September 11, 2025 • 30 mins
lex Stone reports the FBI is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to the capture of the suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. The agency has released images of a college-aged person of interest, recovered the suspected weapon, and says they have strong video evidence tracking the shooter’s movements. Cartridges from the weapon reportedly had words inscribed on them.
Social Media Warning
Advice against recording and posting celebrations of someone’s death, like Kirk’s, since such posts can haunt careers. The killing has left a major emotional impact on many.
LAPD Hiring Push
Michael Monks reports that Mayor Karen Bass is pushing to make it easier to hire LAPD officers.
9-1-1 System Fix
Monks also covers Los Angeles’ efforts to repair and improve the city’s troubled 9-1-1 emergency system.
Social Media Warning
Advice against recording and posting celebrations of someone’s death, like Kirk’s, since such posts can haunt careers. The killing has left a major emotional impact on many.
LAPD Hiring Push
Michael Monks reports that Mayor Karen Bass is pushing to make it easier to hire LAPD officers.
9-1-1 System Fix
Monks also covers Los Angeles’ efforts to repair and improve the city’s troubled 9-1-1 emergency system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got Conway without Conway. He's coming, don't turn the station.
He is coming. He will be here today to do
the show with you. Uncle T Bones will be live
in this studio. I am Michael Monks from KFI News,
just sitting in for Tim until he gets here. It
is a beautiful day here in southern California, but you
can't help but feel the vibrations of unrest here across
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the country, both as we recognize the twenty fourth anniversary
of the horrible events of nine to eleven two thousand
and one, and then of course the tragic killing of
Charlie Kirk in Utah yesterday and the fallout from that
and what might come next. We know more about that
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situation in Utah today than we did yesterday. ABC's Alex
Stone is with us now to talk about it. Alex
thinks so much for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hey there, Michael, Yeah, has Tim doing like ninety miles
an hour down the Burbank Boulevard or you know what?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He has the great advantage compared to the rest of
us of living like a hair away from this station.
Everyone else just deals with the traffic here. He could
walk here. I think he's got something else going on
somewhere more important. He needs to be today and then
he'll be in totally understandable.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, So on the shooting, what we know right now,
we still think that there may be an update coming
on coming in later tonight. We thought we were going
to get an update at around eleven thirty today and
then the FBI and the Utah Department of Public Safety
abruptly canceled that, saying that there were rapid developments in
the case. But as of about an hour ago, the
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Utah Department of Public Safety said they still had nobody
in custody, that they had not narrowed in on anybody.
There have been some rumors that they may have an
idea now, which is totally understandable based on the surveillance
images that were put out today that very clearly showed
the face of the person who they believe was the shooter.
Had sunglasses on, but otherwise very clear young man, longsleeved
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dark shirt, American flag with what looked like a gun
on the American flag imprinted on the front of his shirt,
hat and sunglasses and that they are They've been hoping
all day that that image was going to lead them
to the shooter, that somebody is going to say I
know that person and this is you know John Smith,
and he lives there, and that they can go and
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arrest him. But they are not at that point yet.
They may in the next couple of hours get there
if they do tonight, but today Michael Boumason, the head
of Utah Public Safety, saying, we do.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Have good video footage of this individual. We are not
going to release that at this time. We're working through
some technologies and some ways to identify this individual, and they.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do have a timeline now that they were able to
track him on that surveillance video. They saw him come
onto campus, arriving at eleven fifty two am. He goes
up some stairs onto the roof of a nearby building,
not the buildings right around where Charlie Kirk was speaking,
but beyond that, quite a distance away, where he apparently
hit out with his bolt action rifle and then the
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single deadly shot was fired at twelve twenty and then
he has seen in surveillance video, according to investigators, jumping
down off the building, running into some woods.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
They laid that out after the shooting.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
We were able to track his movements as he moved
to the other side of the building, jumped off of
the building, and fled off of the campus and into
a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So it was a fair distance maybe two hundred yards
or so where the shot had to be fired from.
The gun was found in the woods, covered in a towel,
and we understand from law enforcement sources today that there
was one spent cartridge that was still in the chamber.
There were unspent cartridges that had writings on them, words
on them that some in law enforcement are telling us now, Michael,
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that they believe it is writing's about transgender and anti
fascist type words. But they've got to decide for all
of that and figure it out. The gun is now
heading to Quantico to the FBI lab for analysis of
whatever was written on the ammunition and for DNA analysis
and hopefully they hope Layton fingerprint if they can find
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fingerprints on there. But they do have a palm print,
they have a forearm print, and they're working on getting
IDs off of those. They also have a shoe imprint
that they're working off.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Of suspect blended in well with a college institution. We're
not releasing many details right now, and then we will soon,
but right now we're not. But that individual appears to
be of college age.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And they're hoping to use video technology to do facial recognition.
Number of other things based on the images that they've
got are so clear to id that killer. But Michael,
they say tips have been pouring in today. They put
up a one hundred thousand dollars reward for the arrest
of the shooter. FBI Director Cash Betel is heading to
Utah tonight. We are told by sources in the FBI
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he's going there to lead the investigation and to show
what a bit deal the Trump administration is making up
the investigation, not necessarily to announce anything at this point,
and that there is not an announcement. Again that could change,
you know, in five minutes, they could say that they
have a big announcement that they made in the rest,
but as of now, they he's going there just to
show what an important investigation it is.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Alex Stone from ABC News, we heard the official there
say that this suspect blended in well with the college
students there. That's not necessarily just because of this person's
possible age and youthful appearance. You mentioned the shirt that
this guy is seen wearing in the video. It looks
very patriotic, very stereotypical costume perhaps of someone who might
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go to a Trump rally or somebody who might go
out in support of Charlie Kirk and that type of messaging.
But then you talk about these cartridges and the conflicting
message on those related to transgender and antifa. What do
we know, if anything about that messaging beyond their possible existence.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
We don't know a lot because they are still analyzing
it to figure out what the words mean, other than
that it was read by some in law enforcement as
being messages that are anti fascist and transgender.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But beyond that we don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And yet, because we don't know anything about this individual
right now, we don't know if it was a costume.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That they were wearing, or.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
If it was something that you know, family's going to say, oh,
he always wears that, or you know what the ideology
is and they've got to to nail that down. And
because it is so clear, it would not be shocking
if by tonight they at least know specifically who they're
going after. No arrest warrant has been issued. As of
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the last couple of minutes, they have not put anybody
yet in handcuffs. After yesterday when cash Betel announced it
separately the two different people had been detained and that
there were subjects in custody for the shooting. Both of
those were not their suspect and they had to release them,
and but law enforcement put out their names. So those
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families are apparently getting harassed today because people are harassing
them as being the shooter and the second young man
who was detained and his identity out there in cash
Bettel tweeting out that they had a subject in custody.
His dad was angry today in Utah, saying that his
son had gone to this because he's a big fan
of Charlie Kirk, saying the quote, it's ridiculous. It's absolutely
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uncalled for and insane that his son would be arrested
and then or at least detained and then publicly identified
by the director of the FBI as being a subject
that may have been involved in the shooting. So there
were some missteps yesterday and this definitely is a different
FBI now. Typically, the FBI is very slow in putting
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out official information to the point where I mean, you know,
Michael is we're out on the street will know things
and say why won't you guys confirm this, And it
takes them a very long time to nail everything down,
Whereas now there is a director of the FBI that
is putting out unconfirmed information and then having to walk back.
So there have been those missteps. He is now going.
It would seem that they're probably going to be much
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more careful now about putting out when they do get
somebody in custody that they've gotten them and who they
are and what they're in custody for. But as of now,
we don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, it seemed very sloppy yesterday with the way some
of that news came out of official channels, like the
director of the FBI, ABC News, Alex Stone. Always a
pleasure to hear you on KFI. Thanks for chatting with
us about this. I'm sure we'll have cause to talk
again soon.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You got it, Thanks, Michael.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The political ideology of this suspect will obviously be important
because of the political volatility in this country right now.
All you have to do is open up any of
the social media platforms and you can see that people
are already ascribing a personality to this person. They want
somebody to blame, and they may want more than one
person to blame. They may want ideas to blame, beliefs
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to blame, groups to blame. This is a very, very
challenging time in this country, a more challenging time perhaps
than it was even forty eight hours ago, and we're
going to continue to monitor this. We are expecting a
press conference out of Utah, maybe around five o'clock our time.
We will carry that live, but again, that was originally
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announced for late in the morning. It's been delayed now
more than five hours, but we'll bring it whenever it
does happen, and hopefully we'll get some solid updates there.
And Michael Monks from KFI News sitting in for Tim
Conway only briefly. He will be here at some point today,
possibly on the other side of this break, maybe not,
but we will get Timmy in here and he will
(09:34):
spend the rest of the afternoon with you.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sorry guys, running a little late today. I'll tell you
later on. It's not a big story. It's not a
good story, so may not even tell it at all
about that. I was just late, you know, what can
you do? But I knew it was going to be late,
so I asked Monks last week if he could fill in,
and he said, of course. So Monks gets an Ada
boy for that, Michael Monks every Saturday seven to nine pm.
(10:06):
All right, everyone's talking about Charlie Kirk, whether you supported him,
whether you miss him, whether you are against him, whatever,
the entire spectrum. But let me just for a second.
I talk to dumb people, just for a second. So
if you're you're a dumb I stay keep kfi on.
(10:30):
If you're if you're pretty smart, pretty savvy, and you
you can work your way around the world, you know,
having a job, paying your bills, you know, not getting
into too much trouble, then this isn't This next statement's
not for you. Maybe you can grab a cigarette or something,
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or well maybe that's not smart either. I don't know.
You can go get a drink or I don't know,
an orange crush. Get off Freeway and go get an
orange crush at the mini mart. But just dumb people,
all right, just really dumb people. This is just for you.
Don't videotape yourself celebrating somebody's death like Charlie Kirk and
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post it on social media. Don't do it. As much
as you want to do it, as much as you
feel elated that he was killed, as much as you
get turned on that he was killed. You nuts out there.
Don't videotape yourself and put it on social media. Try
to restrain yourself from doing that because almost every company
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now looks at social media when you get hired, and
if they see any kind of indication of that that
you're celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, you will never get hired
by I would say, almost one hundred percent of corporate America.
And that's a lot. You'd have to start your own
company or wash your social media, which is very tough
(12:03):
to do because once you post your celebration of Charlie
Kirk dying and getting killed in front of three or
four thousand students, you might wake up the next morning
and go, oh, that's not a good look, and you'll
take it off your your social media feed. But guess what,
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it was captured already by a lot of people who
will keep posting that over and over and over, and
you will most likely never work again, or it'll you'll
find it very very difficult to get a job, extremely difficult.
And don't think that you can just, you know, later
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on in life, just whitewash your social media, because that's
also a red flag. If you're twenty five, twenty six
years old and you start working for Corporate America and
or you know whatever, whatever corporation it is, maybe working
for Goodyear, or I don't know, you're working for Vonn's,
they'll want to take a look at your social media
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and if you say you don't have one, that's also
a red flag. And so try to restrain yourself. Don't.
You can celebrate your house, it's it's it's a free country.
But when people say, well, it's freedom of speech, I
can celebrate any where I want. Yeah, that's true. They
can't arrest you for it. But you don't. You're not
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going to be hired anywhere. You're not gonna be able
to make a living. You're going to be broke. You'll
end up probably on welfare or homeless, or on food stamps,
or you know, having your mom or dad give you
money every month for the rest of your life, and
they're going to get tired of that, So don't do it,
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all right, that's just for the dumb people, the dumb people,
really dumb people to do that, and for everybody else
you've managed to to think about this, you know, this
assassination in the correct way. There's an incorrect way and
a correct way to look at this death. And the
incorrect way is to celebrate it, videotape yourself and put
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it on social media. That is going to haunt you
forever because there are already a number of websites that
have a montage of people doing that, and if you're
on it, that lives forever and you're not. There's nobody's
gonna hire you. Nobody. I don't know a single corporation
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that would hire you. You think Disney's going to hire
you or NBC Universal, You think you're gonna hired at McDonald's.
With you celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, you couldn't
even you couldn't work at at a low level entry job.
You could probably not even volunteer. You know, when you volunteer,
Let's say you volunteer for I don't know, Meals on
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Wheels or Big Brothers of America. They'll also look at
your social media and then they'll say no to you
as well. So it's gonna be a low, long, long,
miserable life for that five minutes of happiness that you
celebrate somebody's death, which is odd improperly raised. And I
think a lot of the people that do that, that
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celebrate Charlie Kirk's death, I don't think they have a
lot of friends. And I'll tell you why, because if
you had a lot of friends, or you're close to
a lot of family members, they will they would have
talked you out of that in the past, that kind
of behavior in the past. You know, if you had five, six,
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seven close friends, even one or two close friends, and
in the past you've you know, a politician died and
you celebrated it, they would have talked to you about
that and they would have said, hey, that's not a
good look. I wouldn't do that anymore. And that's what
good friends would do for you. But people have no
friends and and I you know, are living a really
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solitary lifestyle, they will You'll post stuff like that and
then you watch it will affect your future one hundred
percent of your future. All right, Well, we have got
a lot to get into. We had jay Leno on
last night. He wanted to call and talk to us
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and you know, in a very serious way. And that
was a great segment Bellio posted up on I think
it was on Instagram, Instagram and Facebook and a lot
of people that message that jay Leno gave last night
we'll play when we come back, really resonated with a
lot of people. This is a man who has written jokes,
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delivered jokes, hosted TV shows, made people laugh, and does
not take a lot of things seriously. But man, did
he take this, this killing of Charlie Kirk seriously. And
it went up yesterday I don't know, probably what around
five o'clock or so what times you post that yesterday?
Around five, okay, five o'clock, And as of about ten
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minutes ago, over a two point two million people have
seen this. And people need that right now, you know.
They need people they recognize and people they're comfortable with
and people they've seen for a long time help them
get through this. And it's a big deal for a
lot of people. It's a big deal for me. I've
gone through a tremendous amount of emotions over this, And
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I text a friend, I want to read it to
you exactly because I think it's I think it's important
by and then we'll take a break. But I I
wrote this to a buddy of mine. I said, Buddy,
this Kirk shooting is devastating. I've never met the guy,
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but I feel like a friend or a family member
has died, and I can't shake it. And I think
a lot of people are going through the same thing
where this one hit really hard. This one hit harder
than almost all the other assassinations or deaths of people
you may have never met, but people you knew. And
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don't feel bad if you're like me and Bellio and
Oscar and and and Brigita. I mean, we've all, you know, uh,
have have been impacted by this. Uh and and it's
and it's tough to get it's tough to get through this.
You know, a lot of people woke up this morning
and it didn't hit him right away, and then they
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remembered Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and and it depressed him.
You know, you wake up in a in a radical depression.
It feels like you lost a family member or a
friend even though you've never met the guy, and it's
it's odd. I don't know what it is, but I've
never had that happen before where the sorrow and the
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sadness is lingered on that long, and I'm sure it'll continue.
The more you watch of him, and the more you
see what a great dad daddy was and a great
husband he was, and how close he was with these kids,
and how he went onto these campus and talked to
kids without any protection, fearless and you know, showed these
kids there's another message out there. It affects a lot
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of people. A lot of people are gonna have to
see maybe seek therapy because it's like a a not
only a family member, a friend of a friend or
maybe even a pet. You know, it's like that a
tach attach attachment you have to him. It was overwhelming
and he was gone in an instant, and we saw
it happen and it's devastating, it really is. So don't
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feel bad if you're going through the same thing I am.
It's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty we.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Might have a press conference at five o'clock surrounding the
Charlie Kirk assassination, So we'll bring that to you live.
Will interrupt anything we're doing, and we'll have more information
and we'll spring put in all day long. But first
we got Michael Monks again, thanks for filling in for
the first segment.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Appreciate that multiple appearances on the program today. You got
two things we're working on here. Mayor pass is one
of them.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And then nine to eleven nine one, nine one one. Oh,
I'm sorry. The nine to one to one, I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
The nine one one system off nine eleven is well,
see icee Okay, let's start with with Mayor Paths.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
She wants to make it easier to hire LAPD office,
so she does.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Indeed, I mean, look, you know that there has been
a shortage of officers. Every chief of the past what
fifteen twenty years has said, we don't have enough guys
and gals out there on the streets patrolling. They want
ten thou eleven thousand, twelve thousand. They're at eighty seven hundred.
That's the lowest they've been in a generation. That is
a low amount of police.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And new York City geographically is much smaller than LA
and they have thirty seven thousand cops. That's right.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I mean this is a huge city, not just because
of its population geographically, Yes, it's a large, complicated city.
A lot of different terrains, right, different tobographies, a lot
of different densities out there there, and a lot of
different populations. You've got some ritzy areas that don't need
as many police, and then you've got some areas that
need a lot more.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I mean, it literally goes from Chatsworth the San Pedro,
which is probably about forty miles. It's a long, long city.
What is she going to do to help people?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, here's what you've Done's today She's issued an executive
directive that she says will accelerate police hiring because they
want to get the number at least above nine thousand,
so they'll get a few hundred more officers in order
to hit that quota.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
There have been a lot of.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Problems with hiring police, and one of them is you know,
this has become cliche when you talk about government officials,
but it is bureaucratic red tape. Police officers have to
go through the same process that you know, a lifeguard
or anybody else who's getting a job with the city
has to go through, and it's the personnel department. This
is a city that's been shedding staff, that doesn't have
as many resources, as much money as it needs to
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have on its own, so it's a slow process anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And a guy works for LAPD told me this because
he's in charge of one of the guys and works
in recruitment. But they say for every one hundred guys
and gals that sign up to go through the academy,
do come police officers? He said, at least two to
three or four of them each class will have a
warrant out for their arrest.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's the problem that isn't mentioned enough because of course
there is bureaucratic red tape that slows this down. But
I've sat through multiple committee meetings at la City Hall
where the police department is quizzed about, well, what's the deal.
You're talking about record applications. They're getting applicants right, a
lot of them. They've been doing a massive recruitment campaign
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for a long time. It's on all of their cruisers,
pumper sticker, let's do this. But they're like, uh, yes,
some of them are too fat, some of them can't
pass the test right, and some of them have criminal.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Records, some of some of them have outstanding warrants asolutely,
and they just take them in right there.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
And another thing that impacts a place like la is
you can throw a rock and hit another city. That's right,
and that other city may have a police department and
give them sen they might have better deal going on.
And right now, if you are somebody looking to be
a police officer, it's a you know, it's a buyer's market. Yeah,
so you know, ELI is not just competing to get
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people to come in and be police officers.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
There.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
They're competing against Burbank, they're competing against Pasadena. You know,
they're competing against these places that have their own departments.
All right, well we come back. Can you stay with us, Ice,
your king Okay, Monks is with us. We'll talk about
the nine to one one system. And also if there
is a press conference, we will take it immediately no
matter what we're doing here with regards to the assassination
of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yesterday, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
We're waiting a possible press conference on the assassin assassination
of Charlie Kirk yesterday, so as soon as that happens,
we'll have it for you live. We'll also replay the
interview that John Colebelt did with Charlie Kirk's pastor or
a reverend or priest. I don't know what exactly who was,
but it was a great interview and we'll play that
(23:56):
at some point before seven o'clock. Monks is with us.
The nine one system on nine to one one is
in the news, It absolutely is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know, we've been talking recently about burglaries Insino and
areas around there.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's been a serious problem.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Think about yourself going home finding that your home has
been burglarized, nobody's there, the burglars have made off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You call nine to one one that's classified as a
non emergency, and the wait time for somebody calling in
could be an hour or more before a dispatcher gets
on there to get your information.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Even before you can be on hold just to get
information for an hour.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes, wow, And again this goes back to what we
were talking about in the previous segments. It's a big city,
A lot of people are here, a lot of stuff
is happening. There are not enough police officers to get
to everything in a timely manner. But if you are
dealing with something like your home being broken into, it's
pretty traumatic and terrifying, you view it as an emergency.
The system itself does not. You are not in an
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immediate threat. There is no danger to you right now.
It's a terrible thing, but it is a non emergency.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
There's an advertiser here at KFI who lives in Sherman Oaks.
I don't want to say his name because I haven't
asked him. I could. I can repeat this story on
the air. His home was burglarized and he called LAPD
at nine forty five pm and they showed up three
a yeah, six hours the exactly. So we're not even
with their fault. They just don't have the guys and gals.
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But we're not even talking about the response time now police.
This is before the police are even dispatched, if they're
going to be dispatched. It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Now there are non emergencies that we can all accept
as non emergencies. You're not even supposed to call nine
to one one, if you get into a little fender bender,
you're supposed to exchange information and fix that yourself through insurance.
But if you are in any other situation you call
and you have a non emergency, you are waiting for
a while. So the La City Council has approved this
week in order a directive if you will, to have
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the LAPD come back in about a month and say
this is what we need in order to improve that.
They say, murgency response times are about three minutes and
forty seconds, and that is correct. For excuse me, ninety
percent of all nine one calls or answers within fifteen seconds.
That's the States standard, so they have to be answered, okay,
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but that's just hello, I'm here right, all right. So
fifty seven point four to three percent of emergency calls
were answered in fifteen seconds or less, but the non
emergency calls take longer. The average is only three minutes
and forty seconds, but there are just many instances where
it is much longer. So they want the LAPD to
come back in about a month and figure out what
the staffing looks like for their dispatchers. They call them
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Police service representatives or PSRs. They want to know how
these PSRs are expected to impact emergency call response times
and non emergency hold times. They want to know how
to integrate technological interventions for non emergency call taking, and
they want an evaluation of what they call the feasibility
of establishing dedicated non emergency operators within the communications to
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basically people who are not necessarily trained the same way
as the PSRs, but folks who can take those calls
in the information right.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But you know, it's I live in a small city.
I live in Burbank, and one of the reasons I
left the City of La is this exact reason. You know,
they just don't have enough people to run that city properly.
And they're not hiring anymore. There's a hiring freeze, and
so it's good. It's just gonna get worse and worse.
I don't know what the I don't know where this ends. No,
(27:28):
I don't either. They clearly need to improve the system.
There's so much dysfunction at LA City Hall. There are
so many different concerns, most of them related to money.
It's the type of household where money is always a problem,
and so things are always tense. Hair is getting pulled
things are being thrown and problems aren't being addressed the
way that they're supposed to be. I think you're right
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while you're sitting here, I want to know because you
were in Kentucky during nine to eleven, and this is
the twenty fourth anniversary we're commemorating today. Where were you
on nine eleven. You know, it's interesting, you know, thinking
back to twenty four years ago. I wasn't undergrad.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I was at Northern Kentucky University, which is seven miles
south of Cincinnati, and I was on campus in the
apartment and flipped on the television and everything and hit
the fan by then, and I woke up my roommate
and I said, we've been bombed.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You know, we were stoners. We didn't know what was
going on.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
We saw a bunch of stuff on TV and thought
But I had to go to work it. I didn't
have any class, but I had to work that Tuesday
at the Mall in downtown Cincinnati, selling soap and incense
in this little soul. It was a great store to
work at because there were no customers and so I
could always do my homework. But it was in the
tallest building in downtown Cincinnati. This mall, the Crew Tower
in Cincinnati is the biggest building there, and at that moment,
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we didn't they could have been coming for Topeka next.
You know, like everybody was just speculating, all if they
come to CINCINNTI, they're obviously gonna hit the Crew Tower
where the mall is exactly. So they evacuated us and
send us all home out of that building because everybody
was terrified that Cincinnati was next.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah. Nate Bargatsky, very funny comic who's hosting the Emmy
Awards this weekend, also hosted Sarah Live a couple of times.
He said, he comes from a town of I think
it's like twelve hundred in Tennessee, and they after a
nine to eleven happens, they immediately had their local police department,
which is six police officers surround the water tower because
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that's gonna be after the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
it's the you know, South Jackson, Tennessee water Tower. We
all felt that way that day. Yeah, everybody in small
towns felt like they were next.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You just didn't know, and that type of fear not
to return it too A serious conversation with that type
of fear, I think, and the combination of the immediate
access to megaphones like we have now with the social
media that fear lingers every day.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
We feel it, especially on days like today after what
happened yesterday. I think you're right, Buddie. I appreciate you
coming in for the first segment nine seven to nine
pm on Saturday. You got it, all right, thank you?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Man?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right there, he goes Michael Monks. Everybody when as
soon as that press conference happens, we'll have it for you.
If you're watching TV right now, at least on the networks,
on the national networks, the cable stations, you're watching Air
Force two arrive in Phoenix, Arizona with the remains of
Charlie Kirk. That's on Fox and also on CNN. Vice
(30:18):
President I believe Vance is also on that plane. I
think that's why they call it Air Force two. Yes,
it would have to be. If they're referring to as
Air Force two. Vice President Vance has to be on
that plane. We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway
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to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand
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It's KFI Am six forty and you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got Conway without Conway. He's coming, don't turn the station.
He is coming. He will be here today to do
the show with you. Uncle T Bones will be live
in this studio. I am Michael Monks from KFI News,
just sitting in for Tim until he gets here. It
is a beautiful day here in southern California, but you
can't help but feel the vibrations of unrest here across
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the country, both as we recognize the twenty fourth anniversary
of the horrible events of nine to eleven two thousand
and one, and then of course the tragic killing of
Charlie Kirk in Utah yesterday and the fallout from that
and what might come next. We know more about that
(00:53):
situation in Utah today than we did yesterday. ABC's Alex
Stone is with us now to talk about it. Alex
thinks so much for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hey there, Michael, Yeah, has Tim doing like ninety miles
an hour down the Burbank Boulevard or you know what?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He has the great advantage compared to the rest of
us of living like a hair away from this station.
Everyone else just deals with the traffic here. He could
walk here. I think he's got something else going on
somewhere more important. He needs to be today and then
he'll be in totally understandable.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, So on the shooting, what we know right now,
we still think that there may be an update coming
on coming in later tonight. We thought we were going
to get an update at around eleven thirty today and
then the FBI and the Utah Department of Public Safety
abruptly canceled that, saying that there were rapid developments in
the case. But as of about an hour ago, the
(01:42):
Utah Department of Public Safety said they still had nobody
in custody, that they had not narrowed in on anybody.
There have been some rumors that they may have an
idea now, which is totally understandable based on the surveillance
images that were put out today that very clearly showed
the face of the person who they believe was the shooter.
Had sunglasses on, but otherwise very clear young man, longsleeved
(02:05):
dark shirt, American flag with what looked like a gun
on the American flag imprinted on the front of his shirt,
hat and sunglasses and that they are They've been hoping
all day that that image was going to lead them
to the shooter, that somebody is going to say I
know that person and this is you know John Smith,
and he lives there, and that they can go and
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arrest him. But they are not at that point yet.
They may in the next couple of hours get there
if they do tonight, but today Michael Boumason, the head
of Utah Public Safety, saying, we do.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Have good video footage of this individual. We are not
going to release that at this time. We're working through
some technologies and some ways to identify this individual, and they.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do have a timeline now that they were able to
track him on that surveillance video. They saw him come
onto campus, arriving at eleven fifty two am. He goes
up some stairs onto the roof of a nearby building,
not the buildings right around where Charlie Kirk was speaking,
but beyond that, quite a distance away, where he apparently
hit out with his bolt action rifle and then the
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single deadly shot was fired at twelve twenty and then
he has seen in surveillance video, according to investigators, jumping
down off the building, running into some woods.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
They laid that out after the shooting.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
We were able to track his movements as he moved
to the other side of the building, jumped off of
the building, and fled off of the campus and into
a neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So it was a fair distance maybe two hundred yards
or so where the shot had to be fired from.
The gun was found in the woods, covered in a towel,
and we understand from law enforcement sources today that there
was one spent cartridge that was still in the chamber.
There were unspent cartridges that had writings on them, words
on them that some in law enforcement are telling us now, Michael,
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that they believe it is writing's about transgender and anti
fascist type words. But they've got to decide for all
of that and figure it out. The gun is now
heading to Quantico to the FBI lab for analysis of
whatever was written on the ammunition and for DNA analysis
and hopefully they hope Layton fingerprint if they can find
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fingerprints on there. But they do have a palm print,
they have a forearm print, and they're working on getting
IDs off of those. They also have a shoe imprint
that they're working off.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Of suspect blended in well with a college institution. We're
not releasing many details right now, and then we will soon,
but right now we're not. But that individual appears to
be of college age.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And they're hoping to use video technology to do facial recognition.
Number of other things based on the images that they've
got are so clear to id that killer. But Michael,
they say tips have been pouring in today. They put
up a one hundred thousand dollars reward for the arrest
of the shooter. FBI Director Cash Betel is heading to
Utah tonight. We are told by sources in the FBI
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he's going there to lead the investigation and to show
what a bit deal the Trump administration is making up
the investigation, not necessarily to announce anything at this point,
and that there is not an announcement. Again that could change,
you know, in five minutes, they could say that they
have a big announcement that they made in the rest,
but as of now, they he's going there just to
show what an important investigation it is.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Alex Stone from ABC News, we heard the official there
say that this suspect blended in well with the college
students there. That's not necessarily just because of this person's
possible age and youthful appearance. You mentioned the shirt that
this guy is seen wearing in the video. It looks
very patriotic, very stereotypical costume perhaps of someone who might
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go to a Trump rally or somebody who might go
out in support of Charlie Kirk and that type of messaging.
But then you talk about these cartridges and the conflicting
message on those related to transgender and antifa. What do
we know, if anything about that messaging beyond their possible existence.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
We don't know a lot because they are still analyzing
it to figure out what the words mean, other than
that it was read by some in law enforcement as
being messages that are anti fascist and transgender.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But beyond that we don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And yet, because we don't know anything about this individual
right now, we don't know if it was a costume.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That they were wearing, or.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
If it was something that you know, family's going to say, oh,
he always wears that, or you know what the ideology
is and they've got to to nail that down. And
because it is so clear, it would not be shocking
if by tonight they at least know specifically who they're
going after. No arrest warrant has been issued. As of
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the last couple of minutes, they have not put anybody
yet in handcuffs. After yesterday when cash Betel announced it
separately the two different people had been detained and that
there were subjects in custody for the shooting. Both of
those were not their suspect and they had to release them,
and but law enforcement put out their names. So those
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families are apparently getting harassed today because people are harassing
them as being the shooter and the second young man
who was detained and his identity out there in cash
Bettel tweeting out that they had a subject in custody.
His dad was angry today in Utah, saying that his
son had gone to this because he's a big fan
of Charlie Kirk, saying the quote, it's ridiculous. It's absolutely
(07:24):
uncalled for and insane that his son would be arrested
and then or at least detained and then publicly identified
by the director of the FBI as being a subject
that may have been involved in the shooting. So there
were some missteps yesterday and this definitely is a different
FBI now. Typically, the FBI is very slow in putting
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out official information to the point where I mean, you know,
Michael is we're out on the street will know things
and say why won't you guys confirm this, And it
takes them a very long time to nail everything down,
Whereas now there is a director of the FBI that
is putting out unconfirmed information and then having to walk back.
So there have been those missteps. He is now going.
It would seem that they're probably going to be much
(08:06):
more careful now about putting out when they do get
somebody in custody that they've gotten them and who they
are and what they're in custody for. But as of now,
we don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, it seemed very sloppy yesterday with the way some
of that news came out of official channels, like the
director of the FBI, ABC News, Alex Stone. Always a
pleasure to hear you on KFI. Thanks for chatting with
us about this. I'm sure we'll have cause to talk
again soon.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You got it, Thanks, Michael.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The political ideology of this suspect will obviously be important
because of the political volatility in this country right now.
All you have to do is open up any of
the social media platforms and you can see that people
are already ascribing a personality to this person. They want
somebody to blame, and they may want more than one
person to blame. They may want ideas to blame, beliefs
(08:53):
to blame, groups to blame. This is a very, very
challenging time in this country, a more challenging time perhaps
than it was even forty eight hours ago, and we're
going to continue to monitor this. We are expecting a
press conference out of Utah, maybe around five o'clock our time.
We will carry that live, but again, that was originally
(09:14):
announced for late in the morning. It's been delayed now
more than five hours, but we'll bring it whenever it
does happen, and hopefully we'll get some solid updates there.
And Michael Monks from KFI News sitting in for Tim
Conway only briefly. He will be here at some point today,
possibly on the other side of this break, maybe not,
but we will get Timmy in here and he will
(09:34):
spend the rest of the afternoon with you.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sorry guys, running a little late today. I'll tell you
later on. It's not a big story. It's not a
good story, so may not even tell it at all
about that. I was just late, you know, what can
you do? But I knew it was going to be late,
so I asked Monks last week if he could fill in,
and he said, of course. So Monks gets an Ada
boy for that, Michael Monks every Saturday seven to nine pm.
(10:06):
All right, everyone's talking about Charlie Kirk, whether you supported him,
whether you miss him, whether you are against him, whatever,
the entire spectrum. But let me just for a second.
I talk to dumb people, just for a second. So
if you're you're a dumb I stay keep kfi on.
(10:30):
If you're if you're pretty smart, pretty savvy, and you
you can work your way around the world, you know,
having a job, paying your bills, you know, not getting
into too much trouble, then this isn't This next statement's
not for you. Maybe you can grab a cigarette or something,
(10:50):
or well maybe that's not smart either. I don't know.
You can go get a drink or I don't know,
an orange crush. Get off Freeway and go get an
orange crush at the mini mart. But just dumb people,
all right, just really dumb people. This is just for you.
Don't videotape yourself celebrating somebody's death like Charlie Kirk and
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post it on social media. Don't do it. As much
as you want to do it, as much as you
feel elated that he was killed, as much as you
get turned on that he was killed. You nuts out there.
Don't videotape yourself and put it on social media. Try
to restrain yourself from doing that because almost every company
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now looks at social media when you get hired, and
if they see any kind of indication of that that
you're celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, you will never get hired
by I would say, almost one hundred percent of corporate America.
And that's a lot. You'd have to start your own
company or wash your social media, which is very tough
(12:03):
to do because once you post your celebration of Charlie
Kirk dying and getting killed in front of three or
four thousand students, you might wake up the next morning
and go, oh, that's not a good look, and you'll
take it off your your social media feed. But guess what,
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it was captured already by a lot of people who
will keep posting that over and over and over, and
you will most likely never work again, or it'll you'll
find it very very difficult to get a job, extremely difficult.
And don't think that you can just, you know, later
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on in life, just whitewash your social media, because that's
also a red flag. If you're twenty five, twenty six
years old and you start working for Corporate America and
or you know whatever, whatever corporation it is, maybe working
for Goodyear, or I don't know, you're working for Vonn's,
they'll want to take a look at your social media
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and if you say you don't have one, that's also
a red flag. And so try to restrain yourself. Don't.
You can celebrate your house, it's it's it's a free country.
But when people say, well, it's freedom of speech, I
can celebrate any where I want. Yeah, that's true. They
can't arrest you for it. But you don't. You're not
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going to be hired anywhere. You're not gonna be able
to make a living. You're going to be broke. You'll
end up probably on welfare or homeless, or on food stamps,
or you know, having your mom or dad give you
money every month for the rest of your life, and
they're going to get tired of that, So don't do it,
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all right, that's just for the dumb people, the dumb people,
really dumb people to do that, and for everybody else
you've managed to to think about this, you know, this
assassination in the correct way. There's an incorrect way and
a correct way to look at this death. And the
incorrect way is to celebrate it, videotape yourself and put
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it on social media. That is going to haunt you
forever because there are already a number of websites that
have a montage of people doing that, and if you're
on it, that lives forever and you're not. There's nobody's
gonna hire you. Nobody. I don't know a single corporation
(14:30):
that would hire you. You think Disney's going to hire
you or NBC Universal, You think you're gonna hired at McDonald's.
With you celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, you couldn't
even you couldn't work at at a low level entry job.
You could probably not even volunteer. You know, when you volunteer,
Let's say you volunteer for I don't know, Meals on
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Wheels or Big Brothers of America. They'll also look at
your social media and then they'll say no to you
as well. So it's gonna be a low, long, long,
miserable life for that five minutes of happiness that you
celebrate somebody's death, which is odd improperly raised. And I
think a lot of the people that do that, that
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celebrate Charlie Kirk's death, I don't think they have a
lot of friends. And I'll tell you why, because if
you had a lot of friends, or you're close to
a lot of family members, they will they would have
talked you out of that in the past, that kind
of behavior in the past. You know, if you had five, six,
(15:34):
seven close friends, even one or two close friends, and
in the past you've you know, a politician died and
you celebrated it, they would have talked to you about
that and they would have said, hey, that's not a
good look. I wouldn't do that anymore. And that's what
good friends would do for you. But people have no
friends and and I you know, are living a really
(15:54):
solitary lifestyle, they will You'll post stuff like that and
then you watch it will affect your future one hundred
percent of your future. All right, Well, we have got
a lot to get into. We had jay Leno on
last night. He wanted to call and talk to us
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and you know, in a very serious way. And that
was a great segment Bellio posted up on I think
it was on Instagram, Instagram and Facebook and a lot
of people that message that jay Leno gave last night
we'll play when we come back, really resonated with a
lot of people. This is a man who has written jokes,
(16:38):
delivered jokes, hosted TV shows, made people laugh, and does
not take a lot of things seriously. But man, did
he take this, this killing of Charlie Kirk seriously. And
it went up yesterday I don't know, probably what around
five o'clock or so what times you post that yesterday?
Around five, okay, five o'clock, And as of about ten
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minutes ago, over a two point two million people have
seen this. And people need that right now, you know.
They need people they recognize and people they're comfortable with
and people they've seen for a long time help them
get through this. And it's a big deal for a
lot of people. It's a big deal for me. I've
gone through a tremendous amount of emotions over this, And
(17:24):
I text a friend, I want to read it to
you exactly because I think it's I think it's important
by and then we'll take a break. But I I
wrote this to a buddy of mine. I said, Buddy,
this Kirk shooting is devastating. I've never met the guy,
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but I feel like a friend or a family member
has died, and I can't shake it. And I think
a lot of people are going through the same thing
where this one hit really hard. This one hit harder
than almost all the other assassinations or deaths of people
you may have never met, but people you knew. And
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don't feel bad if you're like me and Bellio and
Oscar and and and Brigita. I mean, we've all, you know, uh,
have have been impacted by this. Uh and and it's
and it's tough to get it's tough to get through this.
You know, a lot of people woke up this morning
and it didn't hit him right away, and then they
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remembered Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and and it depressed him.
You know, you wake up in a in a radical depression.
It feels like you lost a family member or a
friend even though you've never met the guy, and it's
it's odd. I don't know what it is, but I've
never had that happen before where the sorrow and the
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sadness is lingered on that long, and I'm sure it'll continue.
The more you watch of him, and the more you
see what a great dad daddy was and a great
husband he was, and how close he was with these kids,
and how he went onto these campus and talked to
kids without any protection, fearless and you know, showed these
kids there's another message out there. It affects a lot
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of people. A lot of people are gonna have to
see maybe seek therapy because it's like a a not
only a family member, a friend of a friend or
maybe even a pet. You know, it's like that a
tach attach attachment you have to him. It was overwhelming
and he was gone in an instant, and we saw
it happen and it's devastating, it really is. So don't
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feel bad if you're going through the same thing I am.
It's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You're listening to Tim conwaytun You're on demand from KFI
AM six forty we.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Might have a press conference at five o'clock surrounding the
Charlie Kirk assassination, So we'll bring that to you live.
Will interrupt anything we're doing, and we'll have more information
and we'll spring put in all day long. But first
we got Michael Monks again, thanks for filling in for
the first segment.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Appreciate that multiple appearances on the program today. You got
two things we're working on here. Mayor pass is one
of them.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And then nine to eleven nine one, nine one one. Oh,
I'm sorry. The nine to one to one, I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
The nine one one system off nine eleven is well,
see icee Okay, let's start with with Mayor Paths.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
She wants to make it easier to hire LAPD office,
so she does.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Indeed, I mean, look, you know that there has been
a shortage of officers. Every chief of the past what
fifteen twenty years has said, we don't have enough guys
and gals out there on the streets patrolling. They want
ten thou eleven thousand, twelve thousand. They're at eighty seven hundred.
That's the lowest they've been in a generation. That is
a low amount of police.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And new York City geographically is much smaller than LA
and they have thirty seven thousand cops. That's right.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I mean this is a huge city, not just because
of its population geographically, Yes, it's a large, complicated city.
A lot of different terrains, right, different tobographies, a lot
of different densities out there there, and a lot of
different populations. You've got some ritzy areas that don't need
as many police, and then you've got some areas that
need a lot more.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I mean, it literally goes from Chatsworth the San Pedro,
which is probably about forty miles. It's a long, long city.
What is she going to do to help people?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, here's what you've Done's today She's issued an executive
directive that she says will accelerate police hiring because they
want to get the number at least above nine thousand,
so they'll get a few hundred more officers in order
to hit that quota.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
There have been a lot of.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Problems with hiring police, and one of them is you know,
this has become cliche when you talk about government officials,
but it is bureaucratic red tape. Police officers have to
go through the same process that you know, a lifeguard
or anybody else who's getting a job with the city
has to go through, and it's the personnel department. This
is a city that's been shedding staff, that doesn't have
as many resources, as much money as it needs to
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have on its own, so it's a slow process anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And a guy works for LAPD told me this because
he's in charge of one of the guys and works
in recruitment. But they say for every one hundred guys
and gals that sign up to go through the academy,
do come police officers? He said, at least two to
three or four of them each class will have a
warrant out for their arrest.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's the problem that isn't mentioned enough because of course
there is bureaucratic red tape that slows this down. But
I've sat through multiple committee meetings at la City Hall
where the police department is quizzed about, well, what's the deal.
You're talking about record applications. They're getting applicants right, a
lot of them. They've been doing a massive recruitment campaign
(22:34):
for a long time. It's on all of their cruisers,
pumper sticker, let's do this. But they're like, uh, yes,
some of them are too fat, some of them can't
pass the test right, and some of them have criminal.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Records, some of some of them have outstanding warrants asolutely,
and they just take them in right there.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
And another thing that impacts a place like la is
you can throw a rock and hit another city. That's right,
and that other city may have a police department and
give them sen they might have better deal going on.
And right now, if you are somebody looking to be
a police officer, it's a you know, it's a buyer's market. Yeah,
so you know, ELI is not just competing to get
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people to come in and be police officers.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
There.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
They're competing against Burbank, they're competing against Pasadena. You know,
they're competing against these places that have their own departments.
All right, well we come back. Can you stay with us, Ice,
your king Okay, Monks is with us. We'll talk about
the nine to one one system. And also if there
is a press conference, we will take it immediately no
matter what we're doing here with regards to the assassination
of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Yesterday, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
We're waiting a possible press conference on the assassin assassination
of Charlie Kirk yesterday, so as soon as that happens,
we'll have it for you live. We'll also replay the
interview that John Colebelt did with Charlie Kirk's pastor or
a reverend or priest. I don't know what exactly who was,
but it was a great interview and we'll play that
(23:56):
at some point before seven o'clock. Monks is with us.
The nine one system on nine to one one is
in the news, It absolutely is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know, we've been talking recently about burglaries Insino and
areas around there.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's been a serious problem.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Think about yourself going home finding that your home has
been burglarized, nobody's there, the burglars have made off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You call nine to one one that's classified as a
non emergency, and the wait time for somebody calling in
could be an hour or more before a dispatcher gets
on there to get your information.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Even before you can be on hold just to get
information for an hour.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yes, wow, And again this goes back to what we
were talking about in the previous segments. It's a big city,
A lot of people are here, a lot of stuff
is happening. There are not enough police officers to get
to everything in a timely manner. But if you are
dealing with something like your home being broken into, it's
pretty traumatic and terrifying, you view it as an emergency.
The system itself does not. You are not in an
(24:58):
immediate threat. There is no danger to you right now.
It's a terrible thing, but it is a non emergency.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
There's an advertiser here at KFI who lives in Sherman Oaks.
I don't want to say his name because I haven't
asked him. I could. I can repeat this story on
the air. His home was burglarized and he called LAPD
at nine forty five pm and they showed up three
a yeah, six hours the exactly. So we're not even
with their fault. They just don't have the guys and gals.
(25:26):
But we're not even talking about the response time now police.
This is before the police are even dispatched, if they're
going to be dispatched. It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Now there are non emergencies that we can all accept
as non emergencies. You're not even supposed to call nine
to one one, if you get into a little fender bender,
you're supposed to exchange information and fix that yourself through insurance.
But if you are in any other situation you call
and you have a non emergency, you are waiting for
a while. So the La City Council has approved this
week in order a directive if you will, to have
(25:53):
the LAPD come back in about a month and say
this is what we need in order to improve that.
They say, murgency response times are about three minutes and
forty seconds, and that is correct. For excuse me, ninety
percent of all nine one calls or answers within fifteen seconds.
That's the States standard, so they have to be answered, okay,
(26:14):
but that's just hello, I'm here right, all right. So
fifty seven point four to three percent of emergency calls
were answered in fifteen seconds or less, but the non
emergency calls take longer. The average is only three minutes
and forty seconds, but there are just many instances where
it is much longer. So they want the LAPD to
come back in about a month and figure out what
the staffing looks like for their dispatchers. They call them
(26:36):
Police service representatives or PSRs. They want to know how
these PSRs are expected to impact emergency call response times
and non emergency hold times. They want to know how
to integrate technological interventions for non emergency call taking, and
they want an evaluation of what they call the feasibility
of establishing dedicated non emergency operators within the communications to
(27:00):
basically people who are not necessarily trained the same way
as the PSRs, but folks who can take those calls
in the information right.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But you know, it's I live in a small city.
I live in Burbank, and one of the reasons I
left the City of La is this exact reason. You know,
they just don't have enough people to run that city properly.
And they're not hiring anymore. There's a hiring freeze, and
so it's good. It's just gonna get worse and worse.
I don't know what the I don't know where this ends. No,
(27:28):
I don't either. They clearly need to improve the system.
There's so much dysfunction at LA City Hall. There are
so many different concerns, most of them related to money.
It's the type of household where money is always a problem,
and so things are always tense. Hair is getting pulled
things are being thrown and problems aren't being addressed the
way that they're supposed to be. I think you're right
(27:50):
while you're sitting here, I want to know because you
were in Kentucky during nine to eleven, and this is
the twenty fourth anniversary we're commemorating today. Where were you
on nine eleven. You know, it's interesting, you know, thinking
back to twenty four years ago. I wasn't undergrad.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I was at Northern Kentucky University, which is seven miles
south of Cincinnati, and I was on campus in the
apartment and flipped on the television and everything and hit
the fan by then, and I woke up my roommate
and I said, we've been bombed.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You know, we were stoners. We didn't know what was
going on.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
We saw a bunch of stuff on TV and thought
But I had to go to work it. I didn't
have any class, but I had to work that Tuesday
at the Mall in downtown Cincinnati, selling soap and incense
in this little soul. It was a great store to
work at because there were no customers and so I
could always do my homework. But it was in the
tallest building in downtown Cincinnati. This mall, the Crew Tower
in Cincinnati is the biggest building there, and at that moment,
(28:43):
we didn't they could have been coming for Topeka next.
You know, like everybody was just speculating, all if they
come to CINCINNTI, they're obviously gonna hit the Crew Tower
where the mall is exactly. So they evacuated us and
send us all home out of that building because everybody
was terrified that Cincinnati was next.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah. Nate Bargatsky, very funny comic who's hosting the Emmy
Awards this weekend, also hosted Sarah Live a couple of times.
He said, he comes from a town of I think
it's like twelve hundred in Tennessee, and they after a
nine to eleven happens, they immediately had their local police department,
which is six police officers surround the water tower because
(29:22):
that's gonna be after the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
it's the you know, South Jackson, Tennessee water Tower. We
all felt that way that day. Yeah, everybody in small
towns felt like they were next.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You just didn't know, and that type of fear not
to return it too A serious conversation with that type
of fear, I think, and the combination of the immediate
access to megaphones like we have now with the social
media that fear lingers every day.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
We feel it, especially on days like today after what
happened yesterday. I think you're right, Buddie. I appreciate you
coming in for the first segment nine seven to nine
pm on Saturday. You got it, all right, thank you?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Man?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right there, he goes Michael Monks. Everybody when as
soon as that press conference happens, we'll have it for you.
If you're watching TV right now, at least on the networks,
on the national networks, the cable stations, you're watching Air
Force two arrive in Phoenix, Arizona with the remains of
Charlie Kirk. That's on Fox and also on CNN. Vice
(30:18):
President I believe Vance is also on that plane. I
think that's why they call it Air Force two. Yes,
it would have to be. If they're referring to as
Air Force two. Vice President Vance has to be on
that plane. We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway
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