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Speaker: Who's really got your back? And who's just wearing a uniform? We gonna get into it. Let's get it!
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Speaker: Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends, share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, it's the sibling happy hour. I'm here with my sis, Jay Andrea. We're going to be dilly-dadding a little bit. Then we're going talking about a 90s legend, a couple of police departments, and a chef with a secret.
Speaker: But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Speaker: What up, sis? What up, brudda? I can't call it. I can't call it. I found something out today that was very interesting about myself. Okay. Before we get to the deadly daddling, somebody was talking to me earlier today. They were telling me a story.
Speaker: And I said to them, and this is how I know that I'm no longer a jerk, that at my older age I've become an asshole. Got it. I said to them, how let me stop you for one second.
Speaker: And they was like, yeah. What would make you think? that I was at all any, in any way, interested in what you're talking to me about right now.
Speaker: Oh, I was like, you can't see my face like this before you keep going into it. yeah I have no interest at all in partaking in this discussion with you. We could have a discussion about other stuff. We could talk about jokes and we joke and do any... But this particular thing, I have no interest whatsoever in talking to you about this. Oh, we i kind of figured that, but I i was just going to anyway. And why would you do something like that? Why would you do something like that? You know, I mean, and that's not to say that I won't engage in conversations about things that interest other people, right? Like, I will do that. i Because I have, like, I'll get interested in something and want to talk ah to somebody about it. And even if they do not care at all, I'm still going tell that story because I'm like, it's interesting to me share in my interests. But
Speaker: I think there does come a point where it's like, I'm not the right audience for what you're talking about. Like... Like, i wouldn't, I don't know, i kind like ah an extreme example is like, I wouldn't expect ah a red pill guy or whatever, you know, those ah incels, yeah, to talk to me about their philosophy on women. I'm not the audience for that. i What would make you think, sir, that I would give women?
Speaker: two dams about what you're talking about. I don't. And so there has been, and it's not often, I don't do this often, but I have done this before where I'm just like, oh, I don't care about this.
Speaker: You know? And the other person is like, oh, but honestly, like, you kind of get some respect because yeah from them when you do that. Cause like, it's a thing that a lot of people want to say, like you get dragged into conversations and you're just like, i don't care about this. I'm only halfway paying attention and I wish I could just walk away. And the thing of it is, is like, uh, you can, you can, you can just say, Hey, Hey, I don't care about this and walk away. Um, and the person will be like, Oh, well,
Speaker: I didn't walk away. I just looked at him dead in the face and was just like, I just don't know why you would think that this would interest me in any way, shape, or form. And the fact that you are not reading the room and can't tell that I done glossed over. and And I just got to the part in my older age where I just be like, hey, going to stop you right there.
Speaker: Yeah. don't care to hear about none about this. Not a little bit. It's something about having half your life behind you that you're just like, I don't have time to play around with y'all. I'm not out of politeness gonna stay in a conversation that I do not want to be in unless it's got something do with my paycheck.
Speaker: Yeah. Then we could talk all day long about the weather and traffic or whatever. But if it doesn't have anything to do, but I don't care. don't care. Please. I don't have time left to be stuck in conversation. This is 10, 20 minutes of life.
Speaker: Or wasting my breaths. Or wasting my breaths, right? Because you only get certain amount of breaths. Yeah. Right? i'm i'm I'm breathing to hear your conversation, which is actively working my heart and my nerve.
Speaker: Yeah. So to switch to switch topics. Okay. Something popped up on my algorithm. boy. And I was like, this is interesting conversation. I wonder what my sister thinks about this because I don't know that I know the answer to this. Okay. Okay.
Speaker: So the initial question is, should men jump into a fight physically, actually throwing punches and all, when their woman is getting jumped by other women?
Speaker: So a man is wit out with his boo. Yeah. She get jumped by three, four women. Yeah. Should he jump in the mix and start handling it up to help her out?
Speaker: Yeah. yeah Okay, so my initial response was, ooh, can I just get in there and, like, get her out of there? But it was like, ain't got no choice. You got to mix it up because they not stopping. You can't just get out. I'm being jumped.
Speaker: Yeah. So at that point, if it's a one-on-one fight between me and another lady, okay, let me cook. But I'm being jumped. Yeah.
Speaker: That's, and they're no longer, in my opinion, like, it's no longer a gender issue there because it's multiple of y'all and one of me. So we got to do whatever we got to do to get, and I feel like the reverse happens.
Speaker: when A woman is yeah always jumping in the mix. A woman is always... she Sometimes she ain't got no business, but like please don a woman is always jumping in the mix like, no, get in there and help me.
Speaker: Okay, so the the initial question was, what if it was your woman? And my initial response was, ooh, I don't feel right hitting women. Right? That was my initial feeling. You better slingshot these heifers off me then Then there was another way that somebody phrased the question. And when they were like, what if it wasn't your woman, but still a woman like your mom or your sister? And I was like, oh, wouldn't hesitate. And then that got me thinking, oh, damn, what will not do for the women that I take? Because now that I know that it's okay, right, to actually put my hands on a woman in that situation, because I'm always like hands off.
Speaker: hands off. yeah But in that situation, and if women are saying majority, not Universal, but lot of women in them comments was like, he better come in to help me. i'm like, yeah okay, so I can, like, if I got to bust him upside the head, it's okay.
Speaker: It's kind of like the superhero paradox thing of like, you can you can punch Wonder Woman in the face, right? Because she's a superhero. right Nobody ever says anything. Nobody said anything about Thanos punching ah Captain Marvel in the face.
Speaker: Right? When she was trying to run with the glove and everything day and he knocked her across the thing. Nobody said anything. Why? But she's a superhero. Right. So there's like, nobody ever says anything about it. it's multiple ladies, so they like consider that one superhero. Okay. And you need to get up in there and get these heifers off me. By any means necessary, you need to get these heifers off me. And that's self-defense. Right.
Speaker: yeah that is That is self-defense. I i immediately went to, because I don't know why it popped in my head, on Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, when there was a big fight between Benzino and his girl, I guess his girl was Althea, and Stevie J and Jocelyn.
Speaker: Jocelyn went to go hit Athea, and then Benzino punched her in the face. And I was like, that's some punk stuff. That's like... Yeah, that's not his name. Because he bragging about it. That's why you got busted in your face. And I was like, oh, you a punk. So I immediately think men hitting women, you just a punk. But in this scenario, it's okay. I'm being jumped.
Speaker: death and and me And me pushing them off and getting you out of there ain't enough. If you got to smush a face or whatever. I smush a face, but like close fists? Like close fists punch?
Speaker: It depends on how bad I'm getting my ass beat. Because, like, I think... I think the, like, I'm being jumped. So I'm probably not winning. Okay. um Most people don't win if they get jumped. Yeah. So it depends on how badly I'm being. First of all, don't let it get that bad. Already in the midst. Don't. Right. You hesitating. ah Because they're women. Who cares? They came as a group, which means y'all, y'all wanted to be.
Speaker: a group, then you're going to have to deal with the consequences of that. You lose the protection of of of womanhood when you come as a group to beat the hell out of somebody.
Speaker: I have a right to defend myself, the person I'm with. Feminism gets thrown out the window when it's a group of women. theyally they They're the ones that throw it out the window. because well it's still feminism because it's fighting a woman.
Speaker: no that's not opportunity as No, no, no. now When you decided to jump another woman, when all three are or four of y'all ain't got a problem with me, one does.
Speaker: Yeah. and And the rest of y'all came for a ride. And because that one person knows they can't beat me on their own, that's why you decided to jump me. So if that, all bets are off as far as I'm concerned. No.
Speaker: Because jumping somebody is so foul. Like, if you got a problem with somebody and you you know you can't beat them, so you ask for help, that's not a fight you even... you should you should just have that hatred in your heart and just keep on pushing. Just keep on pushing. Yeah. Nah.
Speaker: All bets are off. Well, speaking of fighting... Okay. The Black community is fighting like hell. To prove to Jason Weaver, you are beloved. You are our young Lion King.
Speaker: Absolutely. You are young Simba. What am I talking about? Jason Weaver, the kid who played Michael Jackson, sang young Simba and grew up on Thea and the smart guy. He sat down with Cam Newton on the Freaky Friday, his Cam Newton show Freaky Friday last week, and the internet gave him his flowers. He said...
Speaker: may not be the biggest star in the world. He's never headlined a $100 million dollar movie, but when he walks into the community, people stop him and thank him. He talked about Black actors having to kick down doors that were already open for others and how he decided to build his own door instead. He then dropped the Lion King story again, how Disney offered him roughly $2 million up front. to sing the the song because he's uncredited in Lion King.
Speaker: He's uncredited. But he was the one singing Hakuna Matata whatever. the no I just can't wait to be king. Oh, yeah, I just can't wait to be king. That was him, right? So he's saying that Disney tried to offer him $2 million up front. His mom said no.
Speaker: Took about $100,000 plus royalties and has made more than $7 million dollars since then. So he's tripled his money. So the question today is, bigger than one actor, what does it mean to be successful if you're not the biggest name in the room? And what's worth more, the check up front or you betting on yourself? And when he was talking about on the Freaky Friday, like, you've been off social media, so you haven't seen it. When he was talking about, hey, I might not be the biggest actor or this and that, and it was kind of like downplaying his accomplishments. Absolutely insane.
Speaker: The Black community came out and was like, do you know who you are you are little michael jackson you will forever be little michael jackson you are young simba yeah you you are you are smart guy but that's not even where first of all you just put this out there in the world jason you ever hear this this is true i grew up with the biggest crush on Jason Weaver from Thea. He played Jerome.
Speaker: He played Thea Vidal's son, Jerome. He was a sibling. and Brandy was on the show. I loved the show Thea, and I obviously had seen him before that on Jackson's American Dream. I think Thea was before that.
Speaker: I think Thea was before that. Thea was 93... three Yeah, so the Jackson American Dream was 92. Yeah, so Jackson American Dream was first.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. Okay, so that's where I first saw him, was Jackson's American Dream. And then on Thea. you saw him? Thea was 93. 93, okay, okay, okay, you're right, right, you're right, you're right. So then on Thea. And so I had the biggest, and I've always had. the but He's so talented.
Speaker: i think he's funny. he does He's a great comedic actor. He's got a great voice. I mean, the man can sing. He can sing as a c child. He can sing grown. The man can sing. I mean, he's incredibly talented. Who cares that you have not done, i don't know, some big budget film?
Speaker: We know who you are. But he's done... He hasn't done a $100 million dollar film, but he was in ATL. He was... ah To me, he was the best character in ATL. Yeah. Right? He was in later kid Lady Killers. He was in Drumline.
Speaker: Yes. You know, he was... i haven't I haven't watched The Shot, but I know that he is in it and has been a main character since season eight of The Shot. Mm-hmm. But, like, he is... Black royalty?
Speaker: Easily. For sure. we At least the prince. Yeah. Yeah. No. and And then the longevity of his career. Like, it's my man's been around since the early 90s.
Speaker: Literally. 92. And has worked steadily. Now. I see him in everything. I see him all the time. But dig this, there was a brief time, and I've heard him tell the story on Vlad TV. I gotta give out a shout out to Vlad TV just because this is where i heard the story. Where he kinda, down on his on his luck isn't the right word. Like, he wasn't getting roles.
Speaker: after smart guy, like not really. And the royalty checks weren't coming in like they used to. And he was like, I got to do something. And he got in, he but he got into cooking and became a chef and worked at the back of the house of restaurants and things like that. And then got back into acting. and And I thought that that was such a beautiful story because a lot of people, their pride is too strong yeah to to say, I need to go back and do this. But he was like, no, you know what?
Speaker: I'm Chicago born. I'm Chicago raised. What we going to do is we going make a way. Yeah. So he is like, look, I'm going to go out there and found a school, went to culinary school, worked in all the restaurants, work, did everything in the restaurants.
Speaker: Okay. Now you're telling me the man can cook too. Yeah.
Speaker: Come on. Yeah. Come on now. He getting them royalty checks and a man can cook too? And and he's back to, and he's acting, acting again. And get and i got, yeah I got a sneaky, I got a sneaky suspicion.
Speaker: That, you know, somebody who does this, and I know you're not a big fan of his, but 50 will see ah an actor that had some name value that kind of faded away, like Elvin from The Cosby Show. Mm-hmm. Yes. And then he had that whole situation where i guess Elvin was working in Trader Joe's and it kind of blew up on the internet. And 50 Cent was like, oh, no, not Elvin off it. Look, let me go ahead and put you in power.
Speaker: Yeah. Let me give you some roles. And then all of a sudden he started acting again. That yeah doesn't need to be the case for Jason Weaver because he is acting. But I can see Jason Weaver, somebody being like, oh, yeah, Jason Weaver would be perfect for this role because it's Jason Weaver and he could do everything.
Speaker: Yeah. And and ah hey, I'm not a huge Chingy fan. but he like One call away. One call away. Come on now. that that The hook was it. The hook was on it. you ah Oh, come on. I'm actually going listen to that after we record.
Speaker: Yeah. He talked about on the show the the black the young Black brotherhood in the 90s and the early 2000s in Hollywood and how Omar Gooding is still one of his best friends in the world. And and he was asked, was there one actor...
Speaker: that anytime you would go in auditions, you was like, this guy again, i don't think I'm going to beat him out. And it was always Merlin Santana. Because he was real good. They were all good friends, all of them. All of those young Black actors during that time that was on the Steve Harvey show or on Smart Guy, on those WB or UPN shows, on the Parkers. They was all crew back in the day because they were all working together. and And he said, Merlin Santana.
Speaker: That was his boy. he was like, he he was a little wild. He was a little wild. But that was his boy. He had everything. And he was like, Marlon could have been Michael B. Jordan. He was that talented. And when you think about it,
Speaker: Marlon had range going from the Cosby show and then Moesha when he was, what was his name? Raji or something like that. And then Steve Harbors. yeah He was on Moesha? He was on Moesha. He was on Moesha. I forgot about that. You're right. He was on Moesha. Oh, yeah. Man, rest in peace, Marlon. rest in power. Marlon's a tender. But we talk about Jason Weaver and yeah the whole Black community was like, look,
Speaker: Don't you ever talk about yourself like that. We don't play about you. And he was like i really know he was like, I knew that I had some love, but I did not realize it was like this. And this brother is so humble.
Speaker: You just hear him talk. You know he's spiritual. Yeah. He's grounded. He's grounded.
Speaker: You've never heard and no craziness out of him. He's been a child actor. This was a man that Michael Jackson personally picked out and said, he's the perfect version of me as that kid. yeah That's who I want to play me. Michael Jackson personally picked him out to play him. He did fantastic. He sounded amazing. He had the dance. He had the moves. he if If you ever want to see a great...
Speaker: ah Like, I can't even say an impression. It's an embodiment of Michael Jackson. Watch Jason Weaver in Jackson's American Dream.
Speaker: So good. So talented. Yeah. I don't know. i i I love humility. love it. But damn it, some of y'all need to toot your horn.
Speaker: Some of y'all need to toot your horn. Like, come on, JC. You done given us a sitcom after sitcom, sir. And we love you.
Speaker: i mean Don't play us like that. Really, if you think about smart guy, I mean, the kid was the star of the show. but it was always his brother and the shenanigans that his brother, with him and Omar Gooden, was getting into was really the show. That the comedy. yeah That was the comedy part.
Speaker: his little the The little brother that was the smart guy, he was the smart little guy. But the shenanigans. Yeah, he had no schemes. The schemes and shenanigans.
Speaker: oh Jason Weaver and Omar Gooden was hilarious on that show. Yeah. So Jason Weaver, if you hear this, brother, let me tell you that you have been in our lives since 1992. You are just a couple of years older than me. I have been following your career since it started. Now, I got admit, I didn't watch Lion King until I was, you know...
Speaker: a grown adult during the pandemic, but The Lion King came out when I was 13 years old, and I was trying to watch Bikini Summer and Bikini Summer 2 and Bikini Car Wash. That's what was on my mind back in that time, but I watched it later. Anyway, Jason! Jason!
Speaker: jason yeah Take your flowers, brother. Take your flowers, for real. ah you've You've given us ah plenty of work, quality work. We know who you are. You know we stopped you on the street.
Speaker: So you know we know who you are. Come on, brother. You don't need to be in big blockbuster films to be famous.
Speaker: All right, Jay, we go from talking about and celebrating Jason Weaver to not celebrating cops. Now, people always say why we say F the police coming straight from the underground. And these two stories are a prime example why.
Speaker: Oh, Lord. I'm just going to read the first one first to get your take on it. So let's start with Cherokee County, Georgia. i don't know how far that is from you. Not close, but... Okay.
Speaker: Corporal Charles Mills walks into a woman's home in August 2025 while in investigating her son. She keeps asking for a warrant. Court records say no judge had signed one. She calls 911, and while she's on the phone, he arrests her for obstruction.
Speaker: She goes online and says what happened what happened to her was wrong. Instead of letting it go, he allegedly builds a fake a fake Facebook page called Not So Noble, mocking her name, posting her family information, her kids' juvenile records, and AI-generated content aimed at her and her children. The prosecutor's office confirmed it was, it it was in fact, his page. He got fired.
Speaker: But here's the thing. He wasn't fired for walking into the house without a warrant. He was fired for the Facebook page. And she still is facing charges. She is.
Speaker: Just from that story, I'm going to get into the second story first. I mean, the second story next. But just from that story. So this cop investigating her kid has no warrant, has no probable cause, enters her home. She calls 911.
Speaker: He arrests her. She's still facing that charge because he doesn't like everything that happened. He realistically builds a fake Facebook profile mocking her name and does all this stuff online. And he doesn't get fired for violating her rights. He gets fired for creating a Facebook page and harassing her and her family.
Speaker: I don't know what the criteria is to be a police officer. I don't know if there is a thorough enough psychiatric evaluation
Speaker: when hiring police officers. But there is a whole lot of dicks in the police department.
Speaker: In the police department. Because... You have a job. First of all, no I'm not even going get into that. You have a job.
Speaker: And your job is to protect and serve. Now, we all know that the police don't do anything until after the crime has already happened. So they don't actually protect and serve Okay.
Speaker: That's my own opinion. Y'all can do with that. I'm sure y'all gonna hate on me in the comments for hating on cops. Well, they will investigate a string of crimes to kind of stop the next one. So they they do... But I've watched a nu enough yeah crime television to know that ah a bunch more crimes happen before they're able to stop... before they stop string a string of clowns. It's a string of clowns for a reason.
Speaker: it's ah My point is police presence is not preventative. Mm-hmm. Okay. So... But you have a job and it says it on your car. There's a wrap on your car and it says protect and serve. It says it on there. And that's what you're supposed to be doing. And instead, you violate the law, violate a person's rights, and then harass them. Again, violating the law on Facebook.
Speaker: Because what? What? Because you... Oh, yeah. So her name is Natasha Lopez.
Speaker: ah ah And her online profile name was Natasha Noble. So he created a fake page, not so noble. So it was a direct attack on her. Like, directly. That page was specifically for her to harass her her children, to dox her, and then to create AI-generated...
Speaker: I guess, images there or content of some kind. me, that's not even the worst part. And this is where it's got to be a crime. and And no criminal charges have been filed yet, but the GBI is ah is investigating. And the GBI is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, I'm going to assume. Yeah, yeah. it's It's our state version of of the federal Bureau of Investigation. yeah um But the unredacted juvenile records...
Speaker: Yeah. That's what he posted on his Facebook page. Yeah. And she had to file a protective order against him. And through all of this, her obstruction charge is still active. Right.
Speaker: Hopefully, this this could revoke his certification statewide so he can't be a police officer anywhere else. He can be a security guard. Look, they manage. I don't know where this county is. It could be on the Alabama line. It could be on the Florida line. He could probably just cross state lines, move over. And it was like, what talking about? You can't create Facebook pages and harass people in their families and unredact juvenile records. This is crazy. When I heard this story, I was like, this is crazy. This is what they do. It's insane.
Speaker: It's insane. and And you, ah the police are having such a difficult time, especially in recent years, with public trust. Mm-hmm. Right?
Speaker: Right. They don't have it except for a pocket of people who weaponize the police. And we know who you are, Karen. But, like, they they have an issue.
Speaker: They have a real PR issue. Yeah. And so keeping people like this and don't act like you don't know that your coworker is a jerk probably. Yeah.
Speaker: Keeping people like this on the fours doesn't do anything to help the PR nightmare that is the image of police in this country.
Speaker: And it doesn't it does nothing to encourage public trust. it doesn't I mean, who know you could just get on the wrong side of an officer and next thing you know, all of your private information is made public on social media. Not just your information, information on your children is made public on social media.
Speaker: That is horrifying. Can't It is horrifying. And I don't condone what this officer has done it at all. But I do want to make a little aside. o She obviously got some badass kids. Yeah, them kids are bad. Them kids are bad. Them kids are bad. She didn't deny it. She didn't deny it. The police officer hated this kid so much. He was going to be like, look,
Speaker: I don't care about no warrant. Go get this little bad mother father. need to go talk to him. Because yeah I'm getting tired of this. This, every time, I'm investigating him every other week. What y'all doing up here? She knew enough to ask for the warrant and that it was a problem that he didn't have. so i't I don't think in any of this she's saying, hey, my kids are angels. I don't think she's doing that. But that's not the point, right? not the point. But I did want to make a little aside where you got to unredact juvenile records that's yeah with an S. And he had been investigating this juvenile and he didn't have it. Now, i don't give a damn.
Speaker: You've been given a gun and a badge. I don't care if you are so infuriated that that you just want to catch this bad guy and this juvenile, you're getting tired of them spray-painting the stop signs. And so everybody just running through stop signs because this Jay painted it all red and people don't know that just because it don't have stop on there anymore doesn't mean that you don't stop.
Speaker: It's a stop sign. It's still a red octagon, y'all. You know what it is. You to stop. And this little bad kid shooting slingshots. I don't know if this is what he was doing, but this is what I'm imagining a juvenile. You're making it seem like he's Dennis the Menace, and I don't think that that's the case. Nah, he was probably old dog, not Dennis the Menace. But this cop, it's not funny, but it is. This cop done lost it so much that he created a Facebook page and doxed him.
Speaker: Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. You know how many steps you have to go through to create a Facebook page? And and he successfully went through all them steps. And then posted. And at no point was he like, this is a bad idea and it also makes me a bad cop.
Speaker: You know how much you got to go through to to do AI? Well, you don't have to do that hard, but I'm going to assume that he's not no tech person. Right. so So it took him a little while to do the AI stuff. It took him a little while to redact it. It took him a little while to do all the other stuff. where he that That takes some time. It takes time. And you can't really do that from your phone. You got to go on. I know him because he's older. He had to be on his laptop.
Speaker: You got sit down. You to put your reading glasses on You got to open up the light. it Actually, probably seems like he has desktop computer. yeah but not even laugh No, he's a police officer. I it wouldn't i wouldn't put it past him to actually have been using his police-issued laptop while he was doing this. I wouldn't put a past He seemed like he that type of idiot. But the thing that bothers me is is that he was fired for code of conduct yeah not and not breaking the law. You're not supposed to do this as a police officer, so we're going to have to let you out let you go. yeah That's crazy to me.
Speaker: but Remember, I told you there were two stories, right? Okay. Because this is bad, right? But I can find the humor in this. Okay. But I can't find a humor. I can't find any humor. Well, I'll probably be able to still find some humor in this story. But Let's go up the road a little bit to Charlotte.
Speaker: How is the South? Yep. Where six police officers are suspended and facing termination after investigators stumbled onto a group chat full of N-words talking about firing weapons at Black residents and a contest over who could pull over the most Black drivers.
Speaker: Okay, so I'm assuming that the cops are not black. Yeah, they were they white. They were all white. And they're using the N-word in this group chat. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are all white officers, six white officers. You know what I'm saying? And Charlotte, North Cadillac.
Speaker: Yeah. ah theys Basically calling black people the N-word in this group chat that they have one another. And then having a contest about who could pull over the most black people.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. One of them even wrote that their text sounded like a Klan rally, and they knew it. Yeah. All six were hired within the last three years, so when people ask why so many folks distrust the police, this is part of the answer, right? Not because every cop is like this, because every cop isn't. I've met good police.
Speaker: Yeah. I know some. know some. I know some good police, but when... Do I believe that the police... depart like police as a system needs reformation? Yes. And I think that good cops know that.
Speaker: Good cops know that there's something broken in the system and that it needs to be changed. yeah Bad cops thrive in the current system. And that's why...
Speaker: The image of police in general is so bad because the system's broken and it enables bad cops. Because... how are are Are they still cops right now?
Speaker: So they've been suspended without pay, not fired yet. Civil service board hearings are pending. A seventh officer resigned in August, but the chief will make the final call.
Speaker: the Their defense lawyers are even arguing that their past cases can't even be challenged. Now, if these are cops that have pulled over black people for traffic violations, first of all, I wish I was one of those black people. And and for this regard for this reason, well I couldn't wait to do that class action lawsuit because I know I'm go get paid.
Speaker: I wouldn't want to be because this sounds like the kind of officers that'll kill you. no. Because that was one of the things that they joked about pulling their weapons on black people.
Speaker: Okay. Hey, here's the thing. One, leave us alone. We really we really just want to live in peace and y'all are so antagonistic towards us and it's really like we looking around why okay so that's number one ah number how are they listen do you know how easy it is to get fired now i understand there's a police union
Speaker: Okay, I get that there's a union and all these protections for them and all these different things. But boy, it's like, if you if you come in without your shirt tucked in at McDonald's, they'll send you home. And and so the fact that you can literally... And they was like, you need to get some more flair before you can work on the floor. I was like, i got five pieces. You need six to seven. So I had to go into the store, buy some flair. That's little pins, ladies gentlemen. To put them on my shirt. Shirt dragon. I got boobs because I don't know where else to put them. So the shirt dragon. It did weigh down the shirt. It weighed down the shirt. But they was like, you got to do it to to work. But here you are. You could be a whole police officer.
Speaker: And threaten the lives of people. And but not be fired yet. i Where's the line? Like, i I don't understand this. I didn't tell you i didn't tell you the the key component because because you didn't ask me and I thought you would. Well, how did they even find out about this, right? Because it's in their little group chat. somebody read it. Nope. Nobody snitched. They found out because there was an investigation into something and someone else because of a flock camera.
Speaker: And these text messages just came up. And they was like, what the hell is this? Yeah. So this was found by accident. Had there not had this not been found by happenstance, these people yeah would still be out here terrorizing the Charlotte area. And Charlotte charlotte is not some rural...
Speaker: No. Town. It's a major a major... metropolitan city. Yeah. I was trying to say metropolitan and metropolis at the same time. I got, you know, that dyslexia working mysterious ways. Yeah.
Speaker: It's a major metropolis. Yeah. Right? Actually, it's almost part of a... It's a word that I saw when these major metropolis cities keep getting so much bigger.
Speaker: because of the suburbs that they spread out further for and then they start touching each other. They become like a... I know I'm making up this word, but it's something similar, like a eucropolis. A eutropolis, where it's like like Charlotte and Raleigh and there's another city. I forget. so ah Might be Durham Chapel Hill.
Speaker: It might be something like that. there the The suburbs are... so expansive that that expands the city and then they start touching each other and then next thing you know you could be livid in Raleigh but because the suburbs are so close you can work in Charlotte and be commuting back and forth even though it's an hour away Yeah. Okay. yeah Gotcha. But this is not a small area and that's where these cops are doing it.
Speaker: Yeah. Where there's also a ah relatively large population as compared to other metropolitan cities in the South. Yeah. So this is, this is crazy. And this, this is the police. So when black folks say, when black people will say, we don't trust the police and mind you,
Speaker: Ms. Lopez isn't black, but she's a person of color. She's person of color. Right? so yeah So when people, when my marginalized groups say, yeah, I don't trust the police, Karen, shut the hell up and listen, because we have stories like this. And don't say, well, it's not all police. and Because we know it's not all police, but damn it, it's a lot of stories like this.
Speaker: Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. And, and you yeah, the the whole idea of like, oh, Karen, open your eyes. No, she knows, and that's why she weaponizes the police. So that's, she knows exactly what it means to call the police on Black people. And that's why she does it. So...
Speaker: I am so sorry to all the women out there, and maybe men, who are named Karen, who are not like this, but that's... The name is is stuck. Sorry, it's stuck.
Speaker: Yeah. So, this... ah when i When I thought about this, i was like... What is the connective thing? And you brought it up earlier, like, what is the vetting process for hiring these cops? And so I did a little bit of research. The IACP is an agency. And 78% of these agencies struggle to recruit qualified people to be police officers. Mm-hmm. About half of the agencies changed policies to widen the pool. So they lower the standards. This is ah this is what they talk about when they say DEI, that it's lowering the standards.
Speaker: DEI is not lowering the standards. It's opening up the pool. This is opening up the pool and lowering the standards, right? Memphis, which is struggling a little bit with crime, drop their standards almost completely. Pretty much they'll fire it they're hire anybody. Fired cops often get rehired elsewhere and re-offend.
Speaker: There is... the The National Declaration Index is voluntary, so most agencies don't even check it, and push for vetting before the badge and after doesn't really even happen. So...
Speaker: It's a widening. widen iss a lowering of the standards. Yeah. It's not even really having high standards to begin with. It's not doing this. To be a soldier in the United States military, there are certain standards that you have to meet, not only physically, but psychologically.
Speaker: Yes. They do psychological testing before they let you join boot camp and all that stuff. And they still kind of do it as you're in boot camp. Yeah. Yeah. That doesn't happen for police officers. Now, know what you're saying. Well, of course, we shouldn't do that for the military, and we should also do that for the police. Yeah, these are the people who are supposed to be protecting and serving and upholding the peace and justice in society. It's not an easy job. It's not a safe job. So you have to be of a certain
Speaker: fortitude a certain metal before you can become a police officer. And they're not, because of the shortage of, of like, qualified people applying to be police officers, they're willing to take anybody, including people that ain't got no business, no business enforcing the law.
Speaker: you know You know how you get more qualified people more people to want to be police officers. How? Do the same thing that you need to do for teachers and firefighters. you need to pay them more.
Speaker: You need to pay them. You need to pay them. And you need to give them... the resources they need, and that's not military-grade armor and weapons.
Speaker: It's more, i think, they need... Well, they need to be working alongside of social workers and licensed therapists, and there needs to be more of a...
Speaker: community approach to some of the things. Like, I don't know why, like, welfare checks are done by the cops. Done by police, right? Well, because I think you need cops there in case it goes sideways, but you need somebody else. Yeah, but there should also be a social worker there.
Speaker: the social workers are overworked. And yeah underpaid. So we need to be paying... the civil servants, yes a lot more money.
Speaker: And then you make the job a little more prestigious. You get more applicants, which means then you can pick and choose who gets to join this club as opposed to saying Billy Joe and Tyrone. Because look,
Speaker: we be We be in the... We be in there, too. be in there, too. we We all saw Boys in the Hood. Yeah, we be in there, too, right? So Billy Joel and Tyrone, who's thinking to themselves, I ain't got no other aspects in life. You know what? I'm going to police officer. That seems like that'll be a cushy job. There ain't much crime in this and this area. And there might not be a lot of crime in that area. And then they're presented with the crime, and they don't know how to react because they got crime, and then that's how innocent people get killed. Or doxxed.
Speaker: Yeah. I feel like... you should have to You should have to hand over your phone and your social media if you are applying to be a cop.
Speaker: I got to see what what kind of posts you like. I feel like just bringing somebody in for a psyche vow. You can say whatever you want in a psyche vow. I want to see who you follow.
Speaker: i want to see the type of things you text. You want to be out here and be the face of the city and the face of the law and the face of justice in the city? things The things that we text? I don't know. All of it. No. Because that's how you catch group chats like this. Well, yeah, but also you can just catch creeps that's just being creepy.
Speaker: Yeah. You shouldn't be a cop if you're being creepy. I think I'd be a good cop, but I mean, I got a little creep side to me. ah You know.
Speaker: Jason Weaver. We'll bring Jason Weaver back in this conversation. Look. This is the reason why we say after poll police, coming straight from the underground, because there's too many stories like this for people that are supposed to be protecting and serving.
Speaker: All right, Jay. At the top, I said a couple of things. We're going to be deli-daddling. going to talking about two police stories. And then a chef that had a secret. Okay.
Speaker: Something came across. I don't know where it came across. You know how I get most of my content. I'm on everything. It could have been news. It could have been Instagram. Somehow this story came across yeah about this chef. So for about 10 years, the head chef at Mrs. B's Coconut Club in Mission Beach, San Diego, was It sounds delicious. Can I just say that? Yeah, it does. Mrs. B's Coconut Club? Mrs. B's Coconut Club. I bet you they got some bomb coconut shrimp.
Speaker: ah So this head chef was a guy everybody knew as Troy. Okay. He started on day one, worked his way up from a line cook, ran the kitchen, made a name for himself.
Speaker: He even did a magazine profile for Black History Month and showed up in TV segments about the restaurant. Mm-hmm. So this is a celebrated black chef.
Speaker: Yeah. Out in San Diego. Yeah. At the beach. Head chef at Mrs. B's Coconut Club. What could go wrong? What could be his secret? Okay.
Speaker: His real name is Brian Anthony Williams. That's not Troy. that I don't know how you get Troy from Brian Anthony, but okay. No, and he had been wanted out of Davenport, Iowa since 2012. So last Tuesday, U.S. Marshals walked into the kitchen and arrested him.
Speaker: Hold on. Police say he and three other men duct taped him and his girlfriend. Let me repeat that. Him and three other men duct taped him.
Speaker: I bet you're thinking to yourself, how did that happen? I'm get to I'm going to get to it. I'm get to it. Duct taped him and his ex-girlfriend, drove them to a field, shot her in the leg, and left her in the ditch.
Speaker: Except Williams wasn't a victim. Investigators say he staged his own kidnapping. Then he allegedly went to her new boyfriend's house, poured gasoline around it, and set it on fire with five people inside. The five people got out.
Speaker: Okay, thank goodness. Police said the motive was the breakup and $11,000 her safe. One of his co-confidentists got convicted back in 2013 and faced automatic life. Williams just disappeared.
Speaker: And the thing that finally caught him wasn't a database. It was his own face in the local news. So much time had passed that he said, statute of limitations got to be up.
Speaker: No. No. Not on attempted murder. I feel like after 15 years, the statute of limitations is up on that.
Speaker: Attempted murder? i don't think they're i don't think so. I think in most states, the only thing the only thing there is no statute of limitation on is murder. That is a guarantee universal. But for most crimes, there's a statute of limitations. The only problem was, the only problem was, he it hadn't been 15 years yet.
Speaker: You know, he had been running from the law since 2012, and just got caught up in 2016, so he had maybe one more year to go. This man did magazine interviews, was on TV. We celebrated Black History Month. Like he ever did a but had a Black History Month profile made. ah hit This worked his way. ah You want to know why he worked in the kitchen as a line cook in Miss B's Coconut Club? It's because they didn't really require any real documentation to prove who he was.
Speaker: That's why. was a job you could slip in. and he just happened to stay and work his way up. Somehow become Black History. That's the thing. He became Black History.
Speaker: They celebrated him. He had features in the newspaper. yeah He had features on the news. How narcissistic. I don't think that's narcissistic. It has got to be narcissism. no to to To know that you you've done this in the past. ok You have this past. You're hiding out in San Diego.
Speaker: You're not in San Diego because you just moved for work. or you know they they You're hiding out. You changed your name. Everyone's calling you Troy and your name is Brian. And he's beloved. Oh, by the way. So that should a reminder every day that I'm on the run.
Speaker: that but But here's the thing. So I saw I had to go find newspaper. i mean, not newspaper, television reels because they were doing a lot of interviews because this just happened.
Speaker: Yeah. And they were like, you wouldn't have thought this about him. I mean, he was vegan, even though he was the best chef in the area cooking all types of meat. He was a vegan, just a really nice guy. Oh, you should see him on and on the new on the little television segment, news segment. Oh, he is just a brother that looked like he is straight from Frederick Douglass University. Yeah.
Speaker: Like he is going to preach some black knowledge. He said, he told everybody, it was like, we all thought he was from New York. And then he had a rough upbringing lost his mom at a young age during the crack epidemic and came out here for a new life. All of that might be true. But also...
Speaker: He faked his own kidnapping, had his girlfriend shot in the leg, and tried to set her ex's house on fire. For $11,000 in a safe. For $11,000 in a safe. Did he get the $11,000? Is that how he started over it San Diego? they Actually, they don't really they don't really say. They said the charges were first-degree kidnapping,
Speaker: willful injury, conspiracy, and arson. Because let's not forget, my man was so pissed off that she had a new boyfriend that they tried to kill him. Yeah. And whoever was in the house by setting the house on fire. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. And then he'd go he go to San Diego, become a vegan and a head chef and Mrs. B's and and you do ah get a awards for Black History Month. and That's why I'm saying that the narcissism comes in. Because every day that somebody calls the name that I made up because I can't use my real name, every day and every time that happens, I'm reminded that I'm on the run. But I...
Speaker: My ego is such that if somebody says they want to write a magazine article about me being in Black history or feature me on a TV segment, I'm gonna do it because of course I am. No, you idiot! You are in hiding!
Speaker: He forgot! He must have forgot! Right to jail. Take him right to jail. Well, here's the reason why the statute of limitations... it's the one charge of kidnapping because in the state of Iowa, first degree kidnapping is automatic life.
Speaker: So I know why he took off because you wanted to get $11,000 and maybe get back at a boyfriend. But because you did the kidnapping... That's kind wicked. That's kind of wicked. Like, automatic life. It's for first-degree kidnapping. Are there that many kidnappings in Iowa? Well, you got think about it. The first-degree kidnapping is they had weapons and she got shot in leg.
Speaker: Yeah, but... I mean, yeah, life... Automatic life? yeah It's crazy, but, hey, that's a deterrent, right? Right. That's a deterrent. Obviously not, because he tried it. Well, maybe he ain't know about the law. Maybe when he found out, like, hold up, life? Y'all about to give me life? The hell, I'm about to skip this bail.
Speaker: I'm about to skip this bail and go to Mrs. B's and be a line cook. My man worked for, you know how hard it is to work yourself up from a line cook to be a chef? To head chef? Not to just be a chef, but head chef.
Speaker: Look, that $11,000 in our heartbreak was not worth it. He could have moved to San Diego and started a whole new life because he did it. Yeah. He could have just not done the other stuff, not done the crimes, and just said, you know what?
Speaker: Girl, if you want to move on, you move on I'm going to San Diego for some reason, I'm going to see if I can make a life out there. And you would have.
Speaker: You would have. You would have. A tipster recognized him from the media interview. Yeah, yeah. That's how he got caught. Yes. did The February Times of San Diego profile, that's what the Black History thing was, also appeared in CBS 8 segments featuring Mrs. B's.
Speaker: Now, CBS 8 is a channel out in San Diego, right? Yes. But he didn't appear in a segment. oh my man appeared in segments with the S at the end.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So he was... I would think there'd be more news in San Diego, but okay. Oh, oh, my. There are multiple segments about this restaurant. I mean, it's Mrs. Bean's Coconut. Now I want to go. Now I really want to go. I want to go. I've never heard of a... Something about Coconut Club is intriguing to me. don't know why. I want to go. And you know what? I'm such an asshole.
Speaker: I'd be like, hey, is Brian working in the back? We should go. I've never been to San Diego. We should go. We should go to this Beats Coconut Club.
Speaker: We hear y'all giving profiles on Black chefs.
Speaker: I want to see what this talk about. Oh, he ain't here no more? Oh, yeah, that's right, because his name was Troy. Right. I want to Let me look at the menu.
Speaker: um i'm interested now. Like, I'm interested in this. Ooh, it looks very... It's an open-air restaurant on it and on Mission Beach restaurant and bar.
Speaker: Got a nice little... ah um Oh! Oh, it looked good! I wonder if he made all the food in these pictures on the website. What i want to know is...
Speaker: How did this Bama, because I got to call him that, this yeah Bama from Iowa, how did he get an ID and social security number to work under? No, he just changed his name.
Speaker: No, you got to have an ID. I mean, like yeah you got to do payroll and paperwork. I think he just changed his name. And then it's all his same stuff. Unless they didn't ask for any of these things. And he'd just been working there for so long, HR didn't even look and notice. We'll have no real documentation. It's probably family run.
Speaker: And they just said, well, we just... We're just, he may have made himself. a chance on you. He may have made himself an independent contractor, a sole proprietor, and it was just like got himself an I feel like you still need to have some type of Social Security to get an EIN number for a business. But I don't know how he did it, but Troy, Brian, whatever your name is, you had gotten away with it and was living good. Yes. San Diego, you was living good.
Speaker: And guess what? They do have coconut shrimp. I knew they did. Oh, look, coconut shrimp is the reason why i almost got into another fight on the cruise, but we ain't going to talk about that. but ah I still never got me coconut shrimp that.
Speaker: Look, let me tell you something. almost didn't either. there And our cousin was like, hey, they got they had some coconut shrimp up there, but this woman basically took the whole tray. And I looked at the woman, and I was like, she looked like the type that would take the whole tray when it come out. Yeah, that's so rude. Like, they'll bring more out. That's so rude.
Speaker: Anyway, Jay, what do you want to these people out here? Because I'm done talking about Brian Anthony Williams or Troy whatever the boy name is. I, yeah, I just need people to toot their horns a little bit more. There's nothing wrong with saying like, hey, I did this, I accomplished this, and I'm proud of it.
Speaker: there isn't that That's not cocky. That's not that's not anything bad. is' not It doesn't mean that you're not humble. Jason, you've had a ah great career. You continue to do so, and you will continue to do so. And we know you, and we love you. And yeah, toot your horn. Toot your horn.
Speaker: For me, i want to bring this all back around for a second. On the surface, today was a 90s legend, some cops, and a chef. But all three of these stories come back to the same thing.
Speaker: One word, trust. Jason Weaver earned it over 35 years by showing up the same way every time. Those officers in Georgia and Charlotte were handed it with a badge and treated it like a game.
Speaker: And Troy or Brian or whatever the hell his name is, balled it with a fake name and a nice menu. So who are we trusting?
Speaker: The title, the uniform, the smile on the local news. I'm not saying trust nobody. That's lazy too. But here's the uncomfortable part people don't want to talk about.
Speaker: Those cops and that chef got trust because they looked the part. And most of us never ask past that. freedom freedom over Trust ain't something that you wear.
Speaker: It's something that you prove. Ladies and gentlemen, and I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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