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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alec Stone, ABC News joining us to get the latest
from La and all of the hubbub that's happening there.
You're the first person I thought of when I was
seeing this stuff kind of break out, Alex.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Obviously for thinking of me, I was.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I was like, Man, I hope he's nowhere near any
of this, this craziness going on in your city.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Man, will you get a handle on this please? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, yeah, I was covering it all weekend. It's been
relatively calm today though there's a march going on right now,
but it's mainly union leaders and they're just making a
lot of noise and it's constitutionally protected what they're doing day.
But we'll see how it goes tonight. Not a big
surprise typically, and we saw in Ferguson and everything else
that we've covered that's been protests over the many years
that come a weekday, people got to go to work,
(00:41):
they got to go to school, and normally calms down
quite significantly compared to on the weekend when everyone's you know,
you get troublemakers who are like, hey, let's go down
there and take part in that, and then things get
out of control. But the National Guard is here. Now
we're going to see the active duty Marines coming in
that the president and activating them. It was a threat,
(01:01):
now he is doing it. That's a challenge for the
LAPD that they say they don't really know what the
role of all of these troops coming in will be,
being that they didn't ask for it, and that their
command and control is on the federal side versus what
police are doing in the streets. But the Marines are
(01:22):
going to come in with different rules of engagement. They
are trained for combat, not so much crowd control on
US soil. They're gonna you know, they don't have police radios,
that they're young and you know, not typically all that
experienced in large crowd control in the US versus a
National Guard. That it's a lot of police officers from
(01:43):
other jurisdictions and firefighters who have been around for a while.
So we'll see how it goes. But the LAPD either,
they're gonna have to work with them.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
How scary was this for you covering? I mean, were
you right in the middle of the melee?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I mean we saw the burning vehicles and so on
right there the one boat directions that looked like near
that was a lot. I don't even remember the signs
that I saw there, but it looked to me like
pretty scary, quite frankly, and I thought, man, if you're
in the middle of that covering that, how close do
you were you in the as far as all of
that all, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Mean it was it was tense. He reminds me of
the George Floyd protest. This is not Rodney King in
the nineties. So this isn't about a ten block area
of downtown, and it's not widespread. Ninety nine point nine
percent of people in southern California have had a normal
day to day. Even in downtown LA they've just been
cleaning up the remnants of the burning cars and all
(02:38):
of that. Yeah, that that it's not this, you know, widespread.
Lax is operating fine. Most of downtown is fine. The
neighborhoods are all fine. But you get a lot of
troublemakers who come out at night, and that'll be the
challenge tonight. But there are a lot of police officers
along with the National Guard, and then tomorrow the active
duty Marines who have much of the air lockdown. So
(03:00):
we'll see if that makes a difference tonight. But yeah,
I mean, if you go into that ten block area,
you're either a protester, a copper, a member of the media,
and you know what you're going in there for. There
aren't a lot of people that just accidentally are ending
up in that area. So yeah, we'll see how tonight go.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Kind of scary, man, stay safe. Alex Stone right in
the middle of it in Los Angeles live from La Alex.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Thanks to see you man. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I saw his report on Good Morning America this morning.
I was I sat there worried about him. Just I mean,
do you see the Australian reporter who was out there
covering and she took a rubber bullet.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
In the leg?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Oh, I guess it was a rubber bullet, so it
was fired by police, but I think she actually said
crikey afterwards. But yeah, she's out there covering, you know,
the scene in Old Sandealism had been.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And she grabbed like happened mid like report mid sentence,
ooh ooh, yeah, I hear.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Those are not pleasant. Yeah, Ben, you have you ever
been shot with one of those?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I have not you ever been tased?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Uh? We didn't call them tasers. We called them stun guns,
and they didn't have the projectiles on them, they had
just the contact ark.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Yeah. Yeah that. We used to do that for fun
when I was young.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Fun.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, I was working in bars. We were a bunch
of tough guys and we would sit around shocking each
other before the bar opened to uh to get ready.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So did it work?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Did it get you ready?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah? Okay, we got all tingly and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But that's all it takes. If I mean it worked,
if it got you ready?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, just an adrenaline thing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There's actual footage, there might be you guys used to.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
There might be. And the guy with the clothes on
is me.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You ever you ever rode the lightning? Zach attack?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You know, I look, I don't want to put anything.
I don't want to just assume Zach hasn't done all
of these things I would imagine, and you had already
had your headphones on going.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I got one time I got tased, like I.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Have not rode the lightning.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Just the Metallic album. Yeah, just that one.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We were morning show. I used to do a morning show.
The guy was on the air with me. MO decided
to do that. And he had his shirt off, and
we had officers in the in the studio, and he
did that, and he dropped like a sack of potato.
I mean they hit him and he went down. They
had guys on each side of him, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
They it was the projectile one that goes, oh yeah,
see that.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I would I would more than the electricity. I would
hate the things going into my skin.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I think that's the least of your worries when that.
Once they start, they hold the you know, the trigger
down the and it's sending the current through.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't think you're I.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Don't even know what are they what's the wadde age.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm not sure. I don't know that. I think they
can adjust it.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
It was supposed to be fifty thousand back in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, I don't know. But he's a big guy and
it was no problem. I mean, he was no problem.
He was rendered useless. If he was gonna resist, you
weren't resisting. I also was at a Steeler game and
it was after the game and this guy was running
his I don't you know, it goes. He's all drunk,
(06:24):
and I think he was a Steeler fan. I couldn't
tell because he didn't have a shirt on, but he
was like jumping around like just a crazy idiot. And
I'm not there must have been he was pissed off
about something. Somebody may have wronged him or something. I
don't know. Well, Pittsburgh's finest rolled up and they were
like telling him to calm down and calm down, and
(06:46):
then the one officer ended up pulling his taser out
and he was like, listen, you need to calm down.
And the guy's like, oh, you know, like starts to
run his mouth. What are you gonna do to me
with that?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What are you gonna like? That guy was like, I
mean he fell so oh my.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
God, Tennethee, you cooked my giblets.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I just don't understand when people if cops roll up
with that, what do you think they're afraid to deploy that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're not gonna do it to you. Like, if they
pull that out, they're they're right. The next step is
you're getting it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I think they should have those on squad cars actually,
so like when they're in a close chase with somebody
who's fleeing, they can hit that and it hits the
trunk and like and does that to the car and
just shorts out the whole car and shuts it down.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh that's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah, that way, there's no you know, through the streets
chasing of some maniac or whatever. You just electrify the
car and fry the electrical system.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I just wonder if there's because you would think a
magnetic pulse of sorts, and that's really what it is.
But I guess firing it into the specific thing you're
trying to do that too, because to just send an
electronic pulse, electromagnetic pulse to shut down anything like that
would probably get everything within a however many mile radius
(08:02):
or a half mile, a quarter mile, So what you're
talking about that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I could go back to my California idea, forget about
the stop strips and just have like where they can
automatically deploy a giant poster a Mexican waters in front
of the people who are fleeing, and they'll they'll hit
their brakes or drive off a bridge one or the other.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Ah did you see that bill him for the bridge?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Joe, Oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Anyway, Seriously, I hope Alex does say safe there because
that that is scary watching that footage and he's like, yeah,
I'm right down here reporting on him, Like are you nuts?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Man?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Those guys?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So when you saw him this morning, oh man, I
I didn't even think to I roll tape on that
every day too, Good Morning America. Yeah, and I know
he occasionally would do, so he was doing the reports.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
For that way he did a report this morning.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I don't recall seeing him on camera, so I don't
know if he was there for the footage when they
were recording it or not. It was just him doing
the report, Okay, so his voice was on the report,
but I did not I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Real physically see him.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh I see, So hopefully they sent some grunt with
a camera out there and goes just get his pictures
and stuff blowing up.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well you well, like you were saying, the one gal
from Australia was physically there, and we're seeing the other
reporters and stuff physically on site, so you know, it's
really scary actually, and.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I was telling you off the air this this may
become a you know a love fest between Elon and
Don again, because Elon is posting some things to X
that are not overwhelmingly yay Don. But he's reposting Vice
President Vance and he posted the picture of the guy
with the Mexican flag saying this is unacceptable, that that
this may end up building a bridge back between those
(09:43):
two interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's going to take a lot because Trump is pissed
right about now,
Alec Stone, ABC News joining us to get the latest
from La and all of the hubbub that's happening there.
You're the first person I thought of when I was
seeing this stuff kind of break out, Alex.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Obviously for thinking of me, I was.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I was like, Man, I hope he's nowhere near any
of this, this craziness going on in your city.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Man, will you get a handle on this please? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well, yeah, I was covering it all weekend. It's been
relatively calm today though there's a march going on right now,
but it's mainly union leaders and they're just making a
lot of noise and it's constitutionally protected what they're doing day.
But we'll see how it goes tonight. Not a big
surprise typically, and we saw in Ferguson and everything else
that we've covered that's been protests over the many years
that come a weekday, people got to go to work,
(00:41):
they got to go to school, and normally calms down
quite significantly compared to on the weekend when everyone's you know,
you get troublemakers who are like, hey, let's go down
there and take part in that, and then things get
out of control. But the National Guard is here. Now
we're going to see the active duty Marines coming in
that the president and activating them. It was a threat,
(01:01):
now he is doing it. That's a challenge for the
LAPD that they say they don't really know what the
role of all of these troops coming in will be,
being that they didn't ask for it, and that their
command and control is on the federal side versus what
police are doing in the streets. But the Marines are
(01:22):
going to come in with different rules of engagement. They
are trained for combat, not so much crowd control on
US soil. They're gonna you know, they don't have police radios,
that they're young and you know, not typically all that
experienced in large crowd control in the US versus a
National Guard. That it's a lot of police officers from
(01:43):
other jurisdictions and firefighters who have been around for a while.
So we'll see how it goes. But the LAPD either,
they're gonna have to work with them.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
How scary was this for you covering? I mean, were
you right in the middle of the melee?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I mean we saw the burning vehicles and so on
right there the one boat directions that looked like near
that was a lot. I don't even remember the signs
that I saw there, but it looked to me like
pretty scary, quite frankly, and I thought, man, if you're
in the middle of that covering that, how close do
you were you in the as far as all of
that all, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Mean it was it was tense. He reminds me of
the George Floyd protest. This is not Rodney King in
the nineties. So this isn't about a ten block area
of downtown, and it's not widespread. Ninety nine point nine
percent of people in southern California have had a normal
day to day. Even in downtown LA they've just been
cleaning up the remnants of the burning cars and all
(02:38):
of that. Yeah, that that it's not this, you know, widespread.
Lax is operating fine. Most of downtown is fine. The
neighborhoods are all fine. But you get a lot of
troublemakers who come out at night, and that'll be the
challenge tonight. But there are a lot of police officers
along with the National Guard, and then tomorrow the active
duty Marines who have much of the air lockdown. So
(03:00):
we'll see if that makes a difference tonight. But yeah,
I mean, if you go into that ten block area,
you're either a protester, a copper, a member of the media,
and you know what you're going in there for. There
aren't a lot of people that just accidentally are ending
up in that area. So yeah, we'll see how tonight go.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Kind of scary, man, stay safe. Alex Stone right in
the middle of it in Los Angeles live from La Alex.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Thanks to see you man. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I saw his report on Good Morning America this morning.
I was I sat there worried about him. Just I mean,
do you see the Australian reporter who was out there
covering and she took a rubber bullet.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
In the leg?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Oh, I guess it was a rubber bullet, so it
was fired by police, but I think she actually said
crikey afterwards. But yeah, she's out there covering, you know,
the scene in Old Sandealism had been.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And she grabbed like happened mid like report mid sentence,
ooh ooh, yeah, I hear.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Those are not pleasant. Yeah, Ben, you have you ever
been shot with one of those?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I have not you ever been tased?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Uh? We didn't call them tasers. We called them stun guns,
and they didn't have the projectiles on them, they had
just the contact ark.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Yeah. Yeah that. We used to do that for fun
when I was young.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Fun.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, I was working in bars. We were a bunch
of tough guys and we would sit around shocking each
other before the bar opened to uh to get ready.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So did it work?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Did it get you ready?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah? Okay, we got all tingly and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But that's all it takes. If I mean it worked,
if it got you ready?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, just an adrenaline thing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There's actual footage, there might be you guys used to.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
There might be. And the guy with the clothes on
is me.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You ever you ever rode the lightning? Zach attack?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You know, I look, I don't want to put anything.
I don't want to just assume Zach hasn't done all
of these things I would imagine, and you had already
had your headphones on going.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I got one time I got tased, like I.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Have not rode the lightning.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Just the Metallic album. Yeah, just that one.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We were morning show. I used to do a morning show.
The guy was on the air with me. MO decided
to do that. And he had his shirt off, and
we had officers in the in the studio, and he
did that, and he dropped like a sack of potato.
I mean they hit him and he went down. They
had guys on each side of him, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
They it was the projectile one that goes, oh yeah,
see that.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I would I would more than the electricity. I would
hate the things going into my skin.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I think that's the least of your worries when that.
Once they start, they hold the you know, the trigger
down the and it's sending the current through.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't think you're I.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Don't even know what are they what's the wadde age.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm not sure. I don't know that. I think they
can adjust it.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
It was supposed to be fifty thousand back in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, I don't know. But he's a big guy and
it was no problem. I mean, he was no problem.
He was rendered useless. If he was gonna resist, you
weren't resisting. I also was at a Steeler game and
it was after the game and this guy was running
his I don't you know, it goes. He's all drunk,
(06:24):
and I think he was a Steeler fan. I couldn't
tell because he didn't have a shirt on, but he
was like jumping around like just a crazy idiot. And
I'm not there must have been he was pissed off
about something. Somebody may have wronged him or something. I
don't know. Well, Pittsburgh's finest rolled up and they were
like telling him to calm down and calm down, and
(06:46):
then the one officer ended up pulling his taser out
and he was like, listen, you need to calm down.
And the guy's like, oh, you know, like starts to
run his mouth. What are you gonna do to me
with that?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What are you gonna like? That guy was like, I
mean he fell so oh my.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
God, Tennethee, you cooked my giblets.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I just don't understand when people if cops roll up
with that, what do you think they're afraid to deploy that.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're not gonna do it to you. Like, if they
pull that out, they're they're right. The next step is
you're getting it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I think they should have those on squad cars actually,
so like when they're in a close chase with somebody
who's fleeing, they can hit that and it hits the
trunk and like and does that to the car and
just shorts out the whole car and shuts it down.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh that's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah, that way, there's no you know, through the streets
chasing of some maniac or whatever. You just electrify the
car and fry the electrical system.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I just wonder if there's because you would think a
magnetic pulse of sorts, and that's really what it is.
But I guess firing it into the specific thing you're
trying to do that too, because to just send an
electronic pulse, electromagnetic pulse to shut down anything like that
would probably get everything within a however many mile radius
(08:02):
or a half mile, a quarter mile, So what you're
talking about that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I could go back to my California idea, forget about
the stop strips and just have like where they can
automatically deploy a giant poster a Mexican waters in front
of the people who are fleeing, and they'll they'll hit
their brakes or drive off a bridge one or the other.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Ah did you see that bill him for the bridge?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Joe, Oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Anyway, Seriously, I hope Alex does say safe there because
that that is scary watching that footage and he's like, yeah,
I'm right down here reporting on him, Like are you nuts?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Man?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Those guys?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
So when you saw him this morning, oh man, I
I didn't even think to I roll tape on that
every day too, Good Morning America. Yeah, and I know
he occasionally would do, so he was doing the reports.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
For that way he did a report this morning.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I don't recall seeing him on camera, so I don't
know if he was there for the footage when they
were recording it or not. It was just him doing
the report, Okay, so his voice was on the report,
but I did not I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Real physically see him.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh I see, So hopefully they sent some grunt with
a camera out there and goes just get his pictures
and stuff blowing up.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well you well, like you were saying, the one gal
from Australia was physically there, and we're seeing the other
reporters and stuff physically on site, so you know, it's
really scary actually, and.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I was telling you off the air this this may
become a you know a love fest between Elon and
Don again, because Elon is posting some things to X
that are not overwhelmingly yay Don. But he's reposting Vice
President Vance and he posted the picture of the guy
with the Mexican flag saying this is unacceptable, that that
this may end up building a bridge back between those
(09:43):
two interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's going to take a lot because Trump is pissed
right about now,
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