported at city
Hall last fall. The Fed say it was a bogus
threat and say it was quickly traced to williams cell phone.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm Deputy Mayor of Public Safety.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Brian Williams.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Former deputy mayor Brian Williams, seen here at a news
conference last year, now facing a felony charge in federal
court of making a threat by means of a fire
or an explosive. According to a plea agreement and charging
documents filed today, Williams was at City Hall taking part
in a video conference call on April third, twenty twenty four,
when he allegedly used his personal cell phone and the

(34:35):
Google Voice application to call his city issued phone. Then,
according to the court documents, Williams reported that he'd received
a threat and notified the LAPD, then defed say he
began texting the mayor and other senior city officials, saying
in the message bomb threat. The male caller stated that
he was tired of the city support of Israel and

(34:57):
he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall.
It might be in the rotunda. There was a brief evacuation.
Police quickly deemed the message a hoax. Federal agents searched
William's home. In December, he was placed on administrative leave.
He had served as the mayor's liaison to law enforcement,
helping the mayor manage oversight of the LAPD and working

(35:17):
with outside agencies, including federal law enforcement, on Grant's and
other city projects.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
While on the.

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Announcement of this charge today, Mayor Bass's office sent us
a short statement that said, like many we were shocked
when these allegations were first made, and we were are
saddened by this conclusion. William's defense lawyer said this afternoon
that he's taken full responsibility and says the incident is
not representative of his character. That the plea agreement isn't final.
William still has to appear in court and enter the

(35:46):
plea and be sentenced. The charge could carry a maximum
prison term of up to ten years, but prosecutors indicated
in the court documents they won't seek the maximum penalty.
Live in the newsroom, I'm investigative reporter Eric Leonard and
BC four.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
News absolutely shocked, absolutely shocking, stir in the pot using,
you know, allegations of you know, some kind of anti
Semitic comments regarding Jewish folks, and then he makes the
call himself. He makes the call. Here's here's the problem
I have with some of these people that are responsible
for oversiging the LAPD, overseeing the show because he for

(36:20):
I want to say seven years, he was he was
head of the oversight board for the LA County Shriff's Apartment,
my old department, and now he's doing oversight over the
la PD. Here, who does the background check on these guys.
If you want to become a police officer in California
these days, they usually do a lengthy background check. They
talk to all your neighbors, they talk to everybody. They

(36:42):
talk to everybody, and you go through a psychological examination
and you go through I mean, you have to go
to a psychologist, so they talk to you and then
you and you have to go to a you have
to go through a line detector test. And during this process,
the goal is to find out if there's any challenges
in your background that would cause you to not be

(37:04):
honorable or have integrity as a police officer. But these
people that are selected by the mayor to do oversight,
whether it's for the Board of Supervisors, for the county
Sheriff's Department, at the LAPD, whoever, they don't go through
any background checks. And he clearly didn't go through any
background checks. He just connected. He's just connected. We're just

(37:25):
going to keep giving, We're just going to keep getting
a job.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
I have to tell you I met him one time.
I was I was doing a presentation to what they
called the Justice Deputies for the Board of Supervisors, and
my presentation was about some anti Recitivizen program. They really
liked it. Whatever, But basically these meetings are open to
the public, but hardly anybody in the public goes right
and he was there with the Inspector General and they

(37:49):
were waiting to hear They heard all the stuff, and
they were waiting to go last. So they have a
calendar events and they're waiting to go last. And I decided,
you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna. I did my preson,
I told my staff to leave. I was just going
to stay and listen to what they had to say.
And so basically, the Justice Deputies are all the aids
that have the justice lane for the different boards of supervisors.

(38:13):
Very powerful folks. Each one of these board of supervisors
folks represents about two million people, so they're very powerful folks.
Most are Democrats, almost all of our Democrats. Now they
got I think the one Republican out of five, and
they were after the Sheriff's Department. They were and I decided, well,
I'm going to stick around and listen. This is open
to the public. You know, the Inspector General and this
guy Williams are going to talk to this panel about

(38:33):
what their needs are for budgets and other stuff and
what their goals are. And you know what, I tell
you what. They're sitting there and they're looking at me.
I'm in uniform. They're looking at me. They're looking at me.
Why is this guy staying here? Why is he here?
They clearly were uncomfortable talking about what they wanted to
do the Sheriff's Department or what they needed to hold
the Sheriff's department accountable, in front of a member of

(38:57):
the Sheriff's department. So I will always suspicious of those guys.
If you can't say it in public with me there
or anybody else there from the Sheriff's Department, then it's
probably a bad thing. But he did a report in
twenty twenty two for the oversight Commission for the LAPD,
and I just think it's ironic because remember, you don't
wake up one day and decide I'm going to call
in a bomb threat, not as the deputy mayor of

(39:20):
Los Angeles. You don't wake up one day. Because he
was appointed by Mayor Bass in twenty twenty three, he
sat on the oversight board for the La County Sheriff.
You don't wake up one day and say I'm going
to commit this crime. You have some kind of character
for law in you that's been there for a long
time and has gone undetective. So what else has he done?
But I just thought it was ironic some of the

(39:40):
languages you used. He quotes former Jimmy Carter in his
forward on this report. We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles. Somehow I think he
does his quote, but he didn't get what that meant
for him personally. Here's another one. We need to keep
our committees safe and law enforcement accountable. Well what about yourself, sir?

(40:05):
What about yourself, mister Williams. We need to be saved
from your bomb threats and we need to hold yourself accountable.
These are the things he wrote about his mission with
the La County Sheriff's We need to upload the community's
concerns and help improve community relations by engaging the Sheriff's
Department's committee partners and it's stakeholders. How About we need
to not do bomb threats. How About we need to

(40:26):
be above approach, which he was not. He has proven
not to be. You know, one of the things that
has come out in the last couple of weeks regarding
the La County Sheriff's Department that they're down twenty four
percent on their staff and deputy sheriffs are working at
least three shifts of overtime week. All of them are
being drafted, which is why we have a high number

(40:47):
of suicides on the department. You've heard me talk about
sleep deprivation is a big part of suicides by police
officers and it's out of control. We had one guy
last week who was driving home after sixteen hour shift.
Young guy twenty one years old and new in the
department got in a car crash and died, and fatigue
is a likely factor. This is killing us. So these

(41:08):
people who are responsible oversight are running around looking for
every little wark they can find on the sheriffs instead
of doing their job making sure the Sheriff's apartment is
properly funded so people aren't dying be a suicide or
car accidents. And this guy, he didn't care. Remember he's
in charge since twenty sixteen. All of this stuff happened
on his watch on the Sheriff's department. And there's a
guy who displayed what his truly, his integrity is truly,

(41:33):
what his integrity is it's his integrity. It's not there.
He's willing to call a bomb threat. He's and I
think when I look at it, I go, why did
he do this just to aggrandize himself. That's what it
looked like. Look, I'm in charge. We just had this
bomb thread. I called the mayor, I called all this importantly.
Look at me, I'm in charge. That's just what it
smells like to me. And how often has he done this?

(41:56):
How many times has he raised a flag and said,
oh my god, there's something really bad here. We're on
top of it when it comes to oversight for the
Sheriff's Department, because he clearly proved he's willing to do
these kinds of things. Let's see, he wanted to bring
the Sheriff's apartment in the twenty first century policing model
that was put together by Obama. I read the whole thing.

(42:16):
It's that is horseshit. That stuff that they wrote, it's unrealistic.
But this is what he wants to do. Well, let's
let why don't we start by maybe all of the
people doing oversight on the Sheriff's Apartment and the LAPD
go through a background check So Williams is sixty one
years old. He's charged with a single count of information
with threats regarding fire and explosives. And you heard what

(42:40):
he did. He used to a voice chat application to
call his own cell phone to make the threat. Then
he called everybody told him about the threat. It's crazy,
you know, it's great. What is this guy thinking? What
does this guy think? He clearly should have paid attention
to the investigators when he talked about how to do
how to do investigations, and how to the technology type

(43:01):
of investigations, cyber crime investigations. He would have figured out
that they're going to catch them sooner or later. And
here and here's my problem with it. The mail. This
is the anti semic semitic part. The mail caller stated
that he was tired of city support for Israel, and
he decided to place the bomb in the city in
city Hall. Uh, it might be in the in the rotunda,

(43:22):
and he immediately contact Now this created all kinds of disruption,
you know, they had to evacuate city Hall, they had
to search it. But this is what he did. This
is the kind of person he truly is. The California
Globe did an article on him and and they well,
I actually covered a lot of this stuff already, so
I'm gonna I want to talk about the Sentinel. The

(43:46):
Sentinel is a is a is a news organization in
LA that generally covers those things of interest to the
black community in LA. And one of the things I
noticed about this. One of the things I noticed is
they always seemed to come out and support of black
politicians or leaders who get into Greece. We had a

(44:08):
city councilman who used to be on the Board of
supervisors who has prosecuted Mark Ridley Thomas, and they've been
on this rehabilitation campaign. He was prosecuted by the FEDS
for some inappropriate behavior, you know, getting favors from USC,
the college or the University of USC for his son.
And he was successfully prosecuted. And I have not seen

(44:28):
one negative article written in the newspapers about him. Not one. Now,
I will admit I worked with the guy. I found
him to be very pragmatic and capable politician. But he
you know, he took a bribe, right, He took a bribe,
got favors for a son, and shifted money to USC.
And he got caught anyway, So the sentinel basically starts

(44:51):
out the outer Jeputy Mayor Brian Williams has been described
as the closest thing to a choir boy, really a
choir boy on Tuesdays, and so on Tuesday, December seventeenth,
this is after they came out with the indictment, and
this guy just thought it was impossible that he could
have done this. Thought it was impossible. So they're they're

(45:12):
they're doing their rehabilitation of him. You know, here's the thing.
LAPED started doing the investigation on this bomb threat. They
had the handle and they realized that it led to
the deputy mayor that was responsible for oversight of them.
So they gave it to the FBI, and it was
the FBI that did the search warrant on his house,

(45:34):
and then he was relieved the duty shortly after that.
And there's no doubt in my mind they already had
the technical pieces down. They already had that figured out,
because that's what you have to take to a judge.
You have to take the problem cause of a judge
to get a search warmp before you hit the house.
And so they already had a crime that was likely committed,
and it was likely committed by him, already established before

(45:54):
they even did the search, warm before he was relieved
of duty. And you know, these folks in the media,
they already know that. They know that. Right. So he's
had a lengthy career of public service and has presumed innocent.
He'll proven guilty. This is lawyer talking. Williams has spent
nearly two decades as decades as a our term two
years as the deputy mayor in care Bathis's office, working

(46:15):
on issues such as police hiring, police safety spending. In
a search for a new police chief, here we go.
We've got a guy who calls them bomb threats. That's
responsible for, you know, looking for a police chief. Probably
not been through a background check, probably never went to
a psychologist, likely never went to lie to dector test.
We don't know anything about this guy, but he's politically connected.

(46:37):
And here's here's I am one of the hundreds of
people have known Brian Williams as a husband of father,
a law abiding citizen, a responsible resident, and a person
of character and integrity for over thirty years. As Jacqueline
DuPont Walker, who sits on the MPTA, says on the
metro board, this is the this is the transit board.
Very powerful board, four to five billion dollars a year

(46:58):
spent on transit projects. Put him. She's put to be
put in place by Karen Bass herself because they have
four seats on the board. There's thirteen board members, five
county border superprise. I worked as that transit police chief,
so I answered those guys for a long time. Very
powerful board, and she's coming to back this guy. Brian
has a history of service and has consistently been a

(47:20):
champion of making positive difference. Well apparently not. Now he's
doing bomb threats for the larger community and the underserved.
You know they always throw this language out there. Well,
he's a champion for the underserved. He called in a
bomb threat. He's a criminal. How often did he do this?
And before before? And we overlooked this stuff because his work,
which is just drives me crazy. More importantly, Brian Williams walks,

(47:44):
walks and talks and leads with integrity. Apparently not right.
He has never ever demonstrated anything other than loyalty and
commitment to our city and our community. So for me,
for me, the allegations are unbelievable, non sense, sensical, says DuPont. Walker.
But she's not the only one that's coming to his age.

(48:05):
She's not the only one, uh uh supporting him. And
they then now they get into the Sheriff's department. This
is where I got really offended with this article. They
get into that he was responsible for oversight for the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, right, and you know, one
of one of the members, one of one of his supporters,
Brendan Lamar passing the community activists, who was recently elected

(48:27):
to serve as the president of the Cassidy Capacities and
DOAA CP. This is hard to believe. Williams has been
a pillar of our community for years, tireshly advocating for
change and justice, justice, right, and these allegations just don't
align with who the person, the person we know. I
truly hope that truth comes out. He's believing that the

(48:48):
truth is that this is not true. I'm glad the
truth came out. He's he's he's going to be convicted
her pretty soon comes to light. And I hope that
just as much effort will be put in an uncovering
who might be behind this attempt to defame this man's character.
Could you imagine that. So he's already he's decided he's innocent,
which is fine, he's innocent until proven guilty. But he's

(49:10):
assuming it's a plot to defame him. This is this
is the part that obsess me. The Reverend Reverend doctor
Larry E. Campbell of the First aem Church and Passing
expressed similar senate comments, stating that it's strange credulity that
a person who served as a deputy mayor in two
different administrations, a decade long member of the California Bar

(49:32):
would engage in such an impossible and silly at calling
in a bomb threat at his workplace. Well he did,
Williams testing, attesting to wims outstanding character and strong faith,
Campbell said, for decades, Brian has not only built a
reputation as a dedicated civil civil leader, he's extremely competent professional,

(49:52):
Actually is not confident calling a bomb thrust. He got
caught and loving husband, a faithful man, a resort horsful
person for all the community. His integrity and probiddy is unquestionable. Well,
you know his integrity is questionable. Doctor Campbell raised the
point and this is the part that upsets me. Raise
the point that the allegations made to be deliberately, maybe

(50:15):
deliberate considering Williams's long career in public servants, courageously working
for transparency on behalf of the citizens of Los Angeles County,
which has placed a huge target on his back. So
what he's suggesting is people on the Sheriff's apartment and
people who support law enforcement have got put a target
on this guy's back. And this reverend is suggesting that

(50:36):
these are these are motivated by political or bad actors
in law enforcement or their supporters. And now he's got
egg in us face. But will he attract this stuff?
Of course he won't retract this stuff, given the animus
level towards mister Williams by certain agencies. He's saying, the LASDA,
the LA County Sheriff's Department, he had a duty to oversee.
Let us let us beware. Let us also beware that

(51:00):
those who would mutter muddy the waters intentionally with smear campaign. No,
he pled guilty, He did it, not a smear campaign.
This is not on the LA County Sheriff's right. This
is on this man, which which may in fact be
a purpose of the allegations. I urge each member of
our community to consider the weight of their words before speaking,

(51:20):
and strive for kindness and understanding. No kindness and understanding
directed towards the men and women in law enforcement. When
this reverend makes this allegation the attack on his character
is a travesty, it is not. It is not a travesty.
He actually did it. So this this part really frustrated
me that they attacked law enforcement. Now we got another
picture of another guy that they did. It's it's let's see,

(51:42):
we got Ron Clark. I think let's uh, I think
we got there. He is Now he's an FBI agent
that they appointed to deputy mayor. I have hopes that
maybe she got it right this time. I don't have
anything against this guy other than I don't think that
FBI agents have strong background in municipal policing. But you
know what he's He's probably not going to call in
a bomb threat. And so I think the reverend there

(52:04):
and other folks who have attacked law enforcement, who have
attacked law enforcement, need to apologize. This guy is guilty
and my problem with his hire. And this also goes
along with Diana trans Hire, the lady that's being prosecuted
six fellon charges for stealing police records? Who is responsible
for constitution policing of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's de

(52:26):
bard and worked for George gascon Is. I doubt she
went through a background check. I doubt she had to
go talk to a psychologist. I doubt she went to
a lightertecher Jets. Yet she was responsible for oversight and
law enforcement and she violated the law. He was responsible
for oversight over law enforcement, and he viled the law.
Who who oversees the overseers? Ask my question? And I

(52:50):
got more coming on though. Who oversees the overseers in
the future. I've been looking at some of the some
of the recordings from the Sheriff's Oversight Committee, and I'm
appalled at some of the stuff I've found. And I
think what is going on here in LA can be
is akin to what is going on to many of
the blue counties and the big cities around the country,

(53:10):
and that many of these progressives, many of these progressives
are okay with violence, They're okay with violating the law,
They're okay with undermining good order for their cause, and
that's a big part of the problem. They're okay they
use language like they call people names to dehumanize them,
to devalidate the attacks on them. And when they can't

(53:34):
do things by filing by front just following the law,
they cheat, They steal records, they call them bomb threats
to aggrandize themselves so that they can have more power
and more control. That is what is going on in
the progressive movement. These radical progressives are capable of violence,
they're committing violence, and they're willing to violate the law
simply to gain power. Now that's the end of my

(53:56):
show folks here today. Like I said, I want you
to stay tuned in June. The next show is going
to be about Judge Dugan, superhero Judge Dugan who who
saves all the all the illegal immigrants in her courthouse
in Minnesota, Tuna next week. Thank you for joining the show, Amanda,
you could take it away.