July 31, 2024 • 29 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Who was Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader in Tehran? Secret Service boss says he can’t “defend” unsecured roof in Trump rally shooting. Olympic Triathlon went ahead after officials give the green light over Seine River water quality. Takeaways from Team USA’s gold medal victory in the women’s team gymnastics final. Project 2025 director steps down amid backlash from Trump. Senate passes legislation aimed at protecting minors online. LA on pace for more than 300 traffic deaths this year.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty. Else
was here, no, I willI'll see you on Dion ceiling celine Dion.
There we go. Was up theresinging. Did you see her sing?
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She was the final act right infront of the Eiffel Tower. She
was a little stiff, but stillvery very good. What okay? Well,
what hold on? All right?And now handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, and this is kf I AM six
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forty. Good morning everybody, BillHandle. Here it is hokday Wednesday,
July thirty one, last day ofWednesday or last day of the month July.
And boy we go into August.Wow, it's going quick. Before
you know it, it's August second, and man, it's just flying.
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So good morning one and all Amy, Good morning, well, Hi Bill,
Hello, and the lovely and ingoldHello Anne. Hi. All right,
Cono, you're not on screen.It's broken, but hello, it
is broken. Broken. Oh well, we'll never have it fixed, you
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know. Put in a fixed order, you're done. Put in a ticket.
They call it a fixed ticket.And usually let me tell you how
it works a little inside baseball,Ladies and gentlemen. Is something is broken,
something is missing, something has tobe replaced, then Cono or someone
else puts in what's called a helpticket and then usually the reply from engineering
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is no, thank you, andthat's what you get. Well, that's
it close, It's usually we'll getto it. That's also good six months
later. Yeah, I know it'sstill broken, all right, so we'll
we'll put that together because I haveto see you because well, Frankly,
you know, I mean frankly Okay, in the morning, I look at
you and I get would I hateto admit that, but it's just you're
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that kind of guy. Okay,you got it. Neil is back.
Good morning, Neil. I wasso excited to be back and then you
ruin it. And I want togive a shout out to the engineering and
IT team who kicked who bust theirhumps? They do, they actually do.
As a matter of fact, however, I did put in a help
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ticket to fix Handle fifteen years agohave him replaced. Yeah. As a
matter of fact, I was justtalking to rich our engineer there, and
he we have some issues with Handleon the phone calls and he just came
back from I think he was outfor a few days. First thing you
did was jump on that. Andwe're working and we have some glitches on
the phone call. So they keepadding more more tasks to their list,
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and then you know, a fewpeople do I know this is hard,
will do that. They fire peopleand they just put more tasks on the
existing people and it's it's crazy.And you've been asking for a help ticket
to replace the mop that you useafter the show every day, and it's
rude. Yeah, I just needit. It's a little yeah. Yeah,
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welcome back, Neil, you justbutt it good to be back on
the East Coast for a while withthe family. My first vacation not being
in management at KABI, and itwas quite nice. You know how much
I thought about the station very little? What station? Yeah? Wait,
did you think about us? Andmiss us? I actually did miss you
guys, And some of the audiencereached out and checked on me, and
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I said, just a vacation,that is all. But it was quite
lovely. I saw a family,traveled with my mom a bit, and
then my wife and boy celebrated mydouble nickel birthday on Sunday, So it
was a lovely trip. Went toNew York and Boston, ran into Bill
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Carroll to ours two l's at acemetery in Boston. Was he being?
Was he being? He was alive? Not if you talk about his career
here on KFI, he wasn't.Why do you go? Why why you
do that? It was very lovelyto see him, and I actually like,
I actually liked Bill and Bill Carroll'sa great I think I think he's
a talent I really and strangely enough, probably one of the best broadcasters I've
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ever met. Yeah, he's verystrong, although he didn't do you know,
he the only then just a verytalented mind. And that's only because
he's not crazy enough. That is, uh, because he thinks before.
Yeah, there's that too. Butit was really nice. Then we went
to my brother and his husband's placeon Cape Cod and it was gosh,
that what a beautiful part of America. And you're talking about the birth of
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America there on the East coast.Yeah, you know, they came up
with a lot of good names.They're like, Hey, I'm from York,
what should we call this place.Let's call it New York. Hey,
I'm from Hampshire. What should wecall this place. Let's call it
New Hampshire. Like it's no onewas creative at all, but beautiful,
beautiful area, New Amsterdam. OriginallyAmy, you had the look that you
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wanted to say something. I justwant to know how you just happened to
run into Bill Carroll in a cemetery. Here's what's weird. So Bill Carroll
is friends with a guitarist from theFoo Fighters. Strangely enough, I happened
to be friends with the drummer JoshFreeze of the Foo Fighters. He was
there to see them. I didn'teven know they were playing there. He
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was there. They were playing ata cemetery. No, they were playing
in Boston. So he was doingthe touristy thing being in Boston, and
I was doing the touristy thing withmy family. But like, uh,
two months ago, my friend Joshsent a picture of him with Bill Carroll
at a concert to me, soI sent him one of me with Bill
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Carroll in a cemetery in Boston.I wouldn't want to paint it, but
it just that's really interesting. Yeah, really, it's fascinating. I know
here I should, I'll retell thestory I wrote Bill Handy guys time out
Handle on the news with Amy Neiland me. Lead story is Ismail honey
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Yah or honey Ya, who isaccording to Hamas great or actually he's the
late great Ismael Honeya that ham Hamaspolitical leader killed in Tehran. Now that's
interesting because you have to assume thatthe Israelis did it, and it is
not easy to get into Iran,and somehow they were able to pull it
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off. And of course Israel willnever ever admit it. They just never
comment on stuff like that. Son, Yeah, and so we'll see it.
Everything is ratching, ratcheting up overthere. I think we're literally on
just the cutting edge, but theregional war. What but they're getting the
big names. Uh yeah, yeah, they But then they've been doing that
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for a while. Israel has incredibleintelligence and they're knocking off leader after leader
and the only ones that are surviving, like Sinwar just stay in the tunnels,
and I mean stay deep in thetunnels. And they don't even talk
via cell phone. They what theydo is they talk via landlines that connect
from tunnel to tunnel or couriers aboveground. That sounds like a fun existence,
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doesn't Oh yeah, the top bossat secret services, Yeah, we
screwed up the Secret Services Acting director, told lawmakers as he was grilled on
Capitol Hill yesterday that he considered itindefensible the roof used by the shooter in
the attempted assassination of former President Trumpwas not protected. And Ronald Rowe Junior
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testified that he went to the rallysite, he laid down on the roof
of the building, and he saidwhat I saw made me ashamed as a
career law enforcement officer, in atwenty five year Secret Service veteran, I
cannot defend why that roof was notbetter secured. Yeah, the failure,
I mean, it was a completefailure. One of the things we're finding
out not only was the roof notsecured, how the Secret Service allowed a
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line of site shot to take placefrom four hundred and fifty feet away and
hitting the president and former president,but also local law enforcement that works in
conjunction with the Secret Service. Whenevera president or former president, or somebody
who has to be protected by theSecret Service law, let's say a foreign
dignitory or a dignitary or ambassador orwhatever, the Secret Service was not communicating
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and couldn't communicate with local law enforcement. How the hell does that work.
That is freaky. That there wasa communication, yeah, and no ability
to communicate gives you chills. Thathe went and laid down on the roof
to check the line of sight andwas just blown away. The stunned,
stunned, complete failure. So they'rebringing up they're going to have supervisors.
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One of the things is supervisors fromthe Secret Service overseeing everything that local police
are doing prior to any appearance bythe president or vice president or whatever.
The triathlon competitors went ahead in Parisafter concerns over water quality there in the
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East End River, and that causedthe men's race to be postponed just the
day earlier. I guess they're testingthis on the regular, right, No,
No, I think they were.It was today at eight a m.
Paris time, and they are.I think they've already done it because
there're eight hours ahead of us.Oh yeah, they've been swimming. Okay,
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yeah, well obviously triathlons and oneday who won it? Do we
know any I do not have that. Yeah, we don't have that information.
But they went ahead and they're inthe water. They the authority said,
yeah, the water is good enough. On the metal stand, I
really want to see a photo ora video in the metal stand, because
you know, those people on thepodium have great, big, open,
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superating sores on their face that arejust dripping with puss. You know that,
don't you. But what is thewhat are they concerned salmonila or something?
Well, yeah, they're concerned.It was like E coli and all
kinds of crazy ass disease. It'sit's the same river. It's a toilet.
It hasn't been people have been swimmingin it for one hundred years because
it's been so dirty. It's completelydisgusting. It is a They actually were
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thinking of calling it the toilet swim. And right, and yesterday you missed
as I was trying to analyze it, that it's not the triathlon, it's
the quad athlon because they have adiarrhea event right afterwards, and Mexico is
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considered the favorite to win that letoYeah, a guy from Great Britain won
it, okay, and a guyfrom New Zealand finished the across the finish
line six seconds behind him. Wow, And that's no, just because that's
actually a long time Yeah, noton the not on the triathlon, because
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you're talking about not only the racenot the full, not only the full
marathon, but one hundred and tenmiles on a bicycle. And I think,
what a two point three mile swimand a toilet In this case,
we do a try. There alot of There are a lot of laps
when you swim in a toilet.What you and I do a lot of
triathlon and we'll try everything. That'strue. Speaking of the Olympics, somebody's
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basking in the glow of the gold. It is Simone Viles and the US
women's gymnastics team. They got silverin Tokyo. With Simone back on the
team, they struck gold. She'samazing. She is nothing short of amazing.
I was watching last night. Sureshe is, yeah, she said
two for six. She is absolutelyextraordinary. She's stronger now at twenty seven
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that she's ever been. And shewas doing some commercials. Tell me about
her career in the world of advertising. She is funny, she is really
attractive. She is a brilliant gymnast, gold medal winner. I mean,
what do you think her Q rating, her likability rating is she is going
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to out Snoop Snoop. I don'tknow if anybody can out Snoop snoop.
He's everywhere. You know, I'vewatching everywhere. I think he I think
he's great. Yeah, he isterrific. It's the fun Olympics, especially
the opening ceremony when they had thedrag Queen last Supper scene, which offended
one or two. Uh it wasn'tthe firs Last Supper. It certainly was.
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Oh, Neil, you missed it, certainly, what excuse me?
People were giving lessons past the matsa. You had to learn that in French.
I heard there were some balls.I don't know if they were Motza.
Yes, all right. The directorof Project twenty twenty five, which
is that so called conservative blueprint thateverybody's talking about, I stepped down amid
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intense criticism, including from the formerPresident Trump. His name is Paul Dan's,
former top advisor in the Trumpet.Trump is is literally separating himself a
whole lot from it. He hasnever said I am going to institute the
Plan twenty twenty five. His onlycomment, I think is that I know
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of this is saying I don't knowa lot of it. I don't know
where it's coming from. The problemis that a lot of people, senior
people in his administration were on theboard and wrote, twenty twenty five,
and it's really kind of scary.Project twenty twenty five totally reinvents America.
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The all environmental controls. By theway, eliminated Department of Education, eliminated
LGBTQ rights, eliminated national ban onabortion. I mean, a very very
different way of dealing with America's ninehundred pages. My favorite part was where
blacks would no longer be black,they would be referred to as dark white.
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Yes. Yeah, just to makeeverything easier, Yes. Keeping kids
virtually safe. The Senate has passedlegislation aimed at protecting children online. The
vote was ninety one to three.Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican
Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and SenatorMike Lee of Utah voted against it,
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and then made their argument for why. Rand Paul was saying something about free
speech, but the Kids Online SafetyActor requires platforms to provide safeguards to minors,
including restricting access to personal data andalso providing parents with ways to supervise
how their kids are using the platform. Rand Paul votes against everything, any
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governmental intrusion, any government oversight orregulation. He votes against if you were
to introduce into Congress, some wereintroduced the disbanding of the Senate. He'd
vote for that, very strange guy. But anyway, it's going and it
went big time, ninety one tothree in the Senate. All right,
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So el Chapo's son, Joaquin GuzmanLopez leads not guilty to narcotics, money
laundering, firearms charges. Of course, this took place just yesterday in Chicago
and he was taken into American custody. And this just stunning arrest. You've
got international betrayal, intrigue, allkinds of crazy stuff right now. You
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missed the story. You weren't herewhen the day that had happened. And
this is Guzman's son. Actually wasthe negotiations to turn himself into the FEDS
because one of the things in theUnited States FEDS, because one of the
things that they're most frightened of,more so than other cartels leaders and assassination
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attempts, is getting going to theUS and being put in federal prison because
they can't buy their way out ofthat one. There is no protection.
So he was negotiating through lawyers andhe was actually set up a sting with
this other cartel actually his dad's partner, and set up where the partner thought
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they were landing in Mexico to lookat a landing strip, and it actually
was in El Paso, and theFEDS were right there picked both of them
up. So he's going to getsome kind of a deal, no question.
I will see. That's going tobe a movie, don't you think,
Oh yes, it sounds like really, Oh yeah, it is at
that level. It's really interesting.Well, they say the risk of people
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getting the bird flu is very verylow, but the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announced a five milliondollar initiative to offer seasonal flu vaccines to
livestock workers. They say it's beingdone to reduce the public health concern that
a new version of the bird flucould emerge among farm workers. It's been
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circulating in millions of farmed and wildanimals. I think there's been one or
two cases of it getting to peep. Yeah, and that's it. That's
tough for the virus to go fromanimal to people. I think it's a
zoomatic when that happens. But man, when it does, that becomes a
real problem. That's how you getthat's how you get pandemics. I'm sorry.
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I was just waiting for some jokein there that was making me nervous.
Oh you mean no, no,no, okay, all right,
who's a big boy? Who's abig boy? Alrighty. So you've got
third incident reported of the last severalmonths by The Times and others in which
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Chinese, the Chinese have blamed foodcontamination for positive drug tests. And so
now you have this another Chinese dopingallegation flared up in the Paris Games.
So some swimmers are starting to getticked off because they feel like the officials
aren't being consistent in enforcing the drugtesting. When you have doping allegations,
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it's always or usually it's the athletesthemselves. Lance Armstrong with the Tour de
France. It wasn't the government ofAmerica involved in that. This is the
government of China involved in doping scandalwith its athletes. The same thing with
Russia. So it's a big deal. It's a big deal. And the
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big is Israeli athletes are told donot eat poppy bagels because if you eat
oh it's by the way, youeat poppy bagels. Just to let you
know, yeah, you can testpositive. You can test positive for the
for heroin actually, because that's wherehero warin comes from. Are bagels a
big deal in Israel? No?American? Yeah, it is very American
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bagels or not. I was justmaking a connection between Israel Jews. You
know. Yes, traffic deaths areshowing no signs of slowing down. It's
not. In Los Angeles. Currentnumbers show that the city of La is
on pace for more than three hundredpeople to be killed in vehicle related deaths
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this year. So far, it'sone hundred and seventy. That's from January
to mid July. And official saynumber one, I know, right,
number one. Pedestrians are becoming alarger portion of those traffic desks. Yeah,
they're not paying attention because they're texting, so not looking left to right.
You yell at people when you seethem with their noses down when they're
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crossing the street, No I hitthem. Oh you account for our hand.
I have a theory. I havea theory on this, and these
numbers at least point to it,and that is during the pandemic, we
lost a lot of sociability. Alot of time people were indoors and I
think that we it caused a sociallife. I think so. I think
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you're right, because if you're right, these numbers starting in twenty twenty one,
they start cranking up and it's beenconsistent, although you know, right
now we're a little lower than twentytwenty three, but as Amy pointed out,
we're looking at exceeding three hundred.And I think, you know,
I agree with you. People aretexting more because that has become the way
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you communicate. That's social intercal justthat there's this Unfortunately there's a selfishness too,
Yeah, there is. And bythe way, adding to the mix
is there's no such thing as speedlimits anymore. Well, because Amy,
coming in and coming in Neil,you're doing sixty five seventy miles an hour
coming in on the freeway, peopleblow past you at over a hundred and
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I get to two or three ofthose or four of those coming in,
and I have a twelve mile runon the freeway. They're just there is
something, there's something off, andI don't think people care about each other
in the same way, and Ithink they're just kind of blowing passage.
Plus we don't even do we don'teven punish real crimes, So people are
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like speeding. What are they goingto do? All right? Company behind
those vending machines, we heard aboutthe sell ammunition. They are making their
way out west. We heard aboutthem in Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma.
But American Rounds, the company whichis based in Dallas, is moving some
of these vending machines to Colorado Grocerystored West and Southwest Denver, and they
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say they will eventually make their wayhere to these United States. In California,
yeah, and they're arguing that thetechnology age verification at the vending machine
is far stronger than, for example, buying ammunition through the internet. I
guess you can buy internet ammunition,right, and how do they control it?
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I don't even know in California canyou even buy I'm sure this will
never go in California. But canyou buy ammunition in California through the Internet.
I don't know if you can.I've never done it. I don't
know. All I know is theother day I went to the vending machine
and boy, that bag of FreeDOSthat I bought was very very heavy.
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Yeah, they are still nine milimeternine milimeter freetos. Yeah, yeah,
whatever it takes it is. Itis interesting, but we shall see because
you have different like shotgun rounds.You could be eighteen to buy a shotgun,
and shotgun rounds you have to betwenty one. No, but it's
verification. It's some it's either faceverification or thumbprint or some kind of technology
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that actually does a pretty good jobif they can incorporate that. Although you
could go vote for a president withno idea. Oh yeah, no,
they insist. But I'm just thinkingof the technology is if you're old enough,
you put your driver's license, forexample, up to the camera,
and then the camera and then it'sit's connected to a large database that connects
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your picture that it finds all overthe world in every you know where you
have applied for it with the DMVand connect and proves that you are who
you are and you're over eighteen ortwenty one, and it sells. I
tell you, it makes sense tome. It makes sense to do that
with the freedoms, all right.The Copper's got a lot of copperback LA
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PDS Heavy Metal Task Force. Whoknew there was one. I have arrested
eighty two people and seized two thousandpounds of stolen copper wire. They actually
put the task force back in caseinto place because people have been stealing all
this copper wire all over LA,including at the new sixth Street Bridge,
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and they are taking it out ofstreet lights in it there. It costs
a not only is it unsafe becauseyou don't have lights, but it costs
a fortune to replace that copper wire. But that's the copper wire. Here's
a question for you. I didn'teven know they have a heavy metal task
Force. So do you think intheir office what kind of music would be
playing on the speakers? Yeah,it's crazy. They all wear spandex and
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get Yeah, it's and to watchthem running those heels, it's insane,
yes, but they get the jobdone. Fun fact. One of the
myths, at least about the termcop for police is that the badges used
to be made out of copper andnow the other one is that it's short
for constable on patrol. So whatever, all right? Did yeah? I
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like that too? Yeah. Disneylandunion employees agreed to ratify new three year
contracts with Disney just late Monday evening. These new contracts include that minimum wage
base pay goes up to twenty fourdollars now or they are. That ain't
badge, No, not at all. That ain't bad starting at twenty four
bucks. And that's that's that's notbad. It really isn't. And the
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benefits are pretty good. KFI.Staff just left right now to go dow.
Yeah, oh, no kidding,no kidding. So the guy who
says deadman till no tales now getsa minimum of twenty four bucks. I
think that person probably gets a littlemore. But you know, in addition
to that, their seniority increases,flexibility and sick leave, attendance policies and
other gains they've been fighting for fora while. Sheriff says he's sorry.
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So the sheriff in Sangamon County,Illinois said he was going to say something
that he's never said in his career, and that is we failed. And
he's talking in response to the shootingdeath of Sonia Massey, who was killed
in her home earlier this month bya sheriff's deputy. She had called nine
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to one one to report an intruderand then when the sheriff's department went to
respond to it, she move wasshot by one of the deputies. Yeah,
and then there now there are demonstrationsall over the country, which I
kind of question the demonstrations and basedon this, this was an outlier case.
This is not policing. This isa guy who committed straight out murder.
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He is a rogue cop. Heshould never have been a cop.
He went through what is in thelast four years, six different police departments
or four different police departments in sixyears, and he was thrown out of
the military, and he became andsomehow he got on the police force.
The protest here is the protest hereis how bad cops get hired. That's
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the problem here. But this isif you can't, especially in the black
and brown community that already have afear of law enforcement with legitimate history,
if you cannot call them for help, that is a complete breakdown. Even
if this is an outlier case.Those things, Oh yeah, I mean
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I'm not arguing on that. I'mnot arguing this. It was horrific,
Oh no, it was. Imean, the guy's going down. The
guy, the guy is going down, and the sheriff, by the way,
should be held responsible. How didthis guy get hired by this police?
I mean, this is kind ofnuts, But this is not institutional
racism. This is not a thepolice forces accost across the country. This
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is this is truly an outliar caseand the and it's you can't conflate it
with institutional racism and a history ofracism what you have to, but there's
been you know, it's compounding it. Bill, it's not this. I
understand the outlier for its details,maybe, but really when you put it
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and stack it up against other recentand I don't know this and by the
way, I don't know the statsas to how many people of color have
been killed by the police inappropriately,out of policy, straight out illegally versus
whites. And of course it hasto be you know, the waiting has
to do because you have members ofyou know, the community, how many
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in proportion are African American? Doyou look at socioeconomic levels because crimes,
crime rates are higher in poorer areas. I mean, it's it's a big
deal. But this guy should godown and that's sort of a given.
I just can't believe the police departmenthired this guy. Don't they have any
controls whatsoever? What the that's partof the breakdown. Yeah, it's so
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anyway, Okay, we're done.We are completely finished with the news,
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was here, no, I willI'll see you on Dion ceiling celine Dion.
There we go. Was up theresinging. Did you see her sing?
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She was the final act right infront of the Eiffel Tower. She
was a little stiff, but stillvery very good. What okay? Well,
what hold on? All right?And now handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, and this is kf I AM six
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forty. Good morning everybody, BillHandle. Here it is hokday Wednesday,
July thirty one, last day ofWednesday or last day of the month July.
And boy we go into August.Wow, it's going quick. Before
you know it, it's August second, and man, it's just flying.
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So good morning one and all Amy, Good morning, well, Hi Bill,
Hello, and the lovely and ingoldHello Anne. Hi. All right,
Cono, you're not on screen.It's broken, but hello, it
is broken. Broken. Oh well, we'll never have it fixed, you
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know. Put in a fixed order, you're done. Put in a ticket.
They call it a fixed ticket.And usually let me tell you how
it works a little inside baseball,Ladies and gentlemen. Is something is broken,
something is missing, something has tobe replaced, then Cono or someone
else puts in what's called a helpticket and then usually the reply from engineering
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is no, thank you, andthat's what you get. Well, that's
it close, It's usually we'll getto it. That's also good six months
later. Yeah, I know it'sstill broken, all right, so we'll
we'll put that together because I haveto see you because well, Frankly,
you know, I mean frankly Okay, in the morning, I look at
you and I get would I hateto admit that, but it's just you're
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that kind of guy. Okay,you got it. Neil is back.
Good morning, Neil. I wasso excited to be back and then you
ruin it. And I want togive a shout out to the engineering and
IT team who kicked who bust theirhumps? They do, they actually do.
As a matter of fact, however, I did put in a help
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ticket to fix Handle fifteen years agohave him replaced. Yeah. As a
matter of fact, I was justtalking to rich our engineer there, and
he we have some issues with Handleon the phone calls and he just came
back from I think he was outfor a few days. First thing you
did was jump on that. Andwe're working and we have some glitches on
the phone call. So they keepadding more more tasks to their list,
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and then you know, a fewpeople do I know this is hard,
will do that. They fire peopleand they just put more tasks on the
existing people and it's it's crazy.And you've been asking for a help ticket
to replace the mop that you useafter the show every day, and it's
rude. Yeah, I just needit. It's a little yeah. Yeah,
(03:29):
welcome back, Neil, you justbutt it good to be back on
the East Coast for a while withthe family. My first vacation not being
in management at KABI, and itwas quite nice. You know how much
I thought about the station very little? What station? Yeah? Wait,
did you think about us? Andmiss us? I actually did miss you
guys, And some of the audiencereached out and checked on me, and
(03:53):
I said, just a vacation,that is all. But it was quite
lovely. I saw a family,traveled with my mom a bit, and
then my wife and boy celebrated mydouble nickel birthday on Sunday, So it
was a lovely trip. Went toNew York and Boston, ran into Bill
(04:14):
Carroll to ours two l's at acemetery in Boston. Was he being?
Was he being? He was alive? Not if you talk about his career
here on KFI, he wasn't.Why do you go? Why why you
do that? It was very lovelyto see him, and I actually like,
I actually liked Bill and Bill Carroll'sa great I think I think he's
a talent I really and strangely enough, probably one of the best broadcasters I've
(04:40):
ever met. Yeah, he's verystrong, although he didn't do you know,
he the only then just a verytalented mind. And that's only because
he's not crazy enough. That is, uh, because he thinks before.
Yeah, there's that too. Butit was really nice. Then we went
to my brother and his husband's placeon Cape Cod and it was gosh,
that what a beautiful part of America. And you're talking about the birth of
(05:04):
America there on the East coast.Yeah, you know, they came up
with a lot of good names.They're like, Hey, I'm from York,
what should we call this place.Let's call it New York. Hey,
I'm from Hampshire. What should wecall this place. Let's call it
New Hampshire. Like it's no onewas creative at all, but beautiful,
beautiful area, New Amsterdam. OriginallyAmy, you had the look that you
(05:30):
wanted to say something. I justwant to know how you just happened to
run into Bill Carroll in a cemetery. Here's what's weird. So Bill Carroll
is friends with a guitarist from theFoo Fighters. Strangely enough, I happened
to be friends with the drummer JoshFreeze of the Foo Fighters. He was
there to see them. I didn'teven know they were playing there. He
(05:53):
was there. They were playing ata cemetery. No, they were playing
in Boston. So he was doingthe touristy thing being in Boston, and
I was doing the touristy thing withmy family. But like, uh,
two months ago, my friend Joshsent a picture of him with Bill Carroll
at a concert to me, soI sent him one of me with Bill
(06:15):
Carroll in a cemetery in Boston.I wouldn't want to paint it, but
it just that's really interesting. Yeah, really, it's fascinating. I know
here I should, I'll retell thestory I wrote Bill Handy guys time out
Handle on the news with Amy Neiland me. Lead story is Ismail honey
(06:41):
Yah or honey Ya, who isaccording to Hamas great or actually he's the
late great Ismael Honeya that ham Hamaspolitical leader killed in Tehran. Now that's
interesting because you have to assume thatthe Israelis did it, and it is
not easy to get into Iran,and somehow they were able to pull it
(07:03):
off. And of course Israel willnever ever admit it. They just never
comment on stuff like that. Son, Yeah, and so we'll see it.
Everything is ratching, ratcheting up overthere. I think we're literally on
just the cutting edge, but theregional war. What but they're getting the
big names. Uh yeah, yeah, they But then they've been doing that
(07:27):
for a while. Israel has incredibleintelligence and they're knocking off leader after leader
and the only ones that are surviving, like Sinwar just stay in the tunnels,
and I mean stay deep in thetunnels. And they don't even talk
via cell phone. They what theydo is they talk via landlines that connect
from tunnel to tunnel or couriers aboveground. That sounds like a fun existence,
(07:51):
doesn't Oh yeah, the top bossat secret services, Yeah, we
screwed up the Secret Services Acting director, told lawmakers as he was grilled on
Capitol Hill yesterday that he considered itindefensible the roof used by the shooter in
the attempted assassination of former President Trumpwas not protected. And Ronald Rowe Junior
(08:16):
testified that he went to the rallysite, he laid down on the roof
of the building, and he saidwhat I saw made me ashamed as a
career law enforcement officer, in atwenty five year Secret Service veteran, I
cannot defend why that roof was notbetter secured. Yeah, the failure,
I mean, it was a completefailure. One of the things we're finding
out not only was the roof notsecured, how the Secret Service allowed a
(08:37):
line of site shot to take placefrom four hundred and fifty feet away and
hitting the president and former president,but also local law enforcement that works in
conjunction with the Secret Service. Whenevera president or former president, or somebody
who has to be protected by theSecret Service law, let's say a foreign
dignitory or a dignitary or ambassador orwhatever, the Secret Service was not communicating
(09:03):
and couldn't communicate with local law enforcement. How the hell does that work.
That is freaky. That there wasa communication, yeah, and no ability
to communicate gives you chills. Thathe went and laid down on the roof
to check the line of sight andwas just blown away. The stunned,
stunned, complete failure. So they'rebringing up they're going to have supervisors.
(09:28):
One of the things is supervisors fromthe Secret Service overseeing everything that local police
are doing prior to any appearance bythe president or vice president or whatever.
The triathlon competitors went ahead in Parisafter concerns over water quality there in the
(09:50):
East End River, and that causedthe men's race to be postponed just the
day earlier. I guess they're testingthis on the regular, right, No,
No, I think they were.It was today at eight a m.
Paris time, and they are.I think they've already done it because
there're eight hours ahead of us.Oh yeah, they've been swimming. Okay,
(10:11):
yeah, well obviously triathlons and oneday who won it? Do we
know any I do not have that. Yeah, we don't have that information.
But they went ahead and they're inthe water. They the authority said,
yeah, the water is good enough. On the metal stand, I
really want to see a photo ora video in the metal stand, because
you know, those people on thepodium have great, big, open,
(10:33):
superating sores on their face that arejust dripping with puss. You know that,
don't you. But what is thewhat are they concerned salmonila or something?
Well, yeah, they're concerned.It was like E coli and all
kinds of crazy ass disease. It'sit's the same river. It's a toilet.
It hasn't been people have been swimmingin it for one hundred years because
it's been so dirty. It's completelydisgusting. It is a They actually were
(10:58):
thinking of calling it the toilet swim. And right, and yesterday you missed
as I was trying to analyze it, that it's not the triathlon, it's
the quad athlon because they have adiarrhea event right afterwards, and Mexico is
(11:20):
considered the favorite to win that letoYeah, a guy from Great Britain won
it, okay, and a guyfrom New Zealand finished the across the finish
line six seconds behind him. Wow, And that's no, just because that's
actually a long time Yeah, noton the not on the triathlon, because
(11:41):
you're talking about not only the racenot the full, not only the full
marathon, but one hundred and tenmiles on a bicycle. And I think,
what a two point three mile swimand a toilet In this case,
we do a try. There alot of There are a lot of laps
when you swim in a toilet.What you and I do a lot of
triathlon and we'll try everything. That'strue. Speaking of the Olympics, somebody's
(12:09):
basking in the glow of the gold. It is Simone Viles and the US
women's gymnastics team. They got silverin Tokyo. With Simone back on the
team, they struck gold. She'samazing. She is nothing short of amazing.
I was watching last night. Sureshe is, yeah, she said
two for six. She is absolutelyextraordinary. She's stronger now at twenty seven
(12:33):
that she's ever been. And shewas doing some commercials. Tell me about
her career in the world of advertising. She is funny, she is really
attractive. She is a brilliant gymnast, gold medal winner. I mean,
what do you think her Q rating, her likability rating is she is going
(12:54):
to out Snoop Snoop. I don'tknow if anybody can out Snoop snoop.
He's everywhere. You know, I'vewatching everywhere. I think he I think
he's great. Yeah, he isterrific. It's the fun Olympics, especially
the opening ceremony when they had thedrag Queen last Supper scene, which offended
one or two. Uh it wasn'tthe firs Last Supper. It certainly was.
(13:18):
Oh, Neil, you missed it, certainly, what excuse me?
People were giving lessons past the matsa. You had to learn that in French.
I heard there were some balls.I don't know if they were Motza.
Yes, all right. The directorof Project twenty twenty five, which
is that so called conservative blueprint thateverybody's talking about, I stepped down amid
(13:41):
intense criticism, including from the formerPresident Trump. His name is Paul Dan's,
former top advisor in the Trumpet.Trump is is literally separating himself a
whole lot from it. He hasnever said I am going to institute the
Plan twenty twenty five. His onlycomment, I think is that I know
(14:03):
of this is saying I don't knowa lot of it. I don't know
where it's coming from. The problemis that a lot of people, senior
people in his administration were on theboard and wrote, twenty twenty five,
and it's really kind of scary.Project twenty twenty five totally reinvents America.
(14:24):
The all environmental controls. By theway, eliminated Department of Education, eliminated
LGBTQ rights, eliminated national ban onabortion. I mean, a very very
different way of dealing with America's ninehundred pages. My favorite part was where
blacks would no longer be black,they would be referred to as dark white.
(14:46):
Yes. Yeah, just to makeeverything easier, Yes. Keeping kids
virtually safe. The Senate has passedlegislation aimed at protecting children online. The
vote was ninety one to three.Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican
Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and SenatorMike Lee of Utah voted against it,
(15:11):
and then made their argument for why. Rand Paul was saying something about free
speech, but the Kids Online SafetyActor requires platforms to provide safeguards to minors,
including restricting access to personal data andalso providing parents with ways to supervise
how their kids are using the platform. Rand Paul votes against everything, any
(15:33):
governmental intrusion, any government oversight orregulation. He votes against if you were
to introduce into Congress, some wereintroduced the disbanding of the Senate. He'd
vote for that, very strange guy. But anyway, it's going and it
went big time, ninety one tothree in the Senate. All right,
(16:00):
So el Chapo's son, Joaquin GuzmanLopez leads not guilty to narcotics, money
laundering, firearms charges. Of course, this took place just yesterday in Chicago
and he was taken into American custody. And this just stunning arrest. You've
got international betrayal, intrigue, allkinds of crazy stuff right now. You
(16:22):
missed the story. You weren't herewhen the day that had happened. And
this is Guzman's son. Actually wasthe negotiations to turn himself into the FEDS
because one of the things in theUnited States FEDS, because one of the
things that they're most frightened of,more so than other cartels leaders and assassination
(16:44):
attempts, is getting going to theUS and being put in federal prison because
they can't buy their way out ofthat one. There is no protection.
So he was negotiating through lawyers andhe was actually set up a sting with
this other cartel actually his dad's partner, and set up where the partner thought
(17:08):
they were landing in Mexico to lookat a landing strip, and it actually
was in El Paso, and theFEDS were right there picked both of them
up. So he's going to getsome kind of a deal, no question.
I will see. That's going tobe a movie, don't you think,
Oh yes, it sounds like really, Oh yeah, it is at
that level. It's really interesting.Well, they say the risk of people
(17:32):
getting the bird flu is very verylow, but the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announced a five milliondollar initiative to offer seasonal flu vaccines to
livestock workers. They say it's beingdone to reduce the public health concern that
a new version of the bird flucould emerge among farm workers. It's been
(17:52):
circulating in millions of farmed and wildanimals. I think there's been one or
two cases of it getting to peep. Yeah, and that's it. That's
tough for the virus to go fromanimal to people. I think it's a
zoomatic when that happens. But man, when it does, that becomes a
real problem. That's how you getthat's how you get pandemics. I'm sorry.
(18:18):
I was just waiting for some jokein there that was making me nervous.
Oh you mean no, no,no, okay, all right,
who's a big boy? Who's abig boy? Alrighty. So you've got
third incident reported of the last severalmonths by The Times and others in which
(18:41):
Chinese, the Chinese have blamed foodcontamination for positive drug tests. And so
now you have this another Chinese dopingallegation flared up in the Paris Games.
So some swimmers are starting to getticked off because they feel like the officials
aren't being consistent in enforcing the drugtesting. When you have doping allegations,
(19:03):
it's always or usually it's the athletesthemselves. Lance Armstrong with the Tour de
France. It wasn't the government ofAmerica involved in that. This is the
government of China involved in doping scandalwith its athletes. The same thing with
Russia. So it's a big deal. It's a big deal. And the
(19:25):
big is Israeli athletes are told donot eat poppy bagels because if you eat
oh it's by the way, youeat poppy bagels. Just to let you
know, yeah, you can testpositive. You can test positive for the
for heroin actually, because that's wherehero warin comes from. Are bagels a
big deal in Israel? No?American? Yeah, it is very American
(19:48):
bagels or not. I was justmaking a connection between Israel Jews. You
know. Yes, traffic deaths areshowing no signs of slowing down. It's
not. In Los Angeles. Currentnumbers show that the city of La is
on pace for more than three hundredpeople to be killed in vehicle related deaths
(20:11):
this year. So far, it'sone hundred and seventy. That's from January
to mid July. And official saynumber one, I know, right,
number one. Pedestrians are becoming alarger portion of those traffic desks. Yeah,
they're not paying attention because they're texting, so not looking left to right.
You yell at people when you seethem with their noses down when they're
(20:32):
crossing the street, No I hitthem. Oh you account for our hand.
I have a theory. I havea theory on this, and these
numbers at least point to it,and that is during the pandemic, we
lost a lot of sociability. Alot of time people were indoors and I
think that we it caused a sociallife. I think so. I think
(20:56):
you're right, because if you're right, these numbers starting in twenty twenty one,
they start cranking up and it's beenconsistent, although you know, right
now we're a little lower than twentytwenty three, but as Amy pointed out,
we're looking at exceeding three hundred.And I think, you know,
I agree with you. People aretexting more because that has become the way
(21:18):
you communicate. That's social intercal justthat there's this Unfortunately there's a selfishness too,
Yeah, there is. And bythe way, adding to the mix
is there's no such thing as speedlimits anymore. Well, because Amy,
coming in and coming in Neil,you're doing sixty five seventy miles an hour
coming in on the freeway, peopleblow past you at over a hundred and
(21:41):
I get to two or three ofthose or four of those coming in,
and I have a twelve mile runon the freeway. They're just there is
something, there's something off, andI don't think people care about each other
in the same way, and Ithink they're just kind of blowing passage.
Plus we don't even do we don'teven punish real crimes, So people are
(22:07):
like speeding. What are they goingto do? All right? Company behind
those vending machines, we heard aboutthe sell ammunition. They are making their
way out west. We heard aboutthem in Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma.
But American Rounds, the company whichis based in Dallas, is moving some
of these vending machines to Colorado Grocerystored West and Southwest Denver, and they
(22:32):
say they will eventually make their wayhere to these United States. In California,
yeah, and they're arguing that thetechnology age verification at the vending machine
is far stronger than, for example, buying ammunition through the internet. I
guess you can buy internet ammunition,right, and how do they control it?
(22:52):
I don't even know in California canyou even buy I'm sure this will
never go in California. But canyou buy ammunition in California through the Internet.
I don't know if you can.I've never done it. I don't
know. All I know is theother day I went to the vending machine
and boy, that bag of FreeDOSthat I bought was very very heavy.
(23:14):
Yeah, they are still nine milimeternine milimeter freetos. Yeah, yeah,
whatever it takes it is. Itis interesting, but we shall see because
you have different like shotgun rounds.You could be eighteen to buy a shotgun,
and shotgun rounds you have to betwenty one. No, but it's
verification. It's some it's either faceverification or thumbprint or some kind of technology
(23:40):
that actually does a pretty good jobif they can incorporate that. Although you
could go vote for a president withno idea. Oh yeah, no,
they insist. But I'm just thinkingof the technology is if you're old enough,
you put your driver's license, forexample, up to the camera,
and then the camera and then it'sit's connected to a large database that connects
(24:03):
your picture that it finds all overthe world in every you know where you
have applied for it with the DMVand connect and proves that you are who
you are and you're over eighteen ortwenty one, and it sells. I
tell you, it makes sense tome. It makes sense to do that
with the freedoms, all right.The Copper's got a lot of copperback LA
(24:26):
PDS Heavy Metal Task Force. Whoknew there was one. I have arrested
eighty two people and seized two thousandpounds of stolen copper wire. They actually
put the task force back in caseinto place because people have been stealing all
this copper wire all over LA,including at the new sixth Street Bridge,
(24:47):
and they are taking it out ofstreet lights in it there. It costs
a not only is it unsafe becauseyou don't have lights, but it costs
a fortune to replace that copper wire. But that's the copper wire. Here's
a question for you. I didn'teven know they have a heavy metal task
Force. So do you think intheir office what kind of music would be
playing on the speakers? Yeah,it's crazy. They all wear spandex and
(25:14):
get Yeah, it's and to watchthem running those heels, it's insane,
yes, but they get the jobdone. Fun fact. One of the
myths, at least about the termcop for police is that the badges used
to be made out of copper andnow the other one is that it's short
for constable on patrol. So whatever, all right? Did yeah? I
(25:37):
like that too? Yeah. Disneylandunion employees agreed to ratify new three year
contracts with Disney just late Monday evening. These new contracts include that minimum wage
base pay goes up to twenty fourdollars now or they are. That ain't
badge, No, not at all. That ain't bad starting at twenty four
bucks. And that's that's that's notbad. It really isn't. And the
(26:00):
benefits are pretty good. KFI.Staff just left right now to go dow.
Yeah, oh, no kidding,no kidding. So the guy who
says deadman till no tales now getsa minimum of twenty four bucks. I
think that person probably gets a littlemore. But you know, in addition
to that, their seniority increases,flexibility and sick leave, attendance policies and
other gains they've been fighting for fora while. Sheriff says he's sorry.
(26:26):
So the sheriff in Sangamon County,Illinois said he was going to say something
that he's never said in his career, and that is we failed. And
he's talking in response to the shootingdeath of Sonia Massey, who was killed
in her home earlier this month bya sheriff's deputy. She had called nine
(26:48):
to one one to report an intruderand then when the sheriff's department went to
respond to it, she move wasshot by one of the deputies. Yeah,
and then there now there are demonstrationsall over the country, which I
kind of question the demonstrations and basedon this, this was an outlier case.
This is not policing. This isa guy who committed straight out murder.
(27:12):
He is a rogue cop. Heshould never have been a cop.
He went through what is in thelast four years, six different police departments
or four different police departments in sixyears, and he was thrown out of
the military, and he became andsomehow he got on the police force.
The protest here is the protest hereis how bad cops get hired. That's
(27:37):
the problem here. But this isif you can't, especially in the black
and brown community that already have afear of law enforcement with legitimate history,
if you cannot call them for help, that is a complete breakdown. Even
if this is an outlier case.Those things, Oh yeah, I mean
(28:00):
I'm not arguing on that. I'mnot arguing this. It was horrific,
Oh no, it was. Imean, the guy's going down. The
guy, the guy is going down, and the sheriff, by the way,
should be held responsible. How didthis guy get hired by this police?
I mean, this is kind ofnuts, But this is not institutional
racism. This is not a thepolice forces accost across the country. This
(28:27):
is this is truly an outliar caseand the and it's you can't conflate it
with institutional racism and a history ofracism what you have to, but there's
been you know, it's compounding it. Bill, it's not this. I
understand the outlier for its details,maybe, but really when you put it
(28:48):
and stack it up against other recentand I don't know this and by the
way, I don't know the statsas to how many people of color have
been killed by the police inappropriately,out of policy, straight out illegally versus
whites. And of course it hasto be you know, the waiting has
to do because you have members ofyou know, the community, how many
(29:11):
in proportion are African American? Doyou look at socioeconomic levels because crimes,
crime rates are higher in poorer areas. I mean, it's it's a big
deal. But this guy should godown and that's sort of a given.
I just can't believe the police departmenthired this guy. Don't they have any
controls whatsoever? What the that's partof the breakdown. Yeah, it's so
(29:33):
anyway, Okay, we're done.We are completely finished with the news,
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