June 5, 2025 • 32 mins
It was so devastatingly violent, a guy kinda stopped eating his hashbrowns for a moment to calmly assist at this southwest Omaha restaurant.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez the Omaha World Herald headlined at least and
I haven't seen the physical paper, but online it says
violent ice arrest in busy brunch spot is not the
way we want to do law enforcement in Omaha. Ewing says,
(00:21):
now that entire quote is not in quotes. John Ewing
didn't refer to it as a violent ice arrest. In fact,
as I read the story, no one refers to it
as a violent ice arrest. They talked to a guy
who says, quote, there was a slight scuffle. They just
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took him to the ground, arrested him and drug him
out of there unquote. That was a customer who spoke
to the local paper but asked to remain anonymous for
fear that he could be targeted next. Yeah, he who said,
oh my gosh, the look of dread on his face.
Who would make any compassionate human being just cry? Where's
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the compassion for the guy who had a social Security
number stolen by this illegal immigrant who was picked up
by the people who pick up illegal immigrants who are
criminals who have previous run ins with federal immigration authorities,
which this guy did in twenty twenty two, he has
a fake social Security number, he's working under a fake name.
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You're not allowed to do these things. And someone had
their social Security number taken. Someone has spent the last
several years going, no, this isn't me. I can't get
a loan, I can't get a mortgage. I can't even
get cable. I can't get my phone paid for here
because my social Security number has been stolen. It could
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be someone who is older and retired and can't get
her benefits because they think she's a twenty two year
old Hispanic working in a kitchen somewhere in the Midwest.
I don't know what's going on here, but they're gonna
they're gonna figure it out. And no one's referring to
it as a violent ice arrest. And then you find
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out how violent was it? Well, there was a slight scuffle.
Oh my gosh, he is he gonna live a slight scuffle.
Now You've got one news agency here in town saying
that police were looking for this guy and they detained him.
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He's in the country illegally from Guatemala. He's been working
under a fake name and a fake social Security number.
He had an earlier immigration encounter in twenty twenty two
involving the false documents, and then you've got and that's
what the Omaha World Harold is reporting, and they said, yeah,
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we checked with ICE in Department of Homeland Security. No
one has any idea where this guy is. And then
k ETV says, actually, this isn't the guy they were
looking for. It's the guy's brother. But the guy's brother
is guilty of the same crime. So they took him
in custody anyway, and we know where he is. He's
in Potawatamee County. Maybe you recall hearing a conversation on
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this program in the past year where we talked with
the pot of Watamee County sheriff who said, yeah, ever
since Douglas County ended their contract with ICE to hold
and detain people like this in this situation, they send
them over to pot of Watamee County and not only
do we detain them, we also get the money from
the federal government to detain them. This thousands of dollars
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being paid right now in pot of Watamee County when
this could be Douglas County money coming in. But the
Douglas County Commission ended that agreement with Ice during the
opening months of the Biden administration. So I tell you
what I don't know yet. I don't know that this
guy is going to be found guilty of anything. I
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don't know if he even has a brother. I don't
know what's going to happen to him. But there are
some people who know, and they've already started a go
fund Me account and it's already collected more than eight
five hundred dollars since this happened at an Omaha brunch
restaurant in Southwest Omaha just a few days ago. Here's
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what it says on the go fund me account. It
says on June first, Romeo. That's another question whether or
not his name is Romeo. Maybe it's not his given name,
maybe it's just his romantic status.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Or social security name.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It could be his social Security name, because I've got
this one here is the Department of Homeland Security. He
identified his first name as Romero and not Romeo. It
could be someone started this account with a knowing a
fake name or not knowing a fake name, or they
misspelled it, or maybe they thought his name was Romeo, like, oh,
(05:16):
it's Romero. Have you ever had someone you've known for
a long time and called them by the wrong name
for decades until you were finally corrected. Isn't that terrible?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't think that's ever happened to me, Scoot Well.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Jane one of one of my favorite people on the planet.
I realized last year. And we've known each other since
middle school. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.
And I realized last year I was putting the R
in her long, ridiculous Greek last name. I mean, this
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is ultimately her fault, but I was putting the R
in the wrong spot in her last name. And she goes, yeah,
everyone does. I'm like, well, why didn't you tell everyone?
I tried. No one listened to me. They thought I
was wrong. I'm like, well, I'm gonna make it a
point to call you by the right name starting now,
terrible like thirty years in more? Did you? Yeah? I try.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So. You still don't know if it's right.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
As I think about it now, I have to. I'll
have to look at the spelling to find out where
that is. Anyway, here's what it says on the go
fundme page. On June first, Romeo was arriving to work
when he was wrongfully taken by Ice. They did not
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ask his name, did not provide any documentation, and would
not give information as to why he was being arrested.
According to one of the ice workers after the fact,
he was not who they were looking for, and despite
him having no criminal history, he is still being detained somewhere.
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The gofund me is to help his family and be
able to afford a lawyer so he can get the
legal help that he deserves and needs. That was started
by someone named Jenna and has raised over eighty five
hundred dollars so far. She's amazing young woman. She's already
determined that he was wrongfully taken by ice, and even
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though she wasn't there, she already knows what happened, whether
they asked his name, didn't provide any documentation, all the
rest of this stuff. And though so they're raising money
for a lawyer. It's amazing. If you've done nothing wrong,
and I know that there are several instances with this
is not the case, but generally, if you've done nothing
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wrong and you can prove I'm not the person that
you thought I was, you usually turn around and walk
away that day. But that hasn't happened here. Jenna says
it's because basically, the Trump administration's racist and he must
be the guy. After all, he looks Guatemalan. That's not
what she said, but that's the feeling of a lot
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of people. Now back to our mayor elect, who doesn't
take office until Monday night, he says, this is not
the way we want to do law enforcement in Omaha.
Which part if Immigration and Customs Enforcement knows that there's
someone who has previous run ins with immigration authorities and
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if you did, let's say it's twenty twenty two, there
was a false document charge. If you were charged, I
imagine you were given a court date. Did he show
up at the court date. I'm guessing he didn't. I
don't know yet, but that generally seems to be how
this timeline works. That's why they come looking for you
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because you didn't turn yourself in. You're in the country illegally,
you're skipping out on court dates, you're stealing social Security numbers,
you're working under fraudulent circumstances. That's when Immigration Customs Enforcement ICE, ICE, ICE,
ICE ICE baby comes in there and they detain you.
(09:15):
What part of this is not the way we want
to do law enforcement in Omaha. Is the mayor elect
talking about now he doesn't know all the facts either,
He said, well, i'd appreciate a heads up if ICE
is going to come in here and detain a guy. Well,
ICE doesn't have to give you a heads up. They
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talked yesterday also with Omaha Police Chief TODs Smater. He said, yeah,
ICE doesn't ever really give us a heads up if
they're doing something like this against an individual in our community.
If it's a bigger event, then they'll let us know.
There have been times we've worked with ICE to conduct
a larger scale raid of some sort that certainly does happen.
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But sometimes they'll ask OPD officers to serve on a
task force related to some things that might also have
immigration enforcement involved. But Chief Schmater also said yesterday reiterated
that Omaha Police they don't stop and check people's documentation.
We're not checking your immigration status. And he said if
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there's a criminal warrant for somebody in addition to their
undocumented status and they're dangerous, we do participate in that.
So we are in the mix, but as a normal
course of duty, we are not immigration enforcement officers, and
nor are we informed of individual arrest. That's not just
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an Omaha thing, that is an America thing. So apparently
may elect John Ewing wants to change how this is
done in America. He says, well, we didn't know, and
the restaurant also says we didn't know. We'd had no
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involvement or knowledge of the incident before it happened. Why
in the world if I don't think anyone truly believes
that this restaurant, I'm not even putting their name out
there anymore because I don't want anyone to get the
impression like, well, I'm not going to eat there for
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whatever reason. The restaurant has nothing to do with this.
The restaurant's looking to hire people. You hand over documents,
they do something, it checks out. I don't know how
these things work. I don't know how deeply they're digging
into this stuff. You would think there'd be a flag
that if you're hired, you provide a social Security number
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of some sort of documentation. If that social Security number
comes back that says that you're eighty three year old
Edna Krable of Springfield, then they look at you and go, well,
we don't think you're an eighty three year old woman,
and we have questions, you would think, but I don't
believe anyone thinks that this restaurant is making bacon and
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eggs and also harboring a large number of criminal illegal immigrants.
I don't anyway, and nor should you. But they're still
coming out saying we had no idea, Well, of course not.
Why would Ice if they're like, well, I wonder what's
going on there? Why would they give the business heads up? Hey,
just letting you know coming up on Sunday morning, we're
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gonna raid your restaurant. Okay, a party of six. But
then there was something else that happened when this raid
occurred at the restaurant that I didn't know until this morning.
And I'll tell you next Scott Byes News Radio eleven
to ten KFAB. I'm Scott. He's Lucy Chapman here as
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well Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's custom
What's Inbox. I mentioned that there's a young woman who's
started to go fundme account raising money for this person
that she's already determined was wrongfully taken by Ice, and
that he's probably like the best guy who's ever been
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And they shouldn't have done this, So we need to
be able to help his family and help him afford
a lawyer so he can get the help that he needs.
There are immigration lawyers coming out of the Sprinklers really
to work for free, saying oh yeah, let's battle the
Trump administration, let's make history. But still we're raising money
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and that's fine. If people want to donate, it's there.
Eighty five hundred plus dollar has been raised so far
for this guy and his family, and that's what people
want to do. So Stephanie emails and says, bless her
for bless her heart? Is she also raising money for
the actual violent attack against the Bolder victims by an
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anti Semitic illegal immigrant asking for a friend. That's from Stephanie.
I am fluent in sarcasm. I don't know that whether
or not she's doing it. I don't know whether or
not she would do it had that happened in our community,
like this incident at the Little Breakfast Nook in Southwest
Omaha on Sunday morning. But something else about that particular
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arrest Lucy that I didn't know until this morning. It
wasn't just Ice that helped in detaining this guy.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Who else helped Superman?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I don't know if it was Superman that man.
It was. So the guy is, I don't know, going
to work or whatever, and so he sees Ice and
then a brief chase ensues. He sees them and immediately
takes off. But again he's not doing anything wrong. I mean,
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let's just look at it this way. If you're walking
into work and walk you look over and here are
a bunch of ICE agents walking towards you, and you
are not running a foul of any immigration law or
anything like that. Do you run? I wouldn't run, but Scott,
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you don't know you would. It's like to be hispanic. No,
you're right, I don't. But I wouldn't run, and I
don't know how many people would. Anyway, he runs. They
took him to the ground, they arrested him, but it
wasn't just Ice that did this. As he took off
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and as they were trying to get him down, According
to the Omaha World Herald, a customer jump in and
helped handcuff this employee. It said most customers just backed
away as the incident unfolded, but there was a man
who jumped in there helped I don't know if he
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helped hold him down. It says helped handcuff the guy.
So he assists in some way, either to put the
cuffs on or you know, keep him held down or
put his arms behind his back or whatever. It says
the guy jumped in there, helped out, and then, as
it's referred to here in the newspaper, calmly returned to
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his breakfast.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He sounds like former or current law enforcement off duty.
Perhaps perhaps I don't know this, of course, Yeah, maybe what.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Would you do?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well? I think as a woman, I probably would have
just sat there myself as well.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But maybe said you just set women back hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
If you're a bad you can fill in the blank,
and you're a woman and you can fight and you
can take care of yourself, and you can step into
something like that, then by all means, I think you
should do that. That'd be great. I wouldn't do it, okay,
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So what I should say is, as a woman who
is completely untrained in any of the judicio arts or whatever,
I can't even say it one hundred percent. So I'm
not going to do anything. Now. If I'm carrying, you know,
I might be able to help out at that point.
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But I'm hoping maybe we see more people stepping up
like this helping. And I'm not saying because to gather
up people that ICE needs to gather up. I'm talking
about in any criminal activity that you see going on
around you. We see that happening, people getting mugged and
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nobody doing anything.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I don't think I would probably get involved, just because
I wouldn't want to get in the officer's way. I
figured that they know what they're doing. But if suddenly
I was thrust into a situation where like I have
to jump in here and help out, I'd like to
think that I would. I mean, what would I be
able to do. I'm six foot nothing, one hundred and nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, you're probably about as good at any kind of
defense as I would be, So i'd try to do. Yeah,
maybe I would.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I mean, I'm sitting there having my breakfast, so I've
got tater totts I could throw at him. I got
hot coffee, Yeah, I throw hot coffee on him. Yeah,
just come over there and just start stabbing him with
a fork. They're like, sir, we don't need you to
do that. In fact, that's right, that's not what we want.
I'm just like, yeah, stabbing him with the fork. We
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already have him down and in custody. We don't need
you to do any of this stuff. So it's interesting.
I had Elect Ewing here in the studio a couple
of weeks ago, and I said, so Ice knows that
there's a dangerous guy in our community and they need
to come in and get him. What should happen? And
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he just said he should be deported? Now is this guy?
Does he meet the threshold that I gave to John
Ewing where I probably said he is a gang member
and in the country illegally, what should happen? He said,
he should be deported, plain and simple. Now, is this
guy that kind of dangerous guy? Thus far, we haven't
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been given that information. Right now, it's someone who's been
in the country illegally for years, has earlier immigration encounters
involving false documents, was working under a fake name and
a fake social Security number. Does that mean he's a
gang member? It does not immediately mean that. Don who
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is a regular contributor to the Inbox and someone who
who seemingly doesn't like anything about the show when it
comes to political opinions, he is more on the political
left side of the spectrum. I tend to be on
the right side of the spectrum. Don says, guys dressed
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like Ninja warriors tackling restaurant servers can't ice save the
Seal Team six tactics for terrorists and other violent felons.
That's from Don all right. First of all, law enforcement
never has any idea who they're going to encounter at
any point, whether these individual There is so many stories
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of law enforcement just getting something, pulling them over for
a very minor traffic incident. Hey, your tags are expired,
you've got a tail light out, they get shot. They
have no idea. Now that doesn't give them license to
any time that you know, you get pulled over because
you got one headlight. Either're pulling over Dylan. What's Bob Dylanson,
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Jacob Dylon with one headlight? There's your nineties music reference
for this segment of the radio program. Took me a second,
but I got there. Lucy still doesn't know what I'm
talking about. Probably neither is anyone else. There was a
song by a band called The Wallflowers called One Headlight.
The singer Bob Dylan Son Jacob Dylan so police are
pulling over Jacob Dylan because he has one headlight, and
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so they come out there with guns blazing and tackle him.
That's probably not the best way of going about it.
But you'll notice that law enforcement exercises caution in any interaction.
One of those things is when we're picking someone up
and we don't really don't know, we just know that
we're supposed to pick this guy up. We're gonna get
home tonight. We're gonna ensure that he's okay. We're not
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gonna give him a chance to back himself into a
corner and grab a weapon. We're going to tackle him,
which they did. He ran by, By the way, he
didn't have to be tackled. He saw Ice and took off.
So it says, can't Ice save the Seal Team six tactics.
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It was, Yes, they went to his home and shot
him like Osama bin Laden. Oh yeah, they didn't do
that either. They tackled a guy who ran from law enforcement.
As Chris Rock once said, if police have to chase you,
they're bringing a butt whooping with him. And as far
as this, you know these guys dressed like ninja warriors. Yeah,
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they had masks, on. I thought you guys on the
political left wanted everyone to have masks on, and then
these guys have masks on because they don't want to
get people spitting in their face, which happens all the
time too. And you don't like that they have masks on.
Make up your mind. What does the science say? We
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have this problem in Omaha. It's even worse than you thought.
The birthplace of President Gerald R. Ford has been vandalized
down there off Martha and twenty something or whatever, thirty
second in worl Worth. Yeah, that's where it is the Ford.
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Has anyone ever come to town and said, hey, while
we're in town, make sure and take us by Ford's.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Birthplace some of his relatives.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No, they haven't, No, no, no one cares. In fact,
that place hasn't been kept up in so long that
they have a marble marker out there with a list
of all the presidents on there, but it hasn't been
updated since Obama was in office, hence the vandalization. Someone
wrote in forty five Donald Trump, and then they said
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forty six who knows, followed by forty seven Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wait, is that the graffiti they're talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Graffiti? They're talking about someone's spray painted forty five Trump
forty forty six, who knows forty seven Donald Trump. That's funny,
But do not vandalize anything. The Ford birthplace doesn't belong
to you. Greg sends this to Scott atkfab dot com
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and the Zonker's custom woods inbox and says, as far
as Mayor elect Ewing goes first, he goes on CNN
and says he'll see Trump in court. Now he complains
about how ICE did its job. Can we see the
handwriting on the wall yet? That's from Greg said to
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Scott at kfab dot com. Keith says, Scott simply put.
The left wingers are upset of the ICE action in
Omaha as it deports potential Democrat voters. That's the commentary
from Keith. Matt says. The thing I don't understand and
never have is how mostly Democrats and progressives ignore the
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word illegal. As we all know, people across the border
without proper documentation or breaking or existing law, breaking the
law makes them a criminal. All right, Yeah, I understand
all that. There's certainly different levels of criminal behavior. The
not having your paperwork in order in this country illegally
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whether you've overstayed a student or work visa, whether you're
one of these dreamers brought into the country as a
young person and now you don't have status, is a
little different to me than coming in here with some
kid you grabbed and said, this is my kid, we
need to come, we need asylum. It's not your kid,
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and you don't need asylum. It's just you know, human trafficking,
and then you start that and the drug trafficking and
gang members and murders and all that stuff. All that's
really really bad. There's different levels of all of this.
As far as this particular guy, it sounds like that
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in twenty twenty two he was on the wrong side
of immigration encounters because he was working under a fake
name with a stolen social Security number, which then makes
life miserable for the individual who had their social Security
numbers stolen. So they get the guy and probably and
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that I haven't seen this part in any story, but
this is consistent with what I know to be the timeline.
When you are picked up and you're like, hey, we
think that you are working under false documents and there's
some social security fraud and so forth, you're going to
have a hearing set here in a few years. You've
got to come to this courtroom on this day at
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this time. Well, it sounds like this guy decided not
to do it. Maybe he overslept, maybe he forgot it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Maybe it has even happened yet, right three years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Maybe it hasn't happened yet. But the fact that now
Ice is looking for him, as he is a Guatemala
national who's been marked for deportation, suggests that that court
hearing date has come and gone, and so now they
need to get him. We also don't know if his
earlier immigration encounter was even here in Omaha. I suspect
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it probably wasn't a lot of times when immigration questions
come up here, you are gone, Like the wind, you
meep your way right out of town. You understand that
reference as the road runner.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I did actually understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Meet Mesh and you're taking off, you're gone. If he
had got popped by immigration three years ago and he's
still here working at the same place, either this guy
is not guilty of anything, or he's one of the
dumbest people on the planet. I guess we'll figure it
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out which it is. If it's even him, Now you
got Kate saying, yeah, we talked to Homeland Security and
they say, yeah, it wasn't even the right guy. It
was his brother, but he looks like him, and he's
also in the country illegally, So we'll take a week
and get No one else is reporting that. I don't
know that this just happened a few days ago. The
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people who generally don't like any law enforcement have already
determined the guy is innocent. There's a GoFundMe page started
by a young woman who says he was arriving to
work and wrongfully taken by ice. They didn't ask his
name or provide any documentation, and did not give any
information as to why he was being arrested. He's being
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detained somewhere and we're trying to raise money so his
family can afford a lawyer. Meanwhile, there's sanctuary law professionals
willing to take on the Trump administration to try and
raise their own name and stock coming out of the
sprinklers right now to help this guy pro bono. But
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we're still raising money. I don't know more than eighty
five hundred dollars was raised as of this morning, but
there's some people have already decided, Oh yeah, this is
just racism as law enforcement runnamuck. Speaking of which, we
are about forty two minutes away now from a press
conference being held by Douglas County Attorney Don Kline. News
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Radio eleven ten KFAB will be there and will report
asap what is the determination when the timeline is, there
was a guy who had a firearm, refused to put
down the firearm. He was shot and killed by a
Douglas County Sheriff's deputy. The bodycam footage has been turned
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over to a grand jury. The county attorney has seen
the footage, They've talked to the witnesses, and they're prepared
to determine whether or not charges will be filed against
the sheriff's deputy, or whether there'll be a special prosecutor named,
or what happens next. You've already got activists lined up
ready to try and foment as much unrest and anger
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as possible if this hearing does not go the way
they want it. At eleven o'clock this morning, as I said,
we'll let you know as soon as we can here
what the determination by the county attorney is. That news
conference schedule to take place just after eleven o'clock this
morning here in Omaha. Email here from Adam sent to
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Scott at kfab dot com, and the complaints on the
GoFundMe page. It noted that ICE agents showed up looking
for this guy and they didn't provide any documentation. They
didn't ask his name, didn't give him any information. Adam
emails and says the ICE agents didn't show any documents.
That complaint is rich coming from people who defend the undocumented.
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That's from Adam, sent to Scott at kfab dot com.
Good catch, Adam, Lucy, we've lost Guava Sweishwei. Oh no,
Guava shweish we has passed away, only twenty four years old,
so you know it is. It's terrible. She is a
(31:22):
Taiwanese beauty influencer. I thought you were no, no, no, well,
I mean there is something a little interesting about this.
She She has an Instagram page. It's got like twelve
thousand followers, and her videos feature eating beauty products, eating
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yes before she tries any wonder why she died. Before
she tries on blush, she scoops out the product with
a fork and eats it. At one point she's eating moisturizer.
Another one, she is tasting liquid lip color and talking
about whether the flavor is any good, and then she
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uses the product the way it was meant to and
describes whether or not that's any good. They're not saying
how she died.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Hmmm, let's put that up for debate. Twenty four years old.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You are not supposed to eat the moisturizer.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Probably most of it your aren't supposed to put on
your It's.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Called jelly blush, but it's not jelly. Don't do that.
Scott Boyes, Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez the Omaha World Herald headlined at least and
I haven't seen the physical paper, but online it says
violent ice arrest in busy brunch spot is not the
way we want to do law enforcement in Omaha. Ewing says,
(00:21):
now that entire quote is not in quotes. John Ewing
didn't refer to it as a violent ice arrest. In fact,
as I read the story, no one refers to it
as a violent ice arrest. They talked to a guy
who says, quote, there was a slight scuffle. They just
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took him to the ground, arrested him and drug him
out of there unquote. That was a customer who spoke
to the local paper but asked to remain anonymous for
fear that he could be targeted next. Yeah, he who said,
oh my gosh, the look of dread on his face.
Who would make any compassionate human being just cry? Where's
(01:08):
the compassion for the guy who had a social Security
number stolen by this illegal immigrant who was picked up
by the people who pick up illegal immigrants who are
criminals who have previous run ins with federal immigration authorities,
which this guy did in twenty twenty two, he has
a fake social Security number, he's working under a fake name.
(01:33):
You're not allowed to do these things. And someone had
their social Security number taken. Someone has spent the last
several years going, no, this isn't me. I can't get
a loan, I can't get a mortgage. I can't even
get cable. I can't get my phone paid for here
because my social Security number has been stolen. It could
(01:56):
be someone who is older and retired and can't get
her benefits because they think she's a twenty two year
old Hispanic working in a kitchen somewhere in the Midwest.
I don't know what's going on here, but they're gonna
they're gonna figure it out. And no one's referring to
it as a violent ice arrest. And then you find
(02:20):
out how violent was it? Well, there was a slight scuffle.
Oh my gosh, he is he gonna live a slight scuffle.
Now You've got one news agency here in town saying
that police were looking for this guy and they detained him.
(02:40):
He's in the country illegally from Guatemala. He's been working
under a fake name and a fake social Security number.
He had an earlier immigration encounter in twenty twenty two
involving the false documents, and then you've got and that's
what the Omaha World Harold is reporting, and they said, yeah,
(03:01):
we checked with ICE in Department of Homeland Security. No
one has any idea where this guy is. And then
k ETV says, actually, this isn't the guy they were
looking for. It's the guy's brother. But the guy's brother
is guilty of the same crime. So they took him
in custody anyway, and we know where he is. He's
in Potawatamee County. Maybe you recall hearing a conversation on
(03:25):
this program in the past year where we talked with
the pot of Watamee County sheriff who said, yeah, ever
since Douglas County ended their contract with ICE to hold
and detain people like this in this situation, they send
them over to pot of Watamee County and not only
do we detain them, we also get the money from
the federal government to detain them. This thousands of dollars
(03:47):
being paid right now in pot of Watamee County when
this could be Douglas County money coming in. But the
Douglas County Commission ended that agreement with Ice during the
opening months of the Biden administration. So I tell you
what I don't know yet. I don't know that this
guy is going to be found guilty of anything. I
(04:10):
don't know if he even has a brother. I don't
know what's going to happen to him. But there are
some people who know, and they've already started a go
fund Me account and it's already collected more than eight
five hundred dollars since this happened at an Omaha brunch
restaurant in Southwest Omaha just a few days ago. Here's
(04:33):
what it says on the go fund me account. It
says on June first, Romeo. That's another question whether or
not his name is Romeo. Maybe it's not his given name,
maybe it's just his romantic status.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Or social security name.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It could be his social Security name, because I've got
this one here is the Department of Homeland Security. He
identified his first name as Romero and not Romeo. It
could be someone started this account with a knowing a
fake name or not knowing a fake name, or they
misspelled it, or maybe they thought his name was Romeo, like, oh,
(05:16):
it's Romero. Have you ever had someone you've known for
a long time and called them by the wrong name
for decades until you were finally corrected. Isn't that terrible?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't think that's ever happened to me, Scoot Well.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Jane one of one of my favorite people on the planet.
I realized last year. And we've known each other since
middle school. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.
And I realized last year I was putting the R
in her long, ridiculous Greek last name. I mean, this
(05:53):
is ultimately her fault, but I was putting the R
in the wrong spot in her last name. And she goes, yeah,
everyone does. I'm like, well, why didn't you tell everyone?
I tried. No one listened to me. They thought I
was wrong. I'm like, well, I'm gonna make it a
point to call you by the right name starting now,
terrible like thirty years in more? Did you? Yeah? I try.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So. You still don't know if it's right.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
As I think about it now, I have to. I'll
have to look at the spelling to find out where
that is. Anyway, here's what it says on the go
fundme page. On June first, Romeo was arriving to work
when he was wrongfully taken by Ice. They did not
(06:40):
ask his name, did not provide any documentation, and would
not give information as to why he was being arrested.
According to one of the ice workers after the fact,
he was not who they were looking for, and despite
him having no criminal history, he is still being detained somewhere.
(07:01):
The gofund me is to help his family and be
able to afford a lawyer so he can get the
legal help that he deserves and needs. That was started
by someone named Jenna and has raised over eighty five
hundred dollars so far. She's amazing young woman. She's already
determined that he was wrongfully taken by ice, and even
(07:23):
though she wasn't there, she already knows what happened, whether
they asked his name, didn't provide any documentation, all the
rest of this stuff. And though so they're raising money
for a lawyer. It's amazing. If you've done nothing wrong,
and I know that there are several instances with this
is not the case, but generally, if you've done nothing
(07:45):
wrong and you can prove I'm not the person that
you thought I was, you usually turn around and walk
away that day. But that hasn't happened here. Jenna says
it's because basically, the Trump administration's racist and he must
be the guy. After all, he looks Guatemalan. That's not
what she said, but that's the feeling of a lot
(08:05):
of people. Now back to our mayor elect, who doesn't
take office until Monday night, he says, this is not
the way we want to do law enforcement in Omaha.
Which part if Immigration and Customs Enforcement knows that there's
someone who has previous run ins with immigration authorities and
(08:28):
if you did, let's say it's twenty twenty two, there
was a false document charge. If you were charged, I
imagine you were given a court date. Did he show
up at the court date. I'm guessing he didn't. I
don't know yet, but that generally seems to be how
this timeline works. That's why they come looking for you
(08:51):
because you didn't turn yourself in. You're in the country illegally,
you're skipping out on court dates, you're stealing social Security numbers,
you're working under fraudulent circumstances. That's when Immigration Customs Enforcement ICE, ICE, ICE,
ICE ICE baby comes in there and they detain you.
(09:15):
What part of this is not the way we want
to do law enforcement in Omaha. Is the mayor elect
talking about now he doesn't know all the facts either,
He said, well, i'd appreciate a heads up if ICE
is going to come in here and detain a guy. Well,
ICE doesn't have to give you a heads up. They
(09:36):
talked yesterday also with Omaha Police Chief TODs Smater. He said, yeah,
ICE doesn't ever really give us a heads up if
they're doing something like this against an individual in our community.
If it's a bigger event, then they'll let us know.
There have been times we've worked with ICE to conduct
a larger scale raid of some sort that certainly does happen.
(10:01):
But sometimes they'll ask OPD officers to serve on a
task force related to some things that might also have
immigration enforcement involved. But Chief Schmater also said yesterday reiterated
that Omaha Police they don't stop and check people's documentation.
We're not checking your immigration status. And he said if
(10:27):
there's a criminal warrant for somebody in addition to their
undocumented status and they're dangerous, we do participate in that.
So we are in the mix, but as a normal
course of duty, we are not immigration enforcement officers, and
nor are we informed of individual arrest. That's not just
(10:48):
an Omaha thing, that is an America thing. So apparently
may elect John Ewing wants to change how this is
done in America. He says, well, we didn't know, and
the restaurant also says we didn't know. We'd had no
(11:10):
involvement or knowledge of the incident before it happened. Why
in the world if I don't think anyone truly believes
that this restaurant, I'm not even putting their name out
there anymore because I don't want anyone to get the
impression like, well, I'm not going to eat there for
(11:30):
whatever reason. The restaurant has nothing to do with this.
The restaurant's looking to hire people. You hand over documents,
they do something, it checks out. I don't know how
these things work. I don't know how deeply they're digging
into this stuff. You would think there'd be a flag
that if you're hired, you provide a social Security number
(11:52):
of some sort of documentation. If that social Security number
comes back that says that you're eighty three year old
Edna Krable of Springfield, then they look at you and go, well,
we don't think you're an eighty three year old woman,
and we have questions, you would think, but I don't
believe anyone thinks that this restaurant is making bacon and
(12:16):
eggs and also harboring a large number of criminal illegal immigrants.
I don't anyway, and nor should you. But they're still
coming out saying we had no idea, Well, of course not.
Why would Ice if they're like, well, I wonder what's
going on there? Why would they give the business heads up? Hey,
just letting you know coming up on Sunday morning, we're
(12:40):
gonna raid your restaurant. Okay, a party of six. But
then there was something else that happened when this raid
occurred at the restaurant that I didn't know until this morning.
And I'll tell you next Scott Byes News Radio eleven
to ten KFAB. I'm Scott. He's Lucy Chapman here as
(13:01):
well Scott at kfab dot com and the Zonker's custom
What's Inbox. I mentioned that there's a young woman who's
started to go fundme account raising money for this person
that she's already determined was wrongfully taken by Ice, and
that he's probably like the best guy who's ever been
(13:22):
And they shouldn't have done this, So we need to
be able to help his family and help him afford
a lawyer so he can get the help that he needs.
There are immigration lawyers coming out of the Sprinklers really
to work for free, saying oh yeah, let's battle the
Trump administration, let's make history. But still we're raising money
(13:43):
and that's fine. If people want to donate, it's there.
Eighty five hundred plus dollar has been raised so far
for this guy and his family, and that's what people
want to do. So Stephanie emails and says, bless her
for bless her heart? Is she also raising money for
the actual violent attack against the Bolder victims by an
(14:04):
anti Semitic illegal immigrant asking for a friend. That's from Stephanie.
I am fluent in sarcasm. I don't know that whether
or not she's doing it. I don't know whether or
not she would do it had that happened in our community,
like this incident at the Little Breakfast Nook in Southwest
Omaha on Sunday morning. But something else about that particular
(14:27):
arrest Lucy that I didn't know until this morning. It
wasn't just Ice that helped in detaining this guy.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Who else helped Superman?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I don't know if it was Superman that man.
It was. So the guy is, I don't know, going
to work or whatever, and so he sees Ice and
then a brief chase ensues. He sees them and immediately
takes off. But again he's not doing anything wrong. I mean,
(15:03):
let's just look at it this way. If you're walking
into work and walk you look over and here are
a bunch of ICE agents walking towards you, and you
are not running a foul of any immigration law or
anything like that. Do you run? I wouldn't run, but Scott,
(15:25):
you don't know you would. It's like to be hispanic. No,
you're right, I don't. But I wouldn't run, and I
don't know how many people would. Anyway, he runs. They
took him to the ground, they arrested him, but it
wasn't just Ice that did this. As he took off
(15:49):
and as they were trying to get him down, According
to the Omaha World Herald, a customer jump in and
helped handcuff this employee. It said most customers just backed
away as the incident unfolded, but there was a man
who jumped in there helped I don't know if he
(16:11):
helped hold him down. It says helped handcuff the guy.
So he assists in some way, either to put the
cuffs on or you know, keep him held down or
put his arms behind his back or whatever. It says
the guy jumped in there, helped out, and then, as
it's referred to here in the newspaper, calmly returned to
(16:32):
his breakfast.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He sounds like former or current law enforcement off duty.
Perhaps perhaps I don't know this, of course, Yeah, maybe what.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Would you do?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well? I think as a woman, I probably would have
just sat there myself as well.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But maybe said you just set women back hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
If you're a bad you can fill in the blank,
and you're a woman and you can fight and you
can take care of yourself, and you can step into
something like that, then by all means, I think you
should do that. That'd be great. I wouldn't do it, okay,
(17:17):
So what I should say is, as a woman who
is completely untrained in any of the judicio arts or whatever,
I can't even say it one hundred percent. So I'm
not going to do anything. Now. If I'm carrying, you know,
I might be able to help out at that point.
(17:39):
But I'm hoping maybe we see more people stepping up
like this helping. And I'm not saying because to gather
up people that ICE needs to gather up. I'm talking
about in any criminal activity that you see going on
around you. We see that happening, people getting mugged and
(18:00):
nobody doing anything.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I don't think I would probably get involved, just because
I wouldn't want to get in the officer's way. I
figured that they know what they're doing. But if suddenly
I was thrust into a situation where like I have
to jump in here and help out, I'd like to
think that I would. I mean, what would I be
able to do. I'm six foot nothing, one hundred and nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, you're probably about as good at any kind of
defense as I would be, So i'd try to do. Yeah,
maybe I would.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I mean, I'm sitting there having my breakfast, so I've
got tater totts I could throw at him. I got
hot coffee, Yeah, I throw hot coffee on him. Yeah,
just come over there and just start stabbing him with
a fork. They're like, sir, we don't need you to
do that. In fact, that's right, that's not what we want.
I'm just like, yeah, stabbing him with the fork. We
(18:50):
already have him down and in custody. We don't need
you to do any of this stuff. So it's interesting.
I had Elect Ewing here in the studio a couple
of weeks ago, and I said, so Ice knows that
there's a dangerous guy in our community and they need
to come in and get him. What should happen? And
(19:10):
he just said he should be deported? Now is this guy?
Does he meet the threshold that I gave to John
Ewing where I probably said he is a gang member
and in the country illegally, what should happen? He said,
he should be deported, plain and simple. Now, is this
guy that kind of dangerous guy? Thus far, we haven't
(19:35):
been given that information. Right now, it's someone who's been
in the country illegally for years, has earlier immigration encounters
involving false documents, was working under a fake name and
a fake social Security number. Does that mean he's a
gang member? It does not immediately mean that. Don who
(19:55):
is a regular contributor to the Inbox and someone who
who seemingly doesn't like anything about the show when it
comes to political opinions, he is more on the political
left side of the spectrum. I tend to be on
the right side of the spectrum. Don says, guys dressed
(20:15):
like Ninja warriors tackling restaurant servers can't ice save the
Seal Team six tactics for terrorists and other violent felons.
That's from Don all right. First of all, law enforcement
never has any idea who they're going to encounter at
any point, whether these individual There is so many stories
(20:37):
of law enforcement just getting something, pulling them over for
a very minor traffic incident. Hey, your tags are expired,
you've got a tail light out, they get shot. They
have no idea. Now that doesn't give them license to
any time that you know, you get pulled over because
you got one headlight. Either're pulling over Dylan. What's Bob Dylanson,
(21:05):
Jacob Dylon with one headlight? There's your nineties music reference
for this segment of the radio program. Took me a second,
but I got there. Lucy still doesn't know what I'm
talking about. Probably neither is anyone else. There was a
song by a band called The Wallflowers called One Headlight.
The singer Bob Dylan Son Jacob Dylan so police are
pulling over Jacob Dylan because he has one headlight, and
(21:28):
so they come out there with guns blazing and tackle him.
That's probably not the best way of going about it.
But you'll notice that law enforcement exercises caution in any interaction.
One of those things is when we're picking someone up
and we don't really don't know, we just know that
we're supposed to pick this guy up. We're gonna get
home tonight. We're gonna ensure that he's okay. We're not
(21:51):
gonna give him a chance to back himself into a
corner and grab a weapon. We're going to tackle him,
which they did. He ran by, By the way, he
didn't have to be tackled. He saw Ice and took off.
So it says, can't Ice save the Seal Team six tactics.
(22:11):
It was, Yes, they went to his home and shot
him like Osama bin Laden. Oh yeah, they didn't do
that either. They tackled a guy who ran from law enforcement.
As Chris Rock once said, if police have to chase you,
they're bringing a butt whooping with him. And as far
as this, you know these guys dressed like ninja warriors. Yeah,
(22:33):
they had masks, on. I thought you guys on the
political left wanted everyone to have masks on, and then
these guys have masks on because they don't want to
get people spitting in their face, which happens all the
time too. And you don't like that they have masks on.
Make up your mind. What does the science say? We
(22:59):
have this problem in Omaha. It's even worse than you thought.
The birthplace of President Gerald R. Ford has been vandalized
down there off Martha and twenty something or whatever, thirty
second in worl Worth. Yeah, that's where it is the Ford.
(23:21):
Has anyone ever come to town and said, hey, while
we're in town, make sure and take us by Ford's.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Birthplace some of his relatives.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No, they haven't, No, no, no one cares. In fact,
that place hasn't been kept up in so long that
they have a marble marker out there with a list
of all the presidents on there, but it hasn't been
updated since Obama was in office, hence the vandalization. Someone
wrote in forty five Donald Trump, and then they said
(23:49):
forty six who knows, followed by forty seven Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wait, is that the graffiti they're talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Graffiti? They're talking about someone's spray painted forty five Trump
forty forty six, who knows forty seven Donald Trump. That's funny,
But do not vandalize anything. The Ford birthplace doesn't belong
to you. Greg sends this to Scott atkfab dot com
(24:18):
and the Zonker's custom woods inbox and says, as far
as Mayor elect Ewing goes first, he goes on CNN
and says he'll see Trump in court. Now he complains
about how ICE did its job. Can we see the
handwriting on the wall yet? That's from Greg said to
(24:38):
Scott at kfab dot com. Keith says, Scott simply put.
The left wingers are upset of the ICE action in
Omaha as it deports potential Democrat voters. That's the commentary
from Keith. Matt says. The thing I don't understand and
never have is how mostly Democrats and progressives ignore the
(25:02):
word illegal. As we all know, people across the border
without proper documentation or breaking or existing law, breaking the
law makes them a criminal. All right, Yeah, I understand
all that. There's certainly different levels of criminal behavior. The
not having your paperwork in order in this country illegally
(25:26):
whether you've overstayed a student or work visa, whether you're
one of these dreamers brought into the country as a
young person and now you don't have status, is a
little different to me than coming in here with some
kid you grabbed and said, this is my kid, we
need to come, we need asylum. It's not your kid,
(25:47):
and you don't need asylum. It's just you know, human trafficking,
and then you start that and the drug trafficking and
gang members and murders and all that stuff. All that's
really really bad. There's different levels of all of this.
As far as this particular guy, it sounds like that
(26:07):
in twenty twenty two he was on the wrong side
of immigration encounters because he was working under a fake
name with a stolen social Security number, which then makes
life miserable for the individual who had their social Security
numbers stolen. So they get the guy and probably and
(26:29):
that I haven't seen this part in any story, but
this is consistent with what I know to be the timeline.
When you are picked up and you're like, hey, we
think that you are working under false documents and there's
some social security fraud and so forth, you're going to
have a hearing set here in a few years. You've
got to come to this courtroom on this day at
(26:50):
this time. Well, it sounds like this guy decided not
to do it. Maybe he overslept, maybe he forgot it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Maybe it has even happened yet, right three years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Maybe it hasn't happened yet. But the fact that now
Ice is looking for him, as he is a Guatemala
national who's been marked for deportation, suggests that that court
hearing date has come and gone, and so now they
need to get him. We also don't know if his
earlier immigration encounter was even here in Omaha. I suspect
(27:21):
it probably wasn't a lot of times when immigration questions
come up here, you are gone, Like the wind, you
meep your way right out of town. You understand that
reference as the road runner.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I did actually understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Meet Mesh and you're taking off, you're gone. If he
had got popped by immigration three years ago and he's
still here working at the same place, either this guy
is not guilty of anything, or he's one of the
dumbest people on the planet. I guess we'll figure it
(27:56):
out which it is. If it's even him, Now you
got Kate saying, yeah, we talked to Homeland Security and
they say, yeah, it wasn't even the right guy. It
was his brother, but he looks like him, and he's
also in the country illegally, So we'll take a week
and get No one else is reporting that. I don't
know that this just happened a few days ago. The
(28:20):
people who generally don't like any law enforcement have already
determined the guy is innocent. There's a GoFundMe page started
by a young woman who says he was arriving to
work and wrongfully taken by ice. They didn't ask his
name or provide any documentation, and did not give any
information as to why he was being arrested. He's being
(28:43):
detained somewhere and we're trying to raise money so his
family can afford a lawyer. Meanwhile, there's sanctuary law professionals
willing to take on the Trump administration to try and
raise their own name and stock coming out of the
sprinklers right now to help this guy pro bono. But
(29:06):
we're still raising money. I don't know more than eighty
five hundred dollars was raised as of this morning, but
there's some people have already decided, Oh yeah, this is
just racism as law enforcement runnamuck. Speaking of which, we
are about forty two minutes away now from a press
conference being held by Douglas County Attorney Don Kline. News
(29:29):
Radio eleven ten KFAB will be there and will report
asap what is the determination when the timeline is, there
was a guy who had a firearm, refused to put
down the firearm. He was shot and killed by a
Douglas County Sheriff's deputy. The bodycam footage has been turned
(29:53):
over to a grand jury. The county attorney has seen
the footage, They've talked to the witnesses, and they're prepared
to determine whether or not charges will be filed against
the sheriff's deputy, or whether there'll be a special prosecutor named,
or what happens next. You've already got activists lined up
ready to try and foment as much unrest and anger
(30:14):
as possible if this hearing does not go the way
they want it. At eleven o'clock this morning, as I said,
we'll let you know as soon as we can here
what the determination by the county attorney is. That news
conference schedule to take place just after eleven o'clock this
morning here in Omaha. Email here from Adam sent to
(30:36):
Scott at kfab dot com, and the complaints on the
GoFundMe page. It noted that ICE agents showed up looking
for this guy and they didn't provide any documentation. They
didn't ask his name, didn't give him any information. Adam
emails and says the ICE agents didn't show any documents.
That complaint is rich coming from people who defend the undocumented.
(31:01):
That's from Adam, sent to Scott at kfab dot com.
Good catch, Adam, Lucy, we've lost Guava Sweishwei. Oh no,
Guava shweish we has passed away, only twenty four years old,
so you know it is. It's terrible. She is a
(31:22):
Taiwanese beauty influencer. I thought you were no, no, no, well,
I mean there is something a little interesting about this.
She She has an Instagram page. It's got like twelve
thousand followers, and her videos feature eating beauty products, eating
(31:43):
yes before she tries any wonder why she died. Before
she tries on blush, she scoops out the product with
a fork and eats it. At one point she's eating moisturizer.
Another one, she is tasting liquid lip color and talking
about whether the flavor is any good, and then she
(32:04):
uses the product the way it was meant to and
describes whether or not that's any good. They're not saying
how she died.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Hmmm, let's put that up for debate. Twenty four years old.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You are not supposed to eat the moisturizer.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Probably most of it your aren't supposed to put on
your It's.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Called jelly blush, but it's not jelly. Don't do that.
Scott Boyes, Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
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History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.