What do you have to do to get locked up in Columbus

Episode Transcript

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Oh, I'm Chuck Douglas, the number eight two one nine

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eight eighty six A two one WTV And oh man, Frank,
why'd you drop off? I had my finger on your
button right there. Oh well. Talking about Columbus, Ohio, the
ridiculousness of this woman who calls the accident on seventy one,
multiple accidents on seventy one a few months ago, stopping
in the middle of seventy one because she missed her
exit and caused a bunch of people fifty dollars fine

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and a license suspension to January. Seriously, on top of
everything else, she fled the scene of the accident, left
all those people stacked up behind her. Fled the scene
of the accident. Do you think she said, I didn't

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notice anybody behind me? How do you not notice the
crushing of metal, all those cars running into each other
behind you? I don't trust anything that this person did
at that point. After seeing the video, let me hit
you with this one too. Speaking of what do you
have to do to go to jail? On Columbus, a
Columbus man connected to a twenty twenty four homicide was sentenced.

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This is from the tentv dot Com website. By the way,
sentenced to guess what I want to guess this one' zach,
you know this one sentence for homicide. Sentence for homicide
twenty twenty four, homicide. Last year, somebody was killed. It
has to be something ridiculous of five years community control.

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He killed somebody, community control. So this isn't manslaughter, like oh,
I drove too fast around a corner and accidentally. Keante
Lee was one of two men arrested following an April
twenty twenty four death of dead Rake Robinson. Police said
Robinson shot into an apartment on Brentonell Avenue, So the

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dead guy shot into the apartment. Then Lee, he and
another man, Terroral Thomas. I believe that is exited the
apartment and shot back. Record show Robinson was pronounced dead
from a gunshot wound to his head. Later police revealed
that the fatal gunshot came from Thomas's gun. Both Thomas

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and Lee were originally charged with murder, but pleaded guilty
to lesser charges. Here's why I've got a problem. They
were charged with murder. Why why somebody shot into their apartment?

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They came out defending themselves. This is a problem with
our system. Well, but you know, the guy wasn't coming
in the past. They shot into their house, but the
law says, the law stupid. The guy shot in it,
but you chose to charge him with murder. Thomas was

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sentenced in December to at least eight years behind bars
after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. That
was the other guy in the apartment. Lee pleaded guilty
to reckless homicide and attempted felonious assault. This week, Franklin
County Judge Jaiza Paige sends him to five years of

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community control. What's community controls? That probation? Basically, yeah, we're
gonna send you home and don't go out and do
bad stuff. FOP President Brian Steel. Oh, thank the Lord,
this story's about to make at least a little sense.
FOP President Brian Steele said the sentence sends the wrong

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message to the community. We cannot demand justice for individuals
who live on the hilltop say we want to lower
crime in Linden, and when police lock up a violent offender,
let them right back out into the neighborhoods. Amen, If
whatever he did was serious enough that you charged him
with murder. If whatever he did in as an accomplice

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with the other guy got the other guy eight years,
how does this guy get community control? What do you
have to do to go to jail? I'm telling you, man,
the world's just making no sense to me anymore, no

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sense at all. I mean, community controls pretty pretty strict.
You know. If people are like, hey, have you been
in jail, You're like, I've been under community control. Yeah,
and they'll be like, oh, you're tough. You know what
I mean. Community They surrounded my house and wouldn't let
me out. Yeah, that's all of those guys with the
tears tattooed under for community control. Brian Steele continued. He said,

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I had a great convo with the prosecutor. Just have
different theories on what we believe law enforcement is. The
prosecutor believes in transformative justice. I believe you do the
crime you do the time, we try to remediate you
are we try to rehabilitate you if we can't, which
is what prison is. Steele said, that's pretty much it

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in a nutshell, Brian, that's it. You do the crime,
you do the time. It's almost and God bless our
men and women in uniform that serve and protect. I
do not demean you or your service in any way,
but stories like this, I feel like it's almost pointless
for you to do what you do because you go

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get them and they get Community Control. Spokes first of
with the Franklin County Prosecutors Office said the sentencing decisions
are up to the discretion of each judge. By the way,
the judge again, Jaisa Paige. If that sounds familiar and
you're smirking and frowning, then it probably is a familiar

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name to you. What do you do to go to
jail in this town? Well, the paint what's peeling on
your house? Code Enforcement told you to fix it and
you didn't. That's thirty days