Antonio Villaraigosa live in studio

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Weggs across the glass, John, the City of Oakland has a new idea to combat illegal dumping, flying drones to spot all the trash.

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Speaker 2: You know, this has really been an issue for the city of Dumpy. Excuse me.

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Speaker 1: We'll have more on that later on in the program, but right now, it is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is the former mayor of the City of Los Angeles. He's currently a candidate for governor here in the state of California. You can get him online at Antonio twenty twenty six dot com and follow him on x at A Via Regosa Mayor Antonio via Ragosa, Welcome.

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Speaker 2: John, is great to be on the show with you again. Thank thank you so much for coming in studio. I know, and Randy's across the way. Hey, Towny.

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Speaker 1: Now, because you're here in studio, we can do something that we can't do over the phone. I am told by a very reliable source that you are a big fan of these. John just had it, Antonio Viragos a bag of peanut eminem peanuts by the way. I think it was about a year ago, Tony, you did a podcast and I could not get out of my head when you got excited about this penut. I don't think you could hear you in the in the headphones, but fantastic. All right, Well, anyway, congratulations on the new poll that just dropped today that has you moving up in the numbers. You're at seven percent now, within the margin of era of the top performing Democrat, Tom Steyer. So that's got to be good news for you and your campaign.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm still eating my eminem's, so I'll say this.

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Speaker 3: I've been saying for the beginning that the number one candidate are the undecided.

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Speaker 2: There are more people undecided in this race then are for any of the candidates.

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Speaker 3: And as you said, you know, look, that's another poll at the end of the day. The poll that matters is the poll on election day. And what I've said is let everybody debate. Let's all talk about what we're going to do going forward so that this state is more affordable, because my candidacy all about one thing. People can't afford this state. They can't afford rent gas utilities. They're sick of it, and that's why, frankly, they haven't been zeroing in on this race because they're struggling to make ends meet.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this week, there was a debate that was planned that you were not invited to, along with a number of other candidates for governor. And I'm a Republican and I'm looking at this and I'm saying to myself, I can't believe the Democrats are making the same mistake that they made in twenty four And I say that because you read these books about the election, the Jake Tapper book, the other books about where the Democrats went wrong, and what all of the books say is that when Joe Biden dropped out of the race, what should have happened is they should have had an open convention where you had a number of candidates who threw their hat in the ring, you had some sort of contest, and you ended up with the candidate that would best be suited for a general election. But instead of doing that, the power brokers put their thumb on the scale and they said, this is the candidate we want who was unelectable in a general election, and the party was stuck with Kamala Harris, who couldn't get the ball over the finish line. You look at what's happening right now in California, and you look at what the power brokers are trying to do. They're trying to keep a number of candidates from being able to participate in the process to make the case. And you look at the three Democratic candidates who are polling the highest. They're trying to clear the field for them, and those candidates have a million and one problems, and they seem like ticking time bombs ready to go off. Where you got a guy who's trying to buy the election, you have a guy who probably doesn't even live in the state, and you've got a bipolar woman.

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Speaker 2: You're out of my shop.

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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine a scenario where you clear the field for those three, and then you end up with a situation where you're nominating an unelectable candidate and you're just repeating what happened in twenty twenty four all over again.

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Speaker 3: We were just talking about the hyde parking rates at a Dodger game.

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Speaker 2: And let's just put it this way.

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Speaker 3: The reason we took umbrage with the decision not to include all of the candidates is because there's an old maxim In sports, you don't change the rules in the middle of the game. The rules were who is hiring the polls? One two, who's raised the and who's raised the most money. I raised more money than all the candidates except for the billionaire in the race who's got his own bank account and didn't have to raise money. And I was hiring the polls than somebody that was invited. And that somebody had a person affiliated with that center who's running his independent expenditure, and another one who used to be the head of the board and very influential at that university. So what I've said from the beginning, let's be more inclusive. You hit it right on the head. We shouldn't be limiting the number of candidates when the biggest candidate is not on the ballot, and that's the people that are undecided. The people who are undecided are thirty five percent of the electorate.

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Speaker 2: And so you're right.

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Speaker 3: Instead of limiting the number of candidates, let's hear from everybody, by the way, Democrat and Republican. You know, in one of the debates, they started booing Bianco and a debate, and I said, hold it, we should have civility here. You know, he's got his view. I don't agree with it, but he has a right to his view. We need to hear from everybody, okay, so the people can make a choice. And right now they're not focused yet, but they're starting to be.

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Speaker 2: It's really interesting.

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Speaker 3: We weren't covering anything about this race until the issue of the debate and exclusion of candidates.

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Speaker 2: So that's a big reason why nobody's focused.

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Speaker 3: But the biggest reason is people are struggling every day they you know, trying to make ends meet, not think about who's running for governor.

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Speaker 1: You are one of the few candidates in this race he's actually from here, or you have some candidates from Iowa, some from New York, some from out of the country, the United Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: I am sure.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of friends, you have a lot of family members who you talk to about the condition of this state all the time, who look at it from not just a point of view of what's happened lately, but what's happened over time. And when you travel, when you leave the state, when you leave the country, you tell people you're from California. It used to be oh my gosh, do you ever see movie stars, Oh, my gosh, what does the Golden gate Bridge look like? Whatever the case may be. Now, when you travel and you tell people that you're from California, they look at you like you're on drugs. I was in Brazil recently, Brazil, and I told someone I was from California, and they go, oh, that's dangerous. Are you sure it's safe there? And I go, I'm in Brazil. You who are you to talk? But that's how people react now. And you look at the number of congressional seats that we're going to lose. We're going to lose between three and five congressional seats. This last census was the first time since we entered the Union that we've lost congressional seats. Since the SEIU wealth confiscation tax started being discussed, we've lost a trillion dollars in money. It's left the state already. You look at the companies that have left the state where we've lost Oracle and Chevron and Tesla and in and out. Burger now has a shop in Tennessee, And you say to yourself, what is going on here? And is there any introspection in Sacramento at all about what we're doing that's not working for so many people who are moving out of state, so many businesses who are leaving the state, so much wealth that is evaporating.

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Speaker 3: You know, you just said you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat. We agree on this. The billionaire tax makes no sense. What I've said is should people that make that kind of money pay more in taxes than you and me? Yeah, but the federal government ought to do it already. You've seen a flight of people high net worth people, mostly billionaires, but also others because their thinking is where are they going to draw the line. We already have the highest upper income tax in the United States.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, we've got to look in the mayor.

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Speaker 3: When everybody starts leaving, we're not going to be able to balance our budget.

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Speaker 2: I was Speaker of the Assembly, if.

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Speaker 3: You remember some time ago before I was mayor, I balanced a budget with a surplus with a Republican governor, Pete Wilson, when we had forty two votes and a Democratic one. We will not be a we're looking at, according to the LAO, the legislative analysts, we're looking at an eighteen or thirty five billion dollar deficit over the next multiple years going forward. If these people leave, and if those companies leave, I can tell you this, we will not be able to balance a budget and we can't tax our way out of it. One of the things I've said is, look, Jerry Brown left us with a surplus of three hundred million. Since then, off and on, we've had big deficits, even though the economy was doing well. We can't tax our way out of this. We don't just have a revenue problem. We do have a revenue problem, but we have a revenue problem because we have a spending problem. And you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat. We agree on that we can't keep on pushing people out of this state, small business, high net worth people, because what's going to happen is we're not going to be able to afford this state. And actually I'm running because people can't afford this state.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we're speaking with former Los Angeles mayor and candidate for governor, Antonio Viragosa, who you can follow on Exit A via Ragosa. Mister Mayor, let's talk about the fires, because it reminds me of a story, the reaction to the fires from the government that former La County Supervisor Don Knabi told me one time on the air, and he talked about the earthquake in Northridge when the freeway collapsed, and how local government and the federal government responded to that disaster. Where you had the shot callers all in the same room at the same time in the morning. You had the mayor, you had the governor, you had the member of the Board of Supervisors, you had the Secretary of Transportation from the federal government, and they got in the same room every morning and they just went down the line, what are you doing today, what are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: What do you need?

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Speaker 1: And they got that project done ahead of schedule, something that people didn't think was possible. But everyone was on the same page. And it wasn't people sending their presentatives, it wasn't people making excuses. It was everyone being called out in real time by their peers, and the project got done.

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Speaker 2: It worked.

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Speaker 1: You look at what's going on right now in the Pacific Palisades in Altadena with these fire victims who have lost everything down to their toothbrush, and you hear the same stories from them over and over and over again that this is the nightmare that just won't end. And you hear from city hall, and city hall goes, well, we're doing everything we can for you, and the state goes, oh, we're doing everything we can for you. Federal government, we're doing everything we can for you. Yet you look at Pacific Palisades to this day, it looks like a bomb went off. A year and a half after the fires. The progress is extremely minimal, and the people who live there, in many cases, their insurance policies will not pay for their lodging anymore because the time has elapsed. If you're elected governor, what can be done to streamline this so that those people get what they need so their lives can resume.

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Speaker 3: We have to act with the speed of the crisis, and this crisis took people out overnight. And it's not just the palis Let's remember it's Alta Dina as well. You're right, when you're governor, you should be convening all of the parties, representatives from the Congress, both parties, by the way, it shouldn't be partisan, both parties, representives from the county, the city, the school district, the state, and you should be convening them in a way that moves with alacrity and speed.

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Speaker 2: To get this done.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't doubt that some of them have been working as hard as they can. But you can't work in silos and be successful. You have to work together. You have to row together. And it's really important that you work in unison to say to the federal government, who still hasn't given us all of the FEMA money that we deserve, that we've got to get that money as soon as possible. But then you got to work as fast as you can to make sure that money is getting spent so that these people can come back to their homes. You know the thing about these fires, and you didn't just lose your home. You lost your belongings, you lost your memories, you lost everything in that fire. I could tell you. I've walked up to people and started talking them and then in the course of the conversation, they say, I lost my home, I lost everything. Antonio, you have no idea what that did to my children. They're not going to the same school anymore. The park we used to go to, you know, isn't there anymore.

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Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: It starts at the top and everything you're doing, you should put it on dashboards so it's transparent, so the public knows what you're doing and what you're not doing.

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Speaker 2: Pretty simple.

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Speaker 1: It seems like not only does that not exist right now, but everyone is just pointing fingers at everyone else. Take for example, the fire aid money. One hundred million dollars was raised. And when they raised this money, Californians are very generous people. They opened up their checkbook, they wrote the checks because they wanted to help take care of these people. One hundred million dollars was raised. Many of the fire victims were put on the telethon and told their stories so that people would be motivated to give money. You talk to the fire victims. They have not been able to get any money out of fire Aid. And you look at fire Aid and you look at where they're spending their money. They're giving their money to different groups that put pots cast together. They're spending money on voter registration, They're giving money to nonprofits, but the money is not going to the people who were the victims of the fire. They call the fire Aid, they can't get a call returned. And it's things like this that just drive people crazy. And when Newsom is asked about it, he goes, well, wait, wait a minute. That's not the State of California that's running it. That's an independent group. I'm not the one in charge. But it seems like there's a lack of outrage where something horrible happened to these people. These people are continuing to be disrespected and no one's willing to step up and go, Okay, that's not right. We need to figure out a way to fix this.

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Speaker 3: That's not unreasonable. I mean, look, it's not the state. It is a nonprofit that raised that money, and we thank them for making that effort. But they raise that money for the purpose of helping these victims, and where there are allegations that they're not helping the victim, the state has every right and every responsibility to look into it. It's not good enough to say that's not my problem, I didn't do it. No, we have a responsibility to make sure that that money is being spent on the victims, on helping people recover. Frankly, this is an issue that I hadn't heard the extent of it, but you're absolutely right, and it starts at the top. You know, the governor can go as an example to the attorney general and say I want you to look into this.

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Speaker 2: You know, they raised a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: If people are making allegations that they haven't seen any of it, people have a right to ask the questions where is it gone? What I would do if I had raised that money, put it on like I said, on dashboards on your website. This is where the money's going, this is how it's being spent. Again, we thanked them for raising that money, but the purpose of raising that money was to help the victims.

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Speaker 1: Today is opening day in baseball. Any predictions on who's going to win the World Series this year? Dodgers Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: You know. They asked me up north yesterday. I was in San Francisco. They asked me if I was for the Dodgers of the Giants, And I said, come on, I'd be like, I'm for the I'm ready for governor, and I'm not Mayri of Vala anymore, but I'm still a Dodger fan.

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Speaker 2: And in fact, one of the reporters who used to.

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Speaker 3: Work for MPR is now working up there, and he had bobble dolls and it was A's and Giants, and I said.

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Speaker 2: You're from LA.

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Speaker 3: Where's the uh uh, where's the Dodger babble doll and he says, you're right. I'm still a fan. My father is, and so's my son. He says, why don't you get me one? I said, no, you get one. You're up here. You got to represent. I'm an Angel fan. I'm from Orange County originally. And I went to Dodger Stadium when the Angels played the Dodgers last year for a three game series, and the Angels ended up sweeping the Dodgers. And I'm sitting there among all these dinapravans game no, no, in a real one. I'm wearing an Angel jersey. And they walk up and they're just shaking their head. And I said, listen, have pity on me. In October, you're going to be watching baseball. I'm gonna be watching Judge Judy Antonio via Ragosa, former mayor of Los Angeles candidate for governor. You can get them online at Antonio twenty twenty six dot com and follow him on ex at Avia Ragosa. Mister Mayer, thanks so much for coming in.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Brandy. Are you awake?

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Speaker 1: I didn't have any peanut M and m's that's my problem. It's good to see you. It's the John Phillips Show. Right now, it's time to open up the California crime blodder.

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Speaker 3: It's happened yet again, Nye see time for the California crime.

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Speaker 2: Blodder and Randy.

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Speaker 1: This one is a doozy even by Oakland standards. We haven't had an Oakland crime blodder story in quite a while, which is great for Oakland and maybe that entim police chief is actually doing something. But every once in a while, Oakland got to Oakland and you get a story that you don't believe it until you see it. An Oakland man who suffers from epilepsy had a seizure while driving. He ended up crashing his car and then he got shot and robbed. Oh my god, talk about a bad day. For more on this story, we go to ABC seven in the Bay Area.

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Speaker 4: Pulls me off the vehicle.

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Speaker 5: He asked me for everything that I got because he was like, oh, he missed him, my core.

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Speaker 6: I am very like hurt that somebody would do something like that because in the time of need of his medical emergency, they turned it into life branding.

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Speaker 7: A medical emergency behind the wheel turns into a bigger crisis. Good evening, I'm on the dates and.

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Speaker 8: I'm Dan Ashley. Thanks for joining us. This is just beyond belief. A man in Oakland crashes.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait wait, wait, wait wait wait.

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Speaker 1: If you're a regular listener of the crime Blodder, I don't think you'd agree with that.

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Speaker 9: Who else are we gonna call Superman Oakland? I love you, but you don't love me.

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Speaker 1: Even by those standards. This story's wild and.

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Speaker 8: I'm Dan Ashley. Thanks for joining us. This is just beyond belief. A man in Oakland crashes his car while having a seizure, and instead of trying to help, another driver robs him and shoots him.

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Speaker 2: Society's over right, that's all, folks.

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Speaker 7: It all happened last Friday afternoon, with the crash turned robbery at seventy eighth Avenue and Plymouth Street in East Oakland. ABC seven Eye Witness news reporter Tim Johns spoke with the man and his wife, who say they cannot believe this happened.

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Speaker 6: When crying, this is the first day I haven't cried at all.

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Speaker 10: For Essence Washington and her husband, Andrea Buchanan, the last week has been one of the hardest of their lives. For two years, Buchanan has suffered from epilepsy. On Friday, he was driving to a store in Oakland when he had a seizure that caused out.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to blame the victim here, but if you know that you have epileptic seizures, should you really be driving a car? Well, he's on medication. I guess the medication didn't work. I think there are people driving around right now who have epilepsy. I don't think I would do that. Well, how are you supposed to get around? Well, have people in your house that you yell at when you need to go somewhere.

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Speaker 10: And when he had a seizure that caused him to crash into a parked car, so in a haze, Buchanan says he then drove down the street again before having another seizure and hitting a second car near seventy eighth in Plymouth.

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Speaker 2: And again, this is a seizure, This is not ambient. No.

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Speaker 1: How many parked cars did the hit this guy too? How many did our friend hit?

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Speaker 10: No comment this one with someone inside.

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Speaker 5: Once I hit his vehicle, he flashed his gun him.

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Speaker 1: Well, that escalated things quickly. Someone did not like getting rear ended.

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Speaker 10: Buchanan spoke with me Wednesday, from his hospital bed, he tells me, after the second crash, the other driver got out of his vehicle, robbed him, and then shot him in the lake.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, if someone's having a medical emergency, do you really need to shoot them?

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 1: How could you even put up a fight if you're being robbed and you're having a seizure. Maybe the thought is, and again I don't want to put myself in the mind of the monster that did this, but maybe the thought is, well, if I shoot him in the leg, he can't chase me and get back the stuff I stole from him.

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Speaker 2: Well, wouldn't the seizure take care of that?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: I think he was coming out of the seizure, like I don't think he was actively seizing when he got robbed. Okay, so you say, all right, the seizure's over. You look fine. Now I have to shoot you?

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Speaker 9: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Where's our guy is?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Wow, we's out here.

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Speaker 10: If Buchanan spoke with me Wednesday from his hospital bed, he tells me, after the second crash, the other driver got out of his vehicle, robbed him, and then shot him in the leg. The thief took Buchanan's phone and wallet.

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Speaker 4: That had been like so quick it kind of felt like a dream in a sense.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not a dream, that's a nightmare, sir.

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Speaker 5: Because once the police said they arrived, they said I was in and out of consciousness.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that, you know, I just remember yelling for Hill.

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Speaker 2: It's this poor guy.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine you're driving and all of a sudden you start having a seizure. You know, you're having a medical emergency. You try to get it together as best you can. Well, you're trying to write the ship. You accidentally hit two part cars, then you get robbed, and then you get shot in the leg, and that's when the cops show up. What's going on, sir? How do you even answer that question?

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Speaker 10: Speaking outside the hospital, Washington tells me she first heard from a friend that her husband had been involved in a crash.

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Speaker 6: It took me about three hours to even find out that he was at the hospital. And once I ride the hospital, that's when I learned that he was shot.

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Speaker 10: Since Friday Buchanan said.

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Speaker 2: Wait, you've had a seizure. What's what the bullet hall?

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Speaker 10: Since Friday Buchanan says, he's.

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Speaker 1: Just a point out. We are not laughing at this poor man. Of course, we're laughing at the absurdity that is the city of Oakland.

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Speaker 10: Since Friday, Buchanan says he's had a blood transfusion and undergone surgery on his leg. Well he's expected to recover. The family knows it will be a difficult journey.

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Speaker 6: Seeing him having to learn how to walk and doing the physical therapy and him can't put no weight on his legs at all for the next two months is very like stressful.

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Speaker 10: The family says they're still in shock someone would shoot a man during a medical emergency, but they're hoping the incident will help raise awareness for people suffering from seizures. In the meantime, they say.

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Speaker 2: What's the PSA campaign going to be like for this one? Oh? I hope we get a piece of that action.

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Speaker 1: If you get crashed into by somebody suffering a seizure, even though you have every impulse, don't shoot them, it's not their fault. I love the fact that just everyone's packing heat to the point to where some guy has a seizure, hits your car and you've got your loaded gun ready to go.

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Speaker 11: It's a lot of crime now.

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Speaker 10: In the meantime, they say, they're just taking things deep by day.

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Speaker 5: I've never had a seizure behind the wheel and a man taking my medicine and stuff for my seizures, so I thought.

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Speaker 4: In the sense that they were kind of under control.

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Speaker 10: Washington says. Oakland police are in touch with the family and are actively investigating in Oakland. Tim John's ABC seven Eyewitness News.

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Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be an Oakland story if it didn't end with no arrests were made. That might be the most Oakland story to ever make the Blotterer. This poor guy has a seizure while driving, crashes into a car, kinda isn't really sure what's going on, continues to drive, crashes into another car, and at that point the person in that car decides, this person having a medical emergency, I'm gonna rob him and I'm gonna shoot him. Well, civilization was nice while it lasted. Eight hundred two two two five two two two East Telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two And right now it's time to reopen the California crime blodder.

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Speaker 9: It's happened yet again. This Wow, whoa what's up?

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Speaker 12: Weird?

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Speaker 3: Dun dun dunk, dundun Dun Dun.

00:28:34
Speaker 9: Dun reached the Califonia Crime Blodder with.

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Speaker 2: Joe and Randy.

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Speaker 1: This edition is an update on a story we brought you earlier this week. We told you about the road range incident. Incident that happened in Newport Beach where two bicyclists were in the bike lane for some reason, they were getting honked at by a man in a BMW. They unfortunately decided to escalate the situation by squirting their water bottle at the car, which is when the BMW decided to escalate the situation into trying to run these two off the road. Well, apparently the guy in the beamer tracked down the bicyclists on social media and issued quite the challenge.

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Speaker 2: I can only imagine what that challenge was.

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Speaker 1: For more, we go to CBS LA.

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Speaker 9: To developing news.

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Speaker 3: Now cyclists say they were targeted by an angry driver.

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Speaker 13: Mike Rogers at the desk. Now, Mike cyclists say the driver actually found them and is now threatening them.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, one and Susie, we were looking into this. We got the video from this guy and I did an interview with him tonight. The video is pretty crazy. Here, you're going to see it in a second. But what we want to let you know is that this all started when the cyclists were in the bike lane. They say, when this car, the blue BMW, came and started hawking at them, yelling.

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Speaker 9: Things at them. Now, the cyclist I spoke to.

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Speaker 12: Admit that he did get frustrated and splash their car with some water, But he says, what fault.

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Speaker 2: Probably a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: Maybe this is why so many crime victims don't want to go on the news, because then your tormentor can find you on social media.

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Speaker 2: Definitely possible because what.

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Speaker 9: Followed was totally unnecessary.

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Speaker 12: The blue car here at the BMW what appears to be a BMW is right behind them on the shoulder, trying to run them down. Now, he says, in the video, you can actually see one of his friends that was riding the bike actually has to hop up on the curb because this guy ran them off the road.

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Speaker 9: It's right here.

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Speaker 12: You see them walking there, riding rather through the green sign there and then watches the bicyclist has to jump up on the sidewalk to get out of the way. Bicycle bicyclist I spoke with says they're lucky that they were able to do this and pay attention enough to get out of this guy's way before he severely hurt them. Once this was all said and done, though, the guy got out of the car, yelled at them, tried to push them over, and then found them on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, he slid into their dms.

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Speaker 1: That is not the type of sliding into your DMS that you want.

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Speaker 14: And he even has been trying to contact me on Instagram saying that he wants to settle it like men in an MMAA style fight.

00:31:13
Speaker 1: What, Well, it's really hard to challenge a bicyclist manhood when they're wearing those skin tight leotards, because whatever it is, the public knows. But in order to resolve this dispute where he tried to run these two off the road, we need to settle this like men in the ring.

00:31:40
Speaker 2: Ding ding Ding.

00:31:41
Speaker 9: WHOA settle it.

00:31:43
Speaker 14: Like men in an MMA style fight. I don't know what that means.

00:31:51
Speaker 2: Well, apparently you don't have cable.

00:31:54
Speaker 12: I settle it like men in an MMA style fight. What do you make of that? You were just trying to ride your bicycle down the road.

00:32:00
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm just trying to ride my bike on a nice Saturday with my boys. You know, I got a big race the next day. I'm just I'm out there training in the sun, and he's trying to cause physical harm to me then and then after the fact. Now he's trying to get into a fight with me to settle it.

00:32:15
Speaker 2: We're settling this thing in the ring Saturday night.

00:32:17
Speaker 9: Brother Louse got the receipts.

00:32:22
Speaker 1: He I know it's not wrestling, it's MMA. But MMA fighters don't have many personalities. Oh no, Now, anytime, anytime you're thinking about a promo for a wrestling event, you have to do it in the voice of hul Kulgan or the mancho Man Randy Savage whoa or Rick Flair.

00:32:41
Speaker 9: Louse got the receipts. He sent them to us. There they are. We had to blur some of the words out there.

00:32:45
Speaker 12: But hey, bro, let's both sign waivers and meet up for a consensual full MMA sparring session.

00:32:52
Speaker 1: WHOA settle it in the octagon. This isn't code, is it. Well, weren't they using anti gay slurs too? Yes, but sometimes that's a tell that's true. Sometimes the people that use those words, there's a reason.

00:33:10
Speaker 9: Let's settle this, like men, if you have the Well, that's.

00:33:13
Speaker 1: One way trying to dominate them.

00:33:17
Speaker 12: Huh, you know what, he says. No, he's not going to have an MMA fight with him. He did, though, file a police report with the Sheriff's office down there in Orange County. The detectives, they're investigated. They've got his Instagram handle. They also have the license plate from the car, so hopefully it won't be too difficult for the sheriff's worming down there to track this guy down here.

00:33:38
Speaker 1: If they didn't have the license plate, now they have his social media. I think they're going to find him. Well, my guess is they have more than that, because if you have access to the internet, you can find out their Twitter account, you can find out their Instagram and sometimes they're all linked together, so you find one of them.

00:33:57
Speaker 2: You found them all.

00:33:59
Speaker 9: To track this guy down.

00:34:00
Speaker 12: But what a weird story, says, he's never experienced this like this, anything like this before. Obviously they have, you know, kind of back and forth with drivers who don't have to share the road with cyclists, but nothing that's ever extended this far.

00:34:10
Speaker 11: All right, Mike, thank you very much.

00:34:12
Speaker 1: So that is the update on the Newport Beach Road rage. Incident where the guy who tried to run down the bicyclists after they squirted his car with their water bottle wants to challenge them in the ring to who knows what fight night at the Forum. Hopefully all right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters to catch it.

00:34:33
Speaker 4: He's dummy.

00:34:36
Speaker 9: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

00:34:38
Speaker 2: I said, hell no, baby boy, let me get up one out of here.

00:34:43
Speaker 9: It's the California crime blow here.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: And Randy, this one takes us to your neck of the woods.

00:34:50
Speaker 1: My old neck of the Woods Valley village is getting a shout out in the worst possible way. When a home that was being sold was about to be occupied by the new owners, they discovered a shirtless transient living in there. Not what you want to see. I don't think that was on the inspection.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: For mare. Here is ktla sturbing discovery.

00:35:17
Speaker 13: In the middle of the night, a shirtless man is found sleeping inside a home along with all of his belongings tonight.

00:35:24
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we should be glad that he wasn't also bottomless. Yeah, I guess that's a possibility. On that tour all I'm an optimist. Dear got a look at the bright side.

00:35:36
Speaker 13: That man is under arrest, but the homeowners are concerned, along with the neighbors.

00:35:41
Speaker 15: KTLA's Rick Chambers live in Valley Village with more Rick Well, Mike. It's not clear how long this man had been squatting in this house. It hadn't been vacant very long. And we understand the new owners had some workers who were coming and going, but the guy somehow slipped in and made I'm self comfortable.

00:36:01
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's just a whole class of people.

00:36:03
Speaker 1: You have your people that live in the sewer, but do you also have your people that they look for the real estate signs they find out when a home is under transfer, and like, well, I could stay here for probably thirty days. Okay, if you're willing to put that much work into it, can't you find honest employment.

00:36:19
Speaker 15: What police describe as a transient is arrested.

00:36:22
Speaker 1: You know they did something bad when they're called a transient and not our unhoused neighbors.

00:36:28
Speaker 15: What police describe as a transient is arrested very early this morning after moving his belongings into this vacant Valley Village home. In fact, his clothes and a mattress, as well as some food are still on the floor of a front bedroom.

00:36:43
Speaker 2: Where do you get the mattress?

00:36:47
Speaker 1: Don't ask questions unless you really want to know the answer. So I'm guessing not sit in sleep. Nope, Larry Miller has nothing to do with this one.

00:36:55
Speaker 11: It's a great neighborhood.

00:36:57
Speaker 15: Gail Bohannon has lived right across the street for about fifty years, never had a problem like this.

00:37:04
Speaker 11: I am very concerned because concern because we have great neighbors who look out for each other. And I don't like this.

00:37:18
Speaker 2: Welcome to the wall, Valley Village, lady.

00:37:22
Speaker 11: And.

00:37:24
Speaker 9: I don't like this.

00:37:28
Speaker 1: That is a very honest reaction to a squatter in your neighborhood.

00:37:34
Speaker 2: Valley Village. I don't like this. There we go on the wall.

00:37:42
Speaker 11: And I don't like this.

00:37:46
Speaker 15: And had been empty for about a month, and the new owners in fact may have been the ones that found the intruder.

00:37:53
Speaker 9: Now he's only you.

00:37:54
Speaker 1: Imagine you're doing the traditional like pick up your wife and carry her over the threshold. You've got your brand new home, and what's the shirtless guy doing here? Like you said, though it could be worse, the fruit could be out of the loom.

00:38:08
Speaker 15: Now he's only been charged with trespass and is already out of jail. So Gail is a bit worried that he may want his stuff.

00:38:17
Speaker 11: Because he might come back or try it, not to the same house, but down the street. Maybe try it again, that's concerning, Yes, it is.

00:38:30
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll challenge her to a fight in the octagon. There you go. Be careful. The vacant home in your neighborhood can have a squatter in it. And lady, if you end up in the octagon with this guy, just understand it doesn't matter how big they are, it doesn't matter how strong they are. You're only as tough as your eyeballs and your genitals.

00:38:52
Speaker 4: Eh,