Battle for Los Angeles

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
George Gascon's primary supporters were Black Lives Matter crowd. Why
has this been called the second look important race in
the country. Yes, the president people, George Gascon is supported
by the crowd that wants to defund law enforcement, defund
the police. This is really movie funding around. He's supported
by a large swath of the celebrity crowd. Please join

(00:22):
me and welcoming the one and only Sean Legend. The
races are so so critical to how our city's function,
and especially here in l A. So that's from Tucker
Carlson's new documentary that I think is on the special

(00:43):
Fox channel or whatever that a subscription nation, Yeah, Fox
and the streaming thing. Yeah. Who's George Gascon? Joe? He's
the District Attorney of Los Angeles County. He is a
very strange, neo Marxist, self promoting lie egomaniac who wants
to dismantle the criminal justice system, who was supported by

(01:06):
uh left wing wealthy ideologues and lots of celebrities for
some reason. Maybe they just enjoyed his weird Kermit the
frog count Dracula voice. Can't set Jack, we can't prosecute
our way out of the inequity we have seen or
whatever the hell we cannot prosecutor weigh out of the

(01:27):
desperation that we have. That's right. You called him Count
Kermit yesterday. That's pretty good, Count, thank you. Um. He
doesn't believe in crime is along and short of it.
So you've got a district attorney who doesn't believe crime
is a thing, which is a problem. Well, he believes
that it's a product of white supremacy and and and
inequities and the rest of it. And the poor The
guy who beat a woman down and stole her purse

(01:50):
only did that because of, you know, the inherity of
all of our society. So sheriff, the local sheriff of
ille clearly it might is not going to allow me
to say it. Villaneueva. There you go. Uh does not
agree with Gascone. The only significant elected official in Los
Angeles who opposes George Gascon is the county Sheriff, alex

(02:13):
Vie Nueva. The problem is here in l A and
city and county government. They occupy every single seat. There
is no other point of view other than that woke ideology.
You have to operate in the real world, not their
fake fantasy. That's interesting that you have two people at
that high level with such different views of things. Here's

(02:34):
a little more from the sheriff from one we sent
increase in homicides, which is mind boggling increase. I can't
get the Board of Supervisors to even admit that homicides
A what is that? I liked him in the previous
cliffs so starkly juxtaposing whether you're dealing with the real

(02:56):
world or living in a fantasy world. That a Scone
A lot of his followers are. Oh, I noticed a
Tucker called this documentary suicide of Los Angeles because we
already uh trademarked a better name if you have that
handy Los Angeles lives and we have a kick ass,

(03:17):
very brief theme song as well. I don't know if
Tucker has one of those angels was crumbling? Is that? Oh?
That is great? And a little more from Tucker's documentary here.
I think the understatement of the year would be to
say that there's no love lost between George Gascone and
La County Sheriff Alex Vigneueva. Their polar opposites. My lack

(03:40):
of relationship with the d A is unprecedented. I've had
one phone call with him since he's taken office. That
is it. Let's start with the rise in crime in
l A County. You are the sheriff. Do you bear
any responsibility for that? Well? Is that being defunded and
being discredited in de legitimized by a like to officials

(04:01):
is kind of harmar with the blame and the people
who are doing the most of the work. For six
months of goscons time in office, he rejected five thousand,
nine and thirty two cases. That means all those people
just walk free. So the sheriff and the d A
don't speak to each other. No, the one is trying
to get you to recognize that crime is up in
every category like crazy high know, anybody paying attention, and

(04:25):
the other guys saying, what are you talking about? Right?
That's because of equity. That's what's going on. It's worth
pointing out the Chief More of the l A p
D as every bit as outraged and is speaking out
about this. In fact, in a practically unprecedented explosion of frustration,
Chief More and Captain Jonathan Tippett, who was in charge

(04:46):
of their UH the Anti Street Crime Task Force that
recently popped up as street crime. Armed robberies, that sort
of thing have just exploded. UH took the unprecedented step
of bringing to the attention to the public and the
press a couple of cases in particular, which I think
are are worth looking at. And they're talking about these
uh follow Homer follow out robberies where the gang bangers

(05:09):
have people have their their gangst as scouting in hotels
and restaurants and shops and whatever wherever people with money
might be. They have them scout out who's got an
expensive person, who's got an expensive wrist watch on, who's
who's pulling away in a high end Mercedes, that sort
of thing, and then they follow him home, rob him
at gunpoint, beat them down, whatever, and take their stuff.

(05:30):
So this is exploded, and obviously this is horrifying, and
that's the breakdown of civilization. Well part of the reason
civilization is breaking down, and this was highlighted by the
chief they Uh. They talked about a couple of individuals
who keep getting arrested, like eighteen year old Matthew Adams.
We talked about briefly towards the end of the show yesterday,
but is worth bringing up again. He was involved in

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eight separate follow off robberies over a six month period
last fall, including one in two which to U s
c l A s were robbed of a very expensive
wrist watches leaving a club, a second in which to
foreign tourists were robbed of watches worth seventy three grand,
which fifty in property was stolen. I am anti thievery uh,

(06:13):
but man, I could not walk out the door with
a I would never have a seventy three thousand illar
to watch. But I can't imagine walking around with that
on my risk, and I'd be worried all the time. Well,
and I love that the first one was to U
c l A students who each were sporting apparently like
a seventy five thousand dollar wise as college kids. Yeah.
Wait what. During the course of the eight robberies this

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guy was involved in, which occurred between September and February,
Adams was rested three times, first time Jan nine, when
chief said Adams was found in a car that had
been used in one of the robberies with a gun.
Online court records show no charges wherever filed against Adams
in that case, no charges suggesting prosecutors were unconvinced they
could win a conviction, says the l A Times, or

(06:54):
George Gascone just had no interest in it. Adams was
to rest it again on January and a third time
on February one, your birthday, Jack, and in both cases
charged with a legal gun possession. Court records show he
was ordered released each time immediately without having to pay bail.
I love this. This guy's twenty one years old. Now,
keep in mind the reason was a pandemic related rule

(07:16):
aimed at reducing the jail population that requires l A
County defendants to be released without posting bail for certain offenses,
including gun offenses. So just so you understand, and and
some of you might be thinking, look, I don't live
in l A. What do I care? You remember the
phrase laboratories and democracy to describe all of the states
and early the counties and cities of America. I think

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if a laboratory in democracy carries out the experiment in
the progressive justice system, you ought to go ahead and
read the report before it gets adopted in your town. Anyway,
has this ever happened in American history? Where you have
the only the only examples I can imagine where you
had the local d A and the local sheriff. This

(07:57):
at odds would have been when you had towns run by,
you know, various families, and you know they're they're the
lack of willingness to prosecute some you know, very tied
in um. You know what do they call that uh thing?
That Tammany Hall? But what is that? That whole machines

(08:18):
machine politics? Yeah, yeah, only in machine politics. Can I
imagine where this has ever happened in in U S
history where they just A'm gonna prosecute that guy because
he's part of the political machine. But the whole just
allowing people to commit crimes because you don't believe crimes
are a thing that's got to be new. Well I
interrupted myself too as I was halfway through making a point.
So you got this twenty one year old who commits

(08:38):
gun crime after gun crime, and keep in mind, anytime
anybody gets shot, the left says we gotta have more
gun laws. Right, So this guy commits gun crime after
gun crime, but as a twenty one year old can't
be kept in jail for even a few days because
he might get the COVID. I mean, what the hell
kind of priorities are that? What? What? That's just so

(09:00):
from the real world. So anyway, this Adams character has
since been arrested for a fourth time on charge of
his related to seven robberies, for which he has pleaded
not guilty. Public Defender's office, which represented him during his arraignment,
declined to comment. He remains in custody. Finally after the
seven robberies. Uh And obviously the chief of police is

(09:21):
pretty piste off about this. He says some scathing things
about George Gascone. But I wanted to bring you the
case of one Cheyenne Hale, who's twenty five years old,
arrested this month on suspicion of participating in the armed
robbery of a man in downtown l A in October,
in which two watches were estimated to be worth six
hundred thousand dollars and they were stolen. What people buying

(09:42):
these these three d dollar watches? And what is that?
What is a threat made out of Mars crystals? You know,
occasionally I'll click around and look at those crazy high
end watches and they're beautiful and their hand crafted and
their Swiss and whatever else. But I didn't know so
many running around with them anyway, So he's he's arrested

(10:04):
for an armed robbery. Okay. Police said they recovered a
loaded gun from Hale during his arrest, and the detectives
in the anti crime unit found seven additional handguns, dollars
in cash, and a large quantity of drugs, including cocaine
and methamphetamine when they served a search warrant at Hale's home. Nonetheless,
Hale has since been released from custody and it's running

(10:27):
the streets. Yeah. I get how you can come to
the ideology that you think too many black people are
in jail. There's some systemic racism going on. I can
get I can see where you get there, but I
don't understand how you uh, and therefore somebody's somebody with
a lifetime of committing crimes gets to do these things. Well, right,

(10:51):
they're they're extremists. They have an extreme view of criminal justice.
And who the victims are? The victims aren't the victims?
The c finals are the victims. It is an extremist view. Um,
And just I had one more point to make, it
flitted out of my head. Oh, you know, you can
absolutely say some guy who sold crack during the eighties

(11:15):
or nineties who got life because he had a baggy
full of it. That's too much, too extreme, It was
an overreaction to the crack epidemic. Whatever we can talk
about that. You know, you don't need to go to
life for go to jail for life for selling drugs necessarily, okay, um,
But the idea that they're for a guy who smashes
people in the face and takes their watches and their

(11:36):
wallets and their phones and the rest of it should
never do any time. And indeed, because there's an extra
nasty cold going on that's killed a bunch of people,
almost none young and healthy, he should never go to jail.
I mean, that's an extremest point of view. When that's
why George Gascon is going to be kicked out off
as ninety eight percent of his prosecutors are in favor

(11:58):
of the recall, how the hell did he get elected
because people don't pay attention to local elections, Well they
will from here on out. I I hope art strong
and