Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 02, 2021


Ep 532 | The Case Against Julius Jones | Guest: Sean Fitzgerald


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Length

58 minutes

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180.05379

Word Count

10,579

Sentence Count

618

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this episode of Relatable, we are joined by Sean Fitzgerald, host of the YouTube channel, "The Actual Justice Warrior," to discuss the case of Julius Jones, the Oklahoma man who was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. As promised, today we are talking about Julius
00:00:15.200 Jones. He was the Oklahoma man who was on death row and his death sentence was commuted by the
00:00:23.320 governor after there was a loud protest from the criminal justice crowd and specifically the
00:00:32.240 Innocence Project. Also Kim Kardashian, NBA stars, Viola Davis, who all advocated on behalf of
00:00:39.400 Julius Jones's innocence, claiming that he was framed. Today we are talking to Sean Fitzgerald.
00:00:46.040 He, or Fitzgerald, maybe that's how he pronounces it. He has a YouTube channel,
00:00:50.620 actual justice warrior where he breaks down these cases and he has combed through all of the
00:00:56.380 facts of this case and he contends that Julius Jones, way beyond a reasonable doubt, is actually
00:01:02.100 guilty. The conversation that we're having is not about the death penalty per se. I have done
00:01:09.800 a theological episode on the death penalty and we will link that episode in the description to this
00:01:16.520 episode so you can go listen to it. We are primarily talking about whether or not Julius Jones is
00:01:21.940 innocent and the machine behind trying to contend for someone's innocence that is driven primarily
00:01:30.160 by people like the Innocence Project. The reason why this case came to prominence and why you know
00:01:39.080 Julius Jones's name is because there was a three-episode documentary that was produced by Viola Davis that
00:01:45.320 aired on ABC in 2018 called The Last Defense and it was put together and that's mostly what people who
00:01:53.620 say that that Julius Jones was innocent, that's mostly what people are referring to. They're referring to
00:02:00.300 not the court transcripts, not the actual evidence that's presented or not presented. They are looking at
00:02:07.820 this particular documentary. A documentary can be very informative, but it tells a story that is put
00:02:14.840 together by a person who may have a particular narrative. So it's not actual documentation or a primary
00:02:23.260 source if you're trying to understand a particular case or any particular event. It might be informative in some
00:02:29.420 ways, but it's not enough to tell us what the truth of a case is. And so that's why we are doing, why we are
00:02:36.220 having this conversation today, doing this episode today. And we are also going to talk about what
00:02:43.040 happened in Waukesha with Daryl Brooks, who has been charged with murder of six people. And we're
00:02:50.800 going to talk about the media coverage of that, why they're not calling it terrorism, why they aren't
00:02:56.140 talking about the motives at all. It's very strange. Probably it seems like race and social justice and
00:03:02.700 so-called equity are all factors in that. So we're going to get into all of this today. Might be a
00:03:08.700 contentious, controversial episode, but that's what we do. It's a particular perspective, and I hope that
00:03:14.480 you learned something from it and can appreciate it. And without further ado, here is our new friend,
00:03:20.520 Sean. Sean, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell everyone who you are and what you do?
00:03:26.800 I'm Sean Fitzgerald. I run a channel called The Actual Justice Warrior on YouTube,
00:03:33.160 where I cover criminal justice related topics and political topics. That's about it. It's not a big
00:03:41.800 thing. No. Well, actually, it is a big thing because there has been such a fierce debate for a long time,
00:03:48.600 but especially over the past year, I would say after the George Floyd incident, people debating what
00:03:53.780 justice looks like. And we've heard this term as J.W. Social Justice Warrior for a while,
00:03:58.600 and there seems to be such a stark disagreement on what justice actually is. So why did you start
00:04:04.700 your channel and why did you name it Actual Justice Warrior? Well, I started my channel because my
00:04:10.660 background in terms of my education is in criminal justice. Like I hold two degrees in the subject. So
00:04:16.800 it was something that I was always interested in. And as far back as I can remember, the media was
00:04:21.760 really bad at reporting criminal justice related stories. So essentially, a lot of what I do is
00:04:28.620 I'll just read the actual case documents of a case that's in the media and try to correct terrible
00:04:35.040 reporting. Yeah. So let's talk about some of that terrible reporting, or at least in your estimation.
00:04:41.580 Let's talk about Julius Jones, because that's how I found you. I think that maybe I had followed you
00:04:48.460 already, and I had seen some of your tweets, but I watched your videos on Julius Jones, and you were
00:04:54.920 one of the only people I saw that was actually covering this thoroughly. So let's start from
00:05:00.620 the very beginning. Feel free to talk as long as you want to include as many details as you want to
00:05:05.480 a lot of people just don't know what this case is, who Julius Jones is, why he didn't get the death
00:05:13.300 penalty when he was supposed to. So let's start from the beginning. Who is Julius Jones? Why are you
00:05:17.900 interested in this case? So from way back in the beginning, Julius Jones is a serial carjacker
00:05:25.820 who attempted to carjack one Paul Howe on July 28th, 1999. And when Paul Howe opened his door in
00:05:34.360 his parents' driveway, Julius Jones shot him in the head one time, killing him in front of his children.
00:05:40.600 And that is what is being, let me just say, that's what's being contended. That's,
00:05:44.140 you believe that the evidence points to that. But of course, the Innocence Project, Kim Kardashian,
00:05:48.880 a lot of people on the other side, they would say, they say that it's not Julius Jones. But this is
00:05:53.000 your assertion based on what you've looked at, correct? Right, based on the evidence. This is
00:05:58.340 what was laid out by the prosecution way back when, when they tried Julius Jones and convicted him for
00:06:04.060 the murder. So after Paul Howe was shot and killed, the Howe family, which is Megan, Toby, Paul Howe's
00:06:10.720 sister, and the two daughters fled into the home, Julius Jones fired upon them as they were fleeing
00:06:16.920 into the home. Then he got into the suburban, backed out, crushed Paul Howe's legs and drove away.
00:06:22.920 Now, the Jones defense team contends that it was not Julius Jones, that it was actually
00:06:28.200 who was ended up being his co-defendant, Christopher Jordan, who shot Paul Howe and stole the car.
00:06:35.340 But the evidence against Julius Jones is overwhelming. And the evidence is actually
00:06:40.200 greater today when he got the the commutation than it was back in the day. So there was there
00:06:46.960 was a red bandana that was worn by the shooter that was described by Paul Howe's sister. And the
00:06:51.820 Jones defense team contended the whole time that Jones wasn't the shooter. There's even a clip of
00:06:57.100 his daughter. His sister saw the bandana. OK, got it. She was in the passenger seat because Megan
00:07:03.140 Toby's the only adult eyewitness to the case. Like the two daughters did unfortunately see what
00:07:09.740 happened to Paul Howe, but they weren't testifying in court or anything like that. So the sister
00:07:15.380 identifies this bandana. They find the bandana inside Julius Jones's bedroom. The murder weapon
00:07:21.700 is wrapped in it. They also find a white shirt with black trim on it, which was like black trim around
00:07:27.420 the neck, which is very underreported. It's a very distinct shirt that was described by Toby.
00:07:33.020 And it was also found in Julius Jones's bedroom. And the defense, like one of their big proponents,
00:07:39.500 one of the things that they argue in their documentary, which is called The Last Defense,
00:07:43.360 is that the banana should have been tested for DNA back in 1999. It was tested for DNA in around 2017,
00:07:50.980 2018. And despite what the defense claimed about Jones never wearing bandanas and having nothing to do
00:07:56.200 with this crime, the DNA actually did match Julius Jones, which should have confirmed the verdict
00:08:01.200 and ended all this. But it didn't. And they continue. They just don't even talk about the
00:08:07.040 bandana anymore. It's one of the most amazing things. That's what I was going to say. What do
00:08:10.260 they say when DNA evidence proved that it was his bandana or that he had been wearing the bandana,
00:08:16.240 at least at some point? What did the defense argue? So they have two strategies or they had two
00:08:23.400 strategies. The first was to ignore the existence of the bandana. So if you look at any of the
00:08:28.760 Innocence Project propaganda, it always starts with Julius Jones maintains his innocence, which is
00:08:33.820 like, OK, the guy says he didn't do it. The DNA says he did. But Julius says he didn't.
00:08:39.780 And they don't bring it up. And then when you push them on the bandana, they start playing games
00:08:45.600 with their like, oh, well, that was the major profile. There's these minor profiles that are
00:08:49.920 DNA science. Could not like it could only detect was human. Like it couldn't detect who it was.
00:08:55.900 And they'll make the case that that could have been the actual real killer on some of the minor
00:09:00.940 profiles there. But it's like it's it's nonsensical because Jones claimed. And as recently as in his
00:09:07.940 pardon and parole hearing that he didn't even wear any bandanas at the time of the shooting.
00:09:13.320 So the fact that he's the major contributor is like to me, that locks it up for him.
00:09:18.360 Also, is the type of DNA that you couldn't test for back in 1999, which means that Chris
00:09:23.560 Jordan, his his very his lacking in intelligence co-defendant could not have planted this type
00:09:30.300 of DNA. It's like contact DNA, like touch DNA, let alone removed it because DNA scientists
00:09:36.180 didn't know this existed in 99. But it's not just that there's like eyewitnesses that saw
00:09:41.300 Jordan and Jones 15 minutes before the murder. And these are like independent eyewitnesses.
00:09:46.220 There are witnesses that saw him like 30 minutes after the murder. He's seen on surveillance
00:09:51.200 dumping the car. Like there's a bunch of different things that would lead us to believe that Jones
00:09:56.140 is guilty. And yet the campaign just progresses.
00:09:59.720 Now, does the Innocence Project maintain that it was actually Jordan who committed this crime?
00:10:05.360 It was not Julius Jones. Yes, they do.
00:10:08.960 OK. And is that how they say, well, that's you know, do they say that Jordan somehow framed
00:10:16.000 Julius Jones? Is that the is that the argument?
00:10:19.220 Yeah. So in in the documentary, they make the case that Christopher Jordan planted the bandana
00:10:24.880 and the firearm in Julius Jones's bedroom because they spent the night together.
00:10:29.200 But the thing is, is, again, he would not have been able to plant and remove his own DNA from
00:10:34.760 the bandana. So that's ridiculous.
00:10:36.620 So Jordan's DNA was not found at all on the bandana.
00:10:39.320 No, he was he was excluded as a contributor. And the match for Julius Jones, the other trick
00:10:44.660 that they'll use is to say that Jones didn't his DNA wasn't technically a match because,
00:10:52.280 you know, DNA nerds like the scientists don't actually say match.
00:10:55.800 They give you odds of whether or not it could be somebody else. Right.
00:10:59.300 And they'll say the odds of another African-American contributing to the sample besides Julius Jones
00:11:05.120 are one in one hundred and ten million in the African-American population.
00:11:09.640 In 1999, the the African-American population was thirty five million people.
00:11:14.100 So you would need something like four times the African-American population and for the real
00:11:19.060 killer, quote unquote, to have access to Julius Jones's bedroom to plant it.
00:11:23.080 So it's statistically ridiculous. But they'll harp on like little things like that.
00:11:27.420 And they'll say, oh, the DNA wasn't technically a match because the lab doesn't use the term
00:11:31.760 match. But for all intents and purposes, it's a match.
00:11:38.500 I want to go through some of what the Innocence Project is positing, because if you just listen
00:11:45.540 to what you say, it seems really clear.
00:11:47.440 And then I think the natural question is, well, then why?
00:11:51.040 Why push back on on this verdict at all?
00:11:53.480 If it is so clear, if there seems to be some video evidence, at least of what happened after,
00:11:58.440 if there is DNA evidence, why even try to raise any contention about this verdict?
00:12:04.320 So here's what the Innocence Project says on their Web site.
00:12:08.240 And I'll just I'll let you respond.
00:12:10.100 Maybe not to all of them, because there's a lot of contingents.
00:12:12.380 But they say that Julius Jones was at home having dinner with his parents and sister at
00:12:16.160 the time of the murder and that his legal team failed to present his alibi at his original
00:12:21.780 trial. His trial attorneys did not call Mr. Jones or his family to the stand.
00:12:27.700 So what do you have to say about his alibi and perhaps why his defense attorneys didn't
00:12:33.100 even try to bring this alibi to light?
00:12:35.700 So so so the this alibi is the alibi that I call the big cookie alibi, because it basically
00:12:41.540 makes Julius Jones to be a child.
00:12:44.460 They say that he was at home eating spaghetti at nine o'clock playing Monopoly and they were
00:12:49.100 having a birthday cookie.
00:12:50.860 So his attorneys, one of which I've spoken to, David McKenzie, actually signed a sworn statement
00:12:56.340 and his other attorney did as well, that Jones told them independently that he was not home
00:13:01.560 that evening.
00:13:02.280 On top of that, they tried to produce an independent witness, a woman called Brenda Cujo, to back
00:13:08.340 up this alibi because they were like, she's you know, they're not going to believe just
00:13:12.500 the family, especially against all the other evidence.
00:13:15.200 And this woman was like a teacher of the year.
00:13:17.280 She had like impeccable credibility in terms of the court of law.
00:13:20.340 So she told the investigators for the Jones defense team that she went to Kinkos before
00:13:26.080 going to this party.
00:13:27.280 So they asked her if she had anything to verify that she produced a receipt dating
00:13:31.860 her trip to Kinkos, thus dating the alibi to the day before the murder, not just the
00:13:37.280 murder.
00:13:37.780 On top of that, I was recently sent an article from August.
00:13:41.620 So let me let me just reemphasize what you're saying.
00:13:44.240 So there was a teacher who says that she went to the celebration of Julius Jones's birthday
00:13:49.620 at his house, right, who had that incredible credibility.
00:13:54.160 And she said she remembers this because she went to Kinkos before the celebration.
00:13:58.120 She produced a receipt from her trip to Kinkos.
00:14:01.460 But the date of that receipt, it was before the day that Paul Howell was shot and killed,
00:14:07.180 which means that if we're to trust her alibi, that the celebration that his family and Julius
00:14:14.400 Jones is saying is his alibi, because that was, you know, allegedly where he was when
00:14:20.460 Paul Howell was shot.
00:14:21.280 That actually happened before the day before Paul Howell was shot.
00:14:24.820 So the timing doesn't work for the alibi.
00:14:26.620 That's what you're asserting.
00:14:28.040 Yes.
00:14:28.740 And it's even worse because I was recently sent an article from the Oklahoman from August
00:14:34.420 1st of 1999, which is just three days after the murder.
00:14:38.360 This is when it would be the freshest in the Jones family's minds.
00:14:42.140 And in that version of the alibi, because there's four different versions of the alibi,
00:14:46.640 they actually say that Christopher Jordan, the person they accuse of being the shooter
00:14:51.180 now, was with Jones.
00:14:53.400 So it was an alibi for both people at the time of the murder, which is something that
00:14:58.200 the Jones family doesn't allege anymore.
00:15:00.080 And according to their theory of defense, is not possible because they claim that Jordan
00:15:05.420 was the shooter and Jones had nothing to do with anything.
00:15:08.160 So they've been lying and changing up this alibi all the way through.
00:15:12.540 The attorneys for Jones signed sworn statements saying that they knew that this alibi was false.
00:15:18.060 Their independent witness not only said and produced a receipt showing that it's false,
00:15:22.140 but she also claimed that she was threatened by the Jones family for coming out against the
00:15:27.700 alibi.
00:15:28.680 So this has already been adjudicated.
00:15:30.660 It's nonsensical.
00:15:32.000 He was not home.
00:15:32.960 And his family's lying.
00:15:35.580 Got it.
00:15:36.680 OK.
00:15:37.220 OK.
00:15:37.540 So say they say, all right.
00:15:39.620 Well, that's fine.
00:15:40.480 We won't we won't argue with you there.
00:15:42.500 But the Innocence Project would say Mr. Jones did not match the description of the person
00:15:46.900 who committed the crime, which was provided by a sole witness.
00:15:49.300 This is from the Innocence Project.
00:15:51.780 The person who killed Mr.
00:15:53.120 Howell was described as having one to two inches of hair, I think, outside of the cap that they
00:16:00.460 say he was wearing.
00:16:01.100 But Mr. Jones had a shaved head.
00:16:04.260 So how do you how do you respond to something like that?
00:16:09.180 So what they're talking about is Megan Tobey's description of Julius Jones.
00:16:13.060 That's the sister of Paul Howell, who is sitting in the passenger seat.
00:16:16.780 Yes.
00:16:17.200 And you could just ask her what she said or read the court's transcripts.
00:16:21.600 So she was asked at trial.
00:16:23.340 The person they're saying committed the crime is Christopher Westside Jordan.
00:16:27.480 He had cornrows, like long hair that are that are braided.
00:16:31.280 So they asked at trial, because this was the theory of defense at trial, if what she was
00:16:37.060 talking about when she was describing the hair was cornrows or braids.
00:16:40.680 She specifically said she did not see cornrows or braids at trial.
00:16:45.080 When she talks about the hair, she's talking about a stocking cap that goes over the eyebrows
00:16:49.300 and over the ear.
00:16:50.600 And if you listen to her description or read it at trial, she says that the hair that she's
00:16:55.200 talking about is the inch or half an inch in and around where the ear connects to the
00:17:00.060 head.
00:17:00.400 And she's talking about the space between that hair and the stocking cap.
00:17:04.120 So what she's describing is a sideburn.
00:17:06.300 It's two dimensional space.
00:17:07.620 It's not three dimensional space.
00:17:09.380 And it's not like I'm speculating on this.
00:17:12.440 Megan Tobey did an interview in early October where they asked her specifically about her
00:17:17.620 description and she explained it.
00:17:19.200 Megan Tobey also went to both the clemency and the pardon and parole board hearing for
00:17:24.840 Julius Jones.
00:17:25.720 And even though this is like the big thing for their defense and the members of the pardon
00:17:29.940 and the parole board are in the tank for Julius Jones and they could have asked her questions
00:17:34.380 about her description, they didn't ask one question after she brought up this highly contested
00:17:40.020 fact because people aren't really interested in the facts of the case.
00:17:44.080 They're just interested in glomming on to whatever little pieces of whatever they could find
00:17:48.980 in the transcript out of context to make the case for innocence.
00:17:53.320 And what do you say to the contention that three people incarcerated with Mr. Jordan at
00:18:05.920 different times have said in sworn affidavits that Mr. Jordan told each of them that he committed
00:18:10.880 the murder and that he actually framed Mr. Jones.
00:18:14.620 None of these three men, the Innocence Project says, have met Mr. Jones and they do not know
00:18:19.520 one another.
00:18:20.540 None of them have been offered a shorter sentence or incentive in exchange for disclosing Mr.
00:18:24.980 Jordan's confessions.
00:18:26.000 Well, jailhouse confessions often come up in high profile cases and the character and credibility
00:18:34.800 of these witnesses are in question, to say the least.
00:18:38.660 One of them is a convicted murderer.
00:18:41.480 He murdered a child, his stepchild or his girlfriend's child, by pouring scalding hot water.
00:18:48.140 I apologize for everybody in the audience.
00:18:50.740 Yeah.
00:18:50.980 On that child with kids, you might.
00:18:52.400 Well, you might not want to listen to this episode with kids, but especially this description.
00:18:56.080 But go on.
00:18:56.580 It's fine.
00:18:57.580 He poured scalding hot water on on his girlfriend's child's genitals.
00:19:02.220 That's how he murdered that person.
00:19:03.800 He's also been adjudicated a sociopath, a pathological liar.
00:19:07.620 And you'll see this pattern over and over again with the people that Jones's attorneys would
00:19:12.440 bring forward.
00:19:13.280 On top of that, this is very depressing for everybody out there.
00:19:16.700 When people come out in support of Julius Jones in prison, no matter how bad their story is,
00:19:22.460 no matter how loose their connection with Christopher Jordan is, their prison commissary
00:19:27.740 accounts get flooded with money.
00:19:29.520 So there is an incentive to lie for Christopher Jordan.
00:19:33.120 And there are confessions from Julius Jones that were never brought up against him in trial
00:19:39.300 because they were adjudicated to be uncredible, even though they supported the prosecution's
00:19:45.300 case.
00:19:45.540 So the idea that there's confessions here and there, like these jailhouse confessions,
00:19:50.140 they always show up.
00:19:51.520 A bunch of them have been adjudicated.
00:19:53.200 There's one that was recent that wasn't adjudicated.
00:19:55.960 But again, it's another situation with a pathological lie or a history of crimes of dishonesty that they
00:20:02.000 don't add anything new that's not in the headlines to the case.
00:20:05.740 So they're not really credible confessions.
00:20:08.320 Unlike one of the confessions that Jones gave, where he described a girl waving to him in
00:20:13.740 the backseat of the vehicle, which was in that description from somebody who said Jones
00:20:19.520 told them that he shot Howe.
00:20:21.140 And it was given to the police by Rachel Howe, which is the daughter of Paul Howe at the time.
00:20:26.780 Right.
00:20:26.940 So there's no connecting information from any of these confessions that give us anything
00:20:31.000 new.
00:20:31.840 Right.
00:20:32.300 So you're saying that the pathological liar was one of the three people incarcerated who
00:20:37.160 apparently signed a sworn affidavit saying that Mr. Jordan confessed to committing the
00:20:40.820 murder.
00:20:41.140 One of those people was a pathological liar.
00:20:42.880 You're saying?
00:20:43.140 No, no, no, no, no, not one of them.
00:20:44.920 All three of them have been either adjudicated with some kind of mental or sociopathic disorder,
00:20:49.980 and multiple of them have been adjudicated as like pathological liars, like they have
00:20:54.760 crimes of dishonesty in their past.
00:20:57.720 One of them actually had a personal vendetta against Julius Jones's prosecuting attorney.
00:21:02.700 But there's like different things that you can go through all of them.
00:21:05.260 But it's actually a miracle.
00:21:07.480 And maybe it's not a miracle because these are people coming out for attention that they've
00:21:11.560 been adjudicated in such a way with all these different, I don't want, I don't know if
00:21:16.120 disability is the correct word, but all these different mental issues.
00:21:19.220 Yeah, does Mr. Jordan have mental disabilities that are, have been cited?
00:21:25.360 Christopher Jordan?
00:21:26.240 I don't know.
00:21:27.340 I don't know about him personally.
00:21:28.660 He's been very quiet.
00:21:29.620 You mentioned that he, you mentioned that he was an unintelligent co-defendant.
00:21:35.440 I didn't know if you were implying that he has some kind of cognitive disability.
00:21:40.420 No, when they claim that Christopher Jordan, who was 19 years old, uneducated, that he
00:21:46.580 planted DNA not known to exist in 1999 with one day's notice, that's when I'm making fun
00:21:53.000 of his intelligence.
00:21:54.480 Gotcha.
00:21:55.060 Gotcha.
00:21:55.600 Okay.
00:21:56.160 So you're saying that we can't really rely on these sworn affidavits from the people who
00:22:00.780 apparently said that Mr. Jordan said that he committed the murder.
00:22:06.340 Now, they also contend that in exchange for testifying that Mr. Jones was the shooter,
00:22:13.460 Mr. Jordan was given a plea deal for his alleged role as the getaway driver.
00:22:18.500 He served 15 years in prison and today is free.
00:22:22.060 What do you say to that?
00:22:24.220 So he is free and he did testify against Julius Jones and he did get a plea deal.
00:22:29.180 Now, he didn't get 15 years.
00:22:31.340 He actually got 30 years with a life sentence on top of it.
00:22:36.000 So it was a full life sentence with 30 years suspended.
00:22:40.000 And this is because in the state of Oklahoma, like many other states, if you participate
00:22:43.760 in the underlying felony and somebody dies, you can be charged with felony murder.
00:22:48.380 And that's not a discounted charge.
00:22:50.180 So Christopher Jordan was facing the death penalty, which, by the way, is a key point because
00:22:55.340 one of the jailhouse confessors has Jones as the driver, which would have made him guilty
00:23:00.640 of felony murder, which would have made him up for the death penalty anyway, which is one
00:23:04.520 of the reasons why they didn't present that at trial.
00:23:07.360 So Joe Jordan did plead guilty and he did testify against Julius Jones.
00:23:13.280 But the idea that he got 15 years, that's not really true.
00:23:17.180 He got 30.
00:23:17.920 And then after the fact, the Department of Corrections in Oklahoma changed how they calculate their
00:23:24.540 sentences.
00:23:25.620 And that's how he got early.
00:23:26.960 So what the Innocence Project often alleges is that there was a secret deal between the
00:23:32.240 district attorney and the and the Jordan camp, and it was not disclosed well enough to the
00:23:37.560 jury.
00:23:38.060 Therefore, they didn't know how to treat the testimony.
00:23:40.680 But the thing is, is that if you read the transcripts, Jordan's testimony was not key.
00:23:45.820 The testimony from people like Megan Tobey or Julius Jones's own girlfriend were far more
00:23:52.080 crucial in convicting him in this case.
00:23:54.400 And in the state of Oklahoma, everything the co-defendant says has to be verified by a third
00:23:59.260 party.
00:24:00.080 So like everything Jordan would have brought to the table had to be verified by somebody
00:24:04.900 else.
00:24:05.500 Right.
00:24:06.160 Anyway.
00:24:06.900 Right.
00:24:07.200 And what's interesting as well, and as you describe the the alleged cover up and framing
00:24:16.560 and collusion between Mr. Jordan and the defense, I am thinking about the fact that the Innocence
00:24:27.840 Project obviously says that the verdict was based on racial bias.
00:24:32.180 They talk about the fact that Mr. Howell was a white man.
00:24:35.120 This happened in a predominantly white neighborhood.
00:24:37.720 District attorney Bob Macy, who I'm guessing is white.
00:24:41.740 He racialized this crime right away.
00:24:44.880 Eleven out of the 12 jurors in Mr. Jones's trial were white, which, by the way, is not
00:24:50.500 strange.
00:24:51.360 The jury is chosen based on the population of, you know, where the crime took place and where
00:24:58.480 it's being adjudicated.
00:24:59.220 But so they say that this is this is racist.
00:25:03.060 But in order to claim that in order to claim that you also have to you have to claim, I
00:25:11.160 don't know, that it would also be racist against Mr. Jordan, who was also black.
00:25:15.460 So it confuses me that they think that the prosecution I think I said the defense earlier,
00:25:20.360 the process of the prosecution they're saying colluded with Mr. Jordan.
00:25:24.760 Right.
00:25:25.720 Right.
00:25:25.960 OK, so the same prosecution that they are saying racist are racist colluded with Christopher
00:25:33.140 Jordan in order to convict Julius Jones.
00:25:38.220 I'm trying to get this all straight.
00:25:39.580 And I guess I'm just failing to understand how then the prosecution is racist, because
00:25:45.720 either way they would have been trying to convict a black man.
00:25:48.580 So can you help me unpack their argument there that this has something to do with, I guess,
00:25:54.100 white supremacy when the person that they are saying actually committed the crime is also
00:25:58.040 black and would have gotten the death penalty if he had been found guilty of murder?
00:26:02.060 Right.
00:26:02.660 I mean, I call this the and I apologize for the vulgarity in this statement, but I call this
00:26:08.640 like the farting in a room effect is if you just fart in a room and then people smell it,
00:26:14.200 there'll be a little bit off put by it.
00:26:15.760 But it's not really key to what's going on everywhere else in the room.
00:26:19.960 So the all the allegations of racism in this case are are pretty ridiculous.
00:26:24.880 They they allege that even portraying a black man as coming into a white neighborhood like
00:26:31.440 Edmund and killing somebody for a car.
00:26:34.180 This is actually in the documentary for Julius Jones's defense, which is produced by the
00:26:39.500 Innocence Project and is presented as something more neutral than it actually is as as as a
00:26:46.400 racist stereotype.
00:26:47.340 But again, the as you pointed out, the the defense's theory of the case is that it was
00:26:53.540 not Julius Jones, but the other black guy involved, Christopher Jordan, who came into the white
00:26:59.680 neighborhood and shot Paul Howell and killed him like their arguments for the death penalty
00:27:03.960 are absurd.
00:27:04.560 They'll claim that even pursuing the death penalty in this case, I'm sorry, their arguments
00:27:09.500 for racism are absurd.
00:27:11.140 They'll claim that even pursuing the death penalty in this case is a mark of racism against the
00:27:15.980 prosecution, which makes no sense.
00:27:18.360 They do the almost all white jury.
00:27:20.380 If it was an all white jury, they'd say all white jury.
00:27:23.140 But again, Edmund was 85 percent white as they lay out in their own like little hit piece
00:27:28.020 on the city.
00:27:28.740 And I find it incredibly disgusting that somebody can come into your community and murder a member
00:27:34.240 of your community in front of his family.
00:27:36.340 And then your community goes on trial as being evil and racist, because apparently in the
00:27:43.400 1960s, people moved there to get away from crime in the city.
00:27:47.660 And that was somehow code for for moving away from black people.
00:27:51.360 It makes no it makes no sense.
00:27:53.160 It's absurd.
00:27:53.940 The social justice side always does that.
00:27:56.780 They if something that they don't like happens in the present, then they say, well, this is
00:28:02.180 connected to something that happened 50 years ago without actually logically or factually
00:28:07.620 laying out how those things are connected.
00:28:09.220 Of course, that's the whole thing with the 1619 project, this unbroken legacy of slavery
00:28:14.320 that they say, you know, leads to every disparity between white and black Americans today.
00:28:19.560 Thomas Sowell has completely has completely busted that myth.
00:28:24.360 But it's the same thing that you are saying.
00:28:25.800 They're saying, well, this case obviously was tried and decided upon based on racial animus
00:28:34.540 because of this thing that happened in Oklahoma in the 1960s.
00:28:38.220 And so this is their version of justice, which is it's completely unjust because you're basically
00:28:44.320 punishing people who did nothing wrong by exoriating them, like he just said in the press
00:28:49.560 for being too white, being white supremacist and also taking justice away from Paul Howell's
00:28:55.360 family.
00:28:55.740 Right.
00:28:56.800 Yeah.
00:28:57.640 A hundred percent.
00:28:58.920 Yeah.
00:28:59.100 And and again, like the how family, the more you learn about them, the more this story
00:29:03.420 becomes heartbreaking.
00:29:04.780 And like, that's why I've done so many videos on it, because like they have not had this
00:29:11.640 press arm.
00:29:12.760 These people advocate for them in the way that the other side has.
00:29:16.040 The other side is Kim Kardashian.
00:29:17.320 I always talk about how they had something like 400 followers on Facebook at the time
00:29:22.240 that I discovered the case.
00:29:24.060 And Kim Kardashian is on the other side of this.
00:29:26.680 She has three thirty nine million followers on Twitter, something like that.
00:29:30.320 Viola Davis is there.
00:29:31.460 All these different celebrities, Baker Mayfield, like athletes are in this and they all just
00:29:36.160 paint this propaganda of Julius Jones being this great student at Oklahoma University.
00:29:41.280 He was kicked out of Oklahoma University.
00:29:43.060 They'll talk about him as an athlete.
00:29:44.440 He never played for any OU team and everything that apparently, according to them, ruined
00:29:50.980 Julius Jones's life is all external.
00:29:53.380 When in reality, if you look at his criminal record, if you look at his pawn receipts, if
00:29:57.120 you listen to his own girlfriend who he threatened when her testimony was so damning for him at
00:30:02.860 trial, like in letters, he threatened this woman.
00:30:06.600 It's Jones destroyed his own life.
00:30:08.880 This has nothing to do with racism.
00:30:10.440 He destroyed Paul Howe's life and his family's lives.
00:30:12.960 This has nothing to do with white flight in 1965.
00:30:17.260 Yeah, it's about the facts of the case.
00:30:19.740 It's about a family that lost their father and had to witness that loss.
00:30:27.380 I want to get into how this starts, like how does this start to snowball with something
00:30:31.740 like the Innocence Project?
00:30:32.980 But I first want to ask you, you mentioned his girlfriend's testimony.
00:30:36.620 I'm just interested to hear what did she say?
00:30:38.540 So, so Julius Jones contends consistently that he had no serious criminal record and the
00:30:44.840 Innocence Project, you'll, you might see that he was never convicted of anything violent
00:30:48.620 at the time of his trial.
00:30:50.140 It's because they convicted at the time of his arrest.
00:30:52.380 It's because they convicted him after the fact.
00:30:54.480 So what his girlfriend does is essentially tie him to a bunch of jewelry store robberies where
00:31:00.700 Jones wore the suspect in that case, which was Jones, wore bandanas, stocking caps, et
00:31:06.040 cetera, by pointing out to the court that she discovered the gun that Julius Jones used in
00:31:13.700 the Paul Howe murder in his car.
00:31:16.280 And Jones claimed that he did in fact have the, that that gun was him, that gun belonged
00:31:21.400 to him and he used it for protection.
00:31:23.360 So she also, she also ties them to the jewelry store robberies because Jones gave her four
00:31:29.140 chains from one of the robberies and he took back three immediately.
00:31:32.860 And there's three specific pawn receipts that coincide with that date.
00:31:37.720 And he left her with one and then he took back the one on a later date.
00:31:41.260 And there's a pawn receipt that coincides with that in Julius Jones's name.
00:31:45.560 So her testimony out of all the different testimonies that were put forward is one of
00:31:49.920 the most devastating, which is one of the reasons why Julius Jones actually sent her
00:31:53.440 threatening letters throughout the course of the trial.
00:31:56.140 And the innocence project was making the case that these letters didn't exist, that the
00:32:00.420 prosecution just made them up, which is ridiculous.
00:32:03.360 And in Jones's clemency hearing, Jones admitted to sending these letters because Jones never
00:32:08.980 testified up until this very like recent hearing.
00:32:12.880 So they just lie consistently, but they can't really get around the fact that Julius Jones's
00:32:19.040 girlfriend who had every reason to lie for him produced probably absent Megan Tobey, the
00:32:25.340 most devastating testimony against him.
00:32:28.200 Right.
00:32:29.040 And remind everyone where you get this information.
00:32:32.980 Like, how do you read in and garner all of these facts that seem to be lost on those people
00:32:37.420 in the media?
00:32:39.080 Well, I've actually had the entire trial transcripts sent to me.
00:32:42.160 They are available, but Oklahoma has like an older system.
00:32:45.660 So you have to request them in person or have somebody request them in person for you.
00:32:51.860 So all I need is somebody to go to Oklahoma on my behalf and send me the whole transcript
00:32:57.300 because they're paper records.
00:32:59.040 But also the prosecution puts out like bullet points for this, like Prater, he'll put out
00:33:05.080 his whole theory of the case and they'll go in and dispute every single aspect of Julius
00:33:11.000 Jones's story in like a succinct document.
00:33:13.760 I link to it under every single one of my videos on the case because it's about 12 pages.
00:33:19.000 And all you would have to do is be willing and interested and knowledgeable that there is
00:33:24.180 another side to a case like the Julius Jones case.
00:33:27.360 And you could find this evidence out there.
00:33:29.480 Yeah.
00:33:29.980 One of the things that we I've discovered is that people and not just far leftists,
00:33:35.500 unfortunately, don't even consider that another side of this case exists, which is ridiculous.
00:33:42.160 Well, people don't want to consider that because the last thing, of course, that you want to
00:33:46.440 be called and it's almost tiring to even say.
00:33:48.320 But the last thing that people want to be called is some kind of racist spigot that is just,
00:33:52.740 you know, bloodthirsty and wanting an innocent man to walk to his death.
00:33:56.160 And plus, I think a lot of people think, well, this doesn't really affect me.
00:33:59.280 It doesn't affect me that this person isn't getting the death penalty or maybe they're
00:34:03.320 just against the death penalty.
00:34:04.420 So they don't really care about the facts of the case.
00:34:06.320 So they're like, well, he's not getting the death penalty.
00:34:08.420 That's good.
00:34:09.180 And they don't really care about the truth because it puts them in this uncomfortable
00:34:12.440 position of being against the Kim Kardashians, even being against a lot of people.
00:34:16.720 This is a Christian podcast.
00:34:18.300 A lot of people in the church who are saying, yes, this is justice.
00:34:22.020 Yes, this is great.
00:34:23.380 You don't want to be the lone voice to raise your hand and say, well, actually, the facts
00:34:27.440 don't point to the conclusion that people like the Innocence Project are asserting.
00:34:35.540 And I want to talk about that.
00:34:37.680 Like, how does this happen?
00:34:39.740 Who picks the people who are on death row?
00:34:43.760 And like, who scouts them out and says, you know what?
00:34:46.700 Like, I'm going to pick this person.
00:34:48.240 I'm going to try to get them exonerated.
00:34:49.920 I'm going to, you know, make a documentary about this person and get Kim Kardashian and
00:34:54.180 Viola Davis to talk about this.
00:34:55.800 So this becomes this big PR effort towards this person so that there seems like there
00:35:00.380 is no other side to it.
00:35:02.360 How does how does this start?
00:35:03.960 Tell us a little bit if you know about the Innocence Project and what their process is.
00:35:09.280 Well, the Innocence Project, I can't tell you about the inner workings of of their organization.
00:35:15.880 But what I can tell you is that one of the founders of the Innocence Project, and I forget
00:35:20.600 which attorney it was, and I apologize for not knowing the name offhand, was one of OJ
00:35:25.900 Simpson's attorneys.
00:35:27.280 So like that's that was the impetus for this person starting the Innocence Project.
00:35:31.880 Now, if you know anything about the OJ Simpson case, he's 100 percent guilty.
00:35:36.800 So from its inception, the Innocence Project is all about getting guilty people off for
00:35:41.440 these crimes.
00:35:42.600 But what they really are as an organization fundamentally is an anti-death penalty organization.
00:35:48.320 But what one of the things that they found out through their time working these cases is
00:35:53.520 that arguing against the morality of the death penalty isn't as effective as making the
00:35:58.640 case that there's all these innocent people that are on death row that shouldn't be executed.
00:36:03.820 So they've kind of shifted focus in their advocacy.
00:36:06.600 They're kind of hiding the ball.
00:36:08.480 And so they make these cases.
00:36:10.560 So these cases a lot ideologically are about opposition to the death penalty.
00:36:14.460 And that's one of the reasons why you can watch attorneys and these documentary films just
00:36:20.020 skew so much information and leave so much out that you could never get away within a court
00:36:25.300 of law because it's activism.
00:36:26.820 It's not about actually proving somebody innocent like the Jones clemency push was never about
00:36:32.400 actually demonstrating innocence.
00:36:34.280 It was about just getting enough signatures, getting enough people hyped on that side in
00:36:39.860 order to basically force the governor's hand.
00:36:43.040 Gotcha.
00:36:43.840 And so they just get people like Viola Davis and Kim Kardashian on board by saying, look at
00:36:48.820 this innocent black man who is a victim of our white supremacist system.
00:36:52.680 And we need your voice to basically amplify his innocence.
00:36:56.940 And for most people who don't spend a lot of time reading the transcripts like you do,
00:37:01.200 I mean, you know, like I said, they're not going to go up against those kinds of voices.
00:37:05.440 And it sounds like such an honorable pursuit.
00:37:08.040 And I mean, I am for obviously the exoneration of people who are innocent or who are not guilty
00:37:16.500 beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:37:18.040 I don't want someone, gosh, to be executed or spend the rest of his or her life in prison
00:37:23.180 who didn't commit a crime that they were put in jail for.
00:37:26.720 I am absolutely for that.
00:37:27.920 What I am not for is the propaganda effort that purposely leaves out facts in order to
00:37:33.220 stir people's emotion and removes from people seemingly their mental faculties, their ability
00:37:40.580 to think logically and use reasoning and actually sift through real facts.
00:37:46.180 That's what I'm not for.
00:37:47.120 I'm not for the propaganda effort that seems to be behind this because justice is not going
00:37:53.340 to be accomplished with lies.
00:37:55.860 Lying and deceit is not justice.
00:37:58.360 Do you agree?
00:37:59.680 Yes, 100 percent.
00:38:00.940 And I do want to make the point that that's the Innocence Project is overall like an anti-death
00:38:05.860 mental of the organization.
00:38:07.580 But the Kim Kardashian and these other celebrities, part of the reason and by the way, Kim Kardashian
00:38:12.120 is connected to the Innocence Project because her father's Robert Kardashian.
00:38:15.660 And he was a great friend of OJ and he actually helped recommend and assemble the Dream Team
00:38:20.460 for OJ to beat his case at the time.
00:38:23.240 So like that's her connection to that.
00:38:25.120 But the celebrity push is a lot about like they've taken it a step further because not
00:38:30.680 only the anti-death penalty, but they're specifically anti and this looks like it's one of the parameters
00:38:36.160 that they pick for these cases is anti-black people getting convicted or the death penalty
00:38:41.800 when they kill white people.
00:38:43.800 Like if you look at the cases that Kim Kardashian has highlighted specifically, like this appears
00:38:48.900 to be what she's targeting.
00:38:50.480 So whether they whether they frame somebody or try to paint it as as they're innocent in
00:38:55.480 the way that the Jones team did, where they point to somebody who's already been tried
00:39:00.180 and convicted in relation to the crime, therefore they can't be tried again.
00:39:03.740 Or they're trying to frame other people that have nothing to do with this.
00:39:07.540 Like it has a real impact.
00:39:08.800 And there's other cases out there and I would be remiss if I didn't mention the fact that
00:39:13.960 Kim Kardashian also appears to be hiring, not highlighting not only cases where black
00:39:19.760 people kill white people, but cases where the black person has an alliterated name.
00:39:24.800 Like it's a weird pattern.
00:39:26.440 Julius Jones, Rodney Reed, Crystal Kaiser, Brendan Bernard.
00:39:32.180 Yes, it's Kevin Cooper.
00:39:34.360 It's very it's very creepy and odd.
00:39:37.380 And I do believe for sure that there's some.
00:39:40.480 Yes, it's called the alliterati.
00:39:42.140 My friend Devin Tracy has taken note of this.
00:39:45.540 It's because you think it's easier for the public to it rolls off your tongue better.
00:39:50.300 It's better for PR.
00:39:51.120 I mean, I hate that sounds so cynical and evil, but I mean, we're talking about a propaganda
00:39:56.220 effort in some of these cases.
00:39:57.620 I'm not saying all just because I don't know the details of all of the cases of the people
00:40:01.140 that you just listed.
00:40:02.560 But I mean, there are a lot of people on death row.
00:40:05.960 And so the fact that a lot of a lot of the people that she is choosing apparently have these
00:40:12.400 alliterations in their names, it seems like that could be because it rolls off the tongue
00:40:18.880 better, it's easier to remember, and that would be a public relations win, right?
00:40:23.760 I think there is marketing.
00:40:25.500 But I also think that Kim Kardashian, obviously, the Kardashian family is kind of obsessed with
00:40:30.260 the alliteration.
00:40:31.380 Like, that's why they're all named KK and all that.
00:40:34.320 So I do think there's like just a dumb, childish element to it.
00:40:38.580 And like, I don't want to get too conspiratorial or anything with the reason behind it.
00:40:42.260 But so I'm just going to say it's a dumb, childish element to it.
00:40:45.140 Because it's really weird that you found 10 or so people that are all black people that
00:40:51.420 killed white people all have rock solid cases, by the way, like a lot of them, like the DNA
00:40:56.180 tested in Julius Jones, they have requested DNA testing, which, by the way, I 100% agree
00:41:01.400 with.
00:41:01.740 If we didn't have the science to determine whether or not your DNA was on something back
00:41:06.520 in the day and you on appeal want that tested, I'm in support of that for sure.
00:41:12.060 But when the DNA matches the person that was convicted, like you should drop the case.
00:41:17.380 So a lot of them have that pattern along with it.
00:41:19.580 But yeah, the alliteration, maybe it's a marketing thing.
00:41:23.460 Maybe it's just something that makes Kim Kardashian feel connected to it.
00:41:27.380 But it is noticeable, especially when you get to this many cases that this is a pattern
00:41:32.260 for her specifically and her involvement in this.
00:41:35.460 The Innocence Project should just be honest that they're anti-death penalty.
00:41:38.980 But I understand why they're not, because like you said, if you say, hey, we know that
00:41:44.680 this person, I'm not even talking about Julius Jones, Brandon Bernard, whoever, we know that
00:41:50.000 this person committed this heinous crime.
00:41:51.720 Here's what they did.
00:41:52.560 I think that there was someone who was executed last year, federally executed for a brutal
00:41:57.640 murder.
00:41:58.120 He was a black man.
00:41:59.060 He brutally murdered his like two-year-old daughter in the front seat of his truck.
00:42:03.100 It was terrible, terrible case.
00:42:04.560 If you say that, like if you describe to people what these people actually did or what was
00:42:11.180 proven against them beyond a reasonable doubt, people are less likely to say that they shouldn't
00:42:16.020 get the death penalty.
00:42:17.020 I mean, in theory, people are against the death penalty.
00:42:19.740 But when you read people, the terrible crimes that were allegedly committed by a lot of these
00:42:25.320 people, they say, OK, I might be against the death penalty, but I don't really care if
00:42:30.060 that person dies.
00:42:30.820 And so it's a lot more persuasive for the Innocence Project to say, not only are we against
00:42:37.500 the death penalty, but this person didn't even commit the crime.
00:42:40.140 That is not palatable, understandably, for most people to have a possibly innocent man
00:42:45.220 be executed or a woman be executed.
00:42:47.940 So it makes sense why they do that.
00:42:50.920 But it's dishonest.
00:42:52.240 If you're just against the death penalty, just be against the death penalty.
00:42:55.200 Like Julius Jones is going to still spend the rest of his life in prison, right?
00:42:58.100 Yeah, I mean, hopefully there's always a chance that you can get out of prison, even though
00:43:05.240 Oklahoma has a weird quirk in their constitution that once the governor gets clemency once,
00:43:10.940 it's basically impossible, according to their current constitution, for you to get out in
00:43:15.680 the future.
00:43:16.140 But I'm of the belief that there's no such thing as life without parole.
00:43:19.780 Eventually, a lot of these people will get out, whether they become elderly and they can't
00:43:23.640 be really cared for in in a prison.
00:43:26.240 They'll get out eventually.
00:43:27.780 But you're 100 percent right.
00:43:29.480 The the push for claiming that these people are innocent is all about practicality and
00:43:35.060 undermining the institution that is the death penalty, because most Americans are still in
00:43:39.620 favor of the death penalty, especially when you give them specific cases and details related
00:43:44.160 to these cases.
00:43:44.820 So but Americans have pause and they should have pause when we're discussing somebody potentially
00:43:50.460 being innocent, executed for no reason.
00:43:53.120 So that's why they frame all these stories as like, oh, racial bias led to this innocent
00:43:58.700 person being put up on death row.
00:44:00.900 And there's a feeling that if they can get enough people on death row, reduce sentence, which
00:44:05.900 they always call exonerations, which we could talk about their how they pad the numbers of
00:44:10.060 exonerations another time.
00:44:12.060 But they they they get all these people reduced.
00:44:15.680 And the idea is to create enough doubt in the American population's mind with how our
00:44:20.460 justice system works so that they can undermine the death penalty, because most people, if
00:44:25.060 you ask them, is the death penalty worth it if you execute innocent, people will say no.
00:44:29.780 Right.
00:44:30.060 So that's why they're trying to artificially boost the number of innocent people on death
00:44:34.280 row.
00:44:34.560 So, yeah, which, you know, I think that there are there's a political there, practical cases
00:44:40.240 to be made against the death penalty.
00:44:42.460 That's fine.
00:44:43.240 I don't I don't hear that's not necessarily your contention with this whole thing.
00:44:47.260 It's the propaganda behind whether or not he is innocent.
00:44:50.820 And I do think that the governor of Oklahoma, his his choice to say, OK, he's not going to
00:44:56.780 get the death penalty does seem to add fuel to their to their fire, because he's not just
00:45:02.220 saying, OK, we're against the death penalty in Oklahoma.
00:45:04.160 He's saying that this guy is probably innocent.
00:45:08.160 And it's just interesting how I mean, propaganda really can change policy.
00:45:13.940 It can change the course of someone's life because people, like I said, they just don't
00:45:19.840 have the effort or the energy rather to push back against it, because who wants to be against
00:45:25.560 this mammoth movement of exonerating people who are on death row?
00:45:31.320 No one wants to be on the side of injustice.
00:45:34.320 Right.
00:45:35.340 I will say just really quickly, and I'm sorry for for interrupting, but that's fine.
00:45:40.100 Governor Kevin Stitt did affirm Julius Jones's guilt in his commutation of Julius Jones.
00:45:45.600 OK.
00:45:45.960 And that's why he put in his parameters that Jones can never seek any more of these hearings
00:45:51.920 or anything like that.
00:45:53.100 He has to be removed, removed from death row and put in general population like a normal
00:45:57.600 What was his reasoning for what was his reasoning for taking the death penalty off the table
00:46:02.180 then?
00:46:03.200 I mean, he was lobbied heavily, not just by lefties and but by some conservatives.
00:46:08.560 There's rumors from according to Julius Jones's original lawyer at trial, who I spoke to the
00:46:15.040 day that they got clemency, David McKenzie, that the that Kim Kardashian contacted former
00:46:20.980 President Trump and former President Trump or one of his advisors asked for the commutation
00:46:26.140 of Jones.
00:46:26.900 So there's people who are generally right about this.
00:46:30.140 Trump resumed federal executions that can be swept up in these propaganda campaigns.
00:46:35.120 I just think they put so much pressure that Kevin Stitt went for a compromise.
00:46:39.000 But the compromise, because of the way Oklahoma's constitution works, is a compromise that's 90 percent
00:46:45.020 in favor of the Jones is guilty side and 10 percent in favor of the Innocence Project side, because
00:46:50.820 the way Oklahoma has laid it out, he's basically going to be more disadvantaged now than he was
00:46:57.540 on death row.
00:46:59.100 And, you know, that sucks for people who are on death row and they don't have an alliteration
00:47:05.760 for their name and they don't get the attention of Kim Kardashian, who may be the same case could
00:47:11.140 be made for them, that they don't deserve to die, but they're not going to get the favor
00:47:16.580 of the Oklahoma governor, who says that he did this by prayer, by the way, not because
00:47:21.060 he was lobbied.
00:47:22.420 I guess in his prayer, he didn't he didn't feel led by the spirit to commute the sentences
00:47:29.440 of other people who are on death row.
00:47:31.840 And so was it Kim Kardashian and Trump or was it God?
00:47:34.960 We don't really know.
00:47:36.160 We don't really know.
00:47:36.940 But that seems a little bit that doesn't seem like justice because it seems unfair.
00:47:41.620 It seems like he is getting favorable treatment simply because he had Viola Davis and a, you
00:47:46.380 know, a large organization behind him.
00:47:51.960 OK, I want to talk about just we don't have very much time, but I haven't talked about yet
00:47:57.420 because I took a couple of weeks off for Thanksgiving.
00:48:00.080 What happened in Waukesha with Daryl Brooks?
00:48:02.940 You already know this, but for people who didn't know, who don't know, he's 39 years
00:48:07.300 old.
00:48:07.740 He drove a red SUV through a Christmas parade and he killed six people, including eight
00:48:13.620 year old Jackson Sparks.
00:48:15.040 He also seriously injured his 12 year old brother.
00:48:19.020 He's a registered sex offender.
00:48:20.700 He has a very violent criminal history.
00:48:22.800 He actually recently tried to he's charged with running over his girlfriend with the same
00:48:28.200 red SUV that he used to plow through this Christmas parade.
00:48:32.360 He was let out on a thousand dollar bail after he was charged with that crime.
00:48:37.940 They're now, of course, saying that that was inappropriately low.
00:48:41.260 But that's a pattern throughout the country of criminals being released on low bail and
00:48:47.940 then going out and murdering or committing some kind of act of violence.
00:48:53.220 And really, the thing that I think is stunning about this is not just that that piece is stunning
00:48:58.840 that he was released on a thousand dollar bail.
00:49:00.780 But how the media is describing this, CNN said that they tweeted on November 28th that
00:49:08.580 it has been one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade.
00:49:12.660 The Washington Post tweeted on November 24th that there was a Waukesha tragedy caused by an
00:49:20.480 SUV.
00:49:21.080 And then there was it's not on my sheet, but there was another CNN tweet that also said
00:49:27.000 that this was caused by an SUV.
00:49:28.900 So you've even got celebrities like Deborah Messing saying this wasn't this was not an
00:49:33.280 accident.
00:49:33.600 Call it by its name.
00:49:34.660 It was a domestic terror attack, which I happen to agree for the first time, perhaps with
00:49:38.520 Deborah Messing.
00:49:40.020 So tell me your thoughts on this.
00:49:42.380 Why is the media covering this the way that it is?
00:49:45.380 Are these victims going to see justice?
00:49:47.520 What do you think?
00:49:48.020 I mean, I think the guy's going to be convicted.
00:49:51.300 So in that sense, the victims will receive justice.
00:49:54.260 I don't want to, you know, the guy the guy's basically on video driving his SUV that appears
00:49:59.940 in his music videos through through this crowd committing this crime.
00:50:04.200 So like whatever amount of justice our system can deliver in the state of Wisconsin, he should
00:50:08.740 get.
00:50:09.020 But I just want to point out that there is no known motive at all.
00:50:12.760 And you shouldn't look at any of his social media posts.
00:50:15.840 Yeah.
00:50:15.960 And we should talk about these these fully automatic assault SUVs, right?
00:50:21.740 Because apparently they just yeah.
00:50:23.740 And they just take off and on their own, they just attack crowds.
00:50:27.420 So it's really unfortunate.
00:50:28.860 Yeah.
00:50:29.160 But yeah, the while we don't actually know the motive and we can speculate on the motive,
00:50:34.160 we'll have to wait for the trial.
00:50:35.660 Hopefully he doesn't plea out and we actually can see what he has to say at trial, because
00:50:41.060 I do want to know what the motive is behind this.
00:50:42.940 What we do know for sure is that this soft bail kind of criminal justice reform where you just let
00:50:50.600 everybody out is a system that does not work.
00:50:53.560 This guy attempted a serious aggravated assault against his girlfriend like a week and a half
00:50:59.820 ago, two weeks ago.
00:51:00.860 And he was let out on a thousand dollars bail.
00:51:03.220 And the district attorney for this area is one of these George Soros backed, Sean King
00:51:09.000 backed DAs.
00:51:10.160 And I hate to I mean, I hate to invoke his name, but always when you see these kinds of
00:51:15.380 cases and you see this kind of history with the district attorney, like they're always
00:51:20.540 someone who was funded by George Soros every single time.
00:51:23.840 The same thing happens in Texas and Houston, in Austin and San Francisco, in L.A.
00:51:29.320 You look at all of these major cities where they're, you know, pretty new DAs, Chesa Boudin
00:51:34.560 in San Francisco.
00:51:36.120 They're always funded by George Soros.
00:51:39.320 And this this is part of the the social justice, criminal justice movements.
00:51:46.120 And it is fueled by their newfangled version of equity that they can't have too many people
00:51:52.660 of color in jail.
00:51:53.900 And so there needs to be lighter sentences.
00:51:56.380 There needs to be ways for them to be let out of prison.
00:51:59.960 They want bail reform.
00:52:01.380 They want to get rid of the bail system altogether.
00:52:03.920 We've seen the detrimental effects of that in places like New York City, obviously now in
00:52:08.160 Waukesha.
00:52:08.820 And so it's the exact opposite of justice.
00:52:12.180 And so, yeah, we're seeing this is just another effect of that.
00:52:15.580 But continue.
00:52:16.740 Yeah.
00:52:17.260 And to your point about about the bail reform, it's actually New York State.
00:52:20.680 So the whole state, everybody gets out on everything, basically.
00:52:23.980 And a lot of people who backed New York State's bail reform law, they considered it a model
00:52:29.060 are now talking about how they wouldn't have that Daryl Brooks.
00:52:32.800 He shouldn't have been let out of out of jail.
00:52:34.800 He has a history of bail jumping.
00:52:37.100 He committed a serious crime, assault, aggravated assault with the motor vehicle and all that.
00:52:41.600 The thing is, is that all these activists are full of you know what, because every crime
00:52:47.860 that Daryl Brooks committed in the state, if he would have committed them in the state
00:52:51.520 of New York under the new bail reform law that they champion that they say is a model would
00:52:56.940 have released him and he wouldn't have even had to pay the thousand dollars bail.
00:53:00.560 So aggravated assault with a vehicle in the state of New York, there's no bail for that
00:53:05.360 crime.
00:53:05.720 In fact, aggravated of aggravated manslaughter with the motor vehicle is something that you
00:53:11.140 don't get bail for in the state of New York.
00:53:13.360 You can't get bail for your past history of jumping bail, which is something that Daryl Brooks
00:53:17.840 had a history of doing not showing up for court and all that.
00:53:20.740 All the normal rational reasons why you would put a high bail on somebody are all banned
00:53:26.300 in New York state.
00:53:27.180 And this is the same like the D.A. in in in in Wisconsin.
00:53:32.460 He's cut from the same exact cloth.
00:53:34.660 These are the same exact principles.
00:53:36.580 The same people who supported him in in his pursuit of office supported the law in my state.
00:53:42.060 So like they're all full of garbage.
00:53:44.760 There's no way that any of these people are legitimate and serious.
00:53:48.820 They just see the consequences of the policies that they're advocating for, which, by the
00:53:53.900 way, when they were implemented by the district attorney in this area, he literally said, well,
00:53:58.600 we know for a fact that this is going to cause more people to die, but it's about like some
00:54:03.400 greater form of justice.
00:54:04.920 So we have to accept that we have to pay.
00:54:06.860 Yeah, exactly.
00:54:07.920 Man, that is like all Democratic.
00:54:09.520 That seems like it's so much of Democratic policy that, you know, once we achieve this
00:54:15.600 grand vision of cosmic justice, it's, you know, it's the same thing with a lot of the
00:54:19.720 economic issues that we're seeing today that is going to accomplish in the end the kind
00:54:25.100 of society that progressives want or they think so anyway.
00:54:28.500 And so the lives that are lost or the livelihoods that are lost in the process, well, that's
00:54:32.840 just collateral damage and it's still going towards the greater good.
00:54:36.340 And so I'm afraid that a lot of so-called criminal justice advocates, which is or it's an Orwellian
00:54:42.120 name the same way that Ministry of Peace or Ministry of Truth is in 1984, they are OK with
00:54:50.260 the loss of life, with danger, with violence, with chaos in the meantime, because I guess
00:54:54.840 they think that having fewer people in jail will somehow lead to some form of utopia, which
00:55:02.940 of course means nowhere.
00:55:04.120 It's never going to get here.
00:55:05.660 I don't know how, though, they think that these means will lead to that end.
00:55:12.320 How will more violence like what we saw in Waukesha, how will more death and more robbery,
00:55:17.100 more looting and more murder lead to a more peaceful society that criminal justice advocates
00:55:22.480 say is worth the cost that we're seeing right now?
00:55:26.520 Well, when they're when they're not connect, when you're not connected to reality and you
00:55:30.500 don't have any idea how our institutions in our criminal justice system are built up, you
00:55:36.880 make absurd claims like the reason there's so much violent crime is because we give violent
00:55:43.020 criminals too long of sentences.
00:55:45.100 We hold them too much on bail.
00:55:46.760 So they actually legitimately believed that if you let these people on out on bail or you
00:55:53.420 don't let give them bail at all, you just release them on their own recognizance, even when they're
00:55:58.280 not they've shown repeatedly that they're not the kind of people who will even show up to
00:56:02.840 court, which is the whole point of having a cash incentive like bail, that they'll actually
00:56:07.640 behave better because what our criminal justice system does is harden all these criminals.
00:56:13.100 So they have when you when you have something so basic as cause and effect backwards, this
00:56:19.000 is the kind of policy that you end up advocating for.
00:56:21.660 And these are the kind of results that you would expect.
00:56:24.260 Like everybody, you I like the analogy of you see a fence in the middle of the woods and
00:56:32.100 you don't exactly know what the purpose is.
00:56:34.320 And you could do two things.
00:56:35.580 You could tear down the fence and just wonder what happens.
00:56:38.660 Or you could try to discern its purpose before you act.
00:56:41.980 A lot of people on the far left tear it down immediately and then they find out that that's
00:56:46.780 the fence that cages in all the tigers and then they get tackled by tigers.
00:56:51.300 Right.
00:56:51.960 And yeah, people on both sides of the aisle, they're not going to tolerate this kind of
00:56:57.240 thing for long because human beings, it's just human nature.
00:57:00.620 We don't like anarchy.
00:57:02.240 We don't like violence.
00:57:03.780 We like to be able to leave our home and be able to rely on the fact that we'll be pretty
00:57:09.980 safe.
00:57:10.380 We don't like chaos.
00:57:11.720 And so the progressive ideologues who think that most of the country is going to tolerate
00:57:18.260 this kind of violence and injustice, it just doesn't like we've already the history tells
00:57:23.780 us this.
00:57:24.220 If you look at the history of New York City, for example, how it was riddled with crime
00:57:27.520 in the 1970s, people didn't want to tolerate that.
00:57:30.440 And then you can see the reforms that were made because Rudy Giuliani was so tough on crime.
00:57:35.560 It became a place where people actually wanted to go.
00:57:37.640 So history tells us how this is going to go.
00:57:40.500 Unfortunately, we don't know how many lives are going to be lost in the meantime because
00:57:44.340 of these DAs and other local officials that have been put in place.
00:57:47.940 There's so much there's so much more that I want to ask you.
00:57:50.300 We'll have to have you back on to talk about the criminal justice system or criminal justice
00:57:54.860 movement in general and our justice system, since you have such an extensive background
00:57:58.180 in that.
00:57:59.260 But we have to end.
00:58:00.420 Can you tell everyone where they can find you, how they can follow you?
00:58:03.640 Oh, OK.
00:58:04.320 You can find me on YouTube dot com slash actual justice warrior.
00:58:08.340 That's where I primarily post all of my content.
00:58:10.760 I'm also on Twitter at I am Sean 90 spelled the traditional Irish way S E A N.
00:58:17.320 And I can be found on Instagram, new Instagram at actual justice.
00:58:21.560 I know that's not the best brand integration, but I actually have the same thing.
00:58:26.300 I have a different Twitter handle.
00:58:27.580 It's fine.
00:58:28.580 It's fine.
00:58:29.100 People can duck, duck, go you and they'll figure it out.
00:58:31.820 Thank you so much, Sean, for taking the time to come on.
00:58:34.400 I really appreciate it.
00:58:36.520 And we'll provide the links to all that stuff in your previous videos on Julius Jones in the
00:58:42.200 description to this podcast.
00:58:43.440 So thank you so much.
00:58:44.740 Thank you.