The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1389 - Americans Are Sick And Tired Of The Illegal Immigrant Crime Epidemic

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, this week an illegal immigrant with machete raped a child in broad daylight in the middle of New York City. 0.97

00:00:05.980 This is just the latest brutal, violent crime committed by someone who shouldn't even be in the country to begin with. 0.77

00:00:10.860 It's why a large majority of Americans now support mass deportations.

00:00:14.100 Americans are sick of this, and they should be. 0.99

00:00:16.360 Also, the Surgeon General proposes a cigarette-style warning label on social media sites.

00:00:20.840 Police in one crime-ridden county in Maryland have devised a new plan to fight crime, and it involves giving out free Slurpees.

00:00:27.080 And a firefighter in San Francisco was attacked by one of his co-workers and beaten with a wrench.

00:00:31.260 The victim lost his job. The attacker is still collecting a paycheck.

00:00:33.960 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:11.140 Because of the constant stream of news and information that we're all subjected to on a daily basis,

00:02:15.900 some of the most revealing moments in politics can be easy to overlook.

00:02:20.520 And it's hard to spot a confession when there's a million other things going on.

00:02:24.520 So recall that it was just a couple of months ago that a 22-year-old college student named Lakin Riley was murdered.

00:02:30.140 Authorities determined that an illegal alien from Venezuela attacked her while she was jogging at the University of Georgia,

00:02:35.740 then tried to rape Riley before beating her to death.

00:02:38.100 That Riley's killer had crossed the border illegally, then committed a series of crimes that put him on the radar of local and federal authorities.

00:02:44.460 But even after he was detained for these crimes, the killer was always set free shortly afterward.

00:02:49.740 And that continued until the day that he came across Lakin Riley.

00:02:53.420 Now, faced with this set of facts, Joe Biden did not apologize for his immigration policy,

00:02:58.600 which makes it all but impossible to deport criminal aliens, even when they commit serious crimes like DUIs.

00:03:04.420 Instead, Biden said that he regretted only the fact that during his State of the Union address, he had called Riley's killer an illegal.

00:03:12.760 Biden said that unlike Donald Trump, he won't call anyone vermin, even men who murder college students during attempted rapes.

00:03:19.280 Quote, I'm not going to treat any of these people with disrespect, Biden said. 0.98

00:03:24.560 Because, of course, you wouldn't want to disrespect a murdering rapist.

00:03:28.300 That might hurt his feelings, and we wouldn't want that.

00:03:31.700 Now, throughout all the back and forth on immigration that's happened since Lakin Riley's murder,

00:03:36.220 the fight over the border legislation, Biden's so-called parole-in-place amnesty program,

00:03:41.060 the lawsuit over Texas's border fencing, etc.,

00:03:44.040 this was by far the single most revealing comment that we heard from the Biden administration.

00:03:49.440 It didn't receive anywhere near the attention it should have.

00:03:51.420 The president of the United States said that he regretted using accurate terminology to describe a man who tried to rape an American citizen and then killed her.

00:04:00.440 I mean, this is cowardice and incompetence at its absolute worst.

00:04:05.180 It's the total abdication of the role of the president of the United States,

00:04:08.280 which is to prioritize the safety of American citizens over the feelings of foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes.

00:04:14.960 And it's the kind of weakness that ultimately invites even more murders, which is exactly what we're seeing.

00:04:20.920 But at the same time, Biden's defenders told us that, actually, Riley's murder was a rare event.

00:04:26.800 It's extremely uncommon, they said, for an illegal alien to commit a violent crime against an American citizen.

00:04:32.720 That was the response from the Los Angeles Times, the Cato Institute, NPR, so on and so on.

00:04:38.100 They all trotted out the statistic that, in their minds, demonstrated that American citizens are actually more dangerous than the millions of unknown foreigners who are illegally crossing the border every year.

00:04:49.420 Now, the claim defies common sense, but you're instructed to believe it anyway.

00:04:54.960 The only problem with this logic is that, by definition, we don't know exactly how many illegal aliens are actually in this country.

00:05:04.060 We also don't know their identities.

00:05:05.600 Even when these foreign nationals are arrested, the largest cities in this country go to great lengths to conceal their arrests from the federal government.

00:05:13.200 And that gives these people the ability to commit crimes with impunity, all while avoiding detection.

00:05:18.920 Often, when these foreigners commit a crime in this country, no suspects are ever identified. 1.00

00:05:23.120 And in the rare cases where suspects are identified, it often takes a very long time to bring them to justice.

00:05:27.900 Case in point, last August, a 37-year-old Maryland mother of five by the name of Rachel Morin went missing after going for a walk on a trail in Bel Air, Maryland.

00:05:39.220 Which, by the way, if you're not familiar with that part of the country, the state, it's supposed to be a pretty safe area.

00:05:45.800 But her body was found 24 hours later.

00:05:49.180 And within two weeks, the local sheriff's office determined that a DNA sample from the crime scene in Maryland matched the DNA from a home invasion that took place earlier in the year all the way across the country in Los Angeles.

00:06:01.140 That home invasion involved the brutal assault of a nine-year-old girl.

00:06:04.700 But even though authorities had a DNA match, they still didn't have a suspect because this suspect was a foreign national who was not in any of the U.S. databases.

00:06:13.420 So the FBI's Baltimore field office had to enlist their investigative genetic genealogy team to identify potential family members of the killer.

00:06:21.940 And the authorities then traveled to El Salvador to interview these potential witnesses and informants.

00:06:26.360 And that exhaustive effort ultimately led to the arrest of a suspect at a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday nights.

00:06:34.000 Watch.

00:06:35.020 The Hartford County Sheriff says through DNA evidence, local police and FBI agents were able to arrest Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last night.

00:06:45.900 According to officials, Martinez Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally last year from El Salvador, where he was wanted for murder.

00:06:52.960 During today's press conference, Sheriff Jeff Gaylor had this message for the White House.

00:06:58.740 Here in Hartford County, we are 1,800 miles away from the southern border, and the American citizens are not safe

00:07:04.480 because of failed immigration policies.

00:07:06.320 This is the second time in just two years that an innocent Hartford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally.

00:07:15.320 Police say the suspect is a citizen of El Salvador who illegally crossed the border in February of last year after allegedly murdering a woman there a month prior.

00:07:26.160 In March 2023, police say he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles.

00:07:32.320 He's seen leaving the home in this surveillance video police released in August.

00:07:37.000 The FBI says they were able to trace his DNA to potential family in El Salvador, even traveling to the country to help identify the suspect.

00:07:45.500 The lead we received was related to DNA evidence and allowed investigators to finally put a name to the image of the suspect in the video from Los Angeles, which we released two weeks after Rachel's death.

00:07:59.400 After we had the video, we knew what he looked like, but we didn't know who he was.

00:08:04.420 So you can see the problem here.

00:08:07.400 When an illegal immigrant commits a violent crime, it's not enough to gather DNA evidence. 1.00

00:08:11.580 That usually works when the suspect is an American citizen, because American citizens who commit violent crimes often have a criminal history, and their DNA is already in a database in this country.

00:08:20.940 But foreign nationals who come here aren't in the U.S. databases, even though they often have a violent criminal history in another country. 0.93

00:08:28.040 That was the case here where this suspect apparently committed a murder in El Salvador before coming to the United States.

00:08:34.620 So this is a man, just to review, who committed heinous violent crimes in two different states and two separate countries that we know of.

00:08:43.440 And up until a few days ago, he was walking free.

00:08:49.720 Now, it's not hard to see that if the police didn't have the surveillance footage from Los Angeles, it's very likely they never would have been able to identify Rachel Morin's killer at all.

00:08:59.600 That appears to have been a major break in the case, along with whatever the feds learned when they traveled to El Salvador.

00:09:04.660 This is the kind of thing you have to keep in mind when you read reports about how crimes by illegal aliens aren't that common.

00:09:11.840 This is the problem with all those statistics.

00:09:14.700 The truth is that it's often impossible to track these crimes, much less investigate them.

00:09:19.340 Unless investigators get extremely lucky and expend an extraordinary amount of effort, which is what happened in Rachel Morin's case, it's often impossible to even identify a suspect.

00:09:27.780 It's also important to consider the fact that the corporate press is extremely selective about which crimes it chooses to cover.

00:09:35.320 Yes, the murder of Lake and Riley received wall-to-wall coverage.

00:09:37.920 It was too flagrant and horrific a story to ignore.

00:09:40.400 But there are many similar murders that don't receive anywhere near the same level of attention.

00:09:45.720 And if they did receive a lot of attention, people might realize that the statistics on these crimes don't make a whole lot of sense.

00:09:51.920 Consider, for example, this case from a couple of months ago involving a murder on an interstate in Michigan.

00:09:58.740 Now, this is a story that, as far as I can tell, was only reported by local news stations.

00:10:03.020 It's also been picked up by the Trump campaign.

00:10:05.260 Watch.

00:10:07.260 Justin, to our newsroom tonight, a man is behind bars and faces a felony charge in the death of a woman from Grand Rapids.

00:10:13.540 Yeah, it's after 25-year-old Ruby Garcia was found dead on US 131 over the weekend.

00:10:18.240 Police say she was shot multiple times.

00:10:20.860 Now, we're also learning a lot about the suspect in this case, 25-year-old Brandon Ortiz Vita.

00:10:26.220 News Channel 3's Autumn Pitcher joins us from Grand Rapids.

00:10:29.280 And Autumn, police telling you that the suspect wasn't supposed to be in the U.S.

00:10:34.640 Yes, that's right.

00:10:35.820 Brandon was a Mexican citizen who was in the United States illegally.

00:10:42.080 That's according to federal agencies.

00:10:44.420 Now, he was removed by an immigration judge back in 2020.

00:10:48.200 And it is currently unknown how or when he got back into the country.

00:10:54.160 Police are not new to Ortiz Vitae, as he has had several run-ins since 2017, including drunk driving and illegal entry into a residence.

00:11:03.500 Yeah, it's a real mystery how he got back inside the United States.

00:11:07.700 It's currently unknown.

00:11:09.660 And in fact, we may never know how the killer managed to evade the extensive border security that we have.

00:11:15.100 You know, because Joe Biden has all these guard towers and laser trip wires, and somehow this guy managed to get past all of them.

00:11:21.440 And then when he drove drunk and committed a bunch of other crimes, somehow he still evaded detection.

00:11:26.600 We may never know how he pulled all that off.

00:11:28.680 As it happens, there are a lot of similar mysteries unfolding all over the country.

00:11:33.080 According to NBC News, it's also a mystery as to how a 15-year-old Venezuelan arrived in the United States only to allegedly open fire on tourists and police officers in a crowded store.

00:11:42.840 Watch.

00:11:44.280 Tonight in New York City, a 15-year-old wanted for opening fire on police officers in a crowded Times Square

00:11:50.560 and shooting a tourist in the leg with a .45 caliber handgun now in police custody, according to law enforcement.

00:11:58.680 Considering where these shootings took place, it's an actual miracle that we're not having a very different conversation right now.

00:12:05.640 Police say the teenage migrant recently arrived in New York from Venezuela in September.

00:12:10.540 One of three teens who, according to police, entered a sporting goods store Thursday evening,

00:12:15.300 stomped by a security guard for allegedly stealing clothes.

00:12:18.680 Our suspect takes out a .45 caliber handgun, a very large handgun, shoots at her into a crowd, striking a 37-year-old female tourist from Brazil.

00:12:31.340 The incident now part of a troubling trend of moped robberies, snatches, and pickpocketing in New York City.

00:12:37.820 There are some Venezuelan groups, groups of migrants, I say some, not all, that are affecting crime in our city. 1.00

00:12:46.580 Hmm. He's a migrant from Venezuela, we're told, but they don't give us any more information.

00:12:52.900 In fact, if you listen to that whole report, you don't even hear the migrant's name.

00:12:56.880 So you can come to this country illegally and start shooting, and the media and police will do everything they can to protect you 0.97

00:13:02.740 and protect your good name and reputation, I suppose.

00:13:05.080 They won't answer questions such as, how could a migrant from Venezuela obtain a .45 caliber handgun in New York City,

00:13:12.580 which has some of the strictest gun legislation in the country?

00:13:15.580 How exactly did he enter the country, much less obtain a firearm?

00:13:19.060 How was his age determined?

00:13:21.640 You think those questions would occur to NBC News, but apparently not.

00:13:24.700 But in that report, you did hear NBC mention the rise in crimes involving mopeds.

00:13:29.280 That's one common denominator they're willing to talk about.

00:13:33.240 Now, as it happens, just a couple of weeks ago, there was another moped crime in New York

00:13:37.300 when an illegal alien on a moped shot two police officers who were investigating a robbery in Queens.

00:13:43.700 Watch.

00:13:45.520 Hazel, good morning.

00:13:46.740 And all morning, we've been watching police work here along 23rd Avenue,

00:13:50.560 part of a very large crime scene going up and down this stretch here,

00:13:54.160 focused on finding clues, and this hour, new details to share from their investigation

00:13:59.380 and about that suspect.

00:14:01.400 First, a look at the gun.

00:14:03.040 Police say 19-year-old suspect Bernardo Raul Castro Mata used to open fire on two NYPD officers overnight.

00:14:11.320 Authorities saying he carried that firearm illegally, and that it's now in evidence.

00:14:16.380 And even more evidence found at the crime scene.

00:14:19.380 Here's a look at the moped.

00:14:20.380 Authorities say those two officers first noticed that suspect writing overnight

00:14:24.880 and also spotted several evidence markers near where those shots were fired this morning.

00:14:30.800 Police also saying that suspect Bernardo Raul Castro Mata currently resides at a migrant shelter

00:14:36.240 not too far away from here.

00:14:38.160 Police also saying so far, it does not appear that he has any arrest record in the city.

00:14:44.520 However, they say he is someone they're looking into for several robberies around Queens.

00:14:50.600 So again, it's a migrant in New York. 0.86

00:14:52.700 No word on whether he's a legal migrant or not.

00:14:55.280 So you can fill in the blanks there.

00:14:57.120 But he's apparently fond of mopeds like so many criminals that we have now imported from Central America. 0.97

00:15:02.640 And of course, he happens to have no documented criminal history,

00:15:05.520 even though from that report, it appears very likely that he's committed a lot of other robberies

00:15:09.440 and who knows what other crimes.

00:15:12.100 Again, this is the problem with the statistics that you often hear.

00:15:14.560 Especially in left-wing cities, they simply don't arrest these migrants when they commit crimes. 1.00

00:15:20.260 Until they shoot at police officers, they get away with it.

00:15:23.900 Another recent case out of Dallas only proves that point.

00:15:26.760 Watch.

00:15:27.060 You may know this face by now.

00:15:30.280 Oscar Sanchez Garcia is accused of stabbing three women to death within three months in Dallas.

00:15:35.940 While family of the victims...

00:15:37.840 He looked at those women as if they were just nothing.

00:15:40.600 ...wait for justice.

00:15:41.700 I'm sad that two more people had to lose their life before he was caught.

00:15:46.100 They're also wondering if the murders could have been prevented.

00:15:49.240 Garcia is undocumented and was arrested 40 days before the alleged killings began by DPD.

00:15:56.440 Per his arrest documents, officers say Garcia punched his girlfriend four times in the face

00:16:01.220 during an argument leaving swelling and lacerations.

00:16:04.440 He was charged with misdemeanor assault causing injury against a family member,

00:16:08.500 bonding out shortly after that.

00:16:10.480 But DPD telling us Monday the department didn't notify ICE that Garcia was undocumented.

00:16:16.020 So this is yet another preventable series of murders.

00:16:20.140 It's a case where the Dallas Police Department did not alert federal authorities about this

00:16:23.720 illegal alien's crimes, including the fact that he beat up his girlfriend.

00:16:27.720 So that just went unreported.

00:16:30.460 I mean, actual, like, lives could have been saved actively.

00:16:34.140 But there are people who could still be walking around in this country today

00:16:37.280 if they had simply, if everybody involved had simply done their jobs.

00:16:43.400 And I could spend all day talking about cases like this.

00:16:45.880 The Center for Immigration Studies has documented one recent case in which an illegal alien from

00:16:50.400 Guatemala allegedly killed a mother and toddler in Florida in a double murder that's attracted 0.97

00:16:55.180 pretty much no national attention whatsoever.

00:16:57.640 The killer in that case was also apparently wanted for a murder in his home country,

00:17:01.380 just like the alleged killer of Rachel Morin.

00:17:04.700 As the Center for Immigration Studies puts it, quote,

00:17:06.580 And all of that raises the question of how many other migrant fugitives from crime abroad were among the almost 1.3 million

00:17:24.060 gotaways at the southwest border in the past two fiscal years?

00:17:27.600 And how many future victims are thus doomed to meet the alleged fates of this mother and child?

00:17:33.260 It's a very good question.

00:17:35.200 And in fact, this sort of thing is happening so often that I had to make a last-minute edit to this monologue

00:17:39.540 right before we started recording in order to also make sure that I mentioned the very latest,

00:17:44.000 quote, unquote, migrant crime.

00:17:45.600 Fox News reported at 9 a.m. this morning, quote,

00:17:48.860 An illegal immigrant Ecuadorian is in NYPD custody after a broad daylight sex attack in which police said

00:17:55.860 a machete-wielding man approached two 13-year-olds, one a boy and one a girl,

00:18:01.460 tied them together by the wrists, and raped the girl at a popular park in Queens, according to sources.

00:18:06.800 An NYPD spokesperson confirmed a person of interest was in custody,

00:18:10.180 declined to provide additional details.

00:18:11.600 However, law enforcement sources tell Fox News that police arrested an Ecuadorian man on Monday

00:18:16.780 in connection with the crime.

00:18:18.280 He entered the country illegally in 2021.

00:18:22.700 Now, perhaps you can now see why a majority of Americans across the political spectrum

00:18:26.920 support mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

00:18:30.280 This is not a partisan issue anymore.

00:18:33.660 Americans are just sick to death of this madness. 0.99

00:18:36.620 And it's not just illegal migrants either, by the way.

00:18:39.360 I began this segment by talking about how the statistics on illegal alien crime are

00:18:43.540 extremely unreliable to the point of being basically useless.

00:18:47.880 And that's true, but the fact remains that there are quite a few American-born criminals 0.99

00:18:51.560 who are also being unleashed on the public as well.

00:18:55.080 Remember, for example, that the man who killed jogger Eliza Fletcher in Memphis

00:18:59.260 had served a 20-year prison sentence for kidnapping

00:19:02.120 and also sexually assaulted another woman.

00:19:05.500 Recall that the recidivism rate for violent offenders in this country

00:19:08.140 overall is somewhere north of 60%.

00:19:10.260 So the theme in both types of cases, whether it's an illegal offender or not, 0.98

00:19:16.700 is that innocent American citizens are falling victim to dangerous scumbags 0.97

00:19:20.640 who should not be walking the streets to begin with. 0.97

00:19:24.520 We are sacrificing thousands of American lives for the sake of the worst human beings on the planet. 0.94

00:19:29.960 I mean, if the system cared even slightly about our well-being,

00:19:35.940 if it would do the bare minimum to enforce the law,

00:19:39.840 thousands of lives could be saved overnight.

00:19:43.320 You don't need statistics to tell you that.

00:19:45.640 You just watch the local news.

00:19:48.280 So keep this in mind as Biden advances his various plans for amnesty.

00:19:52.260 I mean, this is a man who apologizes for being too harsh to murderers.

00:19:58.180 And as long as he remains in office,

00:20:00.340 he will do everything he can to unleash even more of them.

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00:21:08.860 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:21:09.860 The Daily Wire reports, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling for a mandatory warning label

00:21:20.440 on social media, warning users about the mental health risks for teenagers.

00:21:24.840 In an opinion article for the New York Times published Monday,

00:21:27.020 Murthy said he wants a Surgeon General's warning on social media platforms

00:21:30.160 similar to the warning labels that appear on tobacco and alcohol products.

00:21:33.880 The tobacco warnings have been shown to increase awareness and change behavior, Murthy said.

00:21:40.320 Murthy wrote,

00:21:40.820 The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency,

00:21:43.840 and social media has emerged as an important contributor.

00:21:46.820 It's time to require a Surgeon General's warning label on social media platforms

00:21:50.760 stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.

00:21:55.660 A Surgeon General's warning label, which requires congressional action,

00:21:58.260 would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.

00:22:02.900 Now, I'm of two minds about this.

00:22:08.260 On the one hand, I agree that social media is extremely harmful to kids.

00:22:12.360 You know how I feel about that.

00:22:14.120 It's harmful to adults also, but kids in particular.

00:22:17.740 If you let your kid use social media every day,

00:22:21.700 you are actively making your child's life worse. 0.97

00:22:25.620 You are making them into a more miserable person. 0.92

00:22:28.840 You're making their life worse. 0.98

00:22:29.940 You're making them a worse person.

00:22:31.680 There's just no question about it.

00:22:35.580 You are, you know, when you give the phone to your kid and invite them to use social media

00:22:40.360 whenever they want, you are like, you are inviting them to be miserable and unhappy.

00:22:45.340 That's what you are. 0.67

00:22:46.040 Here you go.

00:22:47.780 So there's no benefit to social media for kids.

00:22:50.720 There's no benefit.

00:22:52.800 Certainly not a net benefit.

00:22:55.080 But I would go so far as to say that there's no benefit at all.

00:22:58.080 And the more that we acknowledge that as a society, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

00:23:04.180 So, you know, just taking this idea in isolation, maybe it's an unpopular opinion.

00:23:10.920 I think, I don't know.

00:23:12.900 I think most conservatives would probably, you know, think that it's,

00:23:17.780 would probably be opposed to something like this because it seems nanny state or whatever.

00:23:21.380 But taking it in a vacuum in isolation, I would say, sure.

00:23:26.400 Yeah, put a warning label on it.

00:23:29.480 You shouldn't need to.

00:23:32.300 Like, people should understand what the risks are.

00:23:34.620 Parents should understand that.

00:23:35.900 But people don't.

00:23:37.440 A lot of people don't.

00:23:38.120 And so, I think that this could be helpful in that way.

00:23:42.120 On the other hand, if we are putting mandatory health warning labels on websites,

00:23:48.860 which, again, in principle, I don't necessarily oppose.

00:23:51.980 But if the federal government were to end up mandating this,

00:23:57.740 social media is not the place to start.

00:24:01.540 Like, what about pornography sites?

00:24:03.440 Are we supposed to believe that social media harms children more than porn does?

00:24:10.220 So, and it kind of tells you something,

00:24:12.520 that the Surgeon General wrote this whole op-ed with this big proposal,

00:24:15.740 but it's about social media, not pornography.

00:24:20.280 I mean, one of the things that makes social media so harmful to kids is that there's porn on it.

00:24:25.620 It's not the only thing, but it's a big thing.

00:24:28.200 So, I would believe that this is a sincere effort to help kids

00:24:31.080 if you start by putting warning labels on porn.

00:24:33.480 I would start there.

00:24:33.940 Now, of course, I'd rather see the porn banned.

00:24:36.840 And if not that, then at least there should be a federal law

00:24:39.000 requiring serious age verification on every porn site everywhere in the country.

00:24:44.380 This is just obvious.

00:24:45.420 There's no good argument against it.

00:24:49.020 But if we can't even do that,

00:24:50.860 then fine, let's start with this.

00:24:53.300 Can we at least do this?

00:24:55.120 If it's being considered for social media, then why not porn?

00:25:00.060 That's the way that I would look at it.

00:25:03.580 All right, Montgomery County, Maryland has a major crime problem,

00:25:07.480 especially among juveniles.

00:25:09.820 But they've just come up with a plan to crack down on the crime.

00:25:15.400 And that plan involves coupons for free slushies.

00:25:18.420 That's the, that basically is this.

00:25:22.440 That doesn't just involve it.

00:25:23.380 Like, that is the plan.

00:25:24.460 That's the whole plan.

00:25:25.920 Let's watch.

00:25:28.880 That's right.

00:25:29.520 Good morning, Robert.

00:25:30.320 Here in Tacoma Park, if police catch your child this summer in the act,

00:25:34.580 they might get a ticket.

00:25:36.320 The Operation Chill program is now underway.

00:25:38.840 But take a look at the citation closely.

00:25:41.260 It's a free Slurpee.

00:25:42.860 This is an innovative way.

00:25:44.220 The Police Department here is aiming to reduce crime and build rapport between the youth and cops.

00:25:50.200 Anytime an officer sees the child making a good decision, being kind or doing the right thing,

00:25:56.200 they will issue a ticket locally.

00:25:58.620 There has been a sharp increase in juvenile crime and crime here in Tacoma Park has increased last year

00:26:05.380 due to social issues, drugs, and changes in laws affecting juveniles.

00:26:09.700 According to Police Chief Antonio DeVall, MCPD data shows since 2022,

00:26:15.600 the number of juveniles arrested for violent crimes has risen in the county by more than 300%.

00:26:21.720 From FY22 to 23, the number of juvenile violent crime suspects increased by 178%.

00:26:30.340 And the number of young victims also rose in the county by more than 200%.

00:26:35.560 Though we do have some youth crime, it's not our youth in Tacoma Park.

00:26:43.120 They're coming from other jurisdictions because we're, you know,

00:26:45.860 we border Montgomery County and Prince George's County and the District of Columbia.

00:26:49.660 So it's so close, you can literally come in and leave quickly.

00:26:53.320 Well, that'll do it. Crime problem solved with Slurpees. 1.00

00:26:59.600 And, I mean, it's easy to make fun of this. It's fun to make fun of it.

00:27:04.580 Being a hater is quite enjoyable, frankly.

00:27:06.920 But we should say that the basic idea here is not terrible.

00:27:12.060 We've seen other jurisdictions that have done, tried to do similar sorts of things.

00:27:15.980 Getting the cops, you know, involved with sort of positive reinforcement.

00:27:22.420 And so the basic idea is not terrible.

00:27:24.580 It's even a good idea.

00:27:27.940 Like the fundamental idea is a good one.

00:27:33.240 And the good part is that, or I should say it's part of a good idea.

00:27:36.500 And the good part is that they're trying to establish better relations between

00:27:39.980 the community and the police.

00:27:42.380 They want to create scenarios where the police are interacting with the community

00:27:46.480 in a context that isn't just arresting them and handing out tickets.

00:27:52.820 Which is good for the community.

00:27:54.160 It's also probably good for the police officers too.

00:27:57.720 Which is something we don't often think about.

00:27:59.460 But I can remember when I, years ago, when I got, like 20 years ago,

00:28:03.960 when I got a speeding ticket and I went to court for it.

00:28:10.140 Didn't end up getting out of the ticket.

00:28:11.420 But, you know, I still, but I went to court and I was talking to the cop there.

00:28:16.080 And he said to me, he was always stuck with me.

00:28:19.620 He said that one of the hardest things about his job is that pretty much the only time he's

00:28:26.120 interacting with like normal people, basically law-abiding people, is when he's giving them

00:28:31.520 a ticket.

00:28:32.880 Like a speeding ticket.

00:28:33.780 And that's just the, that's the nature of the job.

00:28:37.700 So that has to be pretty, you know, that has to wear on your mind after a while.

00:28:42.800 So on both ends, you might think like, well, something like this, it's a positive interaction.

00:28:46.100 It helps, it's good, good for both sides to be involved in interaction like that.

00:28:50.040 And I can see that.

00:28:51.100 And in the process, they want to create some incentives, like minor incentives, but incentives

00:28:56.320 for good behavior.

00:28:57.340 All of that is fine.

00:28:59.300 The problem is that if it isn't coupled with severe punishments for bad behavior, if there's

00:29:05.140 no stick to go along with the carrot, then the whole thing's a farce.

00:29:09.940 You know, it's a joke.

00:29:11.040 And given that this is in Maryland, it's a liberal area, I think it's safe to say that

00:29:15.780 there is no real stick.

00:29:18.120 So that's the issue.

00:29:19.300 And meanwhile, at a deeper level, the rot is so deep and so pervasive that probably, if

00:29:25.260 anything, although you're trying to incentivize good behavior, if anything, it probably has

00:29:31.340 the opposite effect.

00:29:33.300 Because getting a Slurpee coupon will probably be seen as a sign, like that's likely not cool

00:29:40.720 to get one of those.

00:29:42.380 I imagine being a kid in this jurisdiction, like in trying to cash in your coupon for

00:29:48.360 a free Slurpee.

00:29:50.180 If any of your friends see you do it, you'll never live it down.

00:29:53.440 And part of that is just kids being kids.

00:29:55.800 It's not cool to earn brownie points from authority figures.

00:29:58.380 It's just the way it is.

00:29:59.840 Part of it is a culture thing.

00:30:01.840 There is obviously a real hostility to the police that is bred, fostered in these communities.

00:30:08.240 And let's be honest about what we're talking about.

00:30:11.620 When we say these communities, we mean black communities.

00:30:14.460 A kid growing up in this environment is, first of all, probably doesn't have a father in the

00:30:19.320 home.

00:30:20.860 And on top of that is actively discouraged from respecting or listening to other sources

00:30:25.280 of authority.

00:30:26.880 So it just creates a hopeless kind of situation.

00:30:29.660 And it's one that free Slurpees probably can't overcome.

00:30:33.200 But we'll see.

00:30:36.500 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:30:38.280 Maybe this was the ticket all along.

00:30:40.680 Maybe this was the only thing we needed to do.

00:30:44.540 Catholic News Agency reports, the Massachusetts state government this week announced what it

00:30:50.020 billed as a first in the nation effort to discredit and steer pregnant women away from

00:30:55.420 pregnancy resource centers in the state.

00:30:57.500 The state's Department of Public Health said in a press release on Monday that it was launching

00:31:02.200 what it described as an education campaign to highlight the dangers and potential harm

00:31:08.240 of crisis pregnancy centers.

00:31:11.360 And they put out a bunch of PSAs as part of this effort.

00:31:16.260 Here's a video that the state health department put out about these pregnancy centers and how dangerous

00:31:23.780 they are to women.

00:31:25.080 Watch.

00:31:25.400 Whether you need pregnancy care or abortion care, avoid anti-abortion centers.

00:31:32.100 They may look like medical clinics, but can put your health at risk.

00:31:37.280 They mislead you about your options if you're pregnant. 1.00

00:31:42.200 And they don't offer abortion care.

00:31:47.880 Learn more and find care you can trust.

00:31:51.860 Learn more at mass.gov slash get trusted care.

00:31:55.400 Yeah, find care.

00:31:57.500 You can only trust the type of care. 0.99

00:32:00.140 You can only trust the places where they will charge you hundreds of dollars to kill your baby.

00:32:05.280 Those are the only people you can trust. 0.99

00:32:07.640 The ones who, like, what they want to do is kill your baby. 0.99

00:32:10.540 That's their solution. 0.96

00:32:11.680 They're the ones you trust, right?

00:32:13.780 If you needed any more evidence that pro-aborts are totally full of, well, here you go.

00:32:18.600 And keep this in mind whenever you hear nonsense from that side about, you know, how pro-lifers don't care about women and aren't trying to help women and are pro-birth, not pro-life, you know, all that nonsense.

00:32:31.660 Every time you hear that, just say, oh, really?

00:32:35.560 Like, well, then how do you respond when pro-lifers set up actual places, organizations, facilities where women can go and get help before and after they give birth? 0.97

00:32:50.520 Help for them and the baby.

00:32:53.500 That's what these pregnancy resource centers do. 1.00

00:32:57.380 How do you respond to that?

00:32:58.500 You just said that, oh, pro-lifers don't care about women. 0.99

00:33:00.460 They're trying to help women.

00:33:01.660 Okay, well, here are facilities all across the country, and that's what they are there to do.

00:33:08.720 And by the way, these pregnancy resource centers, they're not making billions of dollars like Planned Parenthood is, okay?

00:33:13.900 They're not getting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, and they're not making millions more on abortion, obviously.

00:33:23.020 So none of these people are getting wealthy.

00:33:26.460 You go to a pregnancy center, none of the people involved, when you walk into that building, none of the people you interact with are rich, okay?

00:33:34.400 They're not making hardly any money on this thing, and they're doing it purely because they want to help women.

00:33:40.120 That's the only reason they're there.

00:33:43.900 So when you see that as a pro-abort, do you say, oh, well, here are some good, okay, well, maybe not every pro-lifer is terrible.

00:33:54.220 Here are some good ones.

00:33:56.740 No, instead you condemn them, and you say that they're putting women at risk, and you put out PSAs actively discouraging women from taking help from these people.

00:34:07.600 People who can't even, the pregnancy resource center, they are, it's not like they're going to, despite what you may hear or may be implied from some of these PSAs,

00:34:22.520 they don't kidnap women and chain them in the basement until they give birth to prevent them from getting abortions.

00:34:28.620 Because you could go to a pregnancy resource center and get resources and then still get an abortion. 1.00

00:34:33.820 I hope you don't.

00:34:36.660 That it would be a bad thing, but you can.

00:34:41.020 So, when the, and that's just to highlight how evil this sort of thing is.

00:34:51.580 Because they claim on the other side that, well, they just want women to have options, they want to have choices. 0.85

00:34:56.060 Well, here's part of, well, you want them to have choices or not?

00:34:59.560 Do you want them to have choices or not?

00:35:01.280 Because would you agree that at least one of the potential choices is to not kill your baby?

00:35:09.320 If there's only one choice, then it's not a choice.

00:35:11.540 So, choice means that there are other options.

00:35:15.180 Well, here's one option.

00:35:17.140 And here are people offering help.

00:35:20.620 And you don't want those things to exist.

00:35:24.180 Because we know that, in fact, you are not pro-choice.

00:35:29.320 You are, in fact, pro-death. 1.00

00:35:31.480 You are actively in favor of killing babies. 1.00

00:35:35.880 You want to kill babies. 1.00

00:35:38.240 You want babies dead. 1.00

00:35:39.560 That's what you actually want.

00:35:41.780 So, when the pro-boards claim that pro-lifers are only pro-birth, which, yeah, also, am I pro-birth?

00:35:51.780 Yeah, I am. 0.99

00:35:52.280 The fact that you even say that like it's a bad thing just proves what a demon you are. 0.99

00:36:01.040 You're so evil, you can't even see how that comes across. 0.99

00:36:05.020 You're just pro-birth.

00:36:06.320 Yeah, of course I'm pro-birth.

00:36:07.240 Yes, I want people to be born.

00:36:09.380 That's a good thing.

00:36:10.280 I consider that a good thing.

00:36:13.160 That's how most of humanity has always viewed it.

00:36:15.920 You usually celebrate births.

00:36:17.420 It's a wonderful, joyous thing. 1.00

00:36:18.920 You congratulate people, don't you, you psychopaths? 0.97

00:36:25.380 But, so, that's like the caricature of pro-lifers. 0.97

00:36:31.900 That it fails because we will embrace that.

00:36:35.500 Yeah, we're pro-birth.

00:36:36.420 Yeah, absolutely.

00:36:37.080 But, on the other side, when we say that the people who call themselves pro-choice are actually pro-death, it's not a caricature.

00:36:45.140 That is, in fact, their position.

00:36:47.820 They are in favor of death.

00:36:49.580 That's what they want.

00:36:51.740 And when fewer babies are killed, it's a tragedy to them.

00:36:55.280 They consider it a tragedy.

00:36:56.260 All right.

00:37:00.400 Here's a report on a disturbing new trend.

00:37:02.700 This is from Dallas News, but I think it's originally from Bloomberg.

00:37:10.480 Here's the headline.

00:37:12.600 How home swapping became the trendy alternative to Airbnb.

00:37:18.040 Home swapping.

00:37:19.400 Now, home swapping sounds truly horrific just based on the name.

00:37:23.220 But, is it as bad as it sounds?

00:37:26.020 I've never heard of this before, but there's a, I saw this article.

00:37:28.360 There have been other articles recently about home swapping.

00:37:30.440 It's like the new thing.

00:37:32.040 So, let's continue to find out what this thing is.

00:37:36.780 Amy Froelich and her wife.

00:37:41.120 This is the second day in a row we've had something like this.

00:37:45.640 Second day in a row with the stories involving lesbian couples.

00:37:48.220 I don't know what's going on.

00:37:49.820 Anyway, they've been Airbnb hosts since 2015.

00:37:52.360 They started in Iowa City, Iowa, and continued on to Madison, Wisconsin, where they own a

00:37:56.400 four-bedroom home in a lush neighborhood within walking distance of trails and shops.

00:38:01.080 On weeks their house isn't rented out, they opened it up for free home swaps through Home

00:38:05.280 Exchange, an online travel hack they stumbled onto three years ago that lets them leverage

00:38:10.260 their place for free accommodations elsewhere.

00:38:12.520 We just, we were just in a home exchange outside of, in Scotland, this beautiful couple, Claire

00:38:20.320 and Michael greeted us at the door with homemade bread that she'd just pulled out of the oven.

00:38:26.060 Says Amy Froelich, speaking to Bloomberg from the UK.

00:38:30.120 The hosts couldn't vacate on the agreed dates, but they offered the couple a loft area with

00:38:35.460 a master bedroom and a bath.

00:38:39.700 So the couple stayed there in the house with these other people.

00:38:44.940 In exchange, they'll get to stay at the Froelich's home on a future date of their choosing.

00:38:50.600 So that's the home swap.

00:38:51.780 Kindred, an invitation-only membership platform founded in 2022 with access to 30,000 homes

00:38:56.760 in 100 cities, saw home swaps grow by 800% year-over-year in 2023.

00:39:02.140 The San Francisco-based startup has raised $26 million.

00:39:05.480 Early investors include Andrees and Horowitz, the same firm that contributed $112 million

00:39:10.260 to Airbnb's Series B funding round in 2011.

00:39:14.300 The model of Kindred is similar to those of Pioneer Social Home Exchange and Third Home in

00:39:18.000 that users earn credits for hosting other members in their homes.

00:39:21.780 Credits can then be redeemed for stays elsewhere.

00:39:24.860 Kindred's twist is that it doesn't charge an annual membership fee.

00:39:27.640 It makes money mostly from service fees.

00:39:30.340 Okay.

00:39:31.900 So the idea is exactly what it sounds like.

00:39:35.940 Home swapping, it's like Airbnb, except that you're trading homes with someone.

00:39:42.760 They stay in yours and you stay in theirs. 0.99

00:39:46.320 I mean, how is this kind of thing appealing to anyone?

00:39:50.840 This is worse than Airbnb and Airbnb is awful.

00:39:55.600 The whole thing of traveling and staying in a stranger's house is just insane to me.

00:40:00.600 It's crazy.

00:40:02.300 It's crazy that people do it.

00:40:03.640 Now, look, there are a few instances where it makes sense.

00:40:06.480 If you want a vacation home on a lake or something, then you pretty much have to do Airbnb or Vrbo or one of those.

00:40:14.280 So a vacation home, especially in a place that doesn't really have hotels, you know, it's in that scenario, it's fine.

00:40:21.040 People have been renting out vacation homes forever.

00:40:22.660 However, that's one thing.

00:40:25.080 But it's only relatively recently that renting people's homes has become a standard thing people do when they travel in any context.

00:40:33.420 And, you know, it's only recently where this sort of thing has become, last 10 years or so, has become a replacement for hotels.

00:40:39.540 Like, in situations where you could stay in a hotel, but instead you choose this.

00:40:43.580 And I just find it crazy.

00:40:46.000 I mean, I still remember when I first heard about Airbnb years ago when it was gaining popularity.

00:40:50.860 A friend told me about it and I hadn't heard of it before.

00:40:53.440 And he said, oh, man, you know, it's great.

00:40:55.240 If you have to travel somewhere, you could just stay in someone's house instead of a hotel.

00:40:58.940 And I remember at the time saying, like, why would you want to do that?

00:41:05.700 It's like a nightmare.

00:41:07.160 It's a literal nightmare.

00:41:09.300 Staying in a stranger's home?

00:41:12.220 How is that appealing?

00:41:14.200 Why would you do that when you could just stay in a hotel?

00:41:16.700 Hotels are great.

00:41:17.360 Hotels are amazing.

00:41:19.220 The hotel model is perfect.

00:41:21.220 It doesn't mean every hotel is perfect, but the model, the idea is perfect.

00:41:25.800 And even in the crappiest hotel, they at least have housekeeping to clean the rooms.

00:41:32.180 Even in the crappiest hotel, there isn't some random stranger out there who has a key to your,

00:41:38.360 to the, to just like walk in whenever they want.

00:41:41.680 Now, yes, the employees of a hotel have keys, but at least there's some accountability there.

00:41:45.860 You know, it's just like, it doesn't feel, when you're at a hotel, you don't,

00:41:48.660 you're not really worried about the fact that an employee could just walk into the house

00:41:52.700 whenever they want or walk into the room whenever they want.

00:41:54.820 But when you're renting a person's home, that's just a person.

00:41:58.740 It's a person you've probably never met.

00:42:01.820 And they, they have a key to the house.

00:42:03.620 They could walk in whenever they want.

00:42:05.120 You don't know what's in the home, cameras, whatever.

00:42:08.940 It's just weird and creepy to stay in a stranger's house.

00:42:11.760 And you have to do all the chores.

00:42:14.740 Like before they give you, they give you a list of chores you have to do at their home.

00:42:20.060 The accommodations are worse.

00:42:23.440 There's no room service.

00:42:24.480 There's no hotel bar. 0.91

00:42:26.420 You have to do the freaking dishes and like throw towels into the laundry before you leave. 0.68

00:42:33.740 I just went through this recently. 0.94

00:42:36.640 And like I said, staying at lake, like a lake house scenario is the only time when, when I would do this.

00:42:44.140 And, and I just did it recently.

00:42:46.100 And, you know, it was fine.

00:42:48.100 It was fine.

00:42:49.080 But I'm just thinking this as I'm going through it.

00:42:52.060 Like I had to go through the checkout.

00:42:52.980 There's a binder on the counter and it's a whole list of chores that they're, it's like your wife or something giving you a, a, a, a to-do list.

00:43:02.920 There's a whole list of chores you have to do before you can leave.

00:43:06.440 And one of them is throw, oh, pick up the, the dirty towels and throw them in the washer.

00:43:13.500 And I did it, but the whole time I'm thinking like, why am I doing this?

00:43:16.820 This is, this is onerous that I have to put the, I have to put the towels in the, isn't this what I'm paying you for?

00:43:23.760 And then you look at the receipt and it's like cleaning and service fee is on it.

00:43:29.500 Oh, so I'm paying a cleaning fee and I'm cleaning.

00:43:32.380 What is, there's a disconnect here.

00:43:35.940 I was, I was sweeping the floors before I left.

00:43:39.340 Sweeping someone else's, I'll never be in this house again.

00:43:41.260 I'm sweeping the floors for them.

00:43:43.040 And I'm paying a cleaning fee.

00:43:45.660 So the whole thing's a scam. 0.99

00:43:48.120 And if you do this when you don't, if you do this when a hotel is an option, you are, you are psychotic. 0.98

00:43:53.020 I cannot understand it. 0.99

00:43:55.400 It's crazy.

00:44:00.000 And then to have, and then, and then even worse to allow strangers into your own home. 0.99

00:44:05.260 You have to think like, what sorts of people, again, a hotel is one thing.

00:44:11.120 It's a hotel's a, you know, you understand the concept of a hotel, but I already, like, I don't trust you to begin with if I'm staying in your house.

00:44:21.640 Because why are you letting strangers in your house?

00:44:24.040 Like, what is your game?

00:44:25.160 What are you up to?

00:44:26.680 What's going on?

00:44:27.440 And then in every house you go into, there's always certain doors that are locked or, like, excessively locked.

00:44:33.340 This house we stayed in, there was, it appeared to be a closet door in the, it looked like a pantry door.

00:44:39.000 But it had, like, three padlocks on it.

00:44:42.800 I'm like, what the hell is in that little room that you so badly don't want us to see?

00:44:47.760 Meanwhile, you're luring people to your house, strangers, like, what's going on here?

00:44:55.840 I would never want a stranger in my house when I'm not even there to keep an eye on them.

00:45:01.920 But maybe they are keeping an eye on you.

00:45:03.440 That's the point.

00:45:04.220 You see, it's just, it's very creepy.

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00:45:50.080 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:51.620 Well, this is one of those stories that doesn't require very much commentary, but I will offer some anyway,

00:46:02.240 because, you know, that's the whole point of the show.

00:46:04.840 ABC 7 News in San Francisco has the exclusive report about a firefighter whose career was ended after he was physically assaulted by another firefighter.

00:46:13.660 That other firefighter still has his job.

00:46:15.820 The one who committed the assault gets to keep working.

00:46:19.220 The one who got assaulted is chased out.

00:46:21.400 If you're already making assumptions about the racial dynamics that might be at play here, how dare you?

00:46:26.300 But also, you're right.

00:46:28.740 You're probably basically right.

00:46:30.880 Let's watch.

00:46:31.540 The whole time I was yelling at him, I said, Robert, stop.

00:46:36.100 What's wrong with you?

00:46:36.740 Stop.

00:46:37.180 And he just didn't stop.

00:46:38.760 He was relentless.

00:46:39.440 This San Francisco firefighter is talking publicly for the first time about a brutal attack that he says ended his career.

00:46:48.120 Another firefighter charged with beating him with a hydrant wrench.

00:46:52.440 The I-team's Dan Noyes first told you about this case two years ago, but now the victim has decided to speak about what happened.

00:46:59.260 And Dan is here to explain why he's talking at this moment in a story you'll see only on 7, Dan.

00:47:04.000 Well, Dan and Kristen connected to this attack, Gabriel Shin has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that asks a basic question.

00:47:11.360 Why was the victim forced out of the San Francisco Fire Department while the suspect still works there?

00:47:18.060 Well, actually, there's no mystery to that question.

00:47:20.620 It isn't even an interesting question at this point. 0.94

00:47:22.500 The answer is that the suspect is black. 0.94

00:47:24.120 That's the entire answer. 0.77

00:47:25.540 And there's nothing more complicated than that going on.

00:47:28.180 It's not complicated, but it is insane.

00:47:29.820 And as the story goes on, we learn that the assailant, a black man named Robert Muhammad, got angry at the victim, an Asian man named Gabriel Shin,

00:47:37.540 because he believed that Shin was talking about some sort of private matter concerning Muhammad.

00:47:42.000 Now, they won't tell us what the private matter was exactly, just that it was a family crisis.

00:47:46.320 From the sound of it, other firefighters at the firehouse, including Shin, were concerned about him and wanted to offer him some support going through his crisis, whatever the crisis was.

00:47:55.840 And this enraged Muhammad, who then demanded that Shin reveal who told him about Muhammad's private business.

00:48:03.920 Shin wouldn't say, which led Muhammad to do this.

00:48:06.660 Court records show that two days after that phone call, Robert Muhammad used a computer at Station 25 to retrieve Shin's work schedule and his home address

00:48:17.260 and left the station with what's called a hydrant spanner, a heavy brass wrench measuring 15 inches that's used to turn the water on and off.

00:48:26.220 Muhammad drove across the bridge to Shin's home in Oakland and found him out front sweeping the sidewalk.

00:48:31.800 And then he reached into his back pocket, he pulled out the large brass spanner, and he started swinging at my head.

00:48:39.380 A witness called 911.

00:48:41.300 911, emergency, buddy, you're reporting.

00:48:43.460 Yeah, somebody's being beat with a wrench on 9th Avenue and East 19th Street.

00:48:48.320 Court records allege Muhammad swung the wrench at Shin's head approximately 12 times, breaking his arms as he tried to protect himself, giving him a concussion.

00:48:57.760 One blow sent Shin's glasses across the street, he said.

00:49:01.700 The attack stopped only after a neighbor who works against human trafficking pulled a handgun and confronted Muhammad.

00:49:08.360 And then he slowly dropped the spanner and looked backwards and walked away towards his car, which is approximately a block and a half away.

00:49:16.760 So to review, this man has accessed personal files on a computer at work to find his victim's home address.

00:49:22.440 He stole a weapon from his job in order to use it to assault and potentially kill his victim.

00:49:26.120 He then carried out the assault and only stopped when he was confronted by a good Samaritan with a gun.

00:49:31.740 So Muhammad has now committed a whole series of extremely serious felonies, up to and including attempted murder.

00:49:38.180 Now, you would think, as a sane person, that losing his job would be the first immediate consequence, followed by a host of other, much more severe consequences.

00:49:46.340 But you would be wrong.

00:49:47.700 In fact, up to this point, the only person who has suffered any consequences is the guy who was beaten with a wrench.

00:49:53.260 Watch.

00:49:53.500 Shin's attorney, James Torres, says Robert Muhammad never faced discipline and never missed a paycheck.

00:50:01.320 You have an individual that the chief has allowed to continue working all this time, continue drawing taxpayer salary all this time after attempting to murder a fellow firefighter.

00:50:12.500 The lawsuit also says several of Shin's direct supervisors ordered him to drop the charges and to not cooperate with the police investigation of the attack.

00:50:22.720 The first person called me and said, Hey, is there any way we can work this out?

00:50:26.060 The second person called me and said, You can't charge him.

00:50:28.540 You know, you've got to drop the charges.

00:50:30.540 That man's got a family.

00:50:31.580 And, of course, I was angry.

00:50:33.660 I said, You know, he just tried to kill me.

00:50:35.000 The lawsuit says they treated Shin with startling prejudice and Muhammad with baffling favor from the outset because they saw one difference.

00:50:44.100 Shin is Asian and Muhammad is black.

00:50:47.060 In their answer, the defendants deny each and every allegation.

00:50:50.260 Still recovering from his injuries and PTSD, Gabriel Shin refused a fire department interrogation, which he believed would be not about the attack, but focused on who was talking about Robert Muhammad's family crisis.

00:51:03.640 Within days of that, Chief Nicholson and those deputies took away his pay.

00:51:09.780 They took away his health insurance before he could even recover from those injuries.

00:51:14.860 So Shin, for the crime of being brutally beaten by his co-worker, lost his pay and his health insurance.

00:51:22.660 The attacker, Muhammad, hasn't missed a single paycheck.

00:51:25.860 He'll apparently be allowed to keep working until and if he's convicted, maybe after that.

00:51:31.220 There's no innocent until proven guilty factor here either.

00:51:34.000 That's a principle that courts must follow.

00:51:35.820 Employers are not required to follow it.

00:51:37.880 And in this case, shouldn't because Muhammad assaulted Shin in broad daylight in front of witnesses. 0.59

00:51:41.860 There's not much mystery about what happened.

00:51:43.460 Somehow the story gets even crazier.

00:51:45.720 According to ABC, when a process server showed up to Muhammad's work to serve him the court summons, Muhammad pursued the guy in his car.

00:51:52.720 There was a high-speed chase down the highway until Muhammad gave up and drove away.

00:51:58.420 Why would he do that?

00:52:00.000 What did he hope to achieve by chasing after the guy who served him papers?

00:52:04.260 For that matter, what did he hope to achieve by assaulting his co-worker with a wrench?

00:52:08.860 Not sure.

00:52:09.500 It would seem that this is not the kind of man who thinks things through rationally and strategically before embarking on a certain course of action.

00:52:16.480 It would seem that he's an impulsive and violent, overgrown child who does whatever he wants under the assumption that he will face no consequences.

00:52:23.000 And so far on that last point, he's been proven right.

00:52:25.880 This is obviously a story that puts the left's racial mania on full and bewildering display. 0.66

00:52:30.260 They're not able to judge any situation without running it through the intersectional filter.

00:52:36.460 The victimhood hierarchy must always be followed.

00:52:39.720 They are not capable of thinking outside of those kinds of calculations.

00:52:43.780 That's because the calculations do the thinking for them.

00:52:46.180 It's a replacement for thinking.

00:52:48.800 That much is clear from this story and from everything else we've observed in our culture.

00:52:51.880 It also makes clear the dire consequences of allowing people to live without consequences.

00:53:00.580 Consequences are a natural part of life.

00:53:02.800 It's physics.

00:53:04.500 Newton's third law.

00:53:05.320 Every action has a reaction.

00:53:06.880 This is a truth embedded into the natural order of things at the most fundamental level.

00:53:12.760 It's also a truth embedded into any functional human society.

00:53:15.680 Every action has a consequence.

00:53:17.540 The consequence should be of a kind with the action.

00:53:21.020 Good action should have good consequences.

00:53:23.200 Bad action should have bad consequences.

00:53:26.020 Now, it won't always work that way on a societal level, but we recognize that it is a basic principle of justice.

00:53:34.320 And we try our best to enact it.

00:53:36.760 Incentivize good behavior.

00:53:38.300 Disincentivize bad behavior.

00:53:40.420 But what happens when this basic idea that actions have consequences, that bad things should happen to people who do bad things,

00:53:48.020 what happens when it no longer exists, even in principle?

00:53:51.020 What happens when it's decided that certain categories of people should live free of consequence?

00:53:57.200 That their actions should exist in some sort of void, where a law that governs human society and physical reality itself no longer applies to them?

00:54:06.100 Well, we're seeing what happens.

00:54:09.060 It's the breakdown of society and human beings who become untethered from reality, unable to function.

00:54:15.880 They act irrationally.

00:54:17.900 They are miserable, and they inflict their misery on those around them.

00:54:21.280 Because a life without consequence is a life not even worth living. 0.93

00:54:26.080 It's a life without meaning.

00:54:28.140 It turns out, of course, that you can't really have a life without consequence or a society without consequence.

00:54:34.420 The consequences will come.

00:54:35.960 The question is whether the consequence will be experienced by the person whose actions warrant it, or whether someone else will be forced to take the blow.

00:54:44.780 That's what's happened here.

00:54:47.400 And it's why all of the people involved in this story, except the actual victim, are today canceled.

00:54:55.140 That'll do it for the show today.

00:54:55.920 Thanks for watching.

00:54:56.440 Thanks for listening.

00:54:57.040 Have a great day.

00:54:58.080 Godspeed.

00:54:58.440 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 18, 2024

Ep. 1389 - Americans Are Sick And Tired Of The Illegal Immigrant Crime Epidemic

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