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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's FOP President Lodge nine. Brian Steele joining us. Now, Brian,
you can't shoot somebody if they're breaking in your vehicle,
can you?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, well, it depends. We do have the castle doctrine here.
If that vehicle's on your property, that is part of
your property. At the end of the day, If you
feel your life is in danger, that would be an
appropriate time. Otherwise call nine one one.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Please, right, yeah, don't don't create more work where they
have to try to work you out of the problem
you've created or the mess that you're in doing something
like that. I yeah, that's the thing too. It gets
into a weird situation. It sounds to me like you
don't want to be in court trying to defend that
(00:39):
if and again you're gonna have to prove somehow, hopefully
this video if you felt, I guess, you know, in
fear for your life, but that would require I guess
the person turning around with a gun pointing it at you,
or I don't know, maybe a crowbar act.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean, you know, I don't want to shoot anyone obviously,
but look, I'm a sixty ar old man with a
bad knee, and if some you know, nineteen year old
turns and comes at me. I got a legitimate fear.
I'm sorry, and I will stand in front of any
jury in America and say it. Okay, that's that's completely
And by the way, Brian, congratulations to you and all
(01:15):
the fellows at nineteen for that shooter apprehension over off
of old cell of It last week. I was on
the scanner listening. I was so proud of the fast
action and they were on it. It was great.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, our patrol mental women, they do some great, great
jobs and our support units and you get another one
off the street. Now let's keep them on the street.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well no community control then.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, no community control those two words community control. None
of that. Brian. When you saw this seventy five vehicles,
I mean you heard Chuck and I just talking as
far as like the break ins and stuff, It's like,
is everybody deaf in that area? I mean, because it
couldn't have been all seventy five, like seventy five burglars
all at once, and then they time it all out,
(01:57):
so there's just one big noise as opposed to all
huge noises. That is shocking to me. That amount of vehicles.
Have you ever heard of that happening in one night
like that? That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't remember here in seventy five, but I mean
I have drove down streets and seen a whole line
of cars, but I don't know if I had quite
seventy five. I'd like to tell you it's undcommon, but
it's not vit. I mean, it's a major, major problem
and fester vehicles in this city.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Are you allowed to say whether it was glove compartments
and consoles standing open? Because I have a feeling, moving
that quick that many vehicles they were looking for one
thing specifically.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, most likely guns. That's the number one thing that
they're trying to be on the cars. You know, don't
keep her gun, don't keep valuables. But I guess, I
guess the people who did this didn't get the memo
that according to the majority of our city leaders, crime
is down. Everything's okay nationwide.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Especially if you're in DC, it's way down according to
you know, mainstream media. I mean, cheez, it's almost non existent.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So bad around here. Somebody even stole the Christopher Columbus statue.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sorted you got him to stort.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Very nice, very nice. You know that's why I always
and I know you always tell people this too, And
I don't know that people do it on purpose, but
I am extra meticulous about making sure I leave nothing
in plain sight. And that means I leave literally nothing
in my vehicle overnight, and my vehicle unfortunately is parked
(03:26):
outside because it won't even fit in my garage. But
I do that on purpose. I make sure that you know,
it is to the visual. If somebody wants to do
a quicken they look in there, it's like, if you
break this and you get it, you're gonna see right now,
you got nothing not laying out where anybody can see anything.
But I don't keep anything really valuable in there anyway
on purpose. So yeah, yeah, very smart, Yeah for sure. Yeah.
(03:50):
You know what this uh the title the headline of
this article family of pregnant mom shot killed by officer,
files wrongful death lawsuit. And what I would like to
do is I actually fixed the headline. The headline should
read family of pregnant mom who tried to run over
an officer of the law was shot and killed, file lawsuit.
(04:12):
That's the correct headline, not the one that they're running
up the flagpole right now. And I know you you
spoke about this. I believe it was yesterday, and if
it wasn't yesterday, it may have been late the day
before or what have you. But what are your thoughts
on this? I mean the fact that you got the
attorney and look, they're gonna I guess they're gonna say
the things that they think are going to get you know,
(04:35):
their clients, to win in court and get what we
all know is thereafter here, which is a payday. But
you know they talk about basically they're saying this was
you know, the fact that she was killed over shoplifting. No,
that's the thing that I get crazy with because I
was seeing these sound bites earlier today on the news
(04:56):
this morning, and I'm like, that's not even cl to
why this happened. She tried to run over an officer
with her with her vehicle, and this has got to
be just mind numbing for you that you have to
keep going down this road and you know this is
the and it's there's no question, this is incredibly tragic.
No matter how you slice it. It was a human being.
(05:18):
And then you also have now an extra human being
because it was a pregnant mom, if you will, And
it's tragic, there's no question about that. But she was
not shot because she was shoplifting liquor out of the
Kroger stores. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, So listen, I've seen a lot of these so
called civil rights attorneys that are there are nothing more
than bottom feeders trying to capitalize off of tragedy. But
for your viewers, and I want every one of your
viewers or every one of your listeners right now their
ears to perk up. These bottom feeding attorneys. They're suing
the police, I'll give you that, sue the officer. They're
suing Kroger because it happened at Kroger. But here's the kicker.
(05:53):
They're suing the twenty two year old store clerk who
saw a crime happen. She works for I Shop at Roger.
She saw a shoplifter, she flagged down an officer and said, officer, officer,
they're stealing. And now they're suing her because they said
she escalated the violence. That is absolutely insane. So hear
me out, Blazer. So you pick up the phone, you
(06:15):
call nine one one, and you say, hey, this is Blazer.
My neighbor's house is being robbed, and if I come
over and have to shoot that robber, you're now sued.
In these people's eyes, you escalated that we live in
a crazy world.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This is this is unacceptable that you know this attorney
and again we all know this is he's trying. It's
a payday. They're after a payday, here's no question. And
I think what they do is they cast out this
huge net, Brian, and you know all they're trying to
do is let's sweep everybody involved. Maybe something will stick
(06:49):
somewhere where we can get you know, nice big fat
check written to us from somebody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna say ninety nine percent of the community,
no matter where you fall in any political aisle, associonomic status,
a twenty two year old ploy notifying officer of a
theft is not someone that escalated violence. It's insane if
they said, was that execution by an ex military member?
Just throw stuff in a wall and see what sticks.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah. This attorney saying that her family members still have
lots of unanswered questions. This was a quote from him
about how their love one was killed in a Kroger
parking lot. How is that possible? Almost two years and
they still don't have much needed answers. What answers are
you looking for? You've been given, You've been given all
the answers. It's just not the ones you want. It's
(07:36):
not the ones that you want to hear. The answers
you've been given are factual, but they're just not the
ones you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, this is all just this was a political
prosecution from the first place. This was This was fallout
after twenty twenty, the failed Gary Tayak regime. But listen,
our officer is finally going to have his day in court.
I back him, the FOP backs him, and we look forward.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
To a FOP president. Lodge nine Brian Steele, Brian, thanks
for taking a couple of minutes and jumping on with
us today, man, and continue to keep fighting the good fight.
I know you will. And uh it's tireless and a
thankless a lot of times for you guys. Although that
seems to be changing, that kind of uh, that kind
of thought process seems to be changing a little more.
Are you seeing that the positivity and such I.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Am I think, I think are you know? Our communities
is amazing community. I think more and more every day,
more and more waking up and they're saying this is
not the road we want to go down, and they
want to see the law and order restored, and that's
what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, very good, all right, Brian Steele, FOP Lodge nine,
FOP President, Brian.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thank you very much, Thank you brother.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
See all right, trafficking weather together, powered by pools plus
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He's FOP President Lodge nine. Brian Steele joining us. Now, Brian,
you can't shoot somebody if they're breaking in your vehicle,
can you?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, well, it depends. We do have the castle doctrine here.
If that vehicle's on your property, that is part of
your property. At the end of the day, If you
feel your life is in danger, that would be an
appropriate time. Otherwise call nine one one.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Please, right, yeah, don't don't create more work where they
have to try to work you out of the problem
you've created or the mess that you're in doing something
like that. I yeah, that's the thing too. It gets
into a weird situation. It sounds to me like you
don't want to be in court trying to defend that
(00:39):
if and again you're gonna have to prove somehow, hopefully
this video if you felt, I guess, you know, in
fear for your life, but that would require I guess
the person turning around with a gun pointing it at you,
or I don't know, maybe a crowbar act.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I mean, you know, I don't want to shoot anyone obviously,
but look, I'm a sixty ar old man with a
bad knee, and if some you know, nineteen year old
turns and comes at me. I got a legitimate fear.
I'm sorry, and I will stand in front of any
jury in America and say it. Okay, that's that's completely
And by the way, Brian, congratulations to you and all
(01:15):
the fellows at nineteen for that shooter apprehension over off
of old cell of It last week. I was on
the scanner listening. I was so proud of the fast
action and they were on it. It was great.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, our patrol mental women, they do some great, great
jobs and our support units and you get another one
off the street. Now let's keep them on the street.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well no community control then.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, no community control those two words community control. None
of that. Brian. When you saw this seventy five vehicles,
I mean you heard Chuck and I just talking as
far as like the break ins and stuff, It's like,
is everybody deaf in that area? I mean, because it
couldn't have been all seventy five, like seventy five burglars
all at once, and then they time it all out,
(01:57):
so there's just one big noise as opposed to all
huge noises. That is shocking to me. That amount of vehicles.
Have you ever heard of that happening in one night
like that? That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I don't remember here in seventy five, but I mean
I have drove down streets and seen a whole line
of cars, but I don't know if I had quite
seventy five. I'd like to tell you it's undcommon, but
it's not vit. I mean, it's a major, major problem
and fester vehicles in this city.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Are you allowed to say whether it was glove compartments
and consoles standing open? Because I have a feeling, moving
that quick that many vehicles they were looking for one
thing specifically.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, most likely guns. That's the number one thing that
they're trying to be on the cars. You know, don't
keep her gun, don't keep valuables. But I guess, I
guess the people who did this didn't get the memo
that according to the majority of our city leaders, crime
is down. Everything's okay nationwide.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Especially if you're in DC, it's way down according to
you know, mainstream media. I mean, cheez, it's almost non existent.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So bad around here. Somebody even stole the Christopher Columbus statue.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sorted you got him to stort.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Very nice, very nice. You know that's why I always
and I know you always tell people this too, And
I don't know that people do it on purpose, but
I am extra meticulous about making sure I leave nothing
in plain sight. And that means I leave literally nothing
in my vehicle overnight, and my vehicle unfortunately is parked
(03:26):
outside because it won't even fit in my garage. But
I do that on purpose. I make sure that you know,
it is to the visual. If somebody wants to do
a quicken they look in there, it's like, if you
break this and you get it, you're gonna see right now,
you got nothing not laying out where anybody can see anything.
But I don't keep anything really valuable in there anyway
on purpose. So yeah, yeah, very smart, Yeah for sure. Yeah.
(03:50):
You know what this uh the title the headline of
this article family of pregnant mom shot killed by officer,
files wrongful death lawsuit. And what I would like to
do is I actually fixed the headline. The headline should
read family of pregnant mom who tried to run over
an officer of the law was shot and killed, file lawsuit.
(04:12):
That's the correct headline, not the one that they're running
up the flagpole right now. And I know you you
spoke about this. I believe it was yesterday, and if
it wasn't yesterday, it may have been late the day
before or what have you. But what are your thoughts
on this? I mean the fact that you got the
attorney and look, they're gonna I guess they're gonna say
the things that they think are going to get you know,
(04:35):
their clients, to win in court and get what we
all know is thereafter here, which is a payday. But
you know they talk about basically they're saying this was
you know, the fact that she was killed over shoplifting. No,
that's the thing that I get crazy with because I
was seeing these sound bites earlier today on the news
(04:56):
this morning, and I'm like, that's not even cl to
why this happened. She tried to run over an officer
with her with her vehicle, and this has got to
be just mind numbing for you that you have to
keep going down this road and you know this is
the and it's there's no question, this is incredibly tragic.
No matter how you slice it. It was a human being.
(05:18):
And then you also have now an extra human being
because it was a pregnant mom, if you will, And
it's tragic, there's no question about that. But she was
not shot because she was shoplifting liquor out of the
Kroger stores. Crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, So listen, I've seen a lot of these so
called civil rights attorneys that are there are nothing more
than bottom feeders trying to capitalize off of tragedy. But
for your viewers, and I want every one of your
viewers or every one of your listeners right now their
ears to perk up. These bottom feeding attorneys. They're suing
the police, I'll give you that, sue the officer. They're
suing Kroger because it happened at Kroger. But here's the kicker.
(05:53):
They're suing the twenty two year old store clerk who
saw a crime happen. She works for I Shop at Roger.
She saw a shoplifter, she flagged down an officer and said, officer, officer,
they're stealing. And now they're suing her because they said
she escalated the violence. That is absolutely insane. So hear
me out, Blazer. So you pick up the phone, you
(06:15):
call nine one one, and you say, hey, this is Blazer.
My neighbor's house is being robbed, and if I come
over and have to shoot that robber, you're now sued.
In these people's eyes, you escalated that we live in
a crazy world.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This is this is unacceptable that you know this attorney
and again we all know this is he's trying. It's
a payday. They're after a payday, here's no question. And
I think what they do is they cast out this
huge net, Brian, and you know all they're trying to
do is let's sweep everybody involved. Maybe something will stick
(06:49):
somewhere where we can get you know, nice big fat
check written to us from somebody.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna say ninety nine percent of the community,
no matter where you fall in any political aisle, associonomic status,
a twenty two year old ploy notifying officer of a
theft is not someone that escalated violence. It's insane if
they said, was that execution by an ex military member?
Just throw stuff in a wall and see what sticks.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah. This attorney saying that her family members still have
lots of unanswered questions. This was a quote from him
about how their love one was killed in a Kroger
parking lot. How is that possible? Almost two years and
they still don't have much needed answers. What answers are
you looking for? You've been given, You've been given all
the answers. It's just not the ones you want. It's
(07:36):
not the ones that you want to hear. The answers
you've been given are factual, but they're just not the
ones you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, this is all just this was a political
prosecution from the first place. This was This was fallout
after twenty twenty, the failed Gary Tayak regime. But listen,
our officer is finally going to have his day in court.
I back him, the FOP backs him, and we look forward.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
To a FOP president. Lodge nine Brian Steele, Brian, thanks
for taking a couple of minutes and jumping on with
us today, man, and continue to keep fighting the good fight.
I know you will. And uh it's tireless and a
thankless a lot of times for you guys. Although that
seems to be changing, that kind of uh, that kind
of thought process seems to be changing a little more.
Are you seeing that the positivity and such I.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Am I think, I think are you know? Our communities
is amazing community. I think more and more every day,
more and more waking up and they're saying this is
not the road we want to go down, and they
want to see the law and order restored, and that's
what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, very good, all right, Brian Steele, FOP Lodge nine,
FOP President, Brian.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thank you very much, Thank you brother.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
See all right, trafficking weather together, powered by pools plus
your total pool people. Here's Johnny Hill
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