00:00:00.000A tragic story out of Huntsville, Alabama that actually has an action step for you about a police officer in prison who should not be in jail.
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00:01:34.000We have a really difficult story to share with you that deserves your attention, and it's really a shame.
00:01:44.000Joining us now is Keelan Darby, who's a Huntsville, Alabama police officer who has a story to share to our national audience about her husband.
00:01:55.000And all eyes are on police right now following the tragic targeted Temple police shooting.
00:02:09.000Hey, Charlie, thank you for having me on.
00:02:12.000So my husband used to be a Huntsville police officer.
00:02:16.000And in 2018, he was on duty serving as a police officer on patrol.
00:02:23.000And he answered a call for service of a man who had called 911 and said that he was going to kill himself, that he had a gun to his head and he was going and he wanted help.
00:02:44.000And as a law enforcement officer myself, I can attest to this training that when we are called to situations where a gun is involved and there's only one person involved, which was the case with Mr. Parker, we don't go into that building.
00:03:00.000We don't go into that structure because we're not going to put ourselves blatantly in harm's way.
00:03:06.000And the two officers that originally responded did the exact opposite of their training, went into the house with nothing between an armed individual and themselves, nothing to protect themselves, to take cover behind.
00:03:20.000My husband got there expecting a perimeter to be held outside of the house as law enforcement is trained.
00:03:26.000He got there and to his surprise, none of the two officers were not outside.
00:03:31.000He had his shotgun ready for a perimeter and didn't see that.
00:03:36.000So he made his way up to the house as safely as he could.
00:03:40.000And to his surprise, saw an officer 20 feet away with a man with a gun to his head with her gun nowhere ready to help protect herself.
00:03:50.000Ben saw that the female was not taking control of the situation and he took over, gave Mr. Parker several commands to drop the gun, and he did not do that.
00:04:02.000He was given seven commands to drop the gun, and after that seventh command, the gun had moved towards the officers, my husband included, and Ben stopped the threat to their lives that day and unfortunately had to take Mr. Parker's life.
00:04:15.000He did everything according to his training that we are given nationwide, including what we're taught in the state of Alabama.
00:04:25.000He was cleared by his department by a shooting review board that did an investigation on his use of force, as well as investigating the other two officers on scene and their lack of understanding of the call.
00:04:38.000Those two other officers were reprimanded and given remedial training.
00:06:05.000That power was taken away from the governor for our state a few years ago from a prior governor who had gotten in trouble and they were afraid that he would pardon himself.
00:06:15.000So they've stripped the governor from that power.
00:06:18.000So he's not able to be pardoned by the governor.
00:06:30.000We filed for appeal immediately after he was found guilty.
00:06:35.000And in August of last year, we were notified we would get oral arguments, which is a hearing with the justices at the appellate level that not every case gets because every case that gets appealed tries to get these oral arguments.
00:06:52.000And so you really have only just a 2% chance of actually getting them.
00:07:00.000And now we're waiting on the judges to make their decision based off of that hearing as well as our appeal brief, the supporting briefs that we've received from the National Fraternal Order of Police.
00:07:14.000And then, of course, the Attorney General is prosecuting the case now, who he says he supports law enforcement and he ran on that platform.
00:07:22.000But yet my husband's in prison for doing his job.
00:07:25.000Wait, so is the attorney the same job that?
00:07:27.000So it's Steve Marshall, who's the attorney general.
00:07:58.000Does he have to do that or is he able to, meaning in some states, you have to take the side of the state if a jury has ruled a certain way?
00:08:42.000He hasn't done any, he hasn't said a word.
00:08:44.000Back in 21, I believe, Ben's chief had wrote a letter to the Attorney General stating, you know, this is how it's taught in the police academy.
00:09:06.000So in an ideal world, what would you want to see, let's say, the Attorney General do?
00:09:12.000Drop the charges and drop the charges and come out and say, no, Ben did exactly as he was trained, as we're still currently training rookie police officers in the academies across the state of Alabama.
00:09:26.000So just the action item then is all of this has now come to the Attorney General's office, and he'll probably say, well, I have to do this because it's a prior conviction, but that's not true.
00:09:38.000What you're saying is he has the power as Attorney General to review all the facts and circumstances and to drop this and say he was wrongly convicted.
00:10:04.000Because, I mean, I'll do what I can and I think our audience should too.
00:10:08.000So in Alabama, your husband is now serving a 25-year prison sentence.
00:10:11.000Just everyone understands for doing everything the right way, for being cleared by a shooting review board, 25 years in prison, and you see this whole war on police.
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00:14:29.000There's two portals on there if people would like to help us with our label fees as we're on the hook of trying to get my husband out of prison.
00:14:38.000And that's through the Pipe Hitter Foundation with Eddie and Andrea Gallagher, who's been a great support to us during this time.
00:14:46.000And everyone's been able to support us through them.
00:14:49.000And then also Fund the First is a nonprofit that helps first responders when they need help.
00:14:56.000So both of those portals are available.
00:14:58.000And then our website also has just more information about Ben, about the incident, different documents if people want to just know more.
00:15:07.000So standwithdarby.com or pipehitterfoundation.org.
00:15:11.000So in closing here, just to reiterate, the shooting review board exonerated him.
00:15:19.000Why is it that the local DA took this and how on earth did a jury end up concluding this was murder?
00:16:23.000Right before we find out we're going to trial, he gets an offer, no prison time, five years' probation if he pled to manslaughter.
00:16:31.000Well, he didn't commit murder, so he's not going to, he's not going to take a deal for manslaughter that he didn't commit either, because manslaughter would be considered reckless.
00:16:41.000And there was nothing reckless with what he did.
00:16:44.000He went to trial and things were done unconstitutionally.
00:16:49.000Things were not allowed for the jury to be heard.
00:16:52.000Witnesses that had relevant testimony were not allowed to speak.
00:16:57.000His training wasn't allowed to come forth to the jury.
00:17:02.000So, of course, the jury's not going to know any different.
00:17:04.000The jury's just going to go for what they hear.
00:17:07.000And quite frankly, the public's not a trained police officer.
00:17:10.000So if you wanted to have a fair trial, you would have had people of law enforcement knowledge, which of course is never going to happen.
00:17:19.000But to my point, the jury wasn't properly instructed.
00:18:43.000And I just, I find it so flawed, so wrong when people who have never been in those high-intense situations, myself included, by the way, but I'm not one of these people that are criticizing.
00:18:58.000Oh, you should have done this, should have done that.
00:19:10.000This is a local DA that's trying to make a name for himself that's trying to do something he shouldn't do, all because of a theme of war on police.
00:19:18.000Why the people of Huntsville, Alabama, the great people of Huntsville, Alabama, are putting up with this.
00:19:39.000It's based on the true story of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel in Southern California in the 1970s, and how he opened the doors of his languishing church to an unexpected group of young people looking for love and truth, hippies, and it led to the greatest faith revival in American history.
00:19:56.000Again, it's called Jesus Revolution, and it's got a great cast: Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roomi, Who We All Love in The Chosen, and Kelsey Grammar.
00:20:04.000It's rated PG-13 for some drug use, being authentic to the time.
00:20:08.000So, some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
00:20:12.000Jesus Revolution will be in theaters everywhere beginning February 24th.
00:20:49.000Yeah, well, on February 8th, there was a chapel service, as usual, at Asbury University, which is a sister institution of Asbury Theological Seminary.
00:20:59.000The chapel service concluded, and there was a remnant of students that were interested in worshiping and continuing to submit themselves to holiness, submit themselves to humility and to God.
00:21:11.000And what that looked like was quickly we had students that were confessing their sins, that were repenting of the ways they had been living and asking for prayer and joining in worship together.
00:21:23.000And really, that continued for days and days and days, and it's even still continuing.
00:21:28.000Where now it's no longer a remnant of students in the chapel, but it's blown up to where our small two-stop light town has had an excess of 15,000, some are saying up to 20,000 individuals who have come here to experience what's going on, to participate in the worship, and so much so that the city's infrastructure has had to make some measures to mitigate the toll that it takes on the city to have that many people here.
00:22:03.000The university has announced that they are working on transitioning to a third party to not have everyone crammed into one space.
00:22:12.000We've had overflow spaces, and really for the past 13 days, it's been overwhelming to the institution, to the students as well, just having so many people.
00:22:25.000It's an incredible blessing, and every one of us recognizes the importance of what God is doing amongst the people of the church and how He is calling them to Himself.
00:22:35.000And yet, there are logistical structures that are at risk with that many students in place, that many people from outside of the student population.
00:22:44.000And at the end of the day, it is an academic institution, so we've got to maintain that level of expertise for the students who are here to engage in the miracles of God through education as well.
00:22:55.000So, explain to our audience some of the transforming of lives that you have seen.
00:23:05.000I've had the privilege with my wife to not just be a student here and engage in this experience as a student, but as a volunteer, as a student worker.
00:23:14.000And what we've been able to see is story after story since the very beginning, where it was just the students of the campus getting together and worshiping together.
00:23:24.000There were students who were finding freedom from an addiction to pornography, freedom from addiction to other chemical substances.
00:23:31.000There are people who are being relieved of mental health issues and things of that nature, as well as emotional and spiritual issues that they are now finding freedom and understanding of who God is and what it means to live as if the Holy Spirit is active in his church, as it most certainly is.
00:23:51.000And since then, with the thousands that have come on pilgrimage, we could say, to come and worship, we've heard more and more stories of individuals who had dreams, had visions of the worship services taking place even before they were taking place and had come as sojourners to experience what God was doing in this place.
00:24:12.000Now, there's a big concern that people would have to say, and rightly so, the skeptics are saying, why do you need to go to Wilmore, Kentucky to experience this?
00:24:26.000The Spirit of God is alive and well in his church no matter where you are.
00:24:30.000But what has been most interesting is that individuals have come to see what is happening.
00:24:34.000And the most common story that I've heard from them, whether they be pastors or lay people in their churches, they're saying, we don't experience worship this way.
00:24:44.000We don't experience the community of believers this way.
00:24:47.000And I want to see what it's like so that I can take it home with me.
00:25:24.000Well, the figure I heard almost a week ago was 22 other universities.
00:25:29.000Some of the biggest ones are Indiana Wesleyan University.
00:25:32.000That was one of the earliest to really take off with this spirit of revival, if we want to call it that.
00:25:39.000Really, a lot of campuses are breaking out.
00:25:42.000Even after the first week of what was happening on campus here, our own local church had a church service that lasted for hours and hours because the individuals were not burdened by the frivolities of life.
00:25:56.000They were more interested in engaging in worship and engaging in the community of believers.
00:26:01.000Because ultimately, that's what's happening here, Charlie, is it's not that God is in Wilmore, Kentucky anymore than he is everywhere else.
00:26:08.000It's that the people of God are coming into community with one another in a way that makes the church more significant and emboldens the church to engage in the spiritual acts and in the devotions that we should already be doing.
00:26:22.000So I've been told that Kalove and some of the biggest Christian artists wanted to come, but Aspury made a decision to turn them away.
00:26:34.000I can't say whether Caleb specifically, as an institution, was denied.
00:26:38.000I know that there were a number of individuals, big worship artists, even worship speakers, major church leaders who came to Asbury and the administration said, no thanks.
00:26:56.000Our students have it handled because this is a platform for the Almighty God.
00:27:00.000And it's not unlike if you saw the Tucker Carlson reporting on this, he wanted to come here in person and interview people.
00:27:07.000And when he requested that, he was also denied.
00:27:10.000And for the same reason is that it's not a show and it's not something that we want to raise on any human on a pedestal, any people on a pedestal, except for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:27:24.000Yeah, and I think you guys have done a successful job of that.
00:27:27.000I was actually texting with Tucker about it.
00:27:28.000He said, I want to go, but they don't want to make it about it.
00:28:10.000Social media has made it so that millions are watching and seeing what's taking place here.
00:28:15.000And more people are interested in being involved.
00:28:18.000But in the 1970 revival, what took place towards its conception, as well as in its ending, was that individuals from the student were sent out to other schools, to other places as evangelists to testify to what had taken place in Wilmore, Kentucky and bring it throughout the nation.
00:28:36.000In a similar way, we are desiring as the people of the city and as the students of this institution, we are desiring that not just ourselves, but the individuals who have come will take it out into the nations.
00:28:50.000And to be clear, it's not just Americans who are attending these worship services.
00:28:54.000We've had internationals that have come.
00:28:57.000We had a group travel here from Brazil.
00:29:00.000I heard a group of 40 came from Jamaica, Indonesia.
00:29:04.000There's been a number of countries as well that have been represented in the worship of the Almighty God.
00:29:08.000And they're interested in taking it out into the world.
00:29:12.000And what revival really is, is not a worship service.
00:29:16.000It is a coming to repentance and a changing of lives.
00:29:19.000And it takes place beyond the events of what take place here in Wilmore, Kentucky.
00:29:25.000This will show by its fruit whether it's something that is genuine because of what happens in the coming weeks and months.
00:29:32.000And we pray that the Lord will continue working in the, not just the academic institutions, but also in the local church.
00:29:40.000But specifically, like you said, we would love it if schools that are so deeply seated with leftist agendas.
00:29:52.000I won't go into the specifics, but you have a warm welcoming audience on that.
00:30:00.000Yeah, but if that scene can be overcome with the glory of God and repentance and a true sense of desiring the holiness that God has called us to, not just by ethical or moral laws, but by a spiritual desperation on what he is doing amongst his people and what he has desired for his people to live into the kingdom.
00:30:24.000Because what we have been told to pray is, your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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00:32:35.000Cable news is, especially on the left, seeing an MSMAC, it's just so hard to watch.
00:32:41.000It's so empty of wisdom and it's banal, honestly.
00:32:45.000It's not interesting, but it is in this case instructive of how the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, the Overton window, has changed over the last decade.
00:32:57.000So we had some fun with Don Lamon yesterday where we said, look, he was kind of just being cruel to the women around him, but it obviously didn't warrant putting him into exile and or the outrage.
00:33:27.000I mean, it was him that said, oh, you know, the protests are mostly peaceful and cheering on all the racial reckoning stuff, which was really racial arson.
00:33:37.000And so, but he used to be focused on things that actually could materially help the black community.
00:33:46.000You see, prior to the kind of advent of BLM in 2015-16, Ferguson, George Soros funding a lot of these organizations, Nicole Hannah Jones, 1619 Project, there was a movement that was really focused on trying to talk about legitimate issues like fatherlessness, gang violence.
00:34:13.000Like this is stuff that obviously we can agree on that we want to try to solve.
00:34:17.000I mean, no one has ever said that there are not issues in America.
00:34:20.000We just think those issues don't have to do with a white man.
00:34:24.000And kind of always entrenched in this constant repetition of its racism.
00:35:05.000You want to break the cycle of poverty?
00:35:07.000Stop telling kids are acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English.
00:35:12.000And number one, and probably the most important, just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should, especially without planning for one or getting married first.
00:35:23.000Studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison.
00:35:28.000If I were to say that exact speech, just the N-word thing aside, because I didn't quite track what he was saying there.
00:36:47.000What's been a problem for Florida is now a problem for America.
00:36:51.000DeSantis is determined to stamp out intellectual freedom, pretty much on brand for DeSantis, who clearly wants to be president and who is on tour to signal to the nation how he would govern.
00:37:02.000And that is by replacing a multitude of ideas with the one idea he holds dear: the centrality of white Christian thought.
00:37:09.000And who, let's be clear, is using woke to mean any notion that brown, black, LGBTQ people and women are citizens rather than subjects.
00:37:28.000And Joy Reed, instead of talking about the things that Don Lemon talked about, is that somehow woke means it's obviously and patently untrue.
00:37:37.000And somehow everything we care about is white Christian thought.
00:37:42.000It means that Joy Reed, thinking one-dimensionally on MSNBC, needs to try to keep on playing the race guard because it keeps Democrats powerful.
00:37:53.000It's not a good development over the last decade.
00:37:56.000We went from how Don Lamond was talking to Joy Reed.